I like to create playlists for fun when I'm not busy. Usually, though, I abandon them soon after. I want this playlist to be a bit different - perhaps not infinitely useful, but I associate all these songs with the season of winter and the winter holidays, and I'll be listening to all these a lot at least for a while. I thought I'd share the songs I included in my digital playlist, maybe you'll find something you like. Many of these are purposely blasphemous - I live surrounded by fundamentalist Christians and they're gonna spend the holidays singing about the birth of Christ - I need me some counterbalance.

1. Dream Theater - Awake

2. Immolation - Close to a World Below

3. Vader - Impressions in Blood

4. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

5. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

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1. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

2. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

3. Slayer - South of Heaven

4. Opeth - Morningrise

5. Judas Priest - Painkiller

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Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

4. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

5. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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These are my favorite opening songs of all time. When I listened to them, I was instantly hooked! Whether it starts with a slow instrumental build-up or an aggressive assault of riffs, these openers set the tone for the rest of their respective albums. Enjoy!

1. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Summoning - Minas Morgul

4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

5. Testament - The Legacy

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I've included my top 3 songs from each album. below I have done a list for the bands with the most albums listed:

1. Running Wild (GER) 4, 7, 27, 32, 36, 39, 41, 46.
2. Blind Guardian (GER) 3, 15, 23, 38.
3. Helloween (GER) 12, 16, 28, 47.
4. Children Of Bodom (FIN) 31, 40, 43, 49.
5. Iced Earth (U.S) 9, 11, 20.

1. Crimson Glory - Transcendence

2. Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

3. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

4. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn

5. Lost Horizon - Awakening The World

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These are (in my opinion) the best metal songs of all time. I've limited myself to choosing a maximum of TWO SONGS PER ALBUM so that there can be some diversity in the bands that appear.
The genres are mainly heavy, thrash, and death metal - with some black and power metal too.
Format: Band - Album - SONG

1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3. Judas Priest - Painkiller

4. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith

5. Dio - Holy Diver

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These albums are my favorites - they are the reason why I love metal!
Here are albums that I classify as perfect, or almost perfect - meaning every song (or almost every song) on each album is amazing.
In addition, there are albums that I don't think are perfect, but I still love them Enjoy!
Format: Band | Album | What I like about the album; Favorite songs
Statistics:
Years with most album favorites:
1990: 8
1995: 6
1993: 6
1986: 5
1984: 5
1989: 5
Countries with most album favorites:
USA: 34
Sweden: 21
UK: 18

1. Perfect and Almost Perfect Albums: 10/10 - 9.5/10

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

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Must Listen: The First 10

1. Dark Tranquillity - Haven

2. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

4. In Flames - Clayman

5. Fates Warning - Disconnected

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1. Opeth - Still Life

2. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

3. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4. In Flames - Whoracle

5. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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More than 15 years that I listen to Children Of Bodom they open me to extreme metal and have a huge impact in my life . Here my favorites albums in order .
the picture was the first time I see them in 2005 and the last time in 2019 in Montreal.

1. Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

2. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

3. Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder

4. Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?

5. Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

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1. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

2. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe

4. Fates Warning - Disconnected

5. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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1997-2019

1. Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?

2. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

3. Children of Bodom - Halo of Blood

4. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk

5. Children of Bodom - Something Wild

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2005-2009 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5838
2010-2014 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=5828
2015-2019 list: http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6722

I sure do love this site and it's rating system, it makes finding great music so easy and, even more importantly, when an album is overlooked for a while but starts getting a buzz a few months later, boom, there it appears in the top 20.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Tool - Lateralus

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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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 what power metal is or is not. The list exists purely for my own organizational purposes and may contain bands or albums that are not strictly True Knights of the Eternal Thundersword.

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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No particular order

1. Graveworm - As the Angels Reach the Beauty

2. Graveworm - Scourge of Malice

3. Dimmu Borgir - For all tid

4. Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst

5. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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