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Mar 13, 2023 · The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time, including Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden.
- Metallica: From Metal to Main Street - Rolling Stone
Metallica at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 5th,...
- The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time - Rolling Stone
From Black Sabbath to Metallica, Rolling Stone picks the 100...
- Metallica: From Metal to Main Street - Rolling Stone
- Guns N' Roses, 'Appetite for Destruction' (Geffen, 1987) After slowly working its way up the charts over the course of a year, ‘Appetite for Destruction’ finally overtook the No. 1 spot on the charts and went on to sell over 30 million copies.
- Metallica, 'Master of Puppets' (Elektra, 1986) ‘Master of Puppets’ is one of heavy metal’s most defining albums and Metallica’s major label debut with Elektra Records.
- AC/DC, 'Back in Black' (Atlantic, 1980) Singer changes for big bands rarely succeed and hardly ever as well as they did for AC/DC. In 1980, reeling from the death of Bon Scott, AC/DC entered the studio with vocalist Brian Johnson and came out with one of the biggest selling albums of all-time.
- Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast' (EMI, 1982) Another Iron Maiden album, another lineup change. Exit Paul Di’Anno and enter Bruce Dickinson! After parting ways with their iconic singer, Maiden enlisted Samson frontman ‘Bruce Bruce’ and the Brits cashed in on the singer’s talents with their finest release.
- Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin IV' (Atlantic, 1971) Is there any better album side than Side 1 of Led Zeppelin's 1971 classic, 'Led Zeppelin IV'? You start with the undeniable groove of "Black Dog" followed by the unabashed rock fury of "Rock and Roll," dig into folksy "The Battle of Evermore" with Plant and female vocalist Sandy Denny, the finish out the side with the legendary epic "Stairway to Heaven."
- Black Sabbath, 'Paranoid' (Vertigo, 1970) Just seven months after they released their eponymous debut, Black Sabbath had another record on the shelves.
- The Clash, 'London Calling' (CBS / Epic, 1979) Just making it into the '70s, 'London Calling' was released in December 1979, and the Clash closed out the decade with a masterpiece.
- Van Halen, 'Van Halen' (Warner Bros., 1978) When Van Halen unleashed their debut album, the guitar work laid down by Eddie Van Halen quite literally set the world on fire.
Sep 21, 2023 · The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling more than 555,200 copies in its first week of release. In 2016, Loudwire named Lateralus the No. 1 hard rock/metal album of the 21st century. The magazine also ranked it No. 6 on their "Top 25 Progressive Metal Albums of All Time." Number 11. METALLICA - Reload
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- Avenged Sevenfold, ‘City of Evil’ (2005) Avenged Sevenfold’s third full-length was an intentional move away from their OC metalcore roots, and yet nothing about it sounded forced or calculated.
- Evanescence, ‘Fallen’ (2003) From the moment the haunting, moody and cinematic “Bring Me to Life” broke into the mainstream via the Daredevil soundtrack, Evanescence became the new face of the gothic metal movement and also one of the biggest bands in the world.
- Sunn O))), ‘Monoliths & Dimensions’ (2009) “I would never claim that Sunn O))) is a jazz band, but I think there are elements of jazz, if it’s not the tone, it’s the theories and the openness,” Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson told The Wire.
- Gojira, ‘From Mars to Sirius’ (2005) Gojira emerged in the early 2000s – a time dominated by black-metal purists and emo-metal crossover scenesters – with a guts-meets-brains combo of rock, thrash and death metal.
Apr 26, 2023 · We started with a list of nearly 300 albums to contend with and narrowed it down to the 90 Best Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1990s. Take a trip down this diametric decade of music and...
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Jul 28, 2023 · The 2000s were the decade where metal conquered the world, evolved into dazzling new forms and yet emphatically embraced its roots. From nu metal's chart-smashing dominance to the mighty comeback.
