Lists by spiritofvengence
REAL Black Metal!
Everyone thinks of black metal as some satanic subculture of corpse-paint, crappy quality albums, murder, arson and shit originating from Norway in the 1990s. But the real founders of this darkest of metal's…
| 1. | Venom |
| 2. | Mercyful Fate |
| 3. | Bathory |
| 4. | Hellhammer |
The Pantheon Of Metal-Gods
These bands have more or less created the genre and its sub-genres
| 1. | Black Sabbath |
| 2. | Iron Maiden |
| 3. | Venom |
| 4. | Mercyful Fate |
| 5. | Death |
| + 7 more |
Top 15 Metal Albums
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Motörhead - Overkill |
| 3. | Týr - Ragnarok |
| 4. | Kamelot - The Black Halo |
| 5. | Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman |
| + 10 more |
20 Greatest Metal Guitarists
| 1. | Phil Campbell - Possibly the greatest guitarist of all time |
| 2. | Rhandy Roads - The above. Wish he'd been alive long enough to play "Eruption" |
| 3. | Hank Shermann - First solos learned were from him, as well as first guitarist I got into on my own |
| 4. | Thomas Youngblood - Extremely under-rated guitarist |
| 5. | Zakk Wylde - Who knows, maybe he did some of the Mercyful Fate solos I learned also, but his riffs are killer |
| + 15 more |
Most Over-played/Over-rated Metal Albums
Yes, I put Motörhead's most famous album on the list, only because people need to listen to some of their newer (Motörizer) or older (Overkill, Bomber, On Parole) material.
| 1. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 2. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| 3. | Dio - Holy Diver |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Powerslave |
| 5. | Slayer - Reign In Blood |
| + 4 more |