Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Non-Metal mentions:
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju (Goth)
The Exploited - Punk's Not Dead (Punk)
Black Flag - Damaged (Punk)

1.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

4.Venom - Welcome To Hell

5.Accept - Breaker

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

5.Motörhead - Inferno

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"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
December = Heavy Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.Anvil - Metal On Metal

2.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3.Raven - Rock Until You Drop

4.Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound

5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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The must-have albums of old school heavy metal. Includes genres like Traditional, NWOBHM, U.S.P.M., Speed, Epic, Doom, and prog.

1.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

2.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

4.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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1.Rush - Moving Pictures

2.Accept - Breaker

3.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

4.Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies

5.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

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The best decade in history of heavy metal.

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

3.Accept - Breaker

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

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2.Accept - Breaker

3.Iron Maiden - Killers

4.Raven - Rock Until You Drop

5.Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound

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1.Accept - Breaker

2.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

3.Demon - Night Of The Demon

4.Riot - Fire Down Under

5.Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound

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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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Metal albums of 1981

1.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

2.Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love

3.Iron Maiden - Killers

4.Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry

5.Praying Mantis - Time Tells No Lies

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