Exodus - Bonded by Blood

Bonded by Blood is the debut album by the California band Exodus, released in 1985. It is considered amongst one of the most influential thrash metal albums^{[citation needed]}. It is also the only studio recording of Exodus to feature Paul Baloff on vocals. The album was remastered and re-issued by Century Media in 1999 in Europe only, with two live tracks from its Combat re-release in 1989, featuring Steve Souza on vocals.

• Interestingly, professional Footballer David Beckham was photographed wearing a t-shirt with the album cover printed on it. It was latter revealed that Beckham was not only not a fan of the band but had never heard of them either. He wore it simply because classic 80's metal bands on t-shirts was in fashion at the time.

Bolt Thrower Discography

Bolt Thrower are a death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. They then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling bands on that label. Their current label is Metal Blade Records. The band has had a succession of members and have toured Europe, the United States and Australia.

The band takes its name from a weapon in the popular tabletop strategy game Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The lyrics and artwork of their second album were based on Warhammer as well as its futuristic companion Warhammer 40,000, with much of the art actually being provided by the game's publisher, Games Workshop. The general theme of their lyrics is war and its consequences.

Immortal - Blizzard Beasts

Blizzard Beasts is the fourth album by Norwegian black metal band, Immortal. It is the last Immortal album to feature Demonaz on guitar, and the first to feature Horgh on drums.

Stylistically, this is more death metal influenced than previous works (some tracks sounding akin to old Morbid Angel mixed with Immortal's traditional sound).
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Nightwish - Over the Hills and Far Away

Over the Hills and Far Away is an EP by the Symphonic metal band Nightwish, released in 2001 by both Spinefarm Records and Drakkar Records. It was released in the United States in 2004 by Century Media Records.

Machine Head - Hellalive

Hellalive is a live album by Oakland based heavy metal band Machine Head. The album was released to fulfill Machine Heads commitment to Roadrunner Records (The band was released shortly after). The album was recorded at The Brixton Academy in London on December 8, 2001, except for 2 songs which were recorded at the With Full Force Festival in Germany on July 7, 2002.

Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

Saturday Night Wrist is the eagerly awaited 5th studio album from the Sacramento-based band Deftones. The album will be released on Maverick Records on October 31, 2006. The first single will be called "Hole In The Earth". The song can be heard at the Deftones' MySpace page as of August 16, 2006. The single is scheduled to hit the radio on October 16, 2006. It was recently announced (via MySpace) that anyone who places their order before the release of the album (in otherwords any order palced until October 30th) will recieve "1 of 3 special edition lithographs".

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

The album marks the first participation in songwriting by Nicko McBrain, who co-wrote the song "New Frontier".

The song "Montségur" is inspired by Bruce Dickinson's holiday stay near Montségur, the last stronghold of the Cathars conquered by the Albigensian Crusade in 1244. The lyrics include verse As we kill them all so God will know his own, referring to a well-known quote of the papal legate before the massacre of thousands in Béziers in 1209, and mentions of "Templar believers", as it is frequent popular belief today that there was some link between Knights Templar, Cathars and Montségur.

The song "Paschendale" is about The Battle of Passchendaele in the First World War and is considered to be standout track of the album by many. "Journeyman" is Iron Maiden's first fully acoustic song.

The album once again brought costumes to Maiden's stage show. During "Dance of Death" Bruce Dickinson would wear theatrical masks and a cape while moving around the stage. At the end he would dress as the Grim Reaper for the final chorus. During the 1984-1985 World Slavery Tour Dickinson would wear a mask during the song "Powerslave". Dickinson regularly wears a British Army redcoat jacket and waves a Union Flag during performances of "The Trooper".

Cover art for the album was provided by David Patchett, but he asked to be removed from the credits because he was not satisfied with the result. When the cover art was first revealed on the Internet, many Iron Maiden fans believed that the band was playing a prank; it is frequently regarded as very ugly.

Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons

A Change of Seasons is a 1995 EP by progressive metal band Dream Theater. It comprises the 23-minute title track and a collection of bonus live covers performed at a fan club concert at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, England. The title track includes samples from the film Dead Poets Society. This is the first Dream Theater release featuring Derek Sherinian on keyboards.

Rammstein - Engel

Engel, Fan-Edition (German for Angel) is a single by Rammstein from their album Sehnsucht.

The video for Engel appears to give a nod to one of the scenes in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
The female part of the chorus of the song is sung by a woman named Christiane "Bobolina" Herbold of the German mainstream pop band Bobo in White Wooden Houses.

Darkthrone Discography

Darkthrone is a highly influential Norwegian black metal band formed in 1986. They began as a death metal outfit under the name of Black Death.
became and In 1986, Norwegians Gylve Nagell, Ted Skjellum, Ivar Enger, and Dag Nilsen formed the band Black Death. Just prior to their first release, Soulside Journey, the band changed its name to Darkthrone. With guidance from their friend Euronymus, of the famed Mayhem, Darkthrone decided it was time for a new, darker image. Like their black metal cohorts they covered their faces in corpse paint and changed their names to represent the evilness of their music. NagellFenriz, Skjellum became Nocturno Culto, and Enger adopted the name Zephyrous. Nilsen left the band but not until after recording the bass parts for their third album, Ablaze in the Northern Sky. Ablaze established Darkthrone as a genre originator along with other Scandinavian black metal bands such as Mayhem, Emperor, and Satyricon. Their next two albums, Under a Funeral Moon and Transylvanian Hunger, also make most lists of must-haves in the genre. Darkthrone is known for creating albums that sound raw and dirty. Even when modern equipment and recording budgets available to them have allowed for better production they go to great lengths to make their records sound as if they were recorded in a garage. In 1994, Darkthrone switched from the Peacville label to local Norwegian label Moonfog, owned by Satyr of Satyricon, and released what they have called the ultimate tribute to Celtic Frost, Panzerfaust. After the recording of Panzerfaust, Zephyrous, as the rumor goes, went missing never to be seen again. The follow-up to Panzerfaust, Total Death, was recorded only by FenrizNocturnal Culto. The two later brought out some old sessions, added vocals, and released Goat Lord. In 1998, Darkthrone released Ravishing Grimness, continuing in the vein of old school thrash/black metal.

Cynic - Focus

Focus band (1993, see 1993 in music) was the first album and the only official release by the US metalCynic. It is widely considered to be one of the defining albums of the jazz-influenced technical death metal genre.

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain

Ashes Against The Grain is a recently-released album by American metal band Agalloch under the New York-based label, The End Records. It is Agalloch's third full-length release, four years after the critically acclaimed The Mantle.

Before the release, the track "Falling Snow" was made available in its entirety on the label's website and on the band's MySpace page. Reports indicate a version of Ashes Against The Grain was leaked on the web in May 2006.

A pre-release review in the July 2006 issue of Toronto-based Exclaim! magazine described the new album as a "departure and an extension" from the band's previous work:

The songs tend to move with restraint, as Agalloch's characteristic threads of black metal, folk and ambient sounds coalesce with more doom and art rock.

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Reign in Blood is an album by American thrash metal band Slayer, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music) through Def Jam Records (later re-released on Rubin's Def American/American Recordings).

Reign in Blood was ranked number 29 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time, and is considered to be one of the best thrash metal albums ever to be recorded.

Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine SE

Sikth - Death of a Dead Day

Death of a Dead Day is the latest album of the progressive metal band SikTh, released on the 26 June 2006. In the United States, the release date was June 6, 2006 (6/6/06). The album is one of the few albums to have been recently released without having leaked onto torrent sites or file sharing programs significantly before an official release date (It was made available on 6/5/06 because of early pre-orders received).

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Trivium - The Crusade (2006)

The Crusade is the third and upcoming album by metal band Trivium set for an October 10, 2006 release through Roadrunner Records.

According to frontman Matt Heafy, "There's one acoustic song, a Skid Row/Mötley Crüe-sounding song, a Def Leppard, Southern-rock metal song and then 11 ridiculously technical thrash songs. It's a solo insanity CD, but in a good way."[1] Matt Heafy uses a low singing voice similar to that of Metallica's James Hetfield, and the metalcore scream that dominated the band's first two albums is rarely heard.

Some of the songs off the album are about famous killings. For example, "Entrance of the Conflagration" is about Andrea Yates's murder of her five children, "Unrepentant" is about Nazir Ahmad's murder of his three daughters and stepdaughter, and "And Sadness Will Sear" is based upon the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Static-X - Start a War

Start a War is the fourth Static-X album. It was released in June 2005. A special version shipped with X-Rated DVD disc exists. The album marks the return of former guitarist, Koichi Fukuda, and is the first album with drumming provided by formerly "Tour-Only" drummer, Nick Oshiro. When asked about the album Wayne Static said - "We wanted to try to recreate the fun spirit of Wisconsin Death Trip, having Koichi back, with his flavor, helped." It is also the first Static-X album to be released without someone leaving the band after it (Koichi Fukuda after Wisconsin Death Trip, Ken Jay after Machine and Tripp Eisen after Shadow Zone).

