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The bands are in that order on purpose, from most to least favorite, but favorite nonetheless. The format is:

band | favourite album by the band | favorite song (or 2) by the band

Last updated on 4 November 2022.

Created by: Qualeen | 31.01.2022


1. Meshuggah - Nothing
"New Millenium Cyanide Christ" from Chaosphere, or the entirety of the "I" EP
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
"Benighted" from Still Life
3. Immolation - Close To A World Below
the title track from the same album
4. Death - Symbolic
"Symbolic" or "Evil Dead" from Scream Bloody Gore
5. Agalloch - The Mantle
"Limbs" (from Ashes Against the Grain) or "A Desolation Song" (from The Mantle)
6. Judas Priest - Painkiller
title track from the same album
7. Isis - Panopticon
"The Beginning and the End" from Oceanic
8. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" (from The Number of the Beast) or "Flight of Icarus" (from Piece of Mind)
9. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
"Tuulen tytär & Soturin tie" from Kivenkantaja, or the title track from the same album
10. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
"Rhun/Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes" (from Stronghold)
11. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
"Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" (from Rust in Peace)
12. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
"Into the Infinity of Thoughts" (from In the Nightside Eclipse)
13. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
"Black Sabbath" from the album holding the same name
14. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
title tracks from both Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning
15. Dream Theater - Images And Words
"Metropolis Pt. 1" from Images and Words
16. Be'lakor - Vessels
"The Smoke of Many Fires" (from Vessels)
17. Motörhead - Inferno
"Brotherhood of Man" (from The World is Yours)
18. Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned
"Deathamphetamine" from Shovel Headed Kill Machine
19. Slayer - Reign In Blood
the title track from South of Heaven
20. Mgła - Exercises In Futility
"With Hearts Toward None VII" from With Hearts Toward None
21. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
"At the Fathomless Depths"/"Night's Blood" (Storm of the Light's Bane)
22. Wintersun - Wintersun
"Sadness and Hate" or "Beautiful Death" from their self-titled album
23. Vader - Tibi Et Igni
"God Is Dead (Helleluyah)" from Impressions in Blood and/or "Sword of the Witcher" (a song which, to my knowledge, was not featured on any of Vader's releases, but was rather part of the soundtrack to the first Witcher game)
24. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
"Melancholy (Holy Martyr)" from Something Wicked This Way Comes
25. Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
"Luciferian Rays" from Black Mass for a Mass Grave
26. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
"When the Sun Burns Red" from Coma of Souls
27. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
"Valhalla" (from Follow the Blind) or "The Bard's Song - In the Forest" (from Somewhere Far Beyond)
28. Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance
"Introitus" from Chapters of Repugnance or "Initiation/Naraka" from Passages into Deformity
29. Behemoth - The Satanist
"Daimonos" from Evangelion
30. Hath - All That Was Promised
"Name Them Yet Build No Monument" (from All That Was Promised) or "Usurpation" (from Of Rot and Ruin)
31. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
"Are You Dead Yet?" from the album holding the same name
32. Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
"Inoculated Life" from Considered Dead and/or the title track from Obscura
33. Hate - Auric Gates Of Veles
"Sovereign Sanctity" (from Auric Gates of Veles) and/or "Resurgence" (from Rugia)
34. Enslaved - Ruun
"Loke" (from Frost)
35. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
"Winter's Gate VII" from Winter's Gate and/or "The Gale/Mortal Share" from Above the Weeping World
36. Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
"The Lifeless Advance" (from Stare Into Death and Be Still) or "Drown Within" (from Everything is Fire)
37. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
title track from Where Greater Men Have Fallen
38. Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
"Zombie Inferno" (from Survival of the Sickest) or "Bloodicide" (from The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn)
39. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
"In my Kingdom Cold" from Sons of Northern Darkness
40. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
"Crimson"
41. Ensiferum - Ensiferum
"Sword Chant" from Iron
42. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
"The Slaughter of Baby Jesus/Blinded by Light, Enlightened by Darkness" from Hrimthursum
43. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
"The Wolf Is Loose" from Blood Mountain
44. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
"Terminus (Where Death Is Most Alive)" from the same album
45. Kalmah - Swampsong
"Heroes to Us" from Swampsong
46. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
"At First Light" from Those Once Loyal
47. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
"From Mars/To Sirius" from From Mars to Sirius
48. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
"Summoning the Rain" from Autumn Aurora
49. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
"As Good as Dead" from Nightbringers
50. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
"Under the Northern Star" from With Oden on Our Side


