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My Favourites And Why I Like Them

I always admired people who do really cool lists. But since I don't know anything, I can't really make a good one. So here's the babby-boy of lists, just to get my juices flowing.
Will be updated and expanded upon as I have time and see fit. The goal is to get my top 50 maybe, but there's a long road ahead of that.

1.Neurosis - Souls At Zero
2.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
3.Neurosis - Times Of Grace
4.Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels
5.Amigo The Devil - Everything Is Fine

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Created by Desha on 05.06.2018



My Top 20 Albums

1.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
2.Rammstein - Mutter
3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
4.The Gathering - Mandylion
5.Alice In Chains - Dirt

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Created by Angaroth on 15.05.2018



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Best Album From Different Genres

My favorite albums from various genres

1.Slipknot - Iowa
2.Nirvana - Nevermind
3.Summoning - Stronghold
4.Septicflesh - Communion
5.Anathema - Judgement

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Created by Anghellic67 on 02.02.2018



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My Favorite Albums

1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
5.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

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Created by DyersEve88 on 03.12.2016



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Greatest Metal Albums ( Somewhat In Order - One Album Per Band )

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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Created by Aserian on 21.11.2016



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Yet Another Useless Folking List

This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement about the genre; for that reason, there are some entries that don't entirely fit the description, including some neofolk albums and bands that don't exactly play "folk metal" but are close enough.

1.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire
2.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom
3.Forefather - Steadfast
4.Forefather - Last Of The Line
5.Dalriada - Áldás

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 17.05.2016



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Current Top 100, 5 Years On

Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Sylosis - Monolith
3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Protest The Hero - Kezia

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Created by musclassia on 23.03.2016



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The Mightiest Albums Annually

Mightiest = albums I can listen to almost anytime/anywhere - no matter how many times they never wear out - and always give me pleasure, power, euphoria, goosebumps, inspiration and many other nasty things.
One album per year obviously, with some years missing in case i have not yet found an album mighty enough from that year.
Recommendations appreciated.

1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
2.Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
3.Battle Beast - Battle Beast
4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
5.Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

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Created by Tomas Piller on 14.01.2016



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2000-2014: A 'Factored' Top 100

Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped to 8.26. An almost linear decrease is observable for the 10 years in between.

I was curious to see what a Top 100 for 2000-2014 would look like if I factored the votes to account for the 'rating decline'. I hope you find it interesting.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI
4.Aquilus - Griseus
5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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Created by Moose on 13.09.2015



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Favorite Albums By Year (1980-2015)

1.Judas Priest - British Steel
2.Venom - Welcome To Hell
3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
4.Slayer - Show No Mercy
5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Created by me<3mertl on 08.02.2015



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Some Of My Black Metal Favorites

This is a list of some of my favorite black metal albums, one per artist, semi-random order. Its not a list of what I consider to be the best black metal albums of all time, but the ones I like the most. I'll keep updating it as I keep discovering more of the genre.

1-7 - 10/10
8-17 9/10

1.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew
2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
3.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
4.Nechochwen - Heart Of Akamon
5.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

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Created by Jericho Rehling on 21.05.2014



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My Favourite Black Metal Albums

- My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.

Description includes: Genre (traditional/true BM bands are labeled with their countries, e.g. Norwegian Black), year and my personal favourite song of the particular album with link.

Hall of Fame (bands in each time period): Agalloch, Blut Aus Nord, Enslaved, Immortal, Nokturnal Mortum, Summoning

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2.Windir - Arntor
3.Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver
4.Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
5.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

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Created by Alien1988 on 14.05.2014



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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs

1.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
2.Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy
3.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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Created by Redel on 08.03.2014



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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums

An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just how much I like the album. Ordered by preference, top down.

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma
2.Opeth - Morningrise
3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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Created by Redel on 01.03.2014



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My Top 50 Albums

My top list by far......
last update : 23/01/2019

1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
2.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
4.Amorphis - Silent Waters
5.Death - Symbolic

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Created by MetalAce on 09.12.2013