Just some of my favorite records of all time. Not really in a particular order besides maybe some of the first few.

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

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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 list of bands ordered by the biggest difference between their highest rated album on MS and their lowest rated album on MS. Finally my Excel skills paid off. Some ratings may be a bit outdated. Open…

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Lulu [Collaboration]

3.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

4.Celtic Frost - Cold Lake

5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Deep Purple - Machine Head

4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

5.Queen - Queen II

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Gotta respect your roots! This is a list of my favorite pre 1980s heavy metal (or heavy metal influence) albums. And yes, of course the first two will be Sabbath and Zeppelin...(Pink Floyd is my favorite…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

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

4.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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In chronological order of release.

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Uriah Heep - Very 'eavy... Very 'umble

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Budgie - Budgie

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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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In no real particular order. These albums are all great.

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Budgie - Budgie

4.Deep Purple - Fireball

5.Uriah Heep - Salisbury

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Unfinished as I still have to catch up on more recent years. Also all of the places on the list are of course subject to change as I discover more music from each year.

My taste is very much centred around…

1.After The Burial - Dig Deep

2.Behemoth - The Satanist

3.Carcass - Surgical Steel

4.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

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Note: these are only for the traditional style of metal borne out of the period of late 60s - late 80s. Modern bands are permitted but they need to be playing in that style.

Recommendations are welcome.

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

4.Deep Purple - In Rock

5.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

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1.Deep Purple - Machine Head

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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Simple. Led Zep's albums ordered in my personal preference.

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

2.Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

3.Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

4.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

5.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

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1.Death - Symbolic

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

4.Carcass - Heartwork

5.Overkill - The Years Of Decay

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1.Rainbow - Rising

2.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

5.AC/DC - Powerage

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1.Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree

2.Vektor - Black Future

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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