Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However, there are examples of songs that have a central link to the album title without sharing the same name. In these cases, certain lyrics from the song were chosen as the album title.

This (alphabetical) list shows the names of these “hidden title tracks” and the central lyrics that gave the name to the corresponding album.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.

1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

2.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

4.Agalloch - The Mantle

5.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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We all have some in our collection... why? Just to increase the amount of CD's we own as a bragging point on Metal Storm of course!
I have gotten rid of a lot of CD's, some of which I wish I still had...
Here are some turds I've held on to, in no particular order.

1.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

2.Kreator - Endorama

3.Lullacry - Vol. 4

4.Megadeth - Cryptic Writings

5.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

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my ranking of the Big 4s Full-Length albums
Near the bottom , the rankings get a bit more 'interchangeable' because I can't be bothered to specifically discern the difference between turd flavors

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

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Like my other genre-based lists, this exists purely for my own organizational purposes and not to provide a definitive statement about or guidebook to the thrash genre. I've folded some speed metal and other occasional outliers into this list, maybe a few not-so-thrash albums by otherwise-thrash bands, since they're close enough and I wasn't going to make a separate list.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain

3.Cross Examination - Menace II Sobriety

4.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3.Slayer - South Of Heaven

4.Slayer - Hell Awaits

5.Slayer - World Painted Blood

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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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Again my "best to worst" list. This time - Slayer.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Slayer - Hell Awaits

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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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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If you believe in God then bad luck, some people have a different view than you - get over it. Don't write to me.

1.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

2.Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return

3.Slayer - Christ Illusion

4.Machine Head - The Blackening

5.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

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1.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

2.Slayer - Christ Illusion

3.Trivium - The Crusade

4.Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road

5.Jon Oliva's Pain - Maniacal Renderings

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Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums Of The 2000´s

1.Death Angel - Killing Season

2.Testament - The Formation Of Damnation

3.Megadeth - Endgame

4.Flotsam And Jetsam - The Cold

5.Nevermore - Obsidian Conspiracy

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Just my opinion!

1.Slayer - South Of Heaven

2.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3.Slayer - Show No Mercy

4.Slayer - Hell Awaits

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI (Black/Death)
Moonspell - Memorial (Gothic)
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death (NWOBHM)
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea (Doom)
Panzerchrist - Battalion Beast (Black/Death)
Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead (Death)

1.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

2.Solitude Aeturnus - Alone

3.Cannibal Corpse - Kill

4.Satyricon - Now, Diabolical

5.Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption

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These are my bakers-dozen favourite album covers - those that really stand out for me from my collection (although at the time of making there was one that hasn't yet been released). These are all albums that I really like, musically, so that has been a factor in the selection. Comments welcomed.

1.Darkest Hour - The Human Romance

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Entombed - Morning Star

4.Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond)

5.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

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1.Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

2.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

3.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Lamb Of God - Sacrament

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