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Dark, Harrowing, And Ravaging Albums To Ruin Your Day

These obviously won't ruin your day. Chances are if you are into these styles you'll love this selection. No stylistic borders, but I'm limiting myself to one album per band. These aren't…

1.Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis
2.Abruptum - Potestates Apocalypsis
3.Absolutus - Pugnare In Iis Quae Obtinere Non Possis
4.Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
5.Aderlating - Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone Pt. 1

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Created by Alex F on 11.09.2013



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The Most Majestic Releases Of All Time

This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical…

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2.Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
3.Deinonychus - The Silence Of December
4.Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age
5.Burzum - Filosofem

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Created by Roxana.M on 10.06.2015



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Kvlt, Meet Riff: Blackened Doom And Sludge

Had been wanting to do this for a while, title's pretty self explanatory. Black and doom are my two favorite metal subgenres, and when the two are combined into pure melancholic chaos, I scream like…

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2.Arcana Coelestia - Le Mirage De L'Idéal
3.Atriarch - Ritual Of Passing
4.Autumnblaze - DämmerElbenTragödie
5.Bast - Spectres

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Created by Auntie Sahar on 05.11.2014



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Drone Metal: The Slow Darkside

It's always the same riff? the same bass? for some reason you can't stop listening to it? it's appealing. The whole sound summons you into a spiral, a void? It's always the same thing,…

1.Melvins - Lysol
2.Earth - Earth 2 - Special Low Frequency Version
3.Earth - Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions
4.Boris - Absolutego
5.Thrones - Alraune

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Created by Tiago Rocha on 24.09.2010



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Bemused Dreamscapes And Ponderous Journeys - A List Of Albums For Adventure And Escapism

The following is a list of favorites that will steal your mind from this mortal realm; albums that will take you on an indelible journey.

1.Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune
5.Arkona - Гой, Роде, Гой!

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Created by V01d on 15.08.2014



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Top 200 Overlooked Albums

This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).

If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…

1.Solipsist - The Human Equation
2.Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind
3.Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity
4.Element (USA) - The Energy
5.Telepathy - 12 Areas

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Created by nonZero on 15.07.2020



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My Top Albums Of The Decade: 2000's (On Going)

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park
2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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Created by Red_Travis on 03.02.2012



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (S)

This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.S.V.E.S.T. - Veritas Diaboli Manet In Aeternum: Le Diable Est Ma Raison
2.Sabachthani - Miserable Endings
3.Sabaoth - Les Illuminations
4.Sabaton - Carolus Rex
5.Sabbat - Dreamweaver

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Created by Uxküll on 17.02.2021



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Essential Hipster Metal

20 Essential Hipster Metal Albums/Bands. One Album Per Band,…

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
2.Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
3.Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem Of 12 Stars
4.Krallice - Krallice
5.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

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Created by Gjulch on 20.04.2014



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AJ's Ranking Of 2005

Top 50 of 2005

Only LPs

Album count: 189
Average rating: 7.08


1.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
2.Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade
3.Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
4.Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
5.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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Created by AJ The Great on 23.04.2024



Favorite Album In Each Genre

1.Three Days Grace - One-X
2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist
3.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
4.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
5.Suicide Silence - The Cleansing

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Created by me<3mertl on 05.05.2023



Greatest Unconventional Metal Albums

1.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury
2.The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
3.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
4.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
5.Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

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Created by dann2118 on 12.03.2016