Right... Let's get this out of the way from the get-go. Alternative metal is hard to define. I guess that comes from it always wanting to experiment, explore and fuse heavy metal with non-metal music…

1.Living Colour - Vivid

2.Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

3.Faith No More - The Real Thing

4.Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5.L7 - Smell The Magic

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1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

5.Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion

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It's been like 20 years now, is it safe to post this yet?…

1.Korn - Korn

2.System Of A Down - Toxicity

3.Sepultura - Roots

4.System Of A Down - System Of A Down

5.Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

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1.Rage - Unity

2.Easy Rider - Regeneration

3.Eternal Reign - Crimes Of Passion

4.Mastodon - Remission

5.Squealer - Under The Cross

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1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Nightwish - Once

3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4.Disturbed - Believe

5.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

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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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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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Wanna know what I headbang to on the regular? The releases that have seen countless re-spins... Well, this is a very simple list and something you've probably seen a lot of other MS users do in the…

1.Absu - The Third Storm Of Cythrául

2.AC/DC - High Voltage

3.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

4.Alien Weaponry - Tū

5.Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns

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1.Nightwish - Century Child

2.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

3.Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

4.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

5.Meshuggah - Nothing

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This is my personal top 20 albums of all time. 1 to 10 in no order, and 11 to 20 in no order.

1.Alice In Chains - Dirt

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Faith No More - Angel Dust

4.Sepultura - Arise

5.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

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