| Aerosmith Classics Live | 1.5 |
| Aerosmith Pump | 2.0 |
| Aerosmith Toys in the Attic | 2.5 |
| Aerosmith Rocks | 3.0 |
| All That Remains ...For We Are Many | 2.0 |
| Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side | 2.0 |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising | 2.5 |
| Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God | 3.0 |
| Annihilator Never, Neverland | 3.5 |
| Anthrax State of Euphoria | 2.0 |
| Anthrax Among the Living | 2.5 |
| Anthrax Persistence of Time | 3.0 |
| Anthrax Fistful of Metal | 3.5 |
| Anthrax Spreading the Disease | 4.0 |
| Anthrax Worship Music | 4.5 |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin | 1.5 |
| At the Gates The Red in the Sky Is Ours | 2.0 |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul | 3.5 |
| At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease | 4.0 |
| Attack Attack! Someday Came Suddenly | 1.0 |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral | 3.0 |
| Production is really bad, but if you get past that (or enjoy the rougher productions of the 80s/90s Death Metal albums), you will find a really enjoyable and varied Death Metal album. |
| Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold | 1.0 |
| Black Majesty Stargazer | 2.0 |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell | 2.5 |
| Blackguard Firefight | 1.5 |
| Blackguard So it Begins | 2.5 |
| This album puts far too much emphasis on the "Folk" part of their style compared to its follow-up. |
| Blackguard Profugus Mortis | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time | 3.5 |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Follow the Blind | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth | 4.0 |
| Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side | 4.5 |
| Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World | 5.0 |
| Cain's Offering Gather the Faithful | 1.5 |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk | 2.0 |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? | 2.5 |
| Children of Bodom Relentless Reckless Forever | 3.5 |
| Children of Bodom Halo of Blood | 4.0 |
| Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll | 4.5 |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild | 5.0 |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder | 5.0 |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends | 2.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity Character | 3.5 |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done | 4.0 |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery | 5.0 |
| David Wise Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Death Spiritual Healing | 2.5 |
| Death Leprosy | 3.5 |
| Death Human | 3.5 |
| Death Symbolic | 4.0 |
| Death Scream Bloody Gore | 4.5 |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance | 4.5 |
| Death Individual Thought Patterns | 5.0 |
| Death Angel Act III | 3.5 |
| Death Angel The Ultra-Violence | 4.0 |
| Dethklok The Dethalbum | 2.5 |
| Dio Holy Diver | 2.0 |
| Dio The Last in Line | 2.5 |
| Dio Sacred Heart | 3.5 |
| Dokken Tooth and Nail | 2.0 |
| Dokken Under Lock and Key | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Inhuman Rampage | 2.5 |
| DragonForce Valley of the Damned | 3.5 |
| DragonForce Sonic Firestorm | 4.0 |
| DragonForce The Power Within | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Images and Words | 3.0 |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II | 3.5 |
| Edguy Theater of Salvation | 2.5 |
| Meh album. Half of the album is pretty decent while the other half is really forgettable.rThe end of Theater of Salvation is pretty funny though. |
| Edguy Mandrake | 3.0 |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum | 3.5 |
| Evile Five Serpent's Teeth | 2.5 |
| Unoriginal thrash, but decent. You could do so much better, but also a lot worse... |
| Firewind Few Against Many | 2.0 |
| Firewind Forged by Fire | 2.5 |
| Firewind Between Heaven And Hell | 3.5 |
| Firewind Allegiance | 4.0 |
| Firewind The Premonition | 4.0 |
| Firewind Days of Defiance | 4.5 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam Doomsday for the Deceiver | 2.0 |
