Watch: we asked a bunch of metal artists to pick four classic metal albums

Metalheads love lists. It’s as much as fact of life as the sun being hot, grass being green and the Earth being round (sorry, flat Earth weirdos!). Whether it’s reeling off our favourite albums of the year, comparing top five Metallica album openers or getting stuck into whatever controversial listicle has hit the internet this week, curating, comparing and bickering over lists has basically become a foundational part of metal culture at this point.

So, we thought we’d hit up some of our favourite artists from the metal scene and ask them to pick four classic metal albums. That’s it. That’s the brief: just four metal albums that mean something to them, for whatever reason that may be.