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Metal Rasputin's Absolute Favorite Albums Of All Time

Updated 14.4.2024

My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but they're all great and awesome records no matter what. If there are some great records missing, that doesn't necessarily mean I consider them bad, maybe I just forgot about them or just haven't listened to them enough to consider them personal favourites.

Limited to metal and rock albums found on Metal Storm. Most of them (at least 90%) are anyway, so doesn't matter. The absent ones are mostly more pop and synth oriented stuff and some really obscure jazz and fusion albums.

1.Marillion - Marbles
2.Anathema - Weather Systems
3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
4.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
5.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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Created by Metal Rasputin on 15.02.2020



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Album & Artist Impressions (Part 1)

A list of albums I listen to and rated with a small commentary. This list is not meant to have an order, or a best-to-worst classification.

Links to connected lists:

Album & Artist Impressions (Part 2)

Rating:

10 - Timeless classic
9 - Masterpiece
8 - Excellent
7 - Solid
6 - Uneven
5 - Tainted by tone-deafness

1.Igorrr - Hallelujah
2.Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad
3.Cro-Mags - Revenge
4.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
5.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

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Created by TarannonFalastur on 25.10.2019



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Best Album Of Each Year

Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
3.Deep Purple - Machine Head
4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
5.Queen - Queen II

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Created by Ganondox on 17.10.2019



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My Favourite Drummers And The Songs That Made Me Love Them

A list of my favourite drummers in rough order (not precise) along with the songs that made me love them. I added the albums too

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
4.Mastodon - Blood Mountain
5.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

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Created by Artorix Carlsson on 23.11.2018



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Top 500 Albums of All Time

I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life.

Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens inspired me to pick up the guitar (and later drums) and start making music of my own.

So here are the albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the album give it an advantage over others.

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here. There are a ton of albums that I've rated 9/10 in the 'TBR' tab that may never make it to this list, be sure to check those out.)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 25 EPs (ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

Genre-Specific:
Top 50 Black Metal Albums
Top 50 Melodic Death Metal Albums
Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums
Top 40 Power Metal Albums
Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Top 30 Heavy Metal Albums

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Opeth - Still Life

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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



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Trophy Goats 1997

1.Strapping Young Lad - City
2.October Tide - Rain Without End
3.Helmet - Aftertaste
4.Dawnbringer - Unbleed
5.Deströyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves

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Created by floatingoatgryff on 03.09.2018



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Thrash Til Death!

Just a list of classic thrash albums I really enjoy, since thrash has had such a good year this year. They are in no particular order.

1.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
2.Anthrax - Among The Living
3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
4.Artillery - By Inheritance
5.Assassin - The Upcoming Terror

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Created by mute30rp on 26.10.2016



My Favorite 100 Metal Albums Of All Time

AtoZ (Album)

1.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
2.Ihsahn - After
3.Anthrax - Among The Living
4.Faith No More - Angel Dust
5.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

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Created by D.C.O on 08.09.2015



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100 Greatest Metal Bands

Pretty self-explanatory, with a couple caveats: first, this is mostly just a list of my favorite metal bands in approximate order (after the top 10 or so the order matters far less), with extra weight given to influence and timelessness of sound; and second, the albums selected are not necessarily the band's "best" album, or even my personal favorite -- they are the albums that I feel best represent the band's classic sound and/or well-represent the span of their career. List includes all sub-genres of metal and some post-metal metal. Feel free to spew your hatred below. \m/ (xx) \m/

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Created by saw_you_drown on 03.06.2015



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Best Metal Vocalists

*** /\ UNDER CONSTRUCTION /\ *** READ ME *** List of the best metal vocalists across all subgenres. The album that best exhibits their vocals will represent them -- not necessarily the best album they appear on. I will limit myself to the very top of each sungenre (i.e. death, black, doom, etc.) for variety's sake. Also -- AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT -- I consider several criteria, not just raw talent. Some of the criteria are vocal range, versatility, command of voice, fit/compatibility with band, feeling/emotion/energy and originality. Feel free to bitch and moan below. \m/

1.King Diamond - Abigail
2.Judas Priest - Painkiller
3.Savatage - Gutter Ballet
4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5.Queensrÿche - Empire

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Created by saw_you_drown on 20.04.2015



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Industrial Metal Classic Albums TOP 40

1.Strapping Young Lad - City
2.Godflesh - Streetcleaner
3.PERPETUA - Irrational
4.DEAD WORLD - Collusion
5.Swans - Cop

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Created by Alexbridger on 19.10.2014



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The Ultimate Industrial Metal Albums

Metal albums of all things techy, futuristic, distorted, synthetic and artificial of the industrial nature.
Includes some single tracks and full albums from YouTube.
Recommendations/suggestions are welcome and one album per band.

1.2 Times Terror - Equals One Sudden Death
2....And Oceans - Allotropic/Metamorphic Genesis Of Dismorphism (A.M.G.O.D.)
3.Aborym - With No Human Intervention
4.Atrophia Red Sun - Twisted Logic
5.Black Comedy - Instigator

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Created by CyberSymphony on 13.07.2014



My Favorite Albums

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Slayer - Reign In Blood
3.Death - Symbolic
4.Opeth - Blackwater Park
5.Carcass - Heartwork

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Created by Guile on 28.09.2013



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My Top 50 Thrash Metal Album Of All Time

Here is my personnal top 50 Thrash Metal album of all time, order by my preference. (even if it's really hard to order after the top 20 )
Feel free to suggest me some I've forgot to mention, there's so much excellent band and I should have not listen to all of them ! ^^
In my opinion, the best style to see live !!

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Slayer - Reign In Blood
4.Vektor - Black Future
5.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

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Created by moXmo on 06.07.2013



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What Sophomore Slump?

A list of quality sophomore releases.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Alice In Chains - Dirt
3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth
5.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

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Created by Nosurper on 09.05.2013