Not nessecary my current favourites, but these are the albums that had a great impact on me or had opened up new horizons in different sub-genres. Most of these would be pretty recent and mainstream but I only started listening to Metal in 2007 after all. They are in chronological order of which I listened to them through these few years.

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Ag Fox | 03.03.2010

	1.	Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything (2007) Symphonic Metal; My first contact w/ metal
	2.	Metallica - Ride The Lightning (1984) Thrash Metal
	3.	Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (2007) Symphonic Power Metal; Introduced to me by my ex
	4.	To-Mera - Transcendental (2006) Progressive Metal; Got a Jazz and fusion feel to it and hard to digest. First experience with Prog
	5.	Kamelot - Ghost Opera (2007) Symphonic Power Metal
	6.	Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines (2006) Black Metal / Post Punk; The despair just works here
	7.	Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper (2000) Extreme Power Metal; First experience with harsh vocals
	8.	Shade Empire - Sinthetic (2004) Symphonic / Industrial Black Metal; The only album that blows me away every single time
	9.	Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (2009) Progressive Metal; The album that got me into Prog properly
	10.	Acid King - III (2005) Stoner Metal; The album that got me not to write off the Stoner genre
	11.	Strapping Young Lad - The New Black (2006) Industrial Thrash Metal; Devin Townsend is amazing, both as a composer and musician
	12.	Protest The Hero - Fortress (2008) Progressive Metalcore; The album that made me realise there are gems among the Metalcore genre, absolutely hectic and no time to get bored
	13.	The Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate (2008) Industrial Death Metal; A lot of staff dig this. Me too
	14.	Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (2002) Avantegarde Black Metal; Floored. nuff said
	15.	The NULLL Collective - De Monstris (2010) First ever Funeral Doom that got me hooked