Fucking christ

Oh don't worry, I'm being a bit hyperbolic here. I love tons of albums that are longer than an hour. It's just that it's REALLY hard to make an album that long without filler, so often when I listen to an album like that I think to myself: Man, this could've been 40 minutes of pure gold

And Metallica

Examples:
-Jag Panzer, Riot, Chastain
-Iron Savior, Gamma Ray, Running Wild
-Nightwish, Xandria, After Forever
-Rhapsody, Dark Moor, Twilight Force
-Galneryus, Lovebites, Versailles
-While Heaven Wept, Atlantean Kodex, Visigoth
-Sonata Arctica, Kamelot, Avantasia
-...Manowar, Hammerfall, Dream Evil

SICK album cover

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There is nothing on this Earth gayer than a man loving a woman

It's the most basic, low-effort trad metal ever, but because they have a good aesthetic and gimmick they're the saviors of metal apparently