1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2.Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

3.Judas Priest - British Steel

4.AC/DC - Back In Black

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

3.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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All my favourite songs ranked in order best down.

1.Rush - 2112

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Jethro Tull - Aqualung

4.Rainbow - Rising

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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I love instrumentals (songs without vocals)!
One doesn't need words to convey a message and evoke emotions. Instrumentals also show how metal is very closely related to classical music!
These are my favorite instrumental songs. (There are some songs that contain a few spoken words. These I denote with *)
Suggestions are appreciated! Enjoy!

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Summoning - Minas Morgul

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

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

Non-Metal mentions:
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field (Goth)

1.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

5.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

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My top ranked (in order from best down) favorite hard rock/heavy metal albums. I've also one included my top three favorite tracks from each album.

Enjoy!

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Rush - Hemispheres

4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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**Trigger warning**

Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.

I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent update) - some of them multiple times - so I feel I can give my honest opinion.

The purpose of this is to list and order the albums that I simply don't "get" and to try re-listening to them in the hope of understanding why they've received so many 9 and 10 votes.

Ordered by my rating then MS rating then number of votes.

Updated: 03-Jan-24

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Anathema - Judgement

2.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

3.Anathema - Alternative 4

4.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

5.Motörhead - Overkill

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Best to Worst

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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One of, if not THE, greatest band there ever been. Iron Maiden rocked the world right from the start and released more classic album than pretty much any other band. My introduction to Iron Maiden was hearing A Real Live One and A Real Dead One probably a year before Brave New World was released, I was hooked, I knew from that point that this band was something special and that heavy metal was my kind of music.

1.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

4.Iron Maiden - The X Factor

5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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It is ranking of my favourite and most-listen Maiden albums.

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

4.Iron Maiden - The X Factor

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - The X Factor

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Before we start a few things
I Rule: Up The Irons!
II Rule: A Perfect cover will get a special mark " 🤘 " and then comes my pure subjective view that will always be different from yours. album with \m/ vs album without \m/ but a little bit higher = still both amazing ! i can not choose T_T don't push me! i can feel it it'll be too pity T_T
III Rule: Black Sabbath Effect(Positive side) - When you look from afar on the cover of the album and it seems incredibly classy,gorgeous and cool, but when you try to see what's happening there, only one thing comes to mind "WHAT THE F...?"
IV Rule: Rules for fools stop reading them! and let's rock
Large Version of Bruce's middle finger for real freaks https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/d9/5a/bfd95ab8cd25909c0f3c18db6f71ab86.jpg

1.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

2.Prologue - Dance Of Death was the only nightmare from maiden after that are coming only good ones or actually wait a minute

3.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

4.Iron Maiden - Virtual XI

5.Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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Creating an Iron Maiden list in 2019 is rather redundant, since it's already been done to death here. But having seen a lot of lists (none of them I agree with) and having listened to some Iron Maiden lately, I thought I'd make my own list.

1.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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The best albums of 1980

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Judas Priest - British Steel

4.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

5.Rush - Permanent Waves

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