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heavy metal

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Description

Heavy metal is a loud, aggressive rock genre characterized by distorted electric guitars, powerful drums, and intense vocals. Emerging in the late 1960s and 1970s, it often explores dark themes through dramatic musicianship and theatrical performance. The genre emphasizes technical skill, amplified sound, and rebellious energy.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
88		1970	Black Sabbath	Paranoid (2009 Remastered Version)	heavy metal	science fiction # 80
27		1970-02-13	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath
91		1970-09-18	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	heavy metal	hard rock # 34
44		1971-07-21	Black Sabbath	Master of Reality	heavy metal
32		1973-12-01	Black Sabbath	Sabbath Bloody Sabbath	heavy metal
73		1980-04-14	Iron Maiden	Iron Maiden	heavy metal	nwobhm # 95
77		1980-04-14	Judas Priest	British Steel	heavy metal
99		1980-06-21	Iron Maiden	Powerslave (2015 Remaster)	heavy metal
33		1980-09-18	Ozzy Osbourne	Blizzard of Ozz	heavy metal
23		1980-11-08	Motörhead	Ace of Spades
34		1980-11-21	Iron Maiden	The Book of Souls	heavy metal
46		1981-02-02	Iron Maiden	Killers	heavy metal	nwobhm # 83
5		1982	Manowar	Battle Hymns	heavy metal	true metal # 81
86		1982-04-26	Iron Maiden	The Number of the Beast	heavy metal	nwobhm # 94
50		1982-07-17	Judas Priest	Screaming for Vengeance	heavy metal	nwobhm # 25
11		1983	Mercyful Fate	Melissa	heavy metal	denmark # 1
43		1983	Accept	Balls to the Wall	heavy metal	german metal # 54
70		1983-05-16	Iron Maiden	Piece of Mind	heavy metal	nwobhm # 91
82		1983-05-25	Dio	Holy Diver	heavy metal
26		1984	W.A.S.P.	W.A.S.P.	heavy metal
3		1984-01-04	Judas Priest	Defenders of the Faith	heavy metal
49		1984-05-10	Twisted Sister	Stay Hungry		glam metal # 12 hair metal # 47
40		1984-07-27	Metallica	Ride the Lightning	thrash metal	thrash metal # 97
96		1984-09-03	Iron Maiden	Powerslave	heavy metal	nwobhm # 98
20		1986-02-22	Ozzy Osbourne	The Ultimate Sin	heavy metal
85		1986-06-29	Iron Maiden	Somewhere In Time	heavy metal	nwobhm # 88
14		1987	Savatage	Hall of the Mountain King	heavy metal
84		1987	King Diamond	Abigail	heavy metal
35		1987-02-17	Manowar	Fighting the World	heavy metal	true metal # 91
78		1988	Metallica	...and Justice for All	thrash metal	metal # 19 progressive thrash metal # 95 thrash metal # 100
94		1988-04-11	Iron Maiden	Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son	heavy metal	nwobhm # 75
29		1988-08-30	Danzig	Danzig
76		1988-11-18	Manowar	Kings of Metal	heavy metal	power metal # 32 true metal # 94
7		1990	Pantera	Cowboys From Hell	groove metal thrash metal	metal # 13 thrash metal # 96 groove metal # 100
42		1990-06-26	Danzig	Danzig II-Lucifuge	heavy metal hard rock
97		1990-09-03	Judas Priest	Painkiller	heavy metal	nwobhm # 60 speed metal # 98
63		1990-10-01	Iron Maiden	No Prayer For The Dying	heavy metal	nwobhm # 74
8		1990-11-06	Scorpions	Crazy World		hard rock # 32
98		1991-08-12	Metallica	Metallica		thrash metal # 26 metal # 77
15		1991-09-26	Ozzy Osbourne	No More Tears	heavy metal
92		1992-05-11	Iron Maiden	Fear of the Dark	heavy metal	nwobhm # 86
79		1992-07-06	Megadeth	Countdown To Extinction	thrash metal heavy metal	thrash metal # 92
16		1992-09-22	Manowar	The Triumph of Steel	heavy metal	true metal # 59
67		1993	Ozzy Osbourne	No More Tears (Expanded Edition)	heavy metal
2		1993-02-08	Metallica	The Black Album	heavy metal
