1. Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

2. Metallica - Metallica

3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4. Judas Priest - Painkiller

5. Annihilator - Set The World On Fire

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Long hair, tight jeans, tons of chicks. Thrash metal at it's finest.

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Slayer - Reign In Blood

4. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5. Artillery - By Inheritance

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And they said the germans don't have nice metal music...

1. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

2. Kreator - Extreme Agression

3. Kreator - Coma of Souls

4. Kreator - Enemy of God

5. Kreator - Violent Revolution

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Just for my favorite
2012.11.25 update

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3. Testament - The Legacy

4. Anthrax - Among The Living

5. Sacred Reich - The American Way

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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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Well, the title says it all...

1. Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciousness

2. In Flames - The Jester Race

3. Dream Theater - Images And Words

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. In Flames - Whoracle

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

3. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

4. Annihilator - Never, Neverland

5. Kreator - Coma Of Souls

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Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.

This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one album per band, unless there's been a drastic style shift (like Katatonia's).
2) I try to cover all major subgenres fairly, so I have something for everyone. It counterbalances the tendency to list all the cool bands in a style I'm into right now (like drone or epic doom).

1. Warning - Watching From a Distance

2. Candlemass - Nightfall

3. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

4. Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy

5. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

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1. Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2. Kreator - Extreme Aggression

3. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

4. Kreator - Enemy Of God

5. Kreator - Terrible Certainty

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1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Asphyx - The Rack

5. Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

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A list of 90s albums I enjoyed throughout the decade, some I discovered later.

1. Marillion - Brave

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Marillion - Holidays In Eden

4. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray

5. Rush - Test For Echo

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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. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

4. Coroner - Grin

5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

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Limited to one album for each band.

1. Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2. Vader - Litany

3. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

4. Apocalyptica - Reflections

5. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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