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"Red Wine At Dead Time" by Cecil

Irritatingly, they don't actually give any criteria for how they've deemed something "heavy", but in regards to Priest, they admit that it isn't as sonically heavy as "Painkiller" or "Jugulator", but the impact that "Stained Class" had on heavy music in general earns it the place in the list. Seemingly, they tried to combine the influence the albums had on metal with actual heaviness. This seems to be the case with Blue Cheer, which they claim helped develop the concept of heavy metal.

1.Chris Hero 2.Charlie Haas 3.The Messiah 4.Petey Williams 5.Roderick Strong

As each day passes, I love Jacques Santini a little bit more. What a great result against a decent Birmingham team, and another couple of million added to Jermain Defoe's value.

You've read it already? No, the rest of the list is pretty disappointing in comparison, but some less predictable stuff does sneak through. Without further ado... 50.Nile-In Their Darkened Shrines 49.Meshuggah-Destroy Ease Improve 48.Akercocke-The Goat Of Mendes 47.Big Black-Songs Abour Fucking 46.Exodus-Bonded By Blood 45.Iron Maiden-Killers 44.Neurosis-Souls At Zero 43.Mistress-Mistress 42.Strapping Young Lad-City 41.The Locust-Plague Soundscapes 40.Iron Monkey-Our Problem 39.Down-Nola 38.Emperor-Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk 37.Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral 36.Godflesh-Godflesh 35.Cannibal Corpse-Butchered At Birth 34.Motorhead-Overkill 33.Trouble-Psalm 9 32.Zyklon-Aeon 31.Testament-The Legacy 30.Anaal Nathrakh-The Codex Necro 29.Cradle Of Filth-The Principles Of Evil Made Flesh 28.Bathory-Under The Sign Of The Black Mark 27.System Of A Down-System Of A Down 26.Deicide-Deicide 25.Napalm Death-From Enslavement To Obliteration 24.Darkthrone-A Blaze In The Northern Sky 23.Carcass-Symphonies Of Sickness 22.Megadeth-Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? 21.Satyricon-Nemesis Divina 20.Korn-Korn (WTF??) 19.Kyuss-Blues From The Red Sun 18.Shadows Fall-The Art Of Balance 17.Death-Scream Bloody Gore 16.Arch Enemy-Anthems Of Rebellion 15.Dimmu Borgir-Stormblast 14.Morbid Angel-Blessed Are The Sick 13.Obituary-Slowly We Rot 12.Chimaira-The Impossibility Of Reason 11.Sepultura-Chaos AD 10.Venom-Black Metal 9.Killswitch Engage-The End Of Heartache 8.Superjoint Ritual-A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred 7.Machine Head-Through The Ashes Of Empires 6.Slipknot-Iowa 5.Pantera-Vulgar Display Of Power 4.Slayer-Reign In Blood 3.Metallica-Kill 'Em All 2.Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath 1.Judas Priest-Stained Class Thoughts? While the second half is a let down, from the pretty predictable top 15, which is over-populated with recent releases, to some controvertial positions (in no way are Korn heavier than Iron Monkey or Akercocke), the first half is pretty damn good.

Here is the first half of UK mag Metal Hammer's 100 Heaviest Albums. Discuss 100.Kreator-Terrible Certainty 99.The Acacia Strain-Thirty Seven Fifty 98.Mountain-Climbing! 97.Oxbow-Let Me Be A Woman 96.Sir Lord Baltimore-Kingdom Come 95.Faith No More- King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime 94.Anthrax-Spreading The Disease 93.Fudge Tunnel- Hate Songs In E Minor 92.Marduk-Panzer Division Marduk 91.The Berzerker- Berkerker 90.Throbbing Gristle-Second Annual Report 89.Voivod-War And Pain 88.Sleep-Sleep's Holy Mountain 87.Jesus Lizard-Goat 86.Mercyful Fate- Don't Break The Oath 85.Labrat-Ruining It For Everyone 84.Burning Witch-Crippled Lucifer 83.Butthole Surfers-Locust Abortion Technician 82.Fear Factory-Soul Of A New Machine 81.Goatsnake-Goatsnake Volume One 80.Eyehategod-Take As Needed For Pain 79.Uriah Heep-Look At Yourself 78.Entombed-Wolverine Blues 77.The Obsessed-Lunar Womb 76.Children Of Bodom-Hate Crew Deathroll 75.Painkiller-Guts Of A Virgin 74.Sunn O)))-White 1 73.At The Gates-Slaughter Of The Soul 72.Converge-Caring And Killing 71.Electric Wizard-Dopethrone 70.Corrosion Of Conformity-Technocracy 69.Deep Purple-Machine Head 68.MC5-Kick Out The Jams 67.Today Is The Day-Temple Of The Morning Star 66.Ministry-The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste 65.The Stooges-Fun House 64.Will Haven-WHVN 63.Mastodon-Remission 62.Sick Of It All-Scratch The Surface 61.Celtic Frost-To Mega Therion 60.Raging Speedhorn-Raging Speedhorn 59.Khanate-Things Viral 58.Lamb Of God-New American Gospel 57.Dillenger Escape Plan-Calculating Infinity 56.Blue Cheer-Vincebus Eruptum 55.Hatebreed-Perserverence 54.Saint Vitus-Born Too Late 53.The Melvins-Gluey Porch Treatments 52.Manowar-Hail To England 51.DRI-Dirty Rotten Album Second half coming up

"Rocking The Suburbs" by Ben Folds

"Head Music" by Suede- I'd been listening to "Coming Up" this morning at work and I'd forgotten how good it was, so, seeing "Head Music" for £5 was a guarenteed sale. "When I Was Cruel" by Elvis Costello- £3!! Have I mentioned how much I LOVE my nearest CD shop? An absolute bargain!

All I can do is hope that the right bands win awards. By which I mean My Chemical Romance win best international newcomer, Funeral For A Friend win best live act, Ash win best single and Reuben getting best British newcomer. However, I get the impression that the same brain-dead winners will survive (Linkin Park as best best band in the world???). And is there REALLY no-one they could have found better as host than Stuart Cable?

"Lucky Denver Mint" by Jimmy Eat World

"Beautiful Loser" by Suede

"Fido" by Broccoli

I'm not sure why, but I get the impression that Knoxx vs Flash in the cage could be awesome.

"The Phantom Of The American Mother" by Catherine Wheel

"Asshole" by Gene Simmons

I wonder what this means... And if he does, there's only one player he'll be trying to sign off us Dean Richards! This could be GLORIOUS

"Gorgeous George" by Edwyn Collins for about £3 off eBay, making it my third £3 Edwyn album in a month, but I'm happy to get the mans genius for such low prices. "Can Our Love..." by Tindersticks which was £5, and they're one of those bands I've always thought I should try listening to and I couldn't really argue at that price. And, to my delight, it's great.

One Hour Photo- 9/10 Great film and I only wish that Robin Williams made more films like this.

The likes of Rey or Chavo beating Hogan is no more unrealistic than an a man like Hogan, who isn't exactly in the prime of life, beating Reigns, Jindrak or Dupree, all of whom I doubt Hogan would put over, which is the main reson I'd be opposed to his return.

Worst fucking band. You're both wrong. Great fucking band. Go listen to Allman Brothers, then. For what it's worth, here are my least favorite currently active bands, "indie" edition (no particular order): My Morning Jacket The Faint The Thrills Polyphonic Spree Ooh, take away the Faint and replace them with the Libertines or Franz Ferdinand and that's my list exactly. ESPECIALLY the Polyphonic Spree- if someone tells me "You just don't like them because you don't like happy music" one more time, I'll scream. I don't like them because they're a bunch of feckless tossers who use this "we're a cult who wear white sheets" gimmick to cover the fact that their lead singer hasn't written a good song since he was in Tripping Daisy ten years ago!

Rebuttal: Sapp makes FAR more money in Japan than Vince would dream of offering him (about £3 million per annum, according to one report I read) and Vince would be cautious about putting him over his home-made stars. Statement: There is more chance of Rene Dupree becoming WWE champion than Rob Van Dam

"FACE FULL OF STUFF! FACE FULL OF STUFF!" Stevie Ray, as Tygress gave Mark Jindrak a bronco-buster

In fairness, you dominated the match yesterday, and it was only the excellence of Robbo that kept us in the game, plus the fact that Atouba's shot was near unstoppable for Given.

Rebuttal: While La Parka is obviously great, the fact that he'd be horribly misused, plus the fact that his style doesn't really fit in with most of the current WWE stars, means that his impact would be minimal at best Statement: In spite of being seen as a bad thing, the outlandish gimmicks of the mid 90's were a better way to introduce new superstars than being just some new guy who appears from nowhere

"Heavy Kevin" by One Hot Puppet