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Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums Of The 1970's In chronological order of release.
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Created by 1968fan
on 28.11.2018
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Top 20 Proto-Metal/Hard Rock Albums Of 1978 In no real particular order. These albums are all great.
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Created by 1968fan
on 09.11.2018
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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
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Created by nonZero
on 06.10.2018
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Best Album From Each Year Unfinished as I still have to catch up on more recent years. Also all of the places on the list are of course subject to change as I discover more music from each year.
My taste is very much centred around the power of the riff. That means most of the albums on this list are thrash, death, heavy, black, or some offshoot of those genres.
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Created by Zombie94
on 16.04.2018
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Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time Note: these are only for the traditional style of metal borne out of the period of late 60s - late 80s. Modern bands are permitted but they need to be playing in that style.
Recommendations are welcome. I'll listen and if I like it, I'll add it.
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Created by Zombie94
on 09.11.2017
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Top Ten Riffs Of Each Decade While the order in each decade is purely personal preference, there are several rules for a song qualifying for the list. First off, the band has to be notable. I'm not going to define what that means, but I'm sure you'd agree all the bands in the list are notable. There are plenty of riffs from obscure bands I'd rather put, but I know my love for Tarby doesn't make him the greatest riff maker of the 21st century. Second, each artist can only appear once in a decade, this is to prevent the best riff makers from hogging the list and adding some variety, showing how metal has changed over time. Decades are measured by when the song was recorded, not released, and when it's unclear the beginning of recording is used. This is mainly because a lot of definitive early metal songs were released in 1970, but recorded in 1969. Third, the song itself has to be notable. Here are things that can qualify as being notable: the song was release as a single, has music video made for it, was released as a single, was the title track for an album (note that Crawl through Knives meets this criteria because it was the original title for Come Clarity, and there is no way in hell Come Clarity is getting best riff of the decade ), is included on a greatest hits compilation album, was nominated for a Grammy or musical award of similar caliber, was included as a track in a notable film or video game, was covered by a notable band, or has a Wikipedia page for some miscellaneous reason. Finally, the song needs to be metal. Misirlou gets the pass despite predating metal as it was probably the single most influential song on the development of metal, and while many of the other songs in the other songs are better classified as hard rock, I can find a source listing them as heavy metal.
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Created by Ganondox
on 04.08.2017
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Dark Warrior's Top 50 Metal Albums
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Created by Dark Warrior
on 22.01.2017
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TOP 10 ALBUMS 1978
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Created by rivendel
on 02.09.2014
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TOP ALBUMS OF 1978
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Created by achil
on 23.02.2014
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DL's Albums I have downloaded and are in the process of obtaining
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Created by Darkpeing
on 19.10.2013
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"The Greatest Vocalists In Rock & Metal Music" This is a guide list to some of the greatest voices in the history of rock & metal music, ranked in alphabetical order, by singer's name. I know that there are many more great singers/vocalists out there and that some really good singers were left out of this list.
The criteria by which the following singers were selected are: 1. Anything regarding the voice and the vocal performance (voice quality, technique, range, originality, creativity, etc.) 2. Influence - effect (if a singer has been an influence on other singers or a musical genre) 3. My personal taste The form of the list is "Band - Trademark Album For The Singer" "Name of the singer" (Bands he/she has joined)
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Created by Tzo87
on 07.06.2013
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A List Of Great Debut Albums A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions are welcome (granted they are featured on MS). All the albums here are ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. If a certain album belongs to the (in your opinion) wrong genre, then definitely let me know.
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Created by Erik M.
on 30.11.2012
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Top 200 Metal Masterpieces of All Time RANKING CRITERIA :
- Originality - Songwriting - Performance Neither the popularity among the fans nor the commercial success (or unsuccess) of the albums were taken into account in the selection.
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Created by Vasil de Shumen
on 10.03.2012
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THE TRANSCENDENT TOP TEN I present my Top Ten favorite metal albums. These are albums I still listen too regularly. Some for as long as 35 years. All of them at one point or another dominated my life and I hope come to dominate some of yours:)
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Created by oldVHlover
on 16.02.2011
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1978- Favourite Albums
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Created by guitargangster
on 12.02.2011
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