My personal ranking of all the Gamma Ray studio albums. My top 3 sometimes switches, but I do consider Power Plant to be the best power metal album of the 90's so it makes sense to keep it at number 1 here. The albums of the early 90's have grown on me over the years and I am starting to enjoy them more than their latest efforts. Albums like Sigh No More, Empire Of The Undead and To The Metal! have some great tracks, but I find them all to be pretty average. Sigh No More nearly made it a little higher up thanks to "One With The World", but no...it is surely the weakest Gamma Ray album.

1.Gamma Ray - Power Plant

2.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

3.Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

4.Gamma Ray - No World Order

5.Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow

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My favorite albums on alphabetical order.

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

5.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

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1.Slayer - Repentless

2.Monster Magnet - Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Redux)

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang

5.Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

3.Judas Priest - Killing Machine (Hell Bent For Leather)

4.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

5.Judas Priest - British Steel

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1.The Black Keys - Turn Blue

2.Opeth - Pale Communion

3.Lunatic Soul - Walking On A Flashlight Beam

4.U2 - Songs Of Innocence

5.Wolves Like Us - Black Soul Choir

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not in the most favorite or alphabetic Sort
Just there
few of the best things i did hear in my entire life include the sound of nature

1.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2.Leprous - The Congregation

3.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped to 8.26. An almost linear decrease is observable for the 10 years in between.

I was curious to see what a Top 100 for 2000-2014 would look like if I factored the votes to account for the 'rating decline'. I hope you find it interesting.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

4.Aquilus - Griseus

5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Onmyo-Za - 雷神創世

2.Onmyo-Za - 風神界逅

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto

5.Eluveitie - Origins

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Honestly if you expect something different in this list from the other 2015 lists,you will be very disappointed... Honestly,the only reason I'm doing this is because I want to keep record of my favorites from this year should this topic ever come up.
Anyway,great year for black metal,not that great for anything that is not black metal

1.Leviathan - Scar Sighted

2.Myrkur - M

3.Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang

4.Dekadent - Veritas

5.Ghost Bath - Moonlover

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AtoZ (Album)

1.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

2.Ihsahn - After

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Faith No More - Angel Dust

5.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

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1.AC/DC - Powerage

2.AC/DC - Back In Black

3.AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

4.AC/DC - T.N.T.

5.AC/DC - High Voltage

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2015, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things

2.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

3.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

4.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

5.Melechesh - Enki

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Pardon the awful title, I thought it was funny and a play on Ahab's "The Thing That Made Search", but hey, not every joke is a winner.

Here is my list for the Top albums of 2015. No grading system like last year. Real list, no gimmicks.

Albums are ordered based on preference and subject to change at random, with expanded number of albums or ordering.

1.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

2.Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun

3.Enslaved - In Times

4.Leprous - The Congregation

5.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

2.Kamelot - Haven

3.Symphony X - Underworld

4.Ghost - Meliora

5.W.A.S.P. - Golgotha

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1.Waken Eyes - Exodus

2.Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine

3.Antimatter - The Judas Table

4.Subsignal - The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime

5.Threshold - European Journey (Live)

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