METALLICA, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST Top 'Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time' List

September 5, 2009

The readers of the Greek edition of Metal Hammer magazine were recently invited to vote for the "100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time." The resulting list includes full-length recordings from 54 different bands from seven different countries, with IRON MAIDEN appearing on less than seven times on the list.

The "100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time," according to the readers of Metal Hammer Greece:

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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"

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