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.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil

5.Michael Schenker Group - M.S.G.

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1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.The genre is primary one.
4.Only ESPECIALLY favorite (a bit more stringently than ver1 and rating 10 is not enough)
5.The…

1.Akhlys - The Dreaming I

2.Altar Of Plagues - Mammal

3.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

4.Anthrax - Among The Living

5.Arkha Sva - Gloria Satanae

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Deep Purple - Machine Head

4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

5.Queen - Queen II

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Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

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

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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2.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

3.Slauter Xstoyes - Winter Kill

4.Watch Tower - Energetic Disassembly

5.Trilogy - Life On Earth

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The best to worst studio albums (including "F.U.") by Queensryche (in my opinion).

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

3.Queensrÿche - Empire

4.Queensrÿche - The Warning

5.Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche

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1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.Queensrÿche - Empire

3.Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

4.Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche

5.Queensrÿche - The Warning

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My top ten perfect studio albums. Some are just more perfect than others. Plus an amazing compilation I need to include.

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

2.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

3.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

5.Opeth - Still Life

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I present my Top Ten favorite metal albums. These are albums I still listen too regularly. Some for as long as 35 years. All of them at one point or another dominated my life and I hope come to dominate…

1.Van Halen - Van Halen

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.KISS - Alive

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

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While 1987 woke me up to metal and I hoovered up the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica and Helloween’s keepers, 1988 was my metal heyday and a year that produced albums that would still dominiate my top…

1.Manowar - Kings Of Metal

2.Scanner - Hypertrace

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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88…

1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Manowar - Kings Of Metal

3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4.Death - Leprosy

5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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