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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive 1997

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1997 was surprisingly a solid year for metal, a lot of great releases in black and power…

1.Stratovarius - Visions
2.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
3.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
4.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
5.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

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Created by Handala on 10.08.2022



M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites - 9s

I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
2.Metallica - Re-Load
3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel
4.Inferi - The End Of An Era
5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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Created by M0rkeleb on 24.04.2022



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Top 20 Of 1997

Must Have: The First 12…

1.Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
2.Conception - Flow
3.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
4.Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
5.Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 09.03.2021



My Luca Turilli / Rhapsody-verse albums ranking

In my opinion, Rhapsody from the Turilli era and Luca Turilli don't have bad albums. Except for "The Cold Embrace Of Fear" I'll leave out the EPs, the live albums and singles, so I'll…

1.Rhapsody - Power Of The Dragonflame
2.Luca Turilli - Prophet Of The Last Eclipse
3.Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity
4.Turilli / Lione Rhapsody - Zero Gravity (Rebirth And Evolution)
5.Rhapsody Of Fire - From Chaos To Eternity

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Created by Praxius on 07.12.2020



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pandrstudios Metal History

These are MY Top 250 Albums that are featured on Metal Storm in chronological order to celebrate 50 Years of Metal.

Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2.Deep Purple - In Rock
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
5.Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

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Created by pandrstudios on 01.05.2020



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Empowering Albums For Powerless Losers

This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on…

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth
2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
4.Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne
5.X Japan - Art Of Life

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 19.09.2019



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Albums Of My Life

No particular order…

1.Graveworm - As The Angels Reach The Beauty
2.Graveworm - Scourge Of Malice
3.Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
4.Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst
5.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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Created by bundasmanu on 05.08.2019



365 Albums

1.AC/DC - Back In Black
2.AC/DC - High Voltage
3.AC/DC - Highway To Hell
4.Accept - Blood Of The Nations
5.Allen/Lande - The Showdown

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Created by The Norseman on 30.01.2016



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M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites

Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
3.Ayreon - 01011001
4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Created by M0rkeleb on 16.10.2015



Top 20 Heavy Metal Albums Of 1997

1.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave
2.Nightwish - Angels Fall First
3.Sinner - Judgement Day
4.White Skull - Embittered
5.Axel Rudi Pell - Magic

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 13.09.2014



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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

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Created by Alpha on 27.09.2013



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My favourite Power Metal Albums

Since many of you felt annoyed by my previous list title I changed it and hopefully you will be ok with it.Power up everybody!!!…

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
4.Riot - ThunderSteel
5.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

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Created by stormlord77 on 29.04.2013



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The Albums That Made Me Who I Am Today - Part 1: The Early Years

OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider…

1.Anathema - Judgement
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian
4.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
5.Def Leppard - Hysteria

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Created by LordFezzington on 22.04.2012



Rhapsody, From Best To Worst

1.Rhapsody Of Fire - Power Of The Dragonflame
2.Rhapsody Of Fire - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
3.Rhapsody Of Fire - Dawn Of Victory
4.Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity
5.Rhapsody Of Fire - From Chaos To Eternity

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Created by Kalmari on 20.04.2012



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TOP 1997

1.Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Tales
2.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave
3.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild
4.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
5.Windir - Sóknardalr

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Created by giok99 on 08.11.2011