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The Encyclopaedia of Beautiful Metal Ballads
If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me 
| 1. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 2. | Aerosmith - Aerosmith |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 5. | After Forever - After Forever |
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Most Talented Vocalists In Metal
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Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)
While there is little introduction required for…
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)
While there is little introduction required for…
| 1. | Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra |
| 2. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 3. | Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone |
| 4. | Amorphis - Silent Waters |
| 5. | Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas |
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My Top 20 Albums From 2011
This is a list with my favorite albums of 2011. The list is in order. NOW WITH GENRE DESCRIPTION!
| 1. | Amaranthe - Amaranthe |
| 2. | Theocracy - As The World Bleeds |
| 3. | Nightwish - Imaginaerum |
| 4. | Iced Earth - Dystopia |
| 5. | Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two |
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Song Puzzles: One Song In Several Parts On Different Albums
Some stories, themes or concepts are presented not just in one single song but are split in separate tracks that (often) share the same title but are distinguished by a number of the corresponding part…
| 1. | A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name |
| 2. | A Pregnant Light - Broken Play |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | Agathodaimon - Higher Art Of Rebellion |
| 5. | Agathodaimon - Phoenix |
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150 Albums To Become An Adult To: 2010-2019
I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters…
| 1. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 2. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 3. | Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud |
| 4. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 5. | Cult Of Luna - Vertikal |
| + 145 more |
Current Top 100, 5 Years On
Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 3. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 4. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 5. | Protest The Hero - Kezia |
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My Top Albums Of 2011
| 1. | Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning |
| 2. | Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors |
| 3. | Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance |
| 4. | Machine Head - Unto The Locust |
| 5. | Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa |
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2011 Stuff I Spun A Lot (last update: February 2012)
In order roughly, by the number of spins. A lot = A LOT. So when I give ten more spins to the rest of the albums I've listened to, and forgot to rate most probably, this will grow larger. Or not.
| 1. | Subsignal - Touchstones |
| 2. | Symphony X - Iconoclast |
| 3. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 4. | Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two |
| 5. | Iced Earth - Dystopia |
| + 19 more |
Best Metal Albums Of 2011
This list will expand later and the positions here will probably change a bit as well. An interesting feature is an album in top 10 from a band that's not featured on Metal Storm yet.
| 1. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 2. | Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows |
| 3. | MyGrain - MyGrain |
| 4. | Constantine - Divine Design |
| 5. | Chaos Divine - The Human Connection |
| + 22 more |
Empowering Albums For Powerless Losers
This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on…
| 1. | Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side |
| 3. | Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond |
| 4. | Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne |
| 5. | X Japan - Art Of Life |
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Good 2011 Shit
A list I created during 2011. No longer being edited. Just a nice snapshot in time of what albums really grabbed me in 2011.
| 1. | Trap Them - Darker Handcraft |
| 2. | The Fallen Divine - The Binding Cycle |
| 3. | Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination |
| 4. | Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command |
| 5. | Smohalla - Resilience |
| + 40 more |
2010-2014: Top 100 Albums (WIP)
2008 might've been my first proper taste of metal, with the acquisition of albums from the likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and that most grandiose of gateway bands, DragonForce. 2009 might've…
| 1. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 2. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 3. | Protest The Hero - Volition |
| 4. | Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR |
| 5. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
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My Best Power Metal Albums 2011
| 1. | Theocracy - As The World Bleeds |
| 2. | Iced Earth - Dystopia |
| 3. | Iron Mask - Black As Death |
| 4. | Edguy - Age Of The Joker |
| 5. | Symphony X - Iconoclast |
| + 13 more |