[demonhellrogues]

Nearly IMPOSSIBLE but lets name some:

LPs:
Manilla Road (US) - Crystal Logic
Jag Panzer (US) - Ample Destruction
Queensryche (US) - The Warning/Operation Mindcrime
Apollo Ra (US) - Ra Pariah
ESP (US) - The Future Is Now
Matakopas (US) - Coming Out Ahead
Slauter Xstroyes (US) - Winterkill
Agent Steel (US) - Unstoppable Force
Razor (Can) - Custom Killing
Cirith Ungol (US) - King Of The Dead

And 10 EPs:
Ion Britton (US) - Eat Metal
Axton Pryte (Fra) - The Lab
Heathens Rage (US) - S/T
Solar Eagle (Can) - S/T
Street Child (US) - S/T
Unicorn (Ger) - The Legend Returns
Valhalla (US) - S/T
Thatcher (US) - Destined To Conquer
Iron Hawk (US) - To The Point
Silent Listener (US) - Veterans Of The Fight

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Seeing this list again after so many time is interresting but i can't believe i left so many out!!!
10 lp's is so limited but how could i forget ''IRON MAIDEN''???!!! So i'd add ''Somewhere In Time'', ''Powerslave'' and ''Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son'' somewhere in that list as one album (i know this is cheating but...). I don't know what i would leave out though... But as most of us said, IMPOSSIBLE to choose only ten...

[templarsteel]

OK ... Let's try to list some classics and some more underground albums not listed anywhere else, so I cheat and I will list 20 ... (no particular order) :

* AGENT STEEL (US) - Mad Locust Rising EP 1985
* ARIA (RUS) - Krow za Krow (Blood for Blood) 1991
* BLIND GUARDIAN (D) - Somewhere far Beyond 1992
* DESTINY (S) - Beyond all Sense 1985
* DETEST (S) - Thundersteel EP 1990
* DOOMSWORD (I) - ALL CD's !
* DYNAMO (MEX) - Raise the Power 2000
* ENFORCER (S) - Into the Night 2008
* FIFTH ANGEL (US) - Fifth Angel 1986
* GRIM REAPER (UK) - See you in Hell 1983
* HAWAII (US) - One NAtion Underground 1983
* HEATHENS RAGE (US) - Knights of Steel 12'' 1986
* HELLOWEEN (D) - Helloween / Walls of Jericho CD (as WITCHCROSS suggested ... )
* HYSTERIA (BOL) - For the Glory of Metal 2002
* IRON MAIDEN (UK) - Powerslave 1984 (What an ETERNAL MASTERPIECE !! ... )
* IRONSWORD (P) - Overlords of Chaos 2008
* JAG PANZER (US) - Ample Destruction 1984
* KING DIAMOND (DK) - Abigail 1987 or Them 1988 or ... Conspiracy 1989 ... don't know !!
* KRAKEN (COL) - Kraken 1987
* KREYSON (CZ) - Krizaci (Crusaders) 1992
* LIEGE LORD (US) - freedom's Rise 1984
* LONEWOLF (F) - Made in Hell 2008
* MANILLA ROAD (US) - Open the Gates 1985
* MANOWAR (US) - Kings of Metal 1988 (hey huys ... listen one more time to "Blood of the Kings" ...
* MASACRE (PER) - Sin Piedad 1988
* MONSTRUM (PL) - VIII Dzien Tygodnia 2007
* MURO (E) - Acero y Sangre 1987
* OMEN (US) - Battle Cry 1984 (ETERNAL MASTERPIECE !!)
* OZ (FIN) - Turn the Cross (Upside Down) 12'' 1983
* POKOLGÉP (H) - Pokoli Szinjaték 1987
* POWER CRÜE (GR) - The Sign of Rage 1996
* PROUD EXISTENCE (NL) - The Trial EP 1988
* R.A.F. (I) - Royal Air Force EP 1985
* RAZOR (CND) - Evil Invaders 1985
* RELLIK (US) - Remember the Future EP 1986
* RIOT (US) - Thundersteel 1988
* RUNNING WILD (D) - Gates to Purgatory 1984
* RUTHLESS (US) - Metal Without Mercy EP 1984
* SATAN (UK) - Court in the Act 1983
* SATAN'S HOST (US) - Metal from Hell 1986
* SHERATÁN (E) - Resurrección 2004
* STORMWITCH (D) - Walpurgis Night 1984 / Tales of Terror 1985 / Stronger than Heaven 1986
* TERRA ROSA (JPN) - The Endless Basis 1987
* THRUSTER (US) - MIA 1986
* TIERRA SANTA (E) - Legendario 1999
* TOKYO BLADE (UK) - Warrior of the Rising Sun 1985
* TOTAL ECLIPSE (US) - Guardians of Metal MCD 1999
* TWISTED TOWER DIRE (US) - Isle of Hydra 2002
* TYRANT (UK) - Anthology 2009
* TYRANT (US) - Legions of the Dead 1985 / Too Late to Pray 1987
* TYRANT'S REIGN (US) - Year of the Tyrants EP 1987
* VIRGIN STEELE (US) - Invictus 1998
* VOODOO (PL) - Heavy Metal 1987
* WARLORD (US) - Deliver Us ... 1983
* WOLF (JPN) - Wolf EP 1987
* WOTAN (I) - Thunderstorm (Demo 1993) ... and tons of others

