A lot of excellent albums in the Maiden catalogue. My personal ranking (it's probably controversial) is as follows:

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

3.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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1.Primal Fear - Black Sun

2.Grave Digger - Rheingold

3.Wolf - Ravenous

4.Paragon - The Dark Legacy

5.Sentenced - The Funeral Album

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1.Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies

2.Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

3.Damageplan - New Found Power

4.Dying Fetus - Killing On Adrenaline

5.Fear Factory - Archetype

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1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.AC/DC - High Voltage

3.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

4.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

5.Allen/Lande - The Showdown

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same as rym except this obviously limits to metal albums which might be interesting. ah well it just meant iron maiden are 2x more of the albums

1.Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

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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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1.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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1.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

2.Astral Doors - Astralism

3.Obsession - Carnival Of Lies

4.Sabaton - Attero Dominatus

5.Lordi - The Arockalypse

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My personal opinion rankings of Iron Maidens albums from favorite to least favorite.*

*Technically subject to seemingly unlikely change.

1.Iron Maiden - Killers

2.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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I've been a big Maiden fan for many a year and I always had my favourite four or five albums, but what I've done here is listened to each album again in the order of their release and given each song a score out of ten and then got the average for each album.
I've also tried to take into account production, artwork and musicianship etc, but ultimately it's the songs that make the album imo.
It's strictly my taste and I know it will differ from some people's choices but hey ho...enjoy!

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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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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1.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Dio - Holy Diver

4.Dio - Magica

5.Dio - The Last In Line

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These are my favourite albums of all time, the best being first. This is obviously all my own opinion, so please don't shit all over my musical tastes, especially since I am a fan of melodic music, which a lot of people don't seem to like anymore. All these albums have touched me in one way or another and they are all albums I can listen to again and again without ever getting bored.

1.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

2.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

3.Sentenced - The Cold White Light

4.Wintersun - Time I

5.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

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It's about time I made one. :^)

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

4.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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