Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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These albums are in no particular order, and I will be gradually adding more over time.

1.The 3rd And The Mortal - Tears Laid In Earth

2.Within Temptation - Enter

3.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Mourning Beloveth - Dust

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Here are all of the top albums that have come out since I was born in 1993!

1.Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

5.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Influences, avantgarde, progressive, thrash & others.

1.Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Toxik - Think This

4.Coroner - No More Color

5.Danny Elfman - Batman

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My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more music thanks to this site, hence the number of '09 releases featured. I'm slowly starting to pick back through the top lists of previous years, so I expect more pre-'09 releases will be added to this list.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Vektor - Black Future

3.Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

4.SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day

5.Protest The Hero - Fortress

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Personal favourites of the mighty 2004 year.

1.Mechanical Poet - Woodland Prattlers

2.Orphaned Land - Mabool

3.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

4.Galadriel - World Under World

5.Demonoid - Riders Of The Apocalypse

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Europe - Start From The Dark

3.Haggard - Eppur Si Muove

4.Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns

5.Rhapsody Of Fire - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands II - The Dark Secret

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1.Slumber - Fallout

2.Orphaned Land - Mabool

3.Therion - Sirius B

4.The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening

5.Therion - Lemuria

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1.Timeless Miracle - Into The Enchanted Chamber

2.Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

3.Crimson Shadows - Glory On The Battlefield

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

5.Violet Sun - Loneliness In Supremacy

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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Great year with a lot of albums that has meant a lot to me and shaped parts of my taste in music.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Norther - Death Unlimited

3.Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process

4.Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

5.Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine

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These are my current Favourite albums. Though some bands could of had 3 or 4 albums on this list, I limited it to one album per band.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

5.Wuthering Heights - Salt

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

5.Josefus - Dead Man

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