12		1994-10-24	Megadeth	Youthanasia		thrash metal # 3
56		1995-03-30	Megadeth	Hidden Treasures	thrash metal heavy metal	thrash metal # 74
36		1995-10-02	Iron Maiden	The X Factor	heavy metal
45		1996-01-01	Manowar	Louder Than Hell	heavy metal	true metal # 78
62		1996-05-04	Metallica	Load		hard rock # 67
41		1996-09-23	Iron Maiden	Best of the Beast	heavy metal metal	metal # 26 nwobhm # 89
39		1997	Pantera	Official Live : 101 Proof	thrash metal heavy metal	groove metal # 50 thrash metal # 68
22		1997-10-16	Judas Priest	Stained Glass	heavy metal
4		1997-11-06	Ozzy Osbourne	The OZZman Cometh	heavy metal metal	metal # 37
30		1997-11-15	Metallica	Reload		hard rock # 68
21		1998-03-18	Iron Maiden	Virtual XI	heavy metal
59		1998-11-24	Metallica	Garage, Inc.		thrash metal # 83
93		2000-05-30	Iron Maiden	Brave New World	heavy metal	nwobhm # 87
65		2001-10-06	Ozzy Osbourne	Down To Earth	heavy metal
60		2002-05-27	Manowar	Warriors of the World	heavy metal power metal	power metal # 27 true metal # 67 epic metal # 84
51		2002-10-23	HammerFall	Crimson Thunder	power metal heavy metal	power metal # 95
28		2003-02-11	Ozzy Osbourne	The Essential Ozzy Osbourne	heavy metal
25		2003-03-29	Black Label Society	The Blessed Hellride	heavy metal	southern metal # 97
95		2003-06-23	Metallica	St. Anger	heavy metal thrash metal	metal # 51 thrash metal # 81
90		2003-09-03	Iron Maiden	Dance Of Death	heavy metal
72		2004-09-13	Megadeth	The System Has Failed	thrash metal heavy metal	speed metal # 19 thrash metal # 87
64		2005-02-23	Judas Priest	Angel Of Retribution	heavy metal
24		2005-03-08	Black Label Society	Mafia	heavy metal	southern metal # 50
57		2005-06-06	Avenged Sevenfold	City of Evil		hard rock # 29
75		2006-08-28	Iron Maiden	A Matter of Life and Death	heavy metal progressive metal	progressive metal # 6 nwobhm # 33
9		2007-05-09	Megadeth	United Abominations	thrash metal heavy metal	thrash metal # 82
89		2007-10-26	Avenged Sevenfold	Avenged Sevenfold		hard rock # 92
1		2008	Black Tide	2008 - Light From Above	heavy metal
38		2008	Avenged Sevenfold	2008 - Diamonds In The Rough	heavy metal
81		2008-08-20	Slipknot	All Hope Is Gone	alternative metal metal nu metal	groove metal # 6 nu metal # 76 alternative metal # 91 metal # 97
87		2008-08-22	Slipknot	All Hope Is Gone (10th Anniversary)	alternative metal heavy metal nu metal	nu metal # 49 alternative metal # 71
6		2008-08-28	Volbeat	Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood	heavy metal	rockabilly # 28
47		2008-09-06	Metallica	Death Magnetic		thrash metal # 79
71		2010-04-21	Bullet for My Valentine	Fever	metalcore	pop metal # 53 melodic metalcore # 75 metalcore # 95
58		2010-07-23	Avenged Sevenfold	Nightmare		hard rock # 77
61		2010-08-13	Iron Maiden	The Final Frontier	heavy metal	nwobhm # 54
19		2010-09-07	Volbeat	Beyond Hell / Above Heaven	heavy metal	rockabilly # 41
10		2010-10-18	Ghost	Opus Eponymous
48		2011-08-02	Five Finger Death Punch	Under And Over It	heavy metal metal	metal # 59
37		2013-04-05	Volbeat	Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies	heavy metal	rockabilly # 1
80		2013-07-16	Avenged Sevenfold	Hail To The King	heavy metal
52		2014-10-15	Slipknot	.5: The Gray Chapter (Special Edition)	alternative metal nu metal	nu metal # 80 alternative metal # 87
69		2015	Black Sabbath	Master of Reality (2014 Remaster)	heavy metal	traditional doom metal # 100
66		2015-08-21	Disturbed	Immortalized	heavy metal
53		2015-09-04	Five Finger Death Punch	Got Your Six	heavy metal alternative metal
18		2017-11	W.A.S.P.	Last Command	heavy metal
