So here's the final list; checked and double checked.

46 individuals voted and no votes were discarded, hence some of the 'strange' album choices present. In most cases however, they were isolated votes and so didn't figure in the final list.

FORMAT

Rank / Points and allocation / Album / Artist

1) 510 - (4-2-2-7-1-1-1-2-0-2-1-0-0-0-0) "Powerslave" - Iron Maiden
2) 416 - (1-2-2-3-2-2-3-0-4-0-1-0-1-2-1) "Melissa" - Mercyful Fate
3) 405 - (5-4-0-0-2-1-2-0-0-1-1-1-1-0-1) "Sad Wings of Destiny" - Judas Priest
4) 367 - (0-2-2-1-2-5-2-2-1-1-0-1-2-0-0) "Holy Diver" - Dio
5) 356 - (1-2-2-2-3-2-0-1-1-3-1-0-1-0-0) "Painkiller"- Judas Priest
6) 326 - (2-3-4-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-1-1-1-0) "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" - Iron Maiden
7) 314 - (2-2-4-1-0-0-2-1-1-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Stained Class" - Judas Priest
8) 314 - (2-2-1-1-3-1-1-0-2-1-0-1-1-0-0) "Don't Break the Oath" - Mercyful Fate
9) 253 - (1-0-2-1-1-3-1-1-1-1-1-0-0-1-1) "Heaven and Hell" - Black Sabbath

10) 240 - (1-1-2-1-1-1-1-2-0-0-1-0-1-1-0) "Master of Reality" - Black Sabbath
11) 228 - (4-0-0-0-1-1-1-1-2-0-0-1-0-0-0) "Paranoid" - Black Sabbath
12) 205 - (0-0-1-2-1-2-0-4-0-0-1-0-0-2-0) "Lightning to the Nations" - Diamond Head
13) 199 - (1-1-4-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0) "Iron Maiden" - Iron Maiden
14) 197 - (0-1-0-2-0-0-3-1-1-1-1-0-1-2-2) "Abigail" - King Diamond
15) 181 - (0-3-0-0-1-2-1-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1) "Overkill" - Motorhead
16) 162 - (1-0-1-0-2-1-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-1-0) "Crystal Logic" - Manilla Road
17) 154 - (1-3-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0) "Black Sabbath" - Black Sabbath
18) 153 - (0-2-0-1-0-1-2-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1) "Court In The Act" - Satan
19) 152 - (0-2-1-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1) "Piece of Mind" - Iron Maiden

20) 151 - (0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-3-3-1-1-1-0-0) "Ace Of Spades" - Motorhead
21) 150 - (0-0-2-1-1-1-0-0-1-0-1-2-0-0-0) "Screaming for Vengeance" - Judas Priest
23) 143 - (3-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-1) "Killers" - Iron Maiden
24) 137 - (1-0-0-0-0-3-0-1-0-2-0-0-1-0-2) "Ample Destruction" - Jag Panzer
23) 134 - (1-0-0-0-3-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-2-0) "Rising" - Rainbow
25) 124 - (1-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-2-3-0-0-1-1) "Angel Witch" - Angel Witch
26) 114 - (1-0-0-0-0-1-2-1-1-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Kings of Metal" - Manowar
27) 106 - (0-2-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Sin After Sin" - Judas Priest
28) 98 - (0-1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" - Black Sabbath
29) 94 - (2-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0) "The Spectre Within" - Fates Warning

30) 86 - (1-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-0-0) "Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden
31) 84 - (0-0-0-1-1-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-1-1-0) "Sabotage" - Black Sabbath
32) 83 - (0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Walls of Jericho" - Helloween
33) 82 - (1-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Orgasmatron" - Motorhead
34) 77 - (0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1) "Down Among the Deadmen" - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
35) 75 - (0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-0-2-0-0-1-0-0) "Black Metal" - Venom
36) 72 - (1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-2-1-0-0-0) "Operation: Mindcrime" - Queensryche
37) 72 - (0-0-1-0-0-0-2-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Awaken the Guardian" - Fates Warning
38) 65 - (1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0) "The Crimson Idol" - W.A.S.P.
39) 65 - (0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0) "Gates to Purgatory" - Running Wild

40) 64 - (1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Death or Glory" - Running Wild
41) 64 - (1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Defenders of the Faith" - Judas Priest
42) 64 - (0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-1-0-1-0-0) "Machine Head" - Deep Purple
43) 63 - (0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-2-0-0) "Hail To England" - Manowar
44) 58 - (0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0) "Volume 1" - Pagan Altar
45) 55 - (0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0) "Battle Hymns" - Manowar
46) 49 - (0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Unleashed In Ihe East" - Judas Priest
47) 49 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-0-0-1-1) "Under Jolly Roger" - Running Wild
48) 48 - (0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Balls to the Wall" - Accept
49) 48 - (0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1) "Blizzard of Ozz" - Ozzy Osbourne
50) 48 - (0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-1-0) "Them" - King Diamond

