*** READ ME *** This list is about the greatest metal albums of all-time, from all sub-genres and all countries. You won't see bands like Deep Purple, Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, etc., nor will you see bands…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

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Updating this as of 20th Nov 2012…

1.Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass

2.Paradise Lost - Icon

3.The Gathering - Mandylion

4.Tiamat - Wildhoney

5.Throes Of Dawn - Quicksilver Clouds

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1.Cradle Of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace

2.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

3.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

4.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

5.Slayer - South Of Heaven

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I havnt been into metal all that long...so this is a good chuck of the metal albums i own...though ive heard many, many more....these are all albums ive spent a lot of time with (or soon will). I tried…

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2.3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom

3.Absu - Tara

4.ADX - Division Blindée

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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This list includes many records from many doom sub genres, some of these albums could fall under black or death metal, but the complete emotion expressed within these records, in my opinion, place them…

1.Evoken - Antithesis Of Light

2.The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer)

3.Ataraxie - L'Être Et La Nausée

4.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

5.Urna - Sepulcrum

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1.Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You

2.Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls

3.Virgin Black - Elegant...And Dying

4.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

5.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...

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1.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

2.Green Carnation - Journey To The End Of The Night

3.Opeth - Morningrise

4.Opeth - Orchid

5.Forgotten Silence - Kro Ni Ka

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Overall Year rating:
5/5…

1.Death - Symbolic

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet

4.Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters

5.Down - Nola

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