1.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

4.AC/DC - Back In Black

5.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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Metal albums from 1980.

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

4.Def Leppard - On Through The Night

5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

3.Ira - Visions Of Landscapes

4.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

5.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

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*** READ ME *** This list is about the greatest metal albums of all-time, from all sub-genres and all countries. You won't see bands like Deep Purple, Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, etc., nor will you see bands like Tool, Rage ATM, Melvins and Soundgarden. While I love many of those bands, my definition of metal does not include them.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

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My take on the greatest albums ever... (No, early 70s Black Sabbath is NOT metal, and neither is Led Zeppelin.)

1.Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

2.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Moves up and down depending on mood, but top 25-30 usually the same in varying order

1.Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

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

4.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Dream Theater - Awake

3.Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

4.The Tea Party - The Edges Of Twilight

5.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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Some of albums that i remembered...

1.Death - Symbolic

2.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

3.Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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My personel top 10 list of bands/albums that I think whould do a great job converting young boys and girls into metalheads

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

5.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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1.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

2.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

5.Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

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I havnt been into metal all that long...so this is a good chuck of the metal albums i own...though ive heard many, many more....these are all albums ive spent a lot of time with (or soon will). I tried to stay away from multiple albums by an artist, but a few exceptions were made hehe.

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2.3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom

3.Absu - Tara

4.ADX - Division Blindée

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5.Paradise Lost - One Second

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No Real Order, just Great Albums!

1.Dio - Holy Diver

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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Here are my favorite METAL albums from 1980 to 1989.

1.Mayhem - Deathcrush

2.Sepultura - Schizophrenia

3.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

4.Faith No More - The Real Thing

5.Tormentor - Anno Domini

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