Absolute Masterpieces of Today

[Dead Winter]

I would say the opposite, that somehow a person's taste in music is somehow above the rest of the world's is extreme vanity. I call it elitist.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Lost Horizon - a flame to the ground beneath
there will never be a better power metal release.

 

[Superior]

(hopefully) Meshuggah - None, Destroy Erase Improve, Nothing, FUCK I love everything by this band, oh
Frederick Thordendal - Sol Niger Within!! maybe the best thing from the 90's
Nevermore - Politics of Ecstasy, Dreaming Neon Black
Electric Wizard - Return Trip or Dopethrone
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (really, any of the last 3 by Akercocke could be one, but this is my favorite)
Opeth - Orchid, My Arms, Your Hearse, or Still Life
Enslaved - ... fuck enslaved is awesome, any/all? Isa was very original, Ruun not as much though,
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead (man, the newest primordial is so fucking amazing)
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood, A Sun That Never Sets, Given To the Rising
Deathspell Omega - holy fuck, this is a hard choice, ummm Fas? Kenose? SMRC?

sucks though because I'm sure instead of the amazing underground stuff thats around, Dethklok and Shadows Fall/KSE/Lamb of God/crapfest402 are going to be looked back on as classics by most people with sickening reverence and nostalgia

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

omfg Neurosis. times of grace ftw.

Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure.
Solitude Aeutrnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon

 

[Swabs]

Wintersun.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

is Nightfall by Candlemass too told to count here? or would that album be one of the standards that all of the other ones are being judged by?

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness? It's still "modern" and a lot of people seem to love it, including myself. Very memorable.

 

[dreaming neon darkspot]

lol orgasm solo

 

[Calamitas1786]

Muse - Absolution
Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
Dream Theater - Awake
Nevermore - Politics of Ecstasy
Soilwork - Chainheart Machine, A Predator's Protrait
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Savatage - Gutter Ballet, Streets
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Death - Individual Thought Pattern, Human, Symbolic
Freak Kitchen - Dead Soul Man, Move, Appetizer
Opeth - Still Life
Into Eternity - A Scattering of Ashes
Vinnie Moore - Mind's Eye
Queensryche -Operation Mindcrime, Empire, Rage For Order

 

[Superior]

That song is too long, its like one of those posts where you notice how small the scroll bar is and just go 'fuck that.' and stop reading

EDIT: Also, since when was Into Eternity all that great? I saw them open for Nevermore and thought they were pretty decent, but when I checked out their myspace is was just generic prog/death with a little diversity on the vocals and shredddddddddder! solos

 

[Lord Foul]

If the purpose of this thread is to speculate about what recent albums might be thought of as masterpieces in the future, we need to define what recent means. I am seeing an awful lot of decade+ old albums.

 

[Dead Winter]

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness? It's still "modern" and a lot of people seem to love it, including myself. Very memorable.

Wow, great album. Good post.

 

[Dead Winter]

Recent being anything 10 years old or younger.

 

[Shpongled]

Between the Buried and Me - Colors - This album encompasses everything I like about instrument driven music. From the ultra brutal blast parts to the quirky grooves to the laid back melodic parts and off the wall time changes, this album really covers a lot of ground. It even goes into some jazzy stuff at times and there's even a fuckin' ho' down in it! It took me a LONG time to fully embrace this album, even after I'd already decided BTBAM was one of my favorite bands. But then again, the really good albums have a tendency to do that. One of my biggest pet peeves ever is when people call BTBAM a generic hardcore or metalcore band. All it freakin' takes is one listen and a bit of paying attention to see that they're anything but.

Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... but Nothing is Lost - This album is absolutely perfect in every way, shape, and form you can think of. It's like an entire dream sequence that starts when you fall asleep at midnight and wake up as the sun is coming up and the birds are chirping. Maybe I'm biased, but I get chills just typing this sentence. I don't even want to begin typing what makes this album so great. Describing Shpongle is extremely difficult. It's best to just hear it for yourself.

I'm gonna post more later, I don't have time right now at work haha.

 

[Superior]

fuck, I forgot Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

its the only katatonia I really love, I like brave murder day and dance of december souls, but everything else I don't understand the praise. LFDGD is fucking awesome though, nothing flashy, just great songwriting, beautiful melodies and great vocal performance.

 

[EricT]

Modern Masterpeices?

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain | The Mantle | Pale Folklore
Darkestrah - Epos
Deathspell Omega - Si Momentum Requires, Circumspice
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
In The Woods - Omnio | Strange in Stereo | Heart of the Ages (I know its older than 10 years, but fuck you... it's an album that was 10 years before its time and will live on for years to come, same goes for Omnio)
Negura Bunget - OM
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
Warning - Watching From A Distance
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice

Plenty of amazing albums have come out

 

[Dead Winter]

We're actually talking to Aural Music (Negura Bunget's label)...waiting for the yay or nay from the boss. It takes FOOOOREEEEEEVEEEEEERRRR for these labels to do anything. It took an entire month just for the cd to make its way to the boss. It would be pretty cool to play some shows with NB...that would be a dream. Not getting my hopes up, though.

 

[neal]

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

 

[Anvil]

Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... but Nothing is Lost - This album is absolutely perfect in every way, shape, and form you can think of. It's like an entire dream sequence that starts when you fall asleep at midnight and wake up as the sun is coming up and the birds are chirping. Maybe I'm biased, but I get chills just typing this sentence. I don't even want to begin typing what makes this album so great. Describing Shpongle is extremely difficult. It's best to just hear it for yourself.

I'm gonna post more later, I don't have time right now at work haha.

Fucking. Rights.

 

[Psychonaut]

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness? It's still "modern" and a lot of people seem to love it, including myself. Very memorable.

Aye.