Top Ten Albums from Rolling Stone's ''100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time''

1 Rainbow - Rising

2 Powerslave - Iron Maiden

3 Stained Class - Judas Priest

4 Holy Diver - Dio

5 Welcome to Hell - Venom

6 South of Heaven - Slayer

7 Heartwork - Carcass

8 Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory

9 Master of Reality - Black Sabbath

10 Dimension Hatröss - Voivod

The Contenders

11 Human - Death

12 Once - Nightwish

13 From Enslavement to Obliteration - Napalm Death

14 Lightning to the Nations - Diamond Head

15 Blessed Black Wings - High on Fire

16 Red Album - Baroness

17 Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche

18 Agent Orange - Sodom

19 Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

20 Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk - Emperor