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Guide To First Wave Of Black Metal

A list by
ANGEL REAPER
Created
May 13, 2013
Entries
17
Endorsements
24
This list is a guide to the first wave of Black Metal.
Releases here are considered to be a part of the first wave
or they stylistically are similar to the first wave bands.
Some releases are of thrash/death…
1. Venom - Welcome To Hell
2. Venom - Black Metal
3. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
4. Slayer - Show No Mercy
5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
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Now That's What I Call Range: Highest Highs And Lowest Lows

A list by
RaduP
Created
November 14, 2019
Entries
104
Endorsements
14
A list of bands ordered by the biggest difference between their highest rated album on MS and their lowest rated album on MS. Finally my Excel skills paid off. Some ratings may be a bit outdated. Open…
1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2. Metallica - Lulu [Collaboration]
3. Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
4. Iced Earth - A Narrative Soundscape
5. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
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Thrash Metal Old School Top 50

A list by
ChapuLviz
Created
July 13, 2011
Entries
50
Endorsements
14
The Best album of Thrash Metal Old School (1980-1991)
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1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Sodom - Agent Orange
4. Exodus - Bonded By Blood
5. Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal
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Top 20 Albums Of 1982

A list by
JCJen7
Created
August 24, 2011
Entries
20
Endorsements
12
Metal Albums from 1982
1. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
2. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
3. Venom - Black Metal
4. Accept - Restless And Wild
5. Scorpions - Blackout
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Most Iconic Metal Album Covers (No Order) (More Coming Soon)

A list by
Iron Nostarion
Created
October 01, 2011
Entries
59
Endorsements
11
Some of these albums are known just when you see their album cover. They are usually iconic albums (whether positively or negatively) and one can easily identify them even if they were zoomed out tons…
1. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
3. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
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The "Must Have" And The "Could Have" Metal Albums Of The 80's

A list by
Tzo
Created
August 25, 2013
Entries
211
Endorsements
11
These are the 211 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer" (August 2001 issue).

The albums followed by a star are the "must…
1. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
2. AC/DC - Back In Black
3. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
4. Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
5. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
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All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs

A list by
Redel
Created
March 08, 2014
Entries
322
Endorsements
10
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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Best Album Of Every Year Since 1970

A list by
Roman Doez
Created
May 12, 2025
Entries
224
Endorsements
10
Here’s a list with my top 3 favorite metal and non-metal album of every year since 1970, enjoy!
I had to stretch the definition of what is and is not metal a little bit for the 70s, just assume it also…
1. 1970 -
2. Deep Purple - In Rock
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5. 1971 -
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Top 10 NWOBHM Albums

A list by
tuthitamlut
Created
May 21, 2011
Entries
10
Endorsements
10
*I do not count Judas Priest and Motorhead as NWOBHM, because they started before that scene
1. Satan - Court In The Act
2. Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof
3. Atomkraft - Queen of Death (EP)
4. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
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Favorite albums from the 80's

A list by
Hamird
Created
March 02, 2010
Entries
10
Endorsements
9
Here are my favorite METAL albums from 1980 to 1989. [Updated on 2014]
1. Mayhem - Deathcrush
2. Sepultura - Schizophrenia
3. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
4. Faith No More - The Real Thing
5. Tormentor - Anno Domini
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Metal Songs And Albums That Inspired The Names Of Other Bands

A list by
Plattner
Created
March 10, 2023
Entries
165
Endorsements
9
This is an alphabetical list of metal songs and albums that inspired the names of other artists.

While comparable lists often focus on the band name and explain its origin, this list turns the point…
1. Abruptum - De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet
2. Amebix - No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings
3. Anathema - Alternative 4
4. Anathema - Weather Systems
5. Arch Enemy - Black Earth
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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

A list by
pandrstudios
Created
May 31, 2022
Entries
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Endorsements
8
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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Top 25 British Thrash Albums

A list by
ChapuLviz
Created
February 28, 2012
Entries
25
Endorsements
8
1. Venom - Welcome To Hell
2. Xentrix - For Whose Advantage?
3. Onslaught - The Force
4. Raven - Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
5. Sabbat - Dreamweaver
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The Mightiest Albums Annually

A list by
Tomas Piller
Created
January 14, 2016
Entries
36
Endorsements
6
Mightiest = albums I can listen to almost anytime/anywhere - no matter how many times they never wear out - and always give me pleasure, power, euphoria, goosebumps, inspiration and many other nasty things.
1. Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
2. Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
3. Battle Beast - Battle Beast
4. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
5. Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
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1st Wave Black Metal

A list by
Electric Messiah
Created
May 07, 2019
Entries
48
Endorsements
5
1st Wave of Black Metal. Most bands here may not be considered black metal as we know it today or even in the 2nd wave, but had some sort of influence of the genre's subject matter, sound and imagery.
1. Bathory - Bathory
2. Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
3. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4. Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom
5. Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath
+ 43 more