Definitive list of Absolutely Must-Have Albums:

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Speeddemon said:
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Accept - Restless and Wild, Metal Heart
AC/DC - Highway to Hell / Back in Black, Live
Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Boston - Boston
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends / Time does not Heal
Death - Human & Symbolic
Deep Purple - In Rock
Def Leppard - High 'N Dry
Dio - Holy Diver
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Dokken - UL&K, Tooth and Nail
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil
Ghost - Opus
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite & UYI 1
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys pt I
Iron Maiden - everything up to Seventh Son + Brave New World (Adrian ftw!)
Judas Priest - Sad Wings, Stained Class, Unleashed in the East, Screaming..., Defenders, Painkiller
King Diamond - Abigail
Kiss - Alive I
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill, Coma of Souls, Extreme Aggression
Lääz Rockit - Know Your Enemy
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Mercyful Fate - Melissa & DBTO
Metallica - RTL, MOP
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Mötley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Pink Floyd - Meddle ,WYWH, DSOTM
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Ratt - Cellar & Invasion
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains, Arise
Slayer - Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Divine Intervention
Steely Dan - Aja
Testament - New Order, Gathering
Toxik - World Circus & Think This
Van Halen - VH1, VH2, WaCF, 1984
Venom - Black Metal
Whitesnake - 1987
Yngwie - Rising Force
ZZ Top - Fandango & Afterburner
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Extra props for alphabetizing!
 
The Chasm - Farseeing the paranormal abysm
Death - Sound of perseverance
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus or chaining the katechon
Isis - Panopticon
Neurosis - through silver in blood
Virus - the agent that shapes the desert
Slayer - today? Show no mercy
Pantera - great southern trendkill
Megadeth - rust in peace
Gojira - Terra incognito
Mastodon - crack the sky
Gorguts - obscura
Martyr - warp zone
Immolation - unholy cult
Black sabbath - paranoid
 
Lots of good ones already mentioned. Also,

Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger
AIC: Dirt
Pantera: Vulgar and FBD
Tool: Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus
Bob Dylan: Biograph
Neil Young: Decade
Pink Floyd: DSOTM, WYWH, Animals
Mars Volta: De-Loused in the Comatorium
Grateful Dead: a mixtape of all the best versions, heavy on 5/8/77 Cornell.
 
The Beatles: Abbey Road & Sgt Peppers
Metallica: Master of Puppets
The Zombies: Odyssey & Oracle
Led Zeppelin: Everything
Motley Crue: Too Fast for Love & Shout at the Devil
Van Halen I
Ratt: Out of the Cellar
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
 
KISS DESTROYER
VAN HALEN FAIR WARNING
TED NUGENT DOUBLE LIVE GONZO
AC/DC POWERAGE/HIGHWAY TO HELL/BACK IN BLACK
JUDAS PRIEST BRITISH STEEL
JUDAS PRIEST SCREAMING FOR VENGANCE
ACCEPT RESTLESS & WILD / BALLS TO THE WALL
METALLICA MASTER OF PUPPETS
ANTHRAX AMONG THE LIVING
FLOSTSAM & JETSAM WHEN THE STORM COMES DOWN
LOUDNESS DISULUSION / THUNDER IN THE EAST/LIGHTING STRIKES
RATT OUT OF THE CELLAR/IN VASION OF YOUR PRIVACY
DOKKEN TOOTH & NAIL /UNDER LOCK & KEY

there's more
 
anomaly said:
You people keep excluding Peace Sells from your lists, what's the deal? I personally think it's just as good as rust in peace
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It is good, I don't think its the same overall quality as Rust in Peace. If RiP is a 10/10, PS would be 9.5/10. IMO
 
To add to a lot of others already mentioned here.

