Greatest Heavy Metal albums of all time

My votes are as follows

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Iron Maiden - Live After Death

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil

Led Zeppelin I, II, III, IV and Houses of the Holy

Van Halen- 1984

The Cult - Love and Electric (Love 'em)

Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction (The last “Heavy Metal” album ever?)

Lemmy! Lemmy! Lemmy!

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Deep Purple- Machine Head
AC/DC- Dirty Deeds
AC/DC- Back In Black
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Led Zeppelin

Sepultura - Arise
Slayer - Reign In Blood (just under half an hour of sheer brutality)

[quote=“Highway Star”]Deep Purple- Machine Head
AC/DC- Dirty Deeds
AC/DC- Back In Black
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
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I am an idiot for forgetting AC/DC.

But…

Metallica—Master of Puppets is their forte

Zeppelin and the Cult are heavy metal? When did this happen? Zeppelin’s a blues band and the Cult play rock.

Nitpicking aside though, this is a film you probably won’t want to miss. An 88% freshness rating, too. That means its a goodun’.

[quote=“Bubba 2 Guns”]Lemmy! Lemmy! Lemmy!

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Oh YEEEEEEEEEEEEES.

Bomber, Overkill, Ace of spades, Orgasmatron

Maiden…

Iron Maiden, Killers

Sabbath…the first six…

Accadacca…Bon, Bon Bon!!!

The list is endless.

Metal lives :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music, the only heavy metal album ever recorded.

Since we’re talking metal. I think James should have a big pat on the back for his efforts to beat drug and alcohol addiction. More info…

metallica.com/index.asp?item=101257

Rockin’

It’s funny how every metal album I listen to now sounds like rock to me. Have you ever been to the metal music store at The Wall? I always wonder where the cool people are who still buy all that stuff.

I also lean more towards the Pantera, Sepultura and Guns 'n Roses side of things. What about Alice in Chains? What genre do they fall in?
Come out to The Wall tonight. They have a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame going with various heavy bands playing tribute to rocker Taiwan band, Assassin. And Assassin will be playing too.

1984??? Not with “Jump”. Too much keyboard. And Van Halen has too much “together” vocal. Like shudder Def Leppard.

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath. More of a satanic/heavy metal/blues. It gets my vote.

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Alice are back on the road.

I saw them on tour with Layne on vocals, he had the perfect voice for AIC.

I try to avoid putting music into “Oh, this is rock, that’s metal.” boxes. The AIC sits quite happily next to the Beatles, Metal Church, Anthrax and Floyd. Which in turn sits happily next to Roy Harper, Mozart and Zappa…

It ain’t what you call it that matters. It’s all just great music.

Some excellent radio shows…

Bruce[Iron Maiden]Dickinson

Cable Rock - classics and more from former Sterephonics drummer…don’t laugh! He knows his shit

Wham! - They have some great heavy metal stuff.
Dexie’s Midnight Travellers - Need I say more?

The list goes on.

Pantara’s greatest hits

Master of puppets

Tool’s first album I forget the name

Acdc’s live wire ohh yeah Vaughn Scott forever

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Master of puppets

Tool’s first album I forget the name

Acdc’s live wire ohh yeah Vaughn Scott forever[/quote]

Tool’s first - Undertow. Serious fun!

Undertow! Amazing album.

Don’t know of Alice In Chains falls into this category, but their album Dirt is a classic…

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What!!! I had no idea…one of my old favorites… :bouncy:

Tool’s first album was called ‘Opiate’. The song ‘Opiate’ is one of the darkest, rockin’ songs i’ve ever heard them do.

They played in Seattle a couple weeks ago and it sold it out in minutes. :frowning:

[quote=“snydewynder”]Pantara’s greatest hits

Master of puppets

Tool’s first album I forget the name

Acdc’s live wire ohh yeah Vaughn Scott forever[/quote]
That would be Bon Scott dear boy!

I love ‘Opiate’ as well. Tool were, and still are, so innovative, melodic, and damn heavy.

I saw them live at the Lollapalooza side stage, I think it was ‘92, before they had made it big. There were only about 50 people watching them, I sat on the grass right in front of center stage. I was trippin’, and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, it was amazing.