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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A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions…

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2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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Here's a list of mostly Gothic Metal albums, exclusively of the "Beauty and the Beast" type (which refers to clean "angelic" female vocals contrasted with male growls/screams).

1.Tristania - Widow's Weeds

2.The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake Of Sorrow

3.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

4.Epica - The Phantom Agony

5.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

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Note 1: This list will take time before it gets a definitive form (or it might take forever if good gothic metal albums will be released in the future).

Note 2: Another important feature is that this…

1.Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

2.Tiamat - Wildhoney

3.The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Lake Of Sorrow

4.Tristania - Widow's Weeds

5.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

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An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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These are all my infatuated fetish for eternity.
And other masterpieces will be scheduled for addition by the lapse of time.
This list also symbolizes my memoirs in my 8 years or more of metal.

1.Therion - Vovin

2.Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

3.Forest Of Shadows - Departure

4.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...

5.Lacrimosa - Elodia

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1.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

2.Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

3.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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1.The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

2.Tiamat - Wildhoney

3.My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites

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Great debut albums from some of my favorite bands …

1.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

2.Delain - Lucidity

3.Sirenia - At Sixes And Sevens

4.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

5.Eluveitie - Spirit

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Yes, I decided to do another gothic metal list because it been rapidly changing since my last two lists. I love revisiting this kind of list because of how different my tastes have changed withing this…

1.Anathema - Eternity

2.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

3.The Foreshadowing - Days Of Nothing

4.Monumentum - In Absentia Christi

5.Tiamat - Wildhoney

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1.Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

2.Within Temptation - The Silent Force

3.Haggard - And Thou Shalt Trust... The Seer

4.Anathema - Serenades

5.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

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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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Just a few recomendations to start your funeral / gothic doom collections…

1.Funeral - Tragedies

2.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

3.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

4.Katatonia - For Funerals To Come

5.Lacrimosa - Inferno

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What a year! Here are some of my favourites…

1.Lacrimosa - Inferno

2.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Rammstein - Herzeleid

5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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1.The Gathering - Mandylion

2.Moonspell - Wolfheart

3.Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

4.Rammstein - Herzeleid

5.Clawfinger - Use Your Brain

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