Top 100 Metal Albums of All Time (List!)

[$heriff Tom]

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METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST Top 'Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time' List - Sep. 5, 2009

The readers of the Greek edition of Metal Hammer magazine were recently invited to vote for the "100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time." The resulting list includes full-length recordings from 54 different bands from seven different countries, with IRON MAIDEN appearing on less than seven times on the list.

The "100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time," according to the readers of Metal Hammer Greece:

01. METALLICA - "Master of Puppets"
02. IRON MAIDEN - "The Number of the Beast"
03. JUDAS PRIEST - "Painkiller"
04. AC/DC - "Back in Black"
05. METALLICA - "Metallica" (a.k.a. Black Album)
06. QUEENSRŸCHE - "Operation: Mindcrime"
07. SLAYER - "Reign in Blood"
08. BLACK SABBATH - "Heaven and Hell"
09. BLACK SABBATH - "Paranoid"
10. IRON MAIDEN - "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
11. MOTÖRHEAD - "Ace of Spades"
12. IRON MAIDEN - "Powerslave"
13. BLACK SABBATH - "Black Sabbath"
14. LED ZEPPELIN - "[Untitled] (a.k.a. "Led Zeppelin IV")
15. GUNS N' ROSES - "Appetite for Destruction"
16. MEGADETH - "Rust in Peace"
17. DIO - "Holy Diver"
18. METALLICA - "Ride the Lightning"
19. HELLOWEEN - "Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I"
20. METALLICA - "Kill 'em All"
21. AC/DC - "Highway to Hell"
22. DEEP PURPLE - "Machine Head"
23. PARADISE LOST - "Draconian Times"
24. JUDAS PRIEST - "British Steel"
25. METALLICA - "...And Justice for All"
26. MANOWAR - "Hail to England"
27. OZZY OSBOURNE - "Blizzard of Ozz"
28. IRON MAIDEN - "Piece of Mind"
29. IRON MAIDEN - "Somewhere in Time"
30. RAINBOW - "Rising"
31. IRON MAIDEN - "Iron Maiden"
32. HELLOWEEN - "Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II"
33. DREAM THEATER - "Images and Words"
34. DEEP PURPLE - "In Rock"
35. EXODUS - "Bonded by Blood"
36. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Toxicity"
37. SAVATAGE - "Gutter Ballet"
38. OPETH - "Blackwater Park"
39. SEPULTURA - "Arise"
40. JUDAS PRIEST - "Sad Wings of Destiny"
41. JUDAS PRIEST - "Defenders of the Faith"
42. CANDLEMASS - "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus"
43. SLAYER - "Seasons in the Abyss"
44. OZZY OSBOURNE - "Diary of a Madman"
45. PANTERA - "Cowboys From Hell"
46. ACCEPT - "Restless and Wild"
47. NEVERMORE - "Dead Heart in a Dead World"
48. ANATHEMA - "Alternative 4"
49. WHITESNAKE - "1987"
50. PARADISE LOST - "Icon"
51. TOOL - "Lateralus"
52. GAMMA RAY - "Land of the Free"
53. MACHINE HEAD - "The Blackening"
54. CANDLEMASS - "Nightfall"
55. DREAM THEATER - "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory"
56. PANTERA - "Vulgar Display of Power"
57. IRON MAIDEN - "Fear of the Dark"
58. NEVERMORE - "Dreaming Neon Black"
59. CRIMSON GLORY - "Transcendence"
60. LED ZEPPELIN - "Led Zeppelin II"
61. BLACK SABBATH - "Master of Reality"
62. MANOWAR - "Into Glory Ride"
63. BRUCE DICKINSON - "Accident of Birth"
64. KREATOR - "Extreme Aggression"
65. ACCEPT - "Balls to the Wall"
66. MÖTLEY CRÜE - "Shout at the Devil"
67. SEPULTURA - "Beneath the Remains"
68. DEATH - "Symbolic"
69. SAVATAGE - "Hall of the Mountain King"
70. AT THE GATES - "Slaughter of the Soul"
71. GUNS N' ROSES - "Use Your Illusion II"
72. W.A.S.P. - "W.A.S.P."
73. SLAYER - "South of Heaven"
74. ALICE COOPER - "Trash"
75. DEF LEPPARD - "Hysteria"
76. BLACK SABBATH - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"
77. BLIND GUARDIAN - "Nightfall in Middle-Earth"
78. TWISTED SISTER - "Stay Hungry"
79. SEPULTURA - "Chaos A.D."
80. SLIPKNOT - "Slipknot"
81. PINK FLOYD - "The Dark Side Of The Moon"
82. W.A.S.P. - "The Crimson Idol"
83. BLIND GUARDIAN - "Imaginations from the Other Side"
84. MASTODON - "Blood Mountain"
85. TOOL - "Aenima"
86. MEGADETH - "Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?"
87. SLIPKNOT - "Iowa"
88. SCORPIONS - "Taken by Force"
89. QUEENSRŸCHE - "Rage for Order"
90. FATES WARNING - "Parallels"
91. VAN HALEN - "Van Halen"
92. MOTORHEAD - "Overkill"
93. SLAYER - "Show no Mercy"
94. NIRVANA - "Nevermind"
95. DEATH - "Spiritual Healing"
96. SODOM - "Agent Orange"
97. SAXON - "Denim and Leather"
98. ROTTING CHRIST - "Theogonia"
99. DEATH - "Leprosy"
100. MANOWAR - "Sign of the Hammer"

[9]

Only 42. I suck.

By the way, some of this list is utter hog poop. Pink Floyd is metal? Nirvana is metal? Even Van Halen is kind of stretching it.

[$heriff Tom]

I have 57! Go me! So, you see, I dont watch many movies, but I own some cool metal. And even the albums I dont have, I have all kinds of stuff from the artists shown, on compilations or other stuff.

I agree, Pink Floyd and Nirvana belong nowhere near there. But blame the idiot "metal fans" who voted.

This WAS England, after all, which explains Paradise Lost and Anathema on there, but I wholeheartedly agree with them there. Great stuff. Cool to see Kreator on there, Death, bands like that. Candlemass as well. The fans went deep.

Yay Dio and Accept.

My two favorite metal albums, the first Maiden album and Metal Church's debut, nowhere to be found, sadly. And where is Manowars "Battle Hymms." Cant believe "Sign of the Hammer" is on there before that.

Ah, Nevermore. CLASSIC band, more of you should be checking them out.

All in all, a decent list.

[Chris]

I only own 8 of them...most being Black Sabbath records.

I have NO problem with the top 10 of this list, other than placement.

Back In Black should be number one......it shouldn't even be close.

[$heriff Tom]

Back and Black is way long in the tooth, its been too commercialized in time. I myself have others I prefer, but going by this list, I think Number of the Beast certainly should be ahead of it.

[Chris]

Back In Black BEING way too long in the tooth and too commercialized is EXACTLY why it should be number one.

That is the single greatest record in ROCK N ROLL HISTORY period....as it relates to transcending different fans in different genres.

I've said it once...I'll say it again.

Back In Black my not be anyone's favorite album. It's probably not a hardcore AC/DC fan's favorite AC/DC album. But I defy you to find ANY music fan from ANY genre, whether it be rock, rap, punk, pop, country, techno, etc... who can't not sing along to and enjoy at least one or two songs off that record. People are quite passionate about music, but I don't think ANYONE truly hates AC/DC and I know that no one hates that record.