Mudvayne - Lost and Found

It's been three years for Mudvayne, three years when metal started to reject its "rap" and "nu" prefixes. At first, Lost and Found reflects that realignment. Vocalist Chad Gray and his mates have nixed the nicknames and makeup for their third Epic full-length, and they try to focus on songs instead of heavy music shtick. However, they equate getting real with the melodramatic plead that interrupts the razor-sharp main part of "Choices," and Gray can't overcome lines like "IMN"'s "No one/No one could ever understand/This life." The song is about suicide, which is very serious. But yelling "F*ck this sh*t!" over thudding rhythms just isn't very powerful anymore. They nail it on opener "Determined" -- one of Mudvayne's all-time strongest tracks, it's a fist-swinging blast of modernized thrash. But Lost and Found soon falls into the familiar, busting no-one-understands-me lyrics and matching moments of refreshing rawness to stretches of stereotypical "corporate metal," a non-genre that's risen up to accept loud rock refugees and the harder side of post-grunge. The energy in "Determined" and "Just" is sapped by the meandering "TV Radio" and "Fall into Sleep," and ultimately Mudvayne gets lost between thrash and diluted Slipknot devotion.

Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

The Great Cold Distance is Katatonia's seventh full-length album, released on 13th March 2006 through Peaceville Records. There is also a special Swedish edition of the album which came in a strictly limited edition box with an exclusive Katatonia poster, set of Katatonia postcards and an enhanced video track of the single My Twin.

Cannibal Corpse - Kill

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Cannibal Corpse are now over 10 albums and continuously reinvigorating their career.
Alex Webster, being the principle songwriter, has possibly the sickest mind in death metal
and possibly the most talented on the music side. The lyrics are brutally demented as
always, what would a Cannibal album be without them and they technically get better with
every release. They do have Rob Barrett in the fold to add to the guitar ferocity the pushes
the music to amazing levels.

On several occasions CANNIBAL CORPSE has shown that they are able to create some heavy tunes and then I mean whole songs like they did on “Vile” and “Gallery Of Suicide”. Therefore my question is why they don’t make more songs like “Infinite Misery”. The album closer is one
of those heavy CANNIBAL CORPSE instrumentals that they do so well. A couple more of those
would have done wonders for this album, though it wouldn’t do any harm if some of them
also had vocals. Corpsegrinder has done some heavy songs in the past as vocalist for
MONSTROSITY so he is certainly up to the challenge. To be honest I think George could
use the change; a scream like the one he does at the start of “Make Them Suffer” is one
that he’s done a million times already.

Whole heartily recommended to any fans of CANNIBAL CORPSE, but I think fans of Death Metal in general will find more interesting bands out there.

Alien Ant Farm - Up in the Attic

Bad Morning
Forgive & Forget
What I Feel Is Mine
It Could Happen
Around The Block
San Sebastian
Lord Knows
Getting Closer
Crickets
Supreme Lifestyle
Consti2tion
State Of Emergency
Sleepwalker
She's Only Evil

Stratovarius - Destiny

Destiny and is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius.Stratovarius was founded in 1984 in Finland under the name Black Water. They went through a number of personnel changes and changes in style before the band found its own voice. The founding members were Tuomo Lassila, Staffan Stråhlman, and John Vihervä. By 1985, Timo Tolkki entered the band, replacing Stråhlman on guitar, changed the name to Stratovarius (a portmanteau of StratocasterStradivarius) and taking up vocal duties as well. Tolkki became the driving force and mastermind of the band, assuming relatively complete control of the song-writing. He brought along not only strong rock influences, but also a neo-classical tinge. The band released a demo to various record companies by 1987, finally being picked up by CBS Finland. In 1989, their debut album Fright Night was released, following two singles.

Stratovarius - Dreamspace

Dreamspace is an album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. This is the last album to feature Timo Tolkki on vocals. For many fans this is the band's most dark album, although Stratovarius (the album) reveals a more personal side in Tolkki's lyrics, and currently events inside the band.

Metallica - St. Anger (2003)

St. Anger is Metallica's eighth original studio effort, released on June 5, 2003. The album was originally to be released on June 10, 2003, but because of fears of extended music piracy over filesharing networks, St. Anger was released 5 days earlier, hitting #1 on The Billboard 200 with sales of almost 500,000 copies in its shortened first week. Sales soon plateaued, however, and St. Anger became Metallica's lowest selling album to date in the United States, with only 2 million copies sold. The album received a generally warmer response in Europe. The album also represents the last collaboration between the band and their longtime producer Bob Rock, with the announcement in early 2006 that Rick Rubin would assume production duties on their forthcoming album.

Disturbed - The Sickness

Alternative metal exploded during the late '90s thanks to groundwork laid by groups like Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, and Rage Against the Machine, and as record companies scrambled to find the next Korn or Limp Bizkit, the genre became clogged with legions of similar-sounding bands, all trying to find just the right blend of low, heavy guitar riffs, rap-metal, industrial, and intense aggression. Often, those attempts could result in sounds that seemed too calculated and self-consciously cobbled together to feel natural; plus, inventive production was frequently employed to disguise many songs' lack of memorable hooks. The Sickness, the first entry by Chicago's Disturbed in the alt-metal sweepstakes, thankfully avoids those common pitfalls, turning in a mixture of raw, gut-level metal and industrial/electronic backing that feels logical and integrated. Although the music has its fair share of pummeling aggression and accompanying shouted vocals, Disturbed also isn't afraid to employ melody, and they're actually quite good at it when they choose that direction. Occasional forays into rap-metal aren't really the group's strong suit and can feel a bit awkward, although they do have a certain rhythmic acuity missing from some similar bands' attempts. But even if it has a few less-than-compelling moments, The Sickness overall comes off as the work of a band who really doesn't have far to go to achieve total control of its sound and compositional skills, and that makes it a terrific debut album.

Adema - Planets

Planets is Adema's third album, and the first to feature former lead singer Marky Chavez's replacement, Luke Caraciolli. The album was released by Earache Records on April 5, 2005. It obtained a peak position of 152 on the Billboard 200 before falling off. The album featured two singles: "Tornado" and the self-titled track, "Planets," the latter of which was featured in the movie Cry Wolf. This was the band's first and only album with Luke Carraciolli, who left the band on October 25, 2005, citing "personal differences."

Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony

Inquisition Symphony is Apocalyptica's second album, released in 1998. It has branched from their previous effort and only has 4 Metallica Covers; For Whom the Bell Tolls, Nothing Else Matters, Fade to Black, and One. Three more bands are covered on this album; Faith No More-From Out Of Nowhere; Pantera-Domination and Sepultura-Inquisition Symphony and Refuse/Resist and it also include three of their own compositions - Harmageddon, M.B. and Toreador.

Metal Church - A Light In The Dark

1. A Light In The Dark
2. Beyond All Reason
3. Mirror Of Lies
4. The Believer
5. Disappear
6. Son Of The Son
7. More Than Your Master
8. Pill For The Kill
9. Temples Of The Sea
10. Blinded By Life
11. Watch The Children Pray

Metallica - Fan Can 5(2006)

01 - metallica - hit the lights
02 - metallica - master of puppets
03 - metallica - harvester of sorrow
04 - metallica - welcome home (sanitarium)
05 - metallica - st anger
06 - metallica - leper messiah
07 - metallica - phantom lord
08 - metallica - fade to black
09 - metallica - blackened
10 - metallica - one
11 - metallica - breadfan
12 - metallica - damage inc

Sodom - M-16

Personnel: Tom Angelripper (vocals, bass); Bernemann (guitar); Bobby (drums). Additional personnel: Harris Johns (acoustic guitar). Recorded at Spiderhouse Studio, Lutte, Germany in July 2001.
This is by far Sodom's BEST CD. It's got a better sound i think. Its more slayer like and the lyrics are real cool. The whole war aspect is perfect for thrash metal. Buy it if your a metal head. Best Song: M-16

Poisonblack - Lust Stained Despair (2006)

Poisonblack are a Finnish metal band, that played gothic, emotional metal on their first album Escapexstacy. Now they play more rocking metal, still not forgetting the emotional touch from Escapexstacy. They were formed by Ville Laihiala, who was also the singer for the disbanded band Sentenced.

"Lust Stained Despair" is the sophomore effort from former Sentenced frontman Ville Laihiala and his project Poisonblack. Like Sentenced, Poisonblack traffic in moody, melodic, goth-tinged metal, and with Laihiala covering vocal, guitar, and songwriting duties the similarities are more than passing. Yet Laihiala has gathered a strong group of musicians for the album (Marco Sneck's keyboards are notable), and Laihiala's guitar playing delivers plenty of shred-heavy moments. While not an essential goth metal release, LUST STAINED DESPAIR is atmospheric, heavy, and well-crafted enough to be of interest to fans of both Sentenced and Poisonblack's first release.

