This is a list in which I have included the top 30 albums of the decade that has just passed. Of course it's gonna change because I'm sure there is a lot I haven't listened to yet...

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Moonspell - The Antidote

3.HIM - Love Metal

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise

5.Nightwish - Once

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One per artist…

1.Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Nightwish - Once

4.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

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

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Therion - Lemuria

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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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sequences are mixed…

1.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Opeth - Damnation

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One song per album.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Gorod - Transcendence

3.Opeth - Deliverance

4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

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1.Kaunis Kuolematon - Mielenvalta

2.Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

3.Abbath - Dread Reaver

4.Bloodbound - Drink With The Gods

5.Warmen - Here For None

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1.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

2.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

3.Greylotus - Dawnfall

4.John Petrucci - An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess [Collaboration]

5.John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

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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.Nibiru - Anamorphosis

5.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

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1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

5.Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion

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1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

3.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

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1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Kamelot - Karma

5.Sonata Arctica - Silence

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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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1.Rage - Unity

2.Easy Rider - Regeneration

3.Eternal Reign - Crimes Of Passion

4.Mastodon - Remission

5.Squealer - Under The Cross

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