Looks llike the readers of Rolling Stone are as dumb as its writers.

Yup, everyone's dumber than you.

Got them all !!!

I mean, a few names you might toss up - 'heartwork' carcass, 'this godless endeavour' nevermore, 'lights camera revolution' suicidal tendencies, 'screaming for vengeance' judas priest, 'rust in peace' megadeth .....

These four Metallica albums of course really great classics but they are absolutely overrated as fuck... like the band as well. Ten times overrated.

...are overrated.

Black Album over Kill 'Em All? Uh no...

Where's Priest "Screaming for Vengeance", Megadeth "Peace Sells" or "RIP"?

Also - I would not call GnR or Zep "heavy metal". But that's a Rolling Stone poll for you...anyone who cranks distortion on their amp gets labelled HM.

If you know anything about Rolling Stone magazine and their "Best Of..." lists, even though this one is a "heavy metal" one I am shocked, I say SHOCKED, Bob Dylan isn't holding 8 of the top 10 spots.

Well at least they didn't vote the black album as #1. I'm actually shocked and very surprised that there isn't any Judas Priest on that list.

good list from a mag that only know 15 Heavy Metal albums. Spread the wealth a little, huh?

What is Led Zep doing on a heavy metal list?

crushes them all.

Far Beyond Driven? Unleashed in the East? Mindcrime?

I think Far Beyond Driven sold well as a result of how great Vulgar Display was. Vulgar and Cowboys are great albums, the rest of Pantera pales in comparison to those two.

...you should listen to it sometime.

"Reinventing the Steel" was badass too.

It's telling that - at least in the eyes Rolling Stone readers - the most recent album on this list is 21 years old, as if to say, "no 'metal' album since has been as good as those that were made in the 70's and 80's". I personally agree, but I'm an ancient 40 year old.

Ride The Lightning is too low.
Led Zeppelin isn't, wasn't & will never be heavy metal.
Neither are Guns N Roses.

My Top 10 (in no particular order)

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
Rainbow - Rising
Deep Purple - In Rock
Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Death - Leprosy

Yes, I know half of those could be considered hard rock instead of metal. But hell, if they're including GNR & Zeppelin, I'm damn sure including VH, Thin Lizzy & Rainbow.

Guns & Roses and Zeppelin are as metal as Rainbow, Thin Lizzy or Van Halen are. They're all really more hard rock than metal.

...that's a pretty damn fine list!

No White Stripes on this list? I'm shocked.

Where`s Jethro Tull

An alright list, but I would take out The Black Album & Justice and replace them with Rust In Peace and either Heaven & Hell or Holy Diver.

Rolling Stone gave The Number of the Beast a shitty review.

Isn't Rolling Stone barred from doing lists after they didn't even mention Yngwie Malmsteen on their top guitar player list??

Metallica??? That's all these bitches have in their heads???

THE REAL SHIT IS HERE

1- Mercyful Fate - "Melissa"
2- Slayer - "Reining Blood"
3- Black Sabbath - "Sabotage"
4- Judas Priest - "British Steel"
5- Sepultura - "Arise"
6- Megadeth - "Rust In Peace"
7- Metallica - "Ride The Lightening"
8- Pantera - "Cowboys From Hell"
9 - Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
10 - Dio - "Strange Highways"

You mean there is someone else who likes Strange Highways besides me? Sweet!

I also love Strange Highways, which is why my email address is this and my username is this on blabbermouth. DIOs finest vocal performance on the title track... astounding. I wish DIO had done some more doomy slow stuff...I am thankful that he made his last album a heavy one with Heaven and Hell.

No Jethro Tull? What kind of bullshit is that?

There is NO FUCKING WAY that Master of Puppets is better than the Paranoid album. Black Sabbath stomps on Metallica like a tin can.

...'Surfin MOD'?

No justice, no peace.

Let me do one.
1. Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath:
2. Judas Priest - "Screaming for Vengence"
3. Slayer - "Seasons in the Abyss"
4. Pantera - "Vulgar Display of Power
5. Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"
6. Black Sabbath - "Sabotage" (Meglomania best song ever)
7. Black Sabbath - "Heaven and Hell
8. Ozzy Osbourne - "Diary of a Madman"
9. Megadeth - "Rust In Peace"
10. Rainbow - "Rising"

That's not even the name of the slayer album...the record you put as number two you don't even know the correct name of...that says something about your opinion, like, it means shit. Just like rolling stones opinion.

