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No Prayer for the Dying
No Prayer for the Dying is Iron Maiden's eighth studio album, released 1 October 1990: recorded in Steve Harris's Essex barn, first album with Janick Gers after Adrian Smith quit, featuring the BBC-banned UK number one "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter".
No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)
No Rest for the Wicked is Ozzy Osbourne's fifth studio album, released 28 September 1988. It debuted guitarist Zakk Wylde, hit No. 13 on the Billboard 200, went 2x Platinum, and included 'Miracle Man' about televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Opus Eponymous
Opus Eponymous is the 2010 debut studio album by Swedish band Ghost, released on Rise Above Records. Recorded in Linköping by Tobias Forge (as producer pseudonym Gene Walker), it pairs Satanic occult imagery with melodic 1970s-style heavy metal and became Rise Above's biggest seller.
Overkill (Motörhead album)
Overkill (Motörhead album): Motörhead's second studio album, released March 24, 1979 on Bronze, produced by Jimmy Miller; its title track was performed on Top of the Pops in 1979.
Ozzmosis
Ozzmosis (Ozzy Osbourne's seventh studio album, 1995, Epic), produced by Michael Beinhorn with Zakk Wylde, Geezer Butler, Deen Castronovo, and Rick Wakeman; peaked at No. 4 Billboard 200, 2x Platinum RIAA, singles Perry Mason, See You On The Other Side, I Just Want You.
Painkiller (Judas Priest album)
Painkiller is the twelfth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released in 1990 and Rob Halford's last with the band for 13 years.
Para Bellum (album)
Para Bellum is Testament's 14th studio album, released October 10, 2025 on Nuclear Blast. Titled after the Latin phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum, it features new drummer Chris Dovas and was named Loudwire's best metal album of 2025.
Paranoid (album)
Paranoid is the second studio album by Black Sabbath, released in 1970; it contains "War Pigs," "Iron Man," and "Paranoid" and was their first album to reach number 1 in the UK.
Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? is Megadeth's second studio album, released in September 1986 through Capitol Records and produced by Dave Mustaine and Randy Burns.
Perfect Strangers (album)
Perfect Strangers (1984) is Deep Purple's reunion studio album for the Mark II lineup of Gillan, Blackmore, Lord, Paice, and Glover, recorded in Stowe, Vermont, peaking at UK number 5 and selling 3 million copies.
Peter Criss (2025 album)
Peter Criss (2025) is the sixth solo album by Kiss co-founder drummer Peter Criss, released December 19, 2025 on Silvercat/Flatiron; 11 rock tracks with John 5, Billy Sheehan, Paul Shaffer, and Mike McLaughlin, reviving recordings started around 2008.
Physical Graffiti
Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin's sixth studio album, is a double LP released February 24, 1975. It was released on Swan Song Records and achieved No. 1 chart status.
Piece of Mind
Piece of Mind is Iron Maiden's fourth studio album, released 16 May 1983; first with drummer Nicko McBrain, produced by Martin Birch in the Bahamas, UK number three and platinum, home of The Trooper and Revelations.
Point of Entry
Point of Entry, Judas Priest's seventh studio album (February 1981, Columbia/CBS), a commercial hard rock follow-up to British Steel; UK peak No. 14, US No. 39, silver/gold certified, produced by Tom Allom at Ibiza Sound Studios.
Power Metal (album)
Power Metal (album): Pantera's fourth studio album, released June 24, 1988 on Metal Magic Records; first Pantera record with vocalist Phil Anselmo, largely heavy/speed metal with glam remnants, sold about 30,000 copies, never officially reissued.
Powerslave
Powerslave is Iron Maiden's fifth studio album, released 3 September 1984 on EMI, produced by Martin Birch at Compass Point Studios, Bahamas; Egyptian-themed record with Eddie-as-pharaoh cover, "Aces High," "2 Minutes to Midnight," and the Coleridge-based "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
Presence (album)
Presence (1976) is Led Zeppelin's seventh studio album, released on Swan Song Records. Recorded in 18 days in Munich with Robert Plant in a wheelchair after his 1975 car crash, it hit number one but became their lowest-selling studio album.
Psycho Circus
Psycho Circus is a 1998 studio album by the American rock band Kiss, released on Mercury Records and credited to the original lineup of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss.
Ram It Down
Ram It Down (1988) is Judas Priest's eleventh studio album, produced by Tom Allom on Columbia. Born from the split Twin Turbos project, largely drum-machine-driven, gold in the US, and the last album with drummer Dave Holland.
Redeemer of Souls
Redeemer of Souls is the seventeenth studio album by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest, released in July 2014 and their first without guitarist K.K. Downing.
Reign in Blood
Reign in Blood, Slayer's third studio album (Def Jam, October 7, 1986), produced by Rick Rubin: a ten-track, roughly 29-minute thrash landmark featuring "Angel of Death," released via Geffen after CBS refused, peaking at No. 94 on the Billboard 200.
Repentless
Repentless is Slayer's twelfth and final studio album, released September 11, 2015 on Nuclear Blast, produced by Terry Date, the first without Jeff Hanneman, featuring Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph, debuting at number four on the Billboard 200.
Ride the Lightning
Ride the Lightning is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released in 1984. Recorded in Copenhagen, it expanded thrash metal with structured songs and darker lyrics.
Risk (Megadeth album)
Risk (1999), Megadeth's eighth studio album on Capitol, recorded in Nashville with producer Dann Huff; a hard rock/electronica departure from metal, Jimmy DeGrasso's studio debut, Marty Friedman's last Megadeth album.
Roots (Sepultura album)
Roots (1996, Roadrunner) is Sepultura's sixth studio album, its last with Max Cavalera, blending downtuned groove metal, Brazilian percussion, and Xavante field recordings; it hit Billboard 200 #27, sold over 2 million copies, and prefigured nu metal.
Rust in Peace
Rust in Peace is Megadeth's fourth studio album, released September 24, 1990 on Capitol Records, produced by Dave Mustaine and Mike Clink. The first album with Marty Friedman and Nick Menza, it features Holy Wars... The Punishment Due and Hangar 18, was certified Gold, and was nominated for the 1991 Best Metal Performance Grammy.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Black Sabbath's fifth studio album, released December 1, 1973 on Vertigo and Warner Bros. Written at Clearwell Castle after writer's block, with Rick Wakeman on keyboards; first Sabbath album with positive mainstream reviews and fifth US platinum album.
Sabotage (Black Sabbath album)
Sabotage is Black Sabbath's sixth studio album, released July 28, 1975, the last of the original lineup's classic run, recorded at Morgan Studios amid litigation with manager Patrick Meehan, featuring Hole in the Sky, Symptom of the Universe, and The Writ.
Sad Wings of Destiny
Sad Wings of Destiny, Judas Priest's second album (Gull, March 23, 1976), recorded at Rockfield Studios, peaked at UK number 48 and became a blueprint for NWOBHM and thrash metal.
Scream (Ozzy Osbourne album)
Scream (2010, Epic Records) is Ozzy Osbourne's tenth studio album, produced with Kevin Churko, featuring new guitarist Gus G after Zakk Wylde's departure; it peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 with the single "Let Me Hear You Scream".