Favorite album per genre..

Heavy Metal: Adramelch - Irae Melanox
Doom Metal: Warning - Watching from a Distance
US Power Metal: Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction
EU Power Metal: Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath
Speed Metal: Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
Black Metal: Flames of Hell - Fire and Steel
Melodic Black Metal: Dawn - Slaughtersun
Death Metal: The Chasm discography
Melodic Death Metal: Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon
Thrash Metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Progressive Metal: Voivod - Post Society
Stoner Metal: Ancestors - Of Sound Mind

 

Heavy Metal: Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Death Metal: Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Thrash Metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Doom Metal: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

 

i don't really like all the lame modern genre stratification, but just to make this more interesting i'll use RYM's sub-genres plus maybe a few of my own. definitely straining to fit certain albums in when they fit better elsewhere, don't @ me.

alternative metal: katatonia - tonight’s decision
nu metal: system of a down - toxicity
industrial metal: rammstein - mutter

avant-garde metal: ved buens ende - written in waters

(traditional) black metal: mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas
atmospheric black metal: burzum - hvis lyset tar oss
melodic black metal: sacramentum - far away from the sun
pagan black metal: graveland - thousand swords
symphonic black metal: summoning - dol guldur
war metal: axis of advance - strike
raw black metal: wolfnacht - heidentum
folk metal: nokturnal mortum - voice of steel
orthodox black metal: deathspell omega - si monvmentvm reqviris circvmspice

death metal: the chasm - deathcult for eternity: the triumph
brutal death metal: suffocation - effigy of the forgotten
melodic death metal: at the gates - with fear i kiss the burning darkness
technical death metal: atrocity - longing for death
death doom metal: fleshcrawl - descend into the absurd
deathgrind: kataklysm - sorcery
goregrind: carcass - symphonies of sickness
grindcore: terrorizer - world downfall (actually more deathgrind than the above but w/e it has grindcore primary on RYM)

doom metal: warning - watching from a distance
traditional doom metal: saint vitus - s/t
epic doom metal: candlemass - epicus doomicus metallicus
funeral doom metal: skepticism - stormcrowfleet
sludge metal: harvey milk - a small turn of human kindness
gothic metal: my dying bride - the angel and the dark river

heavy metal: cirith ungol - king of the dead
NWOBHM: satan - court in the act
power metal: dark moor - the hall of the olden dreams
USPM: jag panzer - ample destruction
prog power metal: fates warning - the spectre within
prog metal: adramelch - irae melanox
speed metal: helstar - nosferatu

thrash metal: slayer - hell awaits
technical thrash metal: voivod - killing technology
crossover thrash: carnivore - s/t

BONUS: EPs/demos
heavy metal: sortilege - s/t
prog/power metal: kingsbane - demo 1991
death metal: catacomb - in the maze of kadath
black metal: sodom - in the sign of evil
melodic black metal: trails of anguish - relentless abhorrence of misery's grievance
melodic death metal: cromlech - and darkness fell
thrash metal: destruction - sentence of death

 

Though I don't know if "best melodic black metal EP" is a heavily contested category, I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves this <3

 

Symphonic: Therion - Vovin
Gothic: Tiamat - Wildhoney
Power: Stratovarius - Infinite
Death: Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
Black: Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Folk: Agalloch - The Mantle
Prog: Dream Theater - Images and Words
Doom: Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Stoner: Cathedral - Endtyme
Industrial: Ministry - Animositisomina
Alternative: Alice in Chains - Dirt
Soundtrack: Quake 2

 

I think it's awesome too, but highly skeptical it can be called melodic.

 

Is this an actual genre on RYM now?

 

Props!

 

Heavy: Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny
Thrash: Megadeth- Rust in Peace
Power: Blind Guardian- Imaginations From the Other Side
Doom: My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans
Death: Cryptopsy- None So Vile
Black: Burzum- Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Gothic: Theatre of Tragedy- Velvet Darkness They Fear
Sludge: Neurosis- Through Silver in Blood
Progressive: Opeth- Morningrise
Folk: Agalloch- The Mantle
Symphonic: Nightwish- Oceanborn

 

using some of wainds genres, and a couple new ones

Alternative metal: Alice in Chains - Dirt
Black metal: Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Black/thrash: Sarcofago - I.N.R.I
Melodic black metal: Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Pagan black metal: Morrigan - Headcult
Symphonic black metal: Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Raw black metal: Absurd - Facta Loquuntur
War metal: Blasphemy - Gods of War
Folk metal: Falkenbach - ...En Their Medh Riki Fara...
Viking metal: Bathory - Hammerheart
Death metal: Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
Brutal death metal: Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Melodic death metal: Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Technical death metal: Demilich - Nespithe
Death doom metal: Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
Deathgrind: Terrorizer - World Downfall
Goregrind: Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Grindcore: Repulsion - Horrified
Doom metal: Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Funeral doom metal: Funeral - Tragedies
Gothic metal: Tiamat - Wildhoney
Heavy metal: Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
NWOBHM: Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Power metal: Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I
USPM: Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Prog power metal: Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Progressive metal: Voivod - Nothingface
Speed metal: Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Thrash metal: Razor - Evil Invaders
Technical thrash metal: Obliveon - From This Day Forward
Crossover thrash: Cro-Mags - Best Wishes

 

Same.

 

Avant-garde Metal: Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
Death Metal: Death - Leprosy
Doom Metal: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Atmospheric Doom Metal: The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth
Folk Metal: Midnattsol - Nordlys
Gothic Metal: The Gathering - Mandylion
Progressive Metal: Atrox - Terrestrials
Heavy/Power Metal (& more): Lovebites - Electric Pentagram
Progressive Power Metal: Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Requiring-A-Category-Of-Its-Own Metal: Fear of God - Within the Veil
Speed Metal: Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Symphonic Metal: Nightwish - Oceanborn
Thrash Metal: Détente - Recognize No Authority
Technical Thrash Metal: Watchtower - Concepts of Math: Book One

 

Thrash: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Progressive: Dream Theater - Images and Words
Extreme Progressive: Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Prog/Power: Symphony X - V
Neoclassical: Yngwie - Trilogy
Tech Thrash: Vektor - Black Future
Traditional: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Death: Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Stoner Doom: Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
Black/Folk: Windir - 1184
Black: Dissection - The Somberlain

 

Speed metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace

 

Tech Power/Thrash Metal: Protest The Hero - Scurrilous