Metal Hammer Magazine | Top 100 Metal Albums

I found this very interesting. Blabbermouth.net reports that the Greek edition of Metal Hammer Magazine asked their readers to vote on the All-Time Top 100 Metal Albums, and this is the official result of their votes. What do you think? Instead of 100, can you list your top 20?

Top 100 Metal Albums:

Master of Puppets

01. METALLICA – “Master of Puppets”
02. IRON MAIDEN – “The Number of the Beast”
03. JUDAS PRIEST – “Painkiller”
04. AC/DC – “Back in Black”
05. METALLICA – “Metallica” (a.k.a. Black Album)
06. QUEENSRŸCHE – “Operation: Mindcrime”
07. SLAYER – “Reign in Blood”
08. BLACK SABBATH – “Heaven and Hell”
09. BLACK SABBATH – “Paranoid”
10. IRON MAIDEN – “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son”

11 thru 20

Number of the Beast

11. MOTÖRHEAD – “Ace of Spades”
12. IRON MAIDEN – “Powerslave”
13. BLACK SABBATH – “Black Sabbath”
14. LED ZEPPELIN – “[Untitled] (a.k.a. “Led Zeppelin IV”)
15. GUNS N’ ROSES – “Appetite for Destruction”
16. MEGADETH – “Rust in Peace”
17. DIO – “Holy Diver”
18. METALLICA – “Ride the Lightning”
19. HELLOWEEN – “Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I”
20. METALLICA – “Kill ‘em All”

21 thru 30

Pain Killer

21. AC/DC – “Highway to Hell”
22. DEEP PURPLE – “Machine Head”
23. PARADISE LOST – “Draconian Times”
24. JUDAS PRIEST – “British Steel”
25. METALLICA – “…And Justice for All”
26. MANOWAR – “Hail to England”
27. OZZY OSBOURNE – “Blizzard of Ozz”
28. IRON MAIDEN – “Piece of Mind”
29. IRON MAIDEN – “Somewhere in Time”
30. RAINBOW – “Rising”

31 thru 40

Back In Black

31. IRON MAIDEN – “Iron Maiden”
32. HELLOWEEN – “Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II”
33. DREAM THEATER – “Images and Words”
34. DEEP PURPLE – “In Rock”
35. EXODUS – “Bonded by Blood”
36. SYSTEM OF A DOWN – “Toxicity”
37. SAVATAGE – “Gutter Ballet”
38. OPETH – “Blackwater Park”
39. SEPULTURA – “Arise”
40. JUDAS PRIEST – “Sad Wings of Destiny”

41 thru 50

Black Album

41. JUDAS PRIEST – “Defenders of the Faith”
42. CANDLEMASS – “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”
43. SLAYER – “Seasons in the Abyss”
44. OZZY OSBOURNE – “Diary of a Madman”
45. PANTERA – “Cowboys From Hell”
46. ACCEPT – “Restless and Wild”
47. NEVERMORE – “Dead Heart in a Dead World”
48. ANATHEMA – “Alternative 4″
49. WHITESNAKE – “1987″
50. PARADISE LOST – “Icon”

51 thru 60

Operation Mindcrime

51. TOOL – “Lateralus”
52. GAMMA RAY – “Land of the Free”
53. MACHINE HEAD – “The Blackening”
54. CANDLEMASS – “Nightfall”
55. DREAM THEATER – “Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory”
56. PANTERA – “Vulgar Display of Power”
57. IRON MAIDEN – “Fear of the Dark”
58. NEVERMORE – “Dreaming Neon Black”
59. CRIMSON GLORY – “Transcendence”
60. LED ZEPPELIN – “Led Zeppelin II”

61 thru 70

Reign of Blood

61. BLACK SABBATH – “Master of Reality”
62. MANOWAR – “Into Glory Ride”
63. BRUCE DICKINSON – “Accident of Birth”
64. KREATOR – “Extreme Aggression”
65. ACCEPT – “Balls to the Wall”
66. MÖTLEY CRÜE – “Shout at the Devil”
67. SEPULTURA – “Beneath the Remains”
68. DEATH – “Symbolic”
69. SAVATAGE – “Hall of the Mountain King”
70. AT THE GATES – “Slaughter of the Soul”

