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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Must Listen: The First 7…

1.Ayreon - 01011001

2.Firewind - The Premonition

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Warrel Dane - Praises To The War Machine

5.Disturbed - Indestructible

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1.Kypck - Черно

2.Septicflesh - Communion

3.Enslaved - Vertebrae

4.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld

5.Draconian - Turning Season Within

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Shade Empire - Sinthetic

5.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

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1.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

2.Pyramaze - Immortal

3.Sabaton - The Art Of War

4.Leverage - Blind Fire

5.Moonspell - Night Eternal

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.AC/DC - High Voltage

3.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

4.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

5.Allen/Lande - The Showdown

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same as rym except this obviously limits to metal albums which might be interesting. ah well it just meant iron maiden are 2x more of the albums…

1.Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

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1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky

3.Kivimetsän Druidi - Shadowheart

4.Eluveitie - Slania

5.Forefather - Steadfast

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These are the first albums I listened to when I got into metal.
I've outgrown some of them but hell these albums will always be special to me.

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry

3.Eluveitie - Slania

4.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Forefather - Steadfast

3.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld

4.Opeth - Watershed

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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This is a list of the top melodic death metal albums ever made between 2000 and 2010.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore

4.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

5.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

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'08 was great metal year for me, so here is list of those bands which are guilty for that…

1.Judas Priest - Nostradamus

2.Metallica - Death Magnetic

3.Sabaton - The Art Of War

4.Eluveitie - Slania

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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1.Norther - N

2.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld

3.Raunchy - Wasteland Discotheque

4.Metallica - Death Magnetic

5.Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy

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1.Draconian - Turning Season Within

2.Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

3.Moonspell - Night Eternal

4.Therion - Live Gothic

5.Heavenwood - Redemption

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