Metal albums (and yes, I consider metalcore to be metal) that rocked my world, with maximum 2 albums per band sorted by bands in alphabetic order. Live, EP and compilation albums allowed, also including…

1.Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire

2.Alice In Chains - Dirt

3.All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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1.The Gathering - Nighttime Birds

2.Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter Of Innocence, A Requiem For The Mighty

3.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

4.Tristania - Tristania

5.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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Pretty self-explanatory, with a couple caveats: first, this is mostly just a list of my favorite metal bands in approximate order (after the top 10 or so the order matters far less), with extra weight…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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

2.Sentenced - Amok

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Anathema - Alternative 4

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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I know some of the albums are more thrash than death, but I added them anyway, because I guess they could appeal to death metal fans too. Many of the albums are not so well-known, but I prefer them over…

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.The Crown - Eternal Death

3.Sororicide - The Entity

4.Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum

5.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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1.Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Tales

2.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

3.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

4.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

5.Windir - Sóknardalr

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1.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

2.Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant

3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

4.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

5.In Flames - Colony

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That's my list.

1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

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

4.Therion - Vovin

5.Opeth - Morningrise

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1.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

2.Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You

3.Radiohead - OK Computer

4.In Flames - Whoracle

5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Must Have: The First 12…

1.Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth

2.Conception - Flow

3.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

4.Megadeth - Cryptic Writings

5.Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.In Flames - Whoracle

5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4.Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges

5.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

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The best album of each year (and one close 2nd) from the past 20 years. Some years were much harder than others to choose the best 2 albums.

1.In Vain - Ænigma

2.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

3.Dissona - Dissona

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Obscura - Omnivium

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