71 thru 80

Heaven and Hell

71. GUNS N’ ROSES – “Use Your Illusion II”
72. W.A.S.P. – “W.A.S.P.”
73. SLAYER – “South of Heaven”
74. ALICE COOPER – “Trash”
75. DEF LEPPARD – “Hysteria”
76. BLACK SABBATH – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
77. BLIND GUARDIAN – “Nightfall in Middle-Earth”
78. TWISTED SISTER – “Stay Hungry”
79. SEPULTURA – “Chaos A.D.”
80. SLIPKNOT – “Slipknot”

81 thru 90

Paranoid

81. PINK FLOYD – “The Dark Side Of The Moon”
82. W.A.S.P. – “The Crimson Idol”
83. BLIND GUARDIAN – “Imaginations from the Other Side”
84. MASTODON – “Blood Mountain”
85. TOOL – “Aenima”
86. MEGADETH – “Peace Sells, But Who’s Buying?”
87. SLIPKNOT – “Iowa”
88. SCORPIONS – “Taken by Force”
89. QUEENSRŸCHE – “Rage for Order”
90. FATES WARNING – “Parallels”

91 thru 100

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

91. VAN HALEN – “Van Halen”
92. MOTORHEAD – “Overkill”
93. SLAYER – “Show no Mercy”
94. NIRVANA – “Nevermind”
95. DEATH – “Spiritual Healing”
96. SODOM – “Agent Orange”
97. SAXON – “Denim and Leather”
98. ROTTING CHRIST – “Theogonia”
99. DEATH – “Leprosy”
100. MANOWAR – “Sign of the Hammer”

When you list your Top 20 Metal Albums, list your top 20, not what you think someone else would put. This list should reflect your choice’s for the Top 20 Metal Albums, be it your favorite’s, the most influential, or whatever makes you like them the most. It’s your choice, it’s rockchoice.

4 Responses to “Metal Hammer Magazine | Top 100 Metal Albums”

1. Vader balls el snifferano says:

   August 31, 2010 at 3:13 pm

   Megadeth Rust in Peace is top 5 material.! wtf
2. SpaceTrucker says:

   September 7, 2009 at 10:39 am

   I agree E-Bad, I had a hard time choosing band’s and separating them between genres, hard rock, heavy metal, and metal. I think some of the Greek’s had trouble with this also, Pink Floyd… metal? I would love to see an All-Time Top 20 Hard Rock Albums list from you and anyone else that wants to jump in.
3. Eric The Bad says:

   September 7, 2009 at 8:49 am

   PINK FLOYD- DARK SIDE OF THE MOON????????? Huh? How’d that get on there? And, I don’t really think of Zeppelin and Van Halen as being “metal” bands, even though they played “heavy” music. Maybe I’ll have to come up with my own BEST HARD ROCK albums ever!
4. SpaceTrucker says:

   September 5, 2009 at 5:24 pm

   My Top 20 Metal Albums:

   1 – Black Sabbath / Black Sabbath
   2 – Led Zeppelin II / Led Zeppelin
   3 – In Rock / Deep Purple
   4 – Montrose / Montrose
   5 – Powerslave / Iron Maiden
   6 – Judas Priest / Screaming For Vengeance
   7 – No Heavy Petting / UFO
   8 – Heaven and Hell / Black Sabbath
   9 – Demons and Wizards / Uriah Heep
   10 – Van Halen / Van Halen
   11 – Face Lift / Alice In Chains
   12 – Cryptic Writings / Megadeth
   13 – Superunknown / Soundgarden
   14 – Lovedrive / Scorpions
   15 – The Devil You Know / Heaven and Hell
   16 – The Chemical Wedding / Bruce Dickinson
   17 – High Voltage / AC/DC
   18 – Mafia – Black Label Society
   19 – War of Words / Fight
   20 – Metallica (Black Album) / Metallica