1.Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

2.Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

3.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

4.The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium

5.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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I'll probably never get a thumb up for this list as there are a lot of controversial albums on it. 2003 is on the other hand maybe the best metal year so far in my opinion. It was here I really started…

1.Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.Norther - Mirror Of Madness

4.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

5.Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure

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Top 50 of 2003

Only LPs.

Album count: 199
Average rating: 7.08…

1.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

2.Opeth - Damnation

3.Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

4.Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came

5.Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2003. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed

2.Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason

3.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

4.Darkest Hour - Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation

5.Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn

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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.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II

3.The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium

4.Windir - Likferd

5.Opeth - Damnation

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1.Windir - 1184

2.Enslaved - Isa

3.Keep Of Kalessin - Armada

4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

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