Just a list of my favorite albums, mostly Black or Death Metal !

There are some albums/bands I would love to put in this list, but they are not on MS.

1. 1349 - Liberation

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of the Thunder God

5. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

2. Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn

3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

4. Deep Purple - In Rock

5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

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Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

2. Faith No More - Angel Dust

3. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

4. Tool - Ænima

5. Metallica - ...And Justice for All

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1. Celtic Frost - Monotheist

2. Behemoth - Evangelion

3. Septicflesh - Communion

4. Behemoth - Demigod

5. Decapitated - Nihility

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1. Acid Witch - Stoned

2. Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun

3. Asphyx - The Rack

4. Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

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***NOTE: This is an opinion and everything is listed based on my own preferences. Feel free to disagree and tell me what your favorite Opeth albums are from best to worst.***

01. Blackwater Park

It would be nearly impossible to list any other album as #1 given that Blackwater Park is widely considered one of the best metal albums of all time regardless of genre. This is also the perfect place to describe what Opeth has historically offered as a musical entity and why it is worth delving deeply into their music catalog. Blackwater Park has all of the elements Opeth is known for: brutal death growls, soothing clean vocals, heavy, dense atmospheres seamlessly flowing into light, airy instrumentals. You never know what to expect from one moment to the next and that has always been one of the most exciting parts of any Opeth album.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

3. Opeth - Still Life

4. Opeth - Watershed

5. Opeth - Morningrise

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Tool - 10,000 Days

3. Tool - Lateralus

4. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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This list is my own personal favorite albums of all-time, which will more than likely differ from the opinions of others. I'm only doing 1 album per band, otherwise this would be "My Personal Top 10 Dream Theater Albums". This list could be updated in the event that an incredibly good album is released in the future.

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Insomnium - Winter's Gate

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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There are not a lot of albums out there that are true masterpieces. But I'd like to create a list of albums that earn that title in my opinion. At the moment I can only think of 6 titles.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Negură Bunget - OM

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Opeth - My arms, your Hearse

5. Opeth - Still Life

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Just for my favorite
2016.09.16

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

3. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5. Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter

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Obviously, a list of my favorite songs, or songs that mean something special to me at least. I don't remember them all of course so I'll be adding more as soon as I'm reminded of them.
I wanted to pull this off on Spotify but I'm missing a whole lot of songs, so I figured this would be a good place to save it.

1. After Forever - Decipher

2. Ahab - The Giant

3. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

4. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

5. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

3. Opeth - Still Life

4. Opeth - Morningrise

5. Opeth - Damnation

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Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I'm aware that there are gaps and, more importantly, things you don't agree with. If you're dying to ask why I love Gama Bomb so much and why I can't spare two minutes for Destruction, Annihilator, Tankard, etc., then please go do it somewhere else as I haven't the time to clean up after you. I will, however, accept criticism for the lack of Coroner and Voivod.

1. Slayer - Reign In Blood

2. Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Artillery - By Inheritance

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Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.

1. Dream Theater - Images And Words

2. Sylosis - Monolith

3. Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Protest The Hero - Kezia

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1. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

2. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

5. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon

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