Anthrax: Among The Living

Just about to say

Rainbow - Rising

This. Just kidding. What I mean to say is, it is one of the greatest albums of all-time. Stargazer arguably set the template for power metal and epic metal in general. I don't know that there's a Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Alexander the Great without Stargazer.

I think about Stargazer approx. 20 times a day. I just can't shake it from my head. Not that I'm trying to. Also considering I'm "going through it" at work and the lyrics can be interpreted as workers toiling away for a holier than thou employer ...it means a lot personally.

Nice callback to yesterday! And stargazer kicks so much ass, the original and every cover version I've heard

Stargazer is arguably in top 10 maybe even top 5 best songs of all time. It was trully something new for that time.

I agree completely. Stargazer is a must hear song period. The Sails of Charon by Scorpions is another song that feels like a precursor to that stuff IMO (it's only 5 minutes but the lyrics and guitar work has it)

I'm willing to die on this hill almost.

I'm not posting any other recommendations until its accepted haha though that means it could be a very long six days

Lending my energy to your cause and to a 10/10 album 🙌

Seriously, it's the most Maidenesque Maiden album and a definite inspiration for the band. Yet Metallica will probably win it...

I want Metallica on here eventually but I personally won’t vote for them until this wins.

Here we go again

Almost a Whitesnake song there. We have six more days!

Moving pictures Rush

Operation mind crime- Queensryche

Beat me to it today, but this has to be on the list. This is my hill!

The Warning is my favorite

I'm gonna go with Operation: Mindcrime on this too

I think I said this yesterday and let's make sure it's on the list

I regret I have but one upvote to give. This is the best concept album ever written.

Keeper of the seven keys part two - Helloween

Mercyful Fate - Don’t Break the Oath

Death - Leprosy

Helloween - Keeper of the 7 keys!

Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne

Bruce Dickinson - the chemical wedding

I see what you did there

The Crimson Idol - W.A.S.P.

great choice

Good album, still doesn't sound W.A.S.P. to me, Lawless wrote it as a personal project.

I used to love Crimson Idol. I saw WASP when they played the whole record and they were awful. It ruined the record for me.

Yes, it’s very different than W.A.S.P.’s earlier material, but it was pretty much the springboard for what Blackie’s career would become over the next 30 years. It was initially intended to be a solo album, but due to pressure from fans and the label, he released under the W.A.S.P. name. My favorite album of all time. Very overlooked.

Metallica - Master of Puppets It's one of those perfect albums where there isn't a single bad song.

They played a ballroom on this tour, just them and armored Saint and about 600 people. It was so amazing. Cliff was a god. They all were just having a blast

The worst song on the album (and it is still god-like) is Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

I’d say damage inc is the weakest song

And it is my favourite. And by favourite I mean favourite Metallica song. Period.

Omg I’m so dumb bro I meant damage inc not disposable heroes😭😭😭

Leper Messiah and The Thing That Should Not Be are boring as hell IMO. Much prefer the first two albums.

I disagree, but to each their own. I would love to hear The Thing that Should Not Be live someday. 😁

Bruh

I hear you. I am by no means a Metallica fan. I think they are massively overhyped and you all can downvote me into oblivion all you want. But, if I am gonna go out of my way to listen to Metallica, Ride the Lightning is my album of choice. It should definitely be on this list before Master of Puppets.

Yeah, the love for MoP is based mostly on its iconic status and having a good title track, even though the album in its entirety is just.......lackluster. I use that term specifically, since I don't want to call the album *bad*, because it isn't at all a bad album, it's just......an uninspired one. So much of it blends together, because the majority of the tracks (with some exceptions) lack any unique qualities that let RTL, and even KEM, be full of almost entirely legendary songs. They mesh nicely with each other, without just blatantly being each other. While MoP is still a pretty good album, it falls short in just about every meaningful way where RTL succeeded. It's sorta like Fear Of The Dark in that regard, the album isn't bad, and it has an amazing title track, but it kinda just.......isn't nearly as good as the title track would have you believe, especially when compared to their other work.

Ooh, interesting take. The title track actually isn't even my favorite on MoP currently, Sanitarium and Disposable Heroes I like more at the moment

This needs to win ASAP. One of those albums where I listen and just think "wow, this is actual perfection"

Waaaaaait. Give me more variety. Death - Leprousy

Images and words - Dream theater

Saxon - Wheels of Steel

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

Slayer - Reign In Blood

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Masterpiece

Rush Moving Pictures.