51) 46 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-2-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Into Glory Ride" - Manowar
52) 45 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-2-0-1-0-0-1) "Restless and Wild" - Accept
53) 43 - (0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Sign of the Hammer" - Manowar
54) 43 - (0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Nosferatu" - Helstar
55) 42 - (0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Metal Church" - Metal Church
56) 42 - (0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Thunder and Lightning" - Thin Lizzy
57) 41 - (1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0) "Fire Down Under" - Riot
58) 41 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-0) "Strong Arm of The Law" - Saxon
59) 38 - (0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0) "A Matter Of Life And Death" - Iron Maiden

60) 36 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-1-0-0-0) "A Time of Changes" - Blitzkrieg
61) 34 - (0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0) "Chemical Wedding" - Bruce Dickinson
62) 34 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-0-0) "Cloven Hoof" - Cloven Hoof
63) 33 - (0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0) "King of the Dead" - Cirith Ungol
64) 33 - (0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0) "Irae Melanox" - Adramelch
65) 32 - (0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0) "Black Death" - Brocas Helm
66) 32 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0) "Battle Cry" - Omen
67) 32 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1) "Traveller" - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
68) 30 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-1-0-1) "The Last In Line" - Dio
69) 29 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-1-0) "Death Penalty" - Witchfinder General

70) 28 - (0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1) "Free The Beast" - Slauter Xstroyes
71) 28 - (0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0) "Symbol of Salvation" - Armored Saint
72) 28 - (0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2) "W.A.S.P." - W.A.S.P.
73) 28 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0) "From the Fjords" - Legend
74) 27 - (0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Hall of the Mountain King" - Savatage
75) 27 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1) "Welcome To Hell" - Venom
76) 27 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-0) "Taken By Force" - Scorpions
77) 26 - (0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Spiral Castle" - Manilla Road
78) 25 - (0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1) "Inferno" - Motorhead
79) 25 - (0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Thundersteel" - Riot

80) 24 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0) "British Steel" - Judas Priest
81) 23 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0) "Diary of a Madman" - Ozzy Osbourne
82) 22 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0) "Long Live Rock n Roll" - Rainbow
83) 21 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0-0) "All For One" - Raven
84) 21 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0) "Remnants of War" - Helstar
85) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Transcendence" - Crimson Glory
86) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Dehumanizer" - Black Sabbath
87) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Balls to Picasso" - Bruce Dickinson
88) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0-0-0) "The Warning" - Queensryche
89) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0-0) "Mystification" - Manilla Road

90) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-2) "The Black Flame" - Wolf
91) 19 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-0-0) "Into Battle" - Brocas Helm
92) 19 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1-0-0-0-0) "2112" - Rush
93) 19 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-2) "1916" - Motorhead
94) 18 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-1-0) "In Rock" - Deep Purple
95) 18 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-0) "Wolf" - Wolf
96) 17 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1) "Voyager" - Manilla Road
97) 15 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-1-0) "Winter Kill" - Slauter Xstroyes
98) 14 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-1) "Acid" - Acid
99) 14 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0) "Jailbreak" - Thin Lizzy
100) 12 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1) "Excalibur" - Grave Digger
101) 11 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-1) "The Triumph of Steel" - Manowar
102) 10 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2) "Keeper of the Seven Keys pt.2" - Helloween

Single vote albums:

