Top 10 Heavy Metal

I grew up on it, but dont listern to it that much these days. I dug out myold records at the weekend and had a bit of a nostalgia session. My fave top 10 metal albums have to be..

Ace of spades – Motorhead

The number of the beast – Iron Maiden
Thunder & Lightening – Thin Lizzy

Master of Puppets – Metallica

Another Perfect Day – Motorhead

Screaming for Vengeance – Judas Priest

Back in Black – AC/DC

Heaven & Hell – Black Sabbath

Ready ‘n’ Willing - Whitesnake

Perfect Strangers – Deep Purple

So, calling all metal heads, whats yer top 10..??

always a tough one this ... cos I don't consider any of the great 70s hard rock albums metal ...
you know what here's a double list

Top 10 Hard Rock Albums ...

1. Uriah Heep - Salisbury
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
4. Deep Purple - Machine Head
5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6. Led Zeppelin - II
7. Deep Purple - In Rock
8. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
9. Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
10. Uriah Heep - A Magician's Birthday

Damn what a predictable list ... here's another one

Top 10 Metal Albums

1. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
2. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
3. Dio - Holy Diver
4. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Oz
5. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
6. Metallica - Metallica
7. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
8. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
9. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
10. Blind Guardian - The Forgotten Tales

I agree that it's hard to compare 70's "metal" with 80's and beyond metal, but for the sake of brevity, I'll combine 'em all. I also included some prog metal.

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (probably my favorite pure thrash album ever )
5. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
6. Deep Purple - Machine Head
7. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (grunge metal?)
8. Dream Theater - Awake
9. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought (yep, it's more thrash than prog, but I like it a lot; sometimes I feel Snow Dog and myself are the only ones on this site that do)
10. Opeth - Blackwater Park

Edited by Ben2112

Not all really metal, but it displays what I know, and what I like.

1. Rainbow Rising (Stargazer is beautifull, A Light In The Black is a heavy 10CC song)
2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (Amazing bass and guitar stuff)
3. AC/DC - The Razor's Edge (sounds somewhat commercial, but I love it)
4. Led Zeppelin - IV (not really metal, but some great tunes there Rock & Roll)
5. Deep Purple - In Rock (Flight Of The Rat, Child In time, Speed King, all classics)
6. Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe (A compilation, but all classic ingredients)
7. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (classic album hallowed be thy name)
8. Arena - Pride (I'll use any excuse to promote Arena, Fool's Gold, Empire Of A Thousand days, Sirens, maybe not real heavy metal. but really great)
9. Dio - Holy Diver (just included him, because Zargus mentioned him, and I remember giving that album an infinite spin in the good old days)
10. Angra - Holy Land (Carolina IV, download the song from PA, great, some classical influences (Beethoven I think))

 

Like is obvbious from this list I know little metal, know enough for an opinion, but like too little to search really deep

well when you say top 10 heavy metal you mean albums from classic heavy metal groups right? i mean no death metal, no power metal, no thrash metal, no doom metal, no black metal and no progressive metal. ok in my opinion the 10 best CLASSIC heavy metal albums according to the records i own and i've listened are:

1) Judas priest-screaming for vengeance

2) iron maiden-powerslave

3) black sabbath-headless cross

4) heavy load-stronger than evil

5) stormwitch-tales of terror

6) accept-metal heart

7) saxon-denim and leather

8) angelwitch-angelwitch

9) demon-taking the world by storm

10) dio-holy diver.

1.Machine Head - Deep Purple
2.Van Halen - Van Halen
3.Rising - Rainbow
4.Strangers In The Night - UFO
5.Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
6.Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath
7.One More From The Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
8.Montrose - Montrose
9.Tokyo Tapes - Scorpions
10.Double Live Gonzo- Ted Nugent

As you can see I've picked a few live albums,for the groups concerned they are near- perfect anthologies.

1.Megadeth-Rust in Peace

2.Anthrax-Among the Living

3.Metallica-Kill em All

4.Armored Saint-March of the Saint

4.Iron Maiden-Killers

5.Slayer-Reign in Blood

6.Black Sabbath-Paranoid

7.Judas Priest-British Steel

8.Mercyful Fate-Don't Break the Oath

9.Diamond Head-Diamond Head

10.Exodus-Bonded by Blood

Well i STILL LOVE THESE
 1 Therion - Vovin
 2 Therion - Theli
 3 Judas Priest - Sad wings of destiny
 4 Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
 5 Judas Priest - Painkiller
 6 Motorhead - Bastards
 7 Amorphis - Tales from the thousand lakes
 8 Moonspell - Irreligious
 9 Cathedral - Endtyme
10 Dio - Holy Diver
 What a mixture. Well my opinion is that there is not classic metal or power or thrash or death or anything! METAL IS f**kING METAL

I think that many of the albums voted in this poll are hard rock albums. I also want to try to present my heavy metal top 10 without guarantee to put in some hard rock albums.

1. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage

3. Metallica - Metallica

4. Dream Theater - Images And Words

5. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

6. AC/DC - Highway To Hell         &n bsp;  Not Sure If It Is Really Heavy Metal  

7. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

8. Queensryche - Operation Mindcryme

9. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

10. AC/DC - Back In Black          Not Sure If It Is Really Heavy Metal

JUDAS PRIEST-SIN AFTER SIN [Saw them on this tour]

RAINBOW-RISING

UFO-LIGHTS OUT [Saw them on this tour]

THIN LIZZY-JAILBREAK[Saw them on 'Johnny The Fox' tour]

SAVATAGE-WAKE OF MAGELLAN

ALICE COOPER-KILLER

VAN HALEN-BALANCE

BLACK SABBATH-SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH

BUDGIE-BANDOLIER [Saw them on Never Turn......... tour]

BAD COMPANY-STRAIGHT SHOOTER