| 5.0 classic |
| Alice Cooper Love It To Death |
| Every song on the album is some if the best hard rock ever written. |
| Amorphis Tales from the Thousand Lakes |
| If you ever saw Finnish winter before the climate change, this record captures that vision perfectly. Death metal without death metal lyrics. And even keyboards and hummable riffs! Blue album cover art will fly you into other time and alternate world. |
| Annihilator Alice in Hell |
| The guitar work is something out of this world. Ridiculous! |
| Billy Idol Rebel Yell |
| Once there was punk. Then there was Los Angeles hair metal and MTV. All of a sudden some peroxide bloke makes a bloody video and hits start flowing. The title track is one of the best songs ever written. |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| The riffs are absolute monsters, songs are like a perfect combination of Sabbath and DIO. Mob Rules riff is one of the best riffs of 1980s. Turn Up the Night is a classic opener and almost like Iron Maiden or Thin Lizzy. |
| Black Sabbath Sabotage |
| The epitome of heavy music. If you don't like this album, you should leave this planet. Move to Krypton and take Nicki Minaji with you. |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| This album is proof that one band can have two perfect singers who can make equally important records that will last in line. All puns intented. |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Explain those riffs! Is there a better heavyrrock album? Yeah, but it's by the same band! |
| Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin |
| Veteran of Psychic Wars may be the best sci-fi heavy metal song ever made. |
| Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet |
| Way too many hits. Poofy hairday, tons of chicks and a guitar player who can sing harmonies like Fleetwood Mac and still play better than CC DeVille. |
| Bruce Dickinson Accident of Birth |
| Bruce got so close to the original sins of the Eddie band it deserves its place among Piece of Mind and Seventh Son and Adrian Smith's guitar work is the cherry on the cake. |
| Buckingham Nicks Buckingham Nicks |
| You liked Rumours? Well, this is the prequel you can?t ignore! |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Pagan heavy metal classic. All synths are belong to us. This isn?t black metal, this is Dungeons n Dragons soundtrack for last stages of winter. A sorcerer?s masterpiece. |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| You would kill Euronymous too after this record. Make coal out of wooden and move to France to play Dungeons n Dragons. |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Once there was thrash metal, and then there were infested maggots in revolting pussy. |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge |
| How incredible was this band? The proof that if you have the right line-up, classic albums will be made. The songwriting about occult horror themes has never been better. |
| Danzig Danzig |
| There is nothing cooler than this record, except some chicks in bikinis surrounded by a skull pentagram. |
| Dark Tranquillity The Gallery |
| At the Gates and Iron Maiden combined. Still don't like the name of the band. |
| Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger |
| The best black metal album of all-time. It?s not even funny. And it really shouldn?t be funny. Try listening to this in pitch black forest with your earpods. I bet you can?t sissy boy! I couldn?t either. |
| Darkthrone Under a Funeral Moon |
| BLACK METAL MATTERS. How deep you can actually wander in those frost covered woods? |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars |
| David Gilmour On An Island |
| This has nothing to be ashamed of next to The Wall or Dark Side of the Moon. The album cover is a classic as well. It?s blue, peaceful and melancholic. |
| David Gilmour Live At Pompeii |
| If you saw this live in Pompeii, I wish you weren't there. |
| David Gilmour Live in Gdansk |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Political? Pot? California? Hitler? Surf guitars? It's all here and it's mean. |
| Deep Purple Machine Head |
| There?s riffs, there?s songs and then there?s that one song with the riff and you forget Paranoid. Every rock fan should own this album. Twice. |
| Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock |
| The stand alone Deep Purple album which simply ROCKS! |
