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The Metal Art Of Thrashing (Ordered By Years)

A list by
Guib
Created
May 24, 2011
Entries
520
Endorsements
165
**WARNING: Mega-list ahead**

So you're seeking some good ol' (or new) Thrash Metal and you don't know where to look? Recommendations are running low and you're tired of wandering…
1. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
2. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
3. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
4. Slayer - Show No Mercy
5. Dr. Know - Plug-In Jesus
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My Favourite Black Metal Albums

A list by
Alien1988
Created
May 14, 2014
Entries
228
Endorsements
38
- My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
1. Windir - Arntor
2. Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver
3. Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée
4. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
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Guide To First Wave Of Black Metal

A list by
ANGEL REAPER
Created
May 13, 2013
Entries
17
Endorsements
24
This list is a guide to the first wave of Black Metal.
Releases here are considered to be a part of the first wave
or they stylistically are similar to the first wave bands.
Some releases are of thrash/death…
1. Venom - Welcome To Hell
2. Venom - Black Metal
3. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
4. Slayer - Show No Mercy
5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
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Top 50: My Favourite EPs

A list by
Hex_Omega
Created
September 18, 2014
Entries
50
Endorsements
18
1. Ulver - A Quick Fix Of Melancholy
2. Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons
3. Cradle Of Filth - Vempire
4. Vader - The Art Of War
5. Darkestrah - Khagan
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Misplaced Title Tracks - Songs That Are Not On The Album They Title

A list by
Plattner
Created
April 08, 2023
Entries
107
Endorsements
15
It is a common concept that many albums share the title with one of their songs, the title track.
However, there are a few examples of songs that have not been included in the album of the same name but…
1. AC/DC - High Voltage (Australia)
2. AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
3. Amorphis - Circle
4. Arch Enemy - Black Earth
5. At The Gates - Gardens Of Grief
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Most Iconic Metal Album Covers (No Order) (More Coming Soon)

A list by
Iron Nostarion
Created
October 01, 2011
Entries
59
Endorsements
11
Some of these albums are known just when you see their album cover. They are usually iconic albums (whether positively or negatively) and one can easily identify them even if they were zoomed out tons…
1. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
3. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
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The "Must Have" And The "Could Have" Metal Albums Of The 80's

A list by
Tzo
Created
August 25, 2013
Entries
211
Endorsements
11
These are the 211 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer" (August 2001 issue).

The albums followed by a star are the "must…
1. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
2. AC/DC - Back In Black
3. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
4. Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
5. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
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That Cold Black Magic, By Glenn Killer And His Thorchestra

A list by
ScreamingSteelUS
Created
March 31, 2015
Entries
612
Endorsements
10
As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't…
1. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
2. Sigh - Graveward
3. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
4. Sigh - Heir To Despair
5. The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew
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Top 20 Albums Of 1984

A list by
JCJen7
Created
January 17, 2012
Entries
20
Endorsements
9
Metal Albums from 1984
1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
4. Dio - The Last In Line
5. Trouble - Psalm 9
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Mast's Top Death Picks

A list by
a MasT
Created
October 02, 2011
Entries
25
Endorsements
8
1. Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
2. Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
3. Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
4. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
5. Obscura - Omnivium
+ 20 more

Metal Band Names Inspired By Other Bands

A list by
Plattner
Created
August 07, 2024
Entries
195
Endorsements
8
This is an alphabetical list of metal/hard rock band names that were inspired by the work of other music artists (album or song titles, lyrics, group names, instruments, etc). The list shows the first…
1. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
2. Accept - Accept
3. Ad Infinitum - Chapter I: Monarchy
4. Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
5. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
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Thrash Effect

A list by
ScreamingSteelUS
Created
May 16, 2016
Entries
519
Endorsements
7
Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal…
1. Slayer - Reign In Blood
2. Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
3. Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety
4. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
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Some Excellent Metal EPs

A list by
Vasil de Shumen
Created
March 18, 2013
Entries
131
Endorsements
6
1. Nuclear Assault - The Plague
2. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
3. Helloween - Helloween EP
4. Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
5. Warlord - Deliver Us
+ 126 more

1st Wave Black Metal

A list by
Electric Messiah
Created
May 07, 2019
Entries
48
Endorsements
5
1st Wave of Black Metal. Most bands here may not be considered black metal as we know it today or even in the 2nd wave, but had some sort of influence of the genre's subject matter, sound and imagery.
1. Bathory - Bathory
2. Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
3. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4. Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom
5. Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath
+ 43 more

Drowned's Most Influential Albums Of All Time.

A list by
Drowned
Created
September 29, 2010
Entries
76
Endorsements
5
One album per band in random order. Will be continued very soon.
1. Rapture - Futile
2. Barathrum - Eerie
3. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4. Band not found - Album not found
5. Obituary - Cause Of Death
+ 71 more