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Rolling Stone's Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time

Morrigan Stark

Arrogant Smirk
Looks like I got some more classic metal to listen to.
lol, love that gif

Let me know if you need a genre breakdown. This list covers a wide variety of genres.

Oh, I should have included these too [edit: and the Rainbow, aye]:

Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade (how did I skip my favourite DM band? shaaaame)
Exodus - Bonded by Blood (and skipped my favourite thrash album?? WTF Morri)
Nocturnus - The Key
Obliveon - Nemesis
Demons & Wizards - s/t
Stillborn - Necrospirituals
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Vektor - Black Future
Tormentor - Anno Domini
Torture Squad - Horror and Torture
Solstice - New Dark Age
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Grave Digger - Excalibur
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Rainbow - Rising

I fucking love metal
 

m_dorian

Member
Rainbow Rising at 48.

Sigh..

Slayer South of Heaven 47 and Reign in Blood 6.
Merciful Fate Melissa 17.

No. You never put Rainbow RIsing so far down the list.
You never put Rainbow Rising below Merciful Fate and Slayer.
You can't do that.
 
Rainbow Rising at 48.

Sigh..

Slayer South of Heaven 47 and Reign in Blood 6.
Merciful Fate Melissa 17.

No. You never put Rainbow RIsing so far down the list.
You never put Rainbow Rising below Merciful Fate and Slayer.
You can't do that.

I agree that Rainbow Rising is much too low. Another very important Metal album that is no doubt a top 20.
 

smoothj

Member
Surprised Iron Maidens self titled album made the list. It's really not talked about too much. Definitely my favorite from them.

It's funny I avoided Iron Maiden when I was younger thinking they were lame. Never really listened to them until like 3 years back. Holy shit my mind blew and I binged hard on their discography. I'm 32 which was way late in the game. Hope to see them live next time they come to socal.

Some good recommendations ITT!
 

android

Theoretical Magician
Was hoping I'd see Behemoth, BTBAM, Job for a Cowboy, Black Dhalia Murder, Cattle Decapitation,D.R.I.(ya....crossover thrash..), Rotting Christ, Fleshgod Apocalypse....but ya I'm silly haha.
 
Yep Rainbow Rising needs to be #1 in my book. Heaven and Hell also in the top 3.

And no Paradise Lost albums? For shame.

Yeah, it's nuts that Rainbow Rising and Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell are both ranked considerably lower than Holy Diver. All three are classics, but I've always felt that HD was the weakest of Dio's trifecta of heavy metal classics.
 

F0rneus

Tears in the rain
Either I missed it, but they didn't have Testament's The Legacy either? That list is making me salty as fuck.
 
Streetcleaner below gnu rock like Korn and Toxicity? La Sexorcisto on the list but not Astro Creep 5000? Psalm 69 on the list but not The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste?

lol okay.
 
It boggles my mind given that most of the nu metal acts they rank above it are literally Godflesh Lite.

Industrial metal is forever doomed to be ignored. I blame Rammstein.

For me, pretty much every other Industrial Metal band is inferior to Godflesh. Amazing how Nine Inch Nails gets all the praise when it is debatable he is even Industrial, let alone Metal.
 

RDreamer

Member
Korn, System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine? I don't mind/even like some of those bands but they really shouldn't be on a top 100 metal album list at all. They're like filler when you don't actually know enough metal or some shit.

Ride > Master

First post is best post.
 
I'll take it.

Whats #1?

Blackwater Park is no. 1 for me. Pretty much my favorite album ever.

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park
 

bebop242

Member
Blackwater Park is no. 1 for me. Pretty much my favorite album ever.

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

I have homework to do. I know 2 of these, lol.
 

platakul

Banned
*googles best metal albums*

ah yeah there's where they all came from

fucking lol sunbather

e: aha google recognize NIME and Kot7K.
this list jesus
 

DiscoJer

Member
Diamond Head's Lightning to the Nations should be higher than 41. You could make a good case Am I Evil? started Thrash Metal
 

RDreamer

Member
Sunbather....man, I remember the hype behind that band. Such a boring album.

I like New Bermuda a bit more, honestly.

Blackwater Park is no. 1 for me. Pretty much my favorite album ever.

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

These all definitely deserve to be on the list.
 
The order is conservative but there are some good picks there. High on Fire's Blessed Black Wings, Baroness, Rainbow...

Master of Reality should be #1 over Paranoid, though.
 

Carcetti

Member
Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

This reminded me that I should really re-listen to Crimson. Thanks.

Also, for million times better list than the OP

http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php

Because a world where Twisted Sister is on a list over stuff like Wildhoney, Arise, The Gallery, Wolfheart, Draconian Times, Icon, The Sham Mirrors, Theli, Welcome to Sky Valley, Turn Loose the Swans, Tales from the Thousand Lakes, Theogonia, etc etc is terrible.
 
I'd also rank Ride > MoP. GOAT Metallica album. But the list is just like the cookie cutter metal album list really, nothing personal about it really.
 
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