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5.0 classic
Dream Theater Awake
Jethro Tull Aqualung
Easily one of my favorite Tull albums. Ian Anderson's flute and acoustic guitar, Martin Barre's guitar licks and I forget their names due to frequent lineup changes in the band but the bass, piano and drums are fantastic too. Any band who invents (or if they didn't, made it popular) such a wonderful, brilliant sound deserves a 5/5. This was overproduced in its time but sounds underproduced compared to today's standards. I really love that nice medium between the two.
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
Lost Horizon A Flame to the Ground Beneath
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Rhapsody of Fire Triumph or Agony
Rush 2112
Sirenia At Sixes And Sevens
Wintersun Wintersun
Yes Close to the Edge

4.5 superb
Angra Temple of Shadows
Avantasia The Wicked Symphony
Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blind Guardian A Night at the Opera
Blind Guardian A Twist in the Myth
Dark Moor Autumnal
Dark Moor have always put out quality music and have always had their own unique style in a seemingly faceless and generic genre. But with Autumnal they've reached a new level with powerful, beautiful, and nearly seamless symphonic metal compositions.
Dragonland Astronomy
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Edguy Hellfire Club
Impeccable songwriting and delivery. Tobias Sammet's rich, powerful vocals and inspiring lyrics send chills down my spine . This album bombards the listener with song after song of heavy metal hellfire.
Elvenking The Winter Wake
Elvenking Heathenreel
Equilibrium Sagas
Fairyland The Fall of an Empire
Grateful Dead American Beauty
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I
Ian Anderson The Secret Language of Birds
Iron Maiden Dance of Death
Iron Maiden Rock in Rio
Jethro Tull A Passion Play
Judas Priest Painkiller
Kamelot Epica
Karnivool Sound Awake
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Ledbetter Heights
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
Lost Horizon Awakening the World
Luca Turilli King of the Nordic Twilight
Neil Young Harvest
Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Nightwish Once
Nightwish Century Child
Nightwish Dark Passion Play
Phish Hoist
Pink Floyd Animals
Pink Floyd The Wall
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Rhapsody of Fire Power of the Dragonflame
Rush A Farewell to Kings
Rush Permanent Waves
Rush Snakes & Arrows
Rusted Root When I Woke
Sonata Arctica Winterheart's Guild
Symphony X V: The New Mythology Suite
Symphony X Iconoclast
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland
Tool Lateralus
Twilightning Plague-House Puppet Show
Yes Fragile

4.0 excellent
Above and Beyond Tri State
After Forever Remagine
Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge
Alestorm Black Sails at Midnight
Amon Tobin Bricolage
Amorphis Elegy
Amorphis Silent Waters
Amorphis Skyforger
Avantasia The Scarecrow
Axenstar Far from heaven
This album is fantastic if you are a fan of pop metal. Yes, pop metal. Far From Heaven is full of catchy songs that stick in your head and have memorable hooks while still staying power metal. Axenstar manage to avoid tediousness by having endless original riffs and melodies and keep things fresh throughout the album with creative composition and good lyrics.
I recommend this album to fans of Sonata Arctica who don't require relentless shredding.
Blind Guardian Imaginations from the Other Side
Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time
Blue Scholars Blue Scholars
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet
Boston Boston
Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Cain's Offering Gather the Faithful
Cellador Enter Deception
Children of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom Hatebreeder
Coheed and Cambria No World for Tomorrow
Crimson Glory Transcendence
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu
Dark Moor The Hall of the Olden Dreams
Dark Moor Beyond the Sea
Dark Moor The Gates of Oblivion
Dark Moor Tarot
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Gilmour On An Island
David Lee Roth Eat 'em And Smile
Death Angel Relentless Retribution
Deep Purple Machine Head
Dio Holy Diver
DragonForce Sonic Firestorm
Dragonland Starfall
Dragonland Holy War
Dream Evil Evilized
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Dream Theater Images and Words
Dreamtale Ocean's Heart
dredg El Cielo
dredg Catch Without Arms
dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Edenbridge The Grand Design
Edguy Mandrake
Edguy Rocket Ride
Generally power metal geeks aren't going to like this album, because it's not geeky power metal. However it is a fantastic, inspired, and well-written piece of rock music.
Elvenking Two Tragedy Poets
Elvenking Red Silent Tides
Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse
Ensiferum Ensiferum
Ensiferum Iron
Ensiferum Victory Songs
Ensiferum From Afar
Epica The Divine Conspiracy
Epica Design Your Universe
Equilibrium Turis Fratyr
Equilibrium Rekreatur
Fairyland Of Wars in Osyrhia
Fairyland Score to a New Beginning
Falconer Northwind
Falconer Among Beggars and Thieves
Feist The Reminder
Finntroll Nattfodd
Finntroll Jaktens Tid
Finntroll Ur Jordens Djup
Firewind Forged by Fire
Firewind Allegiance
Firewind The Premonition
Firewind Days of Defiance
Freedom Call Eternity
Freedom Call Legend of the Shadowking
Gamma Ray Land of the Free
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead
Grateful Dead Blues for Allah
Grateful Dead Terrapin Station
Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction
Hallucinogen Twisted
HammerFall Crimson Thunder
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II
Iced Earth Horror Show
Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 1
Infected Mushroom Vicious Delicious
Infected Mushroom Legend Of The Black Shawarma
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design
Jedi Mind Tricks Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell
Jethro Tull Benefit
Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien
Judas Priest Angel of Retribution
Kamelot The Black Halo
Kamelot Karma
Kamelot Ghost Opera
Karnivool Themata
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Live On
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
King Diamond Abigail
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin Presence
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin In Through the Out Door
Manowar Warriors of the World
Mastodon Crack the Skye
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Metallica Master of Puppets
Metallica Ride the Lightning
moe. Dither
Muse Absolution
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young Freedom
Neil Young Harvest Moon
Neil Young Unplugged
Neil Young Ragged Glory
Nightwish Angels Fall First
Nightwish Wishmaster
Nightwish Oceanborn
Nightwish Imaginaerum
Nirvana Nevermind
Nocturnal Rites The 8th Sin
Nocturnal Rites Shadowland
Opeth Deliverance
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Pagan's Mind Celestial Entrance
Pagan's Mind Enigmatic: Calling
Phish Billy Breathes
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd Meddle
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Porcupine Tree Deadwing
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Primus Sailing the Seas of Cheese
R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Radiohead OK Computer
Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication
Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands II
Rhapsody of Fire Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Rhapsody of Fire Dawn of Victory
Rhapsody of Fire Rain of a Thousand Flames
Rhapsody of Fire The Frozen Tears of Angels
Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness
Rush Moving Pictures
Rush Fly by Night
Rush Signals
Rush Rush
Rush Hemispheres
Rush Roll the Bones
Rush Presto
Rusted Root Remember
Sabaton The Art of War
Savage Circus Dreamland Manor
Savage Circus Of Doom And Death
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
Sigur Ros Heima (DVD)
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust
Silent Descent Duplicity
Sirenia An Elixir For Existence
Skyclad Folkemon
Sonata Arctica Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica Silence
Sonata Arctica Unia
Steve Earle Jerusalem
Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 1
Stratovarius Elements, Pt. 2
Symphony X The Odyssey
Symphony X Paradise Lost
The Allman Brothers Band Where It All Begins
The Beatles Abbey Road
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Darkness Permission to Land
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Doors Strange Days
The Doors The Doors
The Doors Morrison Hotel
The Jeff Healey Band Hell To Pay
The Jeff Healey Band See the Light
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Who Tommy
The Who Quadrophenia
The Who Who's Next
Therion Gothic Kabbalah
Thunderstone Tools of Destruction
Thunderstone The Burning
Tool Ænima
Tool Undertow
Tool 10,000 Days
Trey Anastasio The Horseshoe Curve
Van Halen Van Halen
Van Halen 1984
Widespread Panic Space Wrangler
Widespread Panic Til The Medicine Takes
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever
Yes The Yes Album

3.5 great
1200 Micrograms 1200 Micrograms
AC/DC Highway To Hell
AC/DC Back In Black
Aerosmith Honkin' on Bobo
AFI Sing the Sorrow
After Forever After Forever
Alcest Écailles De Lune
Alice Cooper The Last Temptation
Amon Amarth Versus the World
Amon Tobin Permutation
Angel Dust Enlighten the Darkness
Avantasia The Metal Opera Pt. II
Axenstar The Final Requiem
Battlelore Sword's Song
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow
Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond
Blind Guardian Tales from the Twilight World
Bob Seger Face the Promise
Bruce Springsteen Magic
Burzum Daudi Baldrs
Insanity, evil, hatred, and contempt for mankind expressed through a cheap keyboard in a norwegian jail cell.

