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The Encyclopaedia of Beautiful Metal Ballads
If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me 
| 1. | Adagio - Underworld |
| 2. | Aerosmith - Aerosmith |
| 3. | After Forever - Prison Of Desire |
| 4. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 5. | After Forever - After Forever |
| + 373 more |
Hall Of Fame: Top 80 Of All Time
- only studio albums
- only albums featured on MS
- only albums featured on MS
| 1. | After Forever - Decipher |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 4. | Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde |
| 5. | Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side |
| + 75 more |
All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Albums
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…
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just…
| 1. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 2. | Opeth - Morningrise |
| 3. | Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum |
| 4. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 5. | Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss |
| + 310 more |
Favoritest Favorites - My Top 100 Albums
My favorite albums. Includes EPs and 1 compilation. Anything ouside the top 20 or so could be up or down several places. Constantly subject to change.
| 1. | Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine II |
| 2. | Within Temptation - The Unforgiving |
| 3. | Ayreon - The Human Equation |
| 4. | Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead |
| 5. | Billy Idol - Cyberpunk |
| + 95 more |
All Metal Of All Time Top 300: Songs
| 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 |
| + 317 more |
The Painters Of Metal
Album art is a crucial element to what makes a great album become monumental to the music fan. It gives us a vision and a feeling through visual sensations that are linked in the mind to the sounds that…
| 1. | Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard |
| 2. | Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. |
| 3. | Cradle Of Filth - Midian |
| 4. | Converge - Jane Doe |
| 5. | Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth |
| + 21 more |
Rock & Metal Ballads Collection
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 |
| + 420 more |
My Favorite 20 Albums Of 1996
| 1. | Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| 2. | Prong - Rude Awakening |
| 3. | Spiritual Beggars - Another Way To Shine |
| 4. | Sacred Reich - Heal |
| 5. | Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun |
| + 19 more |
Metal Is The Law (My Own 250 Essential Metal Albums)
My 250 personal favorite metal albums which are sorted by band name and then release date. I want to make clear that I am not claiming these to be the best albums in each respective band's discography,…
| 1. | 1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse |
| 2. | 1349 - The Infernal Pathway |
| 3. | 1349 - The Wolf And The King |
| 4. | Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations |
| 5. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| + 245 more |
Within The Fortress Gates (50 Favorite Black Metal Albums)
My personal top release from each of my favorite black metal bands (with the exception of a few bands having multiple albums listed for sake of full accuracy). The order of the list is simply alphabetized…
| 1. | 1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse |
| 2. | 1349 - Massive Cauldron Of Chaos |
| 3. | Abigor - Supreme Immortal Art |
| 4. | Ancient - Svartalvheim |
| 5. | Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark |
| + 45 more |
1996 (An Exploration)
An exploration of the best (and worst) albums of 1996, will keep updating as I find more albums to rank. I've often thought that 1996 was one of the worst years for metal but I keep finding great…
| 1. | Stratovarius - Episode |
| 2. | Metallica - Load |
| 3. | Amorphis - Elegy |
| 4. | Bathory - Blood On Ice |
| 5. | Burzum - Filosofem |
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Favorite Bathory Albums
| 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 |
| + 7 more |
