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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 |
Top 200 Overlooked Albums
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…
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 |
| + 195 more |
Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection
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…
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 |
| + 54 more |
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 |
| + 671 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 |
| + 1242 more |
Top Power Metal Ballad
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 |
| + 15 more |
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 |
| + 420 more |
Metal Albums From The Land Of The Rising Sun
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
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 |
| + 54 more |
Top 123 Albums of the 1990s
Here are the 90s 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. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 3. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 4. | Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power |
| 5. | Metallica - Metallica |
| + 118 more |
Top 46 Power Metal Albums
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 |
| + 41 more |
Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1993
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…
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 |
| + 15 more |