Seig Heil.
Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper
Chimaira The Impossibility of Reason
Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Cryptopsy None So Vile
Dark Moor Shadowland
David Gilmour David Gilmour
Death Human
Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple Stormbringer
Delerium Karma
Delerium Poem
Dethklok The Dethalbum
Dr. Dre The Chronic
DragonForce Valley of the Damned
DragonForce Inhuman Rampage
DragonForce Ultra Beatdown
Dragonland The Battle of the Ivory Plains
Dream Evil Dragon Slayer
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Dreamtale Beyond Reality
Dreamtale Difference
Eagles Hotel California
Edenbridge Myearthdream
Edenbridge Solitaire
Edguy Vain Glory Opera
Edguy Tinnitus Sanctus
Eluveitie Everything Remains As It Never Was
Elvenking The Scythe
Elvis Costello Momofuku
Ensiferum Dragonheads
Epica Consign to Oblivion
Eric Clapton Unplugged
Evergrey The Inner Circle
Explosions in the Sky The Rescue
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Freedom Call Crystal Empire
Gamma Ray Heading for Tomorrow
Gorillaz Gorillaz
Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel
Grave Digger Rheingold
Guns N' Roses G N' R Lies
Hallucinogen The Lone Deranger
HammerFall Glory To The Brave
Heavenly (FRA) Sign Of The Winner
Helloween Keeper of the Seven Keys: The Legacy
Hibria The Skull Collectors
Ill Bill Whats Wrong With Bill?
Immortal Battles in the North
Immortal Technique Revolutionary Volume 2
Infected Mushroom Classical Mushroom
Infected Mushroom Converting Vegetarians
Iron Maiden Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden Killers
Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Savior Dark Assault
Jedi Mind Tricks Legacy of Blood
Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence
Jethro Tull Stand Up
Jethro Tull War Child
Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Trouble Is...
King Diamond ''Them''
Korpiklaani Tales Along This Road
Korpiklaani Karkelo
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
I really do think that this album was made before Zeppelin had really found themselves as a band. It's nothing more than some fairly catchy rip-offs of old blues songs. I like their cover of Heartbreaker but when they put that crappy solo in the middle, it hurts the song. Every Zeppelin album after this one (exept Presence) is much better than II in my opinion. I really don't see what people love about this album other than The Lemon Song. That being said, I still think it's a good album. Just not compared to the rest of their career.
Leftover Crack Fuсk World Trade
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Luca Turilli Prophet of the Last Eclipse
Luca Turilli Dreamquest
Manowar Fighting the World
Megadeth Youthanasia
Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Metallica Kill 'Em All
Metallica Metallica
moe. No Doy
moe. Headseed
Necro Death Rap
Neil Young Greendale
Neil Young Living with War
Nevermore This Godless Endeavor
Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
Nirvana In Utero
Nirvana Incesticide
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
Northern Kings Reborn
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
OceanLab Sirens Of The Sea
Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman
Phish Lawn Boy
Phish Undermind
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds
Power Quest Neverworld
Power Quest Magic Never Dies
Power Quest Master Of Illusion
Primus The Brown Album
Protest the Hero Fortress
Pyramaze Melancholy Beast
Pyramaze Legend of the Bone Carver
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime
Queensryche Empire
Rage Against the Machine Evil Empire
Rage Against the Machine Renegades
Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers Mother's Milk
Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute
Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Rhapsody of Fire Legendary Tales
Rise Against Appeal to Reason
Rush Feedback
Rush Caress of Steel
Rx Bandits Mandala
Sabaton Coat of Arms
Scorpions Love At First Sting
Shadows Fall The War Within
Skyfire Spectral
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Slick Rick The Art Of Storytelling
Sloan A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast
Sonata Arctica The Days of Grays
Star Fucking Hipsters Until We're Dead
Steve Earle Washington Square Serenade
Stratovarius Twilight Time
Sublime 40 Oz. to Freedom
Sum 41 Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 Chuck
Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Butterfly Effect Imago
The Doors The Soft Parade
The Doors L.A. Woman
The Mars Volta Octahedron
The Notorious B.I.G. Duets: The Final Chapter
The Offspring Americana
The Who The Who by Numbers
The Who Who Are You
The Who My Generation
The Who Endless Wire
Thunderstone Thunderstone
Thunderstone Evolution 4.0
Tiesto Just Be
Trey Anastasio Trey Anastasio
Trivium Ascendancy
U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind
U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Van Halen Van Halen II
Van Halen Fair Warning
Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams
Yes Union

