Best metal album ever... could you choose one?

[So Death May Die]

Metallica - Master of Puppets

and

Iron Maiden - Dance of Death

[gabriel]

Stratovarius - Visions
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Painkiller
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

and hundred more...

[cliff]

some must-have albums :

Metallica : Ride The Lightning (and then, Master Of Puppets)
Stratovarius : Episode
Dio : Holy Diver
Black Sabbath : Heaven And Hell
Avantasia : Metal Opera I
Gamma Ray : Land Of The Free
Iron Maiden : The Number Of The Beast / Piece Of Mind
Guns n' Roses : Appetite For Destruction
Helloween : Keepers Of The Seventh Key (both)
Judas Priest : Paintkiller
Rage : Unity
Ygwie Malmsteem : Odyssey / The Seventh Sign
Megadeth : Countdown To Exctinction / Rust In Peace
Primal Fear : Primal Fear
Edguy : Mandrake
Manigance : D'un Autre Sang
Nirvana : Nevermind (say whatever you want, this is a fuckin GREAT album !)
Pearl Jam : Vs

[Kaoru]

Dead End - Shambara

Maybe many people doesn't know them...
They were existence at the good period for metal in Japan...

[gabriel]

slayer - hell awaits

ac/dc - powerage

[HvyMtlClickWitch]

Hehe, i think that Royal Hunt's "The Mission" gets a particular award. It's freaking flawless musically, it's got John West on it , and it's a concept album based on one of the coolest books ever, The Martian Chronicles.

"'Tage Mahal" gets a prog award as well. It's quite amazing.

[gon]

ummm...
Barón Rojo: Volumen Brutal.

There´s a very rare english version of that album. I recommend it.

[stratowerner]

Stratovarius--visions of europe(live)
Silent force--Worlds apart.This albums has no fillers only killers.

[Benphu]

one metal album that fully, and with that I mean COMPLETELY is the most perfect record of it's category is:

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

[khamael]

Backstreet's Back- BSB.

[MetalManiac]

Stratovarius - Dreamspace
Diablo - Eternium
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Insania - Fantasy a New Dimension

[destinyjazzy]

Stratovarius - Episode
Stratovarius - Infinite

Nightwish - Century Child
Nightwish - Once

Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures

Edguy - Mandrake
Edguy - Hellfire Club

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

and many, many more. It's too hard to choose just 1

[Leo]

Hello!!!
The Best Metal Allbum Must be Anina Metal Operea PT.1 or Tobbias's Avantatsia Metal Operea PT. 2

Have somebody heard of them? Because is two great allbum!!!

[Elazul]

Hello!!!
The Best Metal Allbum Must be Anina Metal Operea PT.1 or Tobbias's Avantatsia Metal Operea PT. 2

Have somebody heard of them? Because is two great allbum!!!

Sure
JJ played in Aina
and
TT played in Avantasia

so these albums must be great

[Warrior of Hell]

there are a lot of good albums!!

e.g:
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Stratovarius - Episode....

[gon]

there are a lot of good albums!!

e.g:
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Stratovarius - Episode....

there are a lot of good albums!!


someone with common sense...

[khamael]

Hummmm...hard, but i think it could be Visions of Europe.

[Hellovarius the Simp]

My favourite metal albums are:
Stratovarius: Episode, Elements Pt1.
Helloween: The Walls of Jerico, The two Keepers
Running Wild: Port Royal
Elvenking: Heathenreel (Very cool) :headbang:
Annihilatr: Never Neverland

[Megan]

Iron Maiden number of the BEAST

[Patricia]

Stratovarius - Visions/Episode
Kotipelto - Coldness/Waiting For The Dawn
Angra - Angels Cry/ Temple Of Shadows
Shaman - Ritual
Sentenced - The Cold White Light/Crimson
Whitesnake - WS
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Odyssey
Dio - Dream Evil
Manigance - Ange ou Demon
Noctis-Shade - Sands Of Time
Megadeth - Countdown To Instinction
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys I and II
Edguy - Mandrake
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Skid Row - Skid Row

and i certainly forget many others...

[MaFiaBoY]

!when re-listening to all my CDs, i found out THE ultimate one :

Dream Theater - Images And Words

if there is such thing as THE metal album, it has to be that one.

[Dawn_is_Here]

Choose only one? Ok:

VISIONS

Automatically hit my first place of preferences since the first time I heard it, 8 years ago, and never moved from there.