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 1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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 The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (P-Q)

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.P.H.O.B.O.S. - Phlogiston Catharsis
2.Paara - Riitti
3.Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
4.Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic : Calling
5.Paganizer - Into The Catacombs

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Created by Uxküll on 01.02.2021



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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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 The Best Gothic Metal Albums

Note 1: This list will take time before it gets a definitive form (or it might take forever if good gothic metal albums will be released in the future).

Note 2: Another important feature is that this…

1.Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance
2.Tiamat - Wildhoney
3.The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake Of Sorrow
4.Tristania - Widow's Weeds
5.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

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Created by TheMAGAmvm on 25.04.2014



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 The Best "(Gothic) Beauty And The Beast" Albums

Here's a list of mostly Gothic Metal albums, exclusively of the "Beauty and the Beast" type (which refers to clean "angelic" female vocals contrasted with male growls/screams).

1.Tristania - Widow's Weeds
2.The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake Of Sorrow
3.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
4.Epica - The Phantom Agony
5.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

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Created by Erik M. on 12.03.2013



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 My Top 75 Albums Of All Time

My top 75 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list, and after that top 50). Only 1 album per band. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album…

1.After Forever - Decipher
2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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Created by Erik M. on 22.10.2012



Vonpire's 2003 Best

1.The Gathering - Souvenirs
2.Epica - The Phantom Agony
3.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
4.Tiamat - Prey
5.Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure

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Created by Vonpire on 03.10.2011



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 Best of Gothic Metal

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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Created by R'Vannith on 18.04.2011



The Most Impressive Albums Of The 2000s (Top 15)

The outstanding albums of the 2000-2009.

1.Sirenia - At Sixes And Sevens
2.Nightwish - Century Child
3.Beseech - Sunless Days
4.Dark Princess - Zhestokaya Igra
5.Evanescence - Fallen

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Created by delog on 02.01.2011



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 The Ultimate Gothic Metal Albums

A list of the ultimate releases in gothic metal. Suggestions are welcome.

1.After Forever - Prison Of Desire
2.Artrosis - Ukryty Wymiar
3.Ava Inferi - Onyx
4.Avrigus - The Secret Kingdom
5.Before The Dawn - Deadlight

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Created by CyberSymphony on 06.03.2010