This is a mix of my personal favourite 60's and 70's hard rock/metal songs and the more influential ones, songs that I think every metal fan need to hear. A mix of the most well-known songs to totally obscure stuff. If you think I have missed some important song you can always suggest me.

1. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum

2. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

3. Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance

4. Gun - Gun

5. Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf

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1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Deep Purple - In Rock

3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4. The Doors - Morrison Hotel

5. Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You

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My version of The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes) only this time it's more The Epics (Songs Over 10 Minutes) because we kept griping to PG and he wouldn't update his list. According to his profile he hasn't been on in... 371 days. So I thought "Hey, why not do it myself?"
Arranged by time. If you feel or know a song should be on here, let me know. I'm a mainstream fag, so I only listen to the popular stuff. I might have missed some bands.

1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader

4. Nile - Ithyphallic

5. Nightwish - Once

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Only studio albums ordered by release year.

1. The Doors - The Doors

2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

3. The Doors - Strange Days

4. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum

5. Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple

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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. Deep Purple - Machine Head

2. Deep Purple - In Rock

3. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

4. Deep Purple - Fireball

5. Deep Purple - Deep Purple

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The best ballads in the history of Metal. Of course, all these bands and other bands have really good ballads but this list shows the very best, handpicked by me. In alphabetical order by bands name to make the list less chaotic and not by order of preference.

1. Accept - Eat The Heat

2. Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3. Adagio - Underworld

4. Aerosmith - Aerosmith

5. Allen/Lande - The Battle

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As a long time guitarist, i have a passion to learn and play guitar riffs and solos and these ones are an ultimate guide for guitar playing. Some solos are just more memorable than others and the following are the most well craftted solos i have heard till now.

1. Scorpions - Love At First Sting

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Symphony X - The Odyssey

4. Savatage - Edge Of Thorns

5. Stratovarius - Visions

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work in progress!!!

1. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2. Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin

3. Lord Agheros - As A Sin

4. Swallow The Sun - Hope

5. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

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1. Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4. Novembre - Arte Novecento

5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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My favourite Hard Rock Albums

1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

2. Scorpions - Love at first Sting

3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4. AC/DC - Back In Black

5. Alice Cooper - Killer

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Limited to one album per band and only those featured on Metal Storm.
I feel these albums demonstrate certain qualities that can be of enjoyment to someone who is interested in avantgarde, experimental, extreme, fusion, jazz, post rock, and technical forms of metal.

1. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

2. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

3. Rush - Moving Pictures

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

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