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The Top Of Death's Crystal Mountain (150 Greatest Death Metal Albums)

*** MAX 3 ALBUMS PER ARTIST!!! (Except Death) Also... While extra weight will be given to classic death metal albums, this list will also include exceptional examples of melodic death, death-grind, technical/progressive…

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2.Death - Symbolic
3.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
4.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
5.Death - Human

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Created by saw_you_drown on 08.04.2015



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Best Metal Albums Around!

These Are Albums that give metal a good name, and create metalheads who live for little else. Originality, Raw talent, Brilliant atmosphere, Brutality with a great technical aspect, and just plain ass…

1.Lux Occulta - The Mother And The Enemy
2.Borknagar - The Archaic Course
3.Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
4.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
5.Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

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Created by SymphonyImpaled on 23.06.2011



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200+ Favorite Albums

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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Created by Qualeen on 30.09.2021



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Top 25 Albums Of 1999

Favorite releases from 1999

Updated 9/10/20…

1.Disgorge - She Lay Gutted
2.Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
3.Immolation - Failures For Gods
4.Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
5.Deeds Of Flesh - Path Of The Weakening

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Created by Dangerboner on 02.03.2010



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (M)

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.Macabre - Murder Metal
2.Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War
3.Macbeth - Romantic Tragedy's Crescendo
4.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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Created by Uxküll on 09.01.2021



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Death For Death's Sake, The 19

1.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
3.Morbid Angel - Covenant
4.Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth
5.Deicide - Deicide

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Created by CliffemAll on 07.07.2010



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My Favorite Album Covers

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…

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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Created by Qualeen on 29.03.2023



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Sakurabas' Top Death Metal Albums (Top 3 Albums each Year)

1.Death - Scream Bloody Gore
2.Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
3.Death - Leprosy
4.Autopsy - Severed Survival
5.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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Created by Sakuraba on 11.09.2020



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Death Metal Classics

The best death metal albums pre 2000, in alphabetical order.
Work in progress.

1.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
2.Amorphis - Privilege Of Evil
3.Asphyx - The Rack
4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth
5.Asphyx - Embrace The Death

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Created by Obnoxious on 01.01.2019



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More Of The Best Music Ever Made: Non-Fatally Flawed Favourites Of The Frightful Nineties

Pretty much my top 5 of each year, 1990-1999. It may have been black metal's finest hour, but for the most part I don't care for the genre - check some other lists for recoms there.

As if I…

1.Anacrusis - Manic Impressions Demo
2.Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
3.Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
4.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
5.Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare

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Created by Syk on 09.03.2012



Top Rated Abums From A To Я

These are the albums with the highest possible ratings on my list. Some were rated based on an emotional reaction after just one listen, but these are my favorite albums for the most part. I'm also…

1.1833 AD - My Dark Symphony
2.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind
3.Akhlys - Melinoë
4.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
5.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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Created by Shmelevod on 15.03.2023