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Top 500 Metal Albums Of All Time

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Name 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. Artist and year shown. First two words accepted for longer album titles.

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