Personal Top 50 metal albums, the list is in release order

(Only one album per band, only studio albums)…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

3.Saxon - Denim And Leather

4.Dio - Holy Diver

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Here are the 90s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

3.Opeth - Still Life

4.Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

5.Metallica - Metallica

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1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

3.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

4.Heavens Gate - Livin' In Hysteria

5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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1.Rage - End Of All Days

2.Rage - Black In Mind

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Sentenced - Down

5.Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I

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1.Queensrÿche - Promised Land

2.The Cult - The Cult

3.AC/DC - Ballbreaker

4.Praying Mantis - Forever In Time

5.Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

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Power Metal is a genre I've gotten into quite a bit over the past few years. I'd only really listened to Symphony X before, but discovered Blind Guardian, Wuthering Heights, Gamma Ray and others…

1.Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd

4.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

5.Symphony X - The Odyssey

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1.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

3.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part II

4.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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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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This is an alphabetical list of interesting instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups…

1.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

2.Amorphis - Black Winter Day

3.Anathema - Eternity

4.Anathema - Judgement

5.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

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1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Sentenced - Amok

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Anathema - Alternative 4

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1997 was surprisingly a solid year for metal, a lot of great releases in black and power…

1.Stratovarius - Visions

2.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

3.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

4.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

5.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

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WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

5.Josefus - Dead Man

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1.Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns

2.Summoning - Dol Guldur

3.Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth

4.Metallica - Re-Load

5.In Flames - Whoracle

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1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Kamelot - Karma

5.Sonata Arctica - Silence

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Poser alert!
Yep, they made the list...
I’m not sorry lol.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds (Gothic)
Electric…

1.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

2.Deströyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves

3.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

4.Stratovarius - Visions

5.Dominion - Blackout

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