The Most Essential Albums Of My Life (one Per Band, Alphabetical)

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The Most Essential Albums Of My Life (one Per Band, Alphabetical)

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Angelskingarden
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Inspired by lists of my BFF AnthropOcean (https://metalstorm.net/users/lists.php?user_id=341301) I deciced to create a list of the most important and influential records/bands here as well. These are either records that have brought something completely new to my musical life, changed my musical tastes significantly or represent work so great that even when they are not groundbreaking from an objective standpoint, they have risen to a really high ranks in my personal "charts". I have limited myself only with a "one album per band" rule because otherwise the list would be much much longer. I will be continually adding to it whenever there are new records out there that will bring me the level of joy that the ones already in it have brought me. This is my personal "best of" list but if you found records you like there as well, you can consider the other ones a recommendation.
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1.
A.I.(d) - Schematic Emergency
2010
218.
2.
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
2003
218.
3.
A Storm Of Light - Forgive Us Our Trespasses
2009
218.
4.
Aara - Triade III: Nyx
2023
218.
5.
After The Burial - Rareform
2008
218.
6.
Agalloch - The Mantle
2022
218.
7.
Agent Fresco - Destrier
2015
218.
8.
Akercocke - Choronzon
2003
218.
9.
Akhlys - Melinoë
2020
218.
10.
Alarum - Eventuality
2004
218.
11.
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
2010
218.
12.
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy
2018
218.
13.
All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence
2006
218.
14.
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
2006
218.
15.
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
2010
218.
16.
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
2003
218.
17.
Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
2005
218.
18.
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
2009
218.
19.
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
1995
218.
20.
Atheretic - Apocalyptic Nature Fury
2006
218.
21.
Augury - Concealed
2004
218.
22.
August Burns Red - Constellations
2009
218.
23.
Batushka - Litourgiya
2015
218.
24.
Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond)
2002
218.
25.
Benea Reach - Alleviat
2008
218.
26.
Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
2007
218.
27.
Benighted - Icon
2007
218.
28.
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2007
218.
29.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1970
218.
30.
Born Of Osiris - The New Reign
2007
218.
31.
Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
2013
218.
32.
Brodequin - Methods Of Execution
2004
218.
33.
Burst - Lazarus Bird
2006
218.
34.
Capharnaum - Fractured
2004
218.
35.
Carnival In Coal - Collection Prestige
2005
218.
36.
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
2009
218.
37.
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2006
218.
38.
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
2007
218.
39.
Chaostar - Chaostar
2000
218.
40.
Chevelle - Hats Off To The Bull
2012
218.
41.
Cilice - Deranged Headtrip
2009
218.
42.
Cog - The New Normal
2005
218.
43.
Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
1999
218.
44.
Converge - Axe To Fall
2009
218.
45.
Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day
2003
218.
46.
Cryptopsy - And Then You'll Beg
2000
218.
47.
Cynic - Traced In Air
2008
218.
48.
Darkane - Layers Of Lies
2005
218.
49.
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power
2025
218.
50.
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
2014
218.
51.
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
1998
218.
52.
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
2010
218.
53.
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
2006
218.
54.
Deeds Of Flesh - Reduced To Ashes
2003
218.
55.
Dementor - The Art Of Blasphemy
1999
218.
56.
Depresy - A Grand Magnificence
1998
218.
57.
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
2019
218.
58.
Despised Icon - The Ills Of Modern Man
2005
218.
59.
Devilyn - XI
2005
218.
60.
Dies Irae - Immolated
2000
218.
61.
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
2001
218.
62.
Disgorge - Parallels Of Infinite Torture
2005
218.
63.
Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
2004
218.
64.
Domination Through Impurity - Essence Of Brutality
2005
218.
65.
Dordeduh - Har
2021
218.
66.
Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition
2000
218.
67.
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
1995
218.
68.
Einvigi - Monokroma
2024
218.
69.
Emperor - IX Equilibrium
1999
218.
70.
