Certainly a good year. Northern Europe really killed it this time. The top 5 is without a doubt some of the best albums of all time.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Nightwish - Wishmaster

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

5.In Flames - Clayman

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One of the best metal years of all time with a lot of classic stuff. At least for me. The top 6 are surely immortal masterpieces.

1.Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder

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

3.Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

4.In Flames - Colony

5.Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

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A good year, no more, no less. Although the top 10 is pretty awesome and Norther's debut album will always be a favourite of mine.

1.Norther - Dreams Of Endless War

2.Nightwish - Century Child

3.Power Quest - Wings Of Forever

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Shining - III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie

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Great year with a lot of albums that has meant a lot to me and shaped parts of my taste in music.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Norther - Death Unlimited

3.Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process

4.Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

5.Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine

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Tough year. Some amazing stuff but I feel that a couple of previous years have been a lot stronger.

1.Grift - Arvet

2.Major Parkinson - Blackbox

3.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

4.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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This is not a list over my favourite albums, although some of them on the list of course are. These are albums that formed me, had a huge impact on me and defined my musical taste. Without some of these…

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

3.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

4.Iron Maiden - Killers

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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Great year, especially when it comes to melodic stuff. So glad that At the Gates and Empyrium delivered something solid. Even happier that Vanhelga really has become a "Lifelover 2", only darker.

1.Vanhelga - Längtan

2.Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara

3.Twilight Force - Tales Of Ancient Prophecies

4.Duskmourn - Legends

5.Saor - Aura

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What's a Maiden hangover? You know a regular hangover, right? It's really bad, your head hurts and you feel ill. You know you still love beer, but you don't want it for a while. That's…

1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Iron Maiden - Killers

5.Iron Maiden - Killers

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Couldn't be more clear, all the band's I've seen live so far and how many times I have seen them.

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There's some outstanding releases from this year. Overall not that special though.

1.Watain - Lawless Darkness

2.Dråpsnatt - Hymner Till Undergången

3.Equilibrium - Rekreatur

4.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

5.An Autumn For Crippled Children - Lost

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Bunch of classics this year.

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

3.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

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Great year. So many classic albums. And "X Factor" being a bad album? Get out of here. Every song on it is a heavy metal masterpiece!…

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2.Iron Maiden - The X Factor

3.Naglfar - Vittra

4.Summoning - Minas Morgul

5.Mörk Gryning - Tusen År Har Gått...

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I'll probably never get a thumb up for this list as there are a lot of controversial albums on it. 2003 is on the other hand maybe the best metal year so far in my opinion. It was here I really started…

1.Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.Norther - Mirror Of Madness

4.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

5.Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure

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A good year, I could make a great and lengthy list of songs just based on these albums. The top 5 is especially awesome, the first two I could probably put on my top 10 album list of all time.

1.Deathstars - Termination Bliss

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Illnath - Second Skin Of Harlequin

4.Lifelover - Pulver

5.Draconian - The Burning Halo

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A really good year, just look at the top 3! Three of the world's greatest black metal albums ever! And the six albums thereafter? Magic. All I can say is that this list was a pain to order, because…

1.Watain - Sworn To The Dark

2.Shining - V - Halmstad

3.Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

4.Månegarm - Vargstenen

5.Be'lakor - The Frail Tide

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