What is your favorite metal album?

-heavy-

judas priest - painkiller

diamond head - lightning to the nations

iron maiden - the number of the beast

mercyful fate - don't break the oath

skid row - slave to the grind

-symphonic/power-

nightwish - once

helloween - keeper of the seven keys pt.1&2

thrash/groove

pantera - cowboys from hell

anthrax - among the living

testament - the legacy

dark angel - darkness descends

death angel - the ultra-violence

megadeth - rust in peace

evildead - annihilation of civilization

exumer - possessed by fire

exodus - bonded by blood

-death-

death - the sound of perseverance

-black-

bathory - under the sign of black mark

mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas

dissection - storm of the light's bane

emperor - in the nightside eclipse

dimmu borgir - stormblåst

-progressive-

dream theater - six degrees of inner turbulence

Some wouldn't say it's metal, but Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses is often called rock/metal, one of the best albums of all time.

Also the biggest selling debut album of all time :)

GNR! RNFR!

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Iced Earth - "The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked Part II)"

Iron Maiden - "Iron Maiden"

Judas Priest - "Hell Bent For Leather"

Metallica - "Metallica"

A non-metal album: Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here"

Über Alles by Hanzel und Gretyl

Industrial Metal Rocksss!!!!

I have 2:

Death - The Sound of Perseverence

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

I can't pick just one.

1. "Curse of the Red River" - Barren Earth (Melodic Death)

2. "Gangrene" - Mirrorthrone (Avant-Garde/Black)

3. "Poetry for the Poisoned" - Kamelot (Power)

4. "Horror Show" - Iced Earth (Power/Thrash)

5. "Pulse of Awakening" - Sybreed (Industrial/Groove)

"Sabotage" by Black Sabbath. I love lots of Sabbath's stuff, in addition to albums by other bands (Maiden, Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, Motorhead, and others), but to me there's no topping that one.

Panopticon by Isis.

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Death - The Sound Of Perserverance