Guns and posers should not be there, same with zeppellin. Judas priest

Ok, any list with multiple albums by the same band is bogus. Don't get me wrong, these are all great albums, but it just goes to show how basic the music taste of Rolling Stone readers is. Also, Led Zeppelin and G 'n R... both great hard rock bands, but not really metal. Metal tendencies at times, but not metal overall.

Also... "Metallica" being a "great" album is debatable.

No Priest , Pantera , Blizzard of Ozz & Diary of a madman , Megadeth etc. What a epic fail as usual by them & their list.


Screw rolling stone & the hall of shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wah wah wah!..alls you twits do is bash bands!.. Your opinions are like assholes everyone has one!..Face it 100 years down the road Your great Great grand kids will be rockin out to MetallicA and being inspired to pick a Instrument up and become a player!..You bash this band like you could hold a flame to them!.. shut your penis suckers and go out and try and sell a 100 million and counting albums and then you can bash whoever!.. But until that day which will never come! SILENCE THE BLABBERCUNTS!

METAL UP YOUR ASS!

METALWARLORD 2012

Leaning heavily on the 80's, since it was the decade in which metal thrived. Unleashed in the East was 1979.


1. Black Sabbath The Mob Rules
2. Accept Balls to the Wall
3. Armored Saint Symbol of Salvation
4. Trouble Trouble
5. Judas Priest Unleashed in the East
6. Y&T In Rock We Trust
7. Dio Holy Diver
8. Grim Reaper Rock You to Hell
9. Tesla Mechanical Resonance
10. Kix Blow My Fuse

good picks my friend..not in the order i would have picked but every band u mention is stellar..once again great picks..\m/

Nice to see Accept in there. Scorp's Blackout could be in there also!

1- Lulu
2- who cares?

my top 10

Of course the readers picked Metallica albums, that is the only metal band they know. It's not like they would actually pick any good metal albums like Mercyful Fate- "Melissa", "Omen-"Battle Cry" or Diamondhead-"Lightining to the Nations". All three albums are just as good if not better than any Metallica album.

Appetite is a lot of things but it is NOT heavy metal. The fuck.

Wait what?

What do you expect? This type of list to be dominated by Carcass, Morbid Angel or Dark Angel? Of course Metallica sells 100000000 times more, they have that same amount of times more probability to get voted in any list.

Rolling stone readers and writers are 20 something year old hipster knuckleheads. Watch the video below to see what a real list looks like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx6Ke2pf44U

they forgot Kill 'Em All and Load. All kidding aside, how did they leave out Judas Priest and Motorhead?!

what a shitty list, but that's not a surprise now is it?

Here is mine since everyone else is doing one:

1. Megadeth - "Rust In Peace"
2. Iron Maiden - "Powerslave"
3. Metallica - "Ride The Lightning"
4. Slayer - "Seasons in the Abyss"
5. Judas Priest - "British Steel"
6. Judas Priest - "Painkiller'
7. In Flames - "Clayman"
8. Testament - "The Legacy"
9. Iron Maiden - "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
10. Children of Bodom" - Hatecrew Deathroll"

Okay, so Rolling Stone do get most of their personal ranking "polls" wrong, (100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - - a joke!)

But, I must admit, whether you like it or not, every album on THIS list is a classic.

No Priest = invalid list.

everybody has their personal favorites. Here are mine (no order of priority):

1. Metallica - ....and Justice for All
2. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
4. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
5. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
6. Judas Priest - British Steel
7. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
8. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
9. Slayer - Reign in Blood
10. Anthrax - Among the Living

Rolling Stone idiots. They left Priest off the list....

the fact that there is not more Maiden,NO PRIEST,NO DIO is total BS..and I love the Metallica albums mentioned,but give me a break..\m/ and for the love of metal LED ZEPPELIN AND GUNS&ROSES are not metal....never have been...\m/

in no particular order....

Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
AC/DC - Back in Black
Dio - Holy Diver
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
King Diamond - Abigail
Death - Symbolic

Newsflash: NO heavy metal fans read that magazine

I'm surprised Spears, DMB, Gaga and Pearl Jam were not in their list....bunch of wankers....

Not sure that Zep was ever metal.

I also have my own list and here you have it. Not based on my personal choice, but of what I think are the most important and necessary albums.
#1. Paranoid - Black Sabbath (no question, should forever hold the #1 spot on any greatest metal album list.)
#2. The Number of The Beast - Iron Maiden (Better than anything from Metallica, the end)
#3. Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest (their strongest release I think (and my favorite))
#4. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (The 1st true complete metal album)
#5. Reign In Blood - Slayer (Very influental and helped create the extreme metal genre)
#6. Master of Puppets - Metallica (I like RTL more, but MOP is seen as the best)
#7. Ace of Spades - Motorhead (Just badass metal)
#8. Powerslave - Iron Maiden (Amazing work, and my favorite by IM)
#9. Appetite For Destruction - GN'R (One of the highest selling debuts of metal/hard rock ever, not to mention a fantastic album as well)
#10. Machine Head (Sick as hell album, fairly underrated on these types of lists)
Honorable mentions: Blizzard of Ozz, Heaven And Hell, British Steel, Master of REality, Led Zeppelin II, Ride The Lightning, Rust In Peace)

GnR were never metal either.

Machine HEad - Deep Purple

I like Metallica a little more than your average music fan, but to say that they have 4 of ther Top 10 Metal albums of all time? C'mon!

In no particular order, here's a list that I think maybe spreads more love across time & genres.

Black Sabbath- tie between Vol. 4 & Sabotage
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Testament- The Gathering
Slayer- Hell Awaits
Pantera- tie between FBD & TGSTK
Iron Maiden -might get some heat for this, but since it's my list, I'm gonna go w/ BNW
Bloodbath- Ressurection Through Carnage
Megadeth- Peace Sells
Nevermore- Dreaming Neon Black


...and I'm gonna throw in a few runner ups

Katatonia- The Great Cold Distance
Acid Bath- either album
Type O Negative- Life Is Killing Me
Sepultura- Arise or Chaos AD
Meshuggah- DEI

keep that in mind. I don't think Among the Living would qualify for that. Also AC/DC is so not metal it is laughable. It always pisses me off when people put them on their lists.

congratulations to the mighty Metallica , always love them always will.

www.myspace.com/guitarmessiah7

The fact that this list includes a GnR and Zep album shows how douchey and not metal Rolling Stone's readers are.

I guess I give them props for not choosing the Black Album or Load as a top 10.

And Here is mine:

1. Megadeth: Countdown to Extinction (fuck off)
2. Sepultura: (Chaos AD or Beneath the Remains)
3. Slayer: Decade of Aggression LIve (I know, but this is what got me into them)
4. Metallica: And Justice For All
5. Metallica: Ride the lightning
6. Metallica: Kill Em ALl
7. Slayer: Seasons In The Abyss
8. Kreator: Hordes of Chaos
9. Fear Factory: Demanufacture
10. Megadeth: Rust in Peace

Rolling Stone is like Cosmopolitan for men...if you're into that kind of thing. (I'm not)

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Iron Maiden - Peace of Mind
3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
4. Suicidal Tendencies - How will I Laugh Tomorrow...
5. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
6. Faith No More - Angel Dust
7. Megadeth - Killing is my Business...
8. Metal Church - The Dark
9. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
10. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

Just one guy's opinion. Everyone has their own sentimental reasons. Could fill it up with Maiden, Sabbath etc, but that would be as boring as the RS list!

MASTER OF PUPPETS is THE metal album. If Beethoven was a metal musician it would sound like Master of Puppets.

1.Metallica - Master of puppets
2 Metallica - Ride the lightning
3.Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
4.Pantera - Vulgur Display of Power
5.DIO - Holy Diver
6.Slayer - South of Heaven
7.Metallica - Metallica
8.Metallica - And Justice For All
9.Black Sabbath- Paranoid
10. Alice In Chains - Dirt

At the moment, something like this...

01) Metallica - Master Of Puppets
02) Slayer - Reign In Blood
03) Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
04) Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
05) Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
06) Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
07) Queensryche - Rage For Order
08) Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
09) Sepultura - Arise
10) Testament - The Legacy

The best metal albums are ones that changed music that came after them.

In no order:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Van Halen - Van Halen (Eddie changed how everyone after him approached the guitar)

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Metallica - Mater of Puppets

Megadeth - Rust in Piece

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Alice in Chains - Dirt

Opeth - Blackwater Park

I know I left some out, but these albums changed how metal was approached after they came out.

Sine when does Rolling Stone know anything about Metal?

Top 10 Greatest metal albums of all time:

1) Black Sabbath: Paranoid
2) Black Sabbath: Sabotage
3) Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath
4) Black Sabbath: Heaven And Hell
5) Black Sabbath: Mob Rules
6) Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
7) Black Sabbath: Master of Reality
8) Black Sabbath: Vol 4
9) Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer
10) Black Sabbath: Born Again

1. Metallica - Kill Em All
2. Death Angel - The Ultra Violence
3. Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
4. Slayer - Hell Awaits
5. Testament - The Legacy
6. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
7. Anthrax - Among the Living
8. Megadeth - Peace Sells
9. Pantera - Reinventing the Steel
10. King Diamond - Abigail

In defense of #9...that is when Phil seemed at his darkest & Dime wrote crazy sick riffs & Rex/Paul are in the pocket. See them play "Yesterday Don't Mean Shit" live Ozzfest & it felt wayyyy real! Simple riff but very brutal the way they pull it off. Yeah Cowboys & Vulgar rule but Reinventing they really did & totally brutal record! \m/

I totally fuckin' agree with what you said about RTS! In my own personal opinion, RTS is just as badass as Trendkill, and your reasoning is spot on. Nice to know there's at least one person out there who feels the same way that I do. Cheerz!

Look Lars, ..And Justice for All came 5th. Your least favourite album. The one that lacks sophistication when put alongside 'Lulu". Are you going to change your mind again now that your hipster mag has rated it so highly??

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
3. Motorhead - Iron Fist
4. Iron Maiden - Killers
5. Slayer - Hell Awaits
6. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
7. Judas Priest - British Steel
8. Carcass - Heartwork
9. Anthrax - Among The Living
10. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

I don't like Zeppelin, but you can't deny their impact on heavy music. Sure, compared to the lastest EMPEROR album Zeppelin would sound like Shakira, but when those guys came out it was some of the heaviest shit around. Years ago the "Heavy Metal" tag could be used in bands as diverse as Foreigner and Cheap Trick and Aerosmith, meaning their sound was much rougher than conventionla pop. Respect bands for their contributions to the genre!

And Justice For All and The Black album?
Don't be ridiculous. To vote for those you can't even know your Metallica nevermind your metal. One's a self indulgent snooze fest and the other's a pop album.
And Zeppellin were never anything to do with metal. Ever.

That list says it all about Rolling Stones' readers. They've only heard of four metal bands.

should be mentioned in educated metal lists:

ACCEPT: "Restless & Wild", "Balls To The Wall"
BLACK SABBATH: Everything from the first to Sabotage plus Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules
BLIND GUARDIAN: "Imaginations from the Other Side"
CRIMSON GLORY: "Transcendance"
DEATH: "Symbolic", "Leprocy"
DIO: "Holy Diver"
HELLOWEEN: Keeper I & II
IRON MAIDEN: Anything from the first to 7th Son
JUDAS PRIEST: "Sad Wings", "Screaming","Defenders", "Stained Class", "Painkiller" , "Hell bent"
LED ZEPPELIN: First 4
MANOWAR: "Hail To England", "Secrets of Steel" (yep they once delivered)
METALLICA: First 3, maybe 4
QUEENSRYCHE: "Operation", "Rage for Order"
RAINBOW: "Rising"
SAVATAGE: "Hall", "Gutter BAllet", "Streets"
SEPULTURA: "Arise"
SCORPIONS: "In Trance" , "Taken By Force"
SLAYER: "Reign", "Seasons"
URIAH HEEP: "Demons & Wizzards", "The MAgician's Birthday"
MEGADETH, MOTORHEAD, DEEP PURPLE etc.

and my personally favorite progressive metal albums:
PSYCHOTIC WALTZ: "Social Grace", "Into The Everflow"

Sabotage.

