^^Rules 2 songs per band but not for the same record^^

The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…

1.Voivod - The Outer Limits

2.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

3.Motörhead - Motörhead

4.Metallica - The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited

5.Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010…

1.Rotting Christ - Aealo

2.Sabaton - Coat Of Arms

3.Parkway Drive - Deep Blue

4.Equilibrium - Rekreatur

5.Kylesa - Spiral Shadow

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1.Kvelertak - Kvelertak

2.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Alter Bridge - AB III

5.Fear Factory - Mechanize

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Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…

1.Living Colour - Vivid

2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

3.Faith No More - The Real Thing

4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly

To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…

1.Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction

2.Tool - Lateralus

3.The Butterfly Effect - IV

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix

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1.Korn - Korn

2.Deftones - White Pony

3.System Of A Down - Toxicity

4.Korn - Untouchables

5.Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

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1.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

2.Gojira - Magma

3.Ghost - Meliora

4.Behemoth - The Satanist

5.Judas Priest - Firepower

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1.Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

2.Alter Bridge - Fortress

3.Stone Sour - House Of Gold & Bones - Part 1

4.Slash - World On Fire

5.The Black Keys - El Camino

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Deep Purple - Machine Head

4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

5.Queen - Queen II

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While the order in each decade is purely personal preference, there are several rules for a song qualifying for the list. First off, the band has to be notable. I'm not going to define what that means,…

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2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

5.Deep Purple - In Rock

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Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2010…

1.Haken - Aquarius

2.Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

4.James LaBrie - Static Impulse

5.Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North

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1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2.Amberian Dawn - End Of Eden

3.Autopsy - The Tomb Within

4.The Secret - Solve Et Coagula

5.Magrudergrind - Crusher

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1.Deftones - Diamond Eyes

2.Coheed And Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow

3.Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition

4.The Absence - Enemy Unbound

5.Wretched - Beyond The Gate

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1.Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

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