Summarizing heavy metal history with 50 of its greatest albums is, needless to say, a daunting task. After all, if you view Black Sabbath's arrival in 1970 as the metal genre's year zero, simple ...

So without further ado, don your spiked gauntlets and raise your horns so we can present you with the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Avenged Sevenfold, ‘City of Evil’ (2005) ...

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Electric Wizard, Time to Die If you're addicted to the darker side of metal's lyrical content, like the occult, H.P. Lovecraft, horror, then Electric Wizard is for you.

In some ways, this album is a passing of the torch. Judas Priest reached a certain creative peak in the late '70s then moving onto global success, leaving those couple hundred young British bands to ...

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