Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:

1.Stratovarius - Episode

2.Angra - Angels Cry

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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Crimson Thunder is a sentimental favourite for me if you thought it was weird it was so high.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness (Black)
Primal Fear - Black Sun (Power)
System Of A Down - Steal This Album! (Alternative/Nu)

1.Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

2.HammerFall - Crimson Thunder

3.Necrophobic - Bloodhymns

4.Lacuna Coil - Comalies

5.Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... For An Iron Age

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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.
Love at first sight listen.

This is part II of II, covering the years since 2001.

Despite of the list's personal character, suggestions are very welcome.
After all I'm old and I may just have forgotten lots of stuff that did make my day.



Great albums that didn't make it on the list as they can only be enjoyed in their entirety, rather than by picking individual songs:

Thirdmoon - Sworn Enemy: Heaven (Death, 2004)
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat (Death/Thrash, 2005)
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening (Funeral Doom, 2005)
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus (Doom/Death, 2005)
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Black, 2013)

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

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

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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1.Skyclad - Wayward Sons Of Mother Earth

2.Running Wild - Pile Of Skulls

3.Skyclad - Jonah's Ark

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Moonspell - Wolfheart

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1.Burzum - Filosofem

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

5.Marduk - Rom 5:12

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1.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

2.Behemoth - Evangelion

3.Septicflesh - Communion

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Decapitated - Nihility

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List of albums that are often considered to be 'bad' (or at least not that good) however I can't agree with that opinions. This list also could be entitled: the most underrated albums of popular bands.

1. Alphabetic order
2. Only albums with rating less than 8

1.1349 - Revelations Of The Black Flame

2.Black Sabbath - Never Say Die

3.Black Sabbath - Born Again

4.Burzum - Hliðskjálf

5.Burzum - Belus

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

2.Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

3.Madder Mortem - Deadlands

4.Opeth - Deliverance

5.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

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1.Trail Of Tears - A New Dimension Of Might

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Sirenia - At Sixes And Sevens

4.Lacuna Coil - Comalies

5.Draconian - Dark Oceans We Cry

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1.Satyricon - Volcano

2.Satyricon - Now, Diabolical

3.Satyricon - The Age Of Nero

4.Nocte Obducta - Nektar Teil II: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher

5.Agrypnie - Exit

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My eternal favorites... in no particular order.....

1.Death - Human

2.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

3.Satyricon - Now, Diabolical

4.Judas Iscariot - To Embrace The Corpses Bleeding

5.Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

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List is alphabetical

1.Behemoth - Evangelion

2.Burzum - Filosofem

3.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

4.Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

5.Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

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