Moves up and down depending on mood, but top 25-30 usually the same in varying order

1.Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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Ordered. One album per band.

1.Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

4.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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This is my personal top 20 albums of all time. 1 to 10 in no order, and 11 to 20 in no order.

1.Alice In Chains - Dirt

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Faith No More - Angel Dust

4.Sepultura - Arise

5.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

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1.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

2.Dio - Holy Diver

3.Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil

4.Savatage - Sirens

5.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

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1.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

2.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

3.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

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1.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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This is what i think... it's not about popularity, it's about sounds: riffs, lyrics, solos and stuffs like that.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Metallica - Death Magnetic

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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A quick list of my personal favorite Thrash albums.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Slayer - South Of Heaven

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Metallica - Metallica

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The albums that got me into metal in chronological order (in which i first listened to them). These are the first album(s) of different styles that i listened to and made me like those styles. Not my first 10 albums...

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Helloween - Treasure Chest

3.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5.Paradise Lost - Icon

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Novembre - Arte Novecento

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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Just Listing, in my opinion, the best Metallica Albums

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Metallica - Metallica

5.Metallica - Death Magnetic

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

5.Paradise Lost - One Second

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