100 Greatest Metal Bands

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100 Greatest Metal Bands

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saw_you_drown
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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/
100.
1.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1970
100.
2.
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
1984
100.
3.
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
1986
100.
4.
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
1982
100.
5.
Slayer - Reign In Blood
1986
100.
6.
Opeth - Blackwater Park
2001
100.
7.
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
1984
100.
8.
Death - Human
1991
100.
9.
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
1985
100.
10.
Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
1987
100.
11.
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
1999
100.
12.
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
1992
100.
13.
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
1990
100.
14.
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
1980
100.
15.
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
1988
100.
16.
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
1990
100.
17.
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
1988
100.
18.
Sepultura - Arise
1991
100.
19.
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
1988
100.
20.
Venom - Welcome To Hell
1981
100.
21.
King Diamond - Abigail
1987
100.
22.
Coroner - No More Color
1989
100.
23.
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
1993
100.
24.
Fates Warning - No Exit
1988
100.
25.
My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World
1999
100.
26.
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
1980
100.
27.
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
1994
100.
28.
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
1996
100.
29.
Dream Theater - Awake
1994
100.
30.
Accept - Balls To The Wall
1983
100.
31.
Meshuggah - Nothing
2002
100.
32.
Paradise Lost - Icon
1993
100.
33.
Anthrax - Among The Living
1987
100.
34.
Morbid Angel - Covenant
1993
100.
35.
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
1994
100.
36.
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
1986
100.
37.
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
2002
100.
38.
Candlemass - Nightfall
1987
100.
39.
Testament - The New Order
1988
100.
40.
In Flames - Whoracle
1997
100.
41.
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
1987
100.
42.
Mayhem - Live In Leipzig
1993
100.
43.
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
1999
100.
44.
Enslaved - Below The Lights
2003
100.
45.
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
1987
100.
46.
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2005
100.
47.
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
1995
100.
48.
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
1995
100.
49.
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
2006
100.
50.
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
1992
100.
51.
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... When I Can't Even Smile Today
1988
100.
52.
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
1996
100.
53.
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
1992
100.
54.
Entombed - Clandestine
1991
100.
55.
Anathema - Eternity
1996
100.
56.
Therion - Theli
1996
100.
57.
Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
1993
100.
58.
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
1997
100.
59.
Autopsy - Severed Survival
1989
100.
60.
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
1985
100.
61.
Sentenced - Down
1996
100.
62.
Obituary - Cause Of Death
1990
100.
63.
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
1997
100.
64.
Hypocrisy - Abducted
1996
100.
65.
Saxon - Strong Arm Of The Law
1980
100.
66.
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991
100.
67.
Mastodon - Leviathan
2004
100.
68.
Amorphis - Elegy
1996
100.
69.
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
1980
100.
70.
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
2008
100.
71.
Possessed - Seven Churches
1985
100.
72.
Deicide - Deicide
1990
100.
73.
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
1993
100.
74.
Behemoth - Demigod
2004
100.
75.
Deceased - The Blueprints For Madness
1995
100.
76.
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
2003
100.
77.
Isis - Oceanic
2002
100.
78.
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
1987
100.
79.
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
1993
100.
80.
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
1999
100.
81.
Monster Magnet - Spine Of God
1991
100.
82.
Scorpions - Blackout
1982
100.
83.
Trouble - Psalm 9
1984
100.
84.
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
1999
100.
85.
System Of A Down - Toxicity
2001
100.
86.
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
1984
100.
87.
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
1991
100.
88.
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
2002
100.
89.
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
1997
100.
90.
Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
1983
100.
91.
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
1988
100.
92.
Vader - De Profundis
1995
100.
93.
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
2000
100.
94.
Summoning - Stronghold
1999
100.
95.
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace
1996
100.
96.
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
1991
100.
97.
Rainbow - Rising
1976
100.
98.
Strapping Young Lad - City
1997
100.
99.
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
1999
100.
100.
Baroness - Blue Record
2009
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