Not sure if you guys follow the Hudson Valley Squares on YouTube but they did an episode last year on top 5 heavy albums ever and it got me thinking.
I'll go with
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Mourning Beloveth - Formless
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Ahh jaysus, how do you whittle it down to five?
Today, let's go with...
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Trouble - s/t
Watchtower - Control And Resistance
Cynic - Focus
Impossible!
There was a thing a few years ago picking 20 and that was hell, so 5 would be impossibile for me.
Dust or Sullen Sulcus would be in there, depending on my mood.
Some early Burzum too, probably.
Stormcrowfleet perhaps.
Stream from the Heavens maybe.
Lamentations or New Dark Age depending on my mood...
That was easier than expected but it would probably change in a week's time.
Edit. There are some very glaring omissions that are beginning to pop into my head.
In The Woods - Omnio
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin at Dusk
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Griftegard - Solemn Sacred Severe
Probably my top five at the moment.
I usually need a top 20 at this point, no way can I pick only 5, so have 10 and ye can give out to me over what doesn't count as metal:
Devin Townsend - "Terria"
Mr. Bungle - "Disco Volante"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
Type O Negative - "October Rust"
Faith No More - "Angel Dust"
Strapping Young Lad - "City"
Godflesh - "Streetcleaner"
Isis - "Oceanic"
Converge - "You Fail Me"
Neurosis - "Through Silver In Blood"
Ah, don't know if my head can handle this and me that loves a list. I was going to say I'll give it some thought but the thought of giving it some thought is already frazzling my brain, I'd imagine Beneath The Remains would have to be in there though.
Impossible question, it'd be a different answer daily. Or hourly*. Anyway, off the top of my head, and fairly pedestrian:
Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast
Death: Leprosy
Nuclear Assault: Game Over
Metallica: Ride The Lightning
Fear Factory: Demanufacture
*Edit: Just looking at some of the above and I could do another 5 or 10 from previously mentioned ones, depending on mood.
Quote from: Thorn on March 28, 2023, 09:45:47 PMAh, don't know if my head can handle this and me that loves a list. I was going to say I'll give it some thought but the thought of giving it some thought is already frazzling my brain, I'd imagine Beneath The Remains would have to be in there though.
Every word of this is a perfect description of how I was feeling about trying to do it as I scrolled through the replies :laugh: :abbath:
Todays choice would probably be
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
FNM - King for a Day
They'd all be some of my favourites and are just the ones I've been listening to again in the last while so they make the cut. Once I change the cds in the car it'll be a new five
Tell ya what though, non-contributing parasite and all that it makes me, this makes for excellent ideas for revisiting or properly digging into certain albums that wouldn't even be on my radar if I was trying to make a top any number of all time! :abbath:
Jaysus, Type O would have to be in the mix...
1. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
3. Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
4. Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
5. Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
Now to kick myself for all the albums I forgot.
Okay, here's my top 5 selecting exclusively out of albums appearing in previous replies :laugh:
And get out of it with yer FNM and Mr.Bungles... trying to narrow the choices as much as possible here! :laugh: :abbath:
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin at Dusk
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
I don't really think these are top5, but when I started to write a list and think about what I reach for when I'm stuck, these just came to mind so quick. I think you could do 100 easy and still correct yourself. They're also albums I vividly can see myself blasting in my first car (RIP Purple Polo), which I think counts for something.
Mastodon - Leviathan
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Deicide - s/t
Neurosis - Times of Grace
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith.
Mostly excited for seeing what stuff others include, there'll be big revisiting done.
Already feel guilty for no early Sepultura
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2023, 10:34:54 PMJaysus, Type O would have to be in the mix...
I've been listening to October Rust and World Coming Down
a lot lately. Bloody Kisses digipak on the way from Discogs an' all. So good when they were good (SD&H & TOOTF are shite though).
Must check out that digipack. I only have BK on LP and a dubbed tape. Would be good to get it in CD for the motor.
Ah this thread idea is sick I tell you, absolutely depraved!
Kids always asking me my fave and I can't ever answer them as the noggin just melts! I'd have trouble picking top 5 a year...
Of the above, Beneath the Remains, Altars of Madness and Warmaster would certainly be in the reckoning. Probably add, chop and change with:
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Deicide - s/t
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Demilich - Nespithe
My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions...
Death - Human
Ah feck it I'll have to leave it at 11, before adding more I'm itching to add. Can each count as a half, and I'll drop one?
Nah, thinking of the ones I'm leaving out, I'd have to take 100 if I was on a trip to Mars - otherwise let me at home to wither in a nuclear wasteland.
It's not possible to pick 5, you twisted individual!
Ah, I see Deicide was added while I was typing :abbath: Such a killer album
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2023, 11:16:02 PMMust check out that digipack. I only have BK on LP and a dubbed tape. Would be good to get it in CD for the motor.
I prefer it to the proper album TBH. The comedy tracks are all well and good but having just the 'serious' tracks in one place makes for a more satisfying listening experience.
Mercyful Fate - Melissa will always be In the top 5
Probably Defenders Of The Faith and Somwehere In Time too
but at the moment..
Ulver - Bergtatt
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Ozzy - Ultimate Sin
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Deicide - Deicide
I'm up to two now, definitely having The Number of The Beast in my Top 5
...And now I've just seen Somewhere In Time flagged. Arrgghhh...
GNR - Appetite For Destruction
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Slayer - Decade Of Aggression
Now, these 4 were EASY......choosing the 5th might prove to be impossible.
Jaysus it's tough. Today, even this morning -
Borknager - Borknager
D666 - Cold Steel
Septic Flesh - Esoptron
Windir - Arntor
Death - Symbolic
It's like asking which is your favourite child. When one is acting the bollix you still love them but the other gets preference!
Time and place is huge as well.
Down - Nola
Metallica - Puppets
Terror - Keepers Of The Faith/Agnostic Front - Something's Gotta Give.
Dissection - Storm Of The Lightsbane
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Alice In Chains - Unplugged
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Obituary - Cause Of Death
Helmet - Betty.
The second list is just as important as the first to me.
If we're getting another five, then I'll add
Voivod - Nothingface
Death - Spiritual Healing
Kreator - Renewal
Obituary - Cause of Death
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
And if we get an additional five later on, I'll leave these here just in case
Living Colour - Stain
Celtic Frost - Monothiest
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Faith No More - The Real Thing
edit-> been trying to keep it as one album per artist but am already brutally conflicted
Based on my mood - always subject to change and in no particular order;
- Guns N' Roses - "Appetite For Destruction"
- Sleep - "Dopesmoker/Jerusalem"
- Black Sabbath - "Vol. 4"
- Mastodon - "Leviathan"
- YOB - "Clearing The Path To Ascend"
Almost impossible to stick to just 5.
