 | Into The Electric Castle by Ayreon
Buy used from: £14.99 The Best Album Ever Made? I'd like to think so.
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 | Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.99 It started metal, enough said.
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 | Powerslave by Iron Maiden
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £3.74 Maiden's Best.
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 | Captain Morgan's Revenge by Alestorm
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £13.36 Pirate Metal, and yes they do actually sound like pirates.
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 | Heathenreel by Elvenking
Buy new: £12.69 Power metal and folk mixed to perfection.
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 | Mother Earth by Within Temptation
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.76 Symphonic Metal at its finest.
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 | Oceanborn by Nightwish
Buy new: £8.58 / Used from: £11.14 Nightwish's finest hour.
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 | Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From a Memory by Dream Theater
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.88 Dream Theater's most faultless album.
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 | Touched by the Crimson King by Demons & Wizards
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.85 Maybe the best power metal album I've heard.
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![Still Life [Digipak]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4196BSAJ0HL._SL75_.jpg) | Still Life [Digipak] by Opeth
Buy used from: £3.99 Prog metal for the more extreme taste.
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 | Symbolic by Death
Buy new: £38.69 Death's best. RIP Chuck.
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 | Sirens by Astarte
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £6.59 All girl black metal.
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 | Night of the Stormrider by Iced Earth
Buy new: £10.79 Great concept album.
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 | The Classical Conspiracy by Epica
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £9.50 The only live album making this list.
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 | Wolves by Deadlock
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £5.74 Melo-death with mixed growls and female vocals.
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 | Transcendental by To-Mera
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £6.74 Very heavy prog with a female singer.
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 | The Metal Opera by Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
Buy new: £19.99 Avantasia show us how power metal should be done.
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 | In Search of Truth by Evergrey
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.79 A dark prog masterpiece.
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 | Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.90 Not many bands will feature twice on this list.
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 | Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £4.71 Sabbath were always best with Dio
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 | Twilight in Olympus by Symphony X
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £7.55 Power-prog with a classical edge.
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 | Legend of the Bone Carver by Pyramaze
Buy used from: £12.82 Deserves more recognition
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 | Philosophy of Winter by Forest Silence
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.55 Black ambient - very hypnotic.
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 | At the Heart of Winter by Immortal
Buy new: £8.98 A highpoint of the Black Metal genre.
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 | Folk-Lore by Cruachan
Buy new: £9.98 Irish folk meets metal.
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