Power Metal has the whole pack. Listening to one album of Power Metal you can feel free , relaxed , happy , sad , and so many more states of mind. If you put it all together listening to Power Metal makes you human. (I only used English language albums and I know some of the albums are not completely Power Metal but all of them have some Power Metal elements . If I could I would have added more albums but my head is spinning right now). So Power up everybody!!!

1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

2. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

3. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

4. Riot - ThunderSteel

5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free

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I will try to be as subjective as I can and it won't include only my favorite genres as I will try to include albums from all Metal sub-genres because I think it's important to get exposed to all kinds of metal so that a person may create a good taste in Metal music. (Might include more than 1 album per band).

1. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3. Deep Purple - Machine Head

4. Judas Priest - Stained Class

5. Scorpions - Taken By Force

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1. Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys part II

2. Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys part I

3. Helloween - The Dark Ride

4. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy

5. Helloween - Chameleon

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Just for my favorite
2012.11.25 update

1. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

3. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

4. Heavenly - Dust To Dust

5. Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls

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1. Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

2. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

4. Helloween - Helloween

5. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil

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I excluded some of my favourite albums that I don't accept as metal. While top 10 represents albums I listened to over the years, the rest of the list better represent where I stand today.

1. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

2. Dio - Holy Diver

3. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

4. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

5. In Flames - Clayman

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My version of The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes) only this time it's more The Epics (Songs Over 10 Minutes) because we kept griping to PG and he wouldn't update his list. According to his profile he hasn't been on in... 371 days. So I thought "Hey, why not do it myself?"
Arranged by time. If you feel or know a song should be on here, let me know. I'm a mainstream fag, so I only listen to the popular stuff. I might have missed some bands.

1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader

4. Nile - Ithyphallic

5. Nightwish - Once

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1. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy

3. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy

4. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil

5. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

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1. Stratovarius - Episode

2. Stratovarius - Episode

3. Stratovarius - Infinite

4. Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension

5. Rata Blanca - Magos Espadas Y Rosas

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Historical value

4. Performance

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Deep Purple - In Rock

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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Random great albums of the decade listed yearly.

1. Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

2. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3. Rainbow - Difficult To Cure

4. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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This is basically my list of favorite songs by artists I own albums for. I decided to restrict myself to songs on albums I own (hence no "Balls To The Wall") and only artists which are on Metal Storm (hence no Queen). If you have any recommendations for bands/songs to listen to after reading this list, feel free to mention them below (but check I don't own the album first if recommending songs).

1. AC/DC - Back In Black

2. Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3. Aerosmith - Aerosmith's Greatest Hits

4. Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

5. Anthrax - Worship Music

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1. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

2. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3. Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4. Conception - Parallel Minds

5. Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

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Some of these albums are known just when you see their album cover. They are usually iconic albums (whether positively or negatively) and one can easily identify them even if they were zoomed out tons in any place.

Please contribute to this list by suggesting albums you think have iconic covers. Comments are appreciated.

1. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

2. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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I consider myself very lucky to have grown up, not just on the West Coast of the United States, but right in the heart of one of history's great metal scenes--the San Francisco Bay Area. So many awesome memories from so many incredible local bands, with other acts from all over the world regularly passing through as well. Time to memorialize in no particular order.

1. Anthrax - State of Euphoria

2. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3. Exodus - Fabulous Disaster

4. Testament - The New Order

5. Voivod - Nothingface

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