I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

2.Metallica - Re-Load

3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel

4.Inferi - The End Of An Era

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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One album per artist in alphabetical order which happen to be my favorites. Feels like an addendum to the ?Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection" (http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=58) often mentioning the same band but different releases.

1.36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance

2.Agrypnie - 16[485]

3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

4.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

5.Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy

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1.Deafheaven - Sunbather

2.Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal

3.Gorguts - Colored Sands

4.Ghost - Infestissumam

5.The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

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1.Between The Buried And Me - Automata I

2.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

3.Mono - Transcendental [Split]

4.The Ocean - Aeolian

5.The Ocean - Anthropocentric

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2013. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Ulcerate - Vermis

2.The Ocean - Pelagial

3.The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

4.Wormed - Exodromos

5.Rivers Of Nihil - The Conscious Seed Of Light

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1.Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

2.Monster Magnet - Last Patrol

3.Atrocity - Okkult

4.Finntroll - Blodsvept

5.Voivod - Target Earth

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Meshuggah - I

3.Kayo Dot - Hubardo

4.Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

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1.Letlive. - The Blackest Beatiful

2.Clutch - Earth Rocker

3.Protest The Hero - Volition

4.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

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1.Cangaço - Rastros

2.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

4.The Ocean - Pelagial

5.Timo Tolkki's Avalon - The Land Of New Hope

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1.Lingua Mortis Orchestra - LMO

2.Black Sabbath - 13

3.Leprous - Coal

4.Dream Theater - Dream Theater

5.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

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