Best Third Albums From Heavy Metal Bands

The Top Ten
1 Master of Puppets - Metallica

Wow! There's some awesome albums on this list. Number of the Beast, Among the Living, Reign in Blood, Master of Reality. Had to go with Master of Puppets though but only by skin of its teeth... All those other albums deserve a vote though!

This album is still flawless from start to finish after all of these years. My favorite metal album and one of my top 5 overall favorite albums ever.

The widely accepted greatest thrash album of all time, only number three on a list of THIRD albums?

Just the best album ever! Perfect, and the true masterpiece of heavy metal

2 The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

This an obvious first place with epic tracks like Hallowed be thy Name, Run to the Hills, Number, Invaders, Children, 22, and the Prisoner.

How the hell is this not on top? Master of Puppets? Eddie the Head

UP THE IRONS! Screw Metallica!

3 Reign in Blood - Slayer

Should be number 1. This pure metal start to finish absolutely perfect.

4 Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
5 Among the Living - Anthrax

Come on, should be higher... it's obvious top 3 with "Operation: Mindcrime" and "The Number of the Beast"...

6 Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
7 So Far, So Good... So What! - Megadeth
8 Awake - Dream Theater
9 Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi's Mesmerizing Voice, David Bryan's Tantalizing Keyboards, Tico Torres's Booming Drums & Richie Sambora's Incredible Guitar Virtuosity! This album is the Greatest Album ever Recorded! PERIOD!

The Greatest Bon Jovi Album of All-time!
Wanted Dead or Alive, Livin' on a Prayer, You Give Love a Bad Name, Never Say Goodbye & Let It Rock...
What are you waiting for? Youtube them NOW!

This is not metal; go to the rock lists where this soft crap belongs.

Bon jovi isn't heavy metal, they're heavy boy band

10 Sin After Sin - Judas Priest

From "Sinner" to "Dissident Aggressor," there isn't a single filler or bad song on the album. Everything here is a masterpiece, and it's certainly better than most, if not all, of the items above it (especially So Far So Good So What, Megadeth is great but that album wasn't)

The Contenders
11 Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God
12 Blood Mountain - Mastodon
13 City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold
14 Dressed to Kill - Kiss
15 The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails

Industrial metal at its best

16 Vol 3. Subliminal Verses - Slipknot
17 My Arms, Your Hearse - Opeth
18 Mutter - Rammstein
19 Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed
20 Fabulous Disaster - Exodus

Come on! It's Exodus!

21 Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
22 Truthless Heroes - Project 86
23 In the Shadows - Mercyful Fate
24 Follow the Leader - Korn
25 Chaosphere - Meshuggah
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