Godflesh - Streetcleaner

Godflesh's first full album built on the strengths of their self-titled EP and then some, resulting in one of the darkest, best classics of grindcore (admittedly a label Broadrick himself always hated). Of course, in comparison to the nuclear-strength, hyperspeed thrash Broadrick initially found himself associated with thanks to Napalm Death, Streetcleaner and doesn't so much grind as crawl, but it does with an awesome, bass-heavy power that feels like doom piled on top of further doom. Assisted with further guitar at points by past bandmate Paul Neville, BroadrickGreen simply explode with utter virulence, musically and lyrically. The song titles again evoke images of mechanistic destruction and organic decay, while Broadrick's roared words, when audible, contain such user-unfriendly lines like "Breed...like rats!" and "Don't hold me back, this is my own hell!" And these from the first two songs alone, the latter of which, one of the band's best numbers, has the title "Christbait Rising." Compared to so many metal wimps who invoke Satan and death in the cheesiest of ways, though, Godflesh let their own brusque impact do the talking for them, and the result is suitably apocalyptic. Drum machines shatter, shudder, and downright assault, while the riffs the two (or three) cook up are bludgeoning, well worthy of Broadrick's partial inspirations the Swans, arguably the best comparable forebear if one is talking about albums like Cop or Young God. The secret to the success of the album is the arrangements -- the songs themselves are almost deceptively simple, but the band deliver everything with a pinpoint precision, bursting out of the speakers and suddenly cut off when needed. As an interesting bonus, the CD version contains four tracks originally recorded for an EP but never formally released as such, including the planned title song "Tiny Tears," and "Wound," later re-recorded and remixed for other releases.

Testament - Demonic

Demonic is a death metal album by Testament, released in 1997. It builds upon the death metal experimentation from Low and uses it more.

This is the first appearance of the demonic pentagram graphic since 1985.

Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence

Demolition Hammer were a thrash/death metal who have seemingly been forgotten amongst the metal community. After two demo tapes, they finally got picked up by band hailing from the Bronx New YorkCentury Media records after Robert Kampf (from Century Media) was in America for the Foundations Forum and came to watch both Demolition Hammer and Prime Evil rehearse. The original line-up consisted of Steve Reynolds, James Reilly, Derek Sykes and Vincent Civitano, more commonly known as Vinny Daze. The band's first two albums, 1990's Tortured Existence and 1992's Epidemic of Violence, illustrate the band's guitar riff-laden, full-fledged brutal thrash approach.

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath is the self-titled debut album of the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath released in the UK on Friday the 13th, February 1970. The record sleeve featured an inverted cross on the inside cover with an apocalyptic poem written inside. This was done without the band's input or permission, and likely helped foster their image as "agents of the Devil" in the eyes of the media (though the band's name certainly did not speak to a particularly Christian ideology in the first place).

Many critics consider this album, especially the title track, to be definitive of the entire genre of heavy metal; it was arguably the first album to be classified as true heavy metal. The influence of Led Zeppelin, especially the use of blues rhythm, on heavy metal is apparent on this album, as are that genre's themes related to the occult.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Cradle of Filth - Thornography (2006)

AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch

Flick of the Switch is an album by Australian band AC/DC, recorded shortly after their European Tour at the beginning in 1983. The album was originally released in the United States on August 15, 1983.

After problems with other members of the band, drummer Phil Rudd departed midway through the recording sessions, although he had completed his drum parts. He was eventually replaced by British drummer Simon Wright. Wright appeared in the videos for two of the singles on the album, "Flick Of The Switch" and "Nervous Shakedown". Rudd, however, eventually returned to the band in 1994.

Steve Vai - Discography

Demons & Wizards - Touched By The Crimson King

Touched by the Crimson King is the second album of power metal/ heavy metal band Demons & Wizards and was released in late June, 2005. The album also contains a remake of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song." For the North American release, all fourteen songs appeared on one disc, which had alternate cover art in the form of a sleeve around the jewel case.

Darkwell - Metatron

Darkwell is the name of a gothic metal band from Innsbruck, Austria. Formed in 1999 by bassist Roland Wurzer and guitarist Roman Wiencke.Metatron is an album by Darkwell, released in 2004.

HIM - Razorblade Romance Limited

Razorblade Romance is the second album by HIM
This is the album that made HIM huge in Europe when their single Join Me in Death was featured in the sci-fi movie The Thirteenth Floor. It reached #1 on German sales charts, going platinum, and is the biggest-selling single in Finnish music history.

