Your Top 5 Metal Albums

[Zac]

This album is absolutley amazing! The vocals here are out of this world & King really shines on this release. Killer basswork as well! This is by far the best Mercyful release in the discography.

King always comes first...
but my musical tastes are quite varied, so don't jump to any conclusions reguarding diversity in my selections, however it's safe to say Iam a freak when it comes to these bands.

Here are some honorable mentions:

Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Grave Digger - Tunes of War
Grave Digger - The Grave Digger
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Helloween - Keepers 1 & 2
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Death - Sound Of Perseverance
Control Denied - Fragile Art Of Existence

 

[Katana Overlord]

Here's a bunch of my favourites (not top 5 because that's to hard for me ) in no order.

Iron Maiden: Piece Of Mind
Iron Maiden: Number Of The Beast
Therion: Secret Of The Runes
Therion: Deggial
Megadeth: Peace Sells
Megadeth: Rust In Peace
Rainbow: Rising
Iced Earth: Night Of The Stormrider
Jag Panzer: Mechanized Warfare
Demons & Wizards: s/t
Blind Guardian: Nightfall In Middle Earth
Blind Guardian: Imaginations From The Otherside
Death: Individual Thought Patterns
Death: Human
Demonoid: Riders Of The Apocoalypse (just picked this one up, so good!)
Mercyful Fate: Don't Break The Oath
Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality
Symphony X: The Odyssey
High On Fire: Surrounded By Thieves

There's also several runner ups
My favourite bands are therion and Iron Maiden though.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

Yes, I know, my best lists change often.

 

[Avalanche9601]

Whenever someone asks me what my top 10 would be, I can never choose. But I have always tried to think of the 10 CDS I would most want to have if I could only have 10 CDS for the rest of my life. At the moment, I think these would do (and in NO particular order):

Anthrax - Among the Living
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Iron Maiden - 7th Son
Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
Iced Earth - Stormrider
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Seasons
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
Ozzy - No Rest for the Wicked

I generally would try and pick 10 of my favorite bands, that way I would have something different to listen to all the time.

Then I'd get pissed when I remembered another CD I really liked.

Honorable mentions:
Blind Guardian - A Night At the Opera *and* Nightfall in Middle Earth
Ozzy - Ozzmosis
Jag Panzer - Mech and\or Casting
Manowar - Kings of Metal

And probably a mix CD of Rush, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, and ZZ Top just for those lighter moments

 

[Force10]

I took a stab at narrowing down a top 5 list this morning. Here we are:

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Dream Theater - Images And Words
4. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
5. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

 

[MrMayhem]

Killers - Maiden
Triumph Of Steel - Manowar
Mechanized Warfare/Thane - JP
Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson
Glorious Burden - Iced Earth
Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath
Alive - Kiss (okay technically "hard rock")
House Of Atreus - Virgin Steele
Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
The Odyssey - Symphony X

 

[secret_weapon]

1. Hazzard: Hazzard (long-forgotten gem w/ Herman Frank
2. Black Sabbath: Heaven And Hell
3. Iron Maiden:Iron Maiden, Killers
4. Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force: Marching Out
5. Jag Panzer: Ample Destruction

Those are my top five among albums that I think are indisputably metal. Then, there's lots of marginally metallic old stuff that I love, like the old Scorpions albums w/ Uli Roth, plus anything by UFO, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Rainbow and Crack The Sky. Also, Silver Mountain weren't that heavy, but man, they were f*cking brilliant!
Full respect to the Masters of Metal Craft!
:hotjump::hotjump::hotjump::hotjump::hotjump::hotjump::hotjump:

 

[Creator_Failure]

Oh man, the top five albums to pick is such a hard choice, but these five i think are the most well rounded albums that i can listen to from start to finish everytime i listen (in no order)

This album is so solid from start to finish,if you've never heard this band definatly pick this one up, its amazing!

Close between Whoracle and Jester Race, but Jester Script Transfigured blows me away everytime

Greatest thrash metal album of all time?

Ohh metallica, i dont even wanna get started...

Incredible album, this and 7th Son are Maiden at their finest

 

[defenderofthefaith]

at the moment the most listened to are:
1.symphony x - the odyssey
2.adagio - underworld
3.rhapsody - dawn of victory
4.judas preist - painkiller
5.testament - practice what you preach


damn thats a pretty broad spectrum of metal

 

[Mr Blackwell]

Only 5 is really a tough decision. But here we go:

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Jag Panzer - any album with Harry Conklin
Iron Maiden - any album from 1980 - 1988
Mercyful Fate / King Diamond - any album

But then there's so many others...

 

[Dischord]

That's my #1
Then Death's Individual Thought Patterns
Then Blind Guardian's Somewhere Far Beyond
Then Children of Bodom's Hatebreeder
Then Arch Enemy's Wages of Sin

Jag Panzer is in the top 10 with Casting the Stone tho

 

[Golden_Goose]

Too many if you ask me

Right now i'm getting my ass kicked courtesy of Casting The Stones by Jag

AND

Tempo Of The Damned by Exodus

 

[metaluntildeath]

Just 5, there is just no way....

Behemoth-Zos Kia Cultus
Borknagar-Empiricism
Vintersorg-Visions From the Spiral Generator
Nevermore-Dreaming Neon Black
Amon Amarth-Vs. the World
Emperor-Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Death-Symbolic
Blind Guardian-A Night at the Opera
Demons & Wizards
Iced Earth-Horror Show


There are others.

 

[T_man357]

Just 5, there is just no way....

Behemoth-Zos Kia Cultus
Borknagar-Empiricism
Vintersorg-Visions From the Spiral Generator
Nevermore-Dreaming Neon Black
Amon Amarth-Vs. the World
Emperor-Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Death-Symbolic
Blind Guardian-A Night at the Opera
Demons & Wizards
Iced Earth-Horror Show


There are others.

 

[Poison God Machine]

Always subject to change:

1. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
2. Type O Negative - October Rust
3. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power (don't hurt me!)
4. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
5. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite