The Must Have's For Every Metal Fan

I'm putting a list of essential albums in metal that every metal head needs.  It's going to cover a lot of the different styles of the metal world but there are must haves in a lot of the different genres.  So here it goes the must haves for all metal fans.  The list isn't in any order as to better or worse I'm just going through my CD collection, and picking them out. 

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - 1970

Black Sabbath - Paranoid - 1970

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - 1971

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz - 1981

Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of A Madman - 1981

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At the Moon - 1983

Metallica - Kill Em' All - 1983

Metallica - Ride the Lightning - 1984

Metallica - Master of Puppet - 1986

Metallica - ...And Justice For All - 1988

Korn - Korn - 1994

Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales - 1984

Celtic Frost - Monotheist - 2006

Megadeth - Peace Sells...but Who's Buying - 1986

Megadeth - Rust In Peace - 1990

Megdeth - Countdown to Extinction - 1992

Megdeth - Youthanasia - 1994

White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000 - 1995

Opeth - Still Life - 1999

Opeth - Blackwater Park - 2001

Opeth - Deliverance - 2002

Pantera - Cowboys From hell - 1990

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power - 1992

Pantera - Far Beyond Driven - 1994

Cannibal Corpse - Kill - 2006

Soulfly - Primitive - 2000

Death - Symbolic - 1995

Juas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny - 1976

Judas Priest - British Steel - 1980

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengance - 1982

Judas Priest - Painkiller - 1990

Slayer - Reign in Blood - 1986

Slayer - South of Heaven - 1988

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss - 1990

Slayer - World Painted Blood - 2009

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake - 2004

Lamb of God - Wrath - 2009

Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos - 2002

Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama - 2005

In Flames - Whoracle - 1997

In Flames - Colony - 1999

In Flames - Come Clarity - 2006

Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings - 1995

Iced Earth - Horrow Show - 2001

Rammstein - Sehnsucht - 1997

Tool - Aenima - 1996

Morbid Angel - Alters of Madness - 1989

Slipknot - Slipknot - 1999

Shadows Fall - The War Within - 2004

Mastodon - Laviathan - 2004

Mastodon - Blood Mountain - 2006

Nevermore - This Godless Endevour - 2005

Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black - 1999

Mudvayne - L.D. 50 - 2000

Type O Negative - loody Kisses - 1993

Type O Negative - October Rust - 1996

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus - 1986

Canldemass - King of the Grey Islands - 2007

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve - 1995

Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Thr33 - 2005

Between the Bried & Me - The Great Misdirect - 2009

Danzig - Danzig - 1988

Danzig - Danzig 2: Lucifuge - 1990

Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast - 1996

Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli - 2007

Trivium - Ascendancy - 2005

The Blak Dahlia Murder - Deflorate - 2009

Fear Factory - Demanufacture - 1995

Mercyful Fate - Melissa - 1983

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath - 1984

Behemoth - Evagelion - 2009

Venom - Welcome To Hell - 1981

Venom - Black Metal - 1982

Testament - The New Order - 1988

Testament - Practice What You Preach - 1989

Kreator - Pleasure to Kill - 1986

Kreator - Extreme Aggression - 1989

Kreator - Enemy of God - 2005

Sepultura - Arise - 1991

Sepultura - Chaos A.D. - 1993

Anthrax - Spreading the Desease - 1985

Anthrax - Amoung the Living - 1987

Exodus - Bonded By Blood - 1985

Exodus - Fabulous Disaster - 1988

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day - 1996

Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance - 2006

Sleep - Holy Mountain - 1992

Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper - 2000

Gojira - The Way of All Flesh - 2008

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden - 1980

Iron Maiden - Killers - 1981

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast - 1982

Iron Maiden - Powerslave - 1984

King Diamond - Conspiracy - 1989

Strapping Young Lad - City - 1997

Strapping Young Lad - Alien - 2005

High On Fire - Death Is This Communion - 2007

Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest - 2009

Napalm Death - Scum - 1987

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime - 1988

Baroness - Blue Record - 2009

   So here are the essentials that I think every metal head needs.  I probably could've added at least 20 more but this will definatly take you a while to get into all of these and really see the individual works for what they are and decide for yourself.  Like I've said before I like all kinds of different kinds of metal so I included all kinds of genres in this list.  I know what your saying why korn's albums.  I think the early years of Korn were great.  After Issues though they went down the drain for me, but thats just me.  Or even guys like Rammstein.  Come on that album is great.  Everyone wants to get up and head bang when they hear Du-Hast.  It's not physically possible to not want to move.  There are so many classic albums that really paved the way for what metal is today.  Bands like Death Angel, Napalm Death, Sodom, Flotsam & Jetsam, Candlemass, Nevermore, Iced Earth, and Dio.  Dio's Holy Diver is a pretty big one.  I didn't put a lot of death metal, or black metal bands stuff in there, even though there are a few.  Not that I don't like that genre by any means, I'm just still getting into that genre real heavy so I'm still learning about that type right now.  I do absolutely love Behemoth's Evangelion, Dimmu Borgir's stuff, and Nile though, but I'm not a big fan of stuff like Cannibal Corpse, or Six Feet Under.  Or even new guys like Despised Icon.  I don't really like the vocals of any of those artists.  My Faves right now are a lot of progressive metal, doom, sludge, stonner metal stuff like High on Fire, Isis, Pelican, Sleep, Candlemass, Electric Wizard, Sabbath, Kylesa, The Ocean, Between the Buried & Me, Katatonia, and Opeth.  This list is incomplete for sure, I'll continue with more, but this will definitely get your feet wet.  So until next time stay hard, stay heavy.