This is my personal selection of albums (with specific songs) that you'd like to play in your next metal party.
The songs are sorted so the more powerful and energetic songs are equally spread all along the list, except the last songs, which are softer than average.

I'm currently working in this list (well... in my spare time), so it's not the final one.

1.Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire

2.Korpiklaani - Karkelo

3.Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Kvelertak - Blodtørst

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My choices for the best things to happen to metal between 2000 and 2009.

1.Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye

2.Ayreon - 01011001

3.Extol - Synergy

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Krallice - Krallice

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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

4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

5.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg

1.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine

4.Mastodon - Remission

5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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Sweetness

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

2.Between The Buried And Me - Best Of

3.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialoges

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1.Protest The Hero - Fortress

2.Born Of Osiris - The New Reign

3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

4.After The Burial - Rareform

5.August Burns Red - Constellations

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This is a list of the top songs over 10 minutes long in my humble opinion. I had to resist the urge not to put every single Symphony X, Opeth and Agalloch song over 10 minutes long on the list so some of equally high quality are left off to increase diversity. Songs are sorted by approximate preference with #1 inspiring the list. I love long songs so if you know a good one please send me a message and I'll give it a listen. **Last Update 09/03/2011**

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

2.Gorod - Transcendence

3.Symphony X - The Odyssey

4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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Over the past few decades music has been completely turned over on its back, and I blame these geniuses.

1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2.Genesis - Nursery Cryme

3.Jethro Tull - Aqualung

4.Yes - Fragile

5.Pink Floyd - Darkside of The Moon

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My favourite 10 albums from 2000-2009

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

2.Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

3.Isis - Panopticon

4.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

5.Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom

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I think the title is self explanitory. Not in order of preference as it would change daily and I can't be arsed changing it around all the time!:) it's a bit of a mixture of all the stuff I like so I'm reasonably sure alot of the picks won't be everyones cup of piss.

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

3.Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

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This my best of 2007 list, enjoy!

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

2.The Ocean - Precambrian

3.Warning - Watching From A Distance

4.Amorphis - Silent Waters

5.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

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This list contains the top twenty albums in the metal/progressive genres that are most precious to me. The personal feelings and influences as well as musical doorways that these records represent to me are big factors in the choices on the list. Enjoy!

1.Nightwish - Oceanborn

2.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Danzig - Danzig II - Lucifuge

5.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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The albums that made me love prog/metal even more / that I can't get enough of.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

3.Nightwish - Once

4.Carcass - Heartwork

5.Death - Symbolic

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I've been a metal fan since 2000, I'm 20 years old, thats fair enough!! I'm more into progressive metal but still, love many albums from thrash and heavy, lets roll...

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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These are my top ten albums of all time. I realize that A Diamond for Disease is an EP, but I don't care, it's going on the list.

1.Kalisia - Cybion

2.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

3.Arsis - A Diamond For Disease

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Carcass - Heartwork

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