1.In Vain - Solemn

2.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

3.Borknagar - Fall

4.Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe

5.Deicide - Banished By Sin

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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011, 2010

1.Dvne - Voidkind

2.Blazing Eternity - A Certain End Of Everything

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.Disbelief - Killing Karma

5.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

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1.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

2.Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Megadeth - Youthanasia

5.Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

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Top 10 best prog metal albums in no specific order, these are just the 10 best in general based on my opinion.

1.Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray

2.Fates Warning - Parallels

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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

5.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

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Favorites bands and records of the new age of DOOM With a twist of Sludge Stoner & Drone…

1.Sleep - The Sciences

2.Earth - Earth 2 - Special Low Frequency Version

3.Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

4.Om - Advaitic Songs

5.Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

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1.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

2.Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows

3.Carcass - Heartwork

4.Paradise Lost - Icon

5.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

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Secret tracks, sometimes also called ghost tracks, unlisted tracks or hidden tracks, are songs or audio pieces that were left off the track list of an album.

The easiest way to hide a secret track is providing the space for a distinct track that is just not listed on the back cover. However, there are also other possibilities:

Multisided records are vinyl records that have more than one groove per side. Therefore, double-grooved LPs can contain the secret track in the second groove.
Moreover, some vinyl records contain audio in the locked groove, which is usually silent and used for keeping the needle from drifting into the label area.

Compact discs may contain secret songs in the pregap of a track. Therefore (depending on the CD player), the secret track is not played automatically, but has to be manually back-scanned to be started.

In general, secret songs are often placed at the end of the final track, which contains the listed song and the unlisted audio separated by some minutes of silence.

Enhanced CDs may contain tracks that are not recognized by regular CD players but can only be detected as multimedia files by a computer.

In rare cases, two tracks have to be played simultaneously in order to either complement each other or to suppress distorted parts, resulting in a reconstructed song.

In general, there seems to be a trend that fewer secret tracks are produced for new releases. Moreover, re-issues of older albums often contain formerly secret tracks as listed bonus tracks or omit them entirely, especially for digital versions of the album.

Please feel free to suggest more examples of secret tracks on metal/hard rock albums.

1.Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics

2.Anthrax - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real

3.Anthrax - We've Come For You All

4.Anthrax - Worship Music

5.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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1.Horndal - Head Hammer Man

2.Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition

3.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

4.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

5.Hippotraktor - Stasis

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1.Austere - Beneath The Threshold

2.Farsot - Life Promised Death

3.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

4.Dekadent - Dyonist

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

3.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

4.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.The Arcane Order - Distortions From Cosmogony

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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Some Great Records In My Collection That I Forgot Or Didn’t Listen, Re Discovered Bands Or Re Listening Others, A Great Exercise Of Shared Experience

1.Various Artists - Metal Blade 20th Anniversary: Double Decades Of Aggression

2.Nasty Savage - Indulgence

3.Sacred Rite - Is Nothing Sacred

4.Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks

5.LvxCælis - Mysteria Mystica Maxima XXIII

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1.Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 1

2.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

3.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

4.Apes - Penitence

5.Hamferð - Men Gu ð s Hond Er Sterk

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1.Minenwerfer - Alpenpässe

2.Odraza - Rzeczom

3.Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle

4.Marduk - Serpent Sermon

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