Metal

1. Between The Buried and Me - Colors

2. Mr. Bungle - California

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5. The Dear Hunter - Act III

6. The Dear Hunter - Act II

7. Eyedea & Abilities - First Born

8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

9. The Ocean - Pelagial

10. Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb

Alright, Top 13 for me, because 13 and this is what I could figure well enough and be satisfied with right now. Ordering subject to roughly change somewhere around fifth slot depending on what mood I'm in on any given day, but these are solid mainstays in my rotation (most of them for decades at this point). Doesn't reflect how broad my interests go, but you can see that I gravitate a lot toward black metal, and I favor stuff that isn't afraid to be its own thing. Weird is good. Non-metal albums removed though there are a couple in my top 10 if I weren't being genre specific.

1. Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
2. Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
3. Murmuüre - Murmuüre
4. Emptiness - Not For Music
5. The Skaden - You Will Hope I Had Died
6. Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
7. Samael - Eternal
8. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
9. Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
10. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
11. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
12. Rotting Christ - Khronos
13. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

Don't have a list but I do have one that I think is a perfect album, Colors - Between the Buried and Me.

I'm assuming we're just talking about metal albums, given the community.

Here's my top 3:

1. Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale

2. Draconian - Under a Godless Veil

3. Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow is Forced into the Light

Doom and related genres have always been my fave when it comes to metal, but I used to also listen to a lot of thrash and power metal. These days it's pretty much all stuff that is doom or goth-ish.