These albums are currently on my iPod. This is also my first list on MS. Last couple of albums aren't metal, but worth a mention. What do you think?

1. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I

2. Metallica - Master of Puppets

3. Metallica - ...And Justice for All

4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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This list of the best thrash albums of all time, plain and simple, no hipster crap.

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Artillery - By Inheritance

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Slayer - Reign In Blood

5. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

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Technical and Progressive albums. Pretty much alphabetical order. comment for suggestions. If I added a band but didn't put all the albums, its because I never got around to listening to their complete discography or didn't find it technical or progressive.

1. After The Burial - Rareform

2. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

3. Animals As Leaders - Weightless

4. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare

5. August Burns Red - Messengers

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1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3. Judas Priest - Stained Class

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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The very best thrash albums (one album per band)

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

2. Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare

3. Slayer - Reign in Blood

4. Exodus - Bonded by Blood

5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

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One album per band.

1. Slayer - Reign In Blood

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4. Overkill - Horrorscope

5. Testament - The New Order

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1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Metallica - Metallica

4. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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1. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

2. Devildriver - The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand

3. Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer

4. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

5. Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache

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A cross selection of Thrash, Old School, Progressive, Power and Hair Metal.

1. Five Finger Death Punch - The Way Of The Fist

2. Overkill - The Years Of Decay

3. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

4. AC/DC - Back In Black

5. Crimson Glory - Transcendence

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Long hair, tight jeans, tons of chicks. Thrash metal at it's finest.

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Slayer - Reign In Blood

4. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5. Artillery - By Inheritance

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Damn, just realized it's changing weekly

1. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

2. Rainbow - Rising

3. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

4. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

5. Ark - Burn The Sun

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band
Favorite tracks included.

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Just for my favorite
2012.11.25 update

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3. Testament - The Legacy

4. Anthrax - Among The Living

5. Sacred Reich - The American Way

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Based on the original BBC radio program from 1942 that asked "if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of needles".

Pretty f&rkin' hard to choose just eight albums but I've given it a go. Hope it never happens because I'd probably get sick of these awesome albums after just a few weeks - then what!?

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

2. Faith No More - The Real Thing

3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

4. Alice in Chains - Dirt

5. In Flames - The Jester Race

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1. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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