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Def Leppard - Hysteria
For me;
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Orange Goblin - A Eulogy For The Damned
System of A Down - Toxicity
Mastodon - Leviathan
I have to add Appetite For Destruction and Hysteria to my list.
They were the first 2 tapes I had.
Took them from my brother as we shared a room as kids. He played Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi etc at night.
Hysteria made me aware of rock but it as Appetite that put me on the road to ruin.
I remember seeing the video for Paradise City during the credits of Top Of The Pops and having some sort of epiphany. It was aggressive and dangerous compared to Girls,Girls,Girls.
Blew the doors open.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 29, 2023, 09:16:11 AMBased on my mood - always subject to change and in no particular order;
- Guns N' Roses - "Appetite For Destruction"
- Sleep - "Dopesmoker/Jerusalem"
- Black Sabbath - "Vol. 4"
- Mastodon - "Leviathan"
- YOB - "Clearing The Path To Ascend"
Your inclusion of that YOB album has me thinking that, outside of the classics, to me Bölzer's Hero or Tribulation's Formulas happily rub shoulders with yer Master of Puppets, Individual Thought Patterns, Rust In Peace, etc., though I wouldn't immediately think of them when asked this question. Slough Feg's Traveler also hasn't had a mention yet, but that is easily in my most listened to, so "top" in that sense, metal albums.
Who fuckin' started this anyway? This isn't a thread, it's a brain virus! :laugh: :abbath:
Quote from: warhead on March 29, 2023, 12:51:02 AMGNR - Appetite For Destruction
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Slayer - Decade Of Aggression
Now, these 4 were EASY......choosing the 5th might prove to be impossible.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 29, 2023, 09:16:11 AMBased on my mood - always subject to change and in no particular order;
- Guns N' Roses - "Appetite For Destruction"
- Sleep - "Dopesmoker/Jerusalem"
- Black Sabbath - "Vol. 4"
- Mastodon - "Leviathan"
- YOB - "Clearing The Path To Ascend"
Right that's 3 for me, I'll take Appetite as well, I mean like, let's not over think this, greatest hard rock album ever. This is so much easier when you just sponge of everyone else's selections . Shit, only two left and one of them is going I have to be from first four Metallica ,jeez...
For today I will give a loose 5 of:
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Morbid Angel - Formulas
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Reverend Bizarre- In The Rectory
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Slayer, MA and JP are open to change album at any given moment.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 29, 2023, 10:10:32 AMQuote from: StoutAndAle on March 29, 2023, 09:16:11 AMBased on my mood - always subject to change and in no particular order;
- Guns N' Roses - "Appetite For Destruction"
- Sleep - "Dopesmoker/Jerusalem"
- Black Sabbath - "Vol. 4"
- Mastodon - "Leviathan"
- YOB - "Clearing The Path To Ascend"
Your inclusion of that YOB album has me thinking that, outside of the classics, to me Bölzer's Hero or Tribulation's Formulas happily rub shoulders with yer Master of Puppets, Individual Thought Patterns, Rust In Peace, etc., though I wouldn't immediately think of them when asked this question. Slough Feg's Traveler also hasn't had a mention yet, but that is easily in my most listened to, so "top" in that sense, metal albums.
Who fuckin' started this anyway? This isn't a thread, it's a brain virus! :laugh: :abbath:
Traveler crossed my mind actually. Formulas a good modern shout, With Hearts Towards None, Graves of the Archangels, the Blood Revolt album, Foundations of Burden by Pallbearer, Macabre Omen - Gods of War be some others from the late 2000s into the 2010s that I would rank really high, outside of th typcial stuff we've all been listing. There's an implicit longevity with favorite too, everything I originally listed I've loved since I was 15/16 at th oldest. It's a nostalgia/comfort thing as much as it being a stone-cold favorite to some extent I think.
So many more albums mentioned that deserve consideration and send my mind in all sorts of different directions. It's impossible ::)
Quote from: SquigsThere's an implicit longevity with favorite too, everything I originally listed I've loved since I was 15/16 at th oldest. It's a nostalgia/comfort thing as much as it being a stone-cold favorite to some extent I think.
It's the "soundtrack to your life" thing. I'd say a lot of us have the music of our mid to late teens featuring heavily. I know most of mine is that late 80's to early 90's era where I never left the house without my walkman and five or six tapes stashed in a big pocket I had made specially inside my biker jacket.
A few years ago, I built a unit for the house to get my CDs out of boxes in the attic and out on display again. I had space for 298 CDs and my first shortlist was over 1000 😂
The top five only lasts for as long as it takes to play then and you want to hear other fantastic stuff.
In terms of more modern albums I'd absolutely have to throw in Vektor's Terminal Redux and NeO's Portal of I. Probably listened to those two more than any others from the 2010s
Quote from: Squigs on March 29, 2023, 10:56:20 AMFoundations of Burden by Pallbearer
That Pallbearer album could easily be swapped with the YOB record on a different day.
See also - Ahab's "The Divinity Of Oceans".
See also - Elder's "Lore".
Yep, Call of the Wretched Sea would be one I'd have on the hook too as far as modern ones go.
Modern being 17 years old ;D
Quote from: Squigs on March 29, 2023, 11:38:02 AMModern being 17 years old ;D
Haha!
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Maybe if I first split into five sub-genres and then try pick top album from each, that'd be easier?
Thrash: Metallica - Master of Puppets (yeah, but what about Rust In Peace!?)
Prog: Mastodon - Leviathan (Voivod and Tool getting squeezed out here, but this one is actually easy enough)
Black: Mayhem - De Mysteriis (sorry Varg, please don't kill me)
Death: Sepultura - Beneath The Remains (partly a cop out: it's easier than picking a top Morbid Angel out of the first three)
Tech/Prog-Death: Death - Individual Thought Patterns (Unquestionable Presence a contender, but realistically Death have to be on my list somewhere)
Classic: Judas Priest - Painkiller (no, yes, no, gah fuck off!! Shit, and that's six too, not five!)
*thud at door
Doom calling!
>:( >:( >:( :abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
Point of order:
I'm gonna be that guy and question GNR's place on lists, not metal etc. And whatever about their first album or two, Hystetia isn't a metal album either.
