Top 100 Metal Albums of All time

[Battlehawk]

Metal-Rules.com came out with a kickass list of the top 100 metal albums

it can be found here

http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/top100/top100.htm

Anywho here's the list here for you all to check

#1. Metallica - Master of Puppets

Metallica are a band that opened many doors for a lot of fans/bands. They also opened many doors and provided a lot of listeners with a gateway to other more extreme bands. Sadly, much of their material post "the black album" hardly qualifies as heavy metal, but in their prime this band dealt out thrash metal that was second to none! Just listen to "Damage Inc." or "Battery" and even today they still stand up against what has come along.

#2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

It is of no surprise that IRON MAIDEN comes close to the top spot. Culling fans from all areas of the metal spectrum, Iron Maiden, clearly are one of the true innovators in heavy metal. The intro to the track "Number of the Beast" has become one of the "prayers" of heavy metal with just about every fan knowing it word for word.

#3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Arguably Metallica's heaviest album, the glorious RIDE THE LIGHTNING comes in at #3! This was the album that really started getting Metallica recognized around the world. It was followed up with MASTER OF PUPPETS which is really what put them on the map. However, the impact of RIDE THE LIGHTNING was definitely felt with "hits" like "Fade To Black", and "For Whom The Bell Tolls" to lesser hailed (but equally memorable) tracks like "Escape" and "Creeping Death" .

#4. AC/DC - Back in Black

Some of you youngsters will no doubt say "WTF is a classic rock band doing in a heavy metal list?" It is true that AC/DC has become darlings of the classic rock radio circuit, also their recent performance with the Rolling Stones in Canada to several hundred thousand people only goes to show that their appeal extends well outside of the metal realm. All this aside, that does not mean that their contribution to heavy metal in the 70's and 80's should be ignored! BACK IN BLACK is not only one of the best heavy metal albums of all time, it is also one of the best selling "normal" albums of all time as well!!

#5. Slayer - Reign in Blood

REIGN IN BLOOD is hailed by many as the definitive Slayer album. Clearly most of us here at Metal-Rules.com agree, as the album comes in at #5. As I've said before, listening to this album is like a religious experience. "Angel of Death" is one of the best Slayer songs ever written. The whole album plays like the soundtrack to hell. Learn the sacred words of praise, hail SLAYERRRRRRR!!!

#6. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Iron Maiden's POWERSLAVE is a monster of an album. After the success of NUMBER OF THE BEAST and its follow up PIECE OF MIND, Iron Maiden was hard pressed to deliver an album that would match its predecessors. They would not disappoint as POWERSLAVE, with its instant classic tracks including "2 Minutes to Midnight" and the epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" would cement Iron Maiden at the forefront of the metal world and spawn the massive and seemingly never-ending World Slavery Tour.

#7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Maiden again? Yes, again...making for the third entry in our top 10! Many people consider this the pinnacle of Maidens career and with tracks like "The Trooper", "Still Life", "Die With Your Boots On" and "Flight of Icarus" it is hard to disagree. Piece of Mind turned 20 years old this year and forever will be a classic of the metal genre.

#8. Dio - Holy Diver

Ex-Rainbow, ex-Sabbath vocal god Ronnie James Dio comes in at #8. Pushing to his 60's, this old goat can still easily kick the ass of the majority of singers on the scene.

#9. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

SEASONS IN THE ABYSS is considered by some to be the last "classic" Slayer album. Songs like the evil title track and speed metal masterpieces like "Born of Fire" and "War Ensemble" have become fan favorites standing shoulder to shoulder alongside the band's past material.

#10. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

Rounding out the top 10 is SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE, the quintessential Priest album in the eyes of many. Fronted by the “metal god” Rob Halford, Priest have been one of the defining bands of the metal movement. “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” helped to create a new generation of metalheads and showed to the world that Metal Rules!!

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#11. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

#12. Judas Priest - Painkiller

#13. Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

#14. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil

#15. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith

#16. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

#17. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

#18. AC/DC - Highway To Hell

#19. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

#20. Metallica - Kill 'Em All

#21. Judas Priest - British Steel

#22. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.

