Hi my fellow stormers, I decided I'd create a list of albums that I enjoy alot, that I think metalheads should never miss. Each album down there influenced me one way or another and in my opinion, they're all masterpieces. Of course you might not agree with me, its okay, feel free to post comment but keep in mind that I won't take suggestions. You wanna give me suggestions fine but not for this list lol.

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

3. Baroness - Blue Record

4. Quo Vadis - Day Into Night

5. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying

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I will try to be as subjective as I can and it won't include only my favorite genres as I will try to include albums from all Metal sub-genres because I think it's important to get exposed to all kinds of metal so that a person may create a good taste in Metal music. (Might include more than 1 album per band).

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

2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3. Deep Purple - Machine Head

4. Judas Priest - Stained Class

5. Scorpions - Taken By Force

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1. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

2. Devildriver - The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand

3. Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer

4. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

5. Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache

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A cross selection of Thrash, Old School, Progressive, Power and Hair Metal.

1. Five Finger Death Punch - The Way Of The Fist

2. Overkill - The Years Of Decay

3. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

4. AC/DC - Back In Black

5. Crimson Glory - Transcendence

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Damn, just realized it's changing weekly

1. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

2. Rainbow - Rising

3. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

4. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

5. Ark - Burn The Sun

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Because I'd sooner spend an hour-and-a-half with Pokemon than a mindless action movie. I know you know what I'm talkin' about. ...No, not that. Honestly - some people...

(Seriously though, happy 67th birthday + 6+7 days to Neil Young. Hope I see you next year )

1. Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

2. Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown

3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps with Angels

4. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera

5. Immolation - Providence

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1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2. Wintersun - Wintersun

3. Machine Head - The Blackening

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

5. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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1. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

2. The Gathering - Always...

3. Paradise Lost - Shades Of God

4. Alice In Chains - Dirt

5. Faith No More - Angel Dust

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A majority of these albums I have listened to more recently than 2 years
And about 2 of these albums I have not listened to in their entirety but many of their songs blew me away.

1. Atheist - Elements

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Carcass - Heartwork

4. Death - Human

5. Death - Symbolic

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Energetically performance

1. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2. Metal Church - Metal Church

3. Holy Terror - Mind Wars

4. Nuclear Assault - Game Over

5. Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise

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This is a list of my first ever purchased metal albums. I was born in 1982 and started my metal collection in 1994/95.. Anyway thought I'd share

1. Manowar - The Triumph Of Steel

2. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon

5. Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath

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I started listening to metal since when I was a middle schooler. The 10 albums shown on the list were the albums which hooked me up with the Metal spirits. I think of them all classics.

1. Judas Priest - Painkiller

2. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3. Dream Theater - Images And Words

4. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

5. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider to be important in Metal history in general (though many of them assuredly would be considered so).

What this list is:
I started thinking about why I listen to Metal, and why I listen to certain bands and not others. And how my tastes have changed enormously in the approx 15 years I've been, as one might say, a Metalhead. I thought it would be interesting to look over my collection and pick out those albums I consider to be landmarks in my listening career and write a little bit about why each is significant to me.

1. Anathema - Judgement

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Def Leppard - Hysteria

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Influences, avantgarde, progressive, thrash & others.

1. Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3. Toxik - Think This

4. Coroner - No More Color

5. Danny Elfman - Batman

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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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