Yes, I put Motörhead's most famous album on the list, only because people need to listen to some of their newer (Motörizer) or older (Overkill, Bomber, On Parole) material.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Dio - Holy Diver

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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sequences are mixed…

1.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Opeth - Damnation

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1.Forbidden - Forbidden Evil

2.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

3.Overkill - Feel The Fire

4.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

5.Sodom - Agent Orange

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1.Bathory - Hammerheart

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre

4.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

5.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4.Machine Head - The Blackening

5.Flotsam And Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver

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These CDs are on the highest shelf…

1.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

2.Anthrax - Among The Living

3.Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise

4.Biohazard - State Of The World Address

5.Biohazard - Nativity In Black - A Tribute To Black Sabbath

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Stryper - To Hell With The Devil

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

5.Strapping Young Lad - City

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Work in progress until a good foundation is made. No real order other than what pops in my head.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Slayer - Hell Awaits

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Slayer - South Of Heaven

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1.Death - Spiritual Healing

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

4.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

5.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Flotsam & Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3.Slayer - South Of Heaven

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Slayer - Hell Awaits

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An attempt to walk through almost 40 years of metal records, trying to pick one (and only one) record each year. The record that should be listened to at least once in life.
Some years are difficult because…

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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My personal favorite metal albums of all time. In no particular order (although kinda alphabetical). Some of the albums might as well represent whole discographies.

1.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

2.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

3.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4.Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

5.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

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1.Destruction - Eternal Devastation

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Exumer - Possessed By Fire

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