Excluding neoclassical and shred what are your top 10 metal albums of all time. Mine are as follows:

1 AC/DC: Back in Black
2 AC/DC: Highway to Hell
3 Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast
4 Guns 'n' Roses: Appetite for Destruction
5 Ozzy: Blizzard of Ozz
6 Dio: Holy Diver
7 Ozzy: Bark at the Moon
8 Rage against the Machine: Self titled
9 Metallica: Master of Puppets
10 Dokken: Tooth and Nail

I can't even contemplate an answer. My head hurts just thinking about it! :blink:

1-Rust In Peace By Megadeth
2-Master Of Puppets By Metallica
3-Killing Is My Business By Megadeth
4-Piece Of Mind By Iron Maiden
5-Peace Sells By Megadeth
6-Reign In Blood By Slayer
7-Black Metal By Venom
8-Ride The Lightning By Metallica
9-Blizzard Of Ozz By Ozzy Osbourne
10-Diary Of A Madman By Ozzy Osbourne

Was Very Hard.

LOL!!! It's a difficult choice for sure. I think you'd need to maybe name a top 100 and then I'm sure most of us would still not be happy with it.

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mine are...

slayer-reign in blood
brutal truth-extreme conditions
iron maiden-powerslave
cannibal corpse-the bleeding
6ft under-maximum violence
exodus-bonded by blood
macabre-sinister slaughter
DRI-definition
megadeth-rust in peace
metallica-ride the lightning

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hmmm.......the force is strong with this one.

In no particular order, because that would be too hard.

Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Atheist - Elements
Metallica - ...and Justice for All
Death - Symbolic
Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Testament - The New Order
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete

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staying on topic...

i hafta include a tie for 10th with MARDUK-PANZER DIVISION MARDUK

Deffinatly NOT in any order

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Aghora - Formless
Nile - Ithiphalic
Death - Sound of Persiverance
Cynic - Focuss
Maiden - Number of the Beast
Meshuggah - Nothing
Tool - Lateralus
Megadeth - R.I.P
Spastic Ink - Ink Compelet

I know there are so many others... Gojira, Athiest etc...

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Top 10 metal albums

1-Satyricon- Rebel Extravaganza
2-Emperor-Anthems to the welkin at dusk
3-Dimmu Borgir-Death Cult Armageddon
4-Malevolent Creation-The ten commandments
5-Queensryche-The Warning
6-Death-Leprosy
7-Iron Maiden-Killers
8-Judas Priest-British Steel
9-Helstar-A distant thunder
10-Biomechanical-The empires of the world

Um...

Cynic - Focus
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Death - Human
Gorguts - Obscura (the Erosion of Sanity is also phenomenal)
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Coroner - No More Color
Death - Symbolic
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

Not in order at all.

Don't really know ...at least these are the ones I hear most:

“Seventh Son of the Seventh Son” – Iron Maiden
“Nightfall on Middle Earth” – Blind Guardian
“For those about to rock” – ACDC
“Piece of Mind” – Iron Maiden
“Ride the Lightning” – Metallica
“Roots” - Sepultura
“Imaginations from the other side” – Blind Guardian
"Dirty Fingers" - Gary Moore
“Cryptic Writings” - Megadeth
“Louder than Hell” - Manowar

not in order, but here goes:

Ozzy - Blizzard Of Ozz
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
WASP - selftitled
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast
Heavy Load - Death Or Glory
Manowar - Sign Of The Hammer (hard to pick only one)
Scorpions - In Trance
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
Riot - Thundersteel

Difficult, and constantly changing... I'm probably stretching the definition of HM a bit,(what was once called HM is now called Hard Rock) but here's an attempt (not in order):

Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Led Zeppelin - 4
Metallica - Master of Puppets (though I wish they'd cheer up a bit :P )
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

All great choices man! B)

Ozzy Osbourne -Blizzard of Ozz
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Dokken - Under Lock and Key
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Racer X - Second Heat
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast