Had been wanting to do this for a while, title's pretty self explanatory. Black and doom are my two favorite metal subgenres, and when the two are combined into pure melancholic chaos, I scream like a little girl. I decided to take a broad approach with this one and include blackened sludge bands as well, as I think doom and sludge have similar origins and can fall under the same general banner. *Translation: I don't care if you think they can't. As usual, suggestions are both warmly welcomed and appreciated. Limit one album per band.

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2.Arcana Coelestia - Le Mirage De L'Idéal

3.Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing

4.Autumnblaze - DämmerElbenTragödie

5.Bast - Spectres

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I feel these are the top ten albums that you must listen to if you consider yourself a fan of the genre. This list could have been dominated by Amon Amarth and Enslaved in particular if I hadn't made the restriction.

1.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

2.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

3.Borknagar - The Olden Domain

4.Enslaved - Blodhemn

5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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1.Allen/Lande - The Great Divide

2.Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum

3.Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution

4.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

5.Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out

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This list is a ranking of 100 of my favourite songs of all times. A band may have a maximum of three songs.

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Album art is a crucial element to what makes a great album become monumental to the music fan. It gives us a vision and a feeling through visual sensations that are linked in the mind to the sounds that embody those ideas. A great album is intertwined into those concrete images and the two aspects make them whole. The following is a list of albums by some of the most influential, well known illustrators in the Arts Community. These artists are key figures in relation to how famous their art has become either by the success of the bands they worked for or the popularity of their own work.

1.Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard

2.Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Converge - Jane Doe

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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My Top Albums Of 2014

1.At The Gates - At War With Reality

2.Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage Of Stars

3.Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence

4.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

5.Origin - Omnipresent

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1.Mercenary - Through Our Darkest Days

2.Orphaned Land - All Is One

3.Royal Hunt - A Life To Die For

4.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness: Anti-Utopian MMXIII Edition

5.Delta - The End Of Philosophy

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If you make a quick comparison between 2014 and the previous years Top 20 Album lists, you would notice that the top album of 2014, have the lowest rating average compared to 2013,2012, 2011 and 2010. No single album so far, have an average above 8.5. This sucks. Here is a list that has some albums that I think are the best of this crappy year (so far).

1.Swans - To Be Kind

2.Lunatic Soul - Walking On A Flashlight Beam

3.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole

4.Behemoth - The Satanist

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3.Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are

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5.Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World

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Under Construction

1.Baroness - Blue Record

2.Baroness - A Grey Sigh in a Flower Husk [Split]

3.Black Tusk - Taste The Sin

4.Kylesa - Static Tensions

5.Darkest Hour - Deliver Us

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My rundown of Lamb of God's discography.

1.Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn

2.Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake

3.Lamb Of God - Resolution

4.Lamb Of God - Burn the Priest

5.Lamb Of God - New American Gospel

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1.Crowbar - Symmetry In Black

2.The Acacia Strain - Coma Witch

3.Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend

4.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

5.Behemoth - The Satanist

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2014 was great year, especially for black metal. Here are my most favorite records of the year. Open to suggestions, as always.
Edit: I might have a little of change in the order of albums at the end.

1.Qualeaceans - Capture Of Ziz

2.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole

3.Schammasch - Contradiction

4.Execration - Morbid Dimensions

5.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

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1.Strapping Young Lad - City

2.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

3.PERPETUA - Irrational

4.DEAD WORLD - Collusion

5.Swans - Cop

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