Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music genres.

1.Living Colour - Vivid

2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

3.Faith No More - The Real Thing

4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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1.The Ocean - Pelagial

2.Harakiri For The Sky - III: Trauma

3.Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm

4.Isis - Panopticon

5.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

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1.Opeth - Pale Communion

2.Sólstafir - Ótta

3.Lunatic Soul - Walking On A Flashlight Beam

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

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1.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

2.Kypck - Имена На Стене

3.At The Gates - At War With Reality

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

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1.Sólstafir - Ótta

2.Thou - Heathen

3.Alcest - Shelter

4.Behemoth - The Satanist

5.Panopticon - Roads To The North

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2014…

1.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

3.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

4.Sólstafir - Ótta

5.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

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This serves as a memory note, pretty much.

1.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

3.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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not in the most favorite or alphabetic Sort
Just there
few of the best things i did hear in my entire life include the sound of nature…

1.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2.Leprous - The Congregation

3.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped…

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

4.Aquilus - Griseus

5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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1.Enslaved - In Times

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3.Frantic Amber - Burning Insight

4.The Gentle Storm - The Diary

5.Moonspell - Extinct

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1.Septicflesh - Titan

2.Autumnal - The End Of The Third Day

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

4.Novembers Doom - Bled White

5.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

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1.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

2.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.In Flames - Siren Charms

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1.Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

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

5.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

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1.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

2.Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn

3.Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity

4.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

5.The Contortionist - Language

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1.Sólstafir - Ótta

2.Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus

3.Sabaton - Heroes

4.Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn

5.Lux Occulta - Kołysanki

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