Pretty straightforward. My Personal Top 20 Metal Album of All Time. Best float to the top!

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

3. Meshuggah - Chaosphere

4. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

5. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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One of the best year in history of heavy metal music.

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3. Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

4. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.

5. Gravestone - Victim Of Chains

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1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

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We all have our favorite albums that speak to us all as individuals, these are the 50 albums at the moment that really speak to me.

1. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

5. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

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1. Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods

2. Amon Amarth - Versus the World

3. Battlelore - Evernight

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

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1. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5. Metallica - Death Magnetic

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1. Accept - Balls To The Wall

2. Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3. Accept - Eat The Heat

4. Adagio - Underworld

5. Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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Only Awesome Albums (OAA)

1. Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja I

2. Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja II

3. Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd

4. Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet

5. Wuthering Heights - Salt

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This list is probably very similar to many MS lists. These are just the albums that made sense when going through my collection. I find it really hard to make a list of my favorites since there are so many albums/bands to pick from, so I limited myself to albums I physically own. This list is not definite and it's not a very good representation of my musical taste, since I haven't listened to most of these albums in a while.
1 album/band (except for Judas Priest, because fuck you)
Ordered alphabetically
Updated to 30

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

3. The Bishop Of Hexen - The Nightmarish Compositions

4. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

5. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

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These are the 100 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer". (August 2001)

The albums followed by a star are the "must have", whereas the rest albums are the "could have".

1. Angel Witch - Angel Witch

2. AC/DC - Back In Black

3. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

4. Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

5. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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1. Warning - Watching From A Distance

2. Aquilus - Griseus

3. King Diamond - Abigail

4. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5. Candlemass - Nightfall

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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These are my favourite metal albums (placed alphabetically, by band name)
The list will be updated from time to time
PS Please comment on this list and recommend me great albums, cheers

1. Anthrax - Persistence Of Time

2. Artillery - By Inheritance

3. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

4. Coroner - No More Color

5. Death - Spiritual Healing

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Here is my personnal top 50 Thrash Metal album of all time, order by my preference. (even if it's really hard to order after the top 20 )
Feel free to suggest me some I've forgot to mention, there's so much excellent band and I should have not listen to all of them ! ^^
In my opinion, the best style to see live !!

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Slayer - Reign In Blood

4. Vektor - Black Future

5. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

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Some albums are really good. Many of these are good all the way around. And, in many cases, there is a single song that stands out, sometimes it's the last song on the album. This is a list of those songs.

For a more in depth look at this, I've codified each into a given category:
Type 1 - 'The long song at the end.' Often the title track. These have a tendency to be most well written and dynamic pieces on the album.

1. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2. Abigail Williams - Becoming

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5. Anekdoten - Vemod

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