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The Best "(Melodic) Death Doom" Albums

A list by
Erik M.
Created
August 04, 2013
Entries
59
Endorsements
86
Here's a list that contains only Death Doom and Melodic Death Doom Metal albums, so Gothic (check out my other list for that), Funeral or Sludge Doom etc. are NOT included here (but elements from…
1. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
2. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
3. Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You
4. Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul...
5. Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
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My Top 75 Albums Of All Time

A list by
Erik M.
Created
October 22, 2012
Entries
75
Endorsements
77
My top 75 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list, and after that top 50). Only 1 album per band. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album…
1. After Forever - Decipher
2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
4. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
5. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
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A List Of Great Debut Albums

A list by
Erik M.
Created
November 30, 2012
Entries
365
Endorsements
70
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…
1. Aarni - Bathos
2. Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
3. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
4. Sadness - Ames De Marbre
5. Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
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The Most Majestic Releases Of All Time

A list by
Roxana.M
Created
June 10, 2015
Entries
170
Endorsements
39
This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical…
1. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2. Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
3. Deinonychus - The Silence Of December
4. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age
5. Burzum - Filosofem
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Top 500 Albums of All Time

A list by
nonZero
Created
October 06, 2018
Entries
500
Endorsements
34
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…
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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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100

A list by
Moose
Created
September 13, 2015
Entries
100
Endorsements
25
Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…
1. Agalloch - The Mantle
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4. Aquilus - Griseus
5. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
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Top 200 Overlooked Albums

A list by
nonZero
Created
July 15, 2020
Entries
200
Endorsements
25
This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).

If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…
1. Solipsist - The Human Equation
2. Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind
3. Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity
4. Element (USA) - The Energy
5. Telepathy - 12 Areas
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My Drug List Of Doom

A list by
Abattoir
Created
September 27, 2012
Entries
67
Endorsements
20
Some of my favourite stuff I have scratched it up to one pile. One album per band, no order, just chaos.
1. Eibon - Entering Darkness
2. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs
3. Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart
4. Ankhagram - Where Are You Now
5. Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order
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InnerDoom

A list by
InnerSelf
Created
July 18, 2013
Entries
42
Endorsements
18
The wide spectrum of sounds expressed through the sub-genre of Doom Metal often gets overshadowed by the somehow inaccessible slowness that is in its nature and so DM doesn't get the recognition it…
1. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2. Saturnus - Martyre
3. Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum
4. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
5. Process Of Guilt - Erosion
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Top Extreme Metal Albums From Russia

A list by
Shmelevod
Created
August 27, 2021
Entries
59
Endorsements
12
Here’s my list of Russian extreme metal bands worth checking out. It’s mostly black and death(/doom) metal, with some post-black and blackened crust mixed in.

I think the Russian scene’s pretty unique.
1. Accidental Death Benefit - Венец Творения Природы
2. Buicide - Escaping From Yourself
3. Crust - The Promised End
4. Dig Me No Grave - Immemorial Curse
5. Edoma - Immemorial Existence
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1001 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die

A list by
metalriff
Created
February 05, 2021
Entries
355
Endorsements
8
An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically…
1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5. Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself
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Metal Band Names Inspired By Other Bands

A list by
Plattner
Created
August 07, 2024
Entries
195
Endorsements
8
This is an alphabetical list of metal/hard rock band names that were inspired by the work of other music artists (album or song titles, lyrics, group names, instruments, etc). The list shows the first…
1. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
2. Accept - Accept
3. Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy
4. Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
5. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
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Top 30 Doom Metal Albums

A list by
nonZero
Created
March 18, 2024
Entries
30
Endorsements
8
Doom Metal is one of those genres that I'd never really taken much notice of until I started working my way through the MS top 200 albums. I'd listened to Black Sabbath when a teacher at my school…
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
3. Slumber - Fallout
4. Doom:VS - Dead Words Speak
5. October Tide - Rain Without End
+ 25 more

The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (W)

A list by
Uxküll
Created
March 14, 2021
Entries
117
Endorsements
5
This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…
1. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
2. Wachenfeldt - The Interpreter
3. Wake - Devouring Ruin
4. Waldgeflüster - Femundsmarka - Eine Reise In Drei Kapiteln
5. Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows
+ 112 more

Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s

A list by
nonZero
Created
February 28, 2025
Entries
200
Endorsements
3
Here are the 00s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Trivium - Shogun
3. Machine Head - The Blackening
4. Trivium - Ascendancy
5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries
+ 195 more