Rolling Stone top 100 metal albums

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So when Rolling Stone began picking the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums, we set some ground rules. Although the genre's late-Sixties and early-Seventies forebears – not just giants like Cream, Zeppelin and Deep Purple, but also less iconic yet equally heavy bands such as Mountain, Captain Beyond and Sir Lord Baltimore – created some truly unruly metal moments, their LPs often made folky, bluesy detours away from the maximalism that later marked the genre, so we ruled them out. We did the same with bands that specialize more in hypercharged rock & roll, like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses, but are missing the X factor that separates their music from metal. Similarly, some bands that Rolling Stone deemed metal in the Seventies (sometimes as a pejorative) and made classic albums, like Kiss, Alice Cooper and Grand Funk Railroad, in retrospect sound more like hard rock than the genuine article and are absent here. Lastly, because we sought out only the most consistently perfect metal albums, genre signposts like Skid Row, Testament's Practice What You Preach and even the first metal album to top Billboard, Quiet Riot's Metal Health, didn't make the cut because their track lists fizzle past the hits – making room for more great LPs. (We learned quickly that 100 is a small number.)

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100. Avenged Sevenfold – “City Of Evil”
99. Evanescence – “Fallen”
98. Sunn O))) – “Monoliths & Dimensions”
97. Gojira – “From Mars To Sirius”
96. Kvelertak – “Meir”
95. Dream Theater – “Images And Words”
94. Deafheaven – “Sunbather”
93. White Zombie – “La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One”
92. Eyehategod – “Take As Needed For Pain”
91. Naked City – “Torture Garden”
90. Body Count – “Body Count”
89. Nightwish – “Once”
88. Pig Destroyer – “Terrifyer”
87. Manowar – “Hail To England”
86. Lamb Of God – “As The Palaces Burn”
85. Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
84. High On Fire – “Blessed Black Wings”
83. Baroness – “The Red Album”
82. Entombed – “The Left Hand Path”
81. Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
80. Ministry – “Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs”
79. At The Gates – “Slaughter Of The Soul”
78. Voivod – “Dimension Hatröss”
77. Meshuggah – “Destroy Erase Improve”
76. Twisted Sister – “Stay Hungry”
75. Morbid Angel – “Covenant”
74. Venom – “Welcome To Hell”
73. Scorpions – “Blackout”
72. Isis – “Oceanic”
71. Living Colour – “Vivid”
70. Death – “Human”
69. Soundgarden – “Louder Than Love”
68. Marilyn Manson – “Portrait Of Am American Family”
67. Queensrÿche – “Operation: Mindcrime”
66. Deftones – “White Pony”
65. Faith No More – “Angel Dust”
64. Godflesh – “Streetcleaner”
63. Sodom – “Agent Orange”
62. Sleep – “Jerusalem”
61. Converge – “Jane Doe”
60. Melvins – “Bullhead”
59. Napalm Death – “From Enslavement To Obliteration”
58. Life Of Agony – “River Runs Red”
57. Emperor – “Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk”
56. The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Calculating Infinity”
55. Opeth – “Blackwater Park”
54. Helmet – “Meantime”
53. Type O Negative – “Bloody Kisses”
52. Def Leppard” – “Pyromania”
51. Carcass – “Heartwork”
50. Slipknot – “Iowa”
49. Neurosis – “Through Silver In Blood”
48. Rainbow – “Rising”
47. Slayer – “South Of Heaven”
46. Mastodon – “Leviathan”
45. Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
44. Mötley Crüe – “Shout At The Devil”
43. Judas Priest – “Stained Class”
42. Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
41. Kyuss – “Blues For The Red Sun”
40. Mayhem – “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”
39. Pantera – “Far Beyond Driven”
38. Iron Maiden – “Powerslave”
37. Black Sabbath – “Heaven And Hell”
36. Van Halen – “Women And Children First”
35. Metallica – “Kill ‘Em All”
34. Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
33. Megadeth – “Countdown To Extinction”
32. Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
31. Slayer – “Seasons In The Abyss”
30. Korn – “Korn”
29. Sepultura – “Chaos A.D.”
28. Celtic Frost – “Morbid Tales”
27. System Of A Down – “Toxicity”
26. Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
25. Metallica – “Metallica”
24. Rage Against The Machine – “Rage Against The Machine”
23. Danzig – “Danzig”
22. Mötley Crüe – “Too Fast For Love”
21. Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
20. Anthrax – “Among The Living”
19. Megadeth – “Rust In Peace”
18. Tool – “Ænima”
17. Mercyful Fate – “Melissa”
16. Dio – “Holy Diver”
15. Ozzy Osbourne – “Diary Of A Madman”
14. Black Sabbath – “Vol. 4”
13. Iron Maiden – “Iron Maiden”
12. Judas Priest – “Screaming For Vengeance”
11. Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
10. Pantera – “Vulgar Display Of Power”
09. Ozzy Osbourne – “Blizzard Of Ozz”
08. Megadeth – “Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?”
07. Motörhead – “No Remorse”
06. Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
05. Black Sabbath – “Black Sabbath”
04. Iron Maiden – “The Number Of The Beast”
03. Judas Priest – “British Steel”
02. Metallica – “Master Of Puppets”
01. Black Sabbath – “Paranoid“

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