Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

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

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Metallica

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Metallica - Re-Load

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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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Reading through the comments section throughout these pages you would be mistaken if you thought it was an anti-metal site given the huge amount of negativity. "Oh I'm a fan of this band, really, but this new albums shit"; "This band should stop making albums and play their old stuff" blah blah blah. This list compiles albums that are a prime target; the over-sized bulls-eye; a band bashing bandwagon for trolls. Too bad 'cause I thoroughly enjoy them. Sure there are metal albums I don't like but why whinge? It's about time this site had some positivism thrown in. If you hate these records Calvin Harris has some Special K he'd like to share with you.

1.Metallica - Re-Load

2.Megadeth - Risk

3.KISS - Creatures Of The Night

4.Metallica - Load

5.Korn - Issues

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1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Metallica - Metallica

5.Metallica - Death Magnetic

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Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Sylosis - Monolith

3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Protest The Hero - Kezia

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My personal rankings of Metallica's studio albums.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Metallica - Metallica

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Metallica

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Metallica - Hardwired?To Self-Destruct

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Anthrax - Stomp 442

2.Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero

3.Sepultura - Nation

4.Kreator - Renewal

5.Slayer - Diabolus In Musica

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This is not a list over my favourite albums, although some of them on the list of course are. These are albums that formed me, had a huge impact on me and defined my musical taste. Without some of these releases I probably wouldn't even be the person that I am today.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

3.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

4.Iron Maiden - Killers

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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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.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

2.Helloween - The Time Of The Oath

3.Impellitteri - Screaming Symphony

4.Grave Digger - Tunes Of War

5.Sentenced - Down

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Opinions are like assholes and here's a some shit to spew. Better lube up. As much as I love heavy, I'm a sucker for good songs and genre doesn't mean shit to me.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

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3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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5.Metallica - Metallica

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List of albums that are often considered to be 'bad' (or at least not that good) however I can't agree with that opinions. This list also could be entitled: the most underrated albums of popular bands.

1. Alphabetic order
2. Only albums with rating less than 8

1.1349 - Revelations Of The Black Flame

2.Black Sabbath - Never Say Die

3.Black Sabbath - Born Again

4.Burzum - Hliðskjálf

5.Burzum - Belus

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