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.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

2.Slayer - Hell Awaits

3.Virgin Steele - Noble Savage

4.Kreator - Endless Pain

5.Running Wild - Branded And Exiled

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A list of my favorite album covers…

1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

2.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Motörhead - Motörhead

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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1.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

2.Slayer - Show No Mercy

3.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Voivod - War And Pain

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This is an alphabetical list of metal songs and albums that inspired the names of other artists.

While comparable lists often focus on the band name and explain its origin, this list turns the point…

1.Amebix - No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings

2.Anathema - Alternative 4

3.Anathema - Weather Systems

4.Arch Enemy - Black Earth

5.Architects - Ruin

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This list is my top 100 played albums ordered by the number of "scrobbles" since 2013 according to last.fm, if you also have a last.fm account, don't hesitate to follow me.
My last.fm user:…

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.

3.W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children

4.Kreator - Enemy Of God

5.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

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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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What seems the most important albums for me in chronological order.
I wish I could carry the list year after year to see how my tastes changed and new findings.
I can help but notice that old albums immediately…

1.Frank Zappa - Freak Out

2.The Who - Tommy

3.Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat

4.Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

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

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1.Sigh - In Somniphobia

2.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

3.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien

4.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

5.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

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1.Venom - Welcome To Hell

2.Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate

3.Venom - Black Metal

4.Sodom - Witching Metal

5.666 - Nekrofilie

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Kreator - Endless Pain (Thrash)
Destruction - Infernal Overkill (Thrash)
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business…

1.Pentagram - Pentagram

2.Slayer - Hell Awaits

3.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

4.Trouble - The Skull

5.Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die

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Not my genre so this is a pretty limpdicked list.

Inc. Avant Garde Metal because I'm a Philistine who can't tell the difference.

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5.Death - Symbolic

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An ongoing list for personal use as well as for reference for beginners (& veterans alike). This is solely my personal opinion and taste (Death & Prog mostly but do give every genre a try). Basically…

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

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

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

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These are MY Top 250 Albums that are featured on Metal Storm in chronological order to celebrate 50 Years of Metal.

Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

5.Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

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A (most probably incomplete) list of albums on which I really enjoy only a single song (in alphabetical order, excluding one-track albums).
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with…

1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Amorphis - Far From The Sun

3.Annihilator - Set The World On Fire

4.Asphyx - The Rack

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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