TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

1. Gorguts - Obscura
2. Augury - Concealed
3. Cynic - Focus
4. Opeth - Still Life
5. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
6. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
7. Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
8. Death - Symbolic
9. Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
10. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
 
Opeth - Still Life
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Agalloch - The Mantle
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Opeth - Blackwater Park
 
in no particular order

Bathory - Blood on ice
Forlorn - The crystal palace
Blackshine - Our pain is your pleasure
Opeth - Morningrise
Katatonia - LFDGD
Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
Despair - Beyond all reason
Withering Surface - The nude ballet
Darkseed - Spellcraft
Withered beauty - Withered Beauty
 
1. Vintersorg - visions from the spiral generator
2. Nevermore - this godless endeavor
3. Edge of Sanity - crimson 1 and 2
4. Diabolical Masqeurade - death's design
5. Bloodbath - nightmares made flesh
6. Opeth - blackwater park
7. Ark - burn the sun
8. Bleed the Sky - paradigm in entropy and murder the dance
9. Death - symbolic
10. Decapitated - nihility

My top 10 could be totally different in a few hours even, but crimson, visions from the spiral generator, and death's design will always be there.
 
Opeth- Still Life
Arcturus- The Sham Mirrors
In Flames- Jester Race
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Edge of Sanity- Crimson II
At the Gates- Slaughter of the Soul
Moonsorrow- Verisakeet
Katatonia- Viva Emptiness
Vintersorg- The Focusing Blur
Nightingale- Alive Again
 
Many people with bad taste here, hahaha... It's hard to do a top 10 ever. Some Edge of Sanity releases and albums like "Slaughter of the Soul" or "North From Here" had a huge impact on me 10 years ago.

So, today I appreciate these 10 releases the most (in no particular order):
- Wolves in the Throne Room: Two hunters
- Deathspell Omega: Circumspice
- Agalloch: Ashes against the grain
- Amenra: Mass III
- Negura Bunget: OM
- Enslaved: Vikingligr veldi
- Glorior Belli: Manifesting the raging beast
- Orphaned Land: Mabool
- Katatonia: Discouraged ones
- Secrets of the Moon: Carved in stigmata wounds
 
Edge of Sanity ~crimson,purgatory afterglow
Katatonia ~the great cold distance
Fear Factory ~demanufacture
Evoken ~embrace the emptiness
Paradise Lost ~paradise lost
Alice In Chains ~dirt
Amorphis ~tales from the thousand lakes
Bloodbath ~resurrection through carnage
Sentenced ~the cold white light

Runner up: Tristania ~ashes


Top 10 lists are not easy. I could have a few lists.
 
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Centinex - Hellbrigade
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges, or one of the old albums I haven't heard yet
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
 
1.- Children of Bodom - Follow the reaper
2.- Persefone - Core (check it out NOW!!)
3.- Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
4.- Opeth - Still Live
5.- In flames - Whoracle
6.- Dissection - Storm of the lights bane
7.- Wintersun - Wintersun
8.- Hypocrisy - The Arrival
9.- Dimmu Borgir - Enthone Darkness Triumphant
10.- Blind Guardian - Nightfall in the meddle earth
 
1. Edge of sanity - Crimson
2. Tristania - Widow´s weeds
3. Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes
4. Dan Swanö - Moontower
5. Megadeth - Countdown to extinction
6. Paradise lost - Shades of god
7. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
8. Sentenced - Down
9. Lacuna coil - In a reverie
10. Iron maiden - Fear of the dark
 
My list changes a bit from time to time but it's something like this....in no order...

Celtic Frost- Into The Pandemonium
Voivod- Angel Rat/Nothingface (tie)
Judas Priest- Unleashed In The East
Iron Maiden- Killers
Pyogenesis- Twinaleblood
Amorphis- Am Universum
Katatonia- Viva Emptiness
Meshuggah- Destroy Erase Improve
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
Slayer- Reign In Blood
 
1. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
2. Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
3. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
4. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
5. Metallica - Master of Puppets
6. Tool - Lateralus
7. Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
8. Dream Theater - Octavarium
9. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
10. The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed

LAWL. album was shit, and im DT's biggest fan
 
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Still Life
Tool - Lateralus
Meshuggah - Nothing
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (not really metal but still...)
 
I hate this question :D

first off I need to think of what is regarded as metal... and the second stage to actually pick out a number of cd's that dominate all the others.

Therion - Theli
Savatage - "Streets" A Rock Opera
Ayreon - The Final Experiment
Cryhavoc - Pitch-black Blues
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd
Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings
Falconer - Chapters from a Vale Forlorn
 
Really hard to choose between so much incredeble music ;D, but this is my list:)

1. Edge of Sanity - the Unorthodox
2. Opeth - Damnation
3. Bloodbath - Nightmare made Flesh.
4. Dan Swanö - Moontower :worship:
5. Dissection - Reinkaos
6. Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
7. Marillion - Script for a Jester's tear
8. Edge of Sanity - Purogatory Afterglow
9. Amon Amarth - Versus the World
10. Opeth - My Arms, your hearse.