A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions are welcome (granted they are featured on MS). All the albums here are ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. If a certain album belongs to the (in your opinion) wrong genre, then definitely let me know.

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2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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This is the top 35 of german thrash metal albums of the old school...

1.Sodom - Agent Orange

2.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

3.Destruction - Infernal Overkill

4.Tankard - Zombie Attack

5.Exumer - Possessed By Fire

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Mascots are an established and popular part of metal fan culture. In contrast to sports team mascots, they are no cute talismans, but are regarded as personification of the band and its music (or even as some kind of evil band member) that adds enormously to the identification of the fans with the band.

This alphabetical list presents well known examples by showing the album cover where the corresponding mascot first appeared, along with one or two sentences as general information.

Please feel free to suggest more examples of metal mascots or share relevant information on the presented mascots.

1.Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

2.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

3.Anthrax - Inside Out

4.Artillery - B.A.C.K.

5.Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen

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And they said the germans don't have nice metal music...

1.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

2.Kreator - Extreme Agression

3.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

4.Kreator - Enemy Of God

5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

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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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The greatest Thrash metal band from Germany 🇩🇪

1.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

2.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

3.Kreator - Terrible Certainty

4.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

5.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

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1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2.Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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1st Wave of Black Metal. Most bands here may not be considered black metal as we know it today or even in the 2nd wave, but had some sort of influence of the genre's subject matter, sound and imagery.

1.Bathory - Bathory

2.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

3.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4.Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom

5.Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath

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1.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

3.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

4.Kreator - Enemy Of God

5.Kreator - Terrible Certainty

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Just a list of debut albums. From Heavy Metal to Black Metal.

1.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

2.Dio - Holy Diver

3.Angra - Angels Cry

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Galneryus - The Flag Of Punishment

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To add fuel to the fire of the "they'll never top their first album" rhetoric, here are all my favorite full length debuts in alphabetical order. Full lengths, not EPs.

1.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

2.Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon

3.Agruss - Morok

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Adjusted KREATOR albums ratings with Negative Binomal Distribution (using Metalstorm data itself).

1.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

3.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

4.Kreator - Enemy Of God

5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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A list of albums I listen to and rated with a small commentary. This list is not meant to have an order, or a best-to-worst classification.

Links to connected lists:

Album & Artist Impressions (Part 2)

Rating:

10 - Timeless classic
9 - Masterpiece
8 - Excellent
7 - Solid
6 - Uneven
5 - Tainted by tone-deafness

1.Igorrr - Hallelujah

2.Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad

3.Cro-Mags - Revenge

4.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

5.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

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Kreator are one of the my favourite thrash metal bands.They have a lot of masterpieces in these genre and some experimental albums in which Kreator played some fresh music.Those albums are not regarded as being very good,but I like all of them and here is the list

1.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

2.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

3.Kreator - Violent Revolution

4.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

5.Kreator - Enemy Of God

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1.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

2.Slayer - Show No Mercy

3.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Voivod - War And Pain

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