1.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

2.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns

3.Annihilator - Set The World On Fire

4.Conception - Parallel Minds

5.Angra - Angels Cry

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Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal…

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3.Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety

4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

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My own list of the 10 best Metal Albums ever.

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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Album art is a crucial element to what makes a great album become monumental to the music fan. It gives us a vision and a feeling through visual sensations that are linked in the mind to the sounds that…

1.Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard

2.Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Converge - Jane Doe

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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Metal albums (and yes, I consider metalcore to be metal) that rocked my world, with maximum 2 albums per band sorted by bands in alphabetic order. Live, EP and compilation albums allowed, also including…

1.Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire

2.Alice In Chains - Dirt

3.All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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1.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

2.Unleashed - Across The Open Sea

3.Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

4.Mercyful Fate - In The Shadows

5.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

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1.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

2.Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

3.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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Every metalhead should have them in his collection!…

1.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

2.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

3.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Opeth - Morningrise

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1.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2.Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

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1.Sepultura - Arise

2.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

3.Sepultura - Bestial Devastation

4.Sepultura - Morbid Visions

5.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

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1.The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

2.Tiamat - Wildhoney

3.My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites

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1.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

2.Paradise Lost - Icon

3.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

4.Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge

5.Clawfinger - Deaf Dumb Blind

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Here are some totally Brootal albums I can't get enuff of! In alphabetical order...

1.Aeon - Rise To Dominate

2.Aeon - Bleeding The False

3.Aeon - Path Of Fire

4.Behemoth - The Apostasy

5.Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis

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