Enfold Darkness - Our Cursed Rapture
2009
218.
71.
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
2003
218.
72.
Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
2011
218.
73.
Fleshwrought - Dementia/Dyslexia
2010
218.
74.
Floating Me - Floating Me
2011
218.
75.
Forgotten Tomb - Nightfloating
2024
218.
76.
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within
2007
218.
77.
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
2008
218.
78.
Glass Casket - We Are Gathered Here Today
2004
218.
79.
Godsmack - Faceless
2003
218.
80.
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
2005
218.
81.
Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
2001
218.
82.
Gorod - Process Of A New Decline
2009
218.
83.
Green Carnation - A Blessing In Disguise
2003
218.
84.
Grip Inc. - Incorporated
2004
218.
85.
Hauntologist - Hollow
2024
218.
86.
Hunab Ku - The Rewiring Process
2010
218.
87.
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
2005
218.
88.
Ill Niño - Revolution Revolución
2001
218.
89.
Immolation - Unholy Cult
2002
218.
90.
In Flames - Reroute To Remain
2002
218.
91.
Insania (CZE) - Kult Hyeny
2010
218.
92.
Internecine - The Book Of Lambs
2001
218.
93.
Intervalle Bizarre - Fraility of the Human Condition
2002
218.
94.
Into The Moat - The Design
2005
218.
95.
Ion Dissonance - Cursed
2010
218.
96.
Jolly - The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2)
2013
218.
97.
Junius - Eternal Rituals For The Accretion Of Light
2017
218.
98.
Karnivool - Sound Awake
2009
218.
99.
Kataklysm - Epic (The Poetry of War)
2001
218.
100.
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
2006
218.
101.
Kaura - That Which Defines Us
2011
218.
102.
Khoma - A Final Storm
2010
218.
103.
King Crimson - The Power To Believe
2003
218.
104.
Korn - Untouchables
2002
218.
105.
Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
2018
218.
106.
Leeched - To Dull The Blades Of Your Abuse
2020
218.
107.
Leprous - Bilateral
2011
218.
108.
Lost Soul - Chaostream
2005
218.
109.
M.A.N - Peacenemy
2008
218.
110.
Marduk - World Funeral
2003
218.
111.
Martyr - Warp Zone
2000
218.
112.
Manes - Slow Motion Death Sequence
2018
218.
113.
Mayhem - Chimera
2004
218.
114.
Melechesh - Emissaries
2006
218.
115.
Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
2005
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116.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
1986
218.
117.
Mgła - Age Of Excuse
2019
218.
118.
Mindwork - Eterea
2012
218.
119.
Misþyrming - Algleymi
2019
218.
120.
Mithras - Behind The Shadows Lie Madness
2007
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121.
Mod Flanders Conspiracy - Take a Ride on My One-Wheeled Rickshaw
2005
218.
122.
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
1998
218.
123.
Mord'A'Stigmata - Dreams Of Quiet Places
2019
218.
124.
Mortician - Darkest Day Of Horror
2002
218.
125.
Mudvayne - Lost And Found
2005
218.
126.
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
2001
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127.
Naïve - Illuminatis
2012
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128.
Necrophagist - Epitaph
2004
218.
129.
Negativa (CAN) - Negativa
2006
218.
130.
Neglected Fields - Splenetic
2006
218.
131.
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2002
218.
132.
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
2009
218.
133.
Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
2013
218.
134.
Old Man's Child - In Defiance Of Existence
2003
218.
135.
Om - Advaitic Songs
2012
218.
136.
Opeth - Deliverance
2002
218.
137.
Ophidian I - Desolate
2021
218.
138.
Origin - Echoes Of Decimation
2005
218.
139.
Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven
2004
218.
140.
Painted in Exile - Revitalized
2009
218.
141.
Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter II: Render Unto Eden
2020
218.
142.
Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life
2002
218.
143.
Pincer Consortium - Geminus Schism
2024
218.
144.
Pitbulls In The Nursery - Lunatic
2006
218.
145.
Poem - Unique
2018
218.
