| 5.0 classic |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Absolute masterwork. The Mantle's perfect sense of diversity and song craft make it impossible not to love, and a defining album in the atmospheric black metal genre. |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Dark, haunting masterpiece. Epic in every sense, Monotheist is the sound of a band who helped give birth to a genre decades ago, and return to it years later to still find ways to propel themselves to its cutting edge. |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Exemplary blend of the standard NWOBHM of the time of this album's release, as well as hints to the darker, more sinister metal in the years to follow. |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath |
| An impeccable follow up to Melissa, sacrificing a touch of diversity for a more punchy, immediate sound, Don't Break the Oath brought in the sound of extreme metal to come with it's fast riffs, lightning solos, and occult drenched falsetto screams. |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| Opeth Orchid |
| Simply epic. Orchid possesses an exquisite atmosphere unlike all other atmospheric metal records, with harmonizing guitars that companion each other like brothers, drums that know just when to kick in the double bass, and solos and acoustic guitars that catapult the sound to another dimension. |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Beatles Rubber Soul |
| The Stooges Raw Power |