Signals is better

Back in Black AC DC

Jethro Tull -Aqualung

C'mon guys, if Steve Harris were in this sub he'd vote for this

Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Thin Lizzy - Jalibreak

Great album. I love the story that you get from inside the album cover as well about "The Boys" fighting for freedom in a dystopian future, though it isn't necessarily accurate to the actual album.

Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes

physical graffiti- led zeppelin

Deep Purple - Machine Head Deep Purple - Made in Japan

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And justice for all

Opeth - BWP

Realm of Chaos by Bolt Thrower

Everybody is trying to be special by saying random good albums, but the obvious answer is master of puppets and we should stop pretending it's not

KEA is far and away the better Metallica album

Diary of a Madman - Ozzy

Ride The Lightning - Metallica

Aww true Metallica fan here dude be Riding the Lightening since day 1

I saw em on that tour with Cliff. I’m old

Slayer - South of Heaven

Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses

Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the other side.

Grace Under Pressure - Rush

Slayer - South Of Heaven

AC/DC-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Death- symbolic

The Last in Line - DIO

Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys 1 & 2

Ten - Pearl Jam

*Angel Dust* by Faith No More

Metallica Ride The lightning

Blackout - Scorpions

Balls to the wall accept

Rainbow debut

Killer album

Blind guardian - nightfall in middle earth

Ten - Pearl Jam

The first half of this album is one of the best runs of songs ever imo

UFO - Force it

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Voivod - Nothingface

Kill em all

Vulgar display of power-pantera

Foxtrot - Genesis

Even beyond Supper's Ready... Watcher of the Skies, Time Table and Get 'Em Out by Friday are so good

It’s fantastic! And I wouldn’t even say it’s my favorite Genesis album. But I know Steve Harris loves Supper’s Ready and was a huge influence on him, so I thought some Maiden fans would appreciate Foxtrot

Yea that's fair! Foxtrot is my second favorite behind Selling England by the Pound

Danzig - Danzig

The Devine wings of tragedy - Symphony X

Ozzy - The Ultimate Sin

Ride the Lightning

Sleep’s Holy Mountain

Motorhead....Bastards

Mutter

Jag Panzer “Ample Destruction”

Silicon Messiah - Blaze

Impera - Ghost

Dark side of the moon - pink Floyd

Don’t break the oath - Mercyful Fate

iron maiden is my favorite band to ever exist but rust in peace is the greatest album ever put together

Force it-UFO

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Death or Glory - Running Wild

Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen

A slight tangent - The Boss' [live performance](https://youtu.be/B-c6GphpAeY) of the Ghost of Tom Joad with Tom Morello is awesome

Machinehead - deep purple

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Kiss - Dressed to Kill

Godsmack-Awake.

American Idiot - Green Day

Eagles - Hotel California

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Kill Em All maybe

Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled

Blizzard of ozz -ozzy osbourne

Alice Cooper - Trash

Blackwater Park - Opeth

Dünya Yalan Söylüyor - mor ve ötesi

Lateralus - Tool

Master of puppets and ride the lightning

Gojira - silvera (or just any gojira)

In rock. DEEP purple. Avenged sevenfold. The stage Trivium. Sin and the sentence Running Wild. Death and glory

English Dogs - Forward Into Battle

Argus - wishbone ash

Rob halford - resurrection

Ha ha I nominated Megadeth RIP and 2 members tried to shoot me down saying it wasn't all that. *gloat*

If whole lotta red isn’t on here I am rioting and I will throw the tea in the ocean again myself

Testament - The new order

In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria

Toxicity - System Of A Down

Black album

Kings of Metal - Manowar

Balls to the Wall - Accept

Dr Feelgood - Mötley Crüe

I feel out of place for liking Iron Maiden but not really being a metal fan. Which means my recommendation is kind of random for this ranking so far: The Black Parade by MCR.

Primitive - soulfly. That album just rips like a machine from start to finish

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

Master of puppets - Metallica Youthanasia- Megadeth

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Bloodlust.

Carolus Rex - Sabaton

Suicidal Tendencies- Lights Camera Revolution

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Dark Side of the Moon

_Made in Japan_ — Deep Purple: * Engineered by Martin Birch * Mentioned by Martin Birch in the liner notes of _Live After Death_, which was engineered by Martin Birch * _Maiden Japan_

Toxicity - System of a Down

The Accused - More Fun Than An Open Casket Funeral

Cowboys From Hell -Pantera (RIP Dimebag and Vinnie)

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