Best Second Albums From Heavy Metal Bands

The Top Ten
1 Ride the Lightning - Metallica

My favourite Metallica album, though I'll admit it's based on a handful of truly amazing tracks.

Oh man. Really wanna give Peace Sells a vote too!

My favorite album of all time

During fade to black you really can fly away

2 Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Ride the Lightening is my favourite Metallica album but it should not top this list. Paranoid is best most defining and inspirational metal masterpiece ever deserves the top spot. Mercyful Fate Don't Break the Oath is a close second in my opinion.

How Metallica continues to top these lists I'll never know. Metallica is pretty great, but they're extremely overrated and things like Paranoid and Sad Wings of Destiny get overlooked because of it.

Paranoid literally defined metal. Number 2 does this no justice, and Ride the Lightning was good but not that great. Sad Wings of Destiny should also be higher.

A very immortal Album

3 Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth

You, you, next victim, you next to die
You, you, next victim, you, your turn to die

One of my favourite albums of all time, Dave Mustaine is a genius

Clearly up there with ride the lightning and paranoid

4 Images and Words - Dream Theater

I feel bad for not voting for this, I had to give that to Ride the Lightning. Even if RtL is better, this is also an insane album. Metropolis, Pull Me Under, Another Day, you name it. They're all fantastic.

5 Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest
6 Hell Awaits - Slayer
7 Killers - Iron Maiden

This is a fantastic album Paul Di Anno's best album he has ever sang UP THE IRONS from Scotland

8 Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
9 Rising - Rainbow
10 Morningrise - Opeth
The Contenders
11 Don't Break the Oath - Mercy Fate
12 Spreading the Disease - Anthrax
13 Leviathan - Mastodon
14 The Last in Line - Dio
15 Iowa - Slipknot

Disasterpiece - the best metal song.

16 Demanufacture - Fear Factory
17 Cosmogenesis - Obscura
18 Meteora - Linkin Park

Linkin Park is not metal

Not a metal album.

19 Leprosy - Death

Amazing album.

20 Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue

Best hair metal album ever motley crue's greatest album..!

21 Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold

One of the best albums ever, screaming and singing in one song is amazing

Half scream half sing... Completely awesome muff said

Metal is not emo though

22 Brave Murder Day - Katatonia
23 The New Order - Testament
24 Rage for Order - Queensrÿche
25 Alive or Just Breathing - Killswitch Engage
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