1.Helloween - Helloween EP

2.Helloween - Better Than Raw

3.Helloween - The Time Of The Oath

4.Helloween - The Dark Ride

5.Helloween - Master Of The Rings

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Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:

1.Stratovarius - Episode

2.Angra - Angels Cry

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2.Iron Maiden - Virtual XI

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Theatre Of Tragedy - Aégis

5.Shadow Gallery - Tyranny

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1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

4.Helloween - The Time Of The Oath

5.Helloween - The Dark Ride

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1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

3.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

4.Helloween - The Time Of The Oath

5.Helloween - The Dark Ride

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This is a list of my favourite album for each year. Made in October 2016. Compilations, cover albums, live albums, and things like that are ignored.

Top bands in this list:
Grave Digger: 6 albums
Helloween: 5 albums
Lake of Tears: 3 albums
Bunker 66: 2 albums
Darkthrone: 2 albums
Running Wild: 2 albums

1.Saxon - Wheels Of Steel

2.Venom - Welcome To Hell

3.Venom - Black Metal

4.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

5.Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown

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My personal ranking of all the Helloween studio albums. I found it surprisingly difficult to rank the albums from Master Of The Rings to The Dark Ride. I think all of those albums have great songs, but also have a few weak songs. The Keeper 1 and 2 albums sometimes switch position depending on mood. It is worrying that their 2 latest albums are in the bottom 3. My God-Given Right would definitely be bottom if the travesty that is Chameleon hadn't been released. I decided to leave Metal Jukebox out as it's a cover album.

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

3.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

4.Helloween - Master Of The Rings

5.Helloween - The Time Of The Oath

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1.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

2.Grave Digger - Excalibur

3.Aria - Ночь Короче Дня

4.Rage - The Missing Link

5.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

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1.HammerFall - Legacy Of Kings

2.Patan - Patan

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Grave Digger - Knights Of The Cross

5.Primal Fear - Primal Fear

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1.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2.Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

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1.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Dio - Holy Diver

4.Dio - Magica

5.Dio - The Last In Line

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Since many of you felt annoyed by my previous list title I changed it and hopefully you will be ok with it.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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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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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

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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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