146.
Prisma - Collusion
2008
218.
147.
Proghma-C - Bar-Do Travel
2010
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148.
Psycroptic - Ob(Servant)
2006
218.
149.
Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
2007
218.
150.
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
2002
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151.
Rammstein - Mutter
2001
218.
152.
Random Mullet - Remission
2009
218.
153.
Red Rot - Mal De Vivre
2022
218.
154.
Ribozyme - Presenting The Problem
2012
218.
155.
Rishloo - Eidolon
2007
218.
156.
Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
2018
218.
157.
Rotting Christ - Khronos
2000
218.
158.
Rudra - Brahmavidya : Transcendental I
2009
218.
159.
RUÏM - Black Royal Spiritism - I​.​O Sino Da Igreja
2023
218.
160.
Satyricon - Volcano
2007
218.
161.
Scale The Summit - The Collective
2011
218.
162.
Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons
2003
218.
163.
Sermon - Of Golden Verse
2023
218.
164.
Seven - Cymatics
2009
218.
165.
Schammasch - Triangle
2016
218.
166.
Shining - Blackjazz
2010
218.
167.
Sicmonic - Somnambulist
2008
218.
168.
SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day
2006
218.
169.
Six Feet Under - Warpath
1997
218.
170.
Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
1998
218.
171.
Sleep Token - Sundowning
2019
218.
172.
Slipknot - Iowa
2001
218.
173.
Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulant
2006
218.
174.
Stake - Love, Death And Decay
2022
218.
175.
Static-X - Shadow Zone
2003
218.
176.
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
1991
218.
177.
Svartidauði - Flesh Cathedral
2012
218.
178.
System Of A Down - Toxicity
2001
218.
179.
Talanas - The Waspkeeper
2011
218.
180.
Terminal Function - Measuring The Abstract
2008
218.
181.
The Antichrist Imperium - Vol. II: Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan
2018
218.
182.
The Arcane Order - In The Wake Of Collisions
2007
218.
183.
The Contortionist - Language
2014
218.
184.
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
2007
218.
185.
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
2011
218.
186.
The Faceless - Akeldama
2006
218.
187.
The Haarp Machine - Disclosure
2012
218.
188.
The Hirsch Effekt - Eskapist
2017
218.
189.
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
2008
218.
190.
The Ocean - Precambrian
2007
218.
191.
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine
2009
218.
192.
The Rotted - Get Dead Or Die Trying
2008
218.
193.
The Shattering - The Shattering Begins
2005
218.
194.
Therion - Secret Of The Runes
2001
218.
195.
Thorns - Thorns
2001
218.
196.
Tool - Lateralus
2001
218.
197.
Trepalium - Alchemik Clockwork Of Disorder
2006
218.
198.
Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
2025
218.
199.
Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
2024
218.
200.
Ultha - A Light So Dim
2026
218.
201.
Ulver - Perdition City
2000
218.
202.
Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
2006
218.
203.
Vader - Revelations
2002
218.
204.
Vale Of Pnath - Vale Of Pnath
2008
218.
205.
Veil Of Maya - The Common Man's Collapse
2008
218.
206.
Vildhjarta - Måsstaden
2007
218.
207.
Viraemia - Viraemia
2009
218.
208.
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
2003
218.
209.
Voices - Frightened
2018
218.
210.
Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd
2018
218.
211.
Voyager - Ghost Mile
2017
218.
212.
Vulture Industries - The Tower
2013
218.
213.
War From A Harlots Mouth - In Shoals
2009
218.
214.
Windhand - Soma
2013
218.
215.
Whitechapel - The Valley
2019
218.
216.
WRVTH - WRVTH
2015
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217.
Zhrine - Unortheta
2016
218.
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Zygoma - The Highest Court
2016
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Best album hands down in this list has to be Metallica, nothing other even compares and comes near to that album! JAJ
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Nice list, ton of great albums and I love seeing Anata and Augury in there. That Anata record is one of my all time favourite tdm release too.

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