Records loved by critics and reviewers often turn out to be mediocre, even from bands that once had great discographies.

1.AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

2.Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

4.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

5.Baroness - Red Album

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1.Rage - End Of All Days

2.Rage - Black In Mind

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Sentenced - Down

5.Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I

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Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!

I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, Necroticism:…

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path

2.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

3.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

4.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours

5.Carcass - Heartwork

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

1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

3.Skepticism - Ordeal

4.Funeral Mist - Devilry

5.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal And Ardor

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Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:…

1.Stratovarius - Episode

2.Angra - Angels Cry

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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This list shows only my preferences in metal. These albums are not necessarily the best of the bands written by, but I return to them again and again. In my opinion, all this masterpieces confirm the variety…

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.In Flames - Clayman

4.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

5.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Windir - 1184

4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

5.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

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This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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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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Must Listen: The First 9…

1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Ark - Burn The Sun

4.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth

5.Angra - Rebirth

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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.Aara - En Ergô Einai

2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht

4.Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum

5.AATHMA - Avesta

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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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Constantly evolving list of my favorite metal albums from the 2000s…

1.Trivium - Shogun

2.Opeth - Watershed

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Deftones - White Pony

5.Trivium - Ascendancy

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

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

4.Amorphis - Am Universum

5.Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night

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No particular order…

1.Graveworm - As The Angels Reach The Beauty

2.Graveworm - Scourge Of Malice

3.Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid

4.Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst

5.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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