Albums with the best production

[Death_To_False_Metal]

Here's my list :

Metallica Black Album : The Golden Standard for rock metal production, I think each song has 250 different tracks for each instrumment !!
Bob Rock is Metal !

Metallica Master Of Puppets : yeah the production could be better but for the time, I don't think they could have done it much better as it is !

Tool Aenima & Lateralus . David Botrill is an amazing producer ( See Peter Gabriel, Muse , Mudvayne) Danny Carey's drum sound is Great on both !

Steven Wilson : Porcupine Tree's Lighbulb Sun and In Absentia are just amazing sounding albums ! Deadwing was somewhat of a let down production wise comared to those two !
Black WaterPark : DUH !!!

Ghost Reveries : Gorgeous !

Rick Rubin : The holy Slayer trilogy , Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Toxicity, Johnny Cash

Sepultura Chaos AD, Arise

Carcass' hearwork, Machine Head's Burn My Eyes, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, Colin Richardson was hot in those days now he works with Bullet For My Valentine !

Fredrick Nordstrom : Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Something, The Haunted's Revolver, Soilwork A Predator's Portrait, In Flames' Clayman, the Gothenburg soundman himself !!!

Death Symbolic

Nile ITDS

Led Zep : All

Korn : ST

Dream Theater : Awake, Scenes Form A Memory, Falling into Infinity

Spock's beard : Snow

Muse : Origin Of Symmetry

Rage Agaisnt The Machine : ST

Cannibal Corpse : Kill

Iron Maiden : Powerslave, Number of The beast

Judas Priest : Paiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnkiiiileeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!!!

Type O negative : October rust

Megadeth : Rust In Peace

Rammstein : Mutter

Limp Bizkit : Significant Other (Sue me !!!)

Dr Dre : 2001

Deep Purple : Burn

Steely Dan : Aja

Michael Jackson : Thriller

Madonnna: Ray of Light

Sting : Ten Summoner's Tale

Pink Floyd : The Wall

Kiss : Destroyer

Immortal : Sons of Nothern Darkness

Beatles : St Pepper ( A day in The Life !), Abbey Road

Aerosmith : Get A Grip

Behemoth : Demigod

Slipknot : Iowa

Van Halen : First (The Brown sound !!!), F.U.C.K

Pantera Vulgar Display of Dimebag's Power !

Rush Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures

Dave Matthews Band : Crash, Before Thes Crowded Streets

U2 : Their last album sounds amazing !

Bon Jovi : Keep The Faith

Motley Crue : Dr Feelgood

Seal : His songs are perfectly produced

SOundgarden : Superunknown

Rainbow : Rising

Malmsteen : Facing The Animal

Tears For Fears : The Seeds Of Love

Depeche Mode : Opium for The Masses, Violator

Living Colour : Vivid

Killswitch Engage : The End of Heartache

Nevermore : Deadheart in A Dead World

Joe Satriani : ST

PRODIGY : The Fat of The Land

Lynyrnd Skynyrnd : ST

Jay Z : The Blueprint

Nirvana : Nevermind


What's yours Niggaz ???

 

[Heckelgruber]

I think you've covered a lot of what I would have said off the top of my head. For Opeth I agree, BWP is great. Have you heard the crispy remaster of Reign In Blood?

 

[Death_To_False_Metal]

I think you've covered a lot of what I would have said off the top of my head. For Opeth I agree, BWP is great. Have you heard the crispy remaster of Reign In Blood?

No, but I don't understand why albums produced in 1986, 1988 and 1990 (speaking of Slayer) still sound better than the albums that they produced afterwards !

 

[metal_wrath]

Here's my list :

Metallica Black Album : The Golden Standard for rock metal production, I think each song has 250 different tracks for each instrumment !!
Bob Rock is Metal !

Metallica Master Of Puppets : yeah the production could be better but for the time, I don't think they could have done it much better as it is !

Tool Aenima & Lateralus . David Botrill is an amazing producer ( See Peter Gabriel, Muse , Mudvayne) Danny Carey's drum sound is Great on both !

Steven Wilson : Porcupine Tree's Lighbulb Sun and In Absentia are just amazing sounding albums ! Deadwing was somewhat of a let down production wise comared to those two !
Black WaterPark : DUH !!!

Ghost Reveries : Gorgeous !

Rick Rubin : The holy Slayer trilogy , Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Toxicity, Johnny Cash

Sepultura Chaos AD, Arise

Carcass' hearwork, Machine Head's Burn My Eyes, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, Colin Richardson was hot in those days now he works with Bullet For My Valentine !

Fredrick Nordstrom : Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Something, The Haunted's Revolver, Soilwork A Predator's Portrait, In Flames' Clayman, the Gothenburg soundman himself !!!

Death Symbolic

Nile ITDS

Led Zep : All

Korn : ST

Dream Theater : Awake, Scenes Form A Memory, Falling into Infinity

Spock's beard : Snow

Muse : Origin Of Symmetry

Rage Agaisnt The Machine : ST

Cannibal Corpse : Kill

Iron Maiden : Powerslave, Number of The beast

Judas Priest : Paiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnkiiiileeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!!!

Type O negative : October rust

Megadeth : Rust In Peace

Rammstein : Mutter

Limp Bizkit : Significant Other (Sue me !!!)

Dr Dre : 2001

Deep Purple : Burn

Steely Dan : Aja

Michael Jackson : Thriller

Madonnna: Ray of Light

Sting : Ten Summoner's Tale

Pink Floyd : The Wall

Kiss : Destroyer

Immortal : Sons of Nothern Darkness

Beatles : St Pepper ( A day in The Life !), Abbey Road

Aerosmith : Get A Grip

Behemoth : Demigod

Slipknot : Iowa

Van Halen : First (The Brown sound !!!), F.U.C.K

Pantera Vulgar Display of Dimebag's Power !

Rush Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures

Dave Matthews Band : Crash, Before Thes Crowded Streets

U2 : Their last album sounds amazing !

Bon Jovi : Keep The Faith

Motley Crue : Dr Feelgood

Seal : His songs are perfectly produced

SOundgarden : Superunknown

Rainbow : Rising

Malmsteen : Facing The Animal

Tears For Fears : The Seeds Of Love

Depeche Mode : Opium for The Masses, Violator

Living Colour : Vivid

Killswitch Engage : The End of Heartache

Nevermore : Deadheart in A Dead World

Joe Satriani : ST

PRODIGY : The Fat of The Land

Lynyrnd Skynyrnd : ST

Jay Z : The Blueprint

Nirvana : Nevermind


What's yours Niggaz ???

Ironic that your username is death to false metal, seeing this list. Well anyway -1 for listing Metallica black album (multiple tracks don't require any talent at all), plus Carcass' hearwork did not have good production imo. Are you kidding about Micheal Jackson and..... Limp Biscuit. LMFAO @ Seal and Prodigy and U2 etc... I give up

 

[Ruby Eyes]

Here's my list :

Metallica Black Album : The Golden Standard for rock metal production, I think each song has 250 different tracks for each instrumment !!
Bob Rock is Metal !

LMFAO!

That's beyond impossible and completely ridiculous. Do you know how much hard drive space that would take up if the software even allowed that? And tape definitely wouldn't either. I think with ProTools now you can get 128 tracks at the most, and those are only virtual tracks, meaning you can't play them all back at the same time. Sure you can bounce tracks, but then the quality degrades each time, so why not just NOT track that many times? And that album was done in the early 90's. Good luck with your classic Pentium or old school Macintosh

And what's the point in tracking an instrument that much anyways? You can only make it sound so wide. After that, what's the point? Why not just turn up the gain on the track?

 

[Heckelgruber]

No, but I don't understand why albums produced in 1986, 1988 and 1990 (speaking of Slayer) still sound better than the albums that they produced afterwards !

You mean in terms of production or just in the sense that those unholy three are Slayer's best albums? I haven't even heard much after that except God Hates Us All, but the production seemed OK on that even if the music wasn't as good. RiB unrematered sounds like mush after hearing the remaster, although it is obviously untouchably great anyway.

I slightly regret that MAYH doesn't have a better sound. I love the music, but always feel like it sounds as if it's coming from the next room or something.

 

[Death_To_False_Metal]

LMFAO!

That's beyond impossible and completely ridiculous. Do you know how much hard drive space that would take up if the software even allowed that? And tape definitely wouldn't either. I think with ProTools now you can get 128 tracks at the most, and those are only virtual tracks, meaning you can't play them all back at the same time. And that album was done in the early 90's. Good luck with your classic Pentium or old school Macintosh

And what's the point in tracking an instrument that much anyways? You can only make it sound so wide. After that, what's the point? Why not just turn up the gain on the track?

I poorly expressed myself, I wanted to say that the band did 7 million takes for each song and that each song is made of these different takes !
And in thise times, records weren't done with computers and all of the black Album was cut old fashionned style ( see the A Year and A half documentary )
They took nine months to record this fucker,more than Dark Side of The Moon !

