A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions are welcome (granted they are featured on MS). All the albums here are ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. If a certain album belongs to the (in your opinion) wrong genre, then definitely let me know.

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2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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Here is the 2010 edition of my very straight forward top lists.

1.Ophis - Withered Shades

2.Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

3.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

4.Netra - Mélancolie Urbaine

5.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

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Just a list of my personal top albums for the year 2010.

1.Rotting Christ - Aealo

2.Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void

3.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

4.Eluveitie - Everything Remains (As It Never Was)

5.Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra

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In alphabetical order by country.

1.Voyager - I Am The ReVolution

2.Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree

3.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

4.Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

5.Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous

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1.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

2.Opeth - Damnation

3.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

4.Anathema - Alternative 4

5.Insomnium - In The Halls Of Awaiting

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This is a list of the top melodic death metal albums ever made between 2000 and 2010.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore

4.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

5.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

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1.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

2.Mekong Delta - Wanderer On The Edge Of Time

3.The Ocean - Anthropocentric

4.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One

5.Pin-Up Went Down - 342

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1.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

2.Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came

3.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

4.Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure

5.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

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1.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

2.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One

3.Butterfly Temple - Земля

4.Ihsahn - After

5.Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age

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1.Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

2.Pressure Points - Remorses To Remember

3.Helevorn - Forthcoming Displeasures

4.The Howling Void - Shadows Over The Cosmos

5.Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

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This list isn't really in a set order except the first five, which really were just far and away my top 5. Then everything up to Aspera (or Above Symmetry as they are now called...I will keep it as Aspera for the list purposes tho, since that is who they were when the album was released) is the next tier. Everything after that is kinda in shambles. I tried to keep it to top 25 like my other lists, but there were some on the fringe of making this list, so feel free to check out my album votes for the near misses.

1.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

2.In Mourning - Monolith

3.Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5.Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

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(in constant actualization and not on specific preference order)

1.Black Sun Aeon - Routa

2.Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

3.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5.Gwydion - Horn Triskelion

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This is the top 20 list with my favorite metal albums of 2010. In order. NOW WITH GENRE DESCRIPTION!

1.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony / Angel Of Babylon

3.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One

4.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

5.Hardcore Superstar - Split Your Lip

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1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

3.Overkill - Ironbound

4.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

5.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

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1.Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

2.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

3.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

4.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

5.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

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