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My Top 50 Albums Of All Time

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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Created by javierel22 on 21.02.2025



Top 123 Albums of the 1990s

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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Created by nonZero on 19.02.2025



Top 10 Power Metal Albums

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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Created by Lord_Loren_Soth on 21.11.2024



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My Favorite Albums

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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Created by mariosrage on 13.07.2024



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TOP 50 POWER/HEAVY/Hardrock 1990-1999

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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Created by jeffster69 on 15.02.2024



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Top 46 Power Metal Albums

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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Created by nonZero on 12.02.2024



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Essential Power Metal

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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Created by em6568 on 19.06.2023



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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

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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Created by Roman Doez on 13.04.2023



InstruMEnTAL Metal Songs

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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Created by Plattner on 28.01.2023



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Top 50 Of 1995-1999

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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Created by Alex Avagianos on 19.08.2022



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 1997

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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Created by Handala on 10.08.2022



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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



1997 (An Exploration)

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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Created by Artorix Carlsson on 15.05.2022



All Time Favourite Albums

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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Created by AdamL on 04.01.2022



Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1997

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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Created by blackwreath13 on 06.11.2021