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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Wukk | 24.11.2014

1.	.
2.	(The Formative Years)
3.	Muse - Absolution
4.	Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
5.	Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
6.	Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
7.	Crush 40 - Crush 40
8.	.
9.	(First Forays into Metal (Or Anything Resembling It))
10.	Skillet - Collide
11.	Disciple - Back Again
12.	Thy Majestie - Dawn
13.	Divinefire - Glory Thy Name
14.	Boanerges - Senales Antes Del Fin
15.	Evergrey - A Decade And A Half (Well, just a few of their songs from YouTube, but I figured the best way to represent that was with a compilation album, regardless of release date.)
16.	Threshold - The Ravages Of Time
17.	Shadow Gallery - Carved In Stone
18.	Star One - Space Metal
19.	Spheric Universe Experience - Anima
20.	.
21.	(Hey, I Don't Hate Death Growls Anymore! (And My Extreme Metal Choices Are Weird))
22.	Extol - Undeceived
23.	Antestor - The Forsaken
24.	Lengsel - Solace
25.	Epta Astera - SALIGIA
26.	Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
27.	Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
28.	Grave Declaration - The Nightshift Worshiper
29.	In Vain - The Latter Rain
30.	The Algorithm - The Doppler Effect
31.	Pantokrator - Aurum
32.	.
33.	(Some Less Extreme Stuff Along the Way)
34.	Stratovarius - Polaris
35.	Nightwish - Wishmaster
36.	Amorphis - Skyforger
37.	Firewind - The Premonition
38.	Stryper - To Hell With The Devil
39.	Rammstein - Sehnsucht
40.	Leverage - Circus Colossus
41.	Rob Rock - Rage Of Creation
42.	Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls
43.	Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
44.	Sabaton - The Art Of War
45.	Turisas - The Varangian Way
46.	Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
47.	Tourniquet - Microscopic View Of A Telescopic Realm
48.	Narnia - Enter The Gate
49.	.
50.	(There's More to Music than Metal)
51.	Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
52.	Cake - Comfort Eagle
53.	Captain Ahab - The End of Irony
54.	65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math
55.	Maybeshewill - Not for Want of Trying
56.	Rise Against - The Sufferer & the Witness
57.	Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
58.	Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane
59.	Lecrae - Rehab
60.	Rush - Moving Pictures
61.	.
62.	(University: When I Finally Started Liking Metal Other People Like)
63.	Opeth - Blackwater Park
64.	Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
65.	Insomnium - Across The Dark
66.	Megadeth - Endgame
67.	Mastodon - Crack The Skye
68.	Metallica - Ride The Lightning
69.	Judas Priest - Painkiller
70.	Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
71.	Dream Theater - Images And Words
72.	As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
73.	.
74.	(The end. Trying to map everything else since then would be a nightmare. This list is already far more extensive than it needs to be.)