Heavy Metal album suggestions

Since DakotaRogers did one for Thrash. I would like to see suggestions for traditional heavy metal
Here's albums I got so far.

Accept -- Best of Restless and Wild/Balls to wall
Accept -- Blood of the nations
Accept -- Stalingrad
Black Sabbath -- We sold our soul for rock n' roll
Black Sabbath -- Mob Rules
Cobra -- Lethal strike
Diamond Head -- the best of
Enforcer -- Death by fire
Girlschool -- Hit and run
Grave Digger -- Tunes of War
Grave Digger -- Knights of Cross
Grave Digger -- The clans are still marching
Grim Reaper -- See you in hell
Holocaust -- Smoking Values: The anthology
Iron Maiden -- S/T
Iron Maiden -- Killers
Iron Maiden -- The number of the beast
Iron Maiden -- Piece of mind
Iron Maiden -- Powerslave
Iron Maiden -- Live After Death
Iron Maiden -- Somewhere in time
Iron Maiden -- Seventh son of a seventh son
Iron Maiden -- No Prayer for the Dying
Iron Maiden -- Brave New World
Iron Maiden -- Final Frontier
Iron Kobra -- Live at croms place
Iron Kobra -- Dungeon Masters
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East: Live in Japan
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
King Diamond - Abigail
King Diamond - Them
Manowar -- Battle hymns
Mercyful Fate -- Best of
Night Demon -- S/T
Sabaton -- Primo Victoria
Sabaton -- Attero Dominatus
Sabaton -- The Art of War
Sabaton -- Coat of Arms
Sabaton -- World War Live
Sabaton -- Carolus Rex
Sabaton -- Swedish Empire Live
Saxon -- Wheels of steel
Saxon -- Denim and Leather
Raven -- All Systems go - The Neat Anthology
Spinal Tap -- s/t  (The real "black" album! HAHA)
Tank -- Filth Hound of hades
Tank -- Power of the hunter
3 Inches of blood -- Long live heavy metal

I also got some Motorhead and Thin Lizzy albums but I don't know if you guys count that as "Heavy Metal". I sort of do well not all Thin Lizzy songs but a lot of songs were totally the blueprint and they have a lot of great albums.

Newer bands

Christian Mistress
Black Trip
Age of Taurus
Orcus Chylde
Witch Mountain

I've tried to avoid the retro/sludge doom bands and just picked the ones that fly their metal flag high (well maybe not Orcus Chylde but there is plenty of trad metal in there)

Older bands? There are loads but I'll kick things off with Angel Witch & Raven

Many, but for starters:

More Black Sabbath
Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hellbent for Leather, Defenders of the Faith.

Will try to post more later.

MetallicSeminarian wrote:

Many, but for starters:

More Black Sabbath
Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Hellbent for Leather, Defenders of the Faith.

Will try to post more later.

Yah, I need more priest I have a compilation that has more of their older stuff I can't remember what it's called at the moment.

Rainbow: Rising and Long Live Rock and Roll.

This thread is just going to be a mess unless you get more specific.

I see some power metal / traditional heavy metal there, so I'll just run with that, and also try and limit myself to just absolute essentials.

Dio - Holy Diver
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Angel Dust - Enlighten the Darkness
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Mystic Prophecy - Savage Souls
Rage - Black in Mind
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Star One - Victims of the Modern Age

and get Battle Beast s/t

that's ten already?!

This could actually come in handy, because I have two iPods now and I think I'm gonna start a heavy metal/metal in general collection. Should be interesting.

I should post samples. To prevent slow scrolling for those on mobile devices, here are the links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFnEadebRwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAElnyL_LxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdejp_AXfpo

Lari wrote:

This thread is just going to be a mess unless you get more specific.

OK, traditional heavy metal, N.W.O.B.H.M, Power, Doom. Stuff like that  .

CAULDRON BORN - Both albums
WARLORD - Best of
FATES WARNING - Spectre Within, Awaken the Guardian
JUDAS PRIEST - Painkiller
CRIMSON GLORY - s/t, Transcendence
SAVATAGE - Hall of the Mountain King

The first three Exciter records

Diamond Head...lightning to the nations
Angel Witch...s/t
Saxon...strong arm of the law
Demon...the unexpected guest
Witchfinder general...death penalty
Riot...fire down under
Gamma Ray...to the metal
Jorn...out of every nation
Place of skulls...the black is never far
Grim Reaper...see you in hell
Firewind...allegiance
220 volt...s/t

Judas Priest - Sin After Sin, Stained Class
Rage - Black In Mind, Secrets In A Weird World
Satan - Court In The Act, Life Sentence
W.A.S.P. - self-titled, The Crimson Idol
Dark At Dawn - Baneful Skies, self-titled
Stormwitch - Stronger Than Heaven, The Beauty And The Beast
Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die, Silicon Messiah
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough, The White Goddess
Onward - Evermoving, Reawaken
Running Wild - Death Or Glory, Black Hand Inn

Nobody does it better than Accpet, so you might want to consider getting more of them (Metal Heart, Breaker, Russian Roulette, Objection Overruled) and U.D.O. (Animal House, Mean Machine, Faceless World, Holy)
Here's what you also need from my perspective, with links:
Running Wild - Port Royal Any RW from 1986 to 1995 tbh, that one I just love the most.
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys I. Well, you need both albums and Walls of Jericho too, but this one is absolutely essential. And don't listen do Deris fans, they're wrong
Letherwolf - Street Ready Killer enchanting melodic metal.
Fifth Angel - Fifth Angel See above.
Lizzy Borden - Love You to Pieces Visual Lies is great too, these two might be the best starting point.
Queensryche - EP Not their best work, keep that in mind while banging your head to "Queen of the Reich"
Sortilege - Larmes de Heros This one puts most better known albums to shame. English version exists.
Tokyo Blade - Night of the Blade THE N.W.O.B.H.M band.
Skull Fist - Head of the Pack
And more obvious suggestions, like getting more Dio, WASP's The Headless Children - imo their 2nd best, perfect album all around; Judas Priest' Defenders of the Faith.
Strongly reccomend to go into USPM thread and check some bands there. Being more specific, as in what bands you like the most, would easier the task.

Sanctuary-both records

Vicious Rumors - Soldiers Of The Night thru Word Of Mouth

choosemetal wrote:

I also got some Motorhead and Thin Lizzy albums but I don't know if you guys count that as "Heavy Metal". I sort of do well not all Thin Lizzy songs but a lot of songs were totally the blueprint and they have a lot of great albums.

Gotta give a nod to a young metalhead who "gets it".   

Armored Saint, Tygers of Pan Tang, The Rods, Savage, and Trouble.

Some good ones listed already. For Maiden, you need Dance Of Death and A Matter Of Like & Death. Also recommend Rock In Rio (DVD) and En Vivo (Blu-Ray)

For Queensryche, get EP, Rage For Order, The Warning, Operation:Mindcrime, Empire, Self Titled from 2013 (La Torre)

Missing a ton of Sabbath - anything with Ozzy and Dio is pure gold.

Helloween - Keeper pts 1 & 2

There is so much good heavy metal that you could add it's even hard to begin. It's actually overwhelming how much great/classic heavy metal there is.

First band that came to mind was Armored Saint.

Some other bands I'd recommend that come to mind, without going too nuts,
Heretic
Metal Church
Vicious Rumors
Rage
Running Wild
Sword (NOT The Sword, just Sword)
Saint (especially Too Late for Living and Time's End)
Accept - Breaker, Metal Heart, Russian Roulette
Lizzy Borden
W.A.S.P.
White Wizzard
Savage Grace
Recon - Behind Enemy Lines
Raven - Rock Til You Drop, Wiped Out, All For One...well, just more Raven in general. Avoid Pack is Back
Twisted Sister - Under the Blade, You Can't Stop Rock and Roll
Saxon
The Rods
TT Quick - first EP & Metal of Honor
Sacred Warrior
Armageddon - Money Mask

Thank you guys for all the suggestions I got to start listening to all of this and adding more to my collection.

yes, you do.   

BearOnUnicycle wrote:

Strongly reccomend to go into USPM thread and check some bands there. Being more specific, as in what bands you like the most, would easier the task.

Totally I'll have to check it out. Well some of my favorites are Iron Maiden (my favorite band of all time), Judas Priest, Sabaton,Grave Digger, and Pentagram.

+1 on the Skull Fist & both Sanctuary albums.  
I'll add the two Holy Grail CDs "Crisis in Utopia" & "Ride the Void". You'll also want to check out the bands Primal Fear & Dream Evil.

choosemetal wrote:

Lari wrote:

This thread is just going to be a mess unless you get more specific.

OK, traditional heavy metal, N.W.O.B.H.M, Power, Doom. Stuff like that  .

But it needs to be just one of those. Lari's got a good point. This kind of list can span for miles. There is a recent US Power Metal thread that I posted a revolving master list in.