These are 36 of the my favorite Melodeath albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because…

1.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2.The Absence - Riders Of The Plague

3.Darkane - Expanding Senses

4.Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

5.Luna Mortis - The Absence

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My Favorite Metal Songs. I tried to limit myself to one song per album, so this list also doubles as my favorite song off of each of these albums also. Probably stop the list at 666 if I ever get there.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

3.Testament - The Legacy

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Wolf (UK) - Edge Of The World

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1.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

2.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

3.Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion

4.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

5.Darzamat - In The Opium Of Black Veil

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1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Spiritual Beggars - Another Way To Shine

3.Korn - Life Is Peachy

4.Manowar - Louder Than Hell

5.Moonspell - Irreligious

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Dream Theater - Octavarium

4.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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The best albums of the best metalheads there are and there were on earth.

1.Death - Symbolic

2.Opeth - Orchid

3.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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Pretty nice year, some absolutely outstanding albums.

1.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace

4.In Flames - The Jester Race

5.Devil Doll - Dies Irae

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- only studio albums
- only albums featured on MS…

1.After Forever - Decipher

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

4.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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1.In Flames - Colony

2.In Flames - The Jester Race

3.In Flames - Clayman

4.In Flames - Whoracle

5.In Flames - Lunar Strain

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My personal top favorite metal albums of all times. NOT IN ORDER.

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

4.Kreator - Violent Revolution

5.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

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In no particular order. Will be expanding as I listen to more albums. Only one album per band, be sure to check the rest of the discography by yourself.

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2.System Of A Down - System Of A Down

3.Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler

4.Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

5.Death - Symbolic

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sequences are mixed…

1.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Opeth - Damnation

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So, these are basically my favourite albums of all time, including non-metal/rock acts, compilations and live albums. Needless to say, I would need a couple of days to go through all of these.

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

3.Riverside - Out Of Myself

4.Rotting Christ - Triarchy Of The Lost Lovers

5.Anathema - Alternative 4

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I've been listening to metal for over a decade now. Here's my all time "favorites" list. Updated with comments March 24th, 2016. I started with death metal acts of In Flames and Dark Tranquility. I went…

1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

3.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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