 

[Death_To_False_Metal]

You mean in terms of production or just in the sense that those unholy three are Slayer's best albums? I haven't even heard much after that except God Hates Us All, but the production seemed OK on that even if the music wasn't as good. RiB unrematered sounds like mush after hearing the remaster, although it is obviously untouchably great anyway.

I slightly regret that MAYH doesn't have a better sound. I love the music, but always feel like it sounds as if it's coming from the next room or something.

I love the production on these three slayer album so much especially Dave Lombardo's drumkit. You can hear every tom rolls perfectly !

Regarding Opeth first Three albums, I would like them to re record them even if i know that the Opeth hardcore police fans will say that the production of these albums is what make them special and that a polished sound would change the vibe of those albums !

 

[Ruby Eyes]

I poorly expressed myself, I wanted to say that the band did 7 million takes for each song and that each song is made of these different takes !
And in thise times, records weren't done with computers and all of the black Album was cut old fashionned style ( see the A Year and A half documentary )
They took nine months to record this fucker,more than Dark Side of The Moon !

Yeah that's cool, I was hoping that was the case. I didn't wanna seem like I was ragging on ya, but I just couldn't resist replying to that one. There's way too much flaming on forums though.

Nine months. Axl Rose still has them owned lol. 13 years and counting.
Edit: Or maybe Brian Wilson hahaha.

And believe it or not, computers were being used for recording even back then. The prototype for ProTools was developed in the late 80's. But if Metallica used tape for that one, that proves my point indefinitely.

I agree with a lot of your choices. A lot of them do have great sound.

I'd post mine but I wouldn't know where to start.

 

[Don Corleone]

good list. but pink floyd's dark side should have been way up front before the wall (maybe instead of the wall?).

 

[Vegetaman]

Just off hand...

Blackmore's Night - Ghost of a Rose
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Testament - The Gathering
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Iommi - Fused
HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth

 

[Don Corleone]

and lets add camel's mirage =)

 

[Heckelgruber]

I love the production on these three slayer album so much especially Dave Lombardo's drumkit. You can hear every tom rolls perfectly !

Regarding Opeth first Three albums, I would like them to re record them even if i know that the Opeth hardcore police fans will say that the production of these albums is what make them special and that a polished sound would change the vibe of those albums !

Awesome drums, completely agree. If you want double troll points with the early Opeth police you should probably recommend that Steve Wilson produce the recording too.

 

[Ruby Eyes]

good list. but pink floyd's dark side should have been way up front before the wall (maybe instead of the wall?).

Absolutely!

 

[Ruby Eyes]

Regarding Opeth first Three albums, I would like them to re record them even if i know that the Opeth hardcore police fans will say that the production of these albums is what make them special and that a polished sound would change the vibe of those albums !

I would love that as well! Wished for it a thousand times. The first two albums for sure sound terrible. I love the sound of MAYH personally. Yeah it's muddy, but it just sounds evil to me. The guitar tone on Orchid and Morningrise turns my stomach. I can't listen to it for long periods.

 

[Heckelgruber]

I would love that as well! Wished for it a thousand times. The first two albums for sure sound terrible. I love the sound of MAYH personally. Yeah it's muddy, but it just sounds evil to me. The guitar tone on Orchid and Morningrise turns my stomach. I can't listen to it for long periods.

Yeah, but I think Demon of the Fall with BWP-type impact would be a very good thing indeed.

 

[Ruby Eyes]

Yeah, but I think Demon of the Fall with BWP-type impact would be a very good thing indeed.

Fuck yeah. I can't argue with that.

 

[vampyré]

Here's my list :

Metallica Black Album : The Golden Standard for rock metal production, I think each song has 250 different tracks for each instrumment !!
Bob Rock is Metal !

Metallica Master Of Puppets : yeah the production could be better but for the time, I don't think they could have done it much better as it is !

Tool Aenima & Lateralus . David Botrill is an amazing producer ( See Peter Gabriel, Muse , Mudvayne) Danny Carey's drum sound is Great on both !

Steven Wilson : Porcupine Tree's Lighbulb Sun and In Absentia are just amazing sounding albums ! Deadwing was somewhat of a let down production wise comared to those two !
Black WaterPark : DUH !!!

Ghost Reveries : Gorgeous !

Rick Rubin : The holy Slayer trilogy , Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Toxicity, Johnny Cash

Sepultura Chaos AD, Arise

Carcass' hearwork, Machine Head's Burn My Eyes, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, Colin Richardson was hot in those days now he works with Bullet For My Valentine !

Fredrick Nordstrom : Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Something, The Haunted's Revolver, Soilwork A Predator's Portrait, In Flames' Clayman, the Gothenburg soundman himself !!!