The Deluge - Manilla Road
Blaze of Obscurity - Pariah
Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
On Stage - Rainbow
The Dungeons Are Calling - Savatage
Morbid Tales - Celtic Frost
Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 - Helloween
Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
By Inheritance - Artillery
1487 - Witchhammer
Danzig II: Lucifuge - Danzig
The Last Day - Messiah Force
Inri - Sarcofago
Accident of Birth - Bruce Dickinson
Thunder in the East - Loudness
Lords of Hypocrisy - Pagan Altar
Walpurgis Night - Stormwitch
Renegade - Thin Lizzy
Black Hand Inn - Running Wild
Severed Survival - Autopsy
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth
Rage for Order - Queensryche
Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer
Frost and Fire - Cirith Ungol
Chasing The Storm - Trojan
Food of the Gods - Fireaxe
Into Darkness - Winter
Denim and Leather - Saxon
The X Factor - Iron Maiden
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down At Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Wolfsbane
Battalions of Fear - Blind Guardian
Horrified - Repulsion
Filth Hounds of Hades - Tank
Virgin Killer - Scorpions
Made In Japan - Deep Purple
Mythical & Magical - Pagan Altar
Indestroy - Indestroy
Heavy Metal Maniac - Exciter
Drawing Down The Moon - Beherit
Youthanasia - Megadeth
The Rules Have Been Disturbed - Mysto Dysto
The Eye - King Diamond
The Inner Sanctum - Saxon
For God Your Soul For Me Your Flesh - Pungent Stench
Heart of a Killer - Winters Bane
Fireball - Deep Purple
Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
No Smoke Without Fire - Anthem
Métamorphose - Sortilège
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith - Motorhead
Sirens - Savatage
The Courts Of Chaos - Manilla Road
Worship New Gods - Coven
Welcome To Sky Valley - Kyuss
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Taste It - Unrest
Rocka Rolla - Judas Priest
Tunes of War - Grave Digger
Seven Churches - Possessed
Maniac - Acid
Advance and Vanquish - 3 Inches of Blood
Night of the Stormrider - Iced Earth
The Wake of Magellan - Savatage
High N' Dry - Def Leppard
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow
From Over Yonder - Zed Yago
Symphonies Of Sickness - Carcass
Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
Port Royal - Running Wild
Defying the Rules - Hibria
Satori - Flower Travellin' Band
Wheels of Steel - Saxon
Black Mass - Death SS
Wiped Out Raven -
Edge of Thorns - Savatage
Skunkworks - Bruce Dickinson
Gates of Fire - Manilla Road
Unstoppable Force - Agent Steel
Rheingold - Grave Digger
Hypertrace - Scanner
Garden of Chaos - Rob Rock
Ruler Of The Wasteland - Chastain
Art in Motion - Secrecy
The Grave Digger - Grave Digger
Born too Late - St. Vitus
Hanging in the Balance - Metal Church
Metal Heart - Accept
Burning Star - Helstar
Wild Cat - Tygers of Pan Tang
Youthanasia - Megadeth
Envoy of Death - Sarcofagus
...And Justice For All - Metallica
Screams In The Night - Hellion
Stand up and Fight - Quartz
Eternal Devotion to the Dark Goddess - Fireaxe
Power Games - Jaguar
Fly By Night - Rush
Johnny the Fox - Thin Lizzy
Raising Fear - Armored Saint
Spell of Iron - Tarot
One Foot in Hell - Cirith Ungol
Metalizer - Devil Lee Rot
New Dark Age - Solstice
Power of the Hunter - Tank
Fire Up the Blades - 3 Inches of Blood
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Decibel Storm - Oz
Iron Will - Grand Magus
Breathe Deep the Dark - Destiny's End
Heavy Metal Breakdown - Grave Digger
Hell Awaits - Slayer
The Curse of Crystal Viper - Crystal Viper
See You In Hell - Grim Reaper
Power Metal - Pantera
Temptation - Explode
Heavy Metal Thunder - Sex Machineguns
Pleasure To Kill - Kreator
Triumph And Agony - Warlock
Desolation Angels - Desolation Angels
The Carnival Bizarre - Cathedral
Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
Execution - ADX
Resurrection - Halford
Godiva - Godiva
Burning The Witches - Warlock
Love it to Death - Alice Cooper
The Natives are Restless - Hawaii
Liege Lord - Liege Lord

Individual voter lists:

Gothus

1. Judas Priest- Stained Class
2. Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3. Dio- Holy Diver
4. Iron Maiden- Powerslave
5. Motorhead- Orgasmatron
6 Venom- Black Metal
7. Mercyful Fate- Melissa
8. Manowar- Sign of the Hammer
9. Manilla Road- Voyager
10. King Diamond- Abigail
11. Judas Priest- Screaming for Vengeance
12. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
13. Tarot- Spell of Iron
14. The Lord Weird Slough Feg- The Lord Weird Slough Feg
15. Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell

Empyreal

1. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
2. Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
3. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
4. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
5. Manilla Road - Spiral Castle
6. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
7. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
8. Crimson Glory - Transcendence
9. Helstar - Remnants of War
10. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
11. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
12. Savatage - Edge of Thorns
13. Slough Feg - Traveller
14. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
15. Motorhead - 1916

HeavyMetalSteve

1 Angel Witch - Angel Witch
2 Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
3 Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
4 Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
5 Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire
6 Dio - Holy Diver
7 Judas Priest - Stained Class
8 Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9 Iron Maiden - Killers
10 Motorhead - Ace of Spades
11 Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
12 Manilla Road - Gates of Fire
13 Devil Lee Rot - Metalizer
14 Oz - Decibel Storm
15 Acid - Acid

