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Top 200 Metal Masterpieces of All Time

RANKING CRITERIA :

- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]

Neither popularity among fans nor commercial success (or unsuccess)…

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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Created by Vasil de Shumen on 10.03.2012



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My Favorite 40 Metal Albums Ever (+5...)

Overhauled as of May 10th, 2012! Top 5 favorite non-metal albums featured at the bottom.

This is a much improved (and more recently accurate) reworking of my previous favorite albums list, with a few…

1.Crimson Glory - Transcendence
2.Anubis Gate - The Detached
3.Artillery - By Inheritance
4.Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
5.Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance

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Created by strade on 15.02.2011



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Old-school Metal: The Must-haves

The must-have albums of old school heavy metal. Includes genres like Traditional, NWOBHM, U.S.P.M., Speed, Epic, Doom, and prog.

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
2.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4.Crimson Glory - Transcendence
5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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Created by Jagermeister on 07.03.2015



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Empowering Albums For Powerless Losers

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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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 19.09.2019



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Top 30 Favorite Cds.

These are probably my favorite cds. Although there are many many others I think this list defines my musical tastes pretty much.

1.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
2.Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
3.King Diamond - Abigail
4.Rush - 2112
5.Shadow Gallery - Carved In Stone

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Created by ponderer on 25.09.2010



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Fates Warning Albums Ranked

All Fates Warning albums ranked from best to worst, also include the three releases done by Arch and Matheos (basically Fates Warning). Phenomenal band that has held the prog metal flag high and released…

1.Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
2.Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal
3.Fates Warning - Disconnected
4.Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
5.Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance

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Created by majormalfunction on 12.12.2020



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TOP ALBUMS OF 1985

1.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
2.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
3.Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood
5.Helloween - Helloween

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Created by achil on 27.09.2014



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Favorite Album For Each Year since 1967

1.The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
2.Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Deep Purple - In Rock
5.Deep Purple - Fireball

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Created by Antares8001 on 29.05.2017



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A Progressive Metal Journey

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2.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
3.Slauter Xstoyes - Winter Kill
4.Watch Tower - Energetic Disassembly
5.Trilogy - Life On Earth

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Created by Floflo79 on 04.06.2015



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Top 20 Heavy Metal Albums Of 1985

1.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
2.Avenger (GER) - Prayers Of Steel
3.W.A.S.P. - The Last Command
4.Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage
5.Accept - Metal Heart

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 20.12.2013



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My Top 100 Best Metal Albums Of All Time (Unfinished)

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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Created by Alban JP on 24.04.2023



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Metal Blade 40 Years Tribute

The most iconic record label in the 80”s metal, created by Brian Slagel 40 years A go and released the greatest records in metal history . The Label released more than 1.000 bands from Goo Goo Dolls to…

1.Slayer - Show No Mercy
2.Trouble - Psalm 9
3.Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation
4.Slayer - Hell Awaits
5.Fates Warning - No Exit

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Created by Blackcrowe on 10.03.2022



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Fates Warning Best To Worst

1.Fates Warning - Parallels
2.Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray
3.Fates Warning - Disconnected
4.Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
5.Fates Warning - FWX

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 15.12.2021



Top 15 Metal Albums Of 1985

1.Destruction - Infernal Overkill
2.Dokken - Under Lock And Key
3.Exodus - Bonded By Blood
4.Overkill - Feel The Fire
5.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

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Created by emaguzze98 on 02.05.2018



TOP 10 ALBUMS 1985

1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
2.Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
4.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
5.Accept - Metal Heart

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Created by rivendel on 08.01.2014