 | The Blackening by Machine Head
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £5.95 This will still be making top-ten metal lists in twenty year's time. Essential.
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 | Natural Born Chaos by Soilwork
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £5.35 Heavy but hum-able: great stuff.
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 | Slaughter of the Soul by At the Gates
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £5.00 The start of Meodlic Death Metal - I challenge you not to join in shouting "go!" at the start of the title track
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 | Blackwater Park by Opeth
Buy new: £5.98 A gorgeous album: in equal parts brutal, moving, haunting and dark.
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![Reinventing Hell - The Best of Pantera [CD + DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41WX427J5NL._SL75_.jpg) | Reinventing Hell - The Best of Pantera [CD + DVD] by Pantera
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £1.99 Pantera saved metal as a genre: this best of will show you why!
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 | Painkiller by Judas Priest
Buy new: £10.97 / Used from: £5.20 Priest - the originators of metal, widdily guitars and leather trousers...
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 | Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.45 Mind-melting: you can hear its influence through all of the above
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 | Rust in Peace by Megadeth
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.50 Metallica who? Visceral, shredding stuff - makes you feel like you're having a heart attack.
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 | ... And Justice For All by Metallica
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.45 Oh, all right, if you must buy Metallica, this one has some crackers
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 | Black Ice (Deluxe) by AC/DC
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.95 Blue-jeans, beer in both hands, chatting up any woman around you... that's AC/DC
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 | Wages of Sin by Arch Enemy
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.50 Fast, furious and widdily, Arch Enemy shred like no-one else. And Angela Gossow is plain scary!
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 | Book of Heavy Metal by Dream Evil
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £3.49 Worth it for the opener alone: one listen, you'll be singing it for weeks...
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 | Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £4.90 Tony Iommi says you can tell a great riff if you can hum it: you can play all of these on a Kazoo! Brilliant
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![Iron Maiden - Live After Death (2DVD) [1984]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uIzThmgOL._SL75_.jpg) | Iron Maiden - Live After Death (2DVD) [1984]
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £9.15 It's a rare band who's live albums sound as good as being there - Scream for me, Longbeach!
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 | Demanufacture by Fear Factory
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.97 both spine-tingling and utterly crushing. Makes you dance like a monkey
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 | The Dead Eye by The Haunted
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.15 One minute you're screaming, next you're crying. Flipping ace band
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 | Battle Metal by Turisas
Buy new: £7.28 / Used from: £7.99 Fantastic - one listen and you'll be off to invade Norway with your bath-mat around your shoulders
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 | Tervaskanto by Korpiklaani
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £9.50 Dancing music for drunk hairy people to leap about with big grins.
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 | South of Heaven by Slayer
Buy new: £7.98 No bad albums in Slayer's back catalogue: this is my personal fav
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 | Clayman by In Flames
Buy used from: £5.02 Accessible melodo-death: where it all started going right for In Flames
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 | Draconian Times by Paradise Lost
Buy new: £4.98 Oooh, gloomy; great band, great album, does make you want to sit in the dark and mope like a lemming
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 | Leviathan by Mastodon
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £6.60 A tough band to get your ear's around, but thoroughly worth it
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 | Through the Eyes of Heathens by Dozer
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.82 You want stoner rock? These boot QOTSA firmly up the bumcheeks
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 | Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £5.70 Everyone's favourite golfer: well worth a couple of quid to sing along in the bath
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 | Among The Living by Anthrax
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 Great fun: faster than Road Runner with the squits
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