Comprehensive list of my top 50 metal albums from the previous decade. Though a number of non-metal albums would make my 50, I have excluded them here.

1.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Negură Bunget - OM

4.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

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

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A good year, no more, no less. Although the top 10 is pretty awesome and Norther's debut album will always be a favourite of mine.

1.Norther - Dreams Of Endless War

2.Nightwish - Century Child

3.Power Quest - Wings Of Forever

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Shining - III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie

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Only 1 album per band;
Rating:
10: 1-4.
9: 5-32.
8: 33-50.

1.Summoning - Stronghold

2.Dornenreich - Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen

3.Shining - V - Halmstad

4.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

5.Kampfar - Kvass

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Since I started to become interested in not only metal, but music in general, there have been many albums that have marked something important in my life, and I know that there will be albums in the near…

1.Opeth - Morningrise

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4.Orphaned Land - Mabool

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Overall year rating:
4,5/5…

1.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Opeth - Deliverance

4.Isis - Oceanic

5.Forgotten Tomb - Songs To Leave

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These are some albums that help people to like avant-garde music.

1.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

2.Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast

3.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious

4.Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery

5.In The Woods... - Omnio

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Not nessecary my current favourites, but these are the albums that had a great impact on me or had opened up new horizons in different sub-genres. Most of these would be pretty recent and mainstream but…

1.Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

4.To-Mera - Transcendental

5.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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Limited to only those albums featured on Metal Storm.

[In suggested order of immersion and exposure]…

1.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

2.Rush - Moving Pictures

3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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The "better half" of my top 100 of the Zeroes. In list format, now with album covers!…

1.Warning - Watching From A Distance

2.Negură Bunget - OM

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.Neurosis - Given To The Rising

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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