Top albums in no particular order. The first decade of the new millenium turned out to be a good one for Viking music! I realize Nightwish might be a controversial entry, but their (pre-Annette) music can invoke the inner Norseman in me!

1.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

2.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

3.Falkenbach - Tiurida

4.Finntroll - Jaktens Tid

5.Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup

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1.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

2.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

3.After Forever - Decipher

4.Amorphis - Am Universum

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

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Lacrimas Profundere - Burning: A Wish

3.Moonspell - Darkness And Hope

4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

5.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

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My Top Symphonic/Atmospheric/Female Fronted(whatever you wanna call it...) Albums of all time with its subgenres: gothic, power, folk, prog...
Still, The order may change from time to time....!!

1.Within Temptation - The Silent Force

2.Nightwish - Century Child

3.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

4.Therion - Vovin

5.Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything

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1.Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

2.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

3.Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion

4.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

5.Darzamat - In The Opium Of Black Veil

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1.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

2.Haggard - Tales Of Ithiria

3.Darkseed - Diving Into Darkness

4.Metallica - Metallica

5.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

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1.Devin Townsend - Terria

2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3.Lost Horizon - Awakening The World

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Ark - Burn The Sun

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Comprehensive list of my top 50 metal albums from the previous decade. Though a number of non-metal albums would make my 50, I have excluded them here.

1.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Negură Bunget - OM

4.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

5.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

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I updated the list, so there are now 100 entries, and I consider 100 to be to little. These are albums I listen to regularly, and some I listened to frantically for a while.

1.Rapture - Songs For The Withering

2.System Of A Down - Toxicity

3.Warning - Watching From A Distance

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II

5.Converge - Jane Doe

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In my oppinion these are the best of 2001, and one important fact is that many great bands made their debut in this year (Ensiferum, Moonsorrow, Arthemesia, Falconer, Saurom Lamderth, Pagan Reign, Runic...)

1.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Moonsorrow - Suden Uni

4.Saurom Lamderth - El Guardian de las Melodias Perdidas

5.Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind And Pillor

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Top metal albuns based on the influence they have in my personality and by the way they changed some ideas and theories I had.

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

2.Symphony X - The Odyssey

3.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

4.Dream Theater - Images And Words

5.Primordial - Spirit The Earth Aflame

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