 | Allied Forces by Triumph
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.57 A must have by one of the few "Power Trios"
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 | 2112 by Rush
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.79 Another great power trio. This is what I consider the must have Rush album
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 | Images and Words by Dream Theater
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $3.98 These guys have yet to put out a bad album. Although this is the second release, I consider this the beginning because it is the first album with vocalist James Labrie
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 | Mullmuzzler 2 by James LaBrie
Buy used from: $3.00 Side project from James Labrie (Dream Theater).
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 | Parallels by Fates Warning
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.47 Another prog band, can't say enough good about these guys either
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 | The Legacy by Testament
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.00 Great Metal/thrash band. Guitarist Alex Skolnik is one of the great guitarists. He has played with Savatage and done some work on Trans-Siberian Orchestra as well as some solo stuff
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 | Hall of the Mountain King by Savatage
Buy new: $13.96 / Used from: $5.50 One of my favorites, they have gotten better and better. Most of them are in Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Criss Oliva was destined to be one of the great guitarists until his passing in a car crash
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 | Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.95 One of, if not the, best metal bands ever. The only below par albums they ever done were the ones without Bruce Dickinson.
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 | Holy Diver by Dio
Buy new: $6.97 / Used from: $2.42 Need I say more, I think not. One of the godfathers of modern metal
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 | Rising Force by Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.71 One of the top, if not the best, to ever pick up the guitar.
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 | Voodoo Highway by Badlands
Buy used from: $18.88 One of my favorite guitar players, Jake E. Lee, band after leaving Ozzy, a must hear
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 | The Blessed Hellride by Black Label Society
Buy used from: $3.00 Another Ozzy guitarist. Nothing against Ozzy, but his guitarists always seem to put out albums that are way better that what they done when they were with him.
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 | Best of '81 to '85 by Y&T
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.14 Just a great 80's metal band, just all around good rock with some fun thrown in
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 | Faster Pussycat by Faster Pussycat
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.49 The original, and the best, sleaze metal band from the 80's. Just and all around fun band with that sleazy bluesy sound
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 | Shout at the Devil by Mötley Crüe
Buy used from: $2.92 The biggest metal band of the 80's. Their first four albums were just great, but like many labels and producers pretty much ruined them. Last great release, Girls Girls Girls
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 | Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $1.87 The saviour of metal, sort of the bastard child of Aerosmith and Motley Crue. If anyone needs to reunite, it's these guys
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 | Something Wicked This Way Comes by Iced Earth
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.43 Another great metal band that goes just a little beyond your average metal band. Put Iron Maiden, Dio and early Metallica in a bag, shake it up and this is pretty much what you get, the best of all 3
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 | Hell Bent for Leather by Judas Priest
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.07 How much more metal can you get, the answer is none, none more metal.
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 | Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? by Megadeth
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.02 What Metallica could have been. Great band until Mustaine started taking himself to seriously, and then still not bad
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 | Reign in Blood by Slayer
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.85 One of the first bands to ever make milk curdle. At the time I don't think it got any better than this.
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 | Death Cult Armageddon by Dimmu Borgir
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.75 I'm not a big death metal fan, but these guys do it big. If you want to try death metal on your ears, this is one I suggest
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 | Dirt by Alice in Chains
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.25 One of the few bands out of the whole Seattle scene that were really musicians.
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 | Louder Than Love by Soundgarden
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.73 The other Seattle band that had talent, atleast for the first few albums
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 | Operation: Mindcrime by Queensrÿche
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.00 One of the most talented bands to come out of the 80's. Another band I can't say enough good about.
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 | Among the Living by Anthrax
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.50 One of the original, and best, thrash bands. Great until they change singers and direction
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 | Blue Murder by Blue Murder
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.50 One of the great overlooked bands of the era. John Sykes was already a veteran when he formed this band and it show's
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 | Tooth and Nail by Dokken
Buy used from: $1.69 One of my favorites from the Mid 80's. George Lynch was an amazing guitarist and Don Dokkens vocals were some of the best of the 80's
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 | Out of the Cellar by Ratt
Buy used from: $1.69 Sleazy, bluesy rock. I spent many nights cruising and doing other things listening to these guys. One of those bands that always brings back good memories of growing up in the 80's
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