Best Folkish albums I've heard so far...!! Please feel free to post your Suggestions!!…

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Ensiferum - Iron

3.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

4.Blackmore's Night - Under A Violet Moon

5.Blackmore's Night - Shadow Of The Moon

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I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life.

Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens inspired…

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Opeth - Still Life

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Only 1 album per band;
Rating:
1.-8.: 10
9.-32.: 9
33.-50.: 8…

1.Subway To Sally - Herzblut

2.Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

5.Vicious Crusade - Forbidden Tunes

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Once upon a time, there was a metaller who dared to say : hey, let's put symphonies in our metal, dudes. The dudes thought it was stupid at first, then they tried and guess what? The result was WONDERFUL!!!…

1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr

3.Septicflesh - Communion

4.Epica - Design Your Universe

5.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

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1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr

3.Moonlyght - Progressive Darkness

4.Windir - Arntor

5.Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

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Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!

I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, [i]Necroticism:…

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path

2.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

3.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

4.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours

5.Carcass - Heartwork

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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact…

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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Instrumental tracks on albums of vocal groups are often seen as filler material or as a possibility to show musical skills.
In contrast, the title track is often considered to be the central and defining…

1.Absu - Tara

2.Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

3.Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Angel Dust - Into The Dark Past

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Favorite means Favorite! …

1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Wintersun - Wintersun

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

5.Týr - The Lay Of Thrym

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This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement…

1.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

2.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom

3.Forefather - Steadfast

4.Forefather - Last Of The Line

5.Dalriada - Áldás

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1.Ensiferum - Iron

2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3.Turisas - The Varangian Way

4.Eluveitie - Slania

5.Equilibrium - Sagas

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It's possible that you've glossed over some of these because they're too "popular". Maybe you've never heard of a few.
Regardless, these are albums that I think everyone should hear at least once if you're…

1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2.Summoning - Stronghold

3.Death - Human

4.Rush - A Farewell To Kings

5.The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

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Top 50 of 2005

Only LPs

Album count: 189
Average rating: 7.08
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1.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

2.Falkenbach - Heralding - The Fireblade

3.Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

4.Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?

5.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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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 I deem essential or at least…

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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1.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

2.Tristania - Ashes

3.The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Armageddon March Eternal (Symphonies Of Slit Wrists)

4.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

5.Dark Tranquillity - Character

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