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If The World Was Ending, I Would Find Time To Listen To These Albums First

A list by
BloodTears
Created
March 27, 2010
Entries
34
Endorsements
29
So, these are basically my favourite albums of all time, including non-metal/rock acts, compilations and live albums. Needless to say, I would need a couple of days to go through all of these.
1. Dream Theater - Awake
2. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
3. Riverside - Out Of Myself
4. Rotting Christ - Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers
5. Anathema - Alternative 4
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My Top 30 Doom Metal Albums

A list by
lord artan
Created
September 18, 2010
Entries
30
Endorsements
27
In this list, many Death Doom have also
1. Empyrium - A Wintersunset...
2. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
3. Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
4. Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play
5. Shape Of Despair - Angels Of Distress
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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums

A list by
Redel
Created
March 01, 2014
Entries
315
Endorsements
21
An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…
1. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2. Opeth - Morningrise
3. Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
4. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
5. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
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My Top 50

A list by
Morphis
Created
March 09, 2010
Entries
50
Endorsements
20
Limited to two albums per band a work in progress.
1. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
2. Heavenwood - Diva
3. Skyclad - The Answer Machine?
4. Moonsorrow - Suden Uni
5. Moonspell - Wolfheart
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Brimbly-Brambly Bucka-Bucka Woozle-Wuzzle It's A Doom List.

A list by
ScreamingSteelUS
Created
January 24, 2015
Entries
632
Endorsements
18
This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.

The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid…
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Warning - Watching From A Distance
3. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
4. Candlemass - Nightfall
5. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
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My Favourite Melancholic Albums

A list by
deepinside
Created
July 05, 2011
Entries
22
Endorsements
18
1. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
2. Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
3. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
4. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
5. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
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Life Changing Albums

A list by
whatsacow
Created
August 19, 2010
Entries
19
Endorsements
16
These are the bands, which because of their sheer beauty and creativity have a special place in my collection.
1. Kayo Dot - Bath
2. Negură Bunget - OM
3. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
4. Cynic - Focus
5. Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
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Metal Rasputin's Absolute Favorite Albums Of All Time

A list by
Metal Fromage
Created
February 15, 2020
Entries
325
Endorsements
12
Updated 14.4.2024

My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but…
1. Marillion - Marbles
2. Anathema - Weather Systems
3. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
4. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
5. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs

A list by
Redel
Created
March 08, 2014
Entries
322
Endorsements
10
1. Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
2. Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy
3. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
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Bombest's Most Listened To Albums

A list by
Bombest
Created
December 04, 2010
Entries
58
Endorsements
10
Progressive Metal/Rock is my main music, but you can't ignore the beauty in other genres.
1. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
2. Opeth - Damnation
3. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Tool - 10,000 Days
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Top 30 Albums

A list by
SSM
Created
June 30, 2011
Entries
30
Endorsements
10
1. Death - Symbolic
2. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
3. Ihsahn - After
4. Virgin Black - Elegant...And Dying
5. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

A list by
Roman Doez
Created
April 13, 2023
Entries
200
Endorsements
9
The Metal Storm top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. Join me as I try to listen to every single album featured on it.
Each album has a symbol telling…
1. Judas Priest - Painkiller
2. Death - Symbolic
3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
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Metal Songs And Albums That Inspired The Names Of Other Bands

A list by
Plattner
Created
March 10, 2023
Entries
165
Endorsements
9
This is an alphabetical list of metal songs and albums that inspired the names of other artists.

While comparable lists often focus on the band name and explain its origin, this list turns the point…
1. Abruptum - De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet
2. Amebix - No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings
3. Anathema - Alternative 4
4. Anathema - Weather Systems
5. Arch Enemy - Black Earth
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My Top 100 Metal Albums EVER

A list by
in the mist
Created
November 23, 2012
Entries
100
Endorsements
9
1. The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?
2. Tiamat - Wildhoney
3. My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
5. Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites
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The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)

A list by
Uxküll
Created
October 06, 2020
Entries
435
Endorsements
9
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. Aara - En Ergô Einai
2. Aarni - Bathos
3. Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht
4. Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum
5. AATHMA - Avesta
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