I'm not one of those people who think Isis lost it after Oceanic. But this is undeniably their masterwork, a classic in both metal and post-rock.

Sadly their last album, but in their brief lifespan, DA progressed grindcore to a new level.

Slow and contemplative, but overpowering and at times gorgeous. Synths need to be used in metal more often.

Most people would probably pick Pink or Akuma No Uta instead, but the way this album builds to mountainous heights, it's easily my favorite Boris album.

Oh, black metal. Like how the Dark Side was there for Anakin Skywalker, you were there for me. This album in particular dominated my life for a while.

Om don't get the love they deserve. Too anticlimactic for post-rockers, not dark enough for the black metal crowd. But Pilgrimage, in my mind, will always be a minor masterpiece.

Maybe it was the over-exposure brought on by Pitchfork, but I was underwhelmed when I first heard this album, but a year makes a big difference. Anthemic black metal, very awesome.

Right now, this is probably my most played album, and it has been for weeks. These guys take familiar sounds and styles and tear them apart, then put them back together to form something incredible.

In retrospect, this isn't the most intense album I've ever heard, but on those first few listens it just tore me apart.

Grindcore, thrash, noise, math rock, hard rock, emo (the good kind). This album touches on a ton of sounds, and makes them all work.

I'll stop loving drone metal when it stops being so freakin awesome.

They finally roll out a new album, and it may be their best yet.

There are so many things about Opeth that I should hate, but I don't hate them. They're f%#!ing awesome.

Came across this album when I was looking for Sleep in a record store. Bought it for the band name, but this is a crazily awesome (awesomely crazy?) album.

The heaviest album ever? Probably not, but it does show that the british are capable of some seriously intense metal.

Pioneers in black metal that fell in to obscurity in the late 90s, but reemerged with this masterpiece.

The other project of Leviathan's Wrest, more ambient, maybe a little darker.

Heavy minimalist metal, very rewarding for listeners with patience.

The way critics have hyped this band up as one of the heaviest and most monolithic bands in the world, it's hard not to have a knee-jerk reaction towards them. But they are pretty incredible.

Come on, who honestly believed this "band" was constantly high on some obscure drug and invented a diesel-powered underwater guitar and were enviro-terrorists? Atleast this album is real, and pretty darn good too.