Ok, I have cheated, there are a lot more than 20 albums, so I go alone ... I beg your pardon ..

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[Zerohero]

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Black Sabbath - Born Again
Dio - Holy Diver
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Voivoid - The Outer Limits
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Metal Church - Metal Church
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac

[Wolftyr]

I'm gonna try to list some, but just ten... it is hard!

01.Crystal Logic - Manilla Road
02.Melissa - Mercyful Fate
03.Battle Cry - Omen
04.Tracks of Doom - Angus
05.Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
06.The Unknown - Gotham City
07.Gates To Purgatory - Running Wild
08.Hell - Single
09.Defenders Of The Faith / Screaming For Veangeance- Judas Priest
10.Day Of The Saxons - Witchkiller

[Sixkiller]

Impossible to do. A list of 100 would be difficult. There are so many excellent albums, I couldn't do it.

[chatzial]

Maybe the ones with the biggest historic significance (with random order):

01. MANOWAR - Hail to England (or Sign of the Hammer, i just can't choose)
02. IRON MAIDEN - Iron Maiden
03. JUDAS PRIEST - Painkiller
04. QUEENSRYCHE - Operation mindcrime
05. HELLOWEEN - Keeper of the seven keys pt.I
06. METALLICA - Kill 'em all
07. BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath
08. DIO - Holy diver
09. CANDLEMASS - Epicus, doomicus, metallicus
10. SLAYER - Show no mercy

[demonhellrogues]

Nearly IMPOSSIBLE but lets name some:

LPs:
Manilla Road (US) - Crystal Logic
Jag Panzer (US) - Ample Destruction
Queensryche (US) - The Warning/Operation Mindcrime
Apollo Ra (US) - Ra Pariah
ESP (US) - The Future Is Now
Matakopas (US) - Coming Out Ahead
Slauter Xstroyes (US) - Winterkill
Agent Steel (US) - Unstoppable Force
Razor (Can) - Custom Killing
Cirith Ungol (US) - King Of The Dead

And 10 EPs:
Ion Britton (US) - Eat Metal
Axton Pryte (Fra) - The Lab
Heathens Rage (US) - S/T
Solar Eagle (Can) - S/T
Street Child (US) - S/T
Unicorn (Ger) - The Legend Returns
Valhalla (US) - S/T
Thatcher (US) - Destined To Conquer
Iron Hawk (US) - To The Point
Silent Listener (US) - Veterans Of The Fight

AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Seeing this list again after so many time is interresting but i can't believe i left so many out!!!
10 lp's is so limited but how could i forget ''IRON MAIDEN''???!!! So i'd add ''Somewhere In Time'', ''Powerslave'' and ''Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son'' somewhere in that list as one album (i know this is cheating but...). I don't know what i would leave out though... But as most of us said, IMPOSSIBLE to choose only ten...

And here i forgot ''Black Death'' from the MIGHTY Brocas Helm, i think i'll rip and post it to atone...
It seems that every time i look at the list there's seems to be missing something more...

[heavymetalmania]

Impossible for me to narrow it down to 10.

[steeler]

It's very difficult to pick ten, chose dare...