Pharun

1. pariah- Blaze of Obscurity
2. satan- Court in the act
3. Mercyful Fate- Mellisa
4. Iron Maiden- Powerslave
5. Judas Priest- Unleashed in the east
6. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
7. Black Sabbath- Masters of Reality
8. Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil
9. Manowar- Kings of Metal
10. Saxon- Strong Arm of The Law
11.Judas Priest - Painkiller
12.Agent Steel- Unstoppable force
13. Jag Panzer- Ample destruction
14. Crimson Glory- Transcendence
15. King Diamond- Abigal

invoked

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
4. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
6. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
7. Judas Priest - Stained Class
8. Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
9. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
10. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
11. Helstar - Remnants of War
12. St. Vitus - Born too Late
13. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
14. King Diamond - Abigail
15. Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre

jamroth

1. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
2. Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
3. Pagan Altar - Volume 1
4. King Diamond - Abigail
5. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
6. Motörhead - Overkill
7. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
8. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
9. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
10. Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
11. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
12. Motörhead - Ace of Spades
13. Solstice - New Dark Age
14. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
15. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen

warzarmz

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2. King Diamond - Abigail
3. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
4. King Diamond - Them
5. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8. Black sabbath - Master or Reality
9. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
10. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
11. Saxon - Wheels of Steel
12. Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
13. Armored Saint - Raising Fear
14. Manilla Road - Spiral Castle
15. Manilla Road - Voyager

BardInTheForest

1. Judas Priest-Defenders of the Faith
2. Motorhead-Overkill
3. Iron Maiden-Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
4. Running Wild-Black Hand Inn
5. Dio-Holy Diver
6. Judas Priest-Painkiller
7. Mercyful Fate-Don't Break the Oath
8. Anthem-No Smoke Without Fire
9. Running Wild-Death or Glory
10. Venom-Black Metal
11. Angel Witch-Angel Witch
12. Accept-Metal Heart
13. Grave Digger-Excalibur
14. Manowar-The Triumph of Steel
15. King Diamond-Abigail

Nolan_B

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
2. Motorhead - Overkill
3. Deep Purple - Machine Head
4. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
5. Rainbow - Rising
6. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
7. Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
8. Deep Purple - Fireball
9. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
10. Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
11. Rush - 2112
12. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
13. Rush - Fly By Night
14. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
15. Iron Maiden - Killers

truemunchies

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
4. Judas Priest - Stained Class
5. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
6. Riot - Thundersteel
7. Metal Church - Metal Church
8. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
9. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
10. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
11. Motorhead - 1916
12. Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
13. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
14. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
15. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Unholy_Asar

1. Iron Maiden – Powerslave
2. Judas Priest – Sad Wings Of Destiny
3. Manowar – Battle Hymns
4. Mercyful Fate – Melissa
5. Manilla Road – Crystal Logic
6. Iron Maiden – Killers
7. Motörhead – Overkill
8. Judas Priest – Stained Class
9. King Diamond – Abigail
10. Motörhead – Ace Of Spades
11. Satan – Court In The Act
12. Manowar – Hail To England
13. King Diamond – Them
14. Running Wild – Under Jolly Roger
15. Venom – Welcome To Hell

BaronBlitzkreig

1. Judas Priest - Stained Class
2. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
5. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
6. Scorpions - Virgin Killer
7. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
8. Dio - Holy Diver
9. Deep Purple - In Rock
10. Accept - Restless and Wild
11. Iron Maiden - Killers
12. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
13. Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
14. King Diamond - Abigail
15. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

intothesarlaccpit

1. Iron Maiden -Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
3. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5. Dio - Holy Diver
6. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
7. Motorhead - Overkill
8. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
9. Accept - Balls to the Wall
10. Grave Digger - Tunes of War
11. Hibria - Defying the Rules
12. Grave Digger - The Grave Digger
13. Manowar - Hail to England
14. Manowar - Kings of Metal
15. Wolf - The Black Flame

strongbad

1. Motorhead - Orgasmatron
2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
4. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
5. Rainbow - Rising
6. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
8. Manowar - Kings of Metal
9. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
10. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
11. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
12. Dio - Holy Diver
13. Venom - Black Metal
14. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
15. Motorhead - 1916

greysnow

01. Rainbow - On Stage
02. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
03. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
04. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
05. Rainbow - Rising
06. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
07. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
08. Sortilège - Métamorphose
09. Manilla Road - The Courts Of Chaos
10. Manilla Road - Mystification
11. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
12. Dio - The Last In Line
13. Judas Priest - Painkiller
14. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
15. Accept - Restless And Wild

Chaosmonger

1. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
2. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
3. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
4. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
5. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
6. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
7. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
8. Blitzkrieg - A Time of Changes
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
11. Pagan Altar - Volume One
12. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
13. Judas Priest - Stained Class
14. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
15. Satan - Court in the Act

RageW

1) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2) Judas Priest - Painkiller
3) Judas Priest - Stained Class
4) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5) Black Sabbath - Sabotage
6) Mercyful Fate - Melissa
7) King Diamond - Abigail
8) Dio - Holy Diver
9) Deep Purple - Machine Head
10) Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
11) Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
12) Metal Church - Hanging in the Balance
13) Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
14) W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
15) Dio - The Last in Line

Thrashedtofuck

1. Iron Maiden - Killers
2. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
3. Iron Maiden - S/T
4. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
5. Trojan - Chasing The Storm
6. TANK - Filth Hounds of Hades
7. Judas Priest - British Steel
8. Manowar - Hail to England
9. Motorhead - Orgasmatron
10. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
11. RIOT - Fire Down Under
12. Rainbow - Long Live Rock n Roll
13. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
14. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
15. ADX - Execution