| Flotsam and Jetsam No Place for Disgrace | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Sigh No More | 1.5 |
| This album boils down to a couple of awesome songs, a few decent songs, and 6 songs of boredom. Stick with Heading for Tomorrow or Kai's albums. |
| Gamma Ray Skeletons & Majesties | 1.5 |
| Gamma Ray To the Metal! | 2.0 |
| Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow | 2.5 |
| Gamma Ray Power Plant | 3.0 |
| Gamma Ray Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome | 3.0 |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free II | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Empire of the Undead | 3.5 |
| Gamma Ray Insanity and Genius | 4.0 |
| An impressive album by Gamma Ray, after their forgettable "Sigh No More" release. The album returns to a sound similar to "Heading For Tomorrow", and has some of the best crafted songs the band has made (until Kai took over). Fans of Power Metal should definitely listen to Tribute to the Past, Last Before the Storm, Heal Me, and Your Turn is Over. |
| Gamma Ray No World Order | 4.5 |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free | 4.5 |
| Gamma Ray Majestic | 4.5 |
| Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space | 5.0 |
| Grave Digger The Last Supper | 1.5 |
| Lacks the drive, and songwriting, that made Rheingold so good. Power Metal has never sounded so poorly played and robotic. |
| Grave Digger Clash of the Gods | 2.0 |
| There are a few good songs here-and-there (Home at Last, Death Angel), but not enough to warrant multiple listens. This is just another average, generic power metal album that only the most hardcore of fans will really enjoy. |
| Grave Digger Tunes of War | 2.5 |
| Grave Digger The Clans Will Rise Again | 2.5 |
| Grave Digger The Grave Digger | 3.0 |
| Grave Digger Rheingold | 4.5 |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction | 1.5 |
| Helloween Unarmed | 1.0 |
| And this is why Helloween should just stay with Power Metal. |
| Helloween The Time of the Oath | 1.5 |
| Helloween Rabbit Don't Come Easy | 2.0 |
| The problem isn't the style. I love simple Power Metal if it is done well...but this album has way too many boring moments to be essential; let alone purchase-worthy. |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II | 2.5 |
| Helloween Better Than Raw | 3.0 |
| Helloween Helloween EP | 3.0 |
| Helloween Straight Out of Hell | 3.0 |
| Helloween High Live | 3.5 |
| Excellent live release from Helloween. The production and performances are top-notch, yet the setlist could have been better. |
| Helloween Gambling with the Devil | 3.5 |
| Helloween The Dark Ride | 4.0 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I | 4.0 |
| Helloween Walls of Jericho | 4.5 |
| Helloween Master of the Rings | 4.5 |
| Helloween 7 Sinners | 4.5 |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy | 5.0 |
| Iced Earth The Crucible of Man | 1.0 |
No matter how good Divide Devour may be, this is easily the worst Power Metal album I have
ever heard. |
| Iced Earth Overture of the Wicked | 1.5 |
| Iced Earth Days of Purgatory | 2.0 |
| Iced Earth Iced Earth | 2.0 |
| Iced Earth The Glorious Burden | 2.0 |
| Iced Earth Plagues of Babylon | 2.0 |
| Iced Earth Framing Armageddon | 2.5 |
| Despite pointless interludes, this was a much better album than what I was expecting. Generally a better album than Glorious Burden, at the very least... |
| Iced Earth Something Wicked This Way Comes | 3.0 |
| Iced Earth The Dark Saga | 4.0 |
| Iced Earth Night of the Stormrider | 4.5 |
| Iced Earth Horror Show | 4.5 |
| Iced Earth Dystopia | 4.5 |
| Iced Earth Burnt Offerings | 5.0 |
| Jon Schaffer skillfully combines both genres with dark atmospheres to create one of the best Thrash and Power Metal albums ever composed. The album is filled with incredible playing from each member; especially Matt Barlow, then-new vocalist for Iced Earth. Each song is another journey through anger and sadness, with their record company, foolish teenage romance, and religious individuals with "holier-than-thou" attitudes being the band's targets. However, none of these songs (Burnt Offerings, Last December, Brainwashed respectively) come even close to Dante's Inferno, the 16 minute album closer that transcends moods and has each member doing their absolute best work with their skill. |
