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Artists With 3+ Of The Top 500 Metal Albums Of All Time

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Name the artists with at least 3 albums in the top 500 metal albums of all time according to Martin Popoff’s “the Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of all Time” in 2004 – which ranked metal albums according to numerous polls. # of albums and year span shown. Object is most albums, not artists.

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jdam0819

11 months ago

most of these i’d say are rock

DoktorAJ

2 years ago

A lot of boomer bands here. No clue who Mike Popoff is, but I’m going to take a wild guess and say he isn’t this side of 50.

MilkyJoe

2 years ago

I don’t consider half of these “metal”.

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