Shadoeking
1. Black Sabbath: Paranoid
2. Iron Maiden: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
3. Judas Priest: Painkiller
4. Black Sabbath: Master of Reality
5. Ozzy Osbourne: Blizzard of Ozz
6. Iron Maiden: Powerslave
7. King Diamond: Abigail
8. Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman
9. Dio: Holy Diver
10. Venom: Black Metal
11. Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith
12. Queensryche: The Warning
13. Cirith Ungol: One Foot in Hell
14. Grand Magus: Iron Will
15. Halford: Resurrection

mike40k

1. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
2. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
3. Metal Church - Metal Church
4. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
5. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
6. Manowar - Kings of Metal
7. Venom - Welcome to Hell
8. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10. Accept - Restless and Wild
11. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
12. Judas Priest - British Steel
13. Dio - The Last in Line
14. Manilla Road- Crystal Logic
15. Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger

The_Boss

1. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
2. Dio - Holy Diver
3. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
4. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6. Judas Priest - Painkiller
7. Manowar - Kings of Metal
8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
9. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
10. Dio - The Last in Line
11. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
12. Rob Rock - Garden of Chaos
13. Manowar - Hail to England
14. King Diamond - Them
15. Godiva - Godiva

Nahsil

1. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
2. Helstar - Nosferatu
3. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
4. Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer
5. Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
6. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
7. Omen - Battle Cry
8. Rainbow - Rising
9. Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
10. Judas Priest - Painkiller
11. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
12. Slough Feg - Traveller
13. Dio - Holy Diver
14. Destiny's End - Breathe Deep the Dark
15. Grave Digger - Excalibur

LVB

1. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
2. Judas Priest - Stained Class
3. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
4. Iron Maiden - Killers
5. Fireaxe - Food of the Gods
6. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
7. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
8. Helstar - Nosferatu
9. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
10. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
11. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
12. Scanner - Hypertrace
13. Fireaxe - Eternal Devotion to the Dark Goddess
14. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
15. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys pt.2

Catachthonian

1. W.A.S.P. - "The Crimson Idol"
2. Dio - "Holy Diver"
3. Helloween - "Walls Of Jericho"
4. Satan (UK) - "Court In The Act"
5. Running Wild - "Gates To Purgatory"
6. Jag Panzer - "Ample Destruction"
7. Mysto Dysto - "The Rules Have Been Disturbed"
8. Diamond Head - "Lightning To The Nations"
9. Legend (US) - "From The Fjords"
10. Unrest (Ger) - "Taste It"
11. Angel Witch - "Angel Witch"
12. Chastain - "Ruler Of The Wasteland"
13. Jaguar (UK) - "Power Games"
14. Grave Digger - "Heavy Metal Breakdown"
15. Warlock - "Triumph And Agony"

MegaHassan

1. Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
2. Powerslave - Iron Maiden
3. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
4. Painkiller - Judas Priest
5. Symbol of Salvation - Armored Saint
6. Ample Destruction - Jag Panzer
7. Youthanasia - Megadeth (It's a pure heavy metal album so yeah)
8. Heart of a Killer - Winters Bane
9. Battle Hymns - Manowar
10. Under Jolly Roger - Running Wild
11. Port Royal - Running Wild
12. Into Glory Ride - Manowar
13. Strong Arm of the Law - Saxon
14. Winter Kill - Slauter Xstroyes
15. Free The Beast - Slauter Xstroyes

hellhippie

1 - 32 black sabbath-master of reality
2 - 29 celtic frost-morbid tales
3 - 26 sarcofago-inri
4 - 23 autopsy-severed survival
5 - 20 winter-into darkness
6 - 18 repulsion-horrified
7 - 16 beherit-drawing down the moon
8 - 14 pungent stench-for god your soul for me your flesh
9 - 12 kyuss-welcome to sky valley
10 - 10 possessed-seven churches
11 - 9 carcass-symphonies of sickness
12 - 8 black sabbath-black sabbath
13 - 7 mercyful fate-melissa
14 - 6 slayer-hell awaits
15 - 5 kreator-pleasure to kill