Devin Townsend-Ocean Machine
Dream Theater-Images, Awake, Scenes From a Memory
Eric Johnson-Venus Isle
Evergrey-The Atlantic, Inner Circle
Explorers Club-Age of Impact
James Murphy-Feeding the Machine
Joe Satriani-The Extremist, Time Machine
Kings X-Dogman, Out of the Silent Planet
Kip Winger-From the Moon To the Sun
Michael Jackson-Off the Wall, Thriller
Mr Big-Lean Into It
Opeth-Ghost Reveries, Damnation, Still Life
Poison-Native Tongue-some of Kotzens best work imo
Prince-Musicology
Steve Steven's-Flamenco a Go Go
Strapping Young Lad-Alien
Stuck Mojo-Rising
Winger-In the Heart of the Young, Pull
 
I could waste a lot of time on this list. I won’t. Just a few:

Dirt
Jar of Flies
Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Master of Reality
LZ III
Caress of Steel
Revolver
Pet Sounds
Kiss Alive
Fragile
Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-shirt
Epic
Nothing Shocking
Too Fast For Love
 
I'll add a few - there are already some great ones on here previously posted

HSAS - Through The Fire
Rush - Caress Of Steel, All The World's A Stage, & Exit...Stage Left
Deicide - ST & Legion albums
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness & Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
Testament - The Legacy & The New Order
Abhorration - Demonolatry
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Ozzy - Speak Of The Devil
Helstar - Nosferatu & Vampiro
Motorhead - No Remorse
Misfits - Walk Among Us & Misfits ST
Samhain - Initium & Final Descent
Danzig - Danzig
Slayer - Hell Awaits
 
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boogieman1187 said:
Michael Jackson-Off the Wall, Thriller
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Forgot these two; indeed essential. (y)

I got the special edition CD's with all the demo bonus tracks; especially that 'pots and pans' percussion stuff on the 'Don't stop' demo is insane, how musically gifted that family was...
 
crwnedblasphemy said:
This is gonna take awhile:

Rush-Hemispheres/Moving Pictures/Presto
Black Sabbath - s/t and Sabotage and Mob Rules
AIC- Dirt/Facelift/Jar of Flies
Janes Addiction -XXX/Ritual
Type O- October Rust/Dead Again
Savatage- HOTMK/Edge of Thorns
Scar Symmetry- pitch black progress/Holographic Universe
Dimmu Borgir- Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Sonata Arctica-Weballergy/Eclipse
Mindfunk-s/t and Dropped
Death Angel- Act III
Slayer-Reign in Blood/South of Heaven
Metallica-Ride-Justice
Megadeth-Rust in Peace
EJ- A via Musicom
Immortal - Heart of Winter
Death- Symbolic/SOP
VH-1/2
L7-Bricks are heavy
STP- Core
Children of Bodom- Hatecrew Deathroll/Follow the Reaper
Armored Saint- Symbol of Salvation/March of the Saint
Morbid Angel- Blessed are the sick/Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Pestilence- Testimony of the Ancients/Convulsing Impulse
King Diamond- Abigail-Them-Conspiracy
Blue Murder-s/t
Anacrusis- Images and Words
Carcass- Heartwork/Surgical Steel
Testament- Souls of Black
The Darkness- Permission to Land
Whiplash- Insult to Injury
Dangerous Toys- s/t
Queensryche- Rage for Order/Mindcrime/Empire
Dream Theater- Images and Words
The Organization- s/t
Ozzy- Ultimate Sin/No Rest for the Wicked/Diary of a Madman
Kiss- Unmasked/Hotter than hell/Dressed to Kill/Unplugged/Crazy Nights
WORM- Foreverglade
In Flames- Colony/Whoracle
Soilwork- Predator's Portrait/Natural Born Chaos
SymphonyX- The Odyssey
Seventh Wonder- The Great Escape/Mercy Falls
Judas Priest- Turbo/Painkiller
Iron Maiden- Seventh Son/Somewhere in Time
Sanctuary -Refuge Denied/Into the Mirror Black
Fates Warning- Parallels/Inside Out
Killer Dwarfs- Big Deal
Iced Earth- Dark Saga/Something Wicked/Glorious B/Alive in Athens
Dio- Killing the Dragon/Holy Diver
Stormkeep- Tales of Othertime
Harem Scarem- s/t and Mood Swings
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You forgot Gutter Ballet
 
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