1.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

2.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

3.Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Helloween - Helloween

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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.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

2.Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out

3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

4.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

5.Accept - Metal Heart

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Slayer - Reign In Blood

5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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1.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

2.Rage - Prayers Of Steel

3.W.A.S.P. - The Last Command

4.Nasty Savage - Nasty Savage

5.Accept - Metal Heart

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Albums I have downloaded and are in the process of obtaining

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

3.AC/DC - High Voltage

4.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

5.AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

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These are the 211 essential hard rock/metal albums of the 80's, as were selected by the Greek Magazine "Metal Hammer" (August 2001 issue).

The albums followed by a star are the "must have", whereas the rest albums are the "could have".

1.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

2.AC/DC - Back In Black

3.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

4.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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A list of quality sophomore releases.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Alice In Chains - Dirt

3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

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Long hair, tight jeans, tons of chicks. Thrash metal at it's finest.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5.Artillery - By Inheritance

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Just for my favorite
2016.09.15 update

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3.Testament - The Legacy

4.Anthrax - Among The Living

5.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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It's the baddest, the most agressive and the most pure Heavy Metal subgenre... Thrash Metal!

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

4.Death - Leprosy

5.Anthrax - Among The Living

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Metal Albums from 1985

1.Slayer - Hell Awaits

2.Pentagram - Pentagram

3.Artillery - Fear Of Tomorrow

4.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

5.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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Kinda saw another relative lists on here that state this, one bad and one inspirational, so thought I might do my own.

Alphabetic order. And don't ask why a lot of Testament stuff is there, if their albums hadn't had so much impact, Testa wouldn't be my favorite band.

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Accept - Stalingrad

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

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1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Overkill - The Years Of Decay

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