Razorblade Romance was released shortly after in the U.S. under the moniker HER. Appearently, there was a jazz band in Chicago named HiM and they did not want to give up the rights to their name. Eventually, HIM bought the rights to use their name in the United States and now can release their albums under it. The American albums were released under Jimmy Franks Recording Company, run by Jimmy Pop, singer of the Pennsylvania band Bloodhound Gang. They released the HER 'Razorblade Romance' around the Boston area, and once HIM regained the rights to their name, they rereleased 'Razorblade Romance' nationwide under Universal Records.This limited edition comes with six live song of HIM.Right Here In My Arms (Live),Your Sweet 666 (Live),Poison Girl (Live),Death Is In Love With Us (Live),Wicked Game (Live),Join Me (Live).

Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget: The Best of is a best of compilation album by Marilyn Manson. A new song was recorded to promote the album, a cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus." The album was released at the end of September 2004. The inside booklet contains previous photo-shoots and several new pictures to hint at Manson's next era and musical/lyric direction. The Deluxe Edition (now Out Of Print) includes a DVD containing most of the band's music videos, excluding "(s)AINT", "Tainted Love" and "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes".

Manson has been quoted as having called Lest We Forget the band's "farewell album"; however, the singer has since called that claim inaccurate.

Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. Four singles were released off the album: "The Dope Show", "Rock Is Dead", "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" and, only released promotionally and with a video, "Coma White". It is Manson's worldwide best-seller and all-around most critically-acclaimed work. Despite its success, the album was marred by controversy and is notorious for its shocking imagery. Initial sales were extremely strong but it became virtually blacklisted when it became the scapegoat of the Columbine shootings of 1999, with unit sales halting very close behind the figure for its predeccessor, Antichrist Superstar.

Alice In Chains - Dirt

The band's breakthrough album, Dirt is widely regarded as Alice in Chains' best album, and

classic from the golden age of grunge. Recorded while lead singer Layne Staley was suffering through a heroin addiction, the album's gloomy, drug-addicted music helped turn it into a hit, reaching #6 on Billboard's 200 albums chart.

The songs "Sickman", "Junkhead", "Dirt," "God Smack," "Hate To Feel" and "Angry Chair" are based on Staley's experiences with heroin. The song "Rooster" is based on the experiences of Jerry Cantrell's father, who fought in the Vietnam war; the name was his nickname as a soldier.

"Iron Gland", the untitled track before "Hate To Feel", features vocals by Tom Araya of Slayer, who the band brought in so he could provide an Angel of Death scream.

Pendulum - Hold Your Colour

Hold Your Colour is a 2005 drum and bass album by Pendulum. The album drew very positive critical attention in both Great Britain and Australia.

Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder

Hatebreeder is the second album from the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom. In it, the band explores a far more classically influenced sound with a strong black metal vibe and atmosphere, predominately seen in the growling vocals and blast-beating drums. The 1999 release contains concert favorites such as "Silent Night, Bodom Night" and "Downfall". The keyboards show more presence on this album, with longer and more elaborate solos than in their previous work, Something Wild. The "Deluxe Edition" was released in 2005 with bonus material.

Children of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts

Tokyo Warhearts is a live album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom which was recorded on the year of 1999, when the band only had two albums released. Tokyo Warhearts shows how the band performs on stage: with speed, emotion and technical perfection. It was recorded and filmed on July 10 and 11th of 1999. The band and their record label, Spinefarm Records, had plans to release the show as a DVD along with the CD, but they reached the conclusion that there were some mismatches between the video and the audio, as there was video footage from two different shows.

Two of the songs from this album have been released separately for promotional purposes and can be found on a Spinefarm DVD compilation: Silent Night, Bodom Night and Deadnight Warrior.

The intro for track 9 is a strain of music called "Hummel Gets the Rockets" which was composed by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith for the 1996 film The Rock

Deathstars - Termination Bliss

Termination Bliss is the second album by the Swedish industrial metal band Deathstars

Fear Factory - The Best Of

The Best of Fear Factory is an album from Roadrunner Records, featuring a best of collection of Fear Factory's music with the label (As such, Archetype and Transgression material are not included). The record is being released without Fear Factory's involvement (they are currently signed to Liquid 8 Records), so it's unlikely that the album will be officially recognized by the band themselves. Songs from Concrete, as well as their various compilation, live, and remix albums, are not included.

The album was released on September 12, simultaneously with similarly unsanctioned best-of collections of the bands Sepultura, Type O Negative, and Ill Nino.

Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth

Accident of Birth is a heavy metal album released in 1997 by Bruce Dickinson.

