I'm not a methodic person, so i put my 25 favorite of my collection (are missing some albuns, so my top can chance) from heavy metal (not death, not black, not doom, not folk... only heavy... or anything…

1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

2.Virgin Steele - Invictus

3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

4.Rage - XIII

5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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The albums I enjoyed the most this year. It was a good year.

1.In Mourning - Monolith

2.James LaBrie - Static Impulse

3.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

4.Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence

5.Stone Circle - Myth

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My personel top 10 list of bands/albums that I think whould do a great job converting young boys and girls into metalheads…

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

5.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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I think the title is self explanitory. Not in order of preference as it would change daily and I can't be arsed changing it around all the time!:) it's a bit of a mixture of all the stuff I like…

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

3.Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

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Basically, this is a list of those albums which are dear to me, but are often considered as (one of) the weakest releases of a certain band (Ensiferum, Helloween, Therion etc.) or in the Allen/Lande case,…

1.Allen/Lande - The Battle

2.Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...And A Caravan Of Weird Figures)

3.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

4.Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy

5.Hollenthon - Opus Magnum

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Pure awesomeness! 1 album from each of my favorite metal/rock bands.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Danzig - Danzig 4

3.Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity

4.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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My most beloved albums…

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Equilibrium - Sagas

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Call me easily impressed or what, but 2009 has been an amazing year for metal releases for me. Being well into 2010, I had the chance to let everything sink in and the more memorable albums stand out more…

1.Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió

2.Amorphis - Skyforger

3.Samael - Above

4.Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader

5.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

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In alphabetical order…

1.Acrassicauda - Only The Dead See The End Of The War

2.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

3.Al-Thawra - Edifice

4.Atheist - Jupiter

5.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

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1.Obituary - Cause Of Death

2.Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum

3.Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade

4.Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka

5.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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A beginner's guide to genuine blasting. Call it Gothenburg, call it extreme power - whatever, it's always enjoyable.

Now ranked for even more win.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

4.Kalmah - 12 Gauge

5.Blood Stain Child - Idolator

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just taken from the blog entry and thrown into nice shiny list format for people who can't be bothered to read words. of course, they will have skipped these words as well, so we can ridicule them…

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Baroness - Blue Record

3.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4.Cobalt - Gin

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

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Ranked in order. Full lengths only. Rated 6-10.

1.Ea - Au Ellai

2.Carach Angren - Death Came Through A Phantom Ship

3.Agrypnie - 16[485]

4.Negură Bunget - Vîrstele Pămîntului

5.Immolation - Majesty And Decay

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Having seen 171 performances by 152 bands at 23 concerts and 10 festivals in 2009 I thought it might be a nice idea to keep a tally about the best live bands of the year. So here it is, my very own run-off…

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1.In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

2.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

3.Septicflesh - Communion

4.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

5.Psycroptic - Ob(Servant)

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