Criteria: Influence/Impact, Originality, Technicality

1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
2. Moving Pictures – Rush (Neil Peart)
3. Lateralus - Tool (Danny Carey)
4. Brain Salad Surgery – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Carl Palmer)
5. Machine Head – Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
6. Fresh Cream - Cream (Ginger Baker)
7. Who's Next - The Who (Keith Moon)
8. Awake - Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy)
9. Fragile – Yes (Bill Bruford)
10. Frizzle Fry – Primus (Tim Alexander)

11. Red – King Crimson (Bill Bruford)
12. Hemispheres – Rush (Neil Peart)
13. Crash – Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford)
14. Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Mitch Mitchell)
15. Regatta De Blanc – The Police (Stewart Copeland)
16. Vanilla Fudge – Near The Beginning (Carmine Appice)
17. Situation Dangerous – Bozzio Levin Stevens (Terry Bozzio)
18. Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
19. Siamese Dream – Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Chamberlin)
20. Badmotorfinger – Soundgarden (Matt Cameron)
21. Aja - Steely Dan (Steve Gadd, Bernard Purdie, Paul Humphrey, Ed Greene, Jim Keltner & Rick Marotta)
22. Rust In Peace – Megadeth (Nick Menza)
23. De-Loused In The Comatorium – The Mars Volta (Jon Theodore)
24. Fly By Night - Rush (Neil Peart)
25. In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson (Michael Giles)
26. Season Of The Abyss – Slayer (Dave Lombardo)
27. Deliverance – Opeth (Martin Lopez)
28. Killers – Iron Maiden (Clive Burr)
29. Tommy – The Who (Keith Moon)
30. Spring Session M – Missing Persons (Terry Bozzio)
31. Scenes From a Memory – Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy)
32. Aenima – Tool (Danny Carey)
33. Unquestionable Presence - Steve Flynn (Atheist)
34. Paranoid – Black Sabbath (Bill Ward)
35. Led Zeppelin IV – Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
36. Outlandos D’Amour – The Police (Stewart Copeland)
37. Over-Nite Sensation – Frank Zappa (Ralph Humphrey)
38. 2112 - Rush (Neil Peart)
39. What If – Dixie Dregs (Rod Morgenstein)
40. Tarkus – Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Carl Palmer)
41. In Rock – Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
42. Ghost Reveries – Opeth (Martin Lopez)
43. Reign In Blood – Slayer (Dave Lombardo)
44. Disraeli Gears - Cream (Ginger Baker)
45. Piece Of Mind – Iron Maiden (Nicko McBrain)
46. Systematic Chaos – Dream Theater (Mike Portnoy)
47. Before These Crowded Streets – Dave Matthews Band (Carter Beauford)
48. Physical Graffitti – Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
49. Quadrophenia – The Who (Keith Moon)
50. Tago Mago - CAN (Jaki Liebezeit)

51. Rising – Rainbow (Cozy Powell)
52. Strange New Flesh – Colosseum II (John Hiseman)
53. Santana – Santana (Mike Shrieve)
54. Third – The Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt)
55. Liquid Tension Experiment 2 – Liquid Tension Experiment (Mike Portnoy)
56. Life Begins Again – Jimmy Chamberlin Complex (Jimmy Chamberlin)
57. Don Caballero 2 - Don Caballero (Damon Che)
58. Mastodon – Blood Mountain (Brann Dailor)
59. The Grand Pecking Order – Oysterhead (Stewart Copeland)
60. Superunknown – Soundgarden (Matt Cameron)
61. Awaken The Guardian – Fates Warning (Mark Zonder)
62. Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck (Richard Bailey)
63. Discipline – King Crimson (Bill Bruford)
64. Fireball – Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
65. Struttin’ – The Meters (Zigaboo Modeliste)
66. You – Gong (Pierre Moerlen)
67. Beck, Bogert & Appice – Beck, Bogert Appice & (Carmine Appice)
68. The System Has Failed – Megadeth (Vinnie Colaiuta)
69. Sailing The Seas Of Cheese – Primus (Tim Alexander)
70. Joe’s Garage – Frank Zappa (Vinnie Colaiuta)
71. Ghost In The Machine – The Police (Stewart Copeland)
72. Combat Rock – The Clash (Topper Headon)
73. The Bedlam In Goliath – The Mars Volta (Thomas Pridgen)
74. Fear Of A Blank Planet – Porcupine Tree (Gavin Harrison)
75. Far Beyond Driven – Pantera (Vinnie Paul)
76. Death Walks Behind You - Atomic Rooster (Carl Palmer)
77. Yesterday And Tomorrow – Y&T (Leonard Haze)
78. Revolver – The Beatles (Ringo Starr)
79. Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Bill Ward)
80. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Camberlin)
81. The Number Of The Beast – Iron Maiden (Clive Burr)
82. Presence – Led Zeppelin (John Bonham)
83. … And Justice For All – Metallica (Lars Ulrich)
84. Mastodon – Leviathan (Brann Dailor)
85. Battles – Mirrored (John Stanier)
86. Electric Ladyland – Jimi Hendrix Experience (Mitch Mitchell)
87. Reinventing The Steel – Pantera (Vinnie Paul)
88. A Farewell To Kings – Rush (Neil Peart)
89. Let It Bleed – Rolling Stones (Charlie Watts)
90. Black Light Syndrome - Bozzio Levin Stevens (Terry Bozzio)
91. The Big Eyeball In The Sky - Colonel Claypool’s Bucket Of Bernie Brains (Bryan Mantia)
92. World Class Listening Problem - Don Caballero (Damon Che)
93. The Sound of Perseverance – Death (Richard Christy)
94. The Power To Believe – King Crimson (Pat Mastelotto)
95. One-Trick Pony – Paul Simon (Steve Gadd)
96. Gish – Smashing Pumpkins (Jimmy Chamberlin)
97. Blackwater Park – Opeth (Martin Lopez)
98. Trilogy - Emerson Lake & Palmer (Carl Palmer)
99. Songs For The Terestrially Challenged - The Speaking Canaries (Noah Leger)
100. Contradictions Collapse – Meshuggah (Tomas Haake)