Hmm, I'll await the Pantheon's ruling on that but for now I'm going to nail my colours to these five and give my head peace
1.Iron Maiden -The Number Of The Beast
2.Metallica - Master of Puppets
3.Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
5.Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Sorry, Beneath The Remains, Into Glory Ride, Blood Fire Death, I still love you, it's this fucking thread made me do it
Tenhi's Väre and Saivo should definitely be on my list.
Well, I know what I'm going be doing for the rest of the afternoon after my break ends.
Choosing in which order to list your Gamma Ray albums?
Quote from: Thorn on March 29, 2023, 04:15:31 PMChoosing in which order to list your Gamma Ray albums?
Of fuck that reminds me, Walls Of Jericho! I have to have that I'm ditching Peace Sells for it
Quote from: Carnage on March 29, 2023, 02:25:58 PMPoint of order:
I'm gonna be that guy and question GNR's place on lists, not metal etc. And whatever about their first album or two, Hysteria isn't a metal album either.
Def (!) agree with you there. This isn't the Grammys! :laugh: And as I said above, sure the stricter the definition of "metal" you use, the
easier it should be to slash down to five.
No sugar will be poured on you lads, so.
Quote from: Thorn on March 29, 2023, 04:17:15 PMQuote from: Thorn on March 29, 2023, 04:15:31 PMChoosing in which order to list your Gamma Ray albums?
Of fuck that reminds me, Walls Of Jericho! I have to have that I'm ditching Peace Sells for it
My list is Heading For Tomorrow X 5
Gnr disqualified, people? Yay, re edit free hit
Quote from: Thorn on March 29, 2023, 03:07:00 PMHmm, I'll await the Pantheon's ruling on that but for now I'm going to nail my colours to these five and give my head peace
1.Iron Maiden -The Number Of The Beast
2.Metallica - Master of Puppets
3.Slayer - Reign In Blood
4.Metallica - Kill 'Em All
5.Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Sorry, Beneath The Remains, Into Glory Ride, Blood Fire Death, I still love you, it's this fucking thread made me do it
Ah jayaus now it just looks too damn generic
In no particular order, the first five to pop into my head...
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Therapy? - Caucasian Psychosis (2 EP's, I know... :abbath: )
My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
Anathema - Judgment
Runners-up!
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin'
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Appetite For Destruction has be allowed in. It's heavy as balls when it comes to attitude, snarl and vinegar.
I don't know how I left Bathory and Burzum out of mine.
Also Misfits - Static Age.
Fuck. Ask me again tomorrow for a different answer.
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Dead Congregation - Graves of The Archangels
Scald - Will of The Gods is Great Power
Deicide-st
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Death-Human
Slayer-South of Heaven
Morbid Angel-Covenant
Impossible task but loosely thinking;
Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
Absu - Tara
Already thinking of Priest, Dio, Tangerine Dream etc..
Tangerine Dream..?
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 29, 2023, 09:34:06 PMTangerine Dream..?
Just realised its metal albums... Still they are on the mind.
Ah okay. Thought I was about to learn about some industrial protometal album from them I didn't know! :laugh:
Well their first few albums might have a foot in the industrial bucket...
Death Leprosy
Autopsy Severed Survival
Carcass Symphonies of Sickness
Obituary Cause of Death
Worship Dooom
All still on steady enough rotation.Misspent youth me bollix
The guilt is gnawing away since, particularly over no Bolt Thrower
Right I'm just going to go for 5 that influenced me the most, and even at that..
GODFLESH - Streetcleaner
Strapping Young Lad - City
Akercocke - Words That go Unspoken...
Faith No More - King For a Day..
Type O Negative - October Rust
And tonight's bonus ball is
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss.
Impossible
Fuck it im doing another 5
Carcass - Necroticism
Blood incantation-Hidden History
Nile- Black seeds
Dead Congregation- Promulgation
Septicflesh- Communion
Impossile to pick 5 claw,too many good albums to chose from.
I've tried to redo and just narrow it down to five by decade, one per band, and keep it as strict to metal as possible. So while I'd definitely have some Devin Townsend, I reckon Ocean Machine and Terria veer a bit more into prog/rock territory. Same could be said for the 70s picks but sure I wasn't going to just throw in five Sabbath albums.
Found it hard to even think of five for the '20s, been slacking a bit at checking out new music the last few years
70s
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Rainbow - Rising
Rush - Hemispheres
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Deep Purple - Machine Head
80s
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
King Diamond - Abigail
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Atheist - Piece of Time
90s
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Death - Symbolic
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Sepultura - Arise
00s
SYL - Alien
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Cynic - Traced in Air
Symphony X - The Odyssey
10s
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Ihsahn - Arktis
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Obscura - Omnivium
20s
First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle
Winterfylleth - The Reckoning Dawn
The Ocean - Phanerzoic II
Persefone - Metanoia
Allegaeon - Damnum
That's a great way of doing it.
Might need to redo mine again
That's a top 30 though, that's taking the piss :laugh: :abbath:
How about ONE from each decade? :-X
If I was forced to pick five I'd split it by the major subgenres:
Traditional: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Doom: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Thrash: Metallica - Master of Puppets
Death: Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Black: Dissection - Storm... (yes I'm counting this as BM).
Still a fairly 'generic' list but this would be the best way to cover the different corners of metal in 5 records, could have gone for something a little more representative of early 90s BM but Dissection are just undeniable...
Some bands like Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, Death, Mastodon, Voivod, YOB, Soundgarden etc I could probably make a desert island list from their discographies alone.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 31, 2023, 04:53:25 PMThat's a top 30 though, that's taking the piss :laugh: :abbath:
How about ONE from each decade? :-X
Top 30 and I still couldn't put in Type O, Emperor, Carcass, Helloween, Megadeth...its fucking impossible! :laugh:
:laugh: Utter chaos
.
1. Vinterland-Welcome My Last Chapter
2. Deicide-Deicide
3. Massacre-From Beyond
4. Dissection-Storm of the Light's Bane
5. Slayer-Show No Mercy
Hugely challenging undertaking.
Quote from: Trev on March 31, 2023, 03:13:32 PMI've tried to redo and just narrow it down to five by decade, one per band, and keep it as strict to metal as possible.
Ah FFS, can the same band appear across decades or just not appear twice in the same decade? :laugh:
OK, here goes, no bands repeating, ever. This is even harder than just five, I was selective with bands who might appear in a different decade. Could do with 20 each for the 80's and 90's, to be honest (or even just 90-93) :abbath:
70s
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Van Halen - Van Halen II
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Motorhead - Overkill
80s
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Trouble - s/t
Voivod - Nothingface
Watchtower - Control And Resistance
90s
Death - Spiritual Healing
Kreator - Renewal
Obituary - Cause of Death
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
00s
Cynic - Traced in Air
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Living Colour - The Chair In The Doorway
10s
Vektor - Terminal Redux
The Contortionist - Language
Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight
KXM - Scatterbrain
Vallenfyre - Splinters
20s
Alluvial - Sarcoma
Sepultura - Quadra
Skid Row - The Gang's All Here
Crown Compass - The Drought
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Ah fuck these lists :laugh:
It'll all change again in the morning though....
70s
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Boston - Boston
Deep Purple - Machine Head
80s
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Megadeth - So Far... So Good... So What!
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...
90s
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind
00s
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
Life Of Agony - Broken Valley
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
10s
Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies
Killing Joke - MMXII
20s
Paradise Lost - Obsidian
Alluvial - Sarcoma
Sepultura - Quadra
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
A qwayre amount of not metal albums creeping into these lists, so we're probably done now TBH.
Really? What's not metal?
Killing Joke, Deep Purple, Boston, Skid Row, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy etc. I wouldn't have any of them down as metal TBH.
Surely a good lot of Killing Joke would qualify? Bit of a grey area maybe
From Extremities on, maybe.
That's the sort of period I was thinking definitely none of the earlier stuff is metal at all and even then it's borderline. They sort of just have their own thing going
Death Angel - Act III
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
Metal Church - The Human Factor
Orden Ogan - Gunmen
Suicidal Tendencies - Lights Camera Revolution
I thought this is too hard to answer, so I left it for a while, then certain bands just popped into my head:
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Sepultura- Beneath the Remains
Saryricon- Dark Medieval Times
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dust
Destroyer666- Unchain the Wolves
Impossible to choose but maybe my most listened? In no order:
Iron maiden - Seventh Son
Warning - Watching from a distance
Katatonia- dance of December souls
Deicide - Deicide
Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
Honourable mention to Carnivore - ST
Warning - Watching from a distance
Melvins - Houdini
Death - Symbolic
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
The Ruins of Beverest - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered elite
On another day it could have been Covenant and Blood Vaults, and to not have Filosefem, DMDS, Epicus and Master of puppets or Ride the Lightning to name just a few seems wrong!
Quote from: The Great Cull on March 31, 2023, 11:21:24 PMAh fuck these lists :laugh:
It'll all change again in the morning though....
70s
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Boston - Boston
Deep Purple - Machine Head
80s
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Megadeth - So Far... So Good... So What!
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...
90s
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind
00s
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
Life Of Agony - Broken Valley
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
10s
Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies
Killing Joke - MMXII
20s
Paradise Lost - Obsidian
Alluvial - Sarcoma
Sepultura - Quadra
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Just going back through this thread and realising that The Great Cull has one of the longest lists
Couple of those 10s and 20s albums I don't know, might check 'em out!
Ah Jaysus lads, this sort of thread makes me all fizzy just thinking about it. A top five (as I'm sloshed and can't think of decades right now :laugh: ).
Death - Human.
Cynic - Focus.
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence.
Gorguts - Obscura.
Revocation - Netherheaven.
Necrophagist - Epitaph (that's six but sure look).
Non metal...
Rush - A Farewell to Kings.
Chic - C'est Chic.
John Coltrane - Giant Steps.
Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron.
Tori Amos - Under the Pink.
Fuck yeah :abbath:
Wittling it down to 5 is just impossible... an attempt
Venom - Black Metal
Angel Witch - Angel Witch
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Motorhead - Overkill
and a shout to Don't Break the Oath
S.T / S.T
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Deicide - S.T
Morbid Angel - Alters
Repulsion - Horrified
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican
Slayer - South of Heaven
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 22, 2024, 11:30:18 PMCouple of those 10s and 20s albums I don't know, might check 'em out!
I could change all those lists again! It's an almost impossible task.
For stuff you haven't heard off that then I hope the Alluvial album is one and that you give it a go
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Overkill - Horrorscope
Candlemass - Nightfall
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Saxon - Denim and Leather
Quote from: Putrefaction on November 23, 2024, 08:55:36 AMRepulsion - Horrified
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican
Slayer - South of Heaven
Just quoting because of Streetcleaner. There's nothing like it, even from GODFLESH themselves
Quote from: The Great Cull on November 23, 2024, 09:23:37 AMFor stuff you haven't heard off that then I hope the Alluvial album is one and that you give it a go
It is, and I'm going to give it a go right now! :abbath:
Slayer:Seasons In The Abyss
Judas Priest:Painkiller
Faith No More:Angel Dust
Morbid Angel: Covenant
Ministry:Psalm 69
This'll change in about a day or two 😂
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 23, 2024, 02:54:58 PMQuote from: The Great Cull on November 23, 2024, 09:23:37 AMFor stuff you haven't heard off that then I hope the Alluvial album is one and that you give it a go
It is, and I'm going to give it a go right now! :abbath:
Wouldn't be a big fan of that. Enjoyed the few nods to Mastodon, Ephel Duath, etc., but the overall metalcore with widdly bits sheen, à la Shadows Fall, wouldn't generally be my bag. Happy to have listened to it the couple of times though, cheers! :abbath:
Alluvial wouldn't be my favourite band at all at all, but they put on a fucking cracking live show when I saw them support Revocation.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 23, 2024, 05:09:52 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 23, 2024, 02:54:58 PMQuote from: The Great Cull on November 23, 2024, 09:23:37 AMFor stuff you haven't heard off that then I hope the Alluvial album is one and that you give it a go
It is, and I'm going to give it a go right now! :abbath:
Wouldn't be a big fan of that. Enjoyed the few nods to Mastodon, Ephel Duath, etc., but the overall metalcore with widdly bits sheen, à la Shadows Fall, wouldn't generally be my bag. Happy to have listened to it the couple of times though, cheers! :abbath:
Worth a shot. I did think the Mastodon influence would appeal to you. Can't hear the Shadows Fall thing you mentioned though.
1. Slayer-reign in blood.
2. Megadeth-Rust in peace.
3. Cryptopsy-None so vile.
4. Cannibal Corpse-Bleeding.
5. Suffocation- pierced from within.
Soo difficult :laugh:
Christ...this is impossible 🤣
Burzum - Filosofem
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Be interesting to see from some of the early posts on this thread if the authors still have the same top 5 now that it has been resurrected. It's impossible tbf even to narrow it down to ten.
