A good place to start listen on metal and the externals sub Styles and genres

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

3. Fates Warning - Disconnected

4. Meshuggah - ObZen

5. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

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1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

3. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2000 was a pretty solid year especially for progressive metal, Symphonic metal and power metal, also pretty good year for death metal. This also was the year I started to listen to metal music thanks to those iconic linkin park singles (RIP Chester Bennington).

1. Haggard - Awaking The Centuries

2. Koyaanisqatsy - From The Yearning To Burst The Perpetual Circle

3. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

4. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

5. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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1. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

3. Dark Tranquillity - Haven

4. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

5. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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1. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

2. Saturnus - Martyre

3. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

4. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

5. Radiohead - Kid A

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1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.The genre is primary one.
4.Only ESPECIALLY favorite (a bit more stringently than ver1 and rating 10 is not enough)
5.The order: A to Z (initial of band's name), next release date
6.Black Wisdom, an album of Russian band Grey Heaven Fall, is deleted. When the situation gets better, I will repost.
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1. Akhlys - The Dreaming I

2. Altar Of Plagues - Mammal

3. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

4. Anthrax - Among The Living

5. Arkha Sva - Gloria Satanae

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1. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3. Pain Of Salvation - "BE"

4. Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake

5. Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

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Must Listen: The First 10

1. Dark Tranquillity - Haven

2. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

4. In Flames - Clayman

5. Fates Warning - Disconnected

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**Trigger warning**

Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.

I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent update) - some of them multiple times - so I feel I can give my honest opinion.

If I haven't already done so, I will likely re-listen to these in the hope of understanding why they've received so many 9 and 10 votes.

Ordered by my rating then MS rating then number of votes.

Updated: 17-Oct-22

My other lists:
My Favourite Albums (ordered & rated)
My Favourite EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1. Anathema - Judgement

2. Anathema - Alternative 4

3. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4. Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

5. Motörhead - Overkill

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1. Paradise Lost - Obsidian

2. Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

3. Judas Priest - Firepower

4. Pallbearer - Heartless

5. Vektor - Terminal Redux

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1. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

2. Threshold - Hypothetical

3. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Cynic - Traced In Air

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1. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

2. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe

4. Fates Warning - Disconnected

5. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3. Deep Purple - Machine Head

4. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend

5. Queen - Queen II

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2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722

I sure do love this site and it's rating system, it makes finding great music so easy and, even more importantly, when an album is overlooked for a while but starts getting a buzz a few months later, boom, there it appears in the top 20.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Tool - Lateralus

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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1. Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar

2. After Forever - After Forever

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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