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Greatest Metal Drumming Plus's The Most Influential

My Favorites songs on drums

A tribute to those great drummers
A Huge investigation about the name of those drummers and their best moments and songs

1.Rush - 2112
2.Van Halen - 1984
3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
4.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
5.Dio - The Last In Line

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Created by Blackcrowe on 02.12.2023



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Best Of 1988
 The Year That Defined My Metal Life

While 1987 woke me up to metal and I hoovered up the likes of Iron Maiden, Metallica and Helloween’s keepers, 1988 was my metal heyday and a year that produced albums that would still dominiate my top 20 list today. Lots of power metal and plenty of Noise Records!

1.Manowar - Kings Of Metal
2.Scanner - Hypertrace
3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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Created by billy4metal on 01.11.2023



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Screechy Evil Felonious Blitzing Metal

The concept of this list is not exceptionally well defined, but I'm circling a basic concept of lean, fast-paced metal with high-pitched vocals that tend to be on the harsher side. The album that inspired the compilation was Evil Invaders' Shattering Reflection, so that can serve as a template; not everything here necessarily sounds exactly like that, but it's all somewhere in the blackened speed/power-thrash/particularly aggressive heavy metal continuum. I'm going entirely by what feels right to me and not necessarily what makes sense on paper, so don't hold this to a rigid standard of consistency.

Here are a few individual tracks that I also thought fit the mood nicely:

Accept - "Fast As A Shark"
Accept - "Fight It Back"
3 Inches Of Blood - "Leather Lord"
Judas Priest - "Ram It Down"
Judas Priest - "Hard As Iron"
Satan - "Trial By Fire"
Crisix - "Ultra Thrash"
Fifth Angel - "In The Fallout"

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller
2.Evil Invaders - Shattering Reflection
3.BĂŒtcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot
4.Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 25.08.2023



My Top 100 Best Metal Albums Of All Time (Unfinished)

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller
2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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Created by Alban JP on 24.04.2023



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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: HĂ€vitetty, 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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1988 (An Exploration)

88

1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All
2.Manowar - Kings Of Metal
3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4.Death - Leprosy
5.Riot - ThunderSteel

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Created by Artorix Carlsson on 19.10.2022



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1988

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

Man this list was a rough one, but in a good way 1988 is one of the best years in metal history and a lot of great release came out that year, cutting it down to just 20 was tough and ranking them was even harder.

1.QueensrĂżche - Operation: Mindcrime
2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
5.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

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Created by Handala on 03.06.2022



TOP 50 POWER/HEAVY/Hardrock 1980-1989

1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
4.Mötley CrĂŒe - Shout At The Devil
5.Michael Schenker Group - M.S.G.

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Created by jeffster69 on 12.05.2022



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US Power-Metal Favorites

1.Crimson Glory - Transcendence
2.Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black
3.Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
4.Savatage - Gutter Ballet
5.Psyco Drama - The Illusion

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Created by JoHn Doe on 30.01.2022



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USPower Metal 👑

Bands almost unknown for the most, Cds or Vinyls out of print or never print, Sometimes record production sucks, thats why I love US power metal. An original style Classic and Epic Heavy Metal Mixed With Thrash, Speed and High Doses of Virtuosity, different than Europe PM with more testosterone and heaviness

1.Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
2.Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
3.Riot - ThunderSteel
4.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
5.Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire

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Created by Blackcrowe on 22.10.2021



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Andy's top heavy metal/hard rock albums

My top ranked (in order from best down) favorite hard rock/heavy metal albums. I've also one included my top three favorite tracks from each album.

Enjoy!

1.QueensrĂżche - Operation: Mindcrime
2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
3.Rush - Hemispheres
4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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Created by AndyMetalFreak on 01.04.2021



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Top 20 of 1988

1.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
2.Manowar - Kings Of Metal
3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
4.QueensrĂżche - Operation: Mindcrime
5.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 02.03.2021



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Top 200 Overrated Albums

**Trigger warning**

Albums and EPs rated 8.6+ from 100+ votes which I've given an 8 or lower to.

I've listened to and rated every album on MS that meets this criteria (at time of most recent update) - some of them multiple times - so I feel I can give my honest opinion.

The purpose of this is to list and order the albums that I simply don't "get" and to try re-listening to them in the hope of understanding why they've received so many 9 and 10 votes.

Ordered by my rating then MS rating then number of votes.

Updated: 03-Jan-24

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

1.Anathema - Judgement
2.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
3.Anathema - Alternative 4
4.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
5.Motörhead - Overkill

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Created by nonZero on 19.02.2021



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Metal Rambo's Absolute Favorite Albums Of All Time

Updated 24.1.2022

My rather personal and improvised take on the subject matter. The list is pretty wage, I'll be updating it a lot and the order might vary a little depending on some things, but they're all great and awesome records no matter what.

Limited to metal and rock albums found on Metal Storm. Most of them (at least 90%) are anyway, so doesn't matter. The absent ones are mostly more pop and synth oriented stuff and some really obscure jazz and fusion albums.

1.Marillion - Marbles
2.Anathema - Weather Systems
3.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
4.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
5.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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Created by Metal Rasputin on 15.02.2020



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Riot Albums Ranked

Don't need any long introduction to this one. An excellent band that has released some of the best metal tracks through the history and been influencing tons of bands. Here's my take on their discography

1.Riot - ThunderSteel
2.Riot - The Privilege Of Power
3.Riot - Fire Down Under
4.Riot V - Unleash The Fire
5.Riot - Immortal Soul

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Created by majormalfunction on 05.12.2019