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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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Created by ~Starchild~ on 28.12.2010



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 A List Of Great Debut Albums

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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Created by Erik M. on 30.11.2012



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 The Best "(Gothic) Beauty And The Beast" Albums

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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Created by Erik M. on 12.03.2013



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 The Best Gothic Metal Albums

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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Created by TheMAGAmvm on 25.04.2014



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 All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums

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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Created by Redel on 01.03.2014



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 My Infatuated Fetish For Eternity

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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Created by fooltocry on 29.10.2010



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 All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs

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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Created by Redel on 08.03.2014



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 My Top 100 Metal Albums EVER

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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Created by in the mist on 23.11.2012



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 Great Debuts In Symphonic/Gothic/Folk Metal

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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Created by hellsmiles on 16.07.2011



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 Top 100 Gothic Metal Records

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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Created by Gothic Metalhead on 16.05.2020



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 Symphonic Gothic Doom Death Albums Top 100 (my Favorites)

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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Created by Alexbridger on 16.01.2013



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 M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites

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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Created by M0rkeleb on 16.10.2015



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 Funeral/Gothic/Death DOOM

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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Created by blackvelvet on 24.07.2013



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 Blackvelvet's BEST OF 1995

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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Created by blackvelvet on 08.07.2013



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 Vonpire's 1995 Best

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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Created by Vonpire on 12.07.2012