Top 10 Metal Albums Of All Time

What is your Top 10 Metal Albums Of All Time? No specific genre, just Metal!(I'm going to try to not repeat bands more than once) Here's mine:

1. ...And Justice For All - Metallica(Prog-Thrash)
This is not only my number 1 Metal album but my number 1 album of all time. Metallica made so many masterpieces here with songs like Blackened, title track, One, To Live Is To Die(my favorite Metallica instrumental), and the VERY underrated Frayed Ends Of Sanity.

2. Fight The Silence - For Today(Metalcore)
This is the best Metalcore album ever, Christian or secular. 

3. Rust In Peace - Megadeth(Thrash)
I wanted to include one secular full Thrash album because ...And Justice For All is a unique Prog-Thrash sound.

4. Human Sacrifice - Vengeance Rising(Death-Thrash)
The best Christian Thrash album ever.

5. Something For Nothing - Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!(Easycore/Metalcore/Pop-Punk)
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! is a very underrated band and this debut album is the best example of Easycore.(Their album Get Lost, Find Yourself is equally as good and could be put here but Something For Nothing is more classic)

6. Deliverance - Deliverance(Thrash/Speed)
An amazing album with some terrible production.

7. No More Hell To Pay - Stryper(Heavy/NWOBHMish)
This is probably a slightly controversial pick for Stryper but it's my favorite.

8. Satellites - P.O.D.(Nu)  
The best Nu Metal album Christian or secular.

9. Alien Love Secrets - Steve Vai(Instrumental)
I don't know if this can completely qualify as Metal but Bad Horsie at the very least can.

10. Toxicity - System Of A Down(Nu/Alt.)
A great album with a very overplayed song.

Apart from number 1 there is no order. And this list could be completely different tomorrow(except for Justice that stays) and if I was fine with repeating bands this would look a lot different, mainly a lot more Metallica. Here are some honorable mentions:

Drones - Muse(Alt./Heavy)
I personally think this can be counted as Metal and it would be number 2 but a lot of people will say this isn't Metal so I kept it off.

Pardon My French Deluxe Edition - Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!(Metalcore/Easycore)
This album is absolutely amazing musically, but based on the name you can probably tell why it's not on the list...

This album has 16 songs btw. So just in case you don't know, Pardon My French means excuse my language.

1. Dokken - Back for the Attack
2. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
3. Blessed By A Broken Heart - Feel the Power
4. Mastedon - Lofcaudio
5. Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
6. Whitecross - s/t
7. Sacred Warrior - Obsessions
8. Joshua - Surrender
9. Theocracy - As The World Bleeds
10. Extreme - Pornograffitti

It might have been a good idea to delete this thread and keep the other since they are duplicates, but maybe Kerrick can combine the two....

My top ten Metal albums would probably go like this and in no particular order


Mortification: Scrolls

Deicide: self titled

Deicide: Legion

Deicide: Once upon a cross

Seventh Angel: Lament for the weary

Holy Soldier: Self titled

Holy Soldier: Last Train

Amorphis: Tales of the thousand lakes

Paradise Lost: Gothic (I love the solos on this album they are not your usual blistering fast solos and are unique and very melodic and the tone is killer. If I played in a metal band I'd want to solo like that it really is more gothic type vibes as far as the lead goes)

Vengeance Rising: Destruction comes

Can add Paramaecium's first two as well

It'll change tomorrow no doubt lolz just lump all of Sabbath in there and we'll call it a day. I'm happy with that small metal collection!

That Paradise Lost album is great. 

You’re missing Stryper and Manowar, Dust.

Pethead wrote:That Paradise Lost album is great. 

You’re missing Stryper and Manowar, Dust.

 Gothic is a fantastic album.

Oh yeah Styrper and Manowar are in a class of their own. I left them out so the other lesser bands in my list won't taint the two best bands ever known to mankind. Especially the Muscle bound male strip show band AKA "Man o War!"

I feel guilty for giving Stryper too much of a hard time they are good band in the end of the day. Not so much Man O war tho!

Dustofyears wrote:

Pethead wrote:That Paradise Lost album is great. 

You’re missing Stryper and Manowar, Dust.

 Gothic is a fantastic album.

Oh yeah Styrper and Manowar are in a class of their own. I left them out so the other lesser bands in my list won't taint the two best bands ever known to mankind. Especially the Muscle bound male strip show band AKA "Man o War!"

I feel guilty for giving Stryper too much of a hard time they are good band in the end of the day. Not so much Man O war tho!

Yeah, Stryper's just easy to make fun of because they can be cheesy, and so many people absolutely love them, so you'll get a reaction. But I do enjoy them a good deal. They have some great hooks and are one of those bands that feels unique, there's not another band I can 100% say "If I listen to this it's the same as listening to Stryper".

StevenCressler wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

Pethead wrote:That Paradise Lost album is great. 

You’re missing Stryper and Manowar, Dust.

 Gothic is a fantastic album.

Oh yeah Styrper and Manowar are in a class of their own. I left them out so the other lesser bands in my list won't taint the two best bands ever known to mankind. Especially the Muscle bound male strip show band AKA "Man o War!"

I feel guilty for giving Stryper too much of a hard time they are good band in the end of the day. Not so much Man O war tho!

Yeah, Stryper's just easy to make fun of because they can be cheesy, and so many people absolutely love them, so you'll get a reaction. But I do enjoy them a good deal. They have some great hooks and are one of those bands that feels unique, there's not another band I can 100% say "If I listen to this it's the same as listening to Stryper".

Troo all dat