ok guys, get ready for this...I've loved Heavy Metal/Hard Rock since I was about 10..so I have ALOT of favorites. So with that being said here's my late entry in no particular order. Iron Maiden: Killers, # of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Brave New World, Powerslave, Live After Death, Seventh Son Judas Priest: British Steel (Metal Gods and Grinder and Breakin the law, breakin the law), Stained Class, Screaming For Vengeance (Hellion/Electric Eye rule!), Hellbent for Leather. Scorpions: Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Lovedrive AC/DC: If You Want Blood, Dirty Deeds (Big Balls!!)Back in Black Queensryche: their first four albums absolutely rock my world. Skid Row: Skid Row, Slave To the Grind ( you can't be king of the world if you're a slave to the grind!) Van Halen: Fair Warning and the first album WASP: their first album and the EP with F*ck Like A Beast on it Ozzy: Blizzard of Oz, Diary of a Madman(Randy Rules!), and Bark at the Moon Sabbath: Paranoid, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Born Again Metalliclaw: Kill Em All and Master of Puppets Megadeth: Rust in Peace, Peace Sells, Symphony of Destruction(hello me, meet the real me) Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak, Live and Dangerous Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power, Cowboys from Hell Anthrax: Armed and Dangerous, Among the Living, Spreading the Disease. Yngwie: Trilogy Dream Theater: Awake, Images and Words Fates Warning: No Exit, Parallels Savatage: Dungeons are Calling, Hall of the Mountain King, Sirens Deep Purple: Machinehead, Perfect Strangers Rainbow: Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, Straight Between The Eyes Dio: Holy Diver King Kobra: King Kobra Kiss: Destroyer, Love Gun, Alive II Halford: Insurrection Quiet Riot: Metal Health Warlock: Triumph and Agony Depending on your definition of heavy metal, I could add probably another 20 bands. but Ill leave it as is. As you can tell, I go for a mix of heavy with some progressive metal. Up the Irons!
I'm not reading any of the other posts so the won't influence my choices, so here goes. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell Fight - War of Words Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction Suicidal Tendencies - almost any CD before their greatest hits release Metallica - Kill em All(OOP version), Master of Puppets Ozzy - any Ozzy Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th Son Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime(this CD is great!) Danzig - Danzig III - How the Gods Kill Marilyn Manson - definitely the last 3 regular releases and some of the older stuff. IMO all of these CD's are good from start to finish. I could name quite a few more, but have to get back to work.
amorphis - tales from the thousand lakes benediction - transcend the rubicon bolt thrower - for victory cannibal corpse - tomb of the mutilated cradle of filth - the principle of evil made flesh dismember - massive killing capacity gorefest - mindloss hypocrisy - osculum obscenum metallica - kill 'em all motörhead - bomber napalm death - scum six feet under - maximum violence slayer - reign in blood
