Here are the 80s 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.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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1.Moonspell - Wolfheart

2.Paradise Lost - Gothic

3.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

4.Sentenced - Frozen

5.Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Shining - V - Halmstad

5.Opeth - Damnation

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

3.King Diamond - Fatal Portrait

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

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Here's my AotY for each year from 1970, with a runner up (or two) following.
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't here, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

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In progress top 300 albums in alphabetical order…

1.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

2.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Acid Witch - Stoned

5.Acid Witch - Evil Sound Screamers

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Doom Metal is one of those genres that I'd never really taken much notice of until I started working my way through the MS top 200 albums. I'd listened to Black Sabbath when a teacher at my school…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

3.Slumber - Fallout

4.Doom:VS - Dead Words Speak

5.October Tide - Rain Without End

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1.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done

4.Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation

5.Behemoth - Demigod

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This is my top albums (only with those where I gave 8 or more). I will update the list now and then.
Keep in mind that I've only been seriously listening to metal for a few years, and that it's…

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

4.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

5.Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

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1.Metal Church - Metal Church

2.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

3.Slayer - Show No Mercy

4.Viva - What The Hell Is Going On

5.Satan - Court In The Act

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1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

3.Candlemass - Nightfall

4.Asphyx - The Rack

5.Paradise Lost - Gothic

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

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1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about…

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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