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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1.Venom - Welcome To Hell

2.Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate

3.Venom - Black Metal

4.Sodom - Witching Metal

5.666 - Nekrofilie

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My favourite EPs -- well, not that many after all, I am just not too much into EPs in general.
But these few would probably qualify as my favourite ones of all time, listed in order of preference.

1.Slayer - Haunting The Chapel

2.Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate

3.Anathema - The Crestfallen EP

4.My Dying Bride - The Manuscript

5.Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling

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1st Wave of Black Metal. Most bands here may not be considered black metal as we know it today or even in the 2nd wave, but had some sort of influence of the genre's subject matter, sound and imagery.

1.Bathory - Bathory

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4.Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom

5.Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath

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1.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

2.Sarcófago - I.N.R.I.

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Hellhammer - Satanic Rites

5.Bathory - The Return Of The Darkness And Evil

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Since the new album just dropped I figured since I've been listening to a lot of sodom lately I'd make a best to worst list of the albums.

1.Sodom - Agent Orange

2.Sodom - Persecution Mania

3.Sodom - M-16

4.Sodom - Decision Day

5.Sodom - Sodom

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1.Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

2.Summoning - Nightshade Forests

3.Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales

4.Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids

5.Equilibrium - Waldschrein

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1.Sarcófago - I.N.R.I.

2.Hellhammer - Satanic Rites

3.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

4.Venom - Black Metal

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Hail the Metal Beginnings

1.Venom - Black Metal

2.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

3.Slayer - Show No Mercy

4.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

5.Possessed - Seven Churches

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These are the 211 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer" (August 2001 issue).

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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