The second album made in collaboration with the guitarist and producer Roy Z and is therefore a very different album from Bruce's previous Skunkworks album. It marks Bruce's return to his more melodic style of singing. He was also assisted by another former Iron Maiden member Adrian Smith and the two would later return to the band in early 1999. Thanks to the slightly better success of this album Bruce would work with Roy Z in the future on his solo-albums (including his latest, Tyranny of Souls).

The cover art was done by Derek Riggs, best known for being the creator of Iron Maiden's mascot Eddie and the artwork on all Iron Maiden albums 1980 - 1990 (and sporadically afterwards up until he completed his work towards 2000's Brave New World). Two versions of the albumcover exist. The regular European release had Edison (as the figure was jokingly named as "Eddie's Son") bursting out of a man's stomach. The regular cover only shows the stomach, but the poster that came with the limited edition of the album made it clear that the stomach belongs to man. This was deemed too explicit for the U.S. market, where the album was released with was a more frontal view of the puppet, which doesn't show the stomach. The 2005 re-release has an even different cover, with the puppet nailed to a cross.

Sabaton - Fist For Fight

Fist For Fight is the first album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. This was a self-produced demo album which was released under license by the Italian record label Underground Symphony.

Anaal Nathrakh - DOMINE NON ES DIGNUS!

Domine Non Es Dignus is the second studio album by British black metal group Anaal Nathrakh.

In this album they change their style from raw black metal to a more black and death metal-like sound. A loose translation for the latin title is "Lord, You Are Not Worthy".

• The title "Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light" comes from the Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
• Features sound samples from films such as Hellraiser and 1984.

DarkThrone - Under a Funeral Moon

Under a Funeral Moon is the third album by Norwegian black metal band, Darkthrone.
Darkthrone is a highly influential Norwegian black metal band formed in 1986. They began as a death metal outfit under the name of Black Death.

Nattefrost - Blood And Vomit

Ancient Devil Worshipping
Sluts Of Hell
Satanic Victory
Universal Funeral
The Art Of Spiritual Purification
Sanctum 666
Whore (Filthy Whore)
Mass-Destruction
Nattefrost Takes A Piss - (a recording of him actually takin a piss!)
The Gate Of Nanna
Still Reaching For Hell

Carpathian Forest - Strange Old Brew

Strange Old Brew is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Carpathian Forest.

Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990. Since the release of the band's now-legendary Bloodlust & Perversion demo in 1992 and the Journey through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern promo of 1993, Carpathian Forest have gained a cult status in the Norwegian black metal scene.

Carpathian Forest are unique among black metal bands in that their usual lyrical themes deal with not only satanism, evil, anti-christianity, etc. but sadism, sexual depravity, suicide, and other morbid subjects in addition to usual black metal themes.

Marillion - Anoraknophobia

Anoraknophobia is Marillion's 12th studio album, released in 2001. Following the success of their previous North American tour, underwritten by the band's fans themselves, Marillion turned to their fans to finance the making of Anoraknophobia, asking them to pre-order the album before it was even recorded. This was as unprecedented as it was successful, as more than 12,500 fans pre-ordered it. All who pre-ordered the album received a special double-CD version. Everyone who pre-ordered the album before a set date also got their names printed in the booklet of the 2-CD version.

Marillion - Clutching at Straws

Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album of the progressive rock band Marillion. It was released in 1987 and was the last album before the lead singer Fish left the band. Although commercially not quite as successful as its 1985 predecessor Misplaced Childhood, it is considered to be among the best work of Marillion's "Fish era" by many (including Fish himself, as he has stated in several interviews).

In 1999 a 2-CD 'Remastered Version' with additional B-sides and demos was released, with detailed liner notes from all of the original members including Fish.

System of a Down - System of a Down

System of a Down is the eponymous debut album by System of a Down, first released in 1998. The hand on the front belongs to the artwork of a poster designed by the artist John Heartfield for the German Communist Party during Third Reich. The text in the original poster is: "5 fingers has a hand! With these 5 grab the enemy!". This slogan inspired part of the text contained in the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create". Later, it is written in bold letters: "Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hands and make a fist". All the text in the album back is in capital letters, except the last two letters of the title "CUBErt" and the text of the "COLUMBIA american" logo.

Judas Priest - Stained Class

Considered by most fans to be one of the high points of Judas Priest's catalogue, Stained Class showcased a more streamlined songwriting style, while not compromising on the band's trademark heavy metal riffs.

