I hope my more experienced friends would help me categorize this long list into following three classes:

H = High Priority (I wish to Listen them as soon as possible.)
N = Normal Priority (I don't have a plan for them for now.)
L = Low Priority (Probably I won't listen them anytime soon, Unless I'd be banished for lifetime to a far uninhabited island and the only entertainment that I've got is this Albums.)

1. 1000 Funerals - Butterfly Decadence

2. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

3. Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind And Pillor

4. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

5. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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This is my personal favourite top 30 albums of all time, this list can change because i can enter new things and my tastes may differ over time.

1. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

2. Ulver - Perdition City

3. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

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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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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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1. Wintersun - Wintersun

2. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

3. Ensiferum - Iron

4. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

5. Opeth - Watershed Radio Sampler

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1. Smothered - The Inevitable End

2. Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy

3. Lamb of God - Sacrament

4. Lamb of God - Wrath

5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

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1. Karnivool - Sound Awake

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

4. Tool - Lateralus

5. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

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1. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

2. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

3. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

4. The Beatles - Revolver

5. Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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These are my top 10 favourite albums

1. Cynic - Focus

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Death - Symbolic

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Necrophagist - Epitaph

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My musical journey seems to be radically different to most that I've seen, so here are some defining albums (one per band) for my taste in list form. There are, of course, quite a few here that I don't listen to anymore.

Generally chronological.

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3. Muse - Absolution

4. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

5. Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures

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1. Opeth - Still Life

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

4. Opeth - Damnation

5. Opeth - Watershed

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1. King Diamond - Abigail

2. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's bane

3. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

4. Arcturus - The sham mirrors

5. Death - The Sound of perseverance

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Metal albums (and yes, I consider metalcore to be metal) that rocked my world, with maximum 2 albums per band sorted by bands in alphabetic order. Live, EP and compilation albums allowed, also including hard rock and stoner rock albums.

It will be updated as I discover new bands so check it sometime

1. Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals

4. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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AtoZ (Album)

1. Sadus - A Vision of Misery

2. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

3. Death Angel - Act III

4. Devin Townsend - Addicted

5. Ihsahn - After

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So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give to these albums the attention and the respect they deserve and you will be fully awarded. I think i will try and limit this list to only 2 cd's maximum per band to make this thing more challenging .

1. Dan Swanö - Moontower

2. Cynic - Traced in Air

3. Cynic - Focus

4. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5. Enslaved - Below The Lights

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