3.0 good
3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish
AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC The Razors Edge
AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip
AC/DC Powerage
Adagio Archangels in Black
Afroman The Good Times
Amorphis Far from the Sun
Anthrax Spreading the Disease
Army Of The Pharaohs Ritual Of Battle
Atreyu A Death-Grip on Yesterday
Black Majesty In Your Honor
Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Blind Guardian Follow the Blind
Blind Guardian Battalions of Fear
Bright Eyes Cassadaga
Burzum Burzum/Aske
Celesty Reign Of Elements
Celesty Mortal Mind Creation
Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet?
Cog The New Normal
Coheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Damageplan New Found Power
Darkthrone Plaguewielder
Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Deep Purple Slaves and Masters
Digitalism Idealism
Dr. Dre 2001
Dream Evil The Book of Heavy Metal
Dream Evil In The Night
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dreamtale Phoenix
There are some good songs but the majority of them are just too corny and awkward for my liking. Some of these songs sound like classic Disney movies gone metal.
Explosions in the Sky Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die...
Falconer The Sceptre of Deception
Freedom Call Stairway to Fairyland
Fugazi 13 Songs
Fugazi Repeater
Gamma Ray Land of the Free II
Gorgoroth Twilight of the Idols
Grateful Dead Shakedown Street
Green Day Warning
Green Day Dookie
HammerFall Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
Hedley Hedley
I Mother Earth Scenery & Fish
Immortal Technique The 3rd World
Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying
Iron Maiden Virtual XI
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Iron Savior Iron Savior
Jethro Tull Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!
Judas Priest Jugulator
King Diamond Conspiracy
Korpiklaani Voice Of Wilderness
Led Zeppelin Coda
Lordi The Monsterican Dream
Manowar Hail to England
Manowar Gods of War
Mastodon Blood Mountain
Megadeth The System Has Failed
Megadeth United Abominations
Metallica Death Magnetic
Moonspell Sin/Pecado
Neil Young Silver & Gold
Neil Young Are You Passionate?
Nocturnal Rites Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Nocturnal Rites The Sacred Talisman
Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Pink Floyd Ummagumma
Portugal. The Man Waiter: ''You Vultures!''
Protest the Hero Kezia
Shadows Fall Threads of Life
Sigh Scenes from Hell
Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls
Sirenia Nine Destinies And A Downfall
Slipknot Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
The Butterfly Effect Begins Here
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists
The Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity
The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Thunderstone Dirt Metal
Unleashed As Yggdrasil Trembles
Van Halen 5150
Van Halen The Best of Both Worlds
I like Van Halen a lot. But this album has too damn much Sammy Hagar. He made some OK music with Van Halen and even a few good songs. But the roth:hagar ratio should be atleast 3:1.
Wolfchant Determined Damnation
Wu-Tang Clan The W

2.5 average
AC/DC Black Ice
Accept Balls to the Wall
Alestorm Battleheart
Angel Dust Of Human Bondage
I found this pretty boring to be honest. I may be stabbed and gutted by metalheads with swords but sometimes good musicianship just doesn't cut it. Everything sounds cold and sterile. Vocals are boring and lyrics are pitiful. There are some pretty nice slow, melodic parts but they lack any feeling. Structure on all songs is lacking innovation. Pass.
As I Lay Dying Frail Words Collapse
Atreyu Fractures in the Facade of your Porcelain Beauty
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys
blink-182 Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Children of Bodom Blooddrunk
David Lee Roth Strummin' With The Devil
Disturbed Believe
Edenbridge Shine
Falconer Grime vs Granduer
Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown
Grave Digger Heart of Darkness
Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy
HammerFall Renegade
HammerFall No Sacrifice, No Victory
Hawthorne Heights The Silence in Black and White
Heavenly (FRA) Coming From The Sky
Heavenly (FRA) Carpe Diem
Helloween Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Journey Greatest Hits
Judas Priest Demolition
Kamelot Siege Perilous
Karnivool Persona
Limp Bizkit Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight
Lordi The Arockalypse
Lordi Get Heavy
Luca Turilli The Infinite Wonders Of Creation
Metallica Reload
Metallica Load
Neil Young Everybody's Rockin'
Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
Primus Tales from the Punchbowl
Rascal Flatts Feels Like Today
Rusted Root Welcome To My Party
Slayer Christ Illusion
Slipknot Iowa
Sum 41 Half Hour Of Power
Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny
Trivium The Crusade
Van Halen Van Halen III
Van Halen Balance

2.0 poor
Converge You Fail Me
Crimson Glory Strange and Beautiful
Darkthrone F.O.A.D.
Eric Clapton Pilgrim
Family Guy Live In Las Vegas OST
Guns N' Roses The Spaghetti Incident?
Kamelot Eternity
Limp Bizkit Significant Other
Metallica St. Anger
Metallica Some Kind of Monster
Sum 41 Underclass Hero
The Strokes Is This It
William Hung Hung For The Holidays

1.5 very poor
50 Cent Curtis
Grave Digger The Last Supper

1.0 awful
50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Atreyu Visions
Soulja Boy Souljaboytellem.com
Soulja Boy iSouljaBoyTellEm
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