TheNotrap: Essential Metal Albums Part I

dammets 07.06.11	Metulz! Seriously, sweet list.
HenchmanOfSanta 07.06.11	More VH1 Classic goodness
ButcheredChildren 07.06.11	List title need correcting Essential Metal Albums Prior To The 1990's: Part I***
zxlkho 07.06.11	Guns N Roses? LOL
zxlkho 07.06.11	The rest of the list is awesome though.
Acanthus 07.06.11	I always have an issue with the term metal being applied to Led Zeppelin, I know they are but the genre has changed so much that it's hard to hear the word and associate it with them.
BigHans 07.06.11	sick list dude
Psychopathologist 07.06.11	pointless list
Darkvoid67 07.06.11	I struggle to call Led Zep metal. Sure, they were heavier than anything before them but thats not really saying much. More like the very beginnings of hard rock. And ButcheredChildren, the list is chronological, so it was bound to end sometime before 1990
BallsToTheWall 07.06.11	King Diamond, S.O.D, Accept, Manowar, Bathory, Candlemass and Running Wild? Yes sir, I will bash haters like last commenter with my hammer.
Acanthus 07.06.11	Personally I always think of them as rock, plain and simple.
TAB 07.06.11	ew scorpions
Tyrael 07.06.11	There are a few really afwul albums on here, mainly 77
HenchmanOfSanta 07.06.11	"I always have an issue with the term metal being applied to Led Zeppelin, I know they are but the genre has changed so much that it's hard to hear the word and associate it with them." That's because they aren't metal at all and most people under the age of 50 should know this.
Acanthus 07.06.11	There's a huge group that considers them so, it's always baffled me.
HenchmanOfSanta 07.06.11	There's a huge group whose entire metal library is the bands on this list. Generally they overlap.
Acanthus 07.06.11	I never really got into classic metal (90's and before) so most of this list is stuff I might have heard but couldn't get into/don't want to listen to. Led Zepellin was one of the biggest musical let-downs I've ever had, I expected a lot more than they gave.
TheNotrap 07.06.11	Immigrant Song or Black Dog isn't Metal?...Ok...Probably Rhythm and blues or Jazz... @Psychopathologist....pointless comment
HenchmanOfSanta 07.06.11	They're hard rock, dude. It's not a difficult concept. Then again, you have Bon Jovi on a list of essential metal albums so maybe that term means nothing to you.
HenchmanOfSanta 07.06.11	Like Immigrant Song I can understand as it had the basic foundation of a lot of heavy metal, but Black Dog is straight up heavy blues.
Acanthus 07.06.11	One song doesn't denote a genre, otherwise Primus would be such an eclectic mix that nothing could categorise them other than the moniker "all"
IrishJay91 07.06.11	the final countdown? well, whatever. I think 'essential' is an exaggeration for quite a few of these, but its a solid list overall.
JamieTwort 07.07.11	Nice list, great to see 55 on here.
Pharoh 07.07.11	Acdc is NOT metal
TheNotrap 07.07.11	Yep AC/DC is Hard Rock, like Zeppelin, Purple, Rainbow or even Van Halen, but in my opinion these bands belong here.
HenchmanOfSanta 07.07.11	But this is supposedly a list of essential metal albums...and you were just arguing that those bands were metal.
Phil 07.07.11	There aren't much variety. Add bands like Blue Oyster Cult, whose manager/producer/some other stuff, Sandy Pearlman coined 'heavy metal'.
flalafell 07.07.11	this brought the lulz
Idnuf 07.07.11	Yeah well this guy's obviously an idiot
TheNotrap 07.07.11	@HenchmanOfSanta Like I said I believe these bands belong here. Hard Rock..Metal...Hard n ' Heavy.......It's very hard to label bands like Purple, Zeppelin, Scorpions, White Lion, AC/DC....Scorpions is Metal or Hard Rock? Megadeth is Speed or Thrash? Cinderella is Glam, Hard Rock or Metal?...Bon Jovi is Hard Rock or just Rock?...Sometimes It's very hard to label a band.
AngelofDeath 07.07.11	Yeah, Pyromania is obviously essential.
clercqie 07.07.11	Where's Mötorhead?
rockandmetaljunkie 07.09.11	King Diamond, S.O.D, Manowar, Bathory, Candlemass and Running Wild? 2 Motorhead, Budgie, Blue Cheer, Pentagram, Aerosmith, Anvil, Angel Witch, also deserve a spot here. AND WHERE THE FUCK IS DIAMOND HEAD??
TheNotrap 07.10.11	Yep I suppose those bands (except Budgie, Blue Cheer and Pentagram) deserved to be here. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades Anvil - Metal on Metal Angel With - Only the debut album Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations (the others are too average) Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic and Rocks My fault....