#23. Slayer - South of Heaven

#24. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

#25. Megadeth - Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?

#26. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

#27. Dio - Last in Line

#28. Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt. II

#29. Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (AKA Killing Machine)

#30. Van Halen - Van Halen

#31. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love

#32. Accept - Balls to the Wall

#33. Iron Maiden - Killers

#34. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

#35 Slayer - Show No Mercy

#36. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

#37. Motorhead - Ace of Spades

#38. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

#39. Judas Priest - Stained Class

#40. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

#41. Anthrax - Among the Living

#42. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry

#43. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell

#44. Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt. I

#45. W.A.S.P. - The Last Command

#46. Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll

#47. Def Leppard - Pyromania

#48. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

#49. Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!

#50. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction

#51. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King

#52. King Diamond - Abigail

#53. Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity

#54. Halford - Resurrection

#55. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

#56. Testament - Practice What You Preach

#57 Led Zeppelin - IV

#58. Death - Symbolic

#59. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

#60. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

#61. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth

#62. Deep Purple - Machine Head

#63. Scorpions - Blackout

#64. Van Halen - 1984

#65. Slayer - Hell Awaits

#66. Venom - Black Metal

#67. Ratt - Out of the Cellar

#68. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath

#69. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

#70. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth

#71. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

#72. Metallica - And Justice For All...

#73. King Diamond - Them

#74. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side

#75. HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

#76. Van Halen - Van Halen II

#77. Overkill - The Years of Decay

#78. Kiss - Destroyer

#79. In Flames - The Jester Race

#80. Exodus - Bonded by Blood

#81. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules

#82. Skid Row - Skid Row

#83. Megadeth - Killing is My Business...and Business is Good

#84. Testament - The Legacy

#85. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

#86. Venom - Welcome To Hell

#87. Twisted Sister - Under the Blade

#88. Dokken - Tooth & Nail

#89. Accept - Restless & Wild

#90. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

#91. HammerFall - Legacy of Kings

#92. Saxon - Wheels of Steel

#93. Manowar - Kings of Metal

#94. Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock & Roll

#95. Scorpions - Love At First Sting

#96. Van Halen - Fair Warning

#97. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

#98. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol

#99. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

#100. Death - Individual Thought Patterns

[highvoltage]

I laugh when I see 4 AC/DC albums in that list.

Back In Black -- I can take.

But Highway To Hell, Dirty Deeds and Let There Be Rock? Heavy Metal?

[metallica1]

Of course Metallica were gonna be #1

#1 Master Of Puppets

#3 Ride The Lightning

#20 Kill'em All

#72 ...And Justice For All

...It's because they're so good.

[Binge_And_Slash]

Sorry, Iron Maiden don't deserve to be in that list 6 times.

I like them, but 6 albums in the Top 100? Sorry, all their songs are alike.

Twisted Sister in the Top 100?!

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction should not be #50. at least in the top 25.

W.A.S.P got in there, woo come on Blackie!

[Lumiere]

My list ownzorz that one...

