I first listened to Machine Head around 2006/07 time when I bought a copy of Burn My Eyes which was featured in Kerrang!'s top rock albums special feature. I hadn't listened to anything quite…

1.Machine Head - The Blackening

2.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

3.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

4.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

5.Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds

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1.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

2.Iced Earth - Dystopia

3.Megadeth - Th1rt3en

4.Hell - Human Remains

5.Anthrax - Worship Music

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Here is my top 50 of 2011. Albums rated 8+

In 2011, I started my second MS account after losing the first to the discontinuation of my Uni email address.

"But your account says you joined in…

1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Mastodon - The Hunter

3.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

4.Leprous - Bilateral

5.Helheim - Heiðindómr Ok Mótgang

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1.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

4.Machine Head - The More Things Change...

5.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

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1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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Must Listen: The First 4…

1.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

2.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

3.Trivium - In Waves

4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

5.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

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1.Overkill - The Electric Age

2.Vektor - Outer Isolation

3.Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

4.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

5.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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I discovered metal with Machine Head - No shame - with their very infamous Supercharger... Oh yes.

It is crap, sure, but it holds an important place for me as my first (and we are not always proud…

1.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

2.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

3.Machine Head - The Blackening

4.Machine Head - The More Things Change...

5.Machine Head - Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn

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1.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

2.Gojira - Magma

3.Ghost - Meliora

4.Behemoth - The Satanist

5.Judas Priest - Firepower

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I will most likely look back at this decade as the dark ages of popular music. A time where mainstream music was largely dominated by talentless pop/hip hop music with less memorable songs than the previous…

1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

2.Kauan - Sorni Nai

3.Angellore - La Litanie Des Cendres

4.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

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

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Deep Purple - Machine Head

4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

5.Queen - Queen II

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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…

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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Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal…

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3.Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety

4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2011…

1.Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us

2.Haken - Visions

3.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

4.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

5.Mastodon - The Hunter

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