1.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

2.Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan

3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4.Savatage - Poets And Madmen

5.Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling

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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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Simply my top 50 favorite albums of all time,…

1.AC/DC - Powerage

2.AC/DC - Back In Black

3.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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**Trigger warning**

Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.

I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent…

1.Anathema - Judgement

2.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

3.Anathema - Alternative 4

4.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

5.Motörhead - Overkill

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Deep Purple - Machine Head

4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

5.Queen - Queen II

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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1.Death - Human

2.Opeth - Still Life

3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

2.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns

3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

5.Savatage - Dead Winter Dead

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Alphabetically sorted list of concept albums I know and love them so much to feature them here. Just one album per band in case they have more.

1.Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

2.Aina - The Metal Opera - Days Of Rising Doom

3.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

4.Ayreon - The Human Equation

5.Crystallion - Hundred Days

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

3.Skepticism - Ordeal

4.Funeral Mist - Devilry

5.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal And Ardor

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1.Metallica - Metallica

2.Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider

3.Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods

4.Coroner - Mental Vortex

5.Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

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1.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

2.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

3.Savatage - Poets And Madmen

4.Savatage - Power Of The Night

5.Savatage - Sirens

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Must Listen: The First 4…

1.Metallica - Metallica

2.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II

3.Fates Warning - Parallels

4.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

5.Heavens Gate - Livin' In Hysteria

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1.Sepultura - Arise

2.Fates Warning - Parallels

3.Metallica - Metallica

4.Death - Human

5.Axel Rudi Pell - Nasty Reputation

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