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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I excluded some of my favourite albums that I don't accept as metal. While top 10 represents albums I listened to over the years, the rest of the list better represent where I stand today.

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Dio - Holy Diver

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

5.In Flames - Clayman

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Influences, avantgarde, progressive, thrash & others.

1.Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Toxik - Think This

4.Coroner - No More Color

5.Danny Elfman - Batman

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1.Death - Human

2.Opeth - Still Life

3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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1.Van Halen - Women And Children First

2.Rush - Moving Pictures

3.Rush - Signals

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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That's my list.

1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

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

4.Therion - Vovin

5.Opeth - Morningrise

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The best albums of the best metalheads there are and there were on earth.

1.Death - Symbolic

2.Opeth - Orchid

3.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Helloween - The Dark Ride

4.Opeth - Deliverance

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

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In progress top 100 albums in no order yet…

1.Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies

2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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My top prog albums. The list will be regularly updated.

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Gojira - Magma

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My favorite metal albums sorted alphabetically by band name and chronological by release date.

1.Æther Realm - Tarot

2.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

3.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

4.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

5.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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Collected thanks to Last.fm. Looks like there's been an odd mixture of brutal death metal, symphonic deathcore, old school death metal and... power metal (among others) because i'm a fantasy enjoyer.

1.Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth

2.Immolation - Acts Of God

3.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

4.Meshuggah - Immutable

5.Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

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