Power Metal is a genre I've gotten into quite a bit over the past few years. I'd only really listened to Symphony X before, but discovered Blind Guardian, Wuthering Heights, Gamma Ray and others…

1.Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd

4.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

5.Symphony X - The Odyssey

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1.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

3.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part II

4.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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

1993 was a great year for metal second wave black metal stars to kick in, and a great…

1.Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

2.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

3.Angra - Angels Cry

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Depressive Age - Lying In Wait

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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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This list aims to be the counterpart to the Metal Storm Top 200 Albums (plus a few extras).

If you discover a new band or already like any of the ones here, please give this list a thumbs up and/or…

1.Solipsist - The Human Equation

2.Ayahuasca - Beneath The Mind

3.Cryptomnesia - Primordial Oddity

4.Element (USA) - The Energy

5.Telepathy - 12 Areas

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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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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

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Choice metal albums that come out of Japan. Recommendations/Suggestions are welcome and one album per band.

Bands looking into:
Corrupted
Earthshaker
Bow Wow / Vow Wow
Thousand Leaves…

1.Abigail (JPN) - Forever Street Metal Bitch

2.Albion - Campanula

3.Aldious - Deep Exceed

4.Al-Kamar - Abstract Spread

5.Anatomia - Dissected Humanity

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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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Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.

This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…

1.Warning - Watching From A Distance

2.Candlemass - Nightfall

3.Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

4.Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy

5.Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls

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1.Angra - Angels Cry

2.Dissection - The Somberlain

3.Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows

4.Immortal - Pure Holocaust

5.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

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sometimes we need to calm down, lost in the strains of the lyrics, and feel how wonderful metal music it is. (I only wrote one song for one band)…

1.Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion

2.DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage

3.Helloween - Master Of The Rings

4.Gamma Ray - To The Metal

5.Rhapsody Of Fire - Triumph Or Agony

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