1.Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated [Collaboration]

2.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

3.Panopticon - Autumn Eternal

4.Cloud Rat - Qliphoth

5.Ghost - Meliora

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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.
Love at first sight listen.

This is part II of II, covering the years since 2001.

Despite of the list's personal character, suggestions are very welcome.
After all I'm old and I may just have forgotten lots of stuff that did make my day.



Great albums that didn't make it on the list as they can only be enjoyed in their entirety, rather than by picking individual songs:

Thirdmoon - Sworn Enemy: Heaven (Death, 2004)
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat (Death/Thrash, 2005)
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening (Funeral Doom, 2005)
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus (Doom/Death, 2005)
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Black, 2013)

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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My personal favorite death metal albums of all time. A lot of the list is from the 2000's because that's when I was the most into the genre, I still enjoy those albums to this day and they are definitely nostalgic to me

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

3.Gorguts - Considered Dead

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Vital Remains - Dechristianize

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1.Batushka - Litourgiya

2.Ghost - Meliora

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

5.Moonspell - Extinct

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1.Leprous - The Congregation

2.TesseracT - Polaris

3.Heart Of A Coward - Deliverance

4.Arcane - Known / Learned

5.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

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I doubt that anybody cares but, this is everything I listened to from 2015 in order of my enjoyment. Any and all hate is welcome!

1.Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

2.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

3.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Kamelot - Haven

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1.Melechesh - Enki

2.Tengger Cavalry - Blood Sacrifice Shaman

3.Fear Factory - Genexus

4.Psycroptic - Psycroptic

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

5.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

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1.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

2.Slayer - Repentless

3.Leprous - The Congregation

4.Unleashed - Dawn Of The Nine

5.Kauan - Sorni Nai

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My top3: Lost Soul, Infernal War and Unleashed.
Biggest surprise: Benighted with their live kick ass album!
Also find a band called Angelus Apatrida and their latest release 'Hidden Evolution' as for me the best Trash Metal last year!
I know i have added Dark Funeral even if this is a single but to me those where the best 2 Black Metal tracks i have heard in 2015 alongside to Infernal War - 'Axiom ', hoping for a massive album this year!
Anyway this is my top 20 !

1.Lost Soul - Atlantis: The New Beginning

2.Infernal War - Axiom

3.Unleashed - Dawn Of The Nine

4.Angelus Apatrida - Hidden Evolution

5.Benighted - Brutalive The Sick

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1.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2.Black Fast - Terms Of Surrender

3.Temple Of Baal - Mysterium

4.Firespawn - Shadow Realms

5.Morgoth - Ungod

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2015. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Monarchy

3.Gorod - A Maze Of Recycled Creeds

4.Hate Eternal - Infernus

5.Scarab - Serpents Of The Nile

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My favourite albums of 2015. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).

1.Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega

2.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

3.Fear Factory - Genexus

4.So Hideous - Laurestine

5.I, Valiance - The Reject of Humanity

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Words are for dummies. So are arbitrary lists. This is the crap I played a lot and liked a lot. My tastes are shit.

1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Nylithia - Hyperthrash

3.Beaten To Death - Unplugged

4.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

5.Glaciation - Sur Les Falaises De Marbre

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