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.Macabre - Murder Metal

2.Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War

3.Macbeth - Romantic Tragedy's Crescendo

4.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld

5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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Favorite releases from 1995

Updated 9/4/20…

1.Suffocation - Pierced From Within

2.Kyuss - ...And The Circus Leaves Town

3.Gorelust - Reign Of Lunacy

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Deicide - Once Upon The Cross

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2.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

3.Slauter Xstoyes - Winter Kill

4.Watch Tower - Energetic Disassembly

5.Trilogy - Life On Earth

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1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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My personal exploration of the year I was born, I'll keep updating this list as I find albums I enjoy…

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Virgin Steele - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Part II

4.Fear Factory - Demanufacture

5.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

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"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
May = Math Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under The Running Board

2.Car Bomb - Centralia

3.Meshuggah - Meshuggah (Psykisk Testbild)

4.Meshuggah - None

5.Candiria - The Process Of Self Development

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The music of progressive metal features complex, layered arrangements in longer than typical songs, often including lengthy instrumental passages allowing the performers to display technical proficiency…

1.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

2.Cynic - Focus

3.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

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Main criterias:
How much I love it(obviously)
Songwritting
Importance and originality
Consistency and diversity (consistency is more importance, but diversity can make a difference)
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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

5.Slayer - Haunting The Chapel

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1.The Gathering - Mandylion

2.Moonspell - Wolfheart

3.Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

4.Rammstein - Herzeleid

5.Clawfinger - Use Your Brain

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1.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

2.Annihilator - Never, Neverland

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Artillery - By Inheritance

5.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

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1.Down - Nola

2.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

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1.Kaunis Kuolematon - Mielenvalta

2.Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

3.Abbath - Dread Reaver

4.Bloodbound - Drink With The Gods

5.Warmen - Here For None

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1.TesseracT - One

2.Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

3.Meshuggah - ObZen

4.Meshuggah - Chaosphere

5.Meshuggah - Koloss

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Burzum - Filofsem

3.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

4.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

5.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

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1.Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force

2.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Artillery - By Inheritance

5.Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit

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