A revista britânica Kerrang! resolveu eleger os 50 álbuns mais pesados de todos os tempos e incluiu na lista discos dos Beatles, Sepultura, Deftones (foto) Metallica, Prodigy, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai, Slayer, entre outros.
Veja abaixo as escolhas da redação da Kerrang!, que não incluem apenas discos de heavy metal - "queríamos celebrar o quão variado e abrangente o termo 'pesado' pode ser":
50. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
49. The Beatles - White Album
48. Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium
47. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
46. Judas Priest - British Steel
45. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
44. Alice in Chains - Dirt
43. Deftones - Around The Fur
42. The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
41. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
40. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
39. Nirvana - Bleach
38. Sepultura - Chaos AD
37. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
36. Mogwai - My Father My King
35. Morbid Anfel - Altars Of Madness
34. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
33. American Nightmare - Background Music
32. Bathory - Bathory
31. Sarcofago - INRI
30. Nine Inch Nails - The Downwards Spiral
29. Korn - Korn
28. Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
27. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
26. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
25. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
24. Satyricon - Volcano
23. Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipe Out
22. Brutal Truth - Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom
21. Bring Me The Horizon - Suicide Season
20. Discharge - Hear nothing see nothing say nothing
19. Strapping Young Lad - City
18. Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
17. Sleep - Dopesmoker
16. Sunn 0))) - Black One
15. Botch - We Are The Romans
14. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
13. Rammstein - Sehnsucht
12. Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
11. Everytime i Die - Hot Damn
10. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
09. Napalm Death - Scum
08. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
07. Black Flag - Damaged
06. Mastodon - Leviathan
05. At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
04. Slipknot - Iowa
03. Converge - Jane Doe
02. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
01. Slayer - Reign In Blood
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