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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Just a list of my favorite albums!…

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Epica - Design Your Universe

3.Kamelot - Karma

4.The Gathering - Mandylion

5.Nightwish - Century Child

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My favourite Symphonic Metal (mostly female-fronted) albums…

1.After Forever - Decipher

2.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

3.Amberian Dawn - End Of Eden

4.Epica - Design Your Universe

5.Epica - The Phantom Agony

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1.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

2.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

3.Battlelore - Evernight

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

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1.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

2.Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5.Desecravity - Implicit Obedience

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working on the final review…

1.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

2.Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

3.Amorphis - Skyforger

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Shakra - Everest

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Here we go... I'd rate this year a 9 for the unusual quality of album releases! Qué impressionante! \m/…

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Amorphis - Skyforger

3.Suidakra - Crógacht

4.Ensiferum - From Afar

5.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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1.Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі

2.Megadeth - Endgame

3.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

4.Amorphis - Skyforger

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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just rating albums as I listen to them, work in progress…

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums…

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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1.Therion - Theli

2.Therion - Vovin

3.Therion - Lemuria

4.Therion - Sirius B

5.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

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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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Inc. Symphonic Metal.

1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Sabaton - The Art Of War

3.Unleash The Archers - Apex

4.Kamelot - The Black Halo

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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1.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

2.Epica - Design Your Universe

3.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

4.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

5.Epica - The Phantom Agony

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Some of the worst and best songs in here.

If I were ranking every long song of Epica:
Kingdom of Heaven would land between 3. and 4.
Serenade Of Self-Destruction would land above KoH, also between 3.

1.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

2.Epica - The Holographic Principle

3.Epica - Design Your Universe

4.Epica - The Phantom Agony

5.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

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