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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1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

3.Rush - 2112

4.AC/DC - Back In Black

5.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

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1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

3.Rush - 2112

4.Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding

5.Wastefall - Self Exile

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1.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

2.AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

3.Triumph - Just A Game

4.AC/DC - High Voltage

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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1.Blackfoot - Flyin' High

2.Lucifer's Friend - Mind Exploding

3.Rainbow - Rising

4.Rush - 2112

5.Scorpions - Virgin Killer

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1.Rush - Moving Pictures

2.Rush - Permanent Waves

3.Rush - Hemispheres

4.Rush - A Farewell To Kings

5.Rush - Signals

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

1.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

2.Rainbow - Rising

3.Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy

4.Led Zeppelin - Presence

5.Scorpions - Virgin Killer

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1.Rainbow - Rising

2.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

3.Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

4.Rory Gallagher - Calling Card

5.Ted Nugent - Free For All

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This is unfinished…

1.Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

2.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

3.Alestorm - Back Through Time

4.Almôra - Gates Of Time

5.Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Rush - 2112

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