This one is my favourite Overkill and I don't think they topped it despite having many more great albums.

Slayer - Show No Mercy

This is actually more common than you think as peoples' top Slayer pick.

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny. Usually people choose Painkiller, Screaming for Vengeance, British Steel or Stained Class over Sad Wings but for me it's their best album.

Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost. Very unpopular opinion, but I actually think Paradise Lost is Cirith Ungol's best album. The opening riff of Join the Legion is what heavy metal is about and after that the album is full of great songs.

Savatage - Edge of Thorns
I absolutely love the emotive guitar work on this record and this is probably my favourite Zak Stevens performance, period

I think this one might be slightly divisive among those who love the old stuff, but it's really a masterpiece and has just stunning show-stopper after show-stopper. Great all around. This was where they really balanced the riffs and the classier, more sophisticated stuff the best, with everything becoming a tour de force.

The Graveyard is weird because that's seriously in the running for my favorite King Diamond story. It's not perfect (the climax is some cornball shit) but I thought the atmosphere and imagery was really evocative and interesting, just a shame that it's kinda aimless musically.

Edge of Thorns was the easiest Savatage album for me to get into back in the day. Gutter Ballet was my first exposure to them but I find the awkward transitional moments make it tricky for a first time listener. EoT feels so much more realized in comparison and Stevens suits the symphonic style better than Jon for the most part

I think the "cheesiness" of some of the tracks ("Sleep Tight Little Baby", "Daddy", "Up From The Grave") is what is off putting to most...

Morbid Angel - Heretic.
The production is questionable, but in an odd way it gives the album this sort of psychedelic dream-like quality that I love.

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier - I am genuinely baffled this doesnt get the love it deserves. Its the most varied, well rounded of all post reunion Maiden, has shorter rockers, throwback to old Maiden, epics and more progressive songs. The chorus repetition of BNW DOD is gone and its a lot more varied than AMOLAD. I think the intro at the beginning threw people off initially

My opinion on The Final Frontier has changed a lot since release. I was quite disappointed initially, but I've grown to like it a fair bit over the years. I still think it could be better sequenced (all the 'epic' songs are in the latter half) though, and I'd lose a song or two (I'd cut the Satellite 15 intro, and maybe The Man Who Would Be King).

My opinion on The Final Frontier has changed a lot since release. I was quite disappointed initially, but I've grown to like it a fair bit over the years. I still think it could be better sequenced (all the 'epic' songs are in the latter half) though, and I'd lose a song or two (I'd cut the Satellite 15 intro, and maybe The Man Who Would Be King).

Isle of Avalon, Starblind and The Talisman are great.

Judas Priest - "Point Of Entry"
Like Turbo, there are some duds here, but the good stuff is phenomenal.

"Heading Out To the Highway", "Desert Plains", "Solar Winds", & "Hot Rockin'" are all stellar...classic Priest tracks.

Turbo is probably my favorite Priest album. Definitely not their best.

I actually like and listen to both Clayman and Colony more than Whoracle by a longshot...

Not that it's a bad album, per say. I just think it's inferior to the aforementioned ones.

Isle of Avalon, Starblind and The Talisman are great.

Sorry but I laughed out loud at that line. If it's your favorite, wouldn't you consider it their best??

I just really like "Imaginaerum" by Nightwish. I'm sorry, folks. The one part of the album I can't stand is the *7 minutes* of shitty spoken word poetry near the end... but other than that, I love it in all its over-the-top Disney rock glory. It doesn't beat "Oceanborn" for me but whatever.

Sodom - Tapping the Vein