Top 10 Metal Albums that Started Metal Genres

1 Paranoid - Black Sabbath (Heavy Metal)

2 Kill 'Em All - Metallica (Thrash Metal)

3 Crystal Logic - Manilla Road (Power Metal)

4 The Spectre Within - Fates Warning (Progressive Metal)

5 Seven Churches - Possessed (Death Metal)

6 Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory (Black Metal)

7 Hammerheart - Bathory (Viking Metal)

8 Death Penalty - Witchfinder General (Doom Metal)

9 The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth - Skyclad (Folk Metal)

10 Molesting the Decapitated - Devourment (Slam Metal)

The Contenders

11 Slow, Deep, and Hard - Type O Negative (Gothic Metal)