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.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

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1.Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal

2.Dream Evil - Evilized

3.Dream Evil - Dragonslayer

4.Dream Evil - In The Night

5.Dream Evil - United

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1.Firewind - Allegiance

2.Firewind - The Premonition

3.Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance

4.Firewind - Burning Earth

5.Firewind - Immortals

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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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Last updated on 25 June 2024.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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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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1.Rage - Unity

2.Easy Rider - Regeneration

3.Eternal Reign - Crimes Of Passion

4.Mastodon - Remission

5.Squealer - Under The Cross

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Must Listen: The First 12…

1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

3.Sentenced - The Cold White Light

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Spiritual Beggars - On Fire

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.D.C. Cooper - D.C. Cooper

2.Dali's Dilemma - Manifesto For Futurism

3.Damim - The Difference Engine

4.Dämmerfarben - Im Abendrot

5.Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations

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This is a list of all the power metal albums I have listened to that are worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to be a definitive guide to power metal or a binding judgment on…

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4.Jag Panzer - Thane To The Throne

5.X Japan - Art Of Life

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1.Primal Fear - Black Sun

2.Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera

3.Wolf - Black Wings

4.Paragon - Law Of The Blade

5.Sentenced - The Cold White Light

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In no order, just the my favorite of that decade.

1.Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came

2.Equilibrium - Sagas

3.The Defaced - Karma In Black

4.Susperia - Vindication

5.Masterplan - Aeronautics

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My favorite songs with dragon in the title of the song...

1.At Vance - Dragonchaser

2.Galloglass - Legends From Now And Nevermore

3.Gloryhammer - Tales From The Kingdom Of Fife

4.Human Fortress - Lord Of Earth And Heaven's Heir

5.Dream Evil - Dragonslayer

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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These are my favorite progressive/power metal albums that I have listened to. Some of them are for musical technique and others are simply because they blew my mind with the crazy story lines or whatever!…

1.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

2.Symphony X - The Odyssey

3.Masterplan - Aeronautics

4.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

5.Theocracy - As The World Bleeds

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