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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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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

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1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

2.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

3.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

4.Heavens Gate - In Control

5.Whitesnake - Slip Of The Tongue

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Full Lengths Only…

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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

3.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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I'm bored, so I'm doing this. My technique involves going to the page of every thrash band I've listened to, pulling out their top three albums that I'd rate over 8.5/10 (if there are…

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Coroner - No More Color

3.Coroner - Mental Vortex

4.Toxik - Think This

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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I realize the importance of these albums to the genres, and the influence they have had. however I do not find these albums really that great and pleasurable due to the competition and elimination through…

1.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Accept - Restless And Wild

5.Accept - Balls To The Wall

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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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An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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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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1.Warning - Watching From A Distance

2.Aquilus - Griseus

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Candlemass - Nightfall

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Here is my personnal top 50 Thrash Metal album of all time, order by my preference. (even if it's really hard to order after the top 20 )
Feel free to suggest me some I've forgot to mention,…

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Vektor - Black Future

5.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions…

1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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It's the baddest, the most agressive and the most pure Heavy Metal subgenre... Thrash Metal!…

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4.Death - Leprosy

5.Anthrax - Among The Living

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This is the top 35 of german thrash metal albums of the old school...

1.Sodom - Agent Orange

2.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

3.Destruction - Infernal Overkill

4.Tankard - Zombie Attack

5.Exumer - Possessed By Fire

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