| Deep Purple Made in Japan |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| Mutt Lange decorates albums like DaVinci paints. Can record sound too clean? I think this is the proof. 5 stars for the clean up! |
| Def Leppard Pyromania |
| Dio The Last in Line |
| We Rock might be the national anthem of all heavy metal fans. Judging from the Egyptian theme, Murray might have some issues. Not very talkative. The voice of heavy metal at his peak. You need to hear him and look out! |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| This album made metal way too clean, but you can't deny the instrument zigzagging. |
| Duran Duran Rio |
| 80s was covered in glitter and Madonna's lipstick. These guys made brilliant music videos and tons of hits. |
| Eagles Hotel California |
| The title track is filled with occult and double meanings and more melodic than Queen compilation. The ultimate country rock album. |
| Eagles Desperado |
| It's almost like westerns were revitalised into a fantastic pop rock album. The title track and songs about Daltons just make me want to buy a stetson. |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| You want an intelligent concept album that is not Rush? You want intelligent death metal. If you want blood, you got it! Every song is named Crimson so you can?t skip tracks like an idiot using Spotify in random mode. This is AN ALBUM, you pansy! |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| For the album cover alone, it should be obvious that orcs aren?t too friendly if you burn and shit their forests. They have their revenge and this album is their favorite album. Perhaps the most majestic black metal ever made and an absolute standard. It?s like ABBA with a twist. |
| Ennio Morricone Duck, You Sucker! |
| Ennio Morricone A Fistful of Dollars |
| Entombed Left Hand Path |
| Extreme III Sides to Every Story |
| Forgotten classic. Dream Theater pop version. Nuno's guitar work is not from this planet. |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Got your heart broken? Problems with your woman? You?re in a band and in turmoil? this is the perfect record to break your balls and make you soak in self-pity. |
| Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac |
| Gary Moore Wild Frontier |
| There?s guitar players and shredders. And then there?s Gary Moore. You don?t need moore than that. |
| Gary Moore Run for Cover |
| Gary Moore Dirty Fingers |
| Gary Moore's most hard rock album. It's also often forgotten among his other releases. Dirty Fingers is an answer to Eddie Van Halen. |
| Genesis Foxtrot |
| Genesis Nursery Cryme |
| Ghost (SWE) Opus Eponymous |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion II |
| Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion I |
| Heart Little Queen |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II |
| Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I |
| HIM Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 |
| A start of a brand new heavy metal style, which made all girls drop grunge and throw bras at the lead singer and stamp posters like tapestry in their bedrooms. |
| Ihsahn Arktis. |
| Immortal Battles in the North |
| Faster than Reign in Blood? Colder than Reign in Blood? No penguin can listen to the album, but it's not meant for them. |
| Iron Maiden Powerslave |
| Iron Maiden Piece of Mind |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| If there?s a heavy metal top 10 list without this album, the list should be burned at once! Even with Invaders, it?s a reference point to heavy metal songs, imagery and musicianship. |
| Iron Maiden Iron Maiden |
| Iron Maiden 12 Wasted Years |
| Jeff Beck Truth |
| The best guitarist of all-time. Can't write songs, but this album belongs to the vinyl collectors top 20 list. |
| Joe Satriani The Extremist |
| Joe Satriani Surfing With The Alien |
| Move aside Yngwie, Satch has something to play. No, it's not an arpeggio but it sounds awesome! |
| Joe Walsh But Seriously Folks.... |
| Joe Walsh The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get |
| Journey Frontiers |
| Journey at their very best. Incredible production, smooth vocals and hit potential enough to impress all the girls in the room. |
| Judas Priest Painkiller |
| This is like pure steel that was purified between hammer of Thor and skull of Thanos. It?s like Captain America?s shield, except it?s British manufactured. End all metal. No fillers. Only thrillers. |
| Judas Priest Sin After Sin |
| Killing Joke Night Time |
| King Diamond Conspiracy |
| King Diamond Fatal Portrait |
