Lists by Aristarchos
Songs From The 60's And The 70's I Think Every Metal Fan Should Have Heard
This is a mix of my personal favourite 60's and 70's hard rock/metal songs and the more influential ones, songs that I think every metal fan need to hear. A mix of the most well-known songs to…
| 1. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced |
| 2. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love |
| 3. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love |
| 4. | Cream - Disraeli Gears |
| 5. | Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum |
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Most Overlooked Metal Albums
Albums I love that, at the moment, have at most 20 votes on this site. Ordered genre-wise, and not quality-wise.
| 1. | Legend - Fröm The Fjörds |
| 2. | Saracen - Heroes, Saints & Fools |
| 3. | Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer |
| 4. | Demon - Taking The World By Storm |
| 5. | Hellfueled - Born II Rock |
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First examples of songs in different genres
This is a list about what I think could be the first examples of songs in different genres. If you disagree with something or have any opinion of first example of any other genre, just write a comment.
| 1. | Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum |
| 2. | The Kingsmen - The Kingsmen In Person |
| 3. | Him & The Others - She's Got Eyes That Tell Lies (1966): This from where I think we can start calling things for hard rock. |
| 4. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 5. | Deep Purple - Machine Head |
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Top 150 Most Influential Metal Bands Of All Time
Please write your opinions on the list, if you have any. I'm not doing this list because I consider myself as an expert more than other people here, but because I think it is interesting to discuss…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - The first band considered as metal. All their influence could not be described. |
| 2. | Judas Priest - They brought in more melody to metal, added the twin guitar and created the traditional heavy metal sound. |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Has had a huge influence on all kind of melodic metal and also on early thrash metal bands. |
| 4. | Motörhead - The first band to mix metal with punk. Had a major influence on the thrash genre. |
| 5. | Metallica - The first thrash metal band to record an album. Have influenced numerous bands in different genres. |
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My Top 60 Favourite Black Metal Albums
If you have any recommendations on similar albums I might like, you can suggest me.
| 1. | Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic) |
| 2. | Behemoth - Grom |
| 3. | Lutomysl - Catharsis |
| 4. | Furia (POL) - Martwa Polska Jesień |
| 5. | Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations |
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My Favourite Heavy Metal Albums From The 2000's
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…
| 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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My Favourite Metal Albums
I excluded some of my favourite albums that I don't accept as metal. While top 10 represents albums I listened to over the years, the rest of the list better represent where I stand today.
| 1. | Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| 2. | Dio - Holy Diver |
| 3. | Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II |
| 4. | Iron Maiden - Brave New World |
| 5. | In Flames - Clayman |
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My Top 60 Favourite Death Metal Albums (including melodeath and deathrash)
I know some of the albums are more thrash than death, but I added them anyway, because I guess they could appeal to death metal fans too. Many of the albums are not so well-known, but I prefer them over…
| 1. | In Flames - Clayman |
| 2. | The Crown - Eternal Death |
| 3. | Sororicide - The Entity |
| 4. | Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum |
| 5. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
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