Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums

[John Black]

Check out Guitar Optics's Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums on http://guitaroptics.com/top-10-heavy-metal-albums/! Enjoy!

[chrisom]

Also depends on when you were born. For me it was something like:

Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Heaven and Hell
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz/Diary of a Madman
Van Halen - Van Halen thru Fair Warning
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Metallica - Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
AC/DC - Back in Black/Highway to Hell
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
(There should be some Deep Purple, Megadeth and Dokken in there too... lol)

[Ferrari-Dude]

Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengance
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

[chrisom]

Thumbs up Ferrari-Dude. I forgot how good Def Leppard sounded on those early LP's when Steve Clark was still alive! Good stuff!

[NY Chief]

Ahhh, you young uns...

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, Paranoid
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer
Who - Live at Leeds
Zep - l and ll
UFO
BOC
Blue Cheer

[chrisom]

I'm so embarrased- How could I forget Led Zeppelin? lol

[Ferrari-Dude]

Ahhh, you young uns...

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, Paranoid
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer
Who - Live at Leeds
Zep - l and ll
UFO
BOC
Blue Cheer

Hi Chief,

I do like the original stuff too but to my mind some of this is really heavy rock or like proto-metal but excellent none the less.

I especially like your choices of UFO, Machine Head and Zep II. Blackmore, Schenker and Page are masters.

-Dono

[John Black]

Also depends on when you were born. For me it was something like:

Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Heaven and Hell
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz/Diary of a Madman
Van Halen - Van Halen thru Fair Warning
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Metallica - Ride the Lightning/Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
AC/DC - Back in Black/Highway to Hell
Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
(There should be some Deep Purple, Megadeth and Dokken in there too... lol)

I've put Purple on the hard rock page Nice list though!

[John Black]

Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengance
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Whitesnake and Def Leppard are more like hard than heavy for me, but for sure I might be so wrong

[John Black]

It's really hard to such a top. I love 100 bands to put in this top!

[chrisom]

Hard Rock Faves:
early Aerosmith (Greatest Hits)
early Van Halen (1 thru Fair Warning)
early Rush (1st LP, 2112, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures)
early Def Leppard (1st 3 LP's)
Led Zeppelin (all LP's)
Queen (News of the World)
Deep Purple
Ted Nugent (Double Live Gonzo)
Alice Cooper (The Alice Cooper Show)

[zaphod777]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Iron Maiden - Killers
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Scorpions - Taken by Force
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Ozzy - Diary of a Madman
Rush - 2112
SoundGarden - BadMotorFinger
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell