This is my personal selection of albums (with specific songs) that you'd like to play in your next metal party.
The songs are sorted so the more powerful and energetic songs are equally spread all…

1.Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire

2.Korpiklaani - Karkelo

3.Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Kvelertak - Blodtørst

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These my all time favorite albums.
Not in a particular rank…

1.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

2.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

3.Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion

4.Carcass - Heartwork

5.Children Of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts

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1.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

2.Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

3.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

4.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

5.Stratovarius - Visions

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This list contains the top twenty albums in the metal/progressive genres that are most precious to me. The personal feelings and influences as well as musical doorways that these records represent to me…

1.Nightwish - Oceanborn

2.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Danzig - Danzig II - Lucifuge

5.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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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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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.D.C. Cooper - D.C. Cooper

2.Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism

3.Damim - The Difference Engine

4.Dämmerfarben - Im Abendrot

5.Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations

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1.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

2.Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

3.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

4.Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler

5.Dissection - The Somberlain

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1.Skyclad - Wayward Sons Of Mother Earth

2.Running Wild - Pile Of Skulls

3.Skyclad - Jonah's Ark

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Moonspell - Wolfheart

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1.Strapping Young Lad - City

2.October Tide - Rain Without End

3.Helmet - Aftertaste

4.Dawnbringer - Unbleed

5.Deströyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves

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1.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

2.Moonspell - Wolfheart

3.Death - Symbolic

4.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

5.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

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1.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

2.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

3.Battlelore - Evernight

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

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These are the Top 20 albums in no particular order that i consider to be the darkest, most powerful, inspirational metal i have heard…

1.Secrets Of The Moon - Privilegivm

2.Watain - Sworn To The Dark

3.Dissection - Reinkaos

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton

5.Behemoth - Thelema 6

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

2.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

3.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5.Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium

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No particular order.

1.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

2.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

3.Summoning - Dol Guldur

4.Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

5.Skyclad - Irrational Anthems

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