Limited to only those albums featured on Metal Storm.

[In suggested order of immersion and exposure]…

1.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

2.Rush - Moving Pictures

3.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

4.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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Rating:
10 - Allmost impossible to get. The band need to create something astronomical good.
9 - Only the best albums of the year gets this.
8 - A really good album on all levels.
7 - A good album, but…

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2.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

3.Behemoth - The Satanist

4.Vanden Plas - Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)

5.Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution

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Cos, y'know, same shiz different year. Ran out of space again so will post final album opinions in comments.

1.Infestus - The Reflecting Void

2.Dirge - Hyperion

3.Nero Di Marte - Derivae

4.Steve Rothery - The Ghosts Of Pripyat

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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A collection of metal albums that heavily use the likes of classical instrumentation, orchestral, opera or/and symphonic keyboard synths. Suggestions/Recommendations are welcome.

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aesma Daeva - Dawn Of The New Athens

3.After Forever - Decipher

4.Almôra - Kalihora's Song

5.Ancient Bards - The Alliance Of The Kings

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Albums I'm enjoying as 2014 progresses, order and all that is updated weekly. Suggestions and also comments are very welcome, I'm also finally finished my 2013 list. Check that out as well
As…

1.Buckethead - Pikes 42-129

2.Vader - Tibi Et Igni

3.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

4.Delain - The Human Contradiction

5.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

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My favourite albums of 2014. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).

1.The Contortionist - Language

2.Rings Of Saturn - Lugal Ki En

3.Archspire - The Lucid Collective

4.Xerath - III

5.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

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So here it is > These are the releases i tend to hear most of the time this year. Some of my all time favourite bands released weak albums while others suprised me while i was cooking pasta .Fell free…

1.Aenaon - Extance

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

3.Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema

4.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

5.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

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My list of 2014 likes (to be expanded). Notes can and will change during the year, since I like listening to albums multiple times and have a really good view before the final note.

I'd say 3/5 is…

1.Soen - Tellurian

2.Opeth - Pale Communion

3.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.Threshold - For The Journey

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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.X Japan - Blue Blood

2.Xandria - Neverworld's End

3.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act II

4.Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious

5.Xeno - Sojourn

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Just an organized list of my favorite albums of the year, in order of most liked, onward.

How I rate albums has little to do with the order of this list. Obviously, I'm not going to give an album…

1.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

2.The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li

3.Archspire - The Lucid Collective

4.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

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This is close to my final list for this year.

1.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

2.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

5.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

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So now it's routine.

1.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

2.Nightingale - Retribution

3.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

4.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

5.Boris - Noise

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"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
May = Math Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under The Running Board

2.Car Bomb - Centralia

3.Meshuggah - Meshuggah (Psykisk Testbild)

4.Meshuggah - None

5.Candiria - The Process Of Self Development

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Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.At The Gates - At War With Reality

2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

3.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Benighted - Carnivore Sublime

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1.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front

4.Pain Of Salvation - Falling Home

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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