Your top 5 metal albums of all time

[Cailleach]

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Slayer     Seasons in the Abyss
Agalloch   The Mantle
Emperor    Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

[91/30]

Megadeth - so far, so good, so what
Immolation - Here in After
Phobia – Serenity Through Pain
Scepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Slayer – Decade Of Aggression

[Don Gately]

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

[Necrohag]

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!

Very hard leaving out the likes of Dissection, Blood Incantation, Necrophobic, King Diamond, Nile & Morbid Angel.

[Squigs]

What would your top Nile be? Black Seeds?

[Polaris]

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

[Mooncat]

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)

[Necrohag]

What 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.

[Eoin McLove]

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??

[Eoin McLove]

In the Rectory! Fucking hell.

[Mooncat]

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...

[Circlepit]

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...

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.

[Maggot Colony]

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...

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.

[Circlepit]

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...

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.

[Necrohag]

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...

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.