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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Just some of my favorite records of all time. Not really in a particular order besides maybe some of the first few.

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

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1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

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Main criterias:
How much I love it(obviously)
Songwritting
Importance and originality
Consistency and diversity (consistency is more importance, but diversity can make a difference)
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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

5.Slayer - Haunting The Chapel

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A list of albums considered by me to be totally worth checking out, even if you are not into whichever genre they belong to. No particular order, maybe except for the first three …

1.Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

2.Tool - Lateralus

3.Gorguts - Obscura

4.Neurosis - Souls At Zero

5.In The Woods... - Omnio

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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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don't hate me just because you don't agree with the list.

1.Tool - Ænima

2.Tool - Lateralus

3.Tool - Undertow

4.Tool - 10,000 Days

5.Tool - Opiate

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Testament - The Gathering

3.Tiamat - Wildhoney

4.E Nomine - Die Prophezeiung

5.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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My favorite albums from 2000-2009. Just my opinion.

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil

3.Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

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I've been a metal fan since 2000, I'm 20 years old, thats fair enough!! I'm more into progressive metal but still, love many albums from thrash and heavy, lets roll...

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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Favorites releases from 2001

Updated 8/21/20…

1.Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard

2.Diabolic - Subterraneal Magnitude

3.Absu - Tara

4.Gorgasm - Bleeding Profusely

5.Disavowed - Perceptive Deception

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Yet another one of my lists for no reason other than I feel like it…

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Amorphis - Am Universum

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Windir - 1184

4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

5.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

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Progressive metal and post metal might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for us highly intellectual listeners, it can really tickle our twigs and berries……

1.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

2.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Tool - Lateralus

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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This is the year I basically started listening to music so I was torn between stuff I am somewhat loyal to because it was my gateway and the kind of stuff I listen to now from that year. I genuinely think…

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.System Of A Down - Toxicity

3.Sodom - M-16

4.Destruction - The Antichrist

5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

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