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Kid Modernist:
What's the Metallica album with Four Leaf Clover on it? That one song is worth any crap Metallica has done.

Storm Rider:
Symbolic and Sound of Preserverance are both pretty fucking great Death albums too.

Also:

Metallica: Ride the Lightning (their best IMO), Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?, Rust In Peace
Testament - The New Order, Practice What You Preach
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Heaven and Hell
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Dio - Holy Diver (I can't believe nobody mentioned it yet)
Iron Maiden - S/T, The Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere in Time
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy

I kind of want to say The Odyssey too, but it's only 2 years old.

KharBevNor:
The Chemical Wedding is fucking excellent, but essential? For old-school metal maybe.

And for an Iced Earth album, I would personally choose 'The Horror Show'.

Vlishgnath:
Carcass - Heartwork  (Yeah, yeah, save it.  I know someone is going to say everything after Symphonies is shit, but this CD was instrumental to my fledging guitar development.  I pay it highest honors)


Khar:  You'd go with Nightside over Anthems?  Same with Red in the Sky over Slaughter of the Soul?  Eh, oh well.  Thank god you put Storm of the Light's Bane on your list.  I would have lost all faith in you otherwise.

KharBevNor:
I wouldn't necessarily put Nightside over Anthems to The Welkin in quality,  but in influence? Fuck yes. Check most lists of influential black metal albums and it will be In The Nightside Eclipse and maybe the Emperor/Enslaved Split. It's one of the albums that pretty much set the pace for the whole second wave of black metal.

Also, I actually think Slaughter of the Soul is better than The Red in the Sky, but I decided to go for the earlier one because, again, influence. The Red in the Sky was about the time the whole Gothenburg scene was really kick-starting. I should have just gone with my instincts. I was trying to be all balanced and whatnot though.

And I agree on Heartwork. I'm not really into death metal to a great degree, so I always forget shit like that. A list of essential black metal or folk metal albums I could do you with my eyes closed.

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