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A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)

While there is little introduction required for…

1.Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra

2.Adagio - Underworld

3.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

4.Amorphis - Silent Waters

5.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

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Limited to two albums per band a work in progress.

1.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

2.Heavenwood - Diva

3.Skyclad - The Answer Machine?

4.Moonsorrow - Suden Uni

5.Moonspell - Wolfheart

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Vigorous performance…

1.Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

2.Overkill - Feel The Fire

3.Nuclear Assault - Game Over

4.Wrathchild America - 3-D

5.Toxik - World Circus

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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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On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg…

1.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years

4.Mastodon - Remission

5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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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.Trivium - Shogun

2.Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen

3.All That Remains - Overcome

4.Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk

5.Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding The Seventh Trumpet

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Testament is one of the greatest band in the US Thrash metal scene , along side Exodus, Overkill And Death Angel it is part of the second row of the big four.

1.Testament - The New Order

2.Testament - Practice What You Preach

3.Testament - The Legacy

4.Testament - Souls Of Black

5.Testament - The Gathering

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I love instrumentals (songs without vocals)!
One doesn't need words to convey a message and evoke emotions. Instrumentals also show how metal is very closely related to classical music!
These are…

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Summoning - Minas Morgul

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

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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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Testament. Perhaps one of the most prolific, great-sounding and legendary thrash metal bands. Underrated not to go along with the Big 4 instead of the overrated Anthrax, but one can also thank the Gods…

1.Testament - The New Order

2.Testament - The Legacy

3.Testament - Low

4.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

5.Testament - Practice What You Preach

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A list of my favourite drummers in rough order (not precise) along with the songs that made me love them. I added the albums too…

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

4.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

5.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

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1.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

2.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

3.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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1.Machine Head - The Blackening

2.Overkill - Ironbound

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Rush - Clockwork Angels

5.Rush - Snakes & Arrows

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Simply my top 50 favorite albums of all time,…

1.AC/DC - Powerage

2.AC/DC - Back In Black

3.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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