Edit: 20.12 / 2010

1.Angel Dust - Enlighten The Darkness

2.Arena - Immortal?

3.Artension - Machine

4.Ashes You Leave - The Inheritance Of Sin And Shame

5.Atrox - Contentum

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My favorite albums from 2000-2009. Just my opinion.

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil

3.Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

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sequences are mixed

1.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Opeth - Damnation

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

3.Skepticism - Ordeal

4.Funeral Mist - Devilry

5.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal And Ardor

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For years, Alexis Laiho's talent obsessed me. Even after seeing him in flesh and bones, being 2 heads shorter than me, he was for me a giant. The last years were heartbreaking but when I think about COB, their coolness is eternal. I have never seen Laiho's other bands live but very much devoured any content I could find with his recognisable mark.

So here my ranking, everything I have incl. Lives and early work as Inearthed.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder

4.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

5.Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?

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Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:

1.Stratovarius - Episode

2.Angra - Angels Cry

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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This list shows only my preferences in metal. These albums are not necessarily the best of the bands written by, but I return to them again and again. In my opinion, all this masterpieces confirm the variety and greatness of metal music.
Rules:
1. One album per band.
2. Ordered from highest position (top) to lowest (bottom).
3. No heavy, power, doom, gothic, sludge/stoner albums.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.In Flames - Clayman

4.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

5.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

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1.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

2.Rhapsody - Dawn Of Victory

3.Nightwish - Wishmaster

4.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

5.Mudvayne - L.D. 50

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just rating albums as I listen to them, work in progress

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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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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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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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Shade Empire - Sinthetic

5.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

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