Here's a list of some bands that bulit upon their debuts and flourished on their second full length effort.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

4. Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

      View entire list ››

All Black Sabbath albums (including Heaven and Hell's "The Devil You Know"), ranked from best to worst (in my opinion).

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

4. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

5. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

      View entire list ››

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3. Judas Priest - Stained Class

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

      View entire list ››

1. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

2. My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

3. Opeth - Morningrise

4. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

5. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

      View entire list ››

stupid list. I'll change it all next week

*cough* make that, next year. now is the time to re-assess priorities

1. Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

2. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

3. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

4. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky

5. Pantera - Far beyond Driven

      View entire list ››

This is a mix of my personal favourite 60's and 70's hard rock/metal songs and the more influential ones, songs that I think every metal fan need to hear. A mix of the most well-known songs to totally obscure stuff. If you think I have missed some important song you can always suggest me.

1. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum

2. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

3. Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance

4. Gun - Gun

5. Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf

      View entire list ››

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Deep Purple - In Rock

3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4. The Doors - Morrison Hotel

5. Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You

      View entire list ››

1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2. Wintersun - Wintersun

3. Machine Head - The Blackening

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

5. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

      View entire list ››

This is a list about what I think could be the first examples of songs in different genres. If you disagree with something or have any opinion of first example of any other genre, just write a comment.

1. Jackie Brentson And His Delta Cats

2. The Kinks - Kinks

3. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum

4. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

      View entire list ››

A majority of these albums I have listened to more recently than 2 years
And about 2 of these albums I have not listened to in their entirety but many of their songs blew me away.

1. Atheist - Elements

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Carcass - Heartwork

4. Death - Human

5. Death - Symbolic

      View entire list ››

Not a best of 1984.
Albums are not ranked in any specific order.
Suggestions are welcomed.

1. Iced Earth - Dystopia

2. Queensrÿche - Empire

3. Nevermore - Dead Heart, In A Dead World

4. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

5. Death - Symbolic

      View entire list ››

This is a list of my first ever purchased metal albums. I was born in 1982 and started my metal collection in 1994/95.. Anyway thought I'd share

1. Manowar - The Triumph Of Steel

2. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon

5. Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath

      View entire list ››

Kinda saw another relative lists on here that state this, one bad and one inspirational, so thought I might do my own.

Alphabetic order. And don't ask why a lot of Testament stuff is there, if their albums hadn't had so much impact, Testa wouldn't be my favorite band.

1. AC/DC - Back In Black

2. Accept - Stalingrad

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

      View entire list ››

Only studio albums ordered by release year.

1. The Doors - The Doors

2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

3. The Doors - Strange Days

4. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum

5. Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple

      View entire list ››

OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider to be important in Metal history in general (though many of them assuredly would be considered so).

What this list is:
I started thinking about why I listen to Metal, and why I listen to certain bands and not others. And how my tastes have changed enormously in the approx 15 years I've been, as one might say, a Metalhead. I thought it would be interesting to look over my collection and pick out those albums I consider to be landmarks in my listening career and write a little bit about why each is significant to me.

1. Anathema - Judgement

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Def Leppard - Hysteria

      View entire list ››