1.Human Fortress - Defenders Of The Crown

2.Scanner - Hypertrace

3.Manowar - Into Glory Ride

4.Ancient Bards - The Alliance Of The Kings - The Black Crystal Sword Saga Part 1

5.Rage - Perfect Man

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Here are albums (ordered by subgenre) that I want to listen to, but haven't yet.
For some albums, I've heard one or two songs, but not the entire album. Therefore, these albums still await…

1.

2.God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright

3.Fórn - The Departure Of Consciousness

4.Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

5.Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra

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1.Alter Bridge - Blackbird

2.Alter Bridge - One Day Remains

3.Amorphis - Elegy

4.Amorphis - Tuonela

5.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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Thought I ought to have at least one little list here, so in a rare display of lack of creativity, here's a bunch of 9s and 10s that will likely never get old, though I might. "666" is obviously…

1.Tiamat - A Deeper Kind Of Slumber

2.King Crimson - Red

3.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - All You Need Is Love

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Inc. Symphonic Metal.

1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Sabaton - The Art Of War

3.Unleash The Archers - Apex

4.Kamelot - The Black Halo

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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Must Have: The First 14…

1.Anathema - Alternative 4

2.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

3.Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

4.Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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1.Therion - Vovin

2.Nightwish - Oceanborn

3.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

4.Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

5.Paradise Lost - Icon

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1.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

2.Nightwish - Once

3.Nightwish - Century Child

4.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

5.Nightwish - Oceanborn

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Updated 14.4.2024

My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but…

1.Marillion - Marbles

2.Anathema - Weather Systems

3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

4.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

5.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on…

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne

5.X Japan - Art Of Life

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I thought about this A LOT, and here is the list:

Please share your thoughts!

The spots I'm most unsure of are 1. vs 2. and 4. vs 5.
The rest is really stable.

1.Nightwish - Oceanborn

2.Nightwish - Century Child

3.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

4.Nightwish - Once

5.Nightwish - Wishmaster

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1.Nightwish - Once

2.Nightwish - Angels Fall First

3.Nightwish - Century Child

4.Nightwish - Wishmaster

5.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

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1.Nightwish - Oceanborn

2.Nightwish - Once

3.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

4.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

5.Nightwish - Century Child

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I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Opeth - Still Life

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All my favorite albums (rated 9 or 10), in cronological order.

1.Iotunn - Access All Worlds

2.Soen - Imperial

3.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

4.Soen - Lotus

5.Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye

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