Greatest (Non Maiden) Metal Album Maidenfans Choice 2011 Nominations

Vortex

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The Greatest Non Maiden Metal Album will be run again sometime early next this year.
This time it will be the Maidenfans choice.

Only studio albums will be accepted not live.
Each user can nominate up to 4 albums, until the 128 slots have been filled, so get in quick to guarantee your favorite album(s) are in the voting.  :shred:

Edit: This thread might be in the wrong forum, if so mods please replace, cheers.

Current Nominations:

1. Judas Priest - Brittish Steel
2. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
3. Soundgarden - Superunknown
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. Dream Theater - Images & Words
6. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part I
7. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
8. Rainbow - Rising
9. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
10. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
11. Judas Priest - Painkiller
12. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
13. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
14. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
15. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
16. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
17. Metallica - Master of Puppets
18. Slayer - South of Heaven
19. Metallica - Death Magnetic
20. Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
21. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
22. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys II
23. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
24. Manowar - Battle Hymns
25. Anthrax - Among The Living
26. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
27. Testament - New World Order
28. Overkill - Overkill
29. Dio - Holy Diver
30. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
31. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
32. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
33. Slayer - Reign in Blood
34. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
35. Led Zeppelin - IV
36. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
37. Rush - Grace Under Pressure
38. Carcass - Necroticism
39. Voivod - NothingFace
40. Judas Priest - Nostradamus
41. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
42. Helloween - Walls of Jericho
43. Black Sabbath - The Headless Cross
44. Black Sabbath - Tyr
45. Black Sabbath - Volume 4
46. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
47. Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
48. Angra - Angels Cry
49. Pearl Jam - Ten
50. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
51. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
52. Dio - Dream Evil
53. Blaze Bailey - Silicon Messiah
54. AC/DC - Powerage
55. Deep Purple - In Rock
56. Deep Purple - Machine Head
57. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of A Madman
58. Mortal Sin - Face of Despair
59. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
60. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
61. Motorhead - Orgasmatron
62. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
63. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
64. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
65. Dio - The Last In Line
66. Megadeth - Endgame
67. Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
68. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
69. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
70. Death - Symbolic
71. Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
72. Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
73. Motörhead - Overkill
74. In Flames - The Jester Race
75. Megadeth - United Abominations
76. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
77. AC/DC - The Razors Edge
78. Dream Theater - Awake
79. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
80. Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso
81. Metallica - Metallica
82. AC/DC - Back in Black
83. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
84. Deep Purple - Fireball
85. Rush - Permanent Waves
86. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
87. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
88. Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
89. Megadeth - Youthanasia
90. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
91. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
92. Scorpions - Blackout
93. Queensryche - Empire
94. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
95. Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!
96. Rush - Fly By Night
97. Dio - Sacred Heart
98. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!
99. Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
100. Slayer - World Painted Blood
101. Kiss - Hotter Than Hell
102. Ace Frehley - Ace Frehley (1978 Solo Album)
103. Testament - Souls of Black
104. Anthrax - Stomp 442
105. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
106. Savatage - Gutter Ballet
107. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
108. UFO - Lights Out
109. Saxon - Unleash the Beast
110. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
111. Accept - Metal Heart
112. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
113. Gamma Ray - Powerplant
114. Judas Priest - Stained Class
115. Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
116. Samson - Head On
117. Halford - Resurrection
118. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
119. Motley Crue - Shout At the Devil
120. Def Leppard - Pyromania
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Slots Remaining: 8
 
Vortex, I can't do four.
Here are (from a quick scan of my library) my candidates. Take whatever is useful to you.
Judas Priest — anything but Turbo, Ram It Down and Rocka Rolla — particularly Defenders, Screaming, Steel, Painkiller
Queensryche — Mindcrime, Empire
Black Sabbath — Heaven and Hell
Dio — Holy Diver, The Last in Line
Accept — Metal Heart
Angel City (The Angels) — Face to Face, Skin and Bone
AC/DC — almost anything, but especially Let There Be Rock, Back in Black
Soundgarden — Superunknown
Rush — Moving Pictures, Grace Under Pressure, Counterparts
Ozzy — Diary of a Madman
Blue Oyster Cult — Secret Treaties, Fire of Unknown Origin, Spectres
Coheed and Cambria — No World For Tomorrow
Bruce Dickinson — Chemical Wedding, Accident of Birth
Gary Moore — Run For Cover
Halford — Resurrection
Scorpions — Blackout
Led Zeppelin — Physical Graffiti
Saxon — Unleash the Beast
Thin Lizzy — Jailbreak (unless we can do live, then Live and Dangerous)
Y&T — Mean Streak
 
Mckindog, if it's ok by you I selected these 4.

Judas Priest - Brittish Steel
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Rush - Moving Pictures

I did want to make this for studio albums only to answer your question. I will put that in the OP aswell.
 
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Part I
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Rainbow - Rising.
 
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Now this topic would really be interesting to do in survivor mode...
 
Metallica - .. And Justice For All
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
 
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - South of Heaven
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
 
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys II
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Manowar - Battle Hymns
 
Anthrax-Among the Living
Slayer-Seasons in the Abyss (or Reign in Blood)
Testament-New World Order
Overkill-Overkill (or Taking Over)
 
Metallica-....and Justice for all
Slayer- Reign in blood
Megadeth- Rust in peace
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti or IV?
 
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Carcass - Necroticism (Descanting The Insalubrious)
Voïvod - NothingFace
 
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho (including Helloween EP and Judas EP)
 
Thanks for giving us input, Vortex!  :ok:

Black Sabbath - The Headless Cross
Black Sabbath - Tyr
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
 
Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
Angra - Angels Cry
Pearl Jam - Ten
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
 
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Dio - Dream Evil
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Blaze Bayley - Silicon Messiah
 
AC/DC -- Powerage
Deep Purple -- In Rock
Ozzy -- Diary of a Madman
Deep Purple -- Machine Head
 
I will nominate:

Mortal Sin - Face of Despair
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Motorhead - Orgasmatron
 
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