I'll start with the disclaimer that I am not, nor ever have been, a musician. This list is of my own favorite performers, not the actual technical best musicians as I am a layman and can only go by…

1.Symphony X - The Odyssey

2.Septicflesh - Communion

3.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4.Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

5.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

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My top 50 albums of all time.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

4.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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This list is the best album of every year that is represented in my current collection. Some years were really hard to choose as there were many deserving albums, others I had one or very few to choose…

1.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

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*** READ ME *** This list is about the greatest metal albums of all-time, from all sub-genres and all countries. You won't see bands like Deep Purple, Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, etc., nor will you see bands…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

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My take on the greatest albums ever... (No, early 70s Black Sabbath is NOT metal, and neither is Led Zeppelin.)…

1.Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

2.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Moves up and down depending on mood, but top 25-30 usually the same in varying order…

1.Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

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

4.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Marillion - Brave

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Insomnium - Across The Dark

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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I'm not a methodic person, so i put my 25 favorite of my collection (are missing some albuns, so my top can chance) from heavy metal (not death, not black, not doom, not folk... only heavy... or anything…

1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

2.Virgin Steele - Invictus

3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

4.Rage - XIII

5.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.King Diamond - Them

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Anthrax - State Of Euphoria

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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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Overhauled as of May 10th, 2012! Top 5 favorite non-metal albums featured at the bottom.

This is a much improved (and more recently accurate) reworking of my previous favorite albums list, with a few…

1.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

2.Anubis Gate - The Detached

3.Artillery - By Inheritance

4.Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory

5.Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance

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1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Dream Theater - Awake

3.Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

4.The Tea Party - The Edges Of Twilight

5.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me …

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

3.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4.After Forever - Decipher

5.After Forever - After Forever

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Rush - 2112

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