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Top 500 Albums of All Time
I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life. Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens…
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 5. | Opeth - Still Life |
| + 495 more |
My share of experime(n)tal music and other innovative stuff
I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated.
| 1. | Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I |
| 2. | Kalisia - Cybion |
| 3. | Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera |
| 4. | Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery |
| 5. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
| + 98 more |
*Album Of The Year (For Every Year In My Collection)*
This list is the best album of every year that is represented in my current collection. Some years were really hard to choose as there were many deserving albums, others I had one or very few to choose…
| 1. | Septicflesh - The Great Mass |
| 2. | Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini |
| 3. | Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs |
| 4. | Septicflesh - Communion |
| 5. | Symphony X - Paradise Lost |
| + 27 more |
Playing Outside Of The Box! (An Alternative Metal Guide & Journey)
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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The "Must Have" And The "Could Have" Metal Albums Of The 80's
These are the 211 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer" (August 2001 issue).
The albums followed by a star are the "must…
The albums followed by a star are the "must…
| 1. | Angel Witch - Angel Witch |
| 2. | AC/DC - Back In Black |
| 3. | Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell |
| 4. | Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden |
| + 206 more |
Top 20 Albums Of All Time
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 |
| + 15 more |
Top 400 Metal Albums Ranked Mathematically (2026 Update)
RESTRICTIONS
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
Each album had to meet all the following conditions in order to be eligible:
1) 10+ years old
2) Metalstorm: 200+ votes, average user score 8.0+
3) Rateyourmusic: 1000+ ratings, average…
| 1. | Death - Symbolic |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 3. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 4. | Judas Priest - Painkiller |
| 5. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| + 395 more |
1001 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die
An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically…
| 1. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 2. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 5. | Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself |
| + 350 more |
1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
WORK IN PROGESS! Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that…
| 1. | High Tide - Sea Shanties |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin |
| 4. | Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come |
| 5. | Josefus - Dead Man |
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Favorite Mike Patton Vocal Performances
The man, the legend, the god.
| 1. | Faith No More - The Real Thing |
| 2. | Tomahawk - Tomahawk |
| 3. | Faith No More - Angel Dust |
| 4. | The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene |
| 5. | Faith No More - Angel Dust |
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Faith No More - Best To Worst
Faith No More are one of those bands that were true innovators. There are plenty of compilations out there that cover the singles and popular songs, but the albums are so varied it's worth digging…
| 1. | Faith No More - King For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime |
| 2. | Faith No More - Angel Dust |
| 3. | Faith No More - The Real Thing |
| 4. | Faith No More - Album Of The Year |
| 5. | Faith No More - Introduce Yourself |
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Great Songs Covered By Metal Bands
^^Rules 2 songs per band but not for the same record^^
The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…
The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…
| 1. | Voivod - The Outer Limits |
| 2. | Pantera - Far Beyond Driven |
| 3. | Motörhead - Motörhead |
| 4. | Metallica - The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Sin After Sin |
| + 328 more |
Top 200 Alternative Metal Albums
This is very simple, I took the ratings for a bunch of alternative metal albums on MS and ranked them accordingly
To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…
To qualify:
The album must have been released when the band was labelled as "Alternative…
| 1. | Mass Hysteria - Contraddiction |
| 2. | Tool - Lateralus |
| 3. | The Butterfly Effect - IV |
| 4. | Tool - Aenima |
| 5. | Mass Hysteria - Le Bien-Être Et La Paix |
| + 195 more |