A collection of totally family-friendly jams fitting the spooky season. One song per band!

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Slayer - South of Heaven

3. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

5. King Diamond - Abigail

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10 records 10 bands of the most obscure style in metal, some people said that black metal borns in the 6th century in Scandinavia as a kind of Viking Folklore

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3. Bathory - Bathory

4. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1997 was surprisingly a solid year for metal, a lot of great releases in black and power metal, and a very strong year for gothic metal this period was by far the golden age of gothic metal

1. Stratovarius - Visions

2. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

3. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

4. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

5. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

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1. Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns

2. Summoning - Dol Guldur

3. Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth

4. Metallica - Re-Load

5. In Flames - Whoracle

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1. Dream Theater - Images and Words

2. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

3. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

4. Kamelot - Karma

5. Sonata Arctica - Silence

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Poser alert!
Yep, they made the list...
I’m not sorry lol.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds (Gothic)
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... (Doom/Stoner)
Deicide - Serpents Of The Light (Death)
Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave (Power)

1. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

2. Deströyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves

3. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

4. Stratovarius - Visions

5. Dominion - Blackout

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Last updated on 25 March 2023.

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

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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.

Last updated: 26 March 2023

1. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

5. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath

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1. Alter Bridge - Blackbird

2. Alter Bridge - One Day Remains

3. Amorphis - Elegy

4. Amorphis - Tuonela

5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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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 are my top 100 favorite albums - they are the reason why I love metal!
Enjoy!
Format: Band | Album | (genre, release year, country) What I like about the album; Favorite songs
Statistics:
Genre:
Death: 28
Black: 20
Thrash: 19
Heavy: 15
Progressive: 9
Power: 4
Doom: 4
Symphonic: 1
Years with most album favorites:
1995: 8
1996: 7
1990: 7
1984: 5
Countries with most album favorites:
USA: 35
Sweden: 20
UK: 16
Norway: 6

----Last Update: June 15, 2022----

1. Judas Priest - Painkiller

2. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

4. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

5. Death - Spiritual Healing

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My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

2. Summoning - Oath Bound

3. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5. Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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1. Therion - Vovin

2. Nightwish - Oceanborn

3. Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

4. Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

5. Paradise Lost - Icon

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Must Have: The First 12

1. Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth

2. Conception - Flow

3. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

4. Megadeth - Cryptic Writings

5. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray

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1. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

2. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

3. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

4. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

5. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

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