100 albums all metalhead should hear!!!

We all have our favorite music, but if you like to bang your head from time to time (or all the time), here are 100 albums you should’ve listened to at least once. Or maybe a thousand times. Not all of them are necessarily hard rock or heavy metal albums, but they at least had an influence.

1. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
2. Paranoid – Black Sabbath
3. Holy Diver – Dio
4. The Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden
5. Gods of the Earth – The Sword
6. Ace of Spades – Motorhead
7. British Steel – Judas Priest
8. Peace Sells … But Who’s Buying? – MegaDeth
9. Ride the Lightning – Metallica
10. Master of Puppets – Metallica
11. … And Justice for All – Metallica
12. Shout at the Devil – Motley Crue
13. Danzig – Danzig
14. Walk Among Us – The Misfits
15. Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal Tendencies
16. Renegades – Rage Against the Machine
17. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin
18. Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
19. Led Zeppelin IV – Led Zeppelin
20. Machine Head – Deep Purple
21. Among the Living – Anthrax
22. Reign in Blood – Slayer
23. Rock and Roll Over – KISS
24. Love it to Death – Alice Cooper
25. Mechanical Animals – Marilyn Manson
26. The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
27. Straight Between the Eyes – Rainbow
28. Are You Experienced? – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
29. Steppenwolf – Steppenwolf
30. Who’s Next – The Who
31. Soap Opera – The Kinks
32. This is Spinal Tap – Spinal Tap
33. Lovehunter – Whitesnake
34. Blow by Blow – Jeff Beck
35. Let it Bleed – The Rolling Stones
36. White Album – The Beatles
37. The Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
38. The Wall – Pink Floyd
39. S.F. Sorrow – The Pretty Things
40. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
41. UFO 1 – UFO
42. Firefly – Uriah Heep
43. Blizzard of Ozz – Ozzy Osbourne
44. W.A.S.P. – W.A.S.P.
45. Appetite for Destruction – Guns N’ Roses
46. Seven Churches – Possessed
47. Walls of Jericho – Helloween
48. Nothing’s Shocking – Jane’s Addiction
49. Love at First Sting – Scorpions
50. Van Halen – Van Halen
51. Black Metal – Venom
52. Lightning to the Nations – Diamond Head
53. Innocence is no Excuse – Saxon
54. Badmotorfinger – Soundgarden
55. Metal Health – Quiet Riot
56. High ‘n’ Dry – Def Leppard
57. Agents of Fortune – Blue Oyster Cult
58. Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy
59. Arise – Sepultra
60. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – AC/DC
61. Highway to Hell – AC/DC
62. For Those About to Rock We Salute You – AC/DC
63. Back in Black – AC/DC
64. Stay Hungry – Twisted Sister
65. Taking Over – Overkill
66. The Legacy – Testament
67. Fabulous Disaster – Exodus
68. Headhunter – Krokus
69. Agent Orange – Sodom
70. Extreme Aggression – Kreator
71. All Hell Breaks Loose – Destruction
72. Siege Perilous – Kamelot
73. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus – Candlemass
74. Glory to the Brave – Hammerfall
75. Thornography – Cradle of Ruin
76. Dirt – Alice in Chains
77. My War – Black Flag
78. Stag – Melviins
79. Sonic Firestorm – DragonForce
80. Vulgar Display of Power – Pantera
81. Welcome to Sky Valley – Kyuss
82. Undertow – Tool
83. Mer de Noms – A Perfect Circle
84. Astro Creep: 2000 – White Zombie
85. Bleach – Nirvana
86. Rated R – Queens of the Stone Age
87. Suck on This – Primus
88. Enthrone Darkness Triumphant – Dimmu Borgir
89. A Blaze in the Northern Sky – Darkthrone
90. Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs – Ministry
91. Album of the Year – Faith No More
92. Soul of a New Machine – Fear Factory
93. Hammerheart – Bathory
94. To Mega Therion – Celtic Frost
95. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols
96. Satanic Rites – Hellhammer
97. All for One – Raven
98. Don’t Break the Oath – Mercyful Fate
99. Bloody Kisses – Type O Negative
100. The Obsessed – The Obsessed