1. Smothered - The Inevitable End

2. Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy

3. Lamb of God - Sacrament

4. Lamb of God - Wrath

5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

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only studio albums, sorted by year of release, list under construction, includes also some hard rock / AOR

1. Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

2. Rainbow - Rising

3. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4. Journey - Escape

5. Journey - Frontiers

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My most listened to and favourite albums in my collection.

1. AC/DC - High Voltage

2. AC/DC - Highway To Hell

3. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

4. Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns

5. Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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My musical journey seems to be radically different to most that I've seen, so here are some defining albums (one per band) for my taste in list form. There are, of course, quite a few here that I don't listen to anymore.

Generally chronological.

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3. Muse - Absolution

4. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

5. Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures

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I'm bored, so I'm doing this. My technique involves going to the page of every thrash band I've listened to, pulling out their top three albums that I'd rate over 8.5/10 (if there are three) and placing them in the list.

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

2. Coroner - No More Color

3. Coroner - Mental Vortex

4. Toxik - Think This

5. Slayer - Reign in Blood

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The order chosen was not one of favoritism or competition between bands & genres. Instead i put it in chronologic publication order. It's quite dificult to think which album is better than the other cause there are so many different ways to express ourselfs in music that I must say: sometimes the songs i love the most...cant listem in specific states of mind.
The albums i chose were important in some part of my live. Some of them i don't listen for a lot of years, others i dont quite remember them. But i remenber what i felt at the time.

1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3. Deep Purple - In Rock

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

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What can Deadone say about 1980s metal that already hasn't been said? Not much at all.

So here's a list of my favourite stuff from this amazing era.

1. Alice In Chains - Facelift

2. Anthrax - Among The Living

3. Anthrax - Persistence Of Time

4. Atheist - Piece Of Time

5. Danzig - Danzig

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Metal albums (and yes, I consider metalcore to be metal) that rocked my world, with maximum 2 albums per band sorted by bands in alphabetic order. Live, EP and compilation albums allowed, also including hard rock and stoner rock albums.

It will be updated as I discover new bands so check it sometime

1. Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals

4. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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AtoZ (Album)

1. Sadus - A Vision of Misery

2. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

3. Death Angel - Act III

4. Devin Townsend - Addicted

5. Ihsahn - After

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I was introduced to different types of Metal by these bands which I really liked and got me into the whole genre they are in/made me like it more or shaped my taste in Metal music along the way. Even if they are now, looking back to it (without nostalgic bias) not that great albums or bands, they still make into the list.

1. Teräsbetoni - Metallitotuus

2. Lordi - The Arockalypse

3. Nightwish - Once

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Rhapsody of Fire - The Frozen Tears of Angels

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To walk the path of the metal poseur is to pick the plumpest of mainstream fruits and succour the sweet secretions contained within. It is the art of walking with giants of mainstream underground extremism whilst maintaining one foot firmly on the part of pop monumentalism.

The path is dangerous for the faux fur of metal consumerism is a tempting demon whore that claws at the inner self of underground triumphalism. These are the eagles that soar through the mind galleries of every metal poseur, no matter how compartmentalised their singularity may be.

1. Alice In Chains - Dirt

2. Anthrax - Volume 8 - The Threat Is Real

3. Artillery - By Inheritance

4. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

5. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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This is a collection of solos in metal songs that are friggin' long. Just for shits and giggles.
I don't care for quality; all insanelyfuckinglong metal solos are welcome.

I make the rules up as I go along, but here are a few I've already come up with:
- Let's say "friggin' long" is at least one minute

1. Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

2. Bathory - Hammerheart

3. Beyond Creation - The Aura

4. Cellador - Enter Deception

5. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

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Without repeating bands, not in mega particular order but roughly

I made a playlist so you can listen to a song from each here
http://www.rdio.com/people/Ajdelcholo/playlists/10737071/Songs_from_fav_metal_albums/
(Excluding Tool & Metallica because their music isn't available on Rdio)

1. Behemoth - The Apostasy

2. The Faceless - Autotheism

3. System Of A Down - Mezmerize

4. Machine Head - The Blackening

5. Arch Enemy - War Eternal

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This is the 40 best metal albums for me.

1. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

3. Dream Theater - Images And Words

4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5. Riot - Narita

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1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

4. Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force

5. Scorpions - Love At First Sting

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