An unfortunate legacy of Stained Class is the 1990 civil action brought against the band by the families of two teenagers who killed themselves after listening to "Better By You, Better Than Me." The suit alleged that the band recorded messages on the song that, when played backwards, said “do it, do it.” The suit was eventually dismissed. Ironically, "Better..."" is not even a Judas Priest original, but a cover of a 1969 track by Spooky Tooth (written by that band's keyboardist Gary Wright). The album was remastered in 2001, with two bonus tracks added. In 2004, UK magazine Metal Hammer named Stained Class the heaviest metal album of all time.

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

Vulgar Display of Power is a groove metal album by heavy metal band Pantera, released on February 25, 1992 (see 1992 in music). Perhaps one of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s, Vulgar Display of Power is said to have revitalized thrash metal, speeding up the riffs and rhythms and adding a harder-edged, grinding vocal flourish. Several songs from this release have become some of the band's best known, such as "Fucking Hostile", "This Love" and "Walk".

Vulgar Display of Power peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

In 2001 Q magazine named it as one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All-Time."

The Platinum Collection of Deep Purple

The Platinum Collection is a compilation album released by the British rock group Deep Purple. It features songs from their very first album Shades of Deep Purple up to their (at the time) most recent album Bananas.

Papa Roach - Infest

Infest is the debut major-label album by Californian rock group Papa Roach. It was released on April 25, 2000, and it became the 20th highest selling album of 2000 in the United States.

Papa Roach - LoveHateTragedy

lovehatetragedy is the second major-label album by Californian rock group Papa Roach. It was released on June 18, 2002, and ultimately didn't sell as well as its predecessor, "Infest". Notable was the exception of previous rapcore style-vocals, although the album still fits under the nu metal genre.

Deep Purple 28 albums

Deep Purple composed by are an English hard rock band. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of the heavy metal genre, although they have never seen themselves as a heavy metal band per se. The band got their name from a songPeter De Rose. To date the band has sold over 100 million albums.

The band Episode Six released several singles in the UK during the mid-sixties. It featured Ian Gillan on vocals, Graham Dimmock on guitar, Roger Glover on bass, Tony Lander on guitar, Sheila Carter on keyboards, and Harvey Shields on the drums. Despite extensive touring, they never had their big break..

In 1967, a band called The Flowerpot Men and their Garden was formed, formerly known as The Ivy League. It was concentrated on a trio of singers. The new name was clearly derived from the children's show The Flowerpot Men, with the obvious psychedelic-era puns on flower power and "pot". The band's most popular song was "Let's Go To San Francisco." Some listeners assumed that the song was a parody of Scott McKenzie's "If You're Going to San Francisco," but the band has denied this. It featured Tony Burrows, Neil Landon, Robin Shaw, and Pete Nelson on vocals, Ged Peck on guitar, Nick Simper on bass, Jon Lord on organ, and Carlo Little on drums. Jon Lord had formerly played in The Artwoods, Nick Simper had been with Screaming Lord Sutch's The Savages, where he also played with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.

Metallica - Black Album

Metallica was the band Metallica's fifth album, released August 13, 1991 through Elektra Records. It is also called The Black Album because of its largely black and featureless cover with only the band's logo and a barely visible, coiled snake derived from the Gadsden flag. The motto of the flag, Don't Tread on Me, was also a song title featured on the album. The album's cover and title were inspired by those of the self-titled album by The Beatles, named The White Album because of its stark white cover. The Black album became the highest selling Metallica album to date with 14 million copies sold in the US alone. In 2003, the album was ranked number 252 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Sodom - Sodom

Sodom is the self-titled album by German thrash metal band Sodom. Follow up to the 2001 release M-16 and it was released on 21 April 2006. The first pressing comes in a slipcase and includes a full-colour poster of the artwork. The album is self-titled as Angelripper explained, because every band needs a self-titled album.

The Rasmus - Dead Letters

Dead Letters (occasionally known as Feeling Guilty within the U.S.) is the 2003 album by Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus. It was released in 2004 in the US and Australia.

and It was released in Europe in early 2003 reaching the top of the album charts in Germany, AustriaSwitzerland as well as Finland. Its European success led to the release of the album in other parts of the world. Dead Letters and its first single "In the Shadows" both reached the Top 50 of the Australian ARIA charts in 2004. It has also reached the top 20 of the American Billboard Heatseeker charts. The Rasmus' 5th album also hung around in Finland's Top 20 Album charts for over a year.

Rammstein - Rosenrot

1. Benzin
2. Mann Gegen Mann
3. Rosenrot
4. Spring
5. Wo Bist Du
6. Stirb Nicht Vor Mir/Don't Die Before I Do (Ft Sharleen Spiteri)
7. Zerstoren
8. Hilf Mir
9. Te Quiero Puta
10. Feuer Und Wasser
11. Ein Lied