1.Epica - The Holographic Principle

2.Asphyx - Incoming Death

3.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

4.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

5.Opeth - Still Life

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There are not a lot of albums out there that are true masterpieces. But I'd like to create a list of albums that earn that title in my opinion. At the moment I can only think of 6 titles.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Negură Bunget - OM

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

5.Opeth - Still Life

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Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing…

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Sylosis - Monolith

3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Protest The Hero - Kezia

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

3.Ayreon - The Human Equation

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

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1.Opeth - Morningrise

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Opeth - Still Life

4.Opeth - Damnation

5.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

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AtoZ (Album)…

1.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

2.Ihsahn - After

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Faith No More - Angel Dust

5.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

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2.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

3.Slauter Xstoyes - Winter Kill

4.Watch Tower - Energetic Disassembly

5.Trilogy - Life On Earth

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"Which bands sound like Opeth?" It seems that perennial question has plagued fans and non-fans of…

1.Adeia - Serenity

2.Alley - Amphibious

3.Altesia - Paragon Circus

4.Anciients - Voice Of The Void

5.Aquilus - Griseus

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

4.Opeth - Damnation

5.Opeth - Watershed

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1.Epica - The Phantom Agony

2.Tristania - Widow's Weeds

3.Atoma - Skylight

4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5.Septicflesh - Communion

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My top-20 all time favorite (metal) albums. Obviously subject to change over long periods of time. Left out most recent finds - these are albums that have resonated with me for at least a few years.

1.High On Fire - Death Is This Communion

2.Turisas - The Varangian Way

3.3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Monster Magnet - Last Patrol

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So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give…

1.Dan Swanö - Moontower

2.Cynic - Traced In Air

3.Cynic - Focus

4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5.Enslaved - Ruun

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Best To Worst!…

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Opeth - Deliverance

3.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

4.Opeth - Watershed

5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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This is the 40 best metal albums for me.

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Riot - Narita

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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…

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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