Lists by Vasil de Shumen
MOST OVERLOOKED Albums of All Time
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Heavy Load - Full Speed At High Level |
| 3. | Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour |
| 4. | Fatal Opera - Fatal Opera |
| 5. | Sacred Blade - Of The Sun + Moon |
| + 526 more |
Top 200 Metal Masterpieces Of All Time
RANKING CRITERIA :
- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]
- Originality [ 35% of the rating ]
- Songwriting [ 35% of the rating ]
- Performance [ 30% of the rating ]
| 1. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 2. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| 3. | Metallica - Master Of Puppets |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind |
| + 195 more |
Best Of Us Thrash [ Without The Big Four ]
RANKING CRITERIA :
1. Originality
2. Songwriting
3. Vigorous performance
1. Originality
2. Songwriting
3. Vigorous performance
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Overkill - Feel The Fire |
| 3. | Nuclear Assault - Game Over |
| 4. | Wrathchild America - 3-D |
| 5. | Toxik - World Circus |
| + 203 more |
Best Albums Of The New Millennium
On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg
| 1. | Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil |
| 2. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 3. | Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years |
| 4. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 5. | Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine |
| + 618 more |
Best Metal Albums Of Decade 90'S
| 1. | Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers |
| 2. | Megadeth - Rust In Peace |
| 3. | Death - The Sound Of Perseverance |
| 4. | Pantera - Cowboys From Hell |
| 5. | Death - Symbolic |
| + 259 more |
The Art of Early Hard Music
Only studio albums ordered by release year.
| 1. | The Doors - The Doors |
| 2. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced |
| 3. | Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum |
| 4. | Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple |
| 5. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland |
| + 73 more |
Some Excellent Metal EPs
| 1. | Nuclear Assault - The Plague |
| 2. | Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate |
| 3. | Helloween - Helloween EP |
| 4. | Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling |
| 5. | Warlord - Deliver Us |
| + 126 more |
The Beatles - Best Metal Covers
- limited to one cover per song
- only metal performances
- only metal performances
| 1. | Coroner - Mental Vortex |
| 2. | Realm - Endless War |
| 3. | Fatal Opera - The Eleventh Hour |
| 4. | Soundgarden - Hands All Over |
| 5. | Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil |
| + 6 more |
Top 12 Metal Voices
| 1. | Ronnie James Dio - Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio |
| 2. | Rob Halford - Judas Priest, Halford |
| 3. | Bruce Dickinson - Iron Maiden |
| 4. | Kim Bendix Petersen - Mercyful Fate, King Diamond |
| 5. | Ozzy Osbourne - Black Sabbath |
| + 7 more |
Top 14 Greatest Metal Guitarists
RANKING CRITERIA:
1. Originality
2. Songwriting
3. Performance
4. Influence
1. Originality
2. Songwriting
3. Performance
4. Influence
| 1. | Tony Iommi - Black Sabbath |
| 2. | Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen |
| 3. | Thomas Vetterli - Coroner |
| 4. | Yngwie Malmsteen - Steeler, Alcatrazz, Yngwie Malmsteen |
| 5. | Criss Oliva - Savatage |
| + 9 more |
CHASTAIN albums ranked by quality
| 1. | Chastain - Ruler Of The Wasteland |
| 2. | Chastain - The Voice Of The Cult |
| 3. | Chastain - The 7th Of Never |
| 4. | Chastain - Mystery Of Illusion |
| 5. | Chastain - For Those Who Dare |
| + 5 more |
MOST OVERLOOKED Bands
| 1. | Anacrusis - technical/progressive thrash metal ; best albums: Screams And Whispers, Manic Impressions |
| 2. | Fatal Opera - technical thrash/heavy metal with stoner/prog influences ; best album: The Eleventh Hour |
| 3. | Hammers Of Misfortune - progressive metal with folk influences ; best album: The Locust Years |
| 4. | Legend (JER) - New Wave Of British Heavy Metal ; best albums: Legend, Death In The Nursery |
| 5. | Holy Terror - thrash metal ; best album: Mind Wars |
| + 26 more |
Top 10 Medieval Composers
| 1. | Guillaume de Machaut - c.1300 - 1377, French |
| 2. | Pérotin - 13th century, French |
| 3. | Léonin (Magister Leonius) - c.1150s - c.1201, French |
| 4. | Ioannis Koukouzelis - c. 1280 - 1360, Byzantine, Bulgarian |
| 5. | Francesco Landini - c.1325/35 - 1397, Italian |
| + 5 more |
Top 12 Renaissance Composers
| 1. | Guillaume Dufay - 1397? - 1474, Franco-Flemish |
| 2. | Josquin des Prez - c.1450/55 - 1521, Franco-Flemish |
| 3. | Johannes Ockeghem - 1410-25 - 1497, Franco-Flemish school |
| 4. | Orlande de Lassus - 1532 - 1594, Franco-Flemish |
| 5. | Claudio Monteverdi - 1567 bap. - 1643, Italian |
| + 7 more |
Top 12 Baroque Composers
| 1. | Johann Sebastian Bach - 1685 - 1750, German |
| 2. | Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - 1678 - 1741, Italian |
| 3. | Georg Friedrich Händel - 1685 - 1759, German |
| 4. | Henry Purcell - 1659 - 1695, English |
| 5. | Claudio Monteverdi - 1567 - 1643, Italian |
| + 7 more |