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My Album Of The Year, 1970-present
Here's my AotY for each year from 1970, with a runner up (or two) following.
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't on Metal Storm, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson, but Pink Floyd would've…
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't on Metal Storm, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson, but Pink Floyd would've…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 5. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
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400+ Favorite Songs
Last updated on 7 July 2026.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja |
| 3. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| + 468 more |
The Death Metal Essentials
The only one. No order particularly, except the order I thought of them in.
| 1. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 2. | Vader - Litany |
| 3. | Monstrosity - Millennium |
| 4. | Malevolent Creation - Retribution |
| 5. | Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory |
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The Painters Of Metal
Album art is a crucial element to what makes a great album become monumental to the music fan. It gives us a vision and a feeling through visual sensations that are linked in the mind to the sounds that…
| 1. | Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard |
| 2. | Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. |
| 3. | Cradle Of Filth - Midian |
| 4. | Converge - Jane Doe |
| 5. | Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
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Top 27 Death Metal Albums
I struggled to get into “pure” death metal when I first got into metal around 2005. Gradually over time I started listening to melodic death metal (Dark Tranquillity and In Flames) and progressive death…
| 1. | Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh |
| 2. | Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| 3. | Pestilence - Consuming Impulse |
| 4. | Vomitory - Blood Rapture |
| 5. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
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Greatest Metal Drumming Plus's The Most Influential
My Favorites songs on drums…
A tribute to those great drummers…A Huge investigation about the name of those drummers and their best moments and songs…
A tribute to those great drummers…A Huge investigation about the name of those drummers and their best moments and songs…
| 1. | Rush - 2112 |
| 2. | Van Halen - 1984 |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind |
| 4. | Dream Theater - Train Of Thought |
| 5. | Dio - The Last In Line |
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My 20 Timeless Prog/Metal Albums
The albums that made me love prog/metal even more / that I can't get enough of.
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper |
| 3. | Nightwish - Once |
| 4. | Carcass - Heartwork |
| 5. | Death - Symbolic |
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Top Ten Death Metal Albums
| 1. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 2. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II |
| 3. | Deicide - Deicide |
| 4. | Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos |
| 5. | Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding |
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Canadian Metal
Releases from Canadian bands that I really like. Ordered alphabetically by artists because I'm OCD like like. Will possibly re-order list by favorite album. Limited to one release per band, only full…
| 1. | 3 Inches Of Blood - Advance And Vanquish |
| 2. | Annihilator - Never, Neverland |
| 3. | Anvil - Forged In Fire |
| 4. | Bison B.C. - Dark Ages |
| 5. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
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Death For Death's Sake, The 19
| 1. | Atheist - Unquestionable Presence |
| 2. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 3. | Morbid Angel - Covenant |
| 4. | Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth |
| 5. | Deicide - Deicide |
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DM Album rankings
jesus this is out of date, gotta take some time and update this....
| 1. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
| 2. | Immolation - Close To A World Below |
| 3. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 4. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 5. | Suffocation - Pierced From Within |
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Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time
1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and…
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and…
| 1. | Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime |
| 2. | King Diamond - Abigail |
| 3. | Voivod - Dimension Hatröss |
| 4. | Mastodon - Crack The Skye |
| 5. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
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Favourites
| 1. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 2. | Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant |
| 3. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 4. | Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny |
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