That is all.

the day i give two fucks about what rolling stone readers consider to be the greatest heavy metal albums of all-time are is a sad day for me as a human being.

and to the people that made your own top tens lol. seriously, go outside, it's fall (or spring if yer in the southern hemi) the weather is fresh and go for a stroll.

Simply call the list 'The Greatest Hard Rock Albums Of All Time'.

Problem solved.

+ then you could include more Icon - Night Of The Crime, Sweet- Desolation Boulevard (US Version), Kiss - Rock 'n' Roll Over, Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog etc.

Other albums that should be near the top:

Dio - Holy Diver
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Scorpions - Blackout
Accept - Restless & Wild
Saxon - Strong Arm Of The Law
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Manowar - Sign Of The Hammer

But that was more than a misspelling.

Anyone who puts their own personal best of list on here is trying to show they know their stuff and therefore has low self esteem or is so arrogant as to think their opinion means anything. Either way, it looks like you've got some work to do, my karma is already fucked so pissing off someone like you won't change shit.

Slayer's Reign In Blood is the greatest metal album ever. I think science could prove that. No Metallica belongs in the top ten. Face it.

I'll agree to Master of Puppets being number 1, but that's about the only thing on the list I agree with....

Sheesh.

I wouldn't wipe my ass with Rolling Stone magazine.

that's kinda stupid. Who would want to wipe his ass with glossy paper anyway?

As it should be.....

always biased to the US scene.......dumbs assholes!

It's only a reader's poll, so really who cares, but any list of the Top whatever metal/hard rock/heavy music/etc albums simply can't be taken seriously if the first Black Sabbath album isn't #1. That is the blueprint, everything else comes from there. No Sabbath, none of the rest of it even exists!!

IMO the top 10 albums every metal/hard rock fan should own (in no particular order) are:

1) Led Zeppelin untitled
2) Black Sabbath Paranoid
3) AC/DC Back in Black
4) KISS Alive
5) Van Halen I
6) Metallica Master of Puppets
7) Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
8) Slayer Reign in Blood
9) Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced
10) Iron Maiden Number of the Beast

master of reality the 1st real heavy metal album the others are all followers

What the fuck does Rolling Stone know about metal?

NOTHING.

Jan Wenner has been biased against metal since Sabbath came on the scene.

I actually like Rolling Stone...their political reporting is excellent (Matt Taibbi rules) but I don't read it for their coverage of contemporary music, which is generally garbage.

Heres my list in no order at the present time since there is still a wealth of Heavy Metal bands and albums for me to experience since im only 19.
1. Judas Priest-Painkiller
2. Iron Maiden-Powerslave
3. King Diamond-Them
4. Megadeth-Killing is my Buisness...
5. Black Sabbath-Headless Cross
6. Accept-Restless and Wild
7. Crimson Glory-Transcendence
8. Queensryche-Queensryche EP
9. Pantera-Power Metal
10. Dio-Dream Evil

Shitty list. Where's Blizzard of Ozz? To begin with, that ought to be no 1.

Here's my list:

1: Carcass - Heartwork
2: Entombed - Wolverine blues
3: Morbid angel - Blessed are the sick
4: Metallica - ...and justice for all
5: Testament - Low
6: The haunted - rEVOLVEr
7: Meshuggah - Destroy erase improve (and None - but thats an EP)
8: Slayer - Seasons in the abyss
9: Alice Cooper - Raise your fist and yell
10: Machine head - Burn my eyes

Rock on!

Awesome Raise Your Fist and Yell is an awesome album.

how so many of you get butt hurt from these list.

No matter what any list about anything will have people thinking its wrong.

Truth is all those albums are great. Your splitting hairs on list like these.

The cow goes - MOOOH!!

...and as much as the current state of Megadeth pisses me off, the exclusion of Peace Sells proves that. Wonder if they've ever heard of Celtic Frost...

This list is clearly flawed as it mentions none of the bands I like.

Where is seven churches?? A bunch of high schoolers creating absolute chaos.

meta.. what? no way
all time no.1 is debut from mighty IRON MAIDEN
amen

Try my list out too:

http://johnnyringoreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lifeofagonyriver.jpg?w=150&h=150

Woops, I meant :

http://kingcrimsonprog.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/list-of-albums-that-you-need-to-have-heard-to-have-a-full-and-comprehensive-understanding-of-metal-music/