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.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers

3.Nine Inch Nails - Broken

4.Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated

5.Tiamat - Clouds

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1.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

2.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

3.Darkthrone - Old Star

4.Darkthrone - Ravishing Grimness

5.Darkthrone - Panzerfaust

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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.Bathory - Bathory

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Mayhem - Deathcrush

4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

5.Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon

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1.Three Days Grace - One-X

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

4.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

5.Suicide Silence - The Cleansing

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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.Arch Enemy - Black Earth

4.Architects - Ruin

5.Ayreon - The Final Experiment

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Nibiru - Anamorphosis

5.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

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This is a list of black metal (and blackened metal) albums based on their artwork (in reverse alphabetical order). It includes iconic cover art from classic albums as well as fascinating work from more…

1.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

2.Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers

3.Watain - Lawless Darkness

4.Vreid - Lifehunger

5.Venom - Black Metal

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1992, was another great year the biggest surprise for me from this year was the amount…

1.Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Alice In Chains - Dirt

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

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1.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

2.Burzum - Filosofem

3.Burzum - Det Som Engang Var

4.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

5.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

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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 I deem essential or at least…

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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I like to create playlists for fun when I'm not busy. Usually, though, I abandon them soon after. I want this playlist to be a bit different - perhaps not infinitely useful, but I associate all these songs…

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Immolation - Close To A World Below

3.Vader - Impressions In Blood

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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Note: Tool intentionally ommitted because they don't consider themselves metal. Otherwise you'd see their first 4 albums in top 25.

Last updated: 27 March 2024.

1.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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(Easiest choice for number one so far)

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

Honourable mentions:
Deicide - Legion (Death)
Candlemass - Chapter VI (Doom)
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction…

1.Alice In Chains - Dirt

2.Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ

3.Obituary - The End Complete

4.Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

5.Holy Moses - Reborn Dogs

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