Favourite [insert number] metal albums?

Skepticism

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Noticing we had a thread about your favourite songs, what would be your favourite albums?
 
Borknagar - Quintessence
The Kovenant - Animatronic
Hypocrisy - Virus
Borknagar - The Archaic Course
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
 
of all time:

top 5, from worst to best

5. Vader - De Profundis
4. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
3. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
2. Immortal - At The Heart of Winter
1. Carcass - Necroticism

Please note, numbers 2-5 may change at a moments notice.
 
1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
3. Agalloch - Pale Folklore
4. Opeth - Still Life
5. Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness

Honourable mentions to Spreading the Disease, Altars of Madness and Isa.
 
No order.

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Ulver - Bergtatt
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Hypocrisy - Virus
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - ... And Justice for All
 
no order

Opeth- Blackwater Park
Mercyful Fate- Don't Break the Oath
Scar Symmetry- Symmetric in Design
Soilwork- Steelbath Suicide
Soilwork- APP
Soilwork- NBC
SYL- Alien
Dismember- Like an Everflowing Stream
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Atheist- Piece of Time
Death- Individual Though Patterns
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Lamb of God- Ashes of the Wake
Vader- Litany
Pestilence- Testimony of The Ancients
Carcass- Heartwork
 
Mourning Beloveth - The Sullen Sulcus
Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
Forgotten Tomb - Songs to Leave
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
Amorphis - The Karlian Isthmus
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Adramelech - Psychostasia
Demilich - Nesphite

I'll stop there. As you can see, it's mostly old school death metal and some extreme doom.
 
1. burzum - hvis lyset tar oss
2. graveland - thousand swords
3. the chasm - deathcult for eternity: the triumph
4. sacramentum - far away from the sun
5. summoning - dol guldur
6. aeternus - beyond the wandering moon
7. at the gates - the red in the sky is ours
8. fleshcrawl - descend into the absurd

then it gets harder, but demilich, demigod, dark tribe, bathory, immortal, gorguts and darkthrone probably come next in some sort of order
 
Windir - Arntor
Bathory - Hammerheart
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry
Mayhem - DMDS
Graveland - Following The Voice Of Blood
Summoning - Minas Morgul
Sodom - Agent Orange
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
In The Woods - Heart Of Ages
The Chasm - Conjurations of the Spectral Empire
Fjoergyn - Ernte im Herbst
Countess - Heilig Vuur
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptyness, Despair
Iron Maiden - Killers
Tristania - Widow's Weeds (yep, it was the album that got me into metal, and remains one of my fav.)