If you are looking to explore melancholic metal or you just want to discover some great bands you haven't heard yet, check out this list.

1.Sentenced - Down

2.End Of Green - Void Estate

3.The Man-Eating Tree - Harvest

4.Fall Of The Leafe - Vantage

5.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

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1.Sirenia - At Sixes And Sevens

2.After Forever - Decipher

3.Paradise Lost - In Requiem

4.Tristania - World Of Glass

5.Before The Dawn - Deadlight

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Good musical pieces are those that initiate an emotional reaction or a subconscious shift of your subjective perception. The best music are those that elicit the most positive or dramatic of changes to our psyches. This is a list that I return to occasionally for these effects.

It is subjective of course.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

5.Atoma - Skylight

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1.Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine I

2.Tiamat - Prey

3.Forest Of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn To Dust

4.Helevorn - Forthcoming Displeasures

5.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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These are 44 of the my favorite Gothic Metal albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1.The Foreshadowing - Second World

2.Anathema - Judgement

3.Crematory - Awake

4.Charon - Songs For The Sinners

5.Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness

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1.Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came

2.Forest Stream - Tears Of Mortal Solitude

3.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II

5.Vital Remains - Dechristianize

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1.The Gathering - Souvenirs

2.Epica - The Phantom Agony

3.Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

4.Tiamat - Prey

5.Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure

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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'll probably never get a thumb up for this list as there are a lot of controversial albums on it. 2003 is on the other hand maybe the best metal year so far in my opinion. It was here I really started listening to metal and nothing else. The top 4 has had a huge impact on me as a metalhead.

1.Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.Norther - Mirror Of Madness

4.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

5.Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure

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