The 100 Best and Absolute Greatest Heavy Metal Albums in the World, Ever.

As I've just about completed my collection of 100 CDs culled from Jacelyn Bond's damn fine book, and bastard of a charade title, The 100 Best and Absolute Greatest Heavy Metal Albums in the World, Ever, I thought it was about time I blogged the list to aid anyone else who wants to make their world a little heavier. Collecting the albums has been a long strange trip through the annals of rock history and taken me through classics by the likes of Sabbath, AC/DC and Deep Purple to Scandinavian Death Metal. Yes the choices are debateable but the book is a great way of discovering some wonderful music to headbang like a maniac to. It's got some notable omisions too, in particular a certain Black Country band who most would argue are the greatest rock and roll band of all timel and who cast a giant blimp shaped shaddow over the genre.

In addition to the 100 albums I've also listed the other albums by the bands concerned that the book says are worth getting, so if any of the artists take your fancy you can always explore them further. If you click on the covers It will take you to the albums on the Amazon UK website

With Christmas coming up Jacylyn's work would make a fine addition to any metalhead's Christmas stocking along with a generous selection of the albums it lists. They're so heavy though that Santa's sleigh may not cut it when it comes to getting them to your rooftop, he may need to enlist the help of a large gas filled dirgible of a metallic nature...

Enjoy.

Accept

Balls To The Wall



Also of note...

Restless And Wild



Metal Heart



AC/DC

Highway To Hell



Also of note...

High Voltage



TNT



AC/DC

Back In Black



Also of note...

Let There Be Rock



Alice Cooper

Billion Dollar Babies



Also of note...

School's Out



Alice In Chains

Dirt



Also of note...

Alice In Chains



All Shall Perish

The Price Of Existence



Also of note...

Awaken The Dreamers



Anthrax

Among The Living



Also of note...

Sound Of White Noise



Arch Enemy

Burning Bridges



Also of note...

Rise Of The Tyrant



At The Gates

Slaughter Of The Soul



Also of note...

Terminal Spirit Disease



Behemoth

Demigod



Also of note...

Satanica



Thelema 6



Zos Kia Cultus



The Apostasy



Benighted

Icon



Also of note...

Insane Cephalic Production



Identistick



Black Label Society
Hangover Music Volume VI



Also of note...

The Blessed Hellride




Mafia

Also Zack Wylde's solo album...

The Book Of Shadows



Black Sabbath
 
Black Sabbath



Also of note...

Master Of Reality



Black Sabbath
 
Paranoid

Also of note...

Black Sabbath Vol. 4



Sabotage

 

Black Sabbath
 
Heaven And Hell


Also of note...

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

 
Bruce Dickinson
The Chemical Wedding




Also of note...

Tattoed Millionaire





Accident Of Birth





Candlemass 

Nightfall



Also of note...

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus



Ancient Dreams



Tales of Creation



Cannibal Corpse

Tomb Of The Mutilated


Also of note...

Kill




Carcass

 
Heartwork
 


Also of note...

Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious



Swansong

 


Cradle Of Filth
 
Damnation And A Day



Also of note...

Thornography



Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder




Danzig

 
Danzig
 


Also of note...

Danzig II: Lucifuge

 

Danzig III: How the Gods Kill



 Danzig 4p




Dark Tranquillity

 
The Gallery
 


Also of note... 

The Mind's I




Damage Done



Fiction




Death

 
Human



Also of note... 

Scream Bloody Gore




Deep Purple


Machine Head




Also of note...



Fireball




Deep Purple




Deep Purple In Rock




Deftones

 
Around The Fur
 



Also of note...

White Pony



 Saturday Night Wrist 




Deicide

 
Deicide


Also of note...

The Stench Of Redemption


Death Do Us Part


Despised Icon


The Ills Of Modern Man


Also of note...
 
The Healing Process


The Dillinger Escape Plan


Miss Machine


Also of note...

Calculating Infinity


Dimmu Borgir


Death Cult Armageddon


Also of note...

Stormblåst

In Sorte Diaboli

Dio


Holy Diver


Also of note... 

The Last In Line

Sacred Heart

Dream Evil


Dream Theater


Images And Words


Also of note...

 A Change Of Seasons

Metropolis Part 2 - Scenes from a memory

Entombed


Wolverine Blues


Also of note...

Left Hand Path

Clandestine

Exodus


Bonded by Blood


Also of note...

Fabulous Disaster

 The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A

Gamma Ray


Land of the Free


Also of note...

Majestic

Land of the Free II

Godsmack


IV


Also of note...

Faceless

Gojira


The Way of All Flesh


Also of note...

From Mars to Sirius
Guns N' Roses


Appetite for destruction


Also of note...

Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide (EP)

Use Your Illusion I

Use Your Illusion II


The Spaghetti Incident?

Hammerfall


Legacy Of Kings


Also of note...

Glory To The Brave

Crimson Thunder

 Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken

The Haunted


Made Me Do It


Also of note...

One Kill Wonder

 Revolver

Helloween


Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2


Also of note...

Helloween

 Walls of Jericho

 Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1

 The Dark Ride

In Flames


Whoreacle


Also of note...

The Jester Race

Colony



Clayman


Reroute to Remain


Iron Maiden


The Number Of The Beast


Also of note...

Iron Maiden


A Matter of Life and Death


Iron Maiden


Piece Of Mind


Also of note...

Somewhere in Time


Seventh Son of a Seventh Son



Iron Maiden


Powerslave


Also of note...

Killers

Fear of the Dark


Isis


Panopticon


Also of note...

Oceanic


Judas Priest


British Steel


Also of note...

Sad Wings of Destiny


Screaming for Vengeance


Judas Priest

Painkiller


Also of note...

Defenders of the Faith


Killswitch Engage


The End Of Heartache


Also of note...

Alive Or Just Breathing


King Diamond


Abigail


Also of note...

Fatal Portrait


Them


Conspiracy


Kiss


Kiss


Also of note...

Alive!


To be continued...