One album per band…

1.Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

2.Gris - Il Était Une Forêt...

3.Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls

4.Bethlehem - Dark Metal

5.Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame

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I rated 1st Place 10/10; 2nd-6th Place 9/10 and 7th-24th Place 8/10. So it was kind of hard for me to create this list, because there are many albums with a same ranking. There is some arbitrariness in…

1.Opeth - In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall

2.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

3.Asphyx - Live Death Doom

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.At The Gates - Purgatory Unleashed

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1.Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Návaz

2.Falkenbach - Tiurida

3.Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka

4.Stratovarius - Elysium

5.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

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1.Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing

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3.Wolf - Black Wings

4.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

5.Dio - Killing The Dragon

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1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings

3.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

4.Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

5.Helloween - 7 Sinners

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1.Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects

2.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Annihilator - Schizo Deluxe

5.Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights

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My personal best selection of releases I physically bought in or from 2009 - a brilliant year for Black Metal.

1.Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel

2.Wodensthrone - Loss

3.Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

4.Crucified Barbara - 'Til Death Do Us Party

5.Urna - Iter Ad Lucem

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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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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.King Diamond - Them

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Anthrax - State Of Euphoria

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I present my Top Ten favorite metal albums. These are albums I still listen too regularly. Some for as long as 35 years. All of them at one point or another dominated my life and I hope come to dominate…

1.Van Halen - Van Halen

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.KISS - Alive

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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1.Mindrot - Dawning

2.October Tide - Rain Without End

3.Morgion - Solinari

4.Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium

5.Mournful Congregation - The June Frost

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1.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

2.In Mourning - Monolith

3.The Breathing Process - Odyssey (Un)Dead

4.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

5.Cradle Of Filth - Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa

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Overhauled as of May 10th, 2012! Top 5 favorite non-metal albums featured at the bottom.

This is a much improved (and more recently accurate) reworking of my previous favorite albums list, with a few…

1.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

2.Anubis Gate - The Detached

3.Artillery - By Inheritance

4.Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory

5.Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance

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