| When Mickey Mouse was younger he got involved with Anton LaVey and then one thing led to another and he made a few records in 1980s about ghosts and spooky lakes and women whose initials always start with M. |
| KISS Revenge |
| KISS Destroyer |
| Kiss it up. This album belongs to the most influental rock albums of all-time. Bob Ezrin should be awarded for the production! |
| KISS Dressed to Kill |
| Some of the best hard rock riffs and an album cover that just makes New York cooler. Perhaps the greatest KISS record. Gibson guitars and Marshall Law! |
| KISS Alive! |
| This is the ultimate MARSHALL AMP LAW album. Hit after hit. ALIVE! |
| Kreator Pleasure to Kill |
| Kreator Terrible Certainty |
| Kreator Extreme Aggression |
| Germany's only weapon against Slayer. The testosterone levels went off the scale with this album. |
| Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV |
| Has someone made it clear that number four is metaphor for perfect balance? If you haven?t heard this album, you shouldn?t read Sputnik. Or listen to rock music. Just go to Buzzfeed already. |
| Led Zeppelin Remasters |
| One of the first remaster albums and it's even named as such! PERFECT COLLECTION! |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| This album started everything. If there is one album that deserves to be in top 5 rock albums of all-time, it's this one. |
| Madonna Like a Prayer |
| Manowar Kings of Metal |
| If there is a more metal album than this, I'd like to know about it, poser! |
| Megadeth Cryptic Writings |
| In some ways Megadeth succeeded in style change when Metallica had some struggle of decent songs. Not the most metal album, but one of Megadeth's best albums as far as songwriting goes. |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Grinding teeth, biting lips in fury while trying to form sentences in righteous anger has never been more true than on this album. Symphony of Destruction is one of the ultimate riff songs in heavy metal history. |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath |
| The song-writing, the heavy metal riffs and Mickey Mouse praising occult forces is as weird as it?s going to get. MF classic. |
| Mercyful Fate Melissa |
| Mercyful Fate The Beginning |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Producer's wet dream permanently installed into recording history! |
| Ministry Psalm 69 |
| I hate industrial, but for some reason I forgave this record. Perfect soundtrack for Al Jourgensen?s autobiography. |
| Misfits Static Age |
| Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Death metal has gone into weird brutal territories after this album, but not one of them is as well-written. Even the cover art is ominous. |
| Motley Crue Shout at the Devil |
| Motorhead No Sleep 'til Hammersmith |
| This is one of the best live recordings of all-time. It belongs next to ALIVE! and Live and Dangerous. |
| Motorhead 1916 |
| Motorhead Another Perfect Day |
| Motorhead Ace of Spades |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Opeth Sorceress |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Overkill The Years of Decay |
| Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman |
| Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz |
| If Bob Daisley still hasn?t gotten credit for the songwriting, then there is no hope for the world anymore. |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| This album punches you in the face and shits reign in blood. |
| Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon |
| The album art is simple, but the music goes way beyond normal pop realms. It's right there next to Sgt Pepper and Rumours. |
| Prince Purple Rain |
| Is there anything that the lil afro dude couldn't do? Not really. Except being tall. But that's about it. Best MTV album in the history of pop? |
| Prince 1999 |
| Queen A Night at the Opera |
| It's progressive heavy rock with insane megalomaniac songs and ideas. Acid? It doesen't even make you gay! |
| Queen Innuendo |
| Queensryche Queensryche EP |
| If the band would had kept the straighforward heavy metal style, they might not have the legacy of progressive metal, but for some reason it stands out among their other records. One of the best EPs ever. |
| Rainbow Long Live Rock 'n' Roll |
| Rainbow Rising |
| Ramones Ramones |
| Ramones Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology |
| Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand |
| Roger Waters The Wall - Live in Berlin |
