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Kai vs RYM metal charts: 1999

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            Well, here we are, the final decade of the 90s. For better or worse, (for better) judging from past lists I predict zero nu/alt metal albums showing up on this top 10, but what does show up will be a mystery.  Let's go holy diving.... 1. Opeth- Still Life     Ugh... I knew this crap would be here.  A thought occurs to me: Opeth is the most bi-polar band ever.  Maybe that was the indicator that the United States has a mental health problem.  The Iron Maiden song of the same name > Opeth's entire catalog. Should this be on a top 10: No Would this be on my top 10: No 2. Immortal- At The Heart of Winter      Thank God.  This should be #1.  Admittedly, one could say  At The Heart of Winter  is a little too late to the hi-fi melodic black-metal party, I say it's a critical party restarter.  So, fashionably late.  Plus unlike a lot of the Dissection clones, At the Heart ...
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These 20 albums are 10s!

     You've seen this trend, I've seen this trend.  Here's me pinching my loaf into the punchbowl.  I tried to split it up evenly between decades, I don't want there to be too much of an 70s/80s bias.  Also if you don't see an album here, it's cos I couldn't jog the writing noggin.  I want to make this a recurring thing anyway, so there will be a second edition.   Black Sabbath- Paranoid            Yeah, I know, we've all tried to play/write this one off cos we're sick of seeing it at the top.  But the fact is it keeps naturally rising for a reason.  We loved it at the time, but it feels like we don't fully understand how good it is until 30-40 years later. Transcendent heavy/doom metal that ain't afraid to bring that show-biz swing.  This is THE heavy metal album every normie and casual should know. Giant chocolate chips: Hand Of Doom, Electric Funeral, War Pigs Rainbow- Rising    ...
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Kai vs RYM metal charts: 1998

     1998 was when classic heavy/power metal started to have a strong enough foothold to fight the falseness of detuned nu chug crap and record executive Epstein money laundering.  We also saw old-timey death metal have a bit of a last gasp before evolving into "brutal death" the same way heavy metal evolved into power metal.  How much of that is reflected here will be a crap shoot as usual.  I got my fingers crossed for one power metal classic in particular, but RYM users are as much of a disappointment to me as they are to their parents.  Let's go holy diving.... 1. Death- The Sound of Perseverance     Ugh.  You know, there's Death albums that you're kinda supposed to grow out of, and Sound Of Perseverance  is one of them.  I'll admit I liked this album when I first got into Death despite hearing Scream Bloody Gore first (forget night and day, this disparity is summer and winter), but it's just so....plastic.  Death met...
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