How many of us have a top 5 entry that we haven't stuck with four at least a decade actually, like how difficult is it for anything new to break in there among our old favourites?
I only got into Necrophobic in the last two years, and their debut is right up there. And Portrait only this year - "Crossroads" is an all-timer now.
So without further ado, here's my decades list (in no order of preference) that features neither of those records :laugh: (in fairness after I typed it out I thought "wait, no Trouble, Candlemass, Autopsy, Suffocation, Absu, Carcass, Napalm Death, Cathedral, FFS!").
1970s
1. Van Der Graaf Generator - "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other".
2. Black Sabbath - "Master of Reality".
3. King Crimson - "Red".
4. Camel - "Moonmadness".
5. Rush - "A Farewell to Kings".
1980s
1. Manila Road - "Crystal Logic".
2. Realm - "Endless War".
3. Voivod - "Dimension Hatröss".
4. Bathory - "Under the Sign of the Black Mark".
5. Watchtower - "Control and Resistance".
1990s
1. Death - "Human".
2. Atheist - "Unquestionable Presence ".
3. Cynic - "Focus".
4. Gorguts - "Obscura".
5. Solitude Aeturnus - "Into the Depths of Sorrow".
2000s
1. Mastodon - "Leviathan".
2. Necrophagist - "Epitaph".
3. Nevermore - "This Godless Endeavour ".
4. Nile - "Black Seeds of Vengeance".
5. Decapitated - "Organic Hallucinosis".
2010s
1. Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus".
2. Gorguts - "Coloured Sands".
3. Defeated Sanity - "Passages into Deformity".
4. KEN Mode - "Entrench".
5. Blood Incantation - "Starspawn".
2020s
1. Blood Incantation - "Absolute Elsewhere".
2. Revocation - "Netherheaven".
3. Artificial Brain - "Artificial Brain".
4. Azusa - "Loop of Yesterdays".
5. Ænigmatum - "Deconsecrate".
Quote from: astfgyl on November 24, 2024, 12:04:43 PMBe interesting to see from some of the early posts on this thread if the authors still have the same top 5 now that it has been resurrected. It's impossible tbf even to narrow it down to ten.
How many of us have a top 5 entry that we haven't stuck with four at least a decade actually, like how difficult is it for anything new to break in there among our old favourites?
Quote from: Bürggermeister on March 28, 2023, 08:53:34 PMAhh jaysus, how do you whittle it down to five?
Today, let's go with...
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Trouble - s/t
Watchtower - Control And Resistance
Cynic - Focus
Still happy with this, to be honest :abbath:
In no particular order:
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
No real deep cuts for me, but in no particular order:
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Tool - Lateralus
Judad Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Looking forward to having a gawk at previous posts and finding some new stuff :)
1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Megadeth - Count Down to Extinction
4. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
5. Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Big names, no Metallica I always feel Megadeth cancel Metallica out with better musician ship. Master of puppets could make the grade but I prefer Reign In blood. Count Down and Vulgar are harder Rock / Metal at its most accessible in the 90s. Everything that is great about what I love.
I think the Nails choice shows the return to the underground. Lots of bands not here, Nevermore, Xentrix etc
Leaving Maidens 'Live After Death' out for 'Powerslave', I think Powerslave is the perfect Album, its recording is epic on every level.
This decades shit is harder than a clean and ruthless all-time top 5 :laugh:
1970s
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Van Halen - II
Motorhead - Overkill
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
1980s
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Masters Of Reality - Blue Garden
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deciever
Voivod - Nothingface
1990s
Coroner Mental Vortex
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Cynic - Focus
Trouble - s/t
Death - Spiritual Healing
2000s
Mastodon - Leviathan
Sepultura - Dante XXI
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Living Colour - The Chair In The Doorway
2010s
The Contortionist - Language
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Goatwhore - Blood For The Master
Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight
2020s
Alluvial - Sarcoma
Skid Row - The Gang's All Here
Crown Compass - The Drought
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Strigoi - Viscera
Fuck it, it'll make for a bit more of a thread, I'll be in shortly with my decade picks although the 80s and 90s will be fucking painful
Edit, why did we start at the 70s actually, was there nothing before that?
Wait until we get the 15th century modal shit out at least
Heavy Metal was born in the 70's in Birmingham. Can't go back any further than that my man
Have Pentagram not got a claim in for the 60s or have I just fabricated that entirely in my own head? I would never be able to pick anything before the 70s either being honest but are we taking the first Black Sabbath as the absolute beginning? Anyway, if it is to be the 70s I'll end up having the first few Sabbath albums and like one from someone else so it's a fair point. Could have the decade done by 73 lol
Think Pentagram were early seventies too ,even so surely it all stems from Priest and Sabbath predominantly .
Vanilla Fudge, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf - all started in the sixties and definitely had the sound. Proto-metal at worst but I'd have them down as pioneers of the genre. Didn't Priest form in the sixties too or am I imagining that?
I think you are right about Priest, formed late 60s but Rocka Rolla didn't come out until 74 due to a label they signed for going tits up.
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Griftegard - Solemn Sacred Severe
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Christ above, this is tough. Every time I think I have it, another few albums pop into my head.
1970s
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Motorhead - Overkill
1980s
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Slayer - South of Heaven
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
1990s
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
2000s
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Motorhead - Inferno
Graveland - Memory and Destiny
Deeds of Flesh - Mark of the Legion
2010s
Sammath - Godless Arrogance
Tarnkappe - Winterwaker
Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins
Burzum - Belus
Imprecation - Satanae Tenebris Infinita
2020s
Inanna - Void of Unending Depths
Blood Oath - Lost in an Eternal Silence
Mortify - Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow
Mefitis - Offscourings
Sammath - Grebbeberg
Quote from: Bürggermeister on November 25, 2024, 06:04:07 PMThis decades shit is harder than a clean and ruthless all-time top 5 :laugh:
1980s
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Masters Of Reality - Blue Garden
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deciever
Voivod - Nothingface
Great call on Blue Garden!!
Quote from: Bürggermeister on November 25, 2024, 06:04:07 PMSkid Row - The Gang's All Here
This is very respectable. Anything else post-Bach worth checking out?
Metallica - Master
Slayer - Reign
Black Sabbath - Master
Queensryche - Operation
Alice In Chains - Muck
Have to squeeze in 1 more:
Deep Purple – Made In Japan
Quote from: Emphyrio on November 26, 2024, 10:46:05 AMQuote from: Bürggermeister on November 25, 2024, 06:04:07 PMSkid Row - The Gang's All Here
This is very respectable. Anything else post-Bach worth checking out?
