Erm... sorry Dave... >.>

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

4.Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

5.Sodom - M-16

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

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I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life.

Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens inspired me to pick up the guitar (and later drums) and start making music of my own.

So here are the albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the album give it an advantage over others.

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here. There are a ton of albums that I've rated 9/10 in the 'TBR' tab that may never make it to this list, be sure to check those out.)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 25 EPs (ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

Genre-Specific:
Top 50 Black Metal Albums
Top 50 Melodic Death Metal Albums
Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums
Top 40 Power Metal Albums
Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Top 30 Heavy Metal Albums

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Opeth - Still Life

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1.Testament - The Legacy

2.Overkill - Taking Over

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Sodom - Persecution Mania

5.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

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Some Thrash Metal Albums of noteworthy importance

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

4.Overkill - Taking Over

5.S.O.D. - Speak English Or Die

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1.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

3.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Just a list of classic thrash albums I really enjoy, since thrash has had such a good year this year. They are in no particular order.

1.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

2.Anthrax - Among The Living

3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

4.Artillery - By Inheritance

5.Assassin - The Upcoming Terror

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Since the new album just dropped I figured since I've been listening to a lot of sodom lately I'd make a best to worst list of the albums.

1.Sodom - Agent Orange

2.Sodom - Persecution Mania

3.Sodom - M-16

4.Sodom - Decision Day

5.Sodom - Sodom

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1.Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence

2.Nuclear Assault - Survive

3.Sodom - Better Off Dead

4.Voivod - Killing Technology

5.Coroner - Mental Vortex

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

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Full Lengths Only

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

3.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

2.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

3.Pretty Maids - Future World

4.Def Leppard - Hysteria

5.Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

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I'm bored, so I'm doing this. My technique involves going to the page of every thrash band I've listened to, pulling out their top three albums that I'd rate over 8.5/10 (if there are three) and placing them in the list.

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Coroner - No More Color

3.Coroner - Mental Vortex

4.Toxik - Think This

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just how much I like the album. Ordered by preference, top down.

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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1.Slayer - Hell Awaits

2.Possessed - Seven Churches

3.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

4.Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

5.Sepultura - Morbid Visions

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