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Re: Top 5 (or 10) favorite metal songs

top five songs by Megadeth 1. Headcrusher (Endgame) 2. Good Mourning/Black Friday (Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?) 3. Skull Beneath The Skin (Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good) 4. You're Dead (United Abominations) 5. Rust In Peace...Polaris (Rust In Peace)
I agree with The Skull Beneath the Skin and Black Friday, but would pick Wake Up Dead, Take No Prisoners, and Loved You To Death in place of the others.
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ok this one is very specific top five songs from the album Nostradamus by Judas Priest 1. Nostradamus 2. Persecution 3. Death 4. Prophecy 5. Future Of Mankind
have you heard the title track? its awesome! top 10 Judas Priest songs atm (no order): Let Us Prey/Call For The Priest Blood Red Skies Hellion/Electric Eye I'm A Rocker Bloodstone Hell Bent For Leather Nostradamus Rock Hard Ride Free Death Row You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise
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Re: Top 5 (or 10) favorite metal songs Top 10 Iron Maiden Songs 1. Infinite Dreams 2. Prowler 3. The Prisoner 4. Can I Play With Madness 5. Aces High 6. Sea of Madness 7. 2 AM 8. Fear of the Dark 9. Murders in the Rue Morgue 10. Futureal

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Re: Top 5 (or 10) favorite metal songs Top 10 Judas Priest Songs 1. Cathedral Spires 2. A Touch of Evil 3. Locked In 4. The Sentinel 5. Heading Out to the Highway 6. Screaming for Vengeance 7. Delivering The Goods 8. Beyond The Realms Of Death 9. Victim Of Changes 10. Run of the Mill

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Re: Top 5 (or 10) favorite metal songs top ten songs invovling King Diamond 1. Gypsy (Mercyful Fate) 2. At The Graves (King Diamond) 3. Curse Of The Pharoah (Mercyful Fate) 4. Abigail (King Diamond) 5. Sleepless Nights (King Diamond) 6. Evil (Mercyful Fate) 7. Satan's Fall (Mercyful Fate 8. The Wedding Dream (King Diamond) 9. Into The Coven (Mercyful Fate 10. Nightmare (Mercyful Fate

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Top ten overall, in no pacticular other: My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven Austere - This Dreadful Emptiness Alcest - Autre Temps Insomnium - Against the Stream Dark Tranquillity - Misery's Crown Sólstafir - Fjara Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany Opeth - Deliverance Ghost Brigade - Clawmaster Top five melodeath: Insomnium - Against the Stream Dark Tranquillity - Misery's Crown Be'Lakor - Countless Skies Omnium Gatherum - Soul Journeys Dark Tranquillity - Mundane and the Magic Top five (melodic) doom/death: My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours Ghost Brigade - Clawmaster Saturnus - Forest of Insomnia Eye of Solitude - He Who Willingly Suffers Officium Triste - Like Atlas Top five atmospheric black/dsbm: Austere - This Dreadful Emptiness Annorkoth - You're My Only Dream Woods of Desolation - Darker Days Wilds Forlorn - The Great Loss Thy Light - The Bridge

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