Rolling Stone recently released its "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" list, and No. 1 was Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. Metallica was No. 2 with Master of Puppets.
Lars Ulrich's 15 Favorite Metal and Hard Rock Albums, in Alphabetical Order:
AC/DC -- Let There Be Rock
Alice in Chains -- Dirt
Black Sabbath -- Sabotage
Blue Oyster Cult -- On Your Feet or On Your Knees
Deep Purple -- Made in Japan
Diamond Head -- Lightning to the Nations
Guns N' Roses -- Appetite for Destruction
Iron Maiden -- The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest -- Unleashed in the East
Mercyful Fate -- Melissa
Motorhead -- Overkill
Rage Against the Machine -- The Battle of Los Angeles
System of a Down -- Toxicity
UFO -- Strangers in the Night
Warrior Soul -- The Space Age Playboys