Nothing else I heard made me want to splash the cash.
Good to know.
80s
Metallica- MOP
Metallica- AJFA
Slayer-SOH
Sepultura- BTR
Morbid Angel-Altars of Madness
90s
Death- Human
Morbid Angel- Covenant
Carcass- Necroticism
Slayer-Seasons
Dissection-Storm
2000s
Nile- Black seeds
Enslaved-Below the lights
Destroyer 666- Cold steel
Nevermore- Dead Heart
Septicflesh- Communion
2010s
Dead Congregation-POTF
Blood Incantation- Hidden History
Blood Incantation-Starspawn
Tribulation-TFOD
Immolation- MAD
Quote from: The Great Cull on March 31, 2023, 11:21:24 PMAh fuck these lists :laugh:
It'll all change again in the morning though....
70s
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Boston - Boston
Deep Purple - Machine Head
80s
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Megadeth - So Far... So Good... So What!
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...
90s
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind
00s
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Anthrax - We've Come For You All
Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
Life Of Agony - Broken Valley
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
10s
Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies
Killing Joke - MMXII
20s
Paradise Lost - Obsidian
Alluvial - Sarcoma
Sepultura - Quadra
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
Still happy enough with the more recent decades I think. Not much to change there. The 80s and 90s are too tough to agree on though. Leaving off the likes of Nola, Angel Dust, Puppets, Rust In Peace...
So fucking difficult to whittle it down. It changes constantly for me but here's an attempt at the decade by decade list. 'Cos it allows me to pick 25 and not just 5 :P
Definitely gets more difficult with the more recent decade...
1970s
November - En ny tid är här (1970)
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)
Dust - s/t (1971)
Bang - s/t (1972)
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)
1980s
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic (1983)
Carnivore - s/t (1985)
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come (1988)
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (1989)
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains (1989)
1990s
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium (1991)
Morbid Angel - Covenant (1993)
Death - Symbolic (1995)
Dissection - Storm of the Lights Bane (1995)
Solstice - New Dark Age (1998)
2000s
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000)
Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend (2002)
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller (2003)
Ogre - Plague of the Planet (2008)
The Lamp of Thoth - Portents, Omens and Dooms (2008)
2010s
Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult (2011)
Tribulation - Formulas of Death (2013)
Howls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd Eye (2014)
Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule (2016)
Blood Incantation - Hidden History (2019)
Fuck it, I'll go with these
Voivod-Killing Technology
Celtic Frost- Morbid Tales
Slayer-Reign in Blood
Darkthrone- Goatlord
Autopsy- Mental Funeral
Dawn of Possesion and Master of Puppets just missed out, really any Voivod album up to Angel Rat could be in there but KT is probably the one that means most to me as it was the first one I got when I was a child, and Faith No More aren't technically metal, otherwise it would just be Angel Dust x5
Quote from: astfgyl on March 30, 2023, 05:49:26 PMRight I'm just going to go for 5 that influenced me the most, and even at that..
GODFLESH - Streetcleaner
Strapping Young Lad - City
Akercocke - Words That go Unspoken...
Faith No More - King For a Day..
Type O Negative - October Rust
And tonight's bonus ball is
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss.
Impossible
Going back to my own 5 and I'm wondering how Strapping Young Lad got in at the expense of The Downward Spiral and I love Bloody Kisses as much as October Rust and Angel Dust has fairly taken over from King For A Day.
And I've left out so many things I love.
I will try the decade one on paper but I doubt I'll get as far as posting it.
I wonder would top 5 bands without mention of album be any easier? Probably not
Quote from: Pentagrimes on November 27, 2024, 08:15:49 AMVoivod-Killing Technology
That riff that kicks in just before the solo of "Ravenous Medicine" is one of my all time favourite moments in music :abbath:
Quote from: ochoill on March 28, 2023, 09:41:54 PMI usually need a top 20 at this point, no way can I pick only 5, so have 10 and ye can give out to me over what doesn't count as metal:
Devin Townsend - "Terria"
Mr. Bungle - "Disco Volante"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
Type O Negative - "October Rust"
Faith No More - "Angel Dust"
Strapping Young Lad - "City"
Godflesh - "Streetcleaner"
Isis - "Oceanic"
Converge - "You Fail Me"
Neurosis - "Through Silver In Blood"
I think I stand by this. But I might to the by-decade 5's at the weekend out of curiosity's sake.
Quote from: astfgyl on November 27, 2024, 01:36:12 PMI wonder would top 5 bands without mention of album be any easier? Probably not
Wouldn't even be sure how to do that. I feel like I'd have to have Metallica and Maiden in, but I haven't given a shite about their new releases in at least 20 years so should they count? Then on the other hand those 80s albums are
so good that how could you not include them
Quote from: Bürggermeister on November 26, 2024, 12:09:14 PMQuote from: Emphyrio on November 26, 2024, 10:46:05 AMQuote from: Bürggermeister on November 25, 2024, 06:04:07 PMSkid Row - The Gang's All Here
This is very respectable. Anything else post-Bach worth checking out?
Nothing else I heard made me want to splash the cash.
The United World Rebellion e.p's are pretty fucking good.
Quote from: Trev on November 27, 2024, 06:17:52 PMQuote from: astfgyl on November 27, 2024, 01:36:12 PMI wonder would top 5 bands without mention of album be any easier? Probably not
Wouldn't even be sure how to do that. I feel like I'd have to have Metallica and Maiden in, but I haven't given a shite about their new releases in at least 20 years so should they count? Then on the other hand those 80s albums are so good that how could you not include them
That's exactly the way I was thinking about it, like Ministry would have to be there for me but they haven't had a good album in 20 years. NIN also fairly petered out after The Fragile although not as embarrassingly as Ministry but still... Yeah I think it's impossible
60's
Cream – Disraeli Gears
Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum
Vanilla Fudge - s/t
Grand Funk Railroad – Grand Funk
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
70's
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Motorhead - Overkill
Van Halen - I
AC/DC - Powerage
Judas Priest - Stained Class
80's
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Napalm Death - Scum
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
90's
Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
Graveyard Rodeo - Sowing Discord In The Haunts Of Man
Prong - Beg to Differ
Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
00's
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse
Jesu - Conqueror
SSS - The Dividing Line
Wormrot - Abuse
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
10's
War Iron – The Fifth And Final Sun
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
The Body – Christs, Redeemers
English Dogs - The Thing with Two Heads
Amebix - Sonic Mass
20's
Torso - A Crash Course in Terror
Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Pupil Slicer - Mirrors
Eye Flys - Tub of Lard
Melvins - Bad Moon Rising
Quote from: Mithrandir on April 03, 2023, 09:51:43 PMIron maiden - Seventh Son
Warning - Watching from a distance
Katatonia- dance of December souls
Deicide - Deicide
Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
Honourable mention to Carnivore - ST
Mine still stand but could probably also interchange any of them with Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy and Ulver - Bergtatt and Epicus Doomicus. I'll keep WFAD in there even though I probably listen to The Strength to Drean more these days.
