I have finally caved in and made a top 200 list. The main focus here is metal, so no Rush, no King Crimson, Deep Purple, or GY!BE are in the list, but I do still love those bands and others that could…

1.Sigh - In Somniphobia

2.Windir - Arntor

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

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien

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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.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

3.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

4.Dark Tranquillity - Character

5.The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

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One album per artist in alphabetical order which happen to be my favorites. Feels like an addendum to the ?Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection" (http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=58)…

1.36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance

2.Agrypnie - 16[485]

3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

4.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

5.Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical…

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée

3.Deinonychus - The Silence Of December

4.Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age

5.Burzum - Filosofem

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SPOILER ALERT: This is mostly just black metal.
****Alphabetical Order…

1.Abigor - Nachthymnen (From The Twilight Kingdom)

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Arckanum - Fran Marder

5.Arckanum - Antikosmos

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1.Judas Priest - British Steel

2.Venom - Welcome To Hell

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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This is a favorites list, not a guide or anything of that sort. It just highlights the albums that I've enjoyed listening to and spinned extensively since last November (When I got into this monolithic…

1.A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

2.Addaura - Burning For The Ancient

3.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5.Alda - : Tahoma :

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1.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

2.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

3.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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