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Top 15 Highly Anticipated Releases Of 2010

Just decided to add a list of albums that might(and hopefully will) be released this year, they'll probably be awesome.

1.Ark - Aradiokaos
2.Kamelot - TBA
3.Masterplan - Time To Be King
4.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
5.Rhapsody Of Fire - The Frozen Tears Of Angels

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Created by Zhao on 22.04.2010



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The Ultimate Gothic Metal Albums

A list of the ultimate releases in gothic metal. Suggestions are welcome.

1.After Forever - Prison Of Desire
2.Artrosis - Ukryty Wymiar
3.Ava Inferi - Onyx
4.Avrigus - The Secret Kingdom
5.Before The Dawn - Deadlight

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Created by CyberSymphony on 06.03.2010



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Top 200 Overlooked Albums

This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).

If you discover a new band or already like any of ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or leave a comment so we can get these overlooked gems in front of more people.

Criteria:
• High-quality musicianship (i.e. 9-10/10 IMO)
• 1 album per band

Ordered by number of votes then MS rating.

As these are albums with a low number of votes, the rating is likely to change frequently. I will update this list as often as I can.

Updated: 29-Jan-24

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Solipsist - The Human Equation
2.Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind
3.Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity
4.Element (USA) - The Energy
5.Telepathy - 12 Areas

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Created by nonZero on 15.07.2020



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Top 500 Albums of All Time

I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life.

Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens inspired me to pick up the guitar (and later drums) and start making music of my own.

So here are the albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the album give it an advantage over others.

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here. There are a ton of albums that I've rated 9/10 in the 'TBR' tab that may never make it to this list, be sure to check those out.)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 25 EPs (ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

Genre-Specific:
Top 50 Black Metal Albums
Top 50 Melodic Death Metal Albums
Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums
Top 40 Power Metal Albums
Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Top 30 Heavy Metal Albums

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Opeth - Still Life

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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



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Upcoming Releases

List of my personal notes of upcoming releases

1.Skraeckoedlan - Vermillion Sky
2.Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki
3.Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star
4.While She Sleeps - Self Hell
5.Austere - Beneath The Threshold

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Created by Anghellic67 on 31.10.2017



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Awesome Space Atmospheres

Music with a spacey touch...
Recommendations are welcome (only one album per band)

1.Aeons Confer - Symphonies Of Saturnus
2.Alrakis - Alpha Eri
3.Amestigon - Sun Of All Suns
4.Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
5.Astral Silence - Astral Journey

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Created by Curumir on 01.08.2013



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mz's Favs

These are the albums which I like the most. Since I have not listened to a lot of albums( let's say, max 400 for me), it would be pretentious to make a list of my 100 favorite albums, so I keep this list short.

1.Tool - Lateralus
2.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3.Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
4.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
5.Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

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Created by mz on 09.05.2013



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Scapeplan's Top 50 Albums Of All Time

Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
4.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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Created by ?apleee on 28.11.2012



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Slow Tempo…

Slow/Post/Depress/Funeral/Love/Gloom/Beauty/Sorrow/Obscure/Cold/Avantgarde/Atmospheric/Diferente...

1.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
2.Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane
3.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
4.Anathema - The Silent Enigma
5.Corrupted - El Mundo Frio

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Created by Amo del Merol on 08.07.2011



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Top 73 albums of all time

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall
3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time
4.Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias
5.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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Created by Elektro-Hexer on 19.07.2010



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My Top Ten Favorite Albums of All Time

I've been listening to metal for over a decade now. Here's my all time "favorites" list. Updated with comments March 24th, 2016. I started with death metal acts of In Flames and Dark Tranquility. I went to power metal for a long time, yet have circled back with getting re-introduced to Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, and Be'lakor.

1.In Flames - The Jester Race
2.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
3.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
4.Wintersun - Wintersun
5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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Created by EmeraldSword on 09.03.2010



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2023: Jan-Jun

Same deal as always - scenes if I somehow manage to break the 1200-album record I hit last year

1.Sermon - Of Golden Verse
2.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul
3.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent
4.Enslaved - Heimdal
5.Moonreich - Amer

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Created by musclassia on 04.01.2023



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2021 Album Ranking

1.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
3.Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
4.Grima - Rotten Garden
5.Gojira - Fortitude

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Created by Anghellic67 on 01.01.2021



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You Know It's Technically 2011-2020, Right?

To explain the title, there is no year 0, regardless of what Ghost may tell you. Thus, the first decade was years 1-10, instead of 0-9. So then it would be 11-20, and so on. But I know that would imply that Paranoid is a 60s album, which we cannot have.

So now that all the cool kids are doing it, here is my top 100 albums of the "decade", most of it might be a bit too mainsteam, most of it you'll find on others' lists, and so on. Restricted to one album per artist/band (including collabs), ordered alphabetically.

1.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
2.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
3.Akhlys - The Dreaming I
4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune
5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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Created by RaduP on 31.12.2019



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Diverge's Alternative/Prog/Jazz/Avant-Garde Favs

LATEST EDIT: December 12/2016- Added a whole bunch of progressive rock albums; processing earlier suggestions on the list.

Assembled below are some choice selections in alternative metal, prog rock, prog metal, jazz and avant-garde metal. I don't necessarily consider these styles to be my favourite (I do have a penchant for post-metal and cavernous death metal these days), but they have been the foundations of my taste for the last seven or eight years.

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2.Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
3.Rishloo - Living As Ghosts With Buildings As Teeth
4.Karnivool - Asymmetry
5.Blindead - Absence

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Created by Diverge on 28.12.2015