1. Primal Fear - Black Sun

2. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

3. Wolf - Black Wings

4. Paragon - Law Of The Blade

5. Sentenced - The Cold White Light

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1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Soundgarden - Superunknown

3. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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20 Essential Hipster Black Metal Albums. (One Album Per Band)

1. Liturgy (US-NY) - Aesthethica

2. Krallice - Diotima

3. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

4. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

5. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1

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Another one of these, I guess it could be considered a bit of a follow up to the nu metal one, only this time it's for a genre known for it's vocal talent.

1. Devin Townsend

2. Russell Allen

3. Maynard James Keenan

4. Daniel Gildenlöw

5. Daniel Tompkins

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You know the drill.

1. A Swarm Of The Sun - The Rifts

2. An Autumn For Crippled Children - The Long Goodbye

3. Caïna - Setter Of Unseen Snares

4. INHIBIS - Sunk Into The Hollow

5. Kalpa - Sequences

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1. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

2. Ahab - The Giant

3. Swallow the Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird

4. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

5. The Faceless - Autotheism

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1. Arcane - Known/Learned

2. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

3. Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

4. Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei

5. Sylosis - Dormant Heart

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Yet another best to worst list. I'll be adding all the albums I listen throughout the year, including non-metal albums.

Last additions:
- The Agonist
- Bizarra Locomotiva
- Carach Angren
- Glaciation

1. Glaciation - Sur Les Falaises De Marbre

2. Solefald - World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

3. Bizarra Locomotiva - Mortuário

4. Björk - Vulnicura

5. Carach Angren - This Is No Fairytale

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1. Tiamat - Wildhoney

2. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

4. Mortiis - Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør

5. Slayer - Divine Intervention

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let's never forget how we collected them apples

1. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

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Okay, so it's not "dead" per say. But much like many genres of metal, it'll never be the same. My point is, this list will not feature Blink 182. I am by no means an expert in the genre, but this is a list of required listening entry-level punk that even the heaviest of metal fans should find something to enjoy. Links are in the first comments box. Most go to full albums, but some to single songs.

1. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

2. Bad Religion - Against the Grain

3. Bad Religion - No Control

4. Ramones - Ramones

5. Bad Religion - The Process of Belief

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Albums that are both critically acclaimed and influential in the metal world.

If I'm missing any please put them in the comment section.

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

4. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

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A manner to follow what I've listen along 2015. In order.

1. Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

2. Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

3. Sylosis - Dormant Heart

4. Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega

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He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

1. Across The Sun - Before The Night Takes Us

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3. Angel Vivaldi - Universal Language

4. Angra - Holy Land

5. Aquaria - Luxaeterna

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Here's another list based on the albums i've enjoyed listening to most in 2015. Consider it a best to worst based on all the albums i've checked out. This list does not reflect the views of others on MS, but some of the albums here are really awesome and you should check out some of them, you might find you liked it as much as I did.

1. Orden Ogan - Ravenhead

2. Misþyrming - Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu

3. Ensiferum - One Man Army

4. Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

5. Thulcandra - Ascension Lost

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