Ningen Isu rocked in retrospect

1.Ningen Isu - 無頼豊饒

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Lords Of Black - Lords Of Black

4.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

5.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

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1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

3.Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion

4.Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

5.Stratovarius - Elements Part I

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1.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3.Master's Hammer - Ritual

4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

5.Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

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I've been a fan of metal music for a little over five years now. For most of that, I've just not liked death metal. It simply failed to hook me, and I simply preferred black, doom, etc?

Over time, though, I heard a few albums that slowly made me grow more interested in the genre, and ultimately led to me growing a curiosity, then an appreciation, for the style. Anyways, this is the sequence of albums that got me hooked on exploring death metal, and what I would play for anyone I was trying to introduce the style to.

1.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

2.Hypocrisy - Abducted

3.Opeth - Still Life

4.Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure

5.Septicflesh - Communion

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1.The Bug - London Zoo

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Sarcófago - I.N.R.I.

4.Cheshyre - Cheshyre

5.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

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1.Vader - Tibi Et Igni

2.Doom:VS - Earthless

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Xandria - Sacrificium

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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1.Skeletonwitch - Beyond The Permafrost

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Dio - The Last In Line

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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1.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

2.Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

3.Insomnium - In The Halls Of Awaiting

4.Nightwish - Century Child

5.Kataklysm - Shadows & Dust

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My personal opinion rankings of Iron Maidens albums from favorite to least favorite.*

*Technically subject to seemingly unlikely change.

1.Iron Maiden - Killers

2.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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This is a list of some of my favorite black metal albums, one per artist, semi-random order. Its not a list of what I consider to be the best black metal albums of all time, but the ones I like the most. I'll keep updating it as I keep discovering more of the genre.

1-7 - 10/10
8-17 9/10

1.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

4.Nechochwen - Heart Of Akamon

5.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

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1.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

2.Xandria - Sacrificium

3.Delain - The Human Contradiction

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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1.Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst

2.Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth

3.Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life

4.Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain

5.Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated

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- limited to one cover per song
- only metal performances

1.Coroner - Mental Vortex

2.Realm - Endless War

3.Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour

4.Soundgarden - Hands All Over

5.Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil

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1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

4.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

5.Fear Factory - Digimortal

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