Im Mai 2017 veröffentlichte das deutsche Magazin Deaf Forever eine Liste der 100 besten Speed-Metal-Alben aller Zeiten.
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- Agent Steel – Skeptics Apocalypse
- Metallica – Kill ’Em All
- Helloween – Walls of Jericho
- Savage Grace – Master of Disguise
- Exciter – Heavy Metal Maniac
- Running Wild – Gates to Purgatory
- Abattoir – Vicious Attack
- Anvil – Forged in Fire
- Flotsam and Jetsam – Doomsday for the Deceiver
- Megadeth – Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?
- Razor – Executioners Song
- Agent Steel – Unstoppable Force
- Amulance – Feel the Pain
- Hallows Eve – Tales of Terror
- Iron Angel – Hellish Crossfire
- Heathen – Breaking the Silence
- Blind Guardian – Tales from the Twilight World
- Acid – Maniac
- Raven – Wiped Out
- Jaguar – Power Games
- Loudness – Disillusion
- Dark Angel – We Have Arrived
- Toxik – World Circus
- H-Bomb – Coup de Metal
- Savage – Loose ’n’ Lethal
- Messiah Force – The Last Day
- Riot – Thundersteel
- Have Mercy – Armageddon Descends
- Anthrax – Fistful of Metal
- Liege Lord – Master Control
- Paradox – Product of Imagination
- Enforcer – Into the Night
- Exciter – Long Live the Loud
- Heathen – Victim of Deception
- Megadeth – Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!
- Annihilator – Alice in Hell
- Artillery – By Inheritance
- Mortal Sin – Face of Despair
- Grave Digger – Heavy Metal Breakdown
- Kublai Khan – Annihilation
- Toxik – Think This
- Blind Guardian – Battalions of Fear
- Flotsam and Jetsam – No Place for Disgrace
- Intruder – A Higher Form of Killing
- Living Death – Vengeance of Hell
- Vulture – Victim to the Blade
- Paradox – Heresy
- Deliverance – Deliverance
- Raven – Rock Until You Drop
- Znöwhite – Act of God
- Division Speed – Division Speed
- Ranger – Knights of Darkness
- Atlain – G.O.E.
- Cacophony – Speed Metal Symphony
- Solitaire – Predatress
- Angel Dust – Into the Dark Past
- Evil Invaders – Pulse of Pleasure
- Dyoxen – First Among Equals
- Holy Terror – Mind Wars
- Defender – City ad Mortis
- Avenger – Depraved to Black
- Exciter – Violence & Force
- Ranger – Speed & Violence
- Pyracanda – Two Sides of a Coin
- Tröjan – Chasing the Storm
- Forte – Stranger Than Fiction
- Living Death – Protected from Reality
- Vectom – Speed Revolution
- Stallion – Mounting the World
- Turbo – Kawaleria Szatana
- Znöwhite – All Hail to Thee
- Abattoir – The Only Safe Place
- Speedtrap – Powerdose
- Intruder – Live to Die
- Rage – Execution Guaranteed
- Bulldozer – Neurodeliri
- Morbid Saint – Spectrum of Death
- Pyöveli – The New Renaissance of Speed & Thrash Metal
- Lääz Rockit – Annihilation Principle
- Hirax – Raging Violence
- ADX – Execution
- Ballistic – Ballistic
- Avenger – Prayers of Steel
- Razorwyre – Another Dimension
- Striker – Stand in the Fire
- Seax – Speed Metal Mania
- Toranaga – Gods Gift
- Warfare – Metal Anarchy
- Blessed Death – Destined for Extinction
- Zoetrope – Amnesty
- Warrant – The Enforcer
- Acid – Acid
- Whiplash – Power and Pain
- Blessed Death – Kill or Be Killed
- Juggernaut – Baptism Under Fire
- Iron Angel – Winds of War
- Helloween – Helloween
- Holy Terror – Terror and Submission
- Hawaii – One Nation Underground
- Metalian – Wasteland