Great year. So many classic albums. Love how the top 4 are just black metal masterpieces.

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2.Naglfar - Vittra

3.Summoning - Minas Morgul

4.Mörk Gryning - Tusen År Har Gått...

5.Opeth - Orchid

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1.Queensrÿche - Promised Land

2.The Cult - The Cult

3.AC/DC - Ballbreaker

4.Praying Mantis - Forever In Time

5.Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

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1.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

2.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

3.Greylotus - Dawnfall

4.John Petrucci - An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess [Collaboration]

5.John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

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1.Gamma Ray - No World Order

2.Gamma Ray - Sigh No More

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

5.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free II

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1.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

2.Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

3.Gamma Ray - Power Plant

4.Gamma Ray - Insanity And Genius

5.Gamma Ray - Sigh No More

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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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1.Death - Symbolic

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension

5.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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Must Listen: The First 6

1.Sentenced - Amok

2.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Shadow Gallery - Carved In Stone

5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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Here's my take on Gamma Rays discography. And I'll throw in Kai Hansen's solo album as well, as a nice bonus.

1.Gamma Ray - No World Order

2.Gamma Ray - Majestic

3.Gamma Ray - Insanity And Genius

4.Gamma Ray - Sigh No More

5.Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow

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1.Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force

2.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Artillery - By Inheritance

5.Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit

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1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.AC/DC - High Voltage

3.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

4.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

5.Allen/Lande - The Showdown

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My personal ranking of all the Gamma Ray studio albums. My top 3 sometimes switches, but I do consider Power Plant to be the best power metal album of the 90's so it makes sense to keep it at number 1 here. The albums of the early 90's have grown on me over the years and I am starting to enjoy them more than their latest efforts. Albums like Sigh No More, Empire Of The Undead and To The Metal! have some great tracks, but I find them all to be pretty average. Sigh No More nearly made it a little higher up thanks to "One With The World", but no...it is surely the weakest Gamma Ray album.

1.Gamma Ray - Power Plant

2.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

3.Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

4.Gamma Ray - No World Order

5.Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow

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From 1 to 4: all albums are classics, you can switch the order, it depends on the day for me...
From 5 to 10: all good records, the order doesn't matter either.
11: I don't know what's wrong with this one... maybe everything... I own all their stuff before this but I'm not purchasing anymore. The last track (I Will Return) is the Gamma Ray I like; one out of ten? Empire Of The Pale Confusion.

1.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

2.Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space

3.Gamma Ray - Power Plant

4.Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow

5.Gamma Ray - No World Order

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Albums I have downloaded and are in the process of obtaining

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

3.AC/DC - High Voltage

4.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

5.AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

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