50 essential metal albums

0:00 In Rock - Deep Purple
0:09 Master of Reality - Black sabbath
0:19 Rising - Rainbow
0:38 Red - King Crimson
0:48 Moving Pictures - Rush
1:00 Holy Diver - Dio
1:17 Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
1:36 Don't Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate
1:52 Powerslave - Iron Maiden
2:02 Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
2:13 Ace of Spades - Motörhead
2:26 Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage
2:41 Epicus Doomicus Metallicus - Candlemass
2:55 Reign in Blood - Slayer
3:05 Master of Puppets - Metallica
3:17 Rust in Peace - Megadeth
3:29 Agent Orange - Sodom
3:43 Pleasure to Kill - Kreator
3:52 Arise - Sepultura
4:03 Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
4:13 Altars of Madness - Morbid Angel
4:27 Leprosy - Death
4:37 Like an Everflowing Stream - Dismember
4:55 Left Hand Path - Entombed
5:05 Those Once Loyal - Bolt Thrower
5:18 Effigy of the Forgotten - Suffocation
5:29 Annihilation of the Wicked - Nile
5:42 None so Vile - Cryptopsy
6:02 Obcura - Gorguts
6:21 Epitaph - Necrophagist
6:33 Individual Thought Patterns - Death
6:55 Crimson - Edge of Sanity
7:11 Focus - Cynic
7:26 Still Life - Opeth
7:41 Heartwork - Carcass
7:58 The Gallery - Dark Tranquility
8:08 Slaughter of the Soul - At the Gates
8:21 At the Heart of Winter - Immortal
8:37 The Satanist - Behemoth
8:49 Twilight of the Thunder God - Amon Amarth
9:04 Colors - Between the Buried and Me
9:17 Crack the Skye - Mastodon
9:29 Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation
9:45 Affinity - Haken
9:57 Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater
10:09 Tall Poppy Syndrome - Leprous
10:21 Images and Words - Dream Theater
10:38 Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
10:55 Terminal Redux - Vektor
11:07 The Mountain - Haken


Here are 50 essential metal albums in my own opinion. Keep in mind, I'm not saying these are the 50 most essential metal albums, instead they are 50 albums that are essential for me and many others. Feel free to list albums that you think I missed in the comment section!

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