My top 10 all time favorite female Metal Vocalist!!!!!…

1.Arch Enemy - Angela Gossow

2.Nightwish - Tarja Turunen

3.Within Temptation - Sharon Den Adel

4.Evanescence - Amy Lee

5.Cradle Of Filth - Ashley "Ellyllon" Jurgemeyer

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My personal top-list, limited to one album per band. I only add albums that I own physical copies of.

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2.Pan.thy.monium - Khaooos & Kon-Fus-Ion

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Wintersun - Wintersun

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In any order and one song from the band only!!
My Top 15 Headbanging Songs…

1.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

2.Killswitch Engage - This Fire Burns

3.Metallica - From Whom The Bell Tolls

4.Slayer - Raining Blood

5.Eluveitie - Inis Mona

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From my generation (well, sorta). In order of preference but subject to change.
Please excuse Concrete Blonde and King's X; neither is really metal, but I love them both!…

1.Artillery - By Inheritance

2.Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance

3.Running Wild - Black Hand Inn

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence

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List of the albums that surprised me this year (2011). Some of the albums were even more unexpected because it was my first contact with the bands. Others were confirmations.
Oh, how I like good surprises...

1.Grayceon - All We Destroy

2.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

3.TesseracT - One

4.Appearance Of Nothing - All Gods Are Gone

5.Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling

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Moves up and down depending on mood, but top 25-30 usually the same in varying order…

1.Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

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

4.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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Long time fan of Stratovarius. I've comprised my best to worst albums in my own opinion. I excluded EPs and live albums to focus on full lengths.

1.Stratovarius - Visions

2.Stratovarius - Infinite

3.Stratovarius - Nemesis

4.Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension

5.Stratovarius - Elysium

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These are just what I consider to be the 25 BEST thrash metal albums ever produced. These are all studio albums. In no particular order…

1.Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

2.Metal Church - The Dark

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Evildead - Annihilation Of Civilization

5.Sacred Reich - Ignorance

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My 10 Favorite Front Men/Women in order.

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This is my personal top 20 albums of all time. 1 to 10 in no order, and 11 to 20 in no order.

1.Alice In Chains - Dirt

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Faith No More - Angel Dust

4.Sepultura - Arise

5.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

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In no particular order... all of them are great!!…

1.Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit

2.Brutality - When The Sky Turns Black

3.Convulse - World Without God

4.Demilich - Nespithe

5.Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

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We all have those albums we cherish, whether they had a unique impact on our tastes, were the soundtrack for that one amazing summer we'll never forget, or just plain blew us away the first time we…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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I've been into Hardrock/Metal since I was 9 years or so (that's now 5/6 years ago) and here's some turning point albums…

1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Obituary - Xecutioner's Return

4.Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness

5.Autopsy - Acts Of The Unspeakable

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No Real Order, just Great Albums!…

1.Dio - Holy Diver

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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

2.Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

3.Opeth - Blackwater Park

4.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth

5.Nevermore - Dead Heart, In A Dead World

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