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

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

5.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act I

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1.Enslaved - Isa

2.Finntroll - Nattfödd

3.Behemoth - Demigod

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

5.My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light

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1.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

2.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

3.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

4.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

5.Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven

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People, places, and things have entered my life and have faded away in countless different ways and with varying degrees of consequence. Yet Metal has remained faithfully at my side, eternally ready to provide me with what I need to face a given moment. Metal knows me better than I know myself, and whether a situation involves a fist to a face, a finger to authority, a knife in a back, a razor to a wrist, celebration, creation, destruction, love, hate, life or death, Metal stands ready as a light in the dark.

1.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

2.Ensiferum - Iron

3.Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis

4.Suidakra - Caledonia

5.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

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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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1.Enslaved - Isa

2.Orphaned Land - Mabool

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Ayreon - The Human Equation

5.Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion

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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.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Behemoth - Demigod

3.Grip Inc. - Incorporated

4.Dark Age - Dark Age

5.Nightwish - Once

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