All my favourite songs ranked in order best down.

1.Rush - 2112

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Jethro Tull - Aqualung

4.Rainbow - Rising

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Wintersun - Time I

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My personal hard rock/heavy metal album of the year that I own.
Truthfully, for several years, I just gave up trying to figure out what was in 2nd place (and sometimes, even in 1st).
Some years have so many options....

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

4.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

5.Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties

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There are various types of album closers: those that combine everything from the beginning of the album (Recharging the Void), the last punch in the face (Dyers Eve), the standout best song of the album (Hallowed Be Thy Name), the melancholy instrumental outro (No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep), and many other types!
These are my favorite album finishers! Enjoy!

1.Vektor - Terminal Redux

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Non-Metal mentions:
The Cure - Pornography (Goth)
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (Punk)
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (Punk)

1.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

2.Venom - Black Metal

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Accept - Restless And Wild

5.Motörhead - Iron Fist

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Albums with the most epic cover art!

1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2.Rainbow - Rising

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

5.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

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My top ranked (in order from best down) favorite hard rock/heavy metal albums. I've also one included my top three favorite tracks from each album.

Enjoy!

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Rush - Hemispheres

4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

5.Motörhead - Inferno

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An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically will include albums I've rated 8 & above. Sorted by year since I'll need a Venn diagram to sort by genre (seriously MS please make it happen if possible). Will feature multiple releases per year (obviously) and per band (since if a band is putting out better albums it deserves more recognition). Keeping the metal faith alive from India

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

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I'm bored very easily, and that's why I decided to do some stats about metal storm's top 20 of each year and the top 200. I don't know why I did that, but if you love stats like I do it might interest you. All of the data I collected is from November the 7th 2020.
Updated on August the 3rd 2023

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5.Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn

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These are MY Top 250 Albums that are featured on Metal Storm in chronological order to celebrate 50 Years of Metal.

Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they are perticulary amazing to me.

I listen to a wide spectrum of metal genres, which is why I tried to keep it diverse and not focus on one genre.

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

5.Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Burzum - Filofsem

3.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

4.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

5.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

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Best to Worst

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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One of, if not THE, greatest band there ever been. Iron Maiden rocked the world right from the start and released more classic album than pretty much any other band. My introduction to Iron Maiden was hearing A Real Live One and A Real Dead One probably a year before Brave New World was released, I was hooked, I knew from that point that this band was something special and that heavy metal was my kind of music.

1.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

4.Iron Maiden - The X Factor

5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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It is ranking of my favourite and most-listen Maiden albums.

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

4.Iron Maiden - The X Factor

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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