A really good year, just look at the top 3! Three of the world's greatest black metal albums ever! And the six albums thereafter? Magic. All I can say is that this list was a pain to order, because…

1.Watain - Sworn To The Dark

2.Shining - V - Halmstad

3.Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

4.Månegarm - Vargstenen

5.Be'lakor - The Frail Tide

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My own top 230 essential metal albums sorted in alphabetical order by band name.

1.1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse

2.1349 - The Infernal Pathway

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums…

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2007. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

4.The Sorrow - Blessings From A Blackened Sky

5.Darkest Hour - Deliver Us

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Need some metallic awesomeness to blast while navigating asteroid belts, exploring excotic planets and gunning down those pesky Federation patrols? These albums should keep you and your spaceship covered.

1.Slough Feg - Traveller

2.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

3.Obscura - Omnivium

4.Nocturnus AD - The Key

5.Vektor - Black Future

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1.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

2.Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

3.Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

5.Threshold - Dead Reckoning

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1.Axxis - Doom Of Destiny

2.Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

3.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

4.After Forever - After Forever

5.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

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