Just for my favorite
2012.11.25 update

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3. Testament - The Legacy

4. Anthrax - Among The Living

5. Sacred Reich - The American Way

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Megadeth's best to worst, in my opinion (obviously, but I feel it needs to be said anyway)

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

3. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

4. Megadeth - Endgame

5. Megadeth - The System Has Failed

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I picked one album by each of my favorite bands for this list. Keep in mind that after the first few albums I put on the list, it became increasingly difficult to figure out where to place artists in my list. Also, this is kind of how my favorite bands lie now, as far as how often I listen to them - whereas some of these bands used to be much more frequently played, years ago. But this is, more or less, a list of my favorite albums by my favorite bands.

1. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape

3. Symphony X - The Odyssey

4. Circus Maximus - Nine

5. Haken - Visions

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1. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

2. The Gathering - Always...

3. Paradise Lost - Shades Of God

4. Alice In Chains - Dirt

5. Faith No More - Angel Dust

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A majority of these albums I have listened to more recently than 2 years
And about 2 of these albums I have not listened to in their entirety but many of their songs blew me away.

1. Atheist - Elements

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Carcass - Heartwork

4. Death - Human

5. Death - Symbolic

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This is buy or die stuff (in no particular order), the epitome of pure awesomeness!

1. Windir - Arntor

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Cor Scorpii - Monument

4. Judas Priest - Painkiller

5. Summoning - Dol Guldur

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Kinda saw another relative lists on here that state this, one bad and one inspirational, so thought I might do my own.

Alphabetic order. And don't ask why a lot of Testament stuff is there, if their albums hadn't had so much impact, Testa wouldn't be my favorite band.

1. AC/DC - Back In Black

2. Accept - Stalingrad

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

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I have to admit that if I've listened to it for long enough and associated it with events in my lie, I am not going to be able to rate it objectively. I know they have some flaws, but I love 'em and I just can't be bothered by a few minor issues.

1. Danzig - Danzig 4

2. Monster Magnet - Superjudge

3. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

4. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5. Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And To Suck Eggs

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OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider to be important in Metal history in general (though many of them assuredly would be considered so).

What this list is:
I started thinking about why I listen to Metal, and why I listen to certain bands and not others. And how my tastes have changed enormously in the approx 15 years I've been, as one might say, a Metalhead. I thought it would be interesting to look over my collection and pick out those albums I consider to be landmarks in my listening career and write a little bit about why each is significant to me.

1. Anathema - Judgement

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Def Leppard - Hysteria

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Historical value

4. Performance

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Deep Purple - In Rock

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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1. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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1. Dream Theater - Images And Words

2. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

3. AC/DC - Live

4. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

5. Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

4. Coroner - Grin

5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

3. Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

4. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

5. Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

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