1.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

2.AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

3.Triumph - Just A Game

4.AC/DC - High Voltage

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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Thrash was one of the first metal genres I got into around 2005. I discovered Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc through Kerrang! magazine and their albums quickly became my favourites at the time. Now,…

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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These albums have a rating of 8.5 or higher using the Metal Storm scale. In absolutely no particular order.

1.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

2.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

3.Lord Dying - Clandestine Transcendence

4.Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb

5.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

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Year Currently Covered: 2023

Hey folks! Welcome to the greatly coveted Guib Awards! Instead of creating a list every year, I've decided to make a single one that will change yearly to feature my…

1.Altarage - Worst Case Scenario

2.Baroness - Stone

3.Bloodletter - A Different Kind Of Hell

4.Capra - Errors

5.CauseNeffect - Validation Through Suffering

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1.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done

4.Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation

5.Behemoth - Demigod

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…

1.Atrium Carceri - Forgotten Gods

2.Blackend Horizon - Nerhegeb

3.Caldon Glover - Ùir

4.Daevar - Amber Eyes

5.Dead Head - Shadow Soul

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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The gaps between all the albums are minimal…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

4.Death - Human

5.Death - Leprosy

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1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Hideous Divinity - Unextinct

3.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

4.Convulsing - Perdurance

5.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

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For the love of extreme, brutal, hellish sounds…

1.Hauntologist - Hollow

2.Ba'al - Soft Eyes

3.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

4.Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath

5.Immortal Disfigurement - King

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1.Masterplan - Masterplan

2.Masterplan - MK II

3.Masterplan - Time To Be King

4.Masterplan - Aeronautics

5.Masterplan - Novum Initium

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Dvne - Voidkind

3.Dååth - The Deceivers

4.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

5.In Vain - Solemn

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I've always been a fan of melodic death metal, having listened to bands such as In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and At The Gates in my first few years of getting into metal around 2005-2008. Now, thanks…

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It

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Top 50 of 2006

Only LPs

Album count: 180
Average rating: 7.09
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1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

4.Summoning - Oath Bound

5.Enslaved - Ruun

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