10 Perfect Metal Albums With ZERO Bad Songs
1. The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
No one could have anticipated how much the world was shaken by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Coming just as the old wave of metal was starting to die out, the likes of everyone from Diamond Head to Angel Witch were about to bring a different tone to the sound of metal, which would influence everyone from Rage Against the Machine to Metallica later down the line. When you break through the treasure trove of releases though, there's no one that can touch Number of the Beast.
Being the first Iron Maiden album with Bruce Dickinson on lead vocals, it sounds like you're listening to Maiden reaching their final form, complete with some of the most savage riffs Steve Harris has ever written. Aside from the more celebrated songs like Run for the Hills, ballads like Hallowed Be Thy Name show us just how much scope they have as writers, while a song The Prisoner might be the most perfect story they had ever written up until this point.
And let's not forget the title track, which still holds up as one of the single greatest 5 minutes of music in the heavy metal canon. This wasn't just some metal record that you would be proud to have in your collection. This is the kind of golden track list that makes you a fan of metal for life.