While 1987 woke me up to metal and I hoovered up the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica and Helloween’s keepers, 1988 was my metal heyday and a year that produced albums that would still dominiate my top 20 list today. Lots of power metal and plenty of Noise Records!

1.Manowar - Kings Of Metal

2.Scanner - Hypertrace

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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

Man this list was a rough one, but in a good way 1988 is one of the best years in metal history and a lot of great release came out that year, cutting it down to just 20 was tough and ranking them was even harder.

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

5.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

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

Honourable mentions:
Crimson Glory - Transcendence (Power/Prog)
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What? (Thrash)
Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum (Death/Thrash)
Manowar - Kings Of Metal (Power)
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster (Thrash)
Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries (Doom)

1.Death - Leprosy

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

5.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

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1.Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands

2.Solitude Aeturnus - Alone

3.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

4.Dominion - Threshold - A Retrospective

5.Trouble - Psalm 9

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Manowar - Kings Of Metal

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

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Yes, I know, Black Sabbath... But they was completely before their time.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

3.Trouble - Psalm 9

4.Candlemass - Nightfall

5.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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1.Death - Leprosy

2.Coroner - Punishment For Decadence

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5.Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey

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1.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Slayer - South Of Heaven

4.Razor - Violent Restitution

5.Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death

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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.

Given how much music I listen to and how many lists I have going concurrently, I don't update this as I go; I let albums accumulate for a while and then do periodic overhauls, so the list won't change for months at a time.

Last updated October 17, 2021.

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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1.Slayer - South Of Heaven

2.Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss

3.Death - Leprosy

4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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1.Warning - Watching From A Distance

2.Aquilus - Griseus

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Candlemass - Nightfall

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1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

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1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Death - Leprosy

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

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1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

4.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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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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