Records loved by critics and reviewers often turn out to be mediocre, even from bands that once had great discographies.

1.AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

2.Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

4.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

5.Baroness - Red Album

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^^Rules 2 songs per band but not for the same record^^

The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…

1.Voivod - The Outer Limits

2.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

3.Motörhead - Motörhead

4.Metallica - The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited

5.Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

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My Top 10 Non Symphonic Black Metal Albums Of All Time…

1.Akhlys - Melinoë

2.Aoratos - Gods Without Name

3.Nightbringer - Terra Damnata

4.Nehëmah - Requiem Tenebrae

5.Marduk - Nightwing

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This is an alphabetical list of metal/hard rock band names that were inspired by the work of other music artists (album or song titles, lyrics, group names, instruments, etc). The list shows the first…

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2.Accept - Accept

3.Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy

4.Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est

5.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

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Top albums that I listened in 2024 and gave 7.5+…

1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5.Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World

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My Top Metal 1990-1999…

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Death - Human

4.Dream Theater - Images And Words

5.Faith No More - Angel Dust

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Shining - V - Halmstad

5.Opeth - Damnation

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Here's my AotY for each year from 1970, with a runner up (or two) following.
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't here, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

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1.Kaunis Kuolematon - Mielenvalta

2.Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

3.Abbath - Dread Reaver

4.Bloodbound - Drink With The Gods

5.Warmen - Here For None

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So, past half a century old, with my best years behind me, and, frankly, after looking at a post-lockdown world with all our current shit, the possibly sensible decision was made to eschew the standard…

1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3.Entombed - Left Hand Path

4.Skepticism - Alloy

5.No Mercy - Lay Down Sally

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

2.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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1.Bathory - Bathory

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Mayhem - Deathcrush

4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

5.Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon

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The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about…

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Merry Christmas, my fellow metalheads!

Inspired by Qualeen's list, I meticulously kept track of how often I listened to every album this year. I present to you my top 50 most frequently listened-to…

1.Slayer - Show No Mercy

2.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

4.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

5.Autopsy - Severed Survival

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A collection of totally family-friendly jams fitting the spooky season. One song per band!…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.King Diamond - Abigail

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