83		2018-01-26	Machine Head	Circle the Drain	groove metal heavy metal metal	metal # 85 groove metal # 92
74		2018-12-26	Iron Maiden	Piece of Mind (2015 Remaster)	heavy metal nwobhm	nwobhm # 100
54		2019-08-07	Iron Maiden	Fear Of The Dark (2015 Remaster)	heavy metal
13		2019-10-10	Sam Hunt	Kinfolks	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 2 pagan metal # 2 power electronics # 3 drone metal # 3 technical death metal # 6 progressive metal # 16 nu metal # 27 thrash metal # 28 metal # 42 melodic death metal # 42 black metal # 50 death metal # 67 groove metal # 72 gothic metal # 72 plugg # 75 deathcore # 78 nsbm # 79 doom metal # 80 brutal death metal # 87 post-metal # 87 goregrind # 88 phonk # 89 post-grunge # 90 rac # 90 old school death metal # 92 symphonic black metal # 92 atmospheric black metal # 93 blackened death metal # 94 gorenoise # 94 viking metal # 94 nightcore # 95 grindcore # 95 brutal deathcore # 96 true norwegian black metal # 96 harsh noise # 96 war metal # 96 deathgrind # 96 nwobhm # 97 raw black metal # 97 yacht rock # 97 harsh noise wall # 97 depressive black metal # 97 skinhead # 97 cybergrind # 98 powerviolence # 98 hatecore # 98 blackened crust # 98 melodic black metal # 98 avant-garde metal # 98 pagan black metal # 98 porngrind # 99 russian black metal # 99 funeral doom metal # 99 suicidal black metal # 99 finnish black metal # 99 slamming brutal death metal # 99 norwegian black metal # 99 black death metal # 99 depressive suicidal black metal # 99 death doom metal # 99 usbm # 99 death n roll # 99 nerdcore # 99
68		2022-03-11	Ghost	Impera	hard rock heavy metal	glam metal # 57 hard rock # 82 arena rock # 86
55		2023-03-10	Sam Hunt	Outskirts	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore country pop cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore neoclassical darkwave nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 1 pagan metal # 1 drone metal # 2 power electronics # 2 technical death metal # 3 metalcore # 20 progressive metal # 42 nu metal # 46 thrash metal # 55 metal # 61 melodic death metal # 66 black metal # 72 nsbm # 80 plugg # 81 death metal # 83 groove metal # 83 deathcore # 85 goregrind # 89 country pop # 89 brutal death metal # 90 gothic metal # 90 rac # 92 doom metal # 92 post-metal # 93 old school death metal # 94 phonk # 94 symphonic black metal # 95 gorenoise # 95 nightcore # 96 post-grunge # 96 brutal deathcore # 97 grindcore # 97 deathgrind # 97 harsh noise # 97 true norwegian black metal # 97 viking metal # 98 yacht rock # 98 skinhead # 98 raw black metal # 98 war metal # 98 harsh noise wall # 98 blackened death metal # 98 nwobhm # 99 cybergrind # 99 pagan black metal # 99 hatecore # 99 powerviolence # 100 melodic black metal # 100 norwegian black metal # 100 funeral doom metal # 100 finnish black metal # 100 slamming brutal death metal # 100 depressive black metal # 100 death n roll # 100 russian black metal # 100 black death metal # 100 atmospheric black metal # 100 blackened crust # 100 depressive suicidal black metal # 100 death doom metal # 100 usbm # 100 avant-garde metal # 100 neoclassical darkwave # 100 porngrind # 100 nerdcore # 100 suicidal black metal # 100
17			Ozzy Osbourne	Down to Earth	heavy metal	pop metal # 35
100			Iron Maiden	The Number of the Beast (2015 remaster)	heavy metal metal	metal # 100
31			Danzig	Danzig II Lucifuge	heavy metal hard rock
			Metallica	Garage	hard rock heavy metal

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• metal
• hard rock
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