Your top 5 metal albums of all time

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Tangerine Dream..?

[CorkonianHunger]

Tangerine Dream..?

Just realised its metal albums... Still they are on the mind.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Ah okay. Thought I was about to learn about some industrial protometal album from them I didn't know! 

[Carnage]

Well their first few albums might have a foot in the industrial bucket...

[Lurker]

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

[Lurker]

The guilt is gnawing away since, particularly over no Bolt Thrower

[astfgyl]

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

[Paul keohane]

Fuck it im doing another 5

Carcass - Necroticism
Blood incantation-Hidden History
Nile- Black seeds
Dead Congregation- Promulgation
Septicflesh- Communion

[Blizzard Beast]

Impossile to pick 5 claw,too many good albums to chose from.

[Trev]

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

[jobrok1]

That's a great way of doing it.
Might need to redo mine again

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That's a top 30 though, that's taking the piss   

How about ONE from each decade? 

[ldj]

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.

[Trev]

That's a top 30 though, that's taking the piss   

How about ONE from each decade? 

Top 30 and I still couldn't put in Type O, Emperor, Carcass, Helloween, Megadeth...its fucking impossible! 

[Thorn]

   Utter chaos