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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01.02.2022 - 00:05
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Nice list!
Hmm.. if i had to choose, my favorite bands (and respective favorite album) would be:
1. Judas Priest (Painkiller)
2. Death (Spiritual Healing)
3. Bolt Thrower (Those Once Loyal)
4. Dissection (Storm of the Light's Bane)
5. Megadeth (Rust in Peace)
6. Slayer (Seasons in the Abyss)
7. Iron Maiden (Somewhere in Time)
8. Black Sabbath (Master of Reality)
9. Metallica (Ride the Lightning)
10. Necrophobic (The Nocturnal Silence)

Honorable mentions:
Vektor (Terminal Redux)
Edge of Sanity (Crimson)
Iced Earth (Burnt Offerings)
Mercyful Fate (Melissa)
Summoning (Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame)
Testament (The Legacy)
Dio (Holy Diver)
Sepultura (Arise)
Obituary (Cause of Death)
Immortal (At the Heart of Winter)
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01.02.2022 - 21:43
Qualeen
Written by F3ynman on 01.02.2022 at 00:05

Nice list!
Hmm.. if i had to choose, my favorite bands (and respective favorite album) would be:
1. Judas Priest (Painkiller)
2. Death (Spiritual Healing)
3. Bolt Thrower (Those Once Loyal)
4. Dissection (Storm of the Light's Bane)
5. Megadeth (Rust in Peace)
6. Slayer (Seasons in the Abyss)
7. Iron Maiden (Somewhere in Time)
8. Black Sabbath (Master of Reality)
9. Metallica (Ride the Lightning)
10. Necrophobic (The Nocturnal Silence)

Honorable mentions:
Vektor (Terminal Redux)
Edge of Sanity (Crimson)
Iced Earth (Burnt Offerings)
Mercyful Fate (Melissa)
Summoning (Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame)
Testament (The Legacy)
Dio (Holy Diver)
Sepultura (Arise)
Obituary (Cause of Death)
Immortal (At the Heart of Winter)

I love all these bands. The thing with Vektor for me is that I listened to them a bit, but that was about 4 years ago, and I think the main reason why I don't listen to them at the moment is that I simply forget about them. Whenever I remember to, I might revisit their discography because I remember enjoying their technical focus.

I would listen to Necrophobic a lot too, and I still do sometimes, but Nocturnal Silence and Darkside got taken off spotify, and I've not been able to buy the cd or mp3's online. I can only listen to those on youtube hahah. Thankfully Hrimthursum got readded there, and I think their label is re-issuing all those records, so I want to believe that the same will happen to their first two. I've never seen the physical version in stores
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So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
[Meshuggah]
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01.02.2022 - 22:18
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Contributor
Cool list starting from my favourite band with favourite album of theirs:

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
3. Rush - Hemispheres
4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5. Judas Priest - Painkiller
6. Deep Purple - Machine Head
7. Rainbow - Rising
8. Death - Symbolic
9. W.A.S.P. - Crimson Idol
10. Slayer - Reign In Blood

Honorable mentions:
Summoning - Oath Bound
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
Tristania - Widow's Weeds
Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn
Uriah Heep - Rainbows And Demons
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Scorpions - Blackout
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
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Andy's 2024 album ranking
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02.02.2022 - 00:05
F3ynman
Nocturnal Bro
Contributor
Written by Qualeen on 01.02.2022 at 21:43

I love all these bands.

Yeah we have really similar tastes
Written by Qualeen on 01.02.2022 at 21:43

Vektor

I also haven't listened to them as often as I used to, but like you said, when I return they're just as great - hopefully their newest album will be just as good!
Written by Qualeen on 01.02.2022 at 21:43

I would listen to Necrophobic a lot too, and I still do sometimes, but Nocturnal Silence and Darkside got taken off spotify, and I've not been able to buy the cd or mp3's online. I can only listen to those on youtube hahah. Thankfully Hrimthursum got readded there, and I think their label is re-issuing all those records, so I want to believe that the same will happen to their first two. I've never seen the physical version in stores

YouTube is actually my main way of listening to new music - one great source with barely any ads is "Death Metal Supply" https://youtube.com/c/DeathMetalSupply.
Yeah, I can't wait for the reissue of Nocturnal Silence! I also haven't seen any of their older albums in stores.
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02.02.2022 - 01:27
Qualeen
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 01.02.2022 at 22:18

Cool list starting from my favourite band with favourite album of theirs:

Really cool picks! Of the bands that you mentioned but I didn't, I also really like Bolt Thrower, Mercyful Fate and Rainbow. I just never listened to enough of their stuff to include them.
----
So imminently visible - this cloaked innocent guilt
Sentenced to a lifetime, a second of structured chaos
Trampled by the ferocious, raging crowds of solitude
I'm the soil beneath me soaking up the sustenance of my own death.
[Meshuggah]
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