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Best Shit I've Heard, No Particular Order

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Obituary - Cause Of Death
3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4.Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
5.Venom - Black Metal

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Created by rado on 07.03.2024



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Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums

Thrash was one of the first metal genres I got into around 2005. I discovered Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc through Kerrang! magazine and their albums quickly became my favourites at the time. Now, I've discovered many more such as Vektor, Testament and Nevermore thanks to MS.

So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of thrash metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Created by nonZero on 04.03.2024



My Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal Albums

My Top 30 Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal albums in alphabetical band order

1.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
2.Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
3.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
4.Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow
5.Artillery - By Inheritance

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Created by toastb on 26.12.2023



50 80s Albums That Shaped A Young Metalhead (no Order )

1.Metal Church - Metal Church
2.Crimson Glory - Transcendence
3.Slayer - Show No Mercy
4.Viva - What The Hell Is Going On
5.Satan - Court In The Act

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Created by Samarithan on 18.11.2023



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Great Bass Songs Top 50+

Great Songs on the 4 Strings, Classic songs… Remember from the rehearsal of your band, when the guy on the bass start to move the fingers on that song? Well this is a tribute to that moment and a tribute to those genius of the 4 strings.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2.Tool - Lateralus
3.Rush - Moving Pictures
4.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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Created by Blackcrowe on 15.06.2023



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THE METAL BIBLE Part II: The 80s

Welcome to what I consider the "1980s Metal Bible" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. In this second part we conquer the mighty decade that many deem as the classic decade of Metal. This and the other parts of this journey through the decades may be a very overwhelming list. I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat
2.Krokus - Metal Rendez-Vous
3.Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire
4.Witchfynde - Give 'Em Hell
5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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Created by pandrstudios on 02.06.2023



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1984 My Top 20 Albums

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
4.Warlord - And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun...
5.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

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Created by geraki63 on 31.05.2023



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Favourites

1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
2.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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Created by suryanshkalia on 19.05.2023



My Top 100 Best Metal Albums Of All Time (Unfinished)

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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Created by Alban JP on 24.04.2023



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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the genre. Yet, I have barely heard half of what the top 200 has to offer. I am now on a quest to listen to it all and give an honest opinion on what I thought of it.
This list will show every album of the top 200 and if I've listened to it whether it's an all-time favourite of mine (+++), I really like it (++), I like it (+), it’s good (*), it’s not great (-), I really dislike it (--) or I hate it from the bottom of my heart (---). The same symbols will be used to characterize what I think my opinion of the albums I haven't heard yet will be, based on my knowledge of the bands and of the genre they play. (?) signifies that I have no idea of whether I'll enjoy it or not and (/) means that my opinion of the album is probably obsolete, and I need to listen to it again. A ★ means the album is in my own top 200.
Edit: The bottom of the top 200 has been changing a lot, with some stuff formerly in the list now closer to 240th, so this is now a top 250. I’m not sure I want to expand the list further down, but I’ll see whenever it’s completed if I feel like going for a top 300 or something like that.
Best discoveries so far: Wildhoney, Nightfall, Out Of Myself, Portal Of I, Autumn Aurora, Nemesis Divina, Abigail, V: Hävitetty, Sounds Of Pain.

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Roman Doez on 13.04.2023



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Thrash

1.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
2.Slayer - Show No Mercy
3.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.Voivod - War And Pain

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Created by suryanshkalia on 30.03.2023



My Top 50 Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:

1.Stratovarius - Episode
2.Angra - Angels Cry
3.Helloween - Better Than Raw
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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Created by stratogustav on 18.03.2023



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Metal Songs And Albums That Inspired The Names Of Other Bands

This is an alphabetical list of metal songs and albums that inspired the names of other artists.

Please feel free to suggest more examples.



1.Amebix - No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings
2.Anathema - Alternative 4
3.Arch Enemy - Black Earth
4.Architects - Ruin
5.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

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Created by Plattner on 10.03.2023



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Ranking The Big 4 Discographies

my ranking of the Big 4s Full-Length albums
Near the bottom , the rankings get a bit more 'interchangeable' because I can't be bothered to specifically discern the difference between turd flavors

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

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Created by sgtrobo on 05.03.2023



InstruMEnTAL Metal Songs

This is an alphabetical list dedicated for the celebration of great instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups like Apocalyptica, songs that have a significant part with spoken words / human voices or instrumental versions of vocal songs or other bonus material.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite songs for this list !



1.Accept - Objection Overruled
2.Anathema - Judgement
3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal
4.Arch Enemy - Will To Power
5.As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

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Created by Plattner on 28.01.2023