| Rush 2112 |
| I think Mayans got it wrong! It?s not 2012, it?s 100 years later. Side A is one of the best creations in rock history. |
| Sentenced Amok |
| One of the alltime Finnish heavy metal classics. Riffs, hooks and melodies. |
| Sepultura Beneath the Remains |
| Sepultura Arise |
| Slayer probably created the best thrash metal album in human history, but this creation may even share space with classic death metal. The album art is like Cthulhu?s hangover. The riffs are some of the best in thrash metal history. |
| Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols |
| Glen Matlock and Steve Jones' riffs battered with Cook's drumbeats and disrupted with Lydon's lyrics. It just doesen't get any better or more raw than this. |
| Skid Row Slave to the Grind |
| Quicksand Jesus and Wasted Time alone are reasons to get this album. |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| You want fast? You want brutal? You want blood? You got it. You want lengthy songs... they're not here. One of the best heavy METAL releases and it stands among the pure metal albums like Painkiller and Master of Puppets. No fillers, just killers. |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Steve Vai Passion and Warfare |
| This album made me stop playing guitar for years. KISS Alive made me want to play, this one didn?t! It utterly depressed me. |
| Stratovarius Fourth Dimension |
| Aside from Manowar's Kings of Metal, Helloween?s Keeper of the Seven Keys 2 and Gamma Ray's Land of the Free... this is an all-time classic power metal? The solo in Nightfall is a song within a song. And best of all, the drums still sound great and human. They don't have the robotic termite-smashing feeling which started to annoy me in heavy metal after 1995. This belongs to the top 50 list of essential heavy metal. |
| Stratovarius Episode |
| Stratovarius Visions |
| Survivor Eye of the Tiger |
| Tarot Stigmata |
| Tarot at their all-time best. Marco's voice has the power of Dio and charisma and the Hietala brothers' songwriting is thrilling heavy rock! |
| Tarot Follow Me Into Madness |
| Tarot Spell of Iron |
| Quite possibly the best Finnish heavy rock album of all-time. |
| The 3rd and the Mortal Sorrow |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| Best album of all-time? This beats everyone. You can't be a vinyl collector without this classic. It should be the first one. |
| The Cure Disintegration |
| If there?s one alt.rock record you need to add in your indie collection next to Smashing Pumpkins and The Smiths, it?s this one. Lullaby is the creepiest pussy video ever. Spiders? What spiders? |
| The Cure Trilogy |
| The Smiths Meat Is Murder |
| Johnny Marr's guitars may have increased Fender amp sales and Morrissey's lyrics may have turned girls gay. |
| Thin Lizzy Fighting |
| Twisted Sister Stay Hungry |
| Twisted Sister Live at Hammersmith |
| Type O Negative October Rust |
| Autumn has never been so melancholic. Haunting bloody kisses and rust that never sleep. |
| Type O Negative Bloody Kisses |
| Type O Negative The Origin of the Feces |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| This album has more acoustics than Led Zeppelin III! Fantastic troll camp fire music. |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Uriah Heep Demons and Wizards |
| Simply Uriah Heep?s only masterpiece. Wizard is Gandalf?s favorite song! |
| Van Halen Van Halen |
| If you are a hard rock fan and don't own this album, there is something seriously wrong with you! |
| Vangelis Blade Runner Soundtrack |
| Still the best work Vangelis ever made. Do androids like it? |
| Venom Welcome to Hell |
| Venom The Singles 1980-1986 |
| No need to play this backwards, it?s exactly as it is. It?s almost retarded, but it?s clearly one of the best compilations aside from Eagles? Best of. |
| W.A.S.P. The Crimson Idol |
| Rush isn?t the only one making great concepts. Blackie Lawless? masterpiece. Not very happy album or hopeful. Bleak like vampire?s bedroom. |
| W.A.S.P. The Headless Children |
| White Zombie Astro Creep: 2000 |
| Heavy metal that can be danced to? Didn?t Kiss already try that in 1978? More human than disco. |
| Yngwie Malmsteen Rising Force |
| 4.5 superb |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock We Salute You |
| Alice Cooper Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper |
| I don't know what the movie is about. But I might have to drink 12 beers to watch it. |
