My Top 50 Albums Of All Time

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My Top 50 Albums Of All Time

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jet_cba
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February 21, 2025
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Personal Top 50 metal albums, the list is in release order

(Only one album per band, only studio albums)
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid
(1970) Doom/Heavy metal. Best Song: War Pigs.
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Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
(1980) Heavy metal. Best Song: Ace Of Spades.
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Saxon - Denim And Leather
(1981) Heavy metal. Best Song: Princess of the Night.
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Dio - Holy Diver
(1983) Heavy metal. Best Song: Holy Diver.
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Metallica - Ride The Lightning
(1984) Thrash metal. Best Song: For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Iron Maiden - Powerslave
(1984) New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Best Song: Aces High.
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Exodus - Bonded By Blood
(1985) Thrash metal. Best Song: A Lesson In Violence.
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Anthrax - Among The Living
(1987) Thrash metal. Best Song: Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.).
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Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
(1988) Power Metal. Best Song: I Want Out.
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Judas Priest - Painkiller
(1990) Heavy metal. Best Song: Night Crawler.
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Megadeth - Rust In Peace
(1990) Thrash metal. Best Song: Tornado Of Souls
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Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
(1990) Thrash metal. Best Song: Spirit in Black.
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Sepultura - Arise
(1991) Thrash metal. Best Song: Dead Embryonic Cells.
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Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
(1992) Power metal. Best Song: Ashes To Ashes
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Death - Symbolic
(1995) Death metal. Best Song: Crystal Mountain.
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Stratovarius - Visions
(1997) Power metal. Best Song: Black Diamond.
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Rhapsody - Legendary Tales
(1997) Symphonic power metal. Best Song: Ira Tenax/Warrior Of Ice.
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Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
(1999) Progressive Metal. Best Song: Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy.
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Mägo De Oz - Finisterra
(2000) Folk metal. Best Song: La Danza Del Fuego.
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Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
(2003) Power/Melodic metal. Best Song: The Misery.
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Epica - The Phantom Agony
(2003) Symphonic metal. Best Song: Façade Of Reality.
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Edguy - Hellfire Club
(2004) Power metal. Best Song: Down To The Devil.
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Therion - Sirius B
(2004) Symphonic metal. Best Song: Son Of The Sun.
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Nightwish - Once
(2004) Symphonic power metal. Best Song: Nemo.
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Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
(2006) Avantgarde/Symphonic Metal. Best Song: Infralove
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Between The Buried And Me - Colors
(2007). Progressive Metalcore. Best Song: Prequel To The Sequel.
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Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
(2008) Melodic Death metal. Best Song: Twilight Of The Thunder God.
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Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
(2010) Folk metal. Best Song: From Broken Vessels.
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Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
(2010) Power/Symphonic metal. Best Song: Blizzard On A Broken Mirror.
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Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
(2011) Death/Symphonic metal. Best Song: The Violation.
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Xandria - Neverworld's End
(2012) Symphonic Metal. Best Song: Euphoria.
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Sigh - In Somniphobia
(2012) Avant-garde Metal. Best Song: Amnesia.
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Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
(2012) Extreme Progressive Metal. Best Song: And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope.
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Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
(2012) Thrash metal. Best Song: From Food Into Fire.
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Threshold - March Of Progress
(2012) Progressive Metal. Best Song: The Hours.
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Omnium Gatherum - Beyond
(2013) Melodic death metal. Best Song: The Unknowing.
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The Ocean - Pelagial
(2013) Progressive/Atmospheric Sludge Metal. Best Song: Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish in Dreams.
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Avatarium - Avatarium
(2013) Doom Metal. Best song: Bird Of Prey.
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Eluveitie - Origins
(2014) Folk/Melodic death metal. Best Song: From Darkness.
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Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)
(2014) Melodic/Progressive death metal. Best Song: Technocalyptic Cybergeddon
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Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth
(2015) Progressive/Folk Metal. Best Song: The Garden Of Fire.
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Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
(2015) Melodic death/Folk metal. Best Song: The Four Wise Ones.
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Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards
(2015) Power metal. Best Song: Rise of the Chaos Wizard.
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Batushka - Litourgiya
(2015) Black metal. Best Song: Yekteniya III.
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Haken - Affinity
(2016) Progressive metal. Best Song: Earthrise.
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Insomnium - Winter's Gate
(2016) Melodic death metal. Best Song: Winter's Gate (Pt. IV).
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Æther Realm - Tarot
(2017) Melodic death metal. Best Song: The Sun, The Moon, The Star.
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Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness
(2018) Atmospheric/Folk Black Metal. Best Song: Blåtimen.
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Unleash The Archers - Abyss
(2020) Power/Heavy metal. Best Song: Legacy.
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Countless Skies - Glow
(2020) Melodic death metal. Best Song: Glow Part 2: Awakening.
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