Top 50 of 2004

Only LPs

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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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Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!

I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, [i]Necroticism:…

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path

2.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

3.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

4.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours

5.Carcass - Heartwork

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1.Asphyx - The Rack

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Obituary - Slowly We Rot

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These songs make me think of times so old that none of us were there to experience them. The criteria for the inclusion of a song are so personal here that there's a high chance you think something…

1.Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi

2.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

3.Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times

4.Windir - Arntor

5.Bathory - Hammerheart

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Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:…

1.Stratovarius - Episode

2.Angra - Angels Cry

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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i like it…

1.Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade

2.Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory

3.Bolt Thrower - Warmaster

4.Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos

5.Bolt Thrower - Mercenary

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Amon Amarth discography ranked from best to worst…

1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns

3.Motörhead - Inferno

4.Mastodon - Leviathan

5.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom

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here another top for another band that have a huge impact in my life.

1.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

2.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

5.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

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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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This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Should the number one album even qualify? I don’t know, it’s my list I can bend the rules when I want!

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Rammstein…

1.Anthrax - The Greater Of Two Evils

2.Motörhead - Inferno

3.Saxon - Lionheart

4.Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned

5.Behemoth - Demigod

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Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

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1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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These are MY Top 250 Albums that are featured on Metal Storm in chronological order to celebrate 50 Years of Metal.

Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

5.Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

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1.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

2.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

3.Behemoth - The Satanist

4.Obituary - Cause Of Death

5.Death - Leprosy

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