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Mixed Discography Ranking - Maiden, Priest, And Sabbath

This is the most unquestionably difficult ranking I could undertake. The # of albums I consider borderline flawless from each of these bands is ridiculous. Over a dozen albums from these 3 bands have legitimate arguments to be considered the greatest traditional heavy metal album of all time.

I have a few rankings that are likely hot takes here
** Yes, I like Dance of Death more than most folks. Title track and Paschendale are both top 10 Maiden songs, and Montsegur is only a small step behind that. Those 3 songs are better than anything on Brave New World to me, but the rest of BNW is better and higher quality.
** Yes I kinda like Turbo. It's silly but it's fun and the guitar work and Rob's vocals are absolutely stellar. That kinda sucks about Ram It Down, it's got some of Priests' best lead guitar work and I don't think Rob ever sounded better, but dear lord, some of those songs...
As for the top 6 albums here, honestly put them in whatever order you want. They're that close to me and mood depending it could change

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Judas Priest - Painkiller
3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4.Black Sabbath - Sabotage
5.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

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Created by sgtrobo on 09.04.2023



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



Black Sabbath Album Rankings

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Black Sabbath - Sabotage
3.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
4.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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Created by sgtrobo on 18.11.2022



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Black Sabbath Ranked

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
3.Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 05.08.2022



TOP 50 POWER/HEAVY/Hardrock 1980-1989

1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
4.Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
5.Michael Schenker Group - M.S.G.

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Created by jeffster69 on 12.05.2022



Black Sabbath Best To Worst

1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
4.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4
5.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 02.11.2021



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Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1983

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies (Punk/Thrash)

Non-Metal mentions:
The Exploited - Let's Start A War...Said Maggie One Day (Punk)

1.Dio - Holy Diver
2.Accept - Balls To The Wall
3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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Created by blackwreath13 on 13.07.2021



Black Sabbath Albums Ranked

Black Sabbath albums from best to worst. VERY difficult list to make and I've been changing places on the albums pretty much every time i've opened the list. But this will do for now

1.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol
4.Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
5.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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Created by majormalfunction on 21.04.2021



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Top Favourite Heavy Metal Albums

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
5.Motörhead - Inferno

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Created by blackwreath13 on 06.03.2021



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Black Sabbath Albums - Best To Worst

1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
4.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 01.05.2019



Black Sabbath! Best To Worst.

My personal rankings of all of Black Sabbath's studio albums. I've included Heaven and Hell's 'The Devil You Know' in this list, because in my opinion it is a Sabbath album.

1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
4.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
5.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

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Created by Demonmayonnaise on 20.05.2016



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Old-school Metal: The Must-haves

The must-have albums of old school heavy metal. Includes genres like Traditional, NWOBHM, U.S.P.M., Speed, Epic, Doom, and prog.

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
2.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4.Crimson Glory - Transcendence
5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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Created by Jagermeister on 07.03.2015



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Brimbly-Brambly Bucka-Bucka Woozle-Wuzzle It's A Doom List.

This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.

The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid, Watching From A Distance, and Черно at present holding a perfect 10. This list does have a cutoff point, stretching from those 10s through some high 9s and all the way down to middling 6s. If I rated it below a 6, it does not appear on this list, and that's because I disliked the album.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Warning - Watching From A Distance
3.Kypck - Черно
4.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light
5.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 24.01.2015



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TOP ALBUMS OF 1983

1.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
2.Dio - Holy Diver
3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
4.Accept - Balls To The Wall
5.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

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Created by achil on 13.06.2014



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Top 20: My Favourite 'bad' Albums

List of albums that are often considered to be 'bad' (or at least not that good) however I can't agree with that opinions. This list also could be entitled: the most underrated albums of popular bands.

1. Alphabetic order
2. Only albums with rating less than 8

1.1349 - Revelations Of The Black Flame
2.Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
3.Black Sabbath - Born Again
4.Burzum - Hliðskjálf
5.Burzum - Belus

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Created by Hex_Omega on 06.01.2014