Instrumental tracks on albums of vocal groups are often seen as filler material or as a possibility to show musical skills.
In contrast, the title track is often considered to be the central and defining…

1.Absu - Tara

2.Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

3.Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Angel Dust - Into The Dark Past

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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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My personal favorites. These albums are as perfect as an album can get, they always bring up the adrenaline and have in many ways changed the way I perceive music, expanding the horizons of metal in various…

1.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Metallica - Metallica

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Scorpions - Face The Heat

5.Stratovarius - Dreamspace

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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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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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1.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

2.Skywings - The Advent Melody

3.Heavenly - Carpe Diem

4.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

5.Axxis - Utopia

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1.Ensiferum - From Afar

2.Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death

3.Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day

4.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

5.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

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1.Amorphis - Skyforger

2.Free Spirit - Pale Sister of Light

3.Delain - April Rain

4.Epica - Design Your Universe

5.Insomnium - Across The Dark

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The best ballads in the history of Metal. Of course, all these bands and other bands have really good ballads but this list shows the very best, handpicked by me. In alphabetical order by bands name to…

1.Accept - Eat The Heat

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Adagio - Underworld

4.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

5.Allen/Lande - The Battle

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1.Epica - Design Your Universe

2.Celesty - Vendetta

3.Heavenly - Carpe Diem

4.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

5.Saint Deamon - Pandeamonium

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1.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

2.Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

3.Amorphis - Skyforger

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Shakra - Everest

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"If I were to die tomorrow, which 50 albums should I take with me?"

Through the endless ocean of music we always seem to find the albums which differ themselves more than others. These are the…

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore

3.Evergrey - The Inner Circle

4.Dream Theater - Images And Words

5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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The best Power Metal albums by the best bands in the genre. The albums are not in any specific order, at least after the first 10. I placed more than 1 album per band cause they really deserve to be here.

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

4.Angra - Rebirth

5.Stratovarius - Visions

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1.Megadeth - Endgame

2.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

3.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

4.Viikate - Kuu Kaakon Yllä

5.Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares

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