0kill

1. Manowar - Kings of Metal
2. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
3. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5. Judas Priest - Painkiller
6. Dio - Holy Diver
7. Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger
8. Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll
9. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
10. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
11. Motorhead - Overkill
12. Raven - Wiped Out
13. Accept - Balls to the Wall
14. Crystal Viper - The Curse of Crystal Viper
15. Wolf - The Black Flame

hole_in_your_chest

1.Riot – Fire Down Under
2.Accept – Balls to the Wall
3.Helloween – Walls of Jericho
4.Thin Lizzy – Renegade
5.Motorhead – Overkill
6.Satan (uk) – Court in the Act
7.Indestroy – Indestroy
8.Raven – All For One
9.Judas Priest – Stained Class
10.Rush – 2112
11.Manowar – Battle Hymns
12.Tygers of Pan Tang – Wild Cat
13.Quartz – Stand up and Fight
14.Tank – Power of the Hunter
15.Angel Witch – Angel Witch

misainzig

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
2. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
3. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5. Saxon - Denim and Leather
6. Motorhead - Orgasmatron
7. Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
8. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
9. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
10. Dio - Holy Diver
11. Manowar - Hail to England
12. Gravedigger - Rheingold
13. Raven - All For One
14. Grim Reaper - See You In Hell
15. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

Ribos

1. Judas Priest - Painkiller
2. Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
3. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
4. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
5. Running Wild - Death Or Glory
6. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
7. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
8. Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
9. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
10. Deep Purple - Machine Head
11. Wolf - Wolf
12. Scorpions - Taken By Force
13. Dio - Holy Diver
14. Pantera - Power Metal
15. Motörhead - Inferno

lastdodobird

01) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
02) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
03) Judas Priest - Painkiller
04) Iron Maiden - Powerslave
05) W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
06) Dio - Holy Diver
07) King Diamond - Abigail
08) Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
09) Motörhead - Ace of Spades
10) Crystal Logic - Manilla Road
11) Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
12) Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
13) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
14) Mercyful Fate - Melissa
15) Motörhead - Overkill

noinim

1 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2 - Judas Priest - Painkiller
3 - Messiah Force - The Last Day
4 - Mercyful Fate - Melissa
5 - Chastain - Mystery Of Illusion
6 - W.A.S.P. - Selftitled
7 - Venom - Black Metal
8 - Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
9 - Coven - Worship New Gods
10 - Acid - Maniac
11 - Zed Yago - From Over Yonder
12 - Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
13 - Hellion - Screams In The Night
14 - Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory
15 - Warlock - Burning The Witches

Charly546

1. Rainbow - Rising
2. Judas Priest - Stained Class
3. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
4. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
5. Motörhead - Inferno
6. Diamond Head - Lightning the Nations
7. Satan - Court in the Act
8. Blitzkrieg - A Time of Changes
9. Brocas Helm - Into Battle
10. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
11. Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill
12. Helstar - Burning Star
13. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
14. Venom - Welcome to Hell
15. WASP - WASP

Iaaaaakh

1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
3. Dio - Holy Diver
4. King Diamond - Abigail
5. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
6. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
7. Manowar - Kings of Metal
8. Venom - Black Metal
9. Judas Priest - Painkiller
10. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
11. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
12. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
13. Deep Purple - Machine Head
14. Deep Purple - In Rock
15. W.A.S.P. - WASP

Avaddons_blood

1. Running Wild - Death or Glory
2. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of the Seventh Son
3. Witchhammer - 1487
4. Stormwitch - Walpurgis Night
5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
6. Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
7. Dio - Holy Diver
8. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
9. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
10. Judas Priest - Painkiller
11. Acid - Acid
12. Blitzkrieg - A Time of changes
13. Riot - ThunderSteel
14. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
15. Desolation Angels - Desolation Angels

BastardHead

1. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
2. Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
3. Judas Priest - Stained Class
4. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
5. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
6. Dio - Holy Diver
7. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
8. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
9. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
10. Omen - Battle Cry
11. King Diamond - Abigail
12. Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof
13. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
14. Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
15. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction

Avaitor

1: Iron Maiden- Powerslave
2: Iron Maiden- Piece of Mind
3: Black Sabbath- Heaven & Hell
4: Dio- Holy Diver
5: Judas Priest- Painkiller
6: Bruce Dickinson- The Chemical Wedding
7: Rainbow- Rising
8: Black Sabbath- Dehumanizer
9: Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies(yes, I'm counting him)
10: Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny
11: Rainbow- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
12: Thin Lizzy- Jailbreak(yep, them, too)
13: Scorpions- Taken by Force
14: Bruce Dickinson- Balls to Picasso
15: Alice Cooper- Love it to Death

hippiedrow

1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3. Artillery - By Inheritance
4. Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
7. King Diamond - The Eye
8. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
9. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
10. Judas Priest - Painkiller
11. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
12. Megadeth - Youthanasia
13. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
14. Explode - Temptation
15. Sex Machineguns - Heavy Metal Thunder

wight_ghoul

01 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
02 Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
03 Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge
04 Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
05 Iron Maiden - The X Factor
06 Manowar - Into Glory Ride
07 Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
08 Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
09 King Diamond - Them
10 Manilla Road - Mystification
11 Wolf - Wolf
12 Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks
13 Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
14 Rainbow - Rising
15 Hawaii - The Natives are Restless

