Power Metal has the whole pack. Listening to one album of Power Metal you can feel free , relaxed , happy , sad , and so many more states of mind. If you put it all together listening to Power Metal makes you human. (I only used English language albums and I know some of the albums are not completely Power Metal but all of them have some Power Metal elements . If I could I would have added more albums but my head is spinning right now). So Power up everybody!!!

1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

2. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

3. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

4. Riot - ThunderSteel

5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free

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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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A list for power metal bands and albums, which are sadly overlooked by the majority, but are highly deserving much more attention. That means obviously that this is no place for the genres biggest and most well known acts, like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Sabaton or the likes.
This list is ever progressing, so feel free to suggest as many bands as they come up in your mind. I will check them out and then decide if they need to be included or not.
The only requirements: They should be quite well hidden in the metal world and not only be extraordinary good but also really something else (I obviously don't want to fill this list with a bunch of unknown, but average, generic and thousand times copied plastic power metal bands).
This list is ordered by my personal impressions.

1. Crom - Vengeance

2. Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet

3. Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

4. Dol Ammad - Ocean Dynamics

5. Eldritch - El Niño

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These are my favorite 20 Progressive/Symphonic/Neo-Classical Power Metal albums

1. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

2. Adagio - Underworld

3. Symphony X - The Odyssey

4. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

5. To-Mera - Delusions

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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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My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more music thanks to this site, hence the number of '09 releases featured. I'm slowly starting to pick back through the top lists of previous years, so I expect more pre-'09 releases will be added to this list.

1. Machine Head - The Blackening

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. Adagio - Underworld

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50 of my favorite heavy metal albums of all time. The first 10 or 20 are pretty much accurate to being in order... The rest are in no order.

1. Judas Priest - Painkiller

2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

3. Sabaton - The Art of War

4. Avantasia - The Scarecrow

5. Stratovarius - Elysium

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Progressive (and anything progressed) albums I'd like to take with me to the underground. I'm 25 years old and 8 "metal years old" when this list is created.
In not any particular order, and to be continued : ))

1. Dream Theater - Images And Words

2. Adagio - Underworld

3. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

4. Symphony X - The Odyssey

5. Adagio - Sanctus Ignis

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My personal top-list, limited to one album per band. I only add albums that I own physical copies of.

1. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2. Pan.thy.monium - Khaooos & Kon-Fus-Ion

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5. Wintersun - Wintersun

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1. Adagio - Underworld

2. Evergrey - Recreation Day

3. Twilightning - Delirium Veil

4. Anathema - A Natural Disaster

5. Gojira - The Link

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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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1. Adagio - Underworld

2. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

3. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4. Dream Theater - Images And Words

5. Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance

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If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me

1. Adagio - Underworld

2. Aerosmith - Aerosmith

3. After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4. After Forever - Decipher

5. After Forever - After Forever

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