| In Flames Whoracle | 2.0 |
| In Flames Clayman | 3.0 |
| In Flames The Jester Race | 3.5 |
| In Flames Colony | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying | 1.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live One | 1.5 |
| Iron Maiden Rock in Rio | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden The X Factor | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One | 2.0 |
| Iron Maiden Killers | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Death on the Road | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Real Dead One | 2.5 |
| Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Brave New World | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Virtual XI | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden | 4.0 |
| Iron Maiden The Final Frontier | 4.0 |
| When the Wild Wind Blows, The Talisman, The Man Who Would Be King, and Starblind are the end-result of 30 years of writing incredible songs and albums. Outstanding material overall; but has a poor song or two. |
| Iron Maiden Dance of Death | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death | 4.5 |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son | 5.0 |
| Iron Savior Unification | 2.0 |
| This is Power Metal at its most generic. Little of this album stands out; with only the covers of Gorgar and Neon Knights, along with newly-penned tracks Coming Home and Starborn, being the only things worthwhile among 10 boring, plodding tracks. Avoid. |
| Iron Savior Condition Red | 2.5 |
| Iron Savior Rise of the Hero | 2.5 |
| Iron Savior Dark Assault | 3.0 |
| Iron Savior Megatropolis | 3.5 |
| Iron Savior Battering Ram | 3.5 |
| Iron Savior The Landing | 3.5 |
| Iron Savior Iron Savior | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Turbo | 1.0 |
| Judas Priest Demolition | 1.0 |
| Judas Priest British Steel | 1.5 |
| Judas Priest Jugulator | 1.5 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance | 2.0 |
| Judas Priest Ram It Down | 2.0 |
| Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny | 2.5 |
| Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest A Touch of Evil: Live | 3.0 |
| Judas Priest Stained Class | 3.5 |
| Judas Priest Painkiller | 4.0 |
| Judas Priest Unleashed in the East | 4.0 |
| Jun Senoue Sonic Adventure Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Jun Senoue Sonic Adventure 2: Multi-Dimensional Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz | 3.5 |
| Kalmah Swampsong | 3.5 |
| Kalmah They Will Return | 4.0 |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge | 4.0 |
| Kalmah Swamplord | 5.0 |
| Kamelot Silverthorn | 2.0 |
| Kamelot Ghost Opera | 2.5 |
| Kamelot Eternity | 3.0 |
| Kamelot The Black Halo | 3.5 |
| Kamelot Epica | 4.0 |
| Kamelot The Fourth Legacy | 4.5 |
| Kamelot Karma | 5.0 |
| KISS Crazy Nights | 1.0 |
| KISS Music from "The Elder" | 1.0 |
| KISS Animalize | 1.5 |
| KISS Destroyer | 2.0 |
| KISS Hotter Than Hell | 2.0 |
| KISS Alive III | 2.0 |
| KISS Lick It Up | 2.0 |
| KISS Love Gun | 2.5 |
| KISS Sonic Boom | 2.5 |
| KISS Alive II | 3.0 |
| KISS Asylum | 3.0 |
| This is MUCH better than the previous Glam Metal efforts...but is still too generic to warrant anything higher than a 3/5. Still, I'm Alive, King of the Mountain, Who Wants to Be Lonely and Tears are Falling aren't songs you should pass up on; while the Gene Simmons songs are. |
| KISS Dressed to Kill | 3.5 |
| KISS KISS | 3.5 |
| KISS Alive! | 4.0 |
| KISS Creatures of the Night | 4.0 |
| Koji Kondo Super Mario World | 3.0 |
| Koji Kondo Super Mario 64 Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill | 2.5 |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist | 3.5 |
| Kreator Coma of Souls | 4.0 |
| Lou Reed Metal Machine Music | 1.0 |
| Lou Reed and Metallica Lulu | 1.0 |
| Loudness Thunder In The East | 3.5 |
| Machine Head The Blackening | 3.0 |
| Machine Head Unto the Locust | 3.0 |
| Masterplan Aeronautics | 3.5 |
| Not quite as good as the debut, but "Crimson Rider" and "Black in the Burn" are probably the best songs Masterplan has ever created. |
| Masterplan MK II | 3.5 |
