Top 10 heavy metal live albums

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PieceofMind89

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1. Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East
2. Iron Maiden- Beast Over Hammersmith
3. Motörhead- No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith
4. Scorpions- Tokyo Tapes
5. Metallica- Live Shit: Binge & Purge
6. Ozzy Osbourne- Randy Tribute
7. KISS- Alive
8. Death- Live in LA(Death & Raw)
9. Slayer- Decade of Aggression
10. Pantera- Official Live: 101 Proof
 
Stratovarius - Visions of Europe
Iced earth - Alive in Athens
Motörhead - No sleep ‘till Hammersmith
Iron maiden - Rock in Rio
Blind guardian - Live
Metallica - Live shit
Edguy - Burning down the opera
Judas priest - Unleashed in the east
Rammstein - Völkerball
Guns ‘n Roses - Live at the Ritz 91
 
1. Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
2. Nightwish - Showtime, Storytime
3. UFO - Strangers in the Night
4. Kamelot - One Cold Winter Night
5. Dream Theater - Live: Scenes From New York
6. Gamma Ray - Skeletons in the Closet
7. Children of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts
8. Iron Maiden - Live After Death
9. Iron Maiden - Maiden England
10. Metallica - Seattle '89
 
Well , it's difficult to find 10 good metal live albums. Many bands that have well produced and very polished albums in studio can't reach the level with Live albums. I'll rank the albums according of quality, songs, performance, energy, crowd atmosphere and participation and enjoyable album.

Metal:

  1. Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East (1979)
  2. Iron Maiden - Live After Death (1985)
  3. Accept - Staying a Life (1990)
  4. Ozzy Osbourne - Randy Rhoads Tribute (1987)
  5. Iron Maiden - Maiden England (1989)
  6. Saxon - The Eagle has landed (1982)
  7. Black Sabbath - Live Evil (1982)
  8. Dio - Evil or Divine. Live in New York City (2005)
  9. Yngwie Malmsteen - Trial by Fire. Live in Leningrad (1989)
  10. Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil (1982)

Hard Rock:

  1. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous (1978)
  2. UFO - Strangers in the Night (1979)
  3. Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (1981)
  4. AC/DC - LIve (1992)
  5. The Michael Schenker Group - Live at Budokan (1982)
  6. Golden Earring - Live (1977)
  7. Alcatrazz - No Parole for Rock 'n' Roll. Live Sentence (1984)
  8. Gary Moore - We Want Moore! (1984)
  9. Y&T - Open Fire : Live (1985)
  10. Deep Purple - Made in Japan (1972)
 
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What are some good modern live albums? I feel like that format is a bit of a dinosaur in the internet era. There are a couple solid Opeth live releases but after that I can't think of any that I frequently go back to.
 
Mosh said:
What are some good modern live albums?
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Here's 20 from the past 15 years. Admittedly, it was hard to find a proper non-live stream live album from this decade due to the pandemic.

  1. Heaven & Hell - Live From Radio City Music Hall (2007)
  2. Gamma Ray - Hell Yeah! The Awesome Foursome (2008)
  3. Dark Tranquillity - Where Death Is Most Alive (2009)
  4. Amorphis - Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes (2010)
  5. Opeth - In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall (2010)
  6. Hypocrisy - Hell Over Sofia (2011)
  7. Iron Maiden - En Vivo! (2012)
  8. Nightwish - Showtime, Storytime (2013)
  9. Meshuggah - The Ophidian Trek (2014)
  10. Devin Townsend Project - Ziltoid Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2015)
  11. Paradise Lost - Symphony For The Lost (2015)
  12. Satyricon - Live At The Opera (2015)
  13. Leprous - Live At Rockefeller Music Hall (2016)
  14. Cult Of Luna - Years In A Day (2017)
  15. Rammstein - Paris (2017)
  16. Alter Bridge - Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2018)
  17. Helloween - United Alive (2019)
  18. Ayreon - Electric Castle Live & Other Tales (2020)
  19. Septicflesh - Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX (2020)
  20. Swallow The Sun - 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty & Despair (2021)
 
These live albums belong to last year and some of them are amazing like Moonspell live album.
  • Moonspell - From Down to Below. Live 80 meters deep.
  • Epica -Live at Paradiso
  • Kreator - Bootleg Revolution
  • Dio - Live at Donnington '83 and '87
  • Some Motorhead official bootleg which title I don't remember right now.
From this year we have Visions of Atlantis Live at wacken
 
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