Records loved by critics and reviewers often turn out to be mediocre, even from bands that once had great discographies.

1.AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)

2.Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

4.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

5.Baroness - Red Album

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1.The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard

2.Warmen - Here For None

3.Disparaged - Down The Heavens

4.Revolting - Night Of The Horrid

5.Neckbreakker - Within The Viscera

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Part of my journey in discovering my passion for metal also involved discovering a lot of hard rock bands. My friends at school listened to a lot of Guns N' Roses (which I originally couldn't…

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

2.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

3.Rainbow - Rising

4.Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

5.Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

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^^Rules 2 songs per band but not for the same record^^

The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s your own creation.
Some people say that some covers…

1.Voivod - The Outer Limits

2.Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

3.Motörhead - Motörhead

4.Metallica - The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited

5.Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

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The albums in this alphabetical list do not have a regular title track. Instead, their corresponding title can be found in the lyrics of a song from another album of the band. Therefore, they qualify in…

1.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

2.Ayreon - The Human Equation

3.David Lee Roth - Crazy From The Heat

4.Deep Purple - The House Of Blue Light

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

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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 - Metallica

2.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II

3.Judas Priest - Painkiller

4.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

5.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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Must Listen: The First 4…

1.Metallica - Metallica

2.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II

3.Fates Warning - Parallels

4.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

5.Heavens Gate - Livin' In Hysteria

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So like albums that have a clear tie between them, were recorded around about the same time and were clearly intended together, as opposed to a sequel coming years after. Some of these have actually been…

1.Opeth - Deliverance

2.Opeth - Damnation

3.Metallica - Load

4.Metallica - Re-Load

5.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

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I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Opeth - Still Life

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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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I think that the albums listed below are underrated.
Even those albums that are rated more than 8.6, should've made it to the top 200, or higher in that list. It's not only the score, but also…

1.Anthrax - Among The Living

2.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

3.Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise

4.Biohazard - State Of The World Address

5.Danzig - Danzig 4

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Metal albums (and yes, I consider metalcore to be metal) that rocked my world, with maximum 2 albums per band sorted by bands in alphabetic order. Live, EP and compilation albums allowed, also including…

1.Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire

2.Alice In Chains - Dirt

3.All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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1.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2.Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

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