Worst? but your favourite?

[Ducky]

Kreator - Renewal

When it came out it was a genuine WTF moment on first listen, but I quickly grew to love it and listened to it constantly during the Winter of 92, for which it seemed entirely apt. I still love it, there's nothing else which sounds quite like it and, while it didn't make my all-time top 5 a while back, I think it's comfortably top 10 for me.

Love this too. "Winter Martyrium" is the first Kreator song I ever heard, and still my favourite.

For my own pick I'll go with Sepultura's "Nation". Listened to it heaps back in college. There's some great riffs on it, it's heavy as fuck at times, and whatever bonus edition I had featured a cover of  "Bela Lugosi's Dead", which subsequently got me into Bauhaus.

[Paul keohane]

I suppose, maybe like others here who stated getting into stuff early to mid 90s, I was introduced to a lot of bands well after their classic eras, and worked my way backwards. It's only now, with the benefit of hindsight, that I realise some of it wasn't great.

First Slayer album purchased was Divine Intervention. Far from their best but still have a soft spot for it, as it was the album that got me into them in the first place.

First Entombed I bought was Wolverine Blues. Definitely not their best.

Obituary - World Demise. Loved this when I bought it, id still listen to it on occasion more for nostalgia, but again not a classic.

Same with Heartwork, which I still rate. Also completely get why it's divisive well.

Your similar vintage to myself I'd say,pretty similar paths.

[The Great Cull]

While Bushthrax is the best Anthrax, I'd rate State Of Euphoria as the best of the Joey era. It's an opinion that the band themselves would not approve of as they pretty much have all said they isn't like it.

[The Great Cull]

Suicidal Tendencies- The Art of Rebellion. Quite a dodgy album when absorbed with adult ears and perspective, but I got into it when it came out and I was ten or eleven, and expected bands to sound different from album to album. I could happily stick it on now.

Everything Suicidal released up to and including Art Of Rebellion was quality. I pretend they didn't release anything beyond that.

[Eoin McLove]

Suicidal Tendencies- The Art of Rebellion. Quite a dodgy album when absorbed with adult ears and perspective, but I got into it when it came out and I was ten or eleven, and expected bands to sound different from album to album. I could happily stick it on now.

Everything Suicidal released up to and including Art Of Rebellion was quality. I pretend they didn't release anything beyond that.

I haven't heard their later stuff bar a song here and there.

[Mower Liberation Front]

Kreator - Renewal

When it came out it was a genuine WTF moment on first listen, but I quickly grew to love it and listened to it constantly during the Winter of 92, for which it seemed entirely apt. I still love it, there's nothing else which sounds quite like it and, while it didn't make my all-time top 5 a while back, I think it's comfortably top 10 for me.

I think Endorama gets a lot more crap than Renewal does, but I think it's the best of their experimental period by far.

For myself? In Search of Sanity.

[Paul keohane]

Bolt thrower - Those once loyal, another album I reach for ahead of some the classic BT albums.

[Cosmic_Equilibrium]

Bolt thrower - Those once loyal, another album I reach for ahead of some the classic BT albums.

Isn't that album really highly regrded though anyway? Good record I agree.

I'll go with Maiden - The Bayley material is great, Sign Of The Cross is Maiden's best song, and The X Factor is a deeply cathartic work that is one of the few albums I can play when feeling depressed and it helps (mostly when I'm like that I'm not in the mood for listening to music generally).

[Thorn]

Bolt thrower - Those once loyal, another album I reach for ahead of some the classic BT albums.

Kreator - Renewal

When it came out it was a genuine WTF moment on first listen, but I quickly grew to love it and listened to it constantly during the Winter of 92, for which it seemed entirely apt. I still love it, there's nothing else which sounds quite like it and, while it didn't make my all-time top 5 a while back, I think it's comfortably top 10 for me.

I think Endorama gets a lot more crap than Renewal does, but I think it's the best of their experimental period by far.

For myself? In Search of Sanity.

Suicidal Tendencies- The Art of Rebellion. Quite a dodgy album when absorbed with adult ears and perspective, but I got into it when it came out and I was ten or eleven, and expected bands to sound different from album to album. I could happily stick it on now.

Everything Suicidal released up to and including Art Of Rebellion was quality. I pretend they didn't release anything beyond that.

I haven't heard their later stuff bar a song here and there.

Kreator - Renewal

When it came out it was a genuine WTF moment on first listen, but I quickly grew to love it and listened to it constantly during the Winter of 92, for which it seemed entirely apt. I still love it, there's nothing else which sounds quite like it and, while it didn't make my all-time top 5 a while back, I think it's comfortably top 10 for me.

I think Endorama gets a lot more crap than Renewal does, but I think it's the best of their experimental period by far.

For myself? In Search of Sanity.

Ooh yes, I'd choose that is my favourite Onslaught also, begrudgers bedamned

[Paul keohane]

Bolt thrower - Those once loyal, another album I reach for ahead of some the classic BT albums.

Isn't that album really highly regrded though anyway? Good record I agree.

Yeah it probably is tbf.

[Ducky]

Seeing it mentioned there - Divine Intervention. I rate it as their second-best, only RiB tops it for me.

[M.Hopkins]

Bolt Thrower - Mercenary. My favourite from them and less liked than Those Once Loyal I think. Reckon I first heard some of it on the metal show with John Kenny so always loved it.

Opeth - Watershed. Can't understand why folks don't rate this, it's a savage album

[Anvil]

Enslaved - Below the Lights.  My most listened to and favourite Enslaved album... I actually think it is pure genius which is definitely not the norm. 

[Trev]

I've always preferred the more proggy Enslaved stuff, Riitiir would probably be my favourite

[ochoill]

Enslaved - Below the Lights.  My most listened to and favourite Enslaved album... I actually think it is pure genius which is definitely not the norm. 

Yeah that's my favourite too.  Is it generally not liked?  I never knew that and always thought it was fairly highly rated in their catalog.