If we're doing Honorable mentions -And seeing as this has become the "name five albums from each decade that are vaguely metal related" thread we probably are :laugh: - then I can't believe I left out Forest of Equilibrium
How about by century? I'll go first:
1800s
Beethoven - Deafened: Music to Make Your Ears Bleed
Wagner - Incorrigible Bigotry: Pure Wagner
Tchaikovsky - Cannon Blast Beats
Paganini - Stradivari Shredder
Mussorgsky - Modest Up Your Ass
:laugh: :laugh:
I've been trying to whittle my multi decade list to purely 5. It's damn near impossible but also shows that the stuff that got me into metal is still deemed the best there is (in my eyes). I've been revisiting some of these recently for the first time in a while and it's been like having a class new album all over again. Nothing past 1992 on the list either.
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Megadeth - So Far... So Good... So What!
COC - Blind
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
Alice In Chains - Dirt
No room for obscure stuff when limited to 5 only
88-93 is where the real gold is for me (with some notable exceptions) and, yeah, it's that mid-late teen era too. I could live without anything from 94 on, to be honest, but there were still some real gems in 93.
This is impossible...but here's an attempt
1. Def Leppard - Hysteria
2: Cannibal Corpse: The Bleeding
3: Cryptopsy: None So Vile
4: Riot: Thundersteel
5: Ozzy - Ultimate Sin
Well that's... different!
At the moment and in no particular order:
Rust in Peace
Master of Puppets
Speak English or Die
Slaughter of the Soul
Beneath the Remains
I can get behind all of those except S.O.D. Probably substitute Blood Fire Death in there. Actually I'd drop Slaughter for Reign In Blood too.
Will do a top 4 as these haven't changed in years but no.5 changes all the time.
1. Pantera - GST
2. Order from Chaos - Stillbirth Machine
3. Funeral Mist - Salvation
4. DSO - Si Monvmentvm
Oul Phil would be mad proud to be topping that more' leftfield ' list but yeah GST is a monster. Salvation also is savage. Don't know the other two.
He would probably have Salavtion on his list as well. Maybe I would give the 5th spot to Legion. A top 10 or 20 would be slightly easier to pick than 5.
Easiest way it seems to do it was pick my favourite black,death,thrash etc
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Ulver - Bergtatt
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
His Hero Is Gone - Monuments To Thieves
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Agalloch The Mantle
Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Megadeth - so far, so good, so what
Immolation - Here in After
Phobia – Serenity Through Pain
Scepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Slayer – Decade Of Aggression
Nice to see a few mentions for So far so good so what, really fantastic album that wrests with Peace sells as my favourite Megadeth
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Death - Symbolic
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun (edited to include this beast)
That was incredibly hard! :laugh:
Very hard leaving out the likes of Dissection, Blood Incantation, Necrophobic, King Diamond, Nile & Morbid Angel.
What would your top Nile be? Black Seeds?
This is hard. Some of my top albums I listen to regularly and others I haven't listened to in years, including some for well over a decade, but have a good memory of. The following are 5 of my top albums I likely listen to most regularly from my top 20. My favourite album isn't amongst them.
Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Death - Symbolic
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Mayhem - Chimera
Hmm top 5....
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Suicidal Tenedencies - Still Cyco After All These Years (yes, the sacrilege of preferring the re-recorded version over the original)
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Mastodon - Leviathan
(But also Rust in Piece, A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Cleansing, Master of Reality, Van Halen, Symbolic, Astro Creep, RATM etc etc etc)
Quote from: Squigs on December 16, 2024, 04:48:59 PMWhat would your top Nile be? Black Seeds?
Funnily enough it isn't Black Seeds or Annihilation. I think I'd have to go with Those Whom The Gods Detest. Not a bad song on it at all and it's what I always stick on when I'm in
that Nile mood.
No idea how I would even begin to whittle it down and where to draw the line in terms of which albums are the most important. Appetite for Destruction got me into it all but isn't one I listen to much these days, even though I still love it. Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning and The Black Album the same. How Will I Laugh..., Rust In Peace, Nurse, Dirt, Badmotorfinger... All those 90s classics that are deeply embedded in my soul. October Rust!
Then local classics like Spirit the Earth Aflame, The Sullen Sulcus, Arcane Sun... Geasa demo...
Stormcrowfleet, Stream From the Heavens, Turn Loose the Swans... Cthonic Rites! Times of Grace ???
Any number of black metal classics and obscurities that have obsessed my mind over the past 15 or 20 years.
Where do you even begin??
In the Rectory! Fucking hell.
Somehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
Quote from: Mooncat on December 17, 2024, 05:48:27 AMSomehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
I remember where I was and when infuser heart that album.
It's amazing and inside I left it off my list. This list is impossible as so many albums have a time and a place memory.
On top of that there are many that have the ability to transport me back to that exact moment and wrap me in a sonic duvet of memories.
Quote from: Mooncat on December 17, 2024, 05:48:27 AMSomehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
You should give Far Away from the Sun by Sacramentum a listen if you haven't heard it. They're similar to Dissection, but are even better in my opinion. Far Away from the Sun is a masterpiece.
Quote from: Circlepit on December 17, 2024, 07:55:59 AMQuote from: Mooncat on December 17, 2024, 05:48:27 AMSomehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
I remember where I was and when I first heard that album.
It's amazing and I can't believe I left it off my list. This list is impossible as so many albums have a time and a place memory.
On top of that there are many that have the ability to transport me back to that exact moment and wrap me in a sonic duvet of memories.
Quote from: Maggot Colony on December 17, 2024, 11:07:08 AMQuote from: Mooncat on December 17, 2024, 05:48:27 AMSomehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
You should give Far Away from the Sun by Sacramentum a listen if you haven't heard it. They're similar to Dissection, but are even better in my opinion. Far Away from the Sun is a masterpiece.
I second this motion.
The title track is one of the best black metal tunes ever crafted. Amazing album.
