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The Top Of Death's Crystal Mountain (150 Greatest Death Metal Albums)
*** MAX 3 ALBUMS PER ARTIST!!! (Except Death) Also... While extra weight will be given to classic death metal albums, this list will also include exceptional examples of melodic death, death-grind, technical/progressive…
| 1. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 2. | Death - Symbolic |
| 3. | Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten |
| 4. | Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious |
| 5. | Death - Human |
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Song Puzzles: One Song In Several Parts On Different Albums
Some stories, themes or concepts are presented not just in one single song but are split in separate tracks that (often) share the same title but are distinguished by a number of the corresponding part…
| 1. | A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name |
| 2. | A Pregnant Light - Broken Play |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | Agathodaimon - Higher Art Of Rebellion |
| 5. | Agathodaimon - Phoenix |
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The Deadliest Of Harmonies (A Journey Into Melodic Death Metal)
Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!
I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, Necroticism:…
I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, Necroticism:…
| 1. | Entombed - Left Hand Path |
| 2. | Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious |
| 3. | Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream |
| 4. | At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours |
| 5. | Carcass - Heartwork |
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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs
| 1. | Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum |
| 2. | Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy |
| 3. | My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Powerslave |
| 5. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
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200+ Favorite Albums
Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.
Last updated: 17 July 2026.
Last updated: 17 July 2026.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 3. | Wintersun - Wintersun |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Vital Remains - Dechristianize |
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Death Metal I enjoy the most
Here's a little list displaying my personal favorite death metal albums, based on the same idea as my heavy metal list, thus stressing the raw and the genuine. For me death metal has to be crushing,…
| 1. | Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious |
| 2. | Suffocation - Pierced From Within |
| 3. | Cynic - Focus |
| 4. | Septicflesh - Εσοπτρον |
| 5. | Death - Symbolic |
| + 81 more |
One-Hit Albums
A (most probably incomplete) list of albums on which I really enjoy only a single song (in alphabetical order, excluding one-track albums).
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with…
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with…
| 1. | Agalloch - Pale Folklore |
| 2. | Amorphis - Far From The Sun |
| 3. | Annihilator - Set The World On Fire |
| 4. | Asphyx - The Rack |
| 5. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
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100 Greatest Metal Bands
Pretty self-explanatory, with a couple caveats: first, this is mostly just a list of my favorite metal bands in approximate order (after the top 10 or so the order matters far less), with extra weight…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Iron Maiden - Powerslave |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance |
| 5. | Slayer - Reign In Blood |
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Halloween-in'
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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Albums Of My Life
No particular order
| 1. | Graveworm - As The Angels Reach The Beauty |
| 2. | Graveworm - Scourge Of Malice |
| 3. | Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid |
| 4. | Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst |
| 5. | Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
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My Journey Into Death Metal - 15 Albums That Brought Me Into The Genre
I've been a fan of metal music for a little over five years now. For most of that, I've just not liked death metal. It simply failed to hook me, and I simply preferred black, doom, etc?
Over…
Over…
| 1. | Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side |
| 2. | Hypocrisy - Abducted |
| 3. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 4. | Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure |
| 5. | Septicflesh - Communion |
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Best Metal Vocalists
*** /\ UNDER CONSTRUCTION /\ *** READ ME *** List of the best metal vocalists across all subgenres. The album that best exhibits their vocals will represent them -- not necessarily the best album they…
| 1. | King Diamond - Abigail |
| 2. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 3. | Savatage - Gutter Ballet |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Powerslave |
| 5. | Queensrÿche - Empire |
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