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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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Best Debuts Of All Time

The best debut records of all time by year…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2.KISS - Kiss
3.Rush - Rush
4.AC/DC - High Voltage
5.Motörhead - Motörhead

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Created by Blackcrowe on 10.03.2023



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Top 50 Of 1990-1994

1.Metallica - Metallica
2.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II
3.Judas Priest - Painkiller
4.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
5.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 28.08.2022



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1993

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1993 was a great year for metal second wave black metal stars to kick in, and a great year for both death and gothic metal. 93 also saw the release of one of the most iconic power metal albums and anthems

1.Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
2.Death - Individual Thought Patterns
3.Angra - Angels Cry
4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
5.Depressive Age - Lying In Wait

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Created by Handala on 12.07.2022



Angra Best To Worst

1.Angra - Holy Land
2.Angra - Rebirth
3.Angra - Fireworks
4.Angra - Temple Of Shadows
5.Angra - Angels Cry

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 22.06.2022



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A Chronology Of Masterpieces

What seems the most important albums for me in chronological order.
I wish I could carry the list year after year to see how my tastes changed and new findings.
I can help but notice that old albums immediately strike me, while in recent times most albums are good but nothing is groundbreaking. We have a tide of releases in the last decades, and standing above the other requires an impossible lot of talent.
Or is it my listen habbits that changed ? I felts I listened to the old albums albums for a lifetime while I'm only surface checking the new ones. Too little time, too little time to truly live...
Also the mixing technology, the sound is too flat nowadays and lack impact and personnality

1.Frank Zappa - Freak Out
2.The Who - Tommy
3.Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat
4.Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
5.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

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Created by Ansercanagicus on 16.02.2022



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Top 20 Of 1993

Must Listen: The First 9

1.Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine I
2.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
3.Paradise Lost - Icon
4.Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance
5.Angra - Angels Cry

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 01.05.2021



25 Personal Favorite Prog

1.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
2.Threshold - Hypothetical
3.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
4.Opeth - Still Life
5.Cynic - Traced In Air

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Created by Alce on 30.07.2020



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Empowering Albums For Powerless Losers

This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on what power metal is or is not. The list exists purely for my own organizational purposes and may contain bands or albums that are not strictly True Knights of the Eternal Thundersword.

The first cluster includes my favorite albums in the genre (and a significant number of my all-time favorites); beyond that, they are listed by rating from 9/10 down to 6/10 and alphabetically within each bracket.

Last updated November 27, 2021.

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
4.Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne
5.X Japan - Art Of Life

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 19.09.2019



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Club: Technical/progressive Music That Ain't Over The Top Wankery

this list is related to this forum thread, please check
this list is a collaborative one and will surely grow ; it is a proof of concept for a club feature, see here.

Hi people. I'd like to create a list of albums with the purpose of being as complete as possible. I'm looking for music that is technical or progressive, although I really don't like when things get out of hand, with crazy vocals in 4 different registers building tension and brutally stoping to yield it to a shredding solo in mixolydian helped by drums in 11/12 which try to imitate the synth syncopation in counterpoint, for ten seconds before jumping into something else.

1.Angra - Angels Cry
2.Angra - Holy Land
3.Angra - Fireworks
4.Angra - Rebirth
5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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Created by Ansercanagicus on 14.03.2019



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Mighty Heavy Metal Albums

Some time ago I made a list for heavy metal albums I enjoyed the most. I got it cleaned up after ripening my tastes.I also tried to organize the list a bit, in subcategories. There is one album per band (choices were hard sometimes), with no strict order, but my favorite albums are usualy on top.

2020 EDIT:
I like heavy metal with atmoshpere, with melody, and ideally it should be some kind of gate to a fantastic universe. I don't care about modern HM with a shiny production and simplistic riffs. I don't care obscure occult band with horrendous prod and no musical ideas. Here's the list of what I consider classics of the genre, pinnacle of dreamy, groovy, beautiful and well composed oldschool heavy metal

1.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
2.
3.Angra - Angels Cry
4.
5.Fates Warning - No Exit

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Created by Ansercanagicus on 15.11.2017



TOP ALBUMS OF 1993

1.Death - Individual Thought Patterns
2.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
3.Annihilator - Set The World On Fire
4.Conception - Parallel Minds
5.Angra - Angels Cry

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Created by achil on 13.12.2016



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My Favourite Albums Of All Time

One album per band/artist, in order.

1.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
2.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3.An Axis Of Perdition - The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques)
4.Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
5.Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye

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Created by Death_95 on 10.03.2016



Top 15 Heavy Metal Albums Of 1993

One of the worst year in history of heavy metal music.

1.Rage - The Missing Link
2.Reactor - Revelation
3.Grave Digger - The Reaper
4.Winters Bane - Heart Of A Killer
5.Motörhead - Bastards

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 27.03.2014



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Rock & Metal Ballads Collection

Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall
2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations
3.Accept - Eat The Heat
4.Adagio - Underworld
5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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Created by Alpha on 27.09.2013