Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However, there are examples of songs that have a central link to the album title without sharing the same name. In these cases, certain lyrics from the song were chosen as the album title.

This (alphabetical) list shows the names of these “hidden title tracks” and the central lyrics that gave the name to the corresponding album.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.

1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

2.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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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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Yet another one of my lists for no reason other than I feel like it

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Amorphis - Am Universum

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This is the year I basically started listening to music so I was torn between stuff I am somewhat loyal to because it was my gateway and the kind of stuff I listen to now from that year. I genuinely think this was one of the best years ever for Metal.

Congrats to Destruction who have gotten honourable mentions before but never actually made it onto the list until now.

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.System Of A Down - Toxicity

3.Sodom - M-16

4.Destruction - The Antichrist

5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

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Constantly evolving list of my favorite metal albums from the 2000s

1.Trivium - Shogun

2.Opeth - Watershed

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Deftones - White Pony

5.Trivium - Ascendancy

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Erm... sorry Dave... >.>

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

4.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

5.Sodom - M-16

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3.Slayer - South Of Heaven

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Slayer - Hell Awaits

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - Hell Awaits

3.Slayer - South Of Heaven

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal and other occasional outliers into this list, maybe a few not-so-thrash albums by otherwise-thrash bands, since they're close enough and I wasn't going to make a separate list.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3.Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety

4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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My personal rankings of Slayer's studio albums.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3.Slayer - South Of Heaven

4.Slayer - Christ Illusion

5.Slayer - Hell Awaits

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1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

4.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

5.Fear Factory - Digimortal

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1.Slayer - Hell Awaits

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Slayer - Show No Mercy

4.Slayer - South Of Heaven

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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Just a quick list for 2001, no order

1.Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

2.Radiohead - Amnesiac

3.Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away [EP]

4.The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

5.Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass

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