Quote from: Maggot Colony on December 17, 2024, 11:07:08 AMQuote from: Mooncat on December 17, 2024, 05:48:27 AMSomehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
You should give Far Away from the Sun by Sacramentum a listen if you haven't heard it. They're similar to Dissection, but are even better in my opinion. Far Away from the Sun is a masterpiece.
And to complete the trifecta, put Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) on that list of things to listen to...
Cheers lads, I'll check those out!
Wish I'd discovered it 20-odd years ago now to get the full teenage impact of it.
Dissection's first album, The Somberlain, is a must too especially if you loved Storm of the Light's Bane. :abbath:
I prefer The Somberlain. Great stuff.
Quote from: Thanatos on December 17, 2024, 12:29:34 PMQuote from: Maggot Colony on December 17, 2024, 11:07:08 AMQuote from: Mooncat on December 17, 2024, 05:48:27 AMSomehow I had never heard Storm of the Light's Bane before so I checked it out from this thread. Holy. Fucking. Shit. That is something else. Only had one listen to it so far but It'll be on repeat for the next while for sure. Quite the Christmas album...
You should give Far Away from the Sun by Sacramentum a listen if you haven't heard it. They're similar to Dissection, but are even better in my opinion. Far Away from the Sun is a masterpiece.
And to complete the trifecta, put Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) on that list of things to listen to...
I'd make it a quadfecta (?) and add Vinterland's Welcome My Last Chapter to this elite meloblack list also. :laugh:
I echo the sentiments for the Somberlain and Dawn - Slaughtersun. Brilliant albums
Throw Thulcandra's "Under a Frozen Sun" in there too :abbath:
Quote from: Ducky on December 18, 2024, 06:15:15 PMThrow Thulcandra's "Under a Frozen Sun" in there too :abbath:
Never even heard of it. Is it any good or what sort of thing is it? Not mad about Dissection if that makes any difference
Quote from: astfgyl on December 18, 2024, 08:47:36 PMQuote from: Ducky on December 18, 2024, 06:15:15 PMThrow Thulcandra's "Under a Frozen Sun" in there too :abbath:
Never even heard of it. Is it any good or what sort of thing is it? Not mad about Dissection if that makes any difference
It's basically a Dissection worship kind of band formed by the frontman of Obscura , Steffen Kummerer. It can be a bit on the nose at times (not as bad as Gruesome with their Death worship) but if you're itchin for that Dissection kick it'll do the job and to be honest it's very well done.
They have 5 albums at this stage so plenty to assault your ears with. :abbath:
The Spirit from Germany have a few very Dissection sounding albums.
The two 90s Dissection albums are essential imo.
Also it was this week 20 years ago they played Dublin,fuckin unbelievable gig.
I got a couple of Dissection albums off Gooey a few years ago and I only liked Storm... Think it wasn't harsh enough for me at the time but I'm old now maybe I should have another crack at it
Quote from: astfgyl on December 18, 2024, 08:47:36 PMQuote from: Ducky on December 18, 2024, 06:15:15 PMThrow Thulcandra's "Under a Frozen Sun" in there too :abbath:
Never even heard of it. Is it any good or what sort of thing is it? Not mad about Dissection if that makes any difference
Necrohag is on the money above, but I'll add in that I myself am not mad about Dissection, but somehow enjoy Thulcandra more. I'd imagine that's akin to someone not being mad about Judas Priest but enjoying Primal Fear more.
(I'm also of the opinion that Dissection's debut is by far the superior album vs. Storm).
Quote from: Paul keohane on December 18, 2024, 10:44:59 PMThe Spirit from Germany have a few very Dissection sounding albums.
The two 90s Dissection albums are essential imo.
Also it was this week 20 years ago they played Dublin,fuckin unbelievable gig.
Aye, I also really enjoy this band and should have mentioned them previously. Funnily enough a class hoodie I bought from their bandcamp arrived yesterday morning. :laugh:
Their new album, Songs Against Humanity, that came out in October is one of my albums of the year.
I'm going to lose 666 kvlt points for recommending this, but Casus Luciferi by Watain is another great album in a style similar to Dissection.
Ninkharsag is another Dissection clone. Hadnt heard of them before they played Damnation last year but went to check them out they were great live
Keep meaning to give their albums a listen since then but still haven't got around to it!
Quote from: Maggot Colony on December 19, 2024, 09:32:41 AMI'm going to lose 666 kvlt points for recommending this, but Casus Luciferi by Watain is another great album in a style similar to Dissection.
Yeah class album!
Black Sabbath- Tyr would possibly have earned a spot in my list for tyre amount of times I've listened to it in the past year.
Quote from: Trev on December 19, 2024, 10:22:09 AMNinkharsag is another Dissection clone. Hadnt heard of them before they played Damnation last year but went to check them out they were great live
Keep meaning to give their albums a listen since then but still haven't got around to it!
Yeah, I really like their album The Dread March Of Solemn Gods. That 2nd track Under the Dead of Night is a banger. Soooooooo Dissectiony. :laugh:
Came across a Chinese two man band today called Black Reaper with their album Celestial Descension. A great listen and also in the Dissection vein.
I'd also put forward the album In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead by Unanimated for some more classic melodic black/death.
Quote from: Necrohag on December 19, 2024, 01:58:25 PMI'd also put forward the album In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead by Unanimated for some more classic melodic black/death.
Seeing as there seems to be a bit of theme going here with Vinterland and Unanimated being mentioned, it might be good to add more of that Swedish, No Fashion records type stuff like the below:
Throne of Ahaz - Nifelheim
Allegiance - Blodörnsoffer
Decameron - My Shadow...
Setherial - Nord...
Lord Belial - Enter the Moonlight Gate
Quote from: Paul keohane on December 19, 2024, 10:29:56 AMQuote from: Maggot Colony on December 19, 2024, 09:32:41 AMI'm going to lose 666 kvlt points for recommending this, but Casus Luciferi by Watain is another great album in a style similar to Dissection.
Yeah class album!
Not a chance.
Quote from: Thanatos on December 20, 2024, 01:07:13 PMQuote from: Necrohag on December 19, 2024, 01:58:25 PMI'd also put forward the album In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead by Unanimated for some more classic melodic black/death.
Seeing as there seems to be a bit of theme going here with Vinterland and Unanimated being mentioned, it might be good to add more of that Swedish, No Fashion records type stuff like the below:
Throne of Ahaz - Nifelheim
Allegiance - Blodörnsoffer
Decameron - My Shadow...
Setherial - Nord...
Lord Belial - Enter the Moonlight Gate
I've not heard of most of them so I'll check them out. Cheers!