My most favorite 20 music albums

Pieces of art.

Deftones | Diamond Eyes

photo of owl on a black backgrond with album title
  1. Diamond Eyes
  2. Royal
  3. CMND/CTRL
  4. You've Seen the Butcher
  5. Beauty School
  6. Prince
  7. Rocket Skates
  8. Sextape
  9. Risk
  10. 976-EVIL
  11. This Place Is Death

Released: May 4, 2010

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Alternative metal

Devin Townsend | Ziltoid the Omniscient

picture of green alien on red and purple backgrounf
  1. ZTO
  2. By Your Command
  3. Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!
  4. Solar Winds
  5. Hyperdrive
  6. N9
  7. Planet Smasher
  8. Omnidimensional Creator
  9. Color Your World
  10. The Greys
  11. Tall Latte

Released: May 21, 2007

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Progressive Metal

Down | Nola

White band title on black background and lily
  1. Temptation's Wings
  2. Lifer
  3. Pillars of Eternity
  4. Rehab
  5. Hail the Leaf
  6. Underneath Everything
  7. Eyes of the South
  8. Jail
  9. Loosing All
  10. Stone the Crow
  11. Pray for the Locust (instrumental)
  12. Swan Song
  13. Bury me in Smoke

Released: September 19, 1995

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Sludge Metal

Metallica | Ride the Lightning

band title with lightnings and on dark blue background
  1. Fight Fire with Fire
  2. Ride the Lightning
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  4. Fade to Black
  5. Trapped Under Ice
  6. Escape
  7. Creeping Death
  8. The Call of Ktulu

Released: July 27, 1984

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Thrash Metal

Killswitch Engage | Disarm the Descent

woman in veil with burning heart all in gold and brown colors
  1. The Hell in Me
  2. Beyond the Flames
  3. The New Awakening
  4. In Due Time
  5. A Tribute to the Fallen
  6. Turning Point
  7. All We Have
  8. You Don't Bleed for Me
  9. The Call
  10. No End in Sight
  11. Always
  12. Time Will Not Remain

Released: April 2, 2013

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Metalcore

Slipknot | Slipknot

band members in red jumpsuites and masks
  1. 742617000027
  2. (sic)
  3. Eyeless
  4. Wait and Bleed
  5. Surfacing
  6. Spit It Out
  7. Tattered&Torn
  8. Frail Limb Nursery
  9. Purity
  10. Liberate
  11. Prosthetics
  12. No Life
  13. Diluted
  14. Only One
  15. Scissors/Eeyore

Released: June 29, 1999

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Nu Metal

Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin I

monochrome zeppelin silhouette
  1. Good Times Bad Times
  2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
  3. You Shook Me
  4. Dazed and Confused
  5. Your Time Is Gonna Come
  6. Black Mountain Side
  7. Communication Breakdown
  8. I Can't Quit You Baby
  9. How Many More Times

Released: January 12, 1969

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Hard Rock

Mastodon | Crack the Skye

colorful picture with 2 men, bear and ornaments
  1. Oblivion
  2. Divinations
  3. Quintessence
  4. The Czar
  5. Ghost of Karelia
  6. Crack the Skye
  7. The Last Baron

Released: March 29, 2009

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Sludge Metal

Gojira | From Mars to Sirius

ornameted whale and two different round shapes on cream background
  1. Ocean Planet
  2. Backbone
  3. From the Sky
  4. Unicorn
  5. Where Dragons Dwell
  6. The Haviest Matter in the
    Universe
  7. Flying Whales
  8. In the Wilderness
  9. World to Come
  10. From Mars
  11. To Sirius
  12. Global Warming

Released: September 27, 2005

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Progressive Death Metal

Vildhjarta | Måsstaden

dark fairy-tale woods
  1. Shadow
  2. Dagger
  3. Eternal Golden Monk
  4. Benblåst
  5. Östpeppar
  6. Traces
  7. Phobon Nika
  8. Måsstadens Nationalsång
  9. When No One Walks
    with You
  10. All These Feelings
  11. Nojja
  12. Deceit
  13. The Lone Deranger

Released: November 28, 2011

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Djent

Kvelertak | Kvelertak

owl and girls
  1. Ulvetid
  2. Mjød
  3. Fossegrim
  4. Blodtørst
  5. Offernatt
  6. Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)
  7. Sultans of Satan
  8. Nekroskop
  9. Liktorn
  10. Ordsmedar Av Rang
  11. Utrydd Dei Svake

Released: June 21, 2010

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Black'N'Roll

Black Sabbath | Paranoid

man in the darkness
  1. War Pigs
  2. Paranoid
  3. Planet Caravan
  4. Iron Man
  5. Electric Funeral
  6. Hand of Doom
  7. Rat Salad
  8. Fairies Wear Boots

Released: September 18, 1970

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Heavy Metal

Uneven Structure | Februus

construction on dark background
  1. Awaken
  2. Frost
  3. Hail
  4. Exmersion
  5. Buds
  6. Awe
  7. Quittance
  8. Limbo
  9. Plentitude
  10. Finale

Released: October 31, 2011

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Post Metal

Queens of the Stone Age | ...Like Clockwork

  1. Keep Your Eyes Peeled
  2. I Sat By the Ocean
  3. The Vampyre of Time
    and Memory
  4. If I Had a Tail
  5. My God is the Sun
  6. Kalopsia
  7. Fairweather Friends
  8. Smooth Sailing
  9. I Appear Missing
  10. ...Like a Clockwork

Released: June 3, 2013

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Alternative/Stoner Rock

Graveyard | Hisingen Blues

  1. Ain't Fit to Live Here
  2. No Good, Mr. Holden
  3. Hisingen Blues
  4. Uncomfortably Numb
  5. Buying Truth
    (Tack och Förlåt)
  6. Longing
  7. Ungrateful Are the Dead
  8. Rss
  9. The Siren
  10. Cooking Brew

Released: March 25, 2011

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Progressive Blues Rock

Opeth | Still Life

  1. The Moor
  2. Godhead's Lament
  3. Benighted
  4. Moonlapse Vertigo
  5. Face of Melinda
  6. Serenity Painted Death
  7. White Cluster

Released: October 18, 1999

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Progressive Death Metal

Agalloch |The Mantle

  1. A Celebration for the Death of Man...
  2. In the Shadow of Our
    Pale Companion
  3. Odal
  4. I Am the Wooden Doors
  5. The Lodge
  6. You Were But a Ghost
    in My Arms
  7. The Hawthorne Passage
  8. ...And the Great Cold
    Death of the Earth
  9. A Desolation Song

Released: August 13, 2002

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Doom Metal

Red Hot Chili Peppers | Californication

  1. Around the World
  2. Parallel Universe
  3. Scar Tissue
  4. Otherside
  5. Get on Top
  6. Californication
  7. Easily
  8. Porcelain
  9. Emit Remmus
  10. I lIke Dirt
  11. This Velvet Glove
  12. Savior
  13. Purple Stain
  14. Right on Time
  15. Road Trippin

Released: June 7, 1999

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Alternative Rock

Machine Head | Burn My Eyes

  1. Davidian
  2. Old
  3. A Thousand Lies
  4. None But My Own
  5. The Rage to Overcome
  6. Death Church
  7. A Nation on Fire
  8. Blood for Blood
  9. I'm Your God Now
  10. Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies
  11. Block

Released: July 25, 1994

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Groove Metal

Palms | Palms

  1. Future Warrior
  2. Patagonia
  3. Mission Sunset
  4. Shortwave Radio
  5. Tropics
  6. Antarctic Handshake

Released: June 25, 2013

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Post Metal

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