Mind map:

Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox stuff = win
Black and white = win, sometimes

Last updated on 29 July 2023.

1.Emperor - Reverence

2.Wintersun - Wintersun

3.The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure

4.Dissection - Live Legacy

5.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

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A collection of totally family-friendly jams fitting the spooky season. One song per band!

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.King Diamond - Abigail

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(This list is a work in progress)

In this list I intend to compile all of my favorite interludes, intros, outros, short acoustic tracks, instrumentals, non-metal or otherwise atypical songs from the metal multiverse. Of course the definitions for each of the above are quite fluid, so you may personally disagree with my decision to consider one of these tracks as such.

Last updated on 23 June 2023.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3.Melechesh - Emissaries

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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The bands are in that order on purpose, from most to least favorite, but favorite nonetheless. The format is:

band | favourite album by the band | favorite song (or 2) by the band

Last updated on 4 November 2022.

1.Meshuggah - Nothing

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Immolation - Close To A World Below

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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Based on Last.fm.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Vital Remains - Dechristianize

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth

5.Tool - Lateralus

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Last updated on 11 April 2024.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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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.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

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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I just want to note that these are my favorites to listen to right now, and not necessarily the albums I would rate "best" or "most classic". Pure preference

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path

2.Antestor - The Forsaken

3.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

4.Amenra - De Doorn

5.Wintersun - Wintersun

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1.Vulvectomy - Post-Abortion Slut Fuck

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia

3.Hour Of Penance - Paradogma

4.Decrepit Birth - Polarity

5.Gorevent - Worship Paganism

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Updated 10/23/18

1.Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance

2.Nails - Unsilent Death

3.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

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I rated 1st Place 10/10; 2nd-6th Place 9/10 and 7th-24th Place 8/10. So it was kind of hard for me to create this list, because there are many albums with a same ranking. There is some arbitrariness in there especially around the 12th-20th place.

1.Opeth - In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall

2.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

3.Asphyx - Live Death Doom

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.At The Gates - Purgatory Unleashed

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Self-explanatory beyond the impossible. Not necessarily in order.

1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Sahg - III

3.Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

4.Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

5.Shining [NOR] - Blackjazz

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1.Atheist - Jupiter

2.Hour Of Penance - Paradogma

3.Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions Of Suffering

4.Melechesh - The Epigenesis

5.Canvas Solaris - Irradiance

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