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Best Shit I've Heard, No Particular Order

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood
2.Obituary - Cause Of Death
3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4.Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
5.Venom - Black Metal

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Created by rado on 07.03.2024



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Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums

Thrash was one of the first metal genres I got into around 2005. I discovered Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, etc through Kerrang! magazine and their albums quickly became my favourites at the time. Now, I've discovered many more such as Vektor, Testament and Nevermore thanks to MS.

So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of thrash metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Created by nonZero on 04.03.2024



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Top 200 Metal Releases Of All Time

I have finally caved in and made a top 200 list. The main focus here is metal, so no Rush, no King Crimson, Deep Purple, or GY!BE are in the list, but I do still love those bands and others that could have qualified.
The list mostly contains albums, but some EPs, demos, splits, and compilations are also featured every now and then. I also tried to avoid including demos or EPs that were too short but there’s still a few of them.
Enjoy!

1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
2.Windir - Arntor
3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
4.Sigh - Hangman's Hymn: Musikalische Exequien
5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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Created by Roman Doez on 21.02.2024



TOP 50 POWER/HEAVY/Hardrock 1990-1999

1.Queensrÿche - Promised Land
2.The Cult - The Cult
3.AC/DC - Ballbreaker
4.Praying Mantis - Forever In Time
5.Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

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Created by jeffster69 on 15.02.2024



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The Top Albums Of Ch'ti

This is my top albums (only with those where I gave 8 or more). I will update the list now and then

1.Slipknot - Iowa
2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5.Slipknot - Slipknot

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Created by Ch'ti on 06.02.2024



My Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal Albums

My Top 30 Favorite Thrash/Speed Metal albums in alphabetical band order

1.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
2.Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
3.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
4.Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow
5.Artillery - By Inheritance

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Created by toastb on 26.12.2023



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F3ynman's Top 50 Most Frequently Listened-to Albums Of 2023

Merry Christmas, my fellow metalheads!

I present to you my top 50 most frequently listened-to albums of the year 2023, ordered by number of full listens.

In other words, here are the albums that I've been most obsessively addicted to over the past year!

Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

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Last year's edition: F3ynman's Top 50 Most Frequently Listened-to Albums Of 2022


1.Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
2.Japanische Kampfhörspiele - Welt Ohne Werbung
3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
4.Necrovation - Storm The Void / Starving Grave
5.Vitriolic Sage - 梦路

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Created by F3ynman2000 on 24.12.2023



My All Time Favorites

These CDs are on the highest shelf

1.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal
2.Anthrax - Among The Living
3.Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
4.Biohazard - State Of The World Address
5.Biohazard - Nativity In Black - A Tribute To Black Sabbath

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Created by cynicoren on 16.10.2023



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My All Time Top 26 Metal Albums

My favorite 26 albums in metal

1.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
2.In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
3.Agalloch - Pale Folklore
4.Opeth - Blackwater Park
5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Created by ScarFury on 04.08.2023



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Essential Music For Phone

Bands in my daily listening rotation. Albums chosen are my favorite by the respective band in most cases 🤘

1.200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel
2.A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
3.Abbath - Abbath
4.Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
5.Æther Realm - Tarot

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Created by em6568 on 13.07.2023



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Let`s Have Some Pvn - Word Play In Metal Albvm Titles

The most difficult way to create the title for an album may be to try something that is clever and/or funny.

Likewise, making a list of these titles is also not easy as it would be a very subjective task. In order to apply at least some objective criteria, the resulting (alphabetical) list consists of album titles that contain a pun or pun-related word play ( - possibly even independent of how well these titles worked).

Puns (or pun-related word play examples) rely on (1) the different possible meanings of a word or (2) the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
In addition, this list contains numbers in titles that (3) contribute to the sound of the corresponding word or (4) that fit optically to the written word.

Please feel free to suggest more examples of such album titles for this list, if they fit to one of the criteria 1 – 4 (in order to keep the list in shape).
Still, it would also be interesting, if you could share other clever and/or funny album or song titles in the comments.



1.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
2.Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
3.Alestorm - Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum
4.Anthrax - Attack Of The Killer B's
5.Alice Cooper - The Beast Of Alice Cooper

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Created by Plattner on 29.06.2023



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Song Puzzles: One Song In Several Parts On Different Albums

Some stories, themes or concepts are presented not just in one single song but are split in separate tracks that (often) share the same title but are distinguished by a number of the corresponding part of the song series.

However, sometimes these parts are not found together on one album, but are included on different releases of the artist.
They can be found on two (or more) conceptually linked albums (where they function as part of an ensemble together with the other songs), or they can be included on independent releases (where only they alone continue their story).

Therefore, the main purpose of this list is to give an overview that enables the reader to find the missing song pieces - or even to inform that these pieces exist at all.

Please feel free to find and suggest more examples of these "song jigsaw puzzles": one song(concept) in separate parts on different albums.



1.After Forever - Prison Of Desire
2.Agathodaimon - Higher Art Of Rebellion
3.Agathodaimon - Phoenix
4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age
5.Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut

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Created by Plattner on 28.05.2023



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Favourites

1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
2.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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Created by suryanshkalia on 19.05.2023



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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the genre. Yet, I have barely heard half of what the top 200 has to offer. I am now on a quest to listen to it all and give an honest opinion on what I thought of it.
This list will show every album of the top 200 and if I've listened to it whether it's an all-time favourite of mine (+++), I really like it (++), I like it (+), it’s good (*), it’s not great (-), I really dislike it (--) or I hate it from the bottom of my heart (---). The same symbols will be used to characterize what I think my opinion of the albums I haven't heard yet will be, based on my knowledge of the bands and of the genre they play. (?) signifies that I have no idea of whether I'll enjoy it or not and (/) means that my opinion of the album is probably obsolete, and I need to listen to it again. A ★ means the album is in my own top 200.
Edit: The bottom of the top 200 has been changing a lot, with some stuff formerly in the list now closer to 240th, so this is now a top 250. I’m not sure I want to expand the list further down, but I’ll see whenever it’s completed if I feel like going for a top 300 or something like that.
Best discoveries so far: Wildhoney, Nightfall, Out Of Myself, Portal Of I, Autumn Aurora, Nemesis Divina, Abigail, V: Hävitetty, Sounds Of Pain.

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Roman Doez on 13.04.2023



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Thrash

1.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
2.Slayer - Show No Mercy
3.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal
4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
5.Voivod - War And Pain

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Created by suryanshkalia on 30.03.2023