Absolutely Essential Metal Albums

[Mort Divine]

Samael - Blood Ritual
Ulver - Bergtatt
Carcass - Heartwork

Those are really the only three someone HAS to have listened to.

 

[Seditious]

Those are really the only three someone HAS to have listened to.

this isn't a 'shit you've surely heard before' list, it's a 'shit you fuckin should hear' list.

anything else in my collection I could never have heard and have really missed nothing.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

this isn't a 'shit you've surely heard before' list, it's a 'shit you fuckin should hear' list.

anything else in my collection I could never have heard and have really missed nothing.

I really want to know why you think Metal listeners really have to hear Hammerfall and Bloodbath and how they're essential.

 

[Seditious]

I really want to know why you think Metal listeners really have to hear Hammerfall and Bloodbath and how they're essential.

I feel the same way about every other band mentioned in this thread

 

[skeptik]

Hammerfall and Bloodbath are the pinnacle of generic and unoriginal within their respective genres, so to even make the assertion that either could be deemed "absolutely essential" "must hear" bands can really only be received as an attempt at mockery.

 

[Skepticism]

Yeah, just for the response, I would definitely take the time to read that top 100 list.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Those are really the only three someone HAS to have listened to.

yeah, but Heartwork sucks

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Heartwork may not match up to Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious , but it sure as hell doesn't suck.

 

[RedinTheSky]

Mithotyn - Gathered Around the Oaken Table

I don't see how this is better than 'In the Sign Of Ravens',
which would definitely be on my list.

 

[S<issors]

Hammerfall and Bloodbath are the pinnacle of generic and unoriginal within their respective genres, so to even make the assertion that either could be deemed "absolutely essential" "must hear" bands can really only be received as an attempt at mockery.

Bloodbath are a side project intended mostly for the nostalgia value, so I don't know if calling them "unoriginal" is even really an insult (although their "essential" status is... debatable).

 

[skeptik]

I wasn't insulting them, in fact, I enjoy some of their material. But they're not even remotely essential by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

I wasn't insulting them, in fact, I enjoy some of their material. But they're not even remotely essential by any stretch of the imagination.

Agreed.