101. Songs For The Deaf – Queens Of The Stone Age (Dave Grohl)
102. Burn - Deep Purple (Ian Paice)
103. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull (Barriemore Barlow)
104. Toto IV - Toto (Jeff Porcaro)
105. Powerslave - Iron Maiden (Nicko McBrain)
106. Call Of The Mastodon - Mastodon (Brann Dailor)
107. The Idiot King - Attention Deficit (Tim Alexander)
108. Punkgasm - Don Caballero (Damon Che)
109. The Red Album - Baroness (Allen Blickle)
110. Grace - Jeff Buckley (Matt Johnson)
111. Amputecture - The Mars Volta (Jon Theodore)
112. Lark's Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson (Bill Mruford & Jaime Muir)
113. Rock And Roll - Vanilla Fudge (Carmine Appice)
114. Gaucho - Steely Dan (Bernard Purdie, Steve Gadd & Jeff Porcaro)
115. Chicago II - Chicago (Danny Seraphine)
116. Caress Of Steel - Rush (Neil Peart)
117. Song For America - Kansas (Phil Ehart)
118. Bad Reputation - Thin Lizzy (Brian Downey)
119. THRAK - King Crimson (Bill Bruford & Pat Mastelotto)
120. Mary Star Of The Ocean - Zwan (Jimmy Chamberlin)
121. Close To The Edge - Yes (Bill Bruford)
122. I - Meshuggah (Tomas Haake)
123. Toto - Toto (Jeff Porcaro)
124. A Quick One – Keith Moon (The Who)
125. Individual Thought Patterns - Death (Gene Hoglan)
126. The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera (Vinnie Paul)
127. The Director's Cut - Fantômas (Dave Lombardo)
128. Helmet – Monochrome (John Stanier)
129. Screaming Headless Torsos – Screaming Headless Torsos (Skoota Warner, Daniel Sadownick)
130. Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade (Grant Hart)
131. The Sword – Age Of Winters (Trivett Wingo)
132. Nowhere - Ride (Mark Gardener)
133. Ars Longa Vita Brevis – Brian Davison (The Nice)
134. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
135. The Gathering – Testament (Dave Lombardo)
136. Restrictions – Cactus (Carmine Appice)
137. Ege Bamyasi – CAN (Jaki Liebezeit)
138. Fire On The Bayou – The Meters (Zigaboo Modeliste)
139. Master Of Puppets – Metallica (Lars Ulrich)
140. Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix Experience (Mitch Mitchell)
141. Ink Complete – Spastic Ink (Bobby Jarzombek)
142. Permanent Waves – Rush (Neil Peart)
143. Pawn Hearts – Van Der Graaf Generator (Guy Timpani)
144. Wired – Jeff Beck (Richard Bailey)
145. Blind Faith – Blind Faith (Ginger Baker)
146. 10,000 Days – Tool (Danny Carey)
147. For Respect – Don Caballero (Damon Che)
148. In Absentia – Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree)
149. The Clash – The Clash (Topper Headon)
150. Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden (Clive Burr)

Shouldn't Reign In Blood by Slayer be much higher than #43 because of how it impacted heavy metal drumming? And where is Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin???

Reign in Blood should be switched with Seasons in the Abyss...

Also, the ELP debut should be Carl Palmer's second highest ranking album...

Since there's still a lack of Queen albums here I'd like to suggest the first 2 albums to be added.

Reign in blood should definitely be higher than Rust in Peace though that albums insane....

Are the criteria evenly weighted or what?

And what in god's name is Fragile doing below Awake?

Idk, I didn't make the list

I agree that Fragile beats Awake, but I'm not the list editor.

Who's the list editor? Is there one?

Technically it's still tommorello. On this forum his screenname is PBR Streetgang I believe.

Ah.

Is he even a mod still?

Nope.

Is this a typo?

Could be. I've never heard that album... and I'm not the one who typed up this list.

Doing a quick google search, I think it's a Steely Dan album.