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2. Led Zeppelin (1969)
by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin had a fully formed, distinctive sound from the outset, as their eponymous debut illustrates. Taking the heavy, distorted electric blues ... More
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3. Physical Graffiti (1975)
by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin returned from a nearly two-year hiatus in 1975 with Physical Graffiti, a sprawling, ambitious double album. Zeppelin treat many of the ... More
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4. Led Zeppelin II (1969)
by Led Zeppelin
Recorded quickly during Led Zeppelin's first American tours, Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. ... More
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5. Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (1980)
by Aerosmith
Aerosmith's Greatest Hits remains one of the most popular and enduring best-of collections by any rock band, selling nearly ten million copies in the ... More
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6. Black Sabbath (1970)
by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of heavy metal as we now know it. Compatriots like Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple were already ... More
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7. Ride the Lightning (1984)
by Metallica
Kill 'Em All may have revitalized heavy metal's underground, but Ride the Lightning was even more stunning, exhibiting staggering musical growth and ... More
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8. Undertow (1993)
by Tool
Just as grunge was reaching its boiling point and radio-friendly punk-pop loomed on the horizon, Tool released Undertow, which firmly reinforced ... More
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9. Rated R (2000)
by Queens of the Stone Age
The second Queens of the Stone Age album, Rated R (as in the movie rating; its title was changed from II at the last minute before release), makes ... More
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10. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
by Black Sabbath
With 1973's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, heavy metal godfathers Black Sabbath made a concerted effort to prove their remaining critics wrong by raising ... More
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11. Hysteria (1987)
by Def Leppard
Where Pyromania had set the standard for polished, catchy pop-metal, Hysteria only upped the ante. Pyromania's slick, layered Mutt Lange production ... More
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12. Metallica (1991)
by Metallica
After the muddled production and ultracomplicated song structures of ...And Justice for All, Metallica decided that they had taken the progressive ... More
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13. Ænima (1996)
by Tool
For their third release, Tool explore the progressive rock territory previously forged by such bands as King Crimson. However, Tool are conceptually ... More
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14. Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1995)
by Def Leppard
Def Leppard was untouchable in the '80s. Over the course of four albums, the band established itself as one of the best and most popular hard rock ... More
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15. ...And Justice for All (1988)
by Metallica
The most immediately noticeable aspect of ...And Justice for All isn't Metallica's still-growing compositional sophistication or the apocalyptic ... More
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16. Greatest Hits [Warner Bros.] (2003)
by Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits is a compelling listen, culling tracks from the band's 1989 breakthrough, Mother's Milk, to its melodic 2002 ... More
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17. Paranoid (1970)
by Black Sabbath
Paranoid was not only Black Sabbath's most popular record (it was a number one smash in the U.K., and "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" both scraped the U.S. ... More
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18. High Voltage (1976)
by AC/DC
One of the perennial complaints about AC/DC is that they've never changed -- and if that's true, High Voltage is the blueprint they've followed all ... More
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19. Back in Black (1980)
by AC/DC
The first sound on Back in Black is the deep, ominous drone of church bells -- or "Hell's Bells," as it were, opening the album and AC/DC's next era ... More
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20. Never Say Die! (1978)
by Black Sabbath
After quitting briefly following the band's previous tour, singer Ozzy Osbourne returned to Black Sabbath for 1978's Never Say Die! The title track ... More
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21. Heaven and Hell (1980)
by Black Sabbath
Many had left Black Sabbath for dead at the dawn of the '80s, and with good reason -- the band's last few albums were not even close to their early ... More
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22. Technical Ecstasy (1976)
by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath was unraveling at an alarming rate around the time of their second to last album with original singer Ozzy Osbourne, 1976's Technical ... More
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23. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)
by Iron Butterfly
With its endless, droning minor-key riff and mumbled vocals, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is arguably the most notorious song of the acid rock era. According ... More
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24. Mothership (2007)
by Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin's reunion for an Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in November 2007 (pushed back a couple of weeks due to a finger injury Jimmy Page ... More
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25. The Platinum Collection, Vol. 1-3 (2001)
by Queen
Queen's The Platinum Collection places the group's three previously released Greatest Hits albums into one box set -- colored platinum, of course. ... More
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