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Top 100 Albums Of All Time
Current Top 100 as of September 2019. Having listened to metal for 45 years or so - here are my favourites (favourite track). One album limit per band. Enjoy!
| 1. | Absu - Absu |
| 2. | AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It |
| 3. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 4. | Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone |
| 5. | Alcest - Écailles De Lune |
| + 95 more |
1978- Favourite Albums
| 1. | Van Halen - Van Halen |
| 2. | Rainbow - Long Live Rock & Roll |
| 3. | Judas Priest - Stained Class |
| 4. | AC/DC - Powerage |
| 5. | Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo |
Best Album Of Each Year
Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 3. | Deep Purple - Machine Head |
| 4. | Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend |
| 5. | Queen - Queen II |
| + 45 more |
THE TRANSCENDENT TOP TEN
I present my Top Ten favorite metal albums. These are albums I still listen too regularly. Some for as long as 35 years. All of them at one point or another dominated my life and I hope come to dominate…
| 1. | Van Halen - Van Halen |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 4. | KISS - Alive |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind |
| + 5 more |
TheJahrhead's Totally Biased Personal Favorites
| 1. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 2. | Disforia - The Age Of Ether |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| 4. | Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything |
| 5. | Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud |
| + 140 more |
Top 23 Albums Of The 1970s
Here are the 70s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 4. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 18 more |
...under Making...
| 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 |
| + 271 more |
Best Album From Each Year
Unfinished as I still have to catch up on more recent years. Also all of the places on the list are of course subject to change as I discover more music from each year.
My taste is very much centred around…
My taste is very much centred around…
| 1. | After The Burial - Dig Deep |
| 2. | Behemoth - The Satanist |
| 3. | Carcass - Surgical Steel |
| 4. | Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity |
| 5. | Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony |
| + 41 more |
Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Of All Time
Note: these are only for the traditional style of metal borne out of the period of late 60s - late 80s. Modern bands are permitted but they need to be playing in that style.
Recommendations are welcome.
Recommendations are welcome.
| 1. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 4. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| 5. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III |
| + 51 more |
Top 200 Albums Rated By Me
List was taken on 27th of november 2024 and so has ranking of that time.
I'm not in hurry with this list so I'll be listening albums as many times as it takes me to understand them the best…
I'm not in hurry with this list so I'll be listening albums as many times as it takes me to understand them the best…
| 1. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 2. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 3. | Death - Symbolic |
| 4. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 5. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| + 195 more |
Top 24 Hard Rock Albums
Part of my journey in discovering my passion for metal also involved discovering a lot of hard rock bands. My friends at school listened to a lot of Guns N' Roses (which I originally couldn't…
| 1. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV |
| 2. | Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards |
| 3. | Rainbow - Rising |
| 4. | Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti |
| 5. | Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction |
| + 19 more |
Dark Warrior's Top 50 Metal Albums
| 1. | AC/DC - Back In Black |
| 2. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 3. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 4. | Dio - Holy Diver |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith |
| + 45 more |
DL's
Albums I have downloaded and are in the process of obtaining
| 1. | AC/DC - Back In Black |
| 2. | AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| 3. | AC/DC - High Voltage |
| 4. | AC/DC - Highway To Hell |
| 5. | AC/DC - Let There Be Rock |
| + 114 more |
