This is an alphabetical list of metal/hard rock band names that were inspired by the work of other music artists (album or song titles, lyrics, group names, instruments, etc). The list shows the first…

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2.Accept - Accept

3.Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy

4.Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est

5.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

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Great young blood full-length records made mostly by teens.

1.Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence

2.Possessed - Seven Churches

3.Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted

4.Sepultura - Morbid Visions

5.Kreator - Endless Pain

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Shining - V - Halmstad

5.Opeth - Damnation

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1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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1.Bathory - Bathory

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Mayhem - Deathcrush

4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

5.Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon

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A list of my favorite album covers…

1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

2.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Motörhead - Motörhead

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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1.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

2.Slayer - Show No Mercy

3.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Voivod - War And Pain

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1.Venom - Welcome To Hell

2.Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate

3.Venom - Black Metal

4.Sodom - Witching Metal

5.666 - Nekrofilie

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

Non-Metal mentions:
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hyæna (Goth)…

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

4.Trouble - Psalm 9

5.Grim Reaper - See You In Hell

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My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1.Summoning - Oath Bound

2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.Bathory - Hammerheart

5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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1st Wave of Black Metal. Most bands here may not be considered black metal as we know it today or even in the 2nd wave, but had some sort of influence of the genre's subject matter, sound and imagery.

1.Bathory - Bathory

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4.Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom

5.Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath

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1.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Bathory - The Return Of The Darkness And Evil

4.Bathory - Hammerheart

5.Bathory - Bathory

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1.Burzum - Filosofem

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

5.Marduk - Rom 5:12

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Just a list of my favorite albums, mostly Black or Death Metal !

There are some albums/bands I would love to put in this list, but they are not on MS.

1.1349 - Liberation

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

3.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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