| Mike DiMeo's vocals are not quite as strong as Lande's, though the instrumentals and album as a whole are pretty inspired. |
| Masterplan Masterplan | 4.0 |
| Masterplan Time to Be King | 4.0 |
| Mastodon Remission | 3.5 |
| Megadeth The World Needs a Hero | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Risk | 2.0 |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings | 2.5 |
| Megadeth Th1rt3en | 3.0 |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction | 3.5 |
| Megadeth The System Has Failed | 3.5 |
| Megadeth United Abominations | 3.5 |
| Megadeth Youthanasia | 4.0 |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 4.0 |
| Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace Live | 4.5 |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace | 5.0 |
| This was the first album I ever purchased for a reason. There isn't a single moment of this metallic onslaught that doesn't warrant a listener's full attention; with aggression emitting from every member of the band. I would list the songs I recommend, but you can just look at the track list (though I can't deny that Tornado of Souls is the defining song of Thrash Metal). |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? | 5.0 |
| Its a pity Rust in Peace will always cause fans to overlook Mustaine's first masterpiece. This album features some of Megadeth's best songs, and contains some of the best song-writing in a Thrash album. The only problem is the cover of "I Ain't Superstitious", which feels out of place on in between the two fastest songs on the album: "Bad Omen" and "My Last Words". |
| Metallica St. Anger | 1.0 |
| Metallica Reload | 1.5 |
| Metallica Load | 1.5 |
| Metallica Death Magnetic | 1.5 |
| Metallica Master of Puppets | 2.0 |
| Metallica Metallica | 2.5 |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning | 3.0 |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All | 3.0 |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All | 3.5 |
| Mystic Prophecy Satanic Curses | 2.5 |
| Mystic Prophecy Vengeance | 3.5 |
| Mystic Prophecy Savage Souls | 4.0 |
| Mystic Prophecy Regressus | 4.5 |
| Nightingale The Breathing Shadow | 3.5 |
| Nightrage Insidious | 2.5 |
| Nightrage Descent Into Chaos | 3.5 |
| Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown | 4.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy IV: Original Soundtrack | 3.0 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy V: Original Soundtrack | 3.5 |
| Nobuo Uematsu Final Fantasy VI: Original Soundtrack | 4.0 |
| Nocturnal Rites In a Time of Blood and Fire | 2.5 |
| Ultimately a fun release, but not the most creative or unique in Power Metal. |
| Nocturnal Rites Afterlife | 3.0 |
| It is pretty generic, but it is enjoyable enough to deserve a listen. |
| Norther Mirror of Madness | 2.0 |
| Overkill The Years of Decay | 3.0 |
| Overkill Under the Influence | 3.0 |
| Overkill Horrorscope | 3.5 |
| Overkill Feel the Fire | 3.5 |
| Overkill Taking Over | 4.5 |
| Overkill Ironbound | 4.5 |
| Overkill The Electric Age | 4.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain | 1.0 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon | 1.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Scream | 1.5 |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz | 2.0 |
| Pantera Metal Magic | 1.0 |
| Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill | 1.5 |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell | 3.0 |
| Persuader The Fiction Maze | 2.0 |
| Persuader When Eden Burns | 3.5 |
| Combine Nightfall in Middle-Earth with Thrash Metal. This is approximately the end-result. |
| Persuader The Hunter | 4.5 |
| Persuader Evolution Purgatory | 4.5 |
| Powerwolf Blood of the Saints | 3.0 |
| Primal Fear Jaws of Death | 2.0 |
| This is pretty boring stuff here, Mr. Scheepers...A step down compared to the debut and Nuclear Fire, even if Final Embrace is the band's best song. |
| Primal Fear New Religion | 2.0 |
| Primal Fear Devil's Ground | 2.5 |
| Primal Fear 16.6: (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) | 2.5 |
| Primal Fear Primal Fear | 3.0 |
| Primal Fear Nuclear Fire | 3.5 |
| Primal Fear Delivering the Black | 3.5 |
| Primal Fear Seven Seals | 4.0 |