1. Acid Bath – When The Kite String Pops

2. Bal Sagoth – The Power Cosmic

3. Behind The Scenery – Nocturnal Beauty Of A Dying Land

4. Behold The Arctopus - Arctopocalypse Now...Warmageddon Later

5. Behold The Acrtopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning

6. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

7. Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

8. Black Sabbath – Sabotage

9. Bloodbath – Breeding Death

10. Cannibal Corpse – Butchered At Birth

11. Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back To Life

12. Cannibal Corpse – The Bleeding

13. Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn

14. Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated

15. Cannibal Corpse – Worm Infested

16. Carcass – Necroticism

17. Children Of Bodom – Something Wild

18. Children Of Bodom – Hatebreeder

19. Children Of Bodom – Follow The Reaper

20. Chimera – The Impossibility Of Reason

21. Children Of Bodom – Hatecrew Deathroll

22. Cryptopsy – And Then You’ll Beg

23. Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh

24. Cryptopsy – None So Vile

25. Cryptopsy – Ungentle Exhumation

26. Cryptopsy – Whisper Supremacy

27. Death – Human

28. Death – Individual Thought Patterns

29. Death – Symbolic

30. Death – The Sound Of Perseverance

31. Dimmu Borgir – Stormblast

32. Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

33. Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions

34. Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

35. Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon

36. Divine Empire - Redemption

37. Dornenreich - Her Von Welken Nächten

38. Dragon Force – Sonic Fire Storm

39. Dream Theater – Train Of Thought

40. Dying Fetus – Destroy The Opposition

41. Dying Fetus – Killing On Adrenaline

42. Dying Fetus – Purification Through Violence

43. Dying Fetus – Stop At Nothing

44. Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

45. Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse

46. Emperor – Prometheus

47. Grimfist – Lesser Of Two Evils

48. Hate Eternal – Conquering The Throne

49. Holy Knights – Gate Through The Past

50. Humanity – When Silence Calls

51. Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings

52. Iced Earth – Night Of The Stormrider

53. Immortal Rites – Art Of Devolution

54. Impious – The Killer

55. Impious – Deathsquad

56. Impious – Hellucinate

57. In Flames – Colony

58. In Flames – Jester Race

59. In Flames – Whoracle

60. In The Woods – Heart Of The Ages

61. In The Woods – Omnio

62. Inscribe – Scar Culture

63. Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden

64. Iron Maiden – Killers

65. Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind

66. Judas Priest – Painkiller

67. Locus Factor – Between Saviours & Thieves

68. Marduk – Heaven Shall Burn…When We Are Gathered

69. Megadeth – Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?

70. Megadeth – So Far, So Good…So What?

71. Megadeth – Rust In Peace

72. Metallica – Kill ‘Em All

73. Metallica – Ride The Lightning

74. Metallica – Master Of Puppets

75. Metallica - …And Justice For All

76. The Monolith Deathcult – The White Crematorium

77. Moonspell – Sin/Pecado

78. Mystic Circle – Drachen Blut

79. Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines

80. October Tide – Rain Without End

81. Omnium Gatherum – Spirits & August Light

82. Omnium Gatherum – Years In Waste

83. Opeth – Orchid

84. Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse

85. Opeth – Blackwater Park

86. Opeth – Deliverance

87. Pantera – Cowboys From Hell

88. Pantera – Far Beyond Driven

89. Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill

90. Pantera – Reinventing The Steel

91. Profanum – Profanum Aeternum

92. Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime

93. Rhapsody – Dawn Of Victory

94. Satyricon – Nemesis Divina

95. Scythe – The Process Of Rotting

96. Slayer – Seasons In The Abyss

97. Solstice – Solstice

98. Strapping Young Lad – Alien

99. Suffocation – Souls To Deny

100. Susperia – Unlimited

[krissirge]

My list ownzorz that one...

1. Acid Bath – When The Kite String Pops

2. Bal Sagoth – The Power Cosmic

3. Behind The Scenery – Nocturnal Beauty Of A Dying Land

4. Behold The Arctopus - Arctopocalypse Now...Warmageddon Later

5. Behold The Acrtopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning

6. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

7. Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

8. Black Sabbath – Sabotage

9. Bloodbath – Breeding Death

10. Cannibal Corpse – Butchered At Birth

11. Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back To Life

12. Cannibal Corpse – The Bleeding

13. Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn

14. Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated

15. Cannibal Corpse – Worm Infested

16. Carcass – Necroticism

17. Children Of Bodom – Something Wild

18. Children Of Bodom – Hatebreeder

19. Children Of Bodom – Follow The Reaper

20. Chimera – The Impossibility Of Reason

21. Children Of Bodom – Hatecrew Deathroll

22. Cryptopsy – And Then You’ll Beg

23. Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh

24. Cryptopsy – None So Vile

25. Cryptopsy – Ungentle Exhumation

26. Cryptopsy – Whisper Supremacy

27. Death – Human

28. Death – Individual Thought Patterns

29. Death – Symbolic

30. Death – The Sound Of Perseverance

31. Dimmu Borgir – Stormblast

32. Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

33. Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions

34. Dimmu Borgir – Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

35. Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon

36. Divine Empire - Redemption

37. Dornenreich - Her Von Welken Nächten

38. Dragon Force – Sonic Fire Storm

39. Dream Theater – Train Of Thought

40. Dying Fetus – Destroy The Opposition

41. Dying Fetus – Killing On Adrenaline

42. Dying Fetus – Purification Through Violence

43. Dying Fetus – Stop At Nothing

44. Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

45. Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse

46. Emperor – Prometheus

47. Grimfist – Lesser Of Two Evils

48. Hate Eternal – Conquering The Throne

49. Holy Knights – Gate Through The Past

50. Humanity – When Silence Calls

51. Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings

52. Iced Earth – Night Of The Stormrider

53. Immortal Rites – Art Of Devolution

54. Impious – The Killer

55. Impious – Deathsquad

56. Impious – Hellucinate

57. In Flames – Colony

58. In Flames – Jester Race

59. In Flames – Whoracle

60. In The Woods – Heart Of The Ages

61. In The Woods – Omnio

62. Inscribe – Scar Culture

63. Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden

64. Iron Maiden – Killers

65. Iron Maiden – Piece Of Mind

66. Judas Priest – Painkiller

67. Locus Factor – Between Saviours & Thieves

68. Marduk – Heaven Shall Burn…When We Are Gathered

69. Megadeth – Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?

70. Megadeth – So Far, So Good…So What?

71. Megadeth – Rust In Peace

72. Metallica – Kill ‘Em All

73. Metallica – Ride The Lightning

74. Metallica – Master Of Puppets

75. Metallica - …And Justice For All

76. The Monolith Deathcult – The White Crematorium

77. Moonspell – Sin/Pecado

78. Mystic Circle – Drachen Blut

79. Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines

80. October Tide – Rain Without End

81. Omnium Gatherum – Spirits & August Light

82. Omnium Gatherum – Years In Waste

83. Opeth – Orchid

84. Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse

85. Opeth – Blackwater Park

86. Opeth – Deliverance

87. Pantera – Cowboys From Hell

88. Pantera – Far Beyond Driven

89. Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill

90. Pantera – Reinventing The Steel

91. Profanum – Profanum Aeternum

92. Queensryche – Operation: Mindcrime

93. Rhapsody – Dawn Of Victory

94. Satyricon – Nemesis Divina

95. Scythe – The Process Of Rotting

96. Slayer – Seasons In The Abyss

97. Solstice – Solstice

98. Strapping Young Lad – Alien

99. Suffocation – Souls To Deny

100. Susperia – Unlimited

only 1 Slayer album????

[Lumiere]

Not big on Slayer, to be honest.

[jack99]

What's the point of having a jury of two people? One Metallica and one Iron Maiden die hard fan....

[James Bond]

I laugh when I see 4 AC/DC albums in that list.

Back In Black -- I can take.

But Highway To Hell, Dirty Deeds and Let There Be Rock? Heavy Metal?

I agree. There's no way DDDDC is heavy metal.

[rosewood]

what the hell is AFD doing on that list?

[Duffan]

I don't get why AC/DC is sometimes put into the heavy metal category , Hell Angus even said he doesn't like when they are called metal , they have a side to them that fuckin' swings , and can someone explain why Van Halen is on the metal list as well , 1984 is a kick ass album but it sure ain't metal .

Peace GnR Nation B)

[santana]

Master of Puppets, the number one metal album of all time. Who would have thought? Frankly, I'm getting tired of seeing MOP being named the best metal album ever. Oh wait, no I'm not!!! MOP owns any other metal album ever written!!

[Kefer]

Iron Maiden is a joke

[GnR lives on]

horrible horrible list... gnr Apettite at 13... ac/dc back in black is better than all those and black sabbath isnt anywhere to be found in top 5.... nuff said

[highvoltage]

horrible horrible list... gnr Apettite at 13... ac/dc back in black is better than all those and black sabbath isnt anywhere to be found in top 5.... nuff said

Sure - Back in Black is better than all those albums.

But I think the real point is that BIB isn't a metal album.

[izzy dozzit]

Well, AFD's not a metal album either. It's hard rock.

Still can't believe that they included three Twisted Sister albums on that list. What a joke.

[moreblack]

Iron Maiden is a joke

Is a joke they're not #1!

fuck you for that remark.

Edited May 1, 2005 by moreblack