| Alice Cooper The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper |
| Bathory Twilight of the Gods |
| This is one of the coolest atmosphere albums which actually separates it from other Bathory albums and is something completely new. It? like prototype of what was released in Nordic countries between 1991 and 1995. |
| Billy Idol Kings And Queens Of The Underground |
| Almost classic... some minor mistakes or misses, but song-writing is almost as sharp as it was in 1983. |
| Black Country Communion Live Over Europe |
| Black Sabbath Tyr |
| Black Sabbath Headless Cross |
| Blue Oyster Cult Imaginos |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Danzig Danzig 4 |
| If it wasn?t for that piece of crap tune Sadistikal, this would had almost been one of the best albums of 1990s. |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill |
| David Gilmour Rattle That Lock |
| David Gilmour Remember That Night (Video) |
| Death Symbolic |
| Deep Purple Burn |
| Eagles One Of These Nights |
| Eagles Eagles |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Ennio Morricone Malèna |
| Monica Belucci is a fine piece of... art. So is the soundtrack for the film MALENA. |
| Europe Europe |
| Fleetwood Mac Tango in the Night |
| Hit after hit, but the production is slightly too 80s. |
| Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow |
| Ghost (SWE) Infestissumam |
| Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction |
| If you haven't heard the album, you should leave this forum. There's nothing more classic 80s than this. The only problem is the overplayed tracks on radio. |
| Iggy Pop Avenue B |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Iron Maiden Killers |
| Iron Maiden Maiden England '88 (DVD) |
| One of the best Iron Maiden video releases. Must for any fan. |
| Iron Maiden The Early Days |
| Joe Walsh So What |
| Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Judas Priest Unleashed in the East |
| KISS Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions |
| Just like The Elder, the album doesen?t feel like it?s KISS. It?s very off, but it?s more balanced than The Elder and Psycho Circus. |
| KISS KISS |
| The songs and the riffs are classics. The production isn?t quite what it would deserve. |
| KISS Alive II |
| The album cover doesen?t have the classic appeal of Alive!, but the music is almost as good and has enough nostalgic vibes. |
| Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti |
| Lindsey Buckingham Out of the Cradle |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Mercyful Fate Time |
| The third best MF album. Nightmare Be Thy Name and Time are incredibly catchy sing-along songs. |
| Metallica Live Shit: Binge & Purge |
| Metallica Garage Inc. |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| Misfits Legacy Of Brutality |
| Even with the reverb, the album is very nostalgic. Even the I Love Lucy Theme sample deserves to be there. It?s a bit weird to sing and hum Angel Fuck, though. |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Motley Crue Decade of Decadence |
| Motorhead March Or Die |
| Nightingale Retribution |
| Nightwish Once |
| Ozzy Osbourne Tribute |
| Ozzy Osbourne Live & Loud |
| Ozzy Osbourne Bark at the Moon |
| The title track alone makes the whole album worth to buy. Especially on vinyl! |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Slightly unbalanced with some songs, but the thematical work deserves a classic status. |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Rainbow Stranger in Us All |
| Rainbow On Stage |
| Ramones Brain Drain |
| Richie Sambora Stranger in This Town |
| Sentenced North from Here |
| Steve Stevens Atomic Playboys |
| Steve Stevens? guitar work is so 1980s it simply can?t be matched by any hair metal band. |
| Stratovarius Visions Of Europe |
| Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 1 |
| Stratovarius Destiny |
| Tarot To Live Forever |
| The Gathering Mandylion |
| Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes |
| U.D.O. Animal House |
| The song-writing is as good as in any Accept album. Some serious riff dramarics and soloing. |
| Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday |
| If album cover art would receive awards, this one should at least get a nomination. And it is vinyl collector?s duty to own a copy. Your record player will love you after you give ut a spin. Essential 70s hard rock. |
| Van Halen Van Halen II |
| Venom Black Metal |
| W.A.S.P. Still Not Black Enough |
