Pick one. Just one.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Until it gets chewed up.   

Too real

[Snare]

Always the glass half empty with you! That's the one thing I'm grabbing anyway... or an MP3 stick of tunes 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors for me.

This is a great choice. Along similar lines, the most recently released album I thought about choosing is Black Medium Current.

[stearl]

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors for me.

This is a great choice. Along similar lines, the most recently released album I thought about choosing is Black Medium Current.

And funnily enough, it's the only Arcturus album that really gels for me, I could give or take the rest of them.

[stearl]

Just to add, Black Medium Current is a class bit of work too.

[Barrytron]

Thundersteel

[Mooncat]

I was trying to think of it in a desert island disc kind of way: what metal album could I get most mileage out of if I had to choose just one.

Is it one you listen to frequently though? Leviathan certainly covers all the bases, but it doesn't have as much replay value for me, whereas something  a little more one dimensional like AC/DC I've listened to and could listen to a million times more. Was Leviathan the sweet spot for you of huge replayability coupled with diversity?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

In my case, yeah, that about nails it: Leviathan is hands-down one of my most ever listened to metal albums. I love me "one-dimensional" stuff, as you put it, but personally that's my snacks whereas the prog end of things is my meat and deconstructed potatoes.

[Eoin McLove]

If your meat isn't deconstructed too can we deduce that you have no sausage?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Exactly. Instead, I have an entire pork joint, including crackling, honey-glaze, the works, all tied up with string, for her pleasure.

[Eoin McLove]

A spit roast for all.

[Cailleach]

 Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes

[Petardo]

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

On loop all day, no bother.