Here is my provisional favorite-metal-albums-of-all-time-list! Enjoy!
The first 10 albums are in pretty accurate order. However, after that, it becomes harder and harder to separate the albums clearly.

1.Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

2.Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

3.Grand Alchemist - Intervening Coma-Celebration

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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

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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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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.Aara - En Ergô Einai

2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht

4.Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum

5.AATHMA - Avesta

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2004 was a another good year, especially for my favorite genres Symphonic metal and power…

1.Haggard - Eppur Si Muove

2.Ayreon - The Human Equation

3.Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven

4.Nightwish - Once

5.Wintersun - Wintersun

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1.Slumber - Fallout

2.Orphaned Land - Mabool

3.Therion - Sirius B

4.The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening

5.Therion - Lemuria

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Great year with a lot of albums that has meant a lot to me and shaped parts of my taste in music.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Norther - Death Unlimited

3.Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process

4.Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

5.Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine

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Top 50 of 2004

Only LPs

RIP Dimebag!

Album count: 186
Average rating: 7.22…

1.Mastodon - Leviathan

2.Peccatum - Lost In Reverie

3.Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play

4.Isis - Panopticon

5.Enslaved - Isa

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1.Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos

2.Behemoth - Demigod

3.My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light

4.Vader - The Beast

5.Wintersun - Wintersun

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stupid list. I'll change it all next week

*cough* make that, next year. now is the time to re-assess priorities

and because no-one reads this regardless, here's some priorities for later:
Nuclear…

1.Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

2.Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

3.Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

5.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

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1.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

2.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

3.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4.1349 - Hellfire

5.Burzum - Belus

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