strataxe
Black Sabbath - reunion
Nighwish - Wishmaster
Iron maiden - somewhere back in time
Metallica - Kill them all
Rammstein - Reise Reise
Evanescence - Fallen
IceCreamMan
Judas Priest - Stained Glass
Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
Van Halen - Van Halen 1
Iron Maiden - Number of the beast ...
Metalica - Black Album
ACDC - Back in BLack
all sublimely good albums
BluJu
Helloween - Keeper I and II
Dream Theater- (Can't decide which one)
Tool- Lateralus
Gamma -Ray No World Order
Megadeth- Rust in peace
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Riverside- Anno Domini High Definition
and lots more that I can't think of.
LooneyAtTheGate
There's so many sub-genres of metal and I've been into most of them at some stage or another...
So i'll give my faves of each sub-genre:
Thrash:
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto
Progressive/Sludge:
Mastodon - Leviathan
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
The Melvins - Houdini
Death:
Death - Leprosy
Sepultura - Chaos AD
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Classic:
Dio - Holy Diver
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
Black:
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Samael - Passage
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
Doom:
Trouble - Psalm 9
Industrial:
Ministry - Psalm 69
Avante Garde:
Fantomas - The Directors Cut
Nu:
Deftones - Around the Fur
Tool - Aenima
Djent:
Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
Meshuggah - Nothing
Cloudkicker - The Discovery
And thats that ?
Jack-Flash-Jr
This might be handy:
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LooneyAtTheGate
Ok i've edited mine to be more in line with that chart ?
UncleGoatLips
That list is ok but quite a few WTF's. Like in the "Prog" genre they have fates warning's perfect symmetry but not Queensryche, Operation: Mindcrime which blows it out of the water but cool albums none the less, just not always what I would have there, some of them are just given also eg. Euro Thrash "Sodom, Agent orange" the epitome of German thrash.
Jack-Flash-Jr
The chart's for noobs or people looking to discover new bands s'pose. Google /mu for a bunch more in other genres too...
UncleGoatLips
Ya I get that, it's just not always the albums I would have chosen but pretty good list nonetheless ?
V8
Hmmm, I don't listen to much *new* metal anymore ???, but my ancient favourites :
1. Slayer - Decade of Aggression "Best Of...LIVE". No 1 of my list, imho, the live versions are insane (Angel of Death...live...wooooooo!)
The rest is in no particular order
Sepultura - Arise & Roots
Soulfly - Soulfly
Machine Head - Davidan & "The more things change..."
Metallica - Master of Puppets & Kill 'em All
MegaDeth - Countdown to Extinction
Anthrax - Stomp 440
Carcass - Descanting the Insulubrious & Heartwork
Honorable mentions for RATM, Faith No More, Smashing Pumpkins, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Limp Bizkit, Creed, Korn, SOAD, Biohazard, Entombed
Checked the essential metal chart out..."Folk Metal"? Now there is a new genre I'd never dreamed of...lol
V8
Ivan
Ensiferum - Iron (anyone else on here see them when they came down here? They kicked ass!)
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god
Dissection - Storm of light's bane
Danzig - Danzig
Amorphis - Elegy
Wintersun - Wintersun
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Mercyful Fate - Don't break the oath
Slayer - Reign in blood
Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
Kiuas - The new dark ages
TapeHissandSparkle
In no specific order, my top ten metal albums:
1. Cult of Luna - Salvation
2. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
3. Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
4. Tool - Aenima
5. Amorphis - Elegy
6. Meshuggah - Obzen
7. Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene
8. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
9. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull
10. Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
two of my fav bands come from the same small town in sweden. weird.
BMU
Two incidental mentions of mankind's greatest musical achievement, the Beethoven's 5th of metal?
1. Carcass - heartwork
DT Awake
Reign in blood
Slaughter o/t soul
Clayman/colony
Ride the lightning (just wish they had a real drummer though)
Blotted science - mechanations...
For what its worth
UncleGoatLips
I'm really surprised to see Amorphis's Elegy up here so often, I must move in the wrong circles because while I know the album backward most of my friends wouldn't know it at all.
TapeHissandSparkle
It's the 2 versions of My Kantele that makes that album for me. awsm!
Averatu
I only like the Amorphis albums with Tomi Joutsen on vocals, damned he can sing.
