Top Ten Metal Albums of the 20th Century

The Top Ten

1 Master of Puppets - Metallica

2 Rust In Peace - Megadeth

3 Paranoid - Black Sabbath

4 Ride the Lighting - Metallica

5 The Number of The Beast - Iron Maiden

6 ... and Justice for All - Metallica

7 Reign in Blood - Slayer

8 Master Of Reality - Black Sabbath

If a metal album is pure metal technically or not, doesn't care the 95% of the fans they listen it. Additionaly, the list maker is too young to make these kind of statements.
He better shut up and leave the voters to decide...

Not a pure metal album, but songs like Children of the Grave, Into the Void and Lord of This World are pretty good metal songs

9 Painkiller - Judas Priest

Probably the heaviest traditional heavy metal album!

10 Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

The Contenders

11 Alice in Hell - Annihilator

12 Metallica - Metallica

13 Mob Rules - Black Sabbath

14 Peace Sells... but Who's Buying - Megadeth

15 Restless and Wild - Accept

16 Metal Heart - Accept

17 Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

The top ten should be in the right order (without please)...

18 Rising - Rainbow

This album was very important because in 1976 metal was a fragile baby and this album helped it grow up - with Dio impecable vocals and Ritchie Blackmore epic songwriting and technical guitar playing. After this album Judas Priest and Iron Maiden released albums that made metal a thing.

2 masterpieces over 8 minutes: Stargazer & A Light in the Black

19 Nightfall in Middle Earth - Blind Guardian