My own top 230 essential metal albums sorted in alphabetical order by band name.

1.1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse

2.1349 - The Infernal Pathway

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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Top 50 of 2008. Albums I rated 8 and above.

Album count: 210
Average rating: 6.84…

1.Septicflesh - Communion

2.Opeth - Watershed

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Ihsahn - AngL

5.Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Warbringer - War Without End (Thrash)
Judas Priest - Nostradamus (Heavy/Symphonic)
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie (Black/Death)…

1.Draconian - Turning Season Within

2.Moonspell - Night Eternal

3.Septicflesh - Communion

4.Metallica - Death Magnetic

5.Sabaton - The Art Of War

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1.Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar

2.After Forever - After Forever

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal…

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3.Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety

4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Testament - The Formation Of Damnation

2.Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

3.Hollenthon - Opus Magnum

4.Sabaton - The Art Of War

5.Opeth - Watershed

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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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Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums Of The 2000´s…

1.Death Angel - Killing Season

2.Testament - The Formation Of Damnation

3.Megadeth - Endgame

4.Flotsam And Jetsam - The Cold

5.Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy

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My Favorite Metal Songs. I tried to limit myself to one song per album, so this list also doubles as my favorite song off of each of these albums also. Probably stop the list at 666 if I ever get there.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

3.Testament - The Legacy

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Wolf (UK) - Edge Of The World

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Novembre - Arte Novecento

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Like my own 2009 top list, it's been extremely hard to narrow down to a final twenty because of so many releases in recent years. But twenty it is and of course, I cheated again with my other two…

1.Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance

2.Textures - Silhouettes

3.UnSun - The End Of Life

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Poisonblack - A Dead Heavy Day

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

4.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

5.Testament - Demonic

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