Historically, the conventional studio album has been the big moneymaker in heavy metal. The likes of Metallica’s Black Album, Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid all represent apexes of influence that every heavy artist would kill to reach. But what about the album that teams bands together?
Metal history is laden with compilations that have gathered mammoth names, moulded subgenres or even thrust the genre into the mainstream for one fleeting moment. Yet, they never get their just acknowledgement. So, below, Metal Hammer’s collected the 10 most impactful and downright kick-ass compilations in the history of heaviness.
