Without repeating bands, not in mega particular order but roughly…

1.Watain - The Wild Hunt

2.The Faceless - Autotheism

3.Behemoth - The Satanist

4.Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra

5.The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

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1.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

2.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3.Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin

4.Paradise Lost - In Requiem

5.Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Novembre - Arte Novecento

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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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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1.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Alter Bridge - Blackbird

4.Nile - Ithyphallic

5.W.A.S.P. - Dominator

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

2.Metallica - Re-Load

3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel

4.Inferi - The End Of An Era

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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1.Kalmah - The Black Waltz

2.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

3.Kalmah - They Will Return

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

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Arch Enemy is so generic you can't tell which album is good or bad. True ? Let's try to sort them a bit…

1.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

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5.Arch Enemy - Stigmata

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Will be updated constantly as I remember albums/have time to add them! if more than one album per year- runner up. If none, then i picked none for that year.

1.The Agonist - The Eye of Providence

2.Queensrÿche - Condition Hüman

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Marty Friedman - Inferno

5.Conquering Dystopia - Conquering Dystopia

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2.Moonspell - Under Satanæ

3.Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked - Part 1)

4.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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Coolingsrock's Handpicked Albums Of 2007.Ordered best to worst.

1.August Burns Red - Messengers

2.Dethklok - The Dethalbum

3.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

4.Angelus Apatrida - Give 'Em War

5.A Day To Remember - For those Who Have A Heart

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1.Turisas - The Varganian Way

2.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

3.Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant

4.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

5.Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli

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1.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

2.Shining - V - Halmstad

3.Dawn Of Tears - Descent

4.Hanging Garden - Inherit The Eden

5.Ghost Brigade - Guided By Fire

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My take on the greatest albums ever... (No, early 70s Black Sabbath is NOT metal, and neither is Led Zeppelin.)…

1.Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

2.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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to test this new feature i put some albums in it that i could think of…

1.ADX - Exécution

2.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

3.Apocalyptica - Cult

4.Arch Enemy - Black Earth

5.Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant

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