Death Symbolic

Nile ITDS

Led Zep : All

Korn : ST

Dream Theater : Awake, Scenes Form A Memory, Falling into Infinity

Spock's beard : Snow

Muse : Origin Of Symmetry

Rage Agaisnt The Machine : ST

Cannibal Corpse : Kill

Iron Maiden : Powerslave, Number of The beast

Judas Priest : Paiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnkiiiileeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!!!

Type O negative : October rust

Megadeth : Rust In Peace

Rammstein : Mutter

Limp Bizkit : Significant Other (Sue me !!!)

Dr Dre : 2001

Deep Purple : Burn

Steely Dan : Aja

Michael Jackson : Thriller

Madonnna: Ray of Light

Sting : Ten Summoner's Tale

Pink Floyd : The Wall

Kiss : Destroyer

Immortal : Sons of Nothern Darkness

Beatles : St Pepper ( A day in The Life !), Abbey Road

Aerosmith : Get A Grip

Behemoth : Demigod

Slipknot : Iowa

Van Halen : First (The Brown sound !!!), F.U.C.K

Pantera Vulgar Display of Dimebag's Power !

Rush Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures

Dave Matthews Band : Crash, Before Thes Crowded Streets

U2 : Their last album sounds amazing !

Bon Jovi : Keep The Faith

Motley Crue : Dr Feelgood

Seal : His songs are perfectly produced

SOundgarden : Superunknown

Rainbow : Rising

Malmsteen : Facing The Animal

Tears For Fears : The Seeds Of Love

Depeche Mode : Opium for The Masses, Violator

Living Colour : Vivid

Killswitch Engage : The End of Heartache

Nevermore : Deadheart in A Dead World

Joe Satriani : ST

PRODIGY : The Fat of The Land

Lynyrnd Skynyrnd : ST

Jay Z : The Blueprint

Nirvana : Nevermind


What's yours Niggaz ???

That's a long list.

 

[Don Corleone]

and you read it of course, right?

 

[vampyré]

and you read it of course, right?

You mean this list:

Here's my list :

Metallica Black Album : The Golden Standard for rock metal production, I think each song has 250 different tracks for each instrumment !!
Bob Rock is Metal !

Metallica Master Of Puppets : yeah the production could be better but for the time, I don't think they could have done it much better as it is !

Tool Aenima & Lateralus . David Botrill is an amazing producer ( See Peter Gabriel, Muse , Mudvayne) Danny Carey's drum sound is Great on both !

Steven Wilson : Porcupine Tree's Lighbulb Sun and In Absentia are just amazing sounding albums ! Deadwing was somewhat of a let down production wise comared to those two !
Black WaterPark : DUH !!!

Ghost Reveries : Gorgeous !

Rick Rubin : The holy Slayer trilogy , Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Toxicity, Johnny Cash

Sepultura Chaos AD, Arise

Carcass' hearwork, Machine Head's Burn My Eyes, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, Colin Richardson was hot in those days now he works with Bullet For My Valentine !

Fredrick Nordstrom : Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Something, The Haunted's Revolver, Soilwork A Predator's Portrait, In Flames' Clayman, the Gothenburg soundman himself !!!

Death Symbolic

Nile ITDS

Led Zep : All

Korn : ST

Dream Theater : Awake, Scenes Form A Memory, Falling into Infinity

Spock's beard : Snow

Muse : Origin Of Symmetry

Rage Agaisnt The Machine : ST

Cannibal Corpse : Kill

Iron Maiden : Powerslave, Number of The beast

Judas Priest : Paiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnkiiiileeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!!!

Type O negative : October rust

Megadeth : Rust In Peace

Rammstein : Mutter

Limp Bizkit : Significant Other (Sue me !!!)

Dr Dre : 2001

Deep Purple : Burn

Steely Dan : Aja

Michael Jackson : Thriller

Madonnna: Ray of Light

Sting : Ten Summoner's Tale

Pink Floyd : The Wall

Kiss : Destroyer

Immortal : Sons of Nothern Darkness

Beatles : St Pepper ( A day in The Life !), Abbey Road

Aerosmith : Get A Grip

Behemoth : Demigod

Slipknot : Iowa

Van Halen : First (The Brown sound !!!), F.U.C.K

Pantera Vulgar Display of Dimebag's Power !

Rush Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures

Dave Matthews Band : Crash, Before Thes Crowded Streets

U2 : Their last album sounds amazing !

Bon Jovi : Keep The Faith

Motley Crue : Dr Feelgood

Seal : His songs are perfectly produced

SOundgarden : Superunknown

Rainbow : Rising

Malmsteen : Facing The Animal

Tears For Fears : The Seeds Of Love

Depeