These are 44 of the my favorite Gothic Metal albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1. The Foreshadowing - Second World

2. Anathema - Judgement

3. Crematory - Awake

4. Charon - Songs For the Sinners

5. Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness

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Well, the title says it all...

1. Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciousness

2. In Flames - The Jester Race

3. Dream Theater - Images And Words

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. In Flames - Whoracle

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1. Susperia - Vindication

2. Nightwish - Century Child

3. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

4. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

5. Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus - Here And Beyond

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3. Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

4. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

5. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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1. Rhapsody Of Fire - Power Of The Dragonflame

2. Sentenced - The Cold White Light

3. Opeth - Deliverance

4. Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul...

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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My 10 favourite metal albums.

1. Sentenced - North From Here

2. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

3. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

4. Sentenced - Buried Alive

5. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated. So finally, there are Unexpect and Pain Of Salvation next to Bands like Kamelot and Savatage. Also, some Non-Metal Bands got involved like Jeff Buckley and Oingo Boingo. But could you imagine how PoS would sound without Jeffs influence? Or what would have become of Mr. Bungle if it weren't for Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo?! So I hope you have nearly as much fun with this list as I had creating it.

1. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4. Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery

5. Polkadot Cadaver - Purgatory Dance Party

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This is a list in which I have included the top 30 albums of the decade that has just passed. Of course it's gonna change because I'm sure there is a lot I haven't listened to yet...

1. In Flames - Clayman

2. Moonspell - The Antidote

3. HIM - Love Metal

4. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise

5. Nightwish - Once

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1. Nightwish - Century Child

2. Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

3. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

4. In Flames - Reroute To Remain

5. Meshuggah - Nothing

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This is not a typical "Best of the decade" list. To be more precise, it's a list about the top 20 albums of each year of the last decade, in my perspective of course. In this way, a lot of good albeit overlooked albums can get some exposure, in addition to covering more ground at the same time.

1. 2009

2. Sybreed - The Pulse Of Awakening

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

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In no particular order

1. ...And Oceans - Cypher

2. Sentenced - The Cold White Light

3. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

4. Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life

5. Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja I

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My Best 20 albums of 00's without great Rock albums of this gods:
Camel , R.E.M , The Cure , Radiohead , Archive , Muse and ...

1. Anathema - A Natural Disaster

2. Antimatter - Lights Out

3. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

4. Empyrium - Weiland

5. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

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1. Windir - Arntor

2. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

3. Burzum - Filosofem

4. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

5. Sentenced - The Cold White Light

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1. Still Remains - The Serpent

2. Delain - Lucidity

3. Bleeding Through - The Truth

4. In Flames - Reroute To Remain

5. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

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Edited from 'Top 10' to The Ultimate Gothic albums. Suggestions are welcome.

1. After Forever - Prison Of Desire

2. Avrigus - The Secret Kingdom

3. Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace

4. Cradle Of Filth - Midian

5. Darzamat - Solfernus' Path

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