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Neachy's Select: Black Metal

1.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
3.Master's Hammer - Ritual
4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
5.Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

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Created by Neachy on 03.06.2014



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My Favourite Black Metal Albums

- My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.


1.
2.Windir - Arntor
3.Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver
4.Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
5.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

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Created by Alien1988 on 14.05.2014



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Top 500 Albums of All Time

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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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



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The Best Black Metal Albums

Only 1 album per band;
Rating:
10: 1-4.
9: 5-32.
8: 33-50.

1.Summoning - Stronghold
2.Dornenreich - Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen
3.Shining - V - Halmstad
4.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
5.Kampfar - Kvass

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Created by Diabolos on 08.05.2010



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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100

Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4.Aquilus - Griseus
5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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Created by Moose on 13.09.2015



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The Best Pagan/Folk Metal Albums

Only 1 album per band;
Rating:
1.-8.: 10
9.-32.: 9
33.-50.: 8…

1.Subway To Sally - Herzblut
2.Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea
3.Agalloch - The Mantle
4.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
5.Vicious Crusade - Forbidden Tunes

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Created by Diabolos on 06.04.2010



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My Favorite Albums: 2000s

I updated the list, so there are now 100 entries, and I consider 100 to be to little. These are albums I listen to regularly, and some I listened to frantically for a while.

1.Rapture - Songs For The Withering
2.System Of A Down - Toxicity
3.Warning - Watching From A Distance
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
5.Converge - Jane Doe

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Created by Mikyz on 11.04.2010



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Andy's top Scandinavian black metal albums

My favourite black metal albums all from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland) listed and ranked, with all varieties from within the black metal genre.

1.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
2.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
3.Bathory - Hammerheart
4.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
5.Burzum - Filosofem

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Created by AndyMetalFreak on 26.04.2021



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Andy's top ranked all time favorite songs

All my favourite songs ranked in order best down.

1.Rush - 2112
2.Deep Purple - In Rock
3.Jethro Tull - Aqualung
4.Rainbow - Rising
5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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Created by AndyMetalFreak on 23.08.2021



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The 20 Best Album Conclusions

Ordered. One album per band. Assessed by quality of the track itself, impact as a conclusion and relevance to the rest of the album.

1.Deep Purple - Deep Purple
2.Windir - 1184
3.Slayer - Reign In Blood
4.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
5.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

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Created by Cryzpin on 16.08.2011



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Best Metal Albums Around!

These Are Albums that give metal a good name, and create metalheads who live for little else. Originality, Raw talent, Brilliant atmosphere, Brutality with a great technical aspect, and just plain ass…

1.Lux Occulta - The Mother And The Enemy
2.Borknagar - The Archaic Course
3.Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
4.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
5.Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

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Created by SymphonyImpaled on 23.06.2011



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Top 20 Folk Metal Albums

1.Equilibrium - Sagas
2.Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
3.Moonlyght - Progressive Darkness
4.Windir - Arntor
5.Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

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Created by MétalNoir on 28.04.2010



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Favorite Black Metal Albums

1.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
2.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
3.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
4.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
5.Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

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Created by TheMAGAmvm on 02.10.2012



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My Top 100 Albums

My top 100 Albums, sorted in descending order of favorites. Pretty rough list, I may update if I become un-lazy sometime. One album per band only. Some explanation and description provided for those who…

1.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
3.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
4.Opeth - Still Life
5.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

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Created by MetalDoomMaster on 09.11.2013



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Metal Songs And Albums That Inspired The Names Of Other Bands

This is an alphabetical list of metal songs and albums that inspired the names of other artists.

While comparable lists often focus on the band name and explain its origin, this list turns the point…

1.Amebix - No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings
2.Anathema - Alternative 4
3.Anathema - Weather Systems
4.Arch Enemy - Black Earth
5.Architects - Ruin

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Created by Plattner on 10.03.2023