Metal Hammer's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums Ever

readers of the greek edition of metal hammer voted best heavy metal albums ever

here is their list

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" (aka Black Album)
06. Queensryche - "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] (aka "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. Queensryche - "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"

Im not really concerned that Queen are not on there....

would of been nice to see queen 2....

but what can you do when fools can be kings.

To whomever let themselfes be bothered by the stupidity of these lists..

Define Heavy Metal.

I sure as fuck can´t see Nirvanas "Nevermind" and Metallica "MOP" under the same category.
Not that I don´t like them both, it´s just...fucked up.
RS-Magazine deja vu!

Queen is not really a "heavy metal" band to begin with.. so that is why you won't see them on there. You can't really classify most of their material in any one rock category, the music is so varied... it would be more upsetting if they didn't crack the top 100 of a rock 'n roll list.

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Queen is not really a "heavy metal" band to begin with.. so that is why you won't see them on there. You can't really classify most of their material in any one rock category, the music is so varied... it would be more upsetting if they didn't crack the top 100 of a rock 'n roll list.[/QUOTE]


And would you say The Dark Side Of The Moon is a heavy metal album?
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Something's wrong with that list, Dio is underneath Metallica.

What a crap list...what the hell are Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Nirvana and Pink Floyd doing there? The absence of Queen is the least of the problems on that list... They've only listed one Rainbow album("Rising") when they should've listed all three Dio-era ones and even "Rising" is ranked too low. No Megadeth in top 10? Fuck you, Metal Hammer!

All of Death and Megadeth's albums are ranked quite low. And where's Carcass? I think even Children of Bodom's first 3 albums should've made the list compared to the tripe that has been included.

one things for sure, Queen don't belong on that list. Even their heaviest albums like sheer heart wern't metal albums.  Queen were too good to be a metal band.

Since when Pink Floyd is a heavy metal band????

yea, that's a joke. Queen are even heavier than floyd.

This list is a bit Metallica biased.

Megadeth is a much better band

BTW- Queen is pretty heavy.  Heavier than some on this list.

This list is pretty cool.

Some minor fuck-ups, but yeah, most bands I like there.

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Even Jethro Tull is more Metal than Pink Floyd! Now that's a list that the Grammys would be proud of. LOL! The reaction of Alice Cooper when he read "Jethro Tull" as a nominee is priceless.

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This list is a bit Metallica biased.

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In a way yeah, but there's no fuckin' way that 'Kill Em All' is a better album than '...and Justice For All'. I mean Kill Em All was good for an underground metal band playing small clubs, but the following 4 Metallica albums showed their true potential.

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[b]lalaalalaa wrote: [/b]



This list is a bit Metallica biased.


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In a way yeah, but there's no fuckin' way that 'Kill Em All' is a better album than '...and Justice For All'. I mean Kill Em All was good for an underground metal band playing small clubs, but the following 4 Metallica albums showed their true potential.





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I disagree, I like Kill Em All far more than ...And Justice For All.  In fact, Kill Em All is my second favorite Metallica album.