Lyrici17

1. "Powerslave" - Iron Maiden
2. "Piece of Mind" - Iron Maiden
3. "Accident of Birth" - Bruce Dickinson
4. "Thunder in the East" - Loudness
5. "Don't Break the Oath" - Mercyful Fate
6. "Hail to England" - Manowar
7. "Thunder and Lightning" - Thin Lizzy
8. "Painkiller" - Judas Priest
9. "Melissa" - Mercyful Fate
10. "Advance and Vanquish" - 3 Inches of Blood
11. "The Chemical Wedding" - Bruce Dickinson
12. "Johnny the Fox" - Thin Lizzy
13. "Abigail" - King Diamond
14. "Fire Up the Blades" - 3 Inches of Blood
15. "The Triumph of Steel" - Manowar

HamburgerBoy

1. Iron Maiden - Killers
2. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Slauter Xstroyes - Free the Beast
5. Savatage - The Hall of the Mountain King
6. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
7. Satan - Court in the Act
8. Savatage - Sirens
9. Queensryche - The Warning
10. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
11. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
12. Secrecy - Art in Motion
13. Brocas Helm - Into Battle
14. Omen - Battle Cry
15. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller

_Aargh

1 - Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
2 - Mercyful Fate - Melissa
3 - Judas Priest - Stained Class
4 - Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy
5 - Brocas Helm - Black Death
6 - Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
7 - Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
8 - Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
9 - Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof
10 - Angel Witch - Angel Witch
11 - Death SS - Black Mass
12 - Satan - Court in the Act
13 - Sarcofagus - Envoy of Death
14 - Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
15 - Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

SabFan1

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
5. Judas Priest - Painkiller
6. Dio - Holy Diver
7. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
8. King Diamond - Abigail
9. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
10. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
11. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
12. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
13. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
14. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
15. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys pt. 2

OlympicSharpShooter

1. Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling
2. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
3. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
4. Queensryche - Rage for Order
5. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
6. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
7. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
8. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
9. Scorpions - Taken by Force
10. Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
11. Def Leppard - High N' Dry
12. Motorhead - Overkill
13. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
14. Rainbow - Rising
15. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction

aaq

1 Manilla Road - The Deluge
2 Satan - Court in the Act
3 Judas Priest - Stained Class
4 Pagan Altar - Volume 1
5 Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
6 Mercyful Fate - Melissa
7 Legend - From the Fjords
8 Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof
9 Brocas Helm - Black Death
10 Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
11 Angel Witch - Angel Witch
12 Accept - Restless and Wild
13 Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
14 Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
15 Liege Lord - Liege Lord

DethMonkee

1. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
2. Motorhead - Overkill
3. Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
4. Judas Priest - Painkiller
5. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
6. Wolfsbane - All Hell's Breaking Loose Down At Little Kathy Wilson's Place
7. Dio - Holy Diver
8. Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
9. Accept - Restless and Wild
10. Wolf - The Black Flame
11. Deep Purple - Machine Head
12. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
13. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
14. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
15. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny


So that's it. I'm still layed up for a few weeks so if there's any other surveys or anything people would like done, please let me know.

What the fuck?

Yeah, the one in particular I was referring to. There's a couple of other hairy ones too.

Quite glad to see Holy Diver at #4 \m/

I'm guessing he confused heavy metal (traditional metal) for heavy metal (metal in general). Nice results, I shall use these to expand my knowledge.

Kind of funny how Satan is randomly in there at #18 in between Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Dio, Motorhead, etc all over.

Goddamn it, am I the only one who voted for Tarot?

It's probably because that album rules. I'm still a bit surprised to see it high enough to be up there with the classics though.

Pretty much all the albums I voted for ended up high or at least semi-high, so that's nice. But then again, I voted mostly for classic albums, so I guess that's to be expected.

I don't think I was the only one who voted for anything though. I guess I'm just too mainstream for my own good sometimes...

No one else voted for Mercyful Fate's first EP? The fuck...

Indeed

I feel like a dick, I kept putting off making a list for this cause I couldn't decide exactly what I wanted where; kept leaving out albums, etc.

I fully support that top 3, though maybe not in that order.

Well, Seventh Son didn't get #1, but it did make the top 10, and still, Iron Maiden is still the best band ever since Powerslave got the winner spot. I wish Ample Destruction and The Crimson Idol had been higher, but this was pretty damn good; most of the albums in my list got high.

I fucking love this survey.

I was kind of surprised to see Powerslave on the #1 spot. Would have expected Seventh Son, Heaven and Hell or Stained Class there instead.


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I don't like how Don't Break the Oath ranks better than Abigail, and Kings of Metal better than Hail to England.
Other than that it's a solid result.

I'm sorry, but there's a mistake. At least two people (Avaitor and myself) nominated Piece of Mind, yet you have it among the single-vote albums.

Edit: five people at least.

Edit 2: How did you determine the relative rank among these three albums?

85) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Transcendence" - Crimson Glory
86) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Dehumanizer" - Black Sabbath
87) 20 - (0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-1-0) "Balls to Picasso" - Bruce Dickinson

It looks as if they got exactly the same votes, so why is Transcendence on 85) and Balls to Picasso on 87)?

Somewhere In Time only gets one vote? These surveys are useless.

Damnit I didn't even know one of these was being held.

Yeah, Iron Maiden among other bands will have scored artificially low since there was a limit of only two albums per artist. These surveys are geared more towards making a recommendation list with varied artists than actually figuring out the "top albums."

I'm surprised number of the beast and Piece of time did that bad I thought they would each be in the top 15 or so.

At least the Iron Maiden and King Diamond fanboys didn't have a chance to ruin the whole thread, haha. It's true that bands with only a couple of albums had an unfair advantage against bands like Maiden (which may explain Court in the Act being in the top 20), but I think the list turned out to be pretty good in the end. Certainly better than most of the other surveys. I just wish more people would have participated this time.

The biggest screw-up on this survey was Manowar. I really hoped there were more metalheads who took them for what they are: one of the greatest heavy metal bands of all time, right up there with Maiden and Priest. They're not some some cute little band to put 13th on your list. Kings of Metal at 26th! Shame on you all!

I had Powerslave at #10 but I easily could have had it higher depending on my mood when I made up my list. It's such a sentimental favorite of mine. It's literally THE album that got me into Metal many years ago. Sure, I already listened to Metallica, Megadeth, Judas Priest, but when I finally got around to Iron Maiden, Powerslave bowled me over and turned me into a full fledged Metalhead.

I agree with you, Battle Hymns was too low. I feel like a jackass because I love Manowar and I realized right after I sent my list that I hadn't voted for any of their albums.

I would've nominated all but Kings of Metal if I could've. Of their first seven that is.

I'm not surprised at all that Powerslave is number one. It is definitely the best Iron Maiden album there is and why not the best heavy metal album too. Top 10 is pretty good, perhaps just too many Judas Priest albums. Also it is wonderful to see Manilla Road at number 16, it could be higher though.

I agree with you RageW, Ample Destruction would have deserved a better position.

Powerslave the best Iron Maiden? Eh. The Duellists and Back in the Village are very fillerish.

More people need to learn about the greatness of Manilla Road.
I'm surprised Powerslave did so well -- except for the first two and the last two tracks, I've always found it inferior to all the albums before it.
I'm kind of pissed off that I learned about Dark Quarterer only after I sent my list. If I had heard any album of theirs before, it would have definitely been among the top 5 of my list.

You shouldn't have accepted hellhippie's list. No offence to him (I know he got confused), but it tainted the list.

But his list gave me the idea: We should make a survey after all of the major genres are covered, that is Greatest Metal Album. Everything included.

Yeah, why was I the only one to include Dark Quarterer?

That album probably would've made it to my list, but I haven't found a copy anywhere and I'm not going to give an album a vote that is based on Real Media files or something.

Kind of strange that the only Pagan Altar album that got more than one vote was the first one. It's of course their most legendary release, but also way too doomy to be on that list, unlike the later albums which I included on my list.

No one else voted for Sarcofagus or Death SS either. Lame.

It would be too broad that most albums would receive maybe 2-3 votes, probably.

That would just make it more important to decide which album you're going to give most points. We should get more people to vote, though. How many people voted in the first surveys? I think it was a lot more than this.

Earlier The Number Of The Beast was the best in my opinion, but it gets kinda worn out after many listens. I think the only filler song on Powerslave is 2 Minutes To Midnight, the guitar sounds a bit generic. Would be great if Revelations from Piece Of Mind was on Powerslave instead of 2 Minutes To Midnight. Might sound a bit crazy but thats what my ideas usually are like.

For the record, I didn't vote for the early Sabbath albums because I wasn't sure if they really counted as "Heavy Metal," because while they are certainly HEAVY, I have them listed as Doom Metal in Winamp. Counting them, though, I would have bumped the debut up quite a bit. Just saying.

That said, I pretty much agree with the top ten. My only real gripe is that Unleashed In The East is not in the top ten. Or even twenty. Or even FORTY. Maybe it's because there was some confusion over the inclusion of live albums?

I guess. I was kind of surprised no one else voted for Rainbow's On Stage except me, but that might explain it.

I wanted to put Unleashed... in my top 5, but I wasn't sure if live albums counted. In fact, I asked, and nobody minded in answering

I have a feeling that he thought Heavy Metal was being used as a catch-all term for every genre.

No one else voted for pariah, I'm kinda disappointed. I also thought that Satan would have done better, 18th is kinda low for such a great album. I also can't believe I forgot Manilla Road completely, Crystal Logic should have definitely been on my list somewhere.

Yep, but his list is remarkable.

Why?
It seems he got a varied taste.

It's because, it is nearly exactly what I would post. Except with INRI at number 1.