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It's like a ranking of my music history... Not counting any of my most recent discoveries. Started with Sabbath, began listening to Rammstein and later Summoning.

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Yeah, that's basically the way my list went, as well. I grew up in California during the early/mid 80's, so it's not exactly surprising my life-long love of metal began with classic thrash bands like Exodus, Testament, and Slayer (a band that has profoundly influenced my own music - I'm not ashamed to admit I'm still a devoted fan). From there I discovered several European thrash acts (Kreator, Destruction, Sodom) and the first wave of black metal (VON, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost). A short time later, Norwegian and Swedish black metal reared their corpsepainted heads, and my fate was forever sealed. I often wish I could revisit the late 80's/early 90's...it was such an exciting period of time to be a metal fan.

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Drudkh- Autumn Aurora

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That's one of my runners-up. The Swan Road and Blood In Our Wells are both excellent, but Forgotten Legends and Autumn Aurora are my faves by this excellent Ukrainian band.

I think it was darkspirit that mentioned Nokturnal Mortum's NeChrist, another favorite of mine. The title track on that album is nothing short of incredible. Their newer stuff, despite some poor reviews, is nearly as good, IMO.

It's interesting that everyone seems to be choosing Storm of the Light's Bane as the better Dissection album (I've always preferred The Somberlain).

myrrys, most of the metal freaks I'm in contact with (and an awful lot of reviewers here in the US) seem to think Nokturnal Mortum have been going downhill since Lunar Poetry. And when Varggoth slowed things down and tried his hand at clean singing on The Taste of Victory EP (which has the best version of "The Taste of Victory", IMO - he actually has a really good voice) and Weltanschauung, they completely wrote NM off as a "Graveland clone", which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Apparently, all mid-tempo bands are Graveland clones now. The ironic thing is that Weltanschauung is the closest in spirit and composition to Lunar Poetry, yet they claim the former is sh.it and the latter is brilliant. What's the difference?

Yeah, Goat Horns is awesome, but I actually prefer the harsher and more ambitious NeChrist. The use of actual folk instruments (which are incorporated brilliantly into some seriously aggressive songs) takes that album to a whole other level of greatness.

Other runners-up:

Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Possessed - Seven Churches

I wouldn't say I hate Nargaroth (even though it has the most retarded title I've ever heard, "Erik, May You Rape the Angels" is an AWESOME song, as is the Amarok trilogy), it's just his goofy attitude that gets on my nerves. There are better German BM bands (Moonblood, Luror, Desaster, Lunar Aurora), but metal fans can do a lot worse than 'ol Kanwulf, I suppose.