01. Saxon - Denim & Leather
02. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
03. Tygers of Pan Tang - Wild Cat
04. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
05. Heavy Load - Death or Glory
06. Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
07. Krokus - Hardware
08. Y & T - Black Tiger
09. Baron Rojo - Volumen Brutal
10. Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades

Next...Anvil - Hard 'n' Heavy, Satan - Court in the Act....many more

[Atlantis Metal]

OK, let's give this a go. At this moment in time it would probably be (in alphabetical order - and assuming live albums, anthologies and compilations count?):

'79 Revisited
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force
Diamond Head - White Album
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Rainbow - Live in Germany 1976
Riot - Thundersteel
Sanctus - Music for Mars

For the sake of it, here's another 10 that on another day could easily have made my top 10:
Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Dio - Holy Diver
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Gotham City - The Unknown
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Racer X - Street Lethal

[Bloodfreak]

It's impossible to pick only 10 albums...but these are my 10 personal most important albums (all of them I'm listening since I was a kid. So they are my roots) - in no particular order:

King Diamond - "Them" (or is it Abigail?!?) - "Them" was my first King Diamond experience and it blew my mind! I was a different person after I listened to this album!!

Mercyful Fate - Melissa (My absolute fave from Mercyful Fate! It's atmosphere is incredible dark and gloomy. Every song is pure magic! But it was hard to choose between Melissa and Don't Break The Oath!)

Iron Maiden - Live After Death (haha, here I cheated! Live After Death combines everything what is GREAT about this band!)

Metallica - Ride The Lightning (This one's my absolute favourite when it comes to Metallica! Everything is perfect from the Speed Metal Killer "Fight Fire With Fire" at the beginning to the most epic instrumental ending "Call Of Ktulu" - it's more mature and perfect than Kill 'em All and grabs you more by the balls than Master Of Puppets - so it's the winner!)

Anthrax - Among The Living (I listened to the album the first time when I was 8 years old - one year after it's release. It freaked me out completely: Stakkato Thrash Riff-Mania mixed with a melodic Heavy Metal singer named Joey Belladonna - perfect Thrash Metal album for a kid!! This one's responsible that I love Thrash Metal!! Because right after that album I've tried other Thrash stuff and I really liked it)

Slayer - Hell Awaits (the most evil Slayer record! Here they came as close as you can get to Mercyful Fate when you play Thrash Metal! Wicked songwriting with a lot of twists and turns, eerie atmosphere and every song evil as hell )

Megadeth - Rust In Peace (It was summer 1990 every day I was listening to this record!! It's the perfect mix between Speed/Thrash and NWOBHM (total Diamond Head worship here!!) - the guitars are awesome!! Especially in Holy Wars!!)

Toxik - World Circus (In autumn 1991 I was travelling with my parents to holidays in North Italy. This tape was in my walkman and it absolutely freaked me out!! The falsetto mixed with awesome Power/Speed/Thrash riffs blew my mind away!!)

Overkill - Feel The Fire (Fist banging thrashy shredding Heavy Metal at it's best! Every song is a hymn of it's own!! Must Have!!)

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (This was my first experience with Black Sabbath and it's still my favourite Black Sabbath album! The title track is one of the best metal tunes ever! The style on this album is rich in variety. Look at "Fluff" or "Who Are you", the poppy "Looking For Today" or the violins in "Spiral Architect" and of course the power in the title track! In my opinion this was the zenith of Black Sabbath's history!)


After those albums there are hundreds of other favourite albums like

Black Death - Same
Brocas Helm - Black Death
Satan's Host - Metal From Hell
Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Omen - Battle Cry
Metal Church - Debut
Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead (or Frost And Fire)
Death - Spiritual Healing
Stormtrooper - Armies Of The Night
Stormwitch - Walpurgis Night
Torture - Terror Kingdom
Medieval - EP
Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul...For Me Your Flesh
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Angel Witch - Debut
Holocaust - The Nighcomers
Satan - Court In The Act
Sodom - Agent Orange
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World
Dissection - Storm Of The Lights Bane
Jaguar - Power Games
Dark Angel - We Have Arrived

aahhhh the list would be endless....right now hundreds of albums coming to my mind which are all awesome!!! It's an IMPOSSIBLE MISSION to list only 10...

[Prince Hector]

Top 10:

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Queensryche - Warning
Riot - Thundersteel
Running Wild - Port Royal
Cloven Hoof - Dominator
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Ynwie J. Malmsteen - Marching Out
Vinnie Moore - Mind's Eye

[MetalMortel]

1/ AC/DC - Highway To Hell
2/ IRON MAIDEN - Piece Of Mind
3/ JUDAS PRIEST - Painkiller
3/ ANNIHILATOR - Alice In Hell
4/ METALLICA - Master Of Puppets
5/ SAXON - Denim And Leather
6/ DIO - Lock Up The Wolves
7/ SLAYER - Reign In Blood
8/ MERCYFUL FATE - Melissa
9/ BLACK SABBAT - Paranoid
10/ BATHORY - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark ‎

[Wilding]

Metallica - Kill 'em All
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
Venom - At War with Satan
Diamond Head - Behold the Beginning
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Mercyful Fate - Nuns Have no Fun
Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead
Saint Vitus - Hallows Victim

I tried to not stray too far into death/thrash/black kind of stuff for this list.

[MNL]

shit man this is pretty tough but i will try to name 10 that i can play song for song 10/10 releases. and these are sentimental and have played a big part in my life.
not in any specific order

1.Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
2.Def Leppard - Pyromania
3.Great White - Once Bitten
4.Dokken - Under Lock and Key
5.Queensryche - The Warning
6.Dio - Holy Diver
7.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
8.Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
9.Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
10.Dio - Last In Line

the ones above would probably be my top 10 ''and these below are some monster ass albums also that are a 10/10 quality releases''

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Dokken - Tooth & Nail
Dokken-Back for the Attack
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Great White - Great White
Great White - Shot in the Dark
Great White - Twice Shy
Scorpions - Love At First Sting
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Danzig - Danzig
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Loudness - Lightning Strikes
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Tesla - Great Radio Controversy
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain
Scorpions - Savage Amusement

And The List Goes On & On

[MNL]

Above in the thread i named my top 10 albums but it was the Mainstream artist..but now to name a top 10 from bands that wasn't mainstream i will try to add and name 10 that was most listened to

1.Crimson Glory - Transcendence
2.Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
3.Lethal - Programmed
4.D'Priest - Playa Del Rock
5.Fates Warning - Parallels
6.Annihilator - Alice In Hell
7.Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
8.Sanctuary - Into the mirror Black
9.Spread Eagle - Open to the Public
10.

i'll leave it at that for now because it's so hard to pick 10 because i always loved to listen to more of stuff like this when i could find it ...but them 1-4 was and still is a favorite

[popuespe]

These are mine, nothing rare or special, but each has had a crucial meaning in my life


BARON ROJO: Volumen Brutal


BLACK SABBATH: Heaven And Hell


IRON MAIDEN: Piece of Mind


SAXON: Denim 'n Leather


MERCYFUL FATE: Melissa


GIRLSCHOOL: Hit and Rn


SLAYER: Reign in blood


JUDAS PRIEST: Sin after sin


MOTORHEAD: Overnight sensation


ACCEPT: Restless and wild

[Dr Stein]

Nice to see lots of people here with similar taste

Mine are (in no particular order):

Ion Britton - Eat Metal EP
Brainfever - Capture the Night
Crimson Glory - Trascendence
Glacier-Glacier EP
Medieval Steel / EP
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Warlord - Deliver Us
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Helloween - EP/Walls of Jericho/Judas EP/Keepers 1-2
Stryper-Soldiers under command

(I'm still missing OZ, Omen, Satan and some spanish 80s metal like Baron Rojo, Sangre Azul.. too hard to select only 10)

[Jalefar]

1. Slayer - reign in blood
2. Dismember - like an ever flowing stream
3. Blind Guardian - follow the blind
4. Burzum - filosofem
5. Iron maiden - virtual XI
6. Sepultura - arise
7. Terrorizer - world downfall
8. dISEMBOWELMENT - trandescendence into the peripheral
9. Bathory - under the sign of the black mark
10. Windir - 1184

[Kenny70]

A lot of great lists here. Like most of you guys have already said, it's almost impossible to list just 10. Bands like IRON MAIDEN, BLACK SABBATH, METALLICA,and SLAYER should be on anyone's list that calls him or her self a metal head. With that said however, let's not forget some of the bands that took the genre to the next extreme level.

POSSESSED- 7 Churches
DEATH- Scream Bloody Gore (First real death metal album I bought in 1988. Almost couldn't comprehend it)
MASSACRE- From Beyond
ENTOMBED- The Left Hand Path (The heaviest guitar sound on a record I had ever heard)
SLAUGHTER- Strappado
MASTER- Master
CELTIC FROST- To Mega Therion
VENOM- Welcome To Hell
BATHORY- Bathory (This album scared the shit out of me the first time I played it)