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1.Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

2.Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Dream Theater - Awake

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1.Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

2.In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

3.Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter

4.Threshold - Dead Reckoning

5.Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

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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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Only a "20 best" list for this quite good year - or well, 'quite good year' for prog at least.

The first four are arranged in preference order, then th sixteen order are in alphabetical…

1.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

2.Kalisia - Cybion

3.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4.Sólstafir - Köld

5.Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

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My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more…

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Vektor - Black Future

3.Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

4.SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day

5.Protest The Hero - Fortress

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I'm putting off "The Top 20 Albums Ever" list I was going to make this week a little bit longer. Instead I'll make another list of the 5 best songs of the week. These tracks will be…

1.Allen/Lande - The Battle

2.At Vance - No Escape

3.Chthonic - Takasago Army

4.Dream Theater - Octavarium

5.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

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Here are my top 25 of 2009, going to try to get more years done as I get more free time.

1.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2.Baroness - Blue Record

3.Amorphis - Skyforger

4.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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...Diving Into The Void...

1.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2.Tool - Undertow

3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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2000-2004 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5844
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722

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1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

3.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

4.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

5.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

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1.Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar

2.After Forever - After Forever

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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1.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Insomnium - Across The Dark

4.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

5.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

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1.Watch My Dying - Moebius

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.OSI - Blood

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious

5.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

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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.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

2.Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa

3.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

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Must Listen: The First 3…

1.Epica - Design Your Universe

2.Voyager - I Am The ReVolution

3.Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us

4.Megadeth - Endgame

5.Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome

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