Review listing

• My introduction to heavy metal
• Something quite unique
• Moments of brilliance but overall a bit flat
• Interesting couple of covers
• Opeth's definitive album
• One of black metal’s signature releases
• Highly ambitious folk metal classic
• The band's most overtly metal release to date
• Egyptian-tinged brutal death metal at its finest
• My favourite Devin Townsend album
• Prog metal without unnecessary bombast and pretense
• Prog metal with necessary bombast and pretense
• A wonderfully heavy and deep album
• One of those records that went under the radar