1.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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The albums that got me into metal in chronological order (in which i first listened to them). These are the first album(s) of different styles that i listened to and made me like those styles. Not my first 10 albums...

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Helloween - Treasure Chest

3.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5.Paradise Lost - Icon

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Disforia - The Age Of Ether

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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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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Because today is the 10 year anniversary of me purchasing my first Iron Maiden album, I decided to do what every other Maiden fan on this site has already done: create an "Iron Maiden album ranking" list. Yes, yet another one. Maiden was my first favourite metal band and remains one of my favourite bands to this day. They also opened up a whole new world of music for me and I can trace most of the stuff I've listened to since back to Maiden, either directly or indirectly. So, without further dudes, let us begin.

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

4.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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This is a list with albums from the 2000's I like. I know that the term heavy metal perhaps always isn't really correct, I don't really care how albums are labeled. I have at least excluded all my extreme metal favourites since they can be found in my other lists.

1.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

2.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

3.Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy

4.Blaze Bayley - Silicon Messiah

5.Dark Forest (UK) - Dawn Of Infinity

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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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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Here I list all the Iron Maiden albums, from my favorite to my least favorite.

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

3.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

4.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

5.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

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This is the most unquestionably difficult ranking I could undertake. The # of albums I consider borderline flawless from each of these bands is ridiculous. Over a dozen albums from these 3 bands have legitimate arguments to be considered the greatest traditional heavy metal album of all time.

I have a few rankings that are likely hot takes here
** Yes, I like Dance of Death more than most folks. Title track and Paschendale are both top 10 Maiden songs, and Montsegur is only a small step behind that. Those 3 songs are better than anything on Brave New World to me, but the rest of BNW is better and higher quality.
** Yes I kinda like Turbo. It's silly but it's fun and the guitar work and Rob's vocals are absolutely stellar. That kinda sucks about Ram It Down, it's got some of Priests' best lead guitar work and I don't think Rob ever sounded better, but dear lord, some of those songs...
As for the top 6 albums here, honestly put them in whatever order you want. They're that close to me and mood depending it could change

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Black Sabbath - Sabotage

5.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

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A ranking of Iron Maiden's studio albums from best to worst

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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Fairly self-explanatory. I don't think I will approach these in any particular order, I'll treat it whimsically. I'm not sure what I'll do once I have familiarized myself with these sufficiently. I might go and leave a comment on the album's page.

Last updated on 4 May 2023.

EDIT: Actually, I'll just go from top to bottom, although sometimes I add albums somewhere near the top of the list.

1.Sakis Tolis - Among The Fires Of Hell

2.Dio - The Last In Line

3.Swallow The Sun - Hope

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Extol - Undeceived

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1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

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