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The Encyclopaedia of Beautiful Metal Ballads
If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me 
| 1. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 2. | Aerosmith - Aerosmith |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 5. | After Forever - After Forever |
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Top 500 Albums of All Time
I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Opeth - Still Life |
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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100
Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI |
| 4. | Aquilus - Griseus |
| 5. | Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World |
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50 Albums Of Pure Eargasm For The Ages
This is buy or die stuff (in no particular order), the epitome of pure awesomeness!
| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 3. | Cor Scorpii - Monument |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 5. | Summoning - Dol Guldur |
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Favorite Black Metal Albums
| 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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111 Albums Must Have
| 1. | Iron Maiden - Powerslave |
| 2. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 3. | Summoning - Minas Morgul |
| 4. | Windir - 1184 |
| 5. | Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta |
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Top 100 (+5) Of 2000-2004
2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
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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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. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 3. | Tool - Lateralus |
| 4. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 5. | Ensiferum - Ensiferum |
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A List Of My Favorite Albums, In Any Genre
Favorite means Favorite! 
| 1. | Wintersun - Time I |
| 2. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 3. | Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| 4. | Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light |
| 5. | Týr - The Lay Of Thrym |
| + 62 more |
Evrope Ov Ólde
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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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (F)
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. | Faal - The Clouds Are Burning |
| 2. | Façade - The Eternal Dance |
| 3. | Facínora - Hell Is Here |
| 4. | The Faceless - Autotheism |
| 5. | Faceless Burial - Speciation |
| + 112 more |
Yet Another Useless Folking List
This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement…
| 1. | Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire |
| 2. | Forefather - Steadfast |
| 3. | Eluveitie - Slania |
| 4. | Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom |
| 5. | Chthonic - Takasago Army |
| + 415 more |
Rock & Metal Ballads Collection
Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.
| 1. | Accept - Balls To The Wall |
| 2. | Accept - Blood Of The Nations |
| 3. | Accept - Eat The Heat |
| 4. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 5. | Aerosmith - Aerosmith |
| + 420 more |
Currently Listening... (March 2023 Edition)
These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)
- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…
- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…
| 1. | Adramelech - PsychoStasia |
| 2. | Afsky - Om Hundrede År |
| 3. | Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro |
| 4. | Bloody Panda - Summon |
| 5. | Count Raven - High On Infinity |
| + 39 more |
Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s
Here are the 00s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Trivium - Shogun |
| 3. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 4. | Trivium - Ascendancy |
| 5. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
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Top 28 Folk Metal Albums
I’ve been a fan of some folk metal bands such as Ensiferum and Moonsorrow for a while now. I loved the combination of melody and intensity combined with traditional folk influences from their respective…
| 1. | Ensiferum - Ensiferum |
| 2. | Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta |
| 3. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 4. | Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet |
| 5. | Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields |
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