Your top 5 metal albums of all time

[The Heretic]

This decades shit is harder than a clean and ruthless all-time top 5 

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!!

[Emphyrio]

Skid Row - The Gang's All Here

This is very respectable. Anything else post-Bach worth checking out?

[Jward]

Metallica - Master
Slayer - Reign
Black Sabbath - Master
Queensryche - Operation
Alice In Chains - Muck

Have to squeeze in 1 more:
Deep Purple – Made In Japan

[Bürggermeister]

Skid 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.

[Emphyrio]

Good to know.

[Paul keohane]

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

[The Great Cull]

Ah fuck these lists 

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...

[Thanatos]

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
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)

[Pentagrimes]

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

[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

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

[Ducky]

Voivod-Killing Technology

That riff that kicks in just before the solo of "Ravenous Medicine" is one of my all time favourite moments in music 

[ochoill]

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"

I think I stand by this.  But I might to the by-decade 5's at the weekend out of curiosity's sake.

[Trev]

I 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

[The Wretch]

Skid 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.

[astfgyl]

I 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