Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

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

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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2.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

3.Slauter Xstoyes - Winter Kill

4.Watch Tower - Energetic Disassembly

5.Trilogy - Life On Earth

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These albums are in no particular order, and I will be gradually adding more over time.

1.The 3rd And The Mortal - Tears Laid In Earth

2.Within Temptation - Enter

3.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Mourning Beloveth - Dust

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1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Mastodon - Leviathan

3.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

4.Mastodon - The Hunter

5.Mastodon - Remission

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These are my favorite metal albums in no particular order.

1.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

2.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

3.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.In Flames - Whoracle

5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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Fuzz me up buttercup…

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

2.Clutch - Clutch

3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

4.Mastodon - Leviathan

5.Melvins - Lysol

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Just a list of my favorite albums, mostly Black or Death Metal !

There are some albums/bands I would love to put in this list, but they are not on MS.

1.1349 - Liberation

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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Main criterias:
How much I love it(obviously)
Songwritting
Importance and originality
Consistency and diversity (consistency is more importance, but diversity can make a difference)
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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

5.Slayer - Haunting The Chapel

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A list of albums considered by me to be totally worth checking out, even if you are not into whichever genre they belong to. No particular order, maybe except for the first three …

1.Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

2.Tool - Lateralus

3.Gorguts - Obscura

4.Neurosis - Souls At Zero

5.In The Woods... - Omnio

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2004. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Necrophagist - Epitaph

2.Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake

3.Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache

4.Heaven Shall Burn - Antigone

5.Mastodon - Leviathan

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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.Three Days Grace - One-X

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

4.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

5.Suicide Silence - The Cleansing

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1.Enslaved - Isa

2.Finntroll - Nattfödd

3.Behemoth - Demigod

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

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

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1.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

2.Threshold - Hypothetical

3.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4.Opeth - Still Life

5.Cynic - Traced In Air

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