| Primal Fear Black Sun | 4.0 |
| Primal Fear Unbreakable | 4.0 |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous | 2.0 |
| Protest the Hero Fortress | 3.5 |
| Queen Innuendo | 2.5 |
| Rage Welcome To The Other Side | 2.5 |
| Rage Strings to a Web | 3.5 |
| Rage Perfect Man | 3.5 |
| Rage Trapped! | 4.0 |
| Rage 21 | 4.0 |
| Harsher singing in some songs, along with an overall heavier feel, makes this a good successor in comparison to its predecessor (Strings to a Web). Well-varied, but lacks the consistency of the previous album. |
| Rage The Missing Link | 4.5 |
| Rage Secrets In A Weird World | 4.5 |
| Riot Thundersteel | 4.0 |
| Running Wild Under Jolly Roger | 2.5 |
| Running Wild Blazon Stone | 2.5 |
| Running Wild Port Royal | 4.0 |
| Rush Permanent Waves | 2.5 |
| Rush 2112 | 3.0 |
| Rush Clockwork Angels | 3.5 |
| Rush Moving Pictures | 4.0 |
| Sabaton Carolus Rex | 2.5 |
| This is simple Power Metal. Nothing more, nothing less. |
| Sabaton Attero Dominatus | 3.5 |
| Sabbat (UK) Dreamweaver | 4.0 |
| Sacred Reich Ignorance | 3.5 |
| Savage Circus Dreamland Manor | 2.0 |
| Savage Circus Of Doom And Death | 3.0 |
| Scorpions Love At First Sting | 4.0 |
| Slayer Reign in Blood | 2.0 |
| Slayer Hell Awaits | 2.0 |
| Slayer Divine Intervention | 2.0 |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss | 4.0 |
| Slayer South of Heaven | 4.0 |
| Slayer Show No Mercy | 4.5 |
| Sodom Agent Orange | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Stones Grow Her Name | 2.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild | 3.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Silence | 3.5 |
| Sonata Arctica Ecliptica | 4.0 |
| Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night | 4.0 |
| Soundtrack (Television) Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | 4.0 |
| Stratovarius Stratovarius | 1.0 |
| Stratovarius Episode | 2.0 |
| This is unbelievably boring. Speed of Light and Father Time are the only worthwhile songs on this... |
| Stratovarius Destiny | 2.5 |
| Stratovarius Elysium | 2.5 |
| Stratovarius Fourth Dimension | 3.0 |
| Stratovarius Fright Night | 3.0 |
| Stratovarius Twilight Time | 3.5 |
| This album is really overlooked; it may not have Tolkki on vocals, but the songs are all pretty good, and are a bit more varied compared to other Stratovarius albums. |
| Stratovarius Visions | 4.0 |
| Stratovarius Infinite | 4.0 |
| Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 1 | 4.5 |
| Stratovarius Nemesis | 4.5 |
| Symphony X The Divine Wings of Tragedy | 2.0 |
| Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite | 2.0 |
| Symphony X The Damnation Game | 3.0 |
| Symphony X The Odyssey | 3.5 |
| Symphony X Paradise Lost | 4.0 |
| Testament Demonic | 2.0 |
| Testament Practice What You Preach | 2.5 |
| Testament Souls of Black | 3.5 |
| Testament First Strike Still Deadly | 3.5 |
| Certainly a unique Testament album; many of their best songs off of their first two albums are rerecorded in a much heavier style. With that said, you are probably better off getting The Legacy and The New Order before this; as interesting an album this is. |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth | 3.5 |
| Testament The Ritual | 4.0 |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation | 4.0 |
| Testament The Gathering | 4.5 |
| Testament The Legacy | 4.5 |
| Testament The New Order | 5.0 |
| The Immortals Mortal Kombat - The Album | 1.0 |
| Thunderstone Thunderstone | 3.0 |
| Trivium Ascendancy | 1.5 |
| Trivium The Crusade | 1.5 |
| Unisonic Unisonic | 2.0 |
| Unisonic Ignition | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Diver Down | 1.5 |
| Van Halen Fair Warning | 2.0 |
| Van Halen 1984 | 2.5 |
| Van Halen Van Halen | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Women and Children First | 3.0 |
| Van Halen Van Halen II | 4.0 |
| Vicious Rumors Digital Dictator | 3.0 |
| Voivod Nothingface | 2.0 |
| Voivod Killing Technology | 4.0 |
| Waking The Cadaver Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler | 1.0 |
| Wintersun Wintersun | 4.0 |
| Wold Screech Owl | 1.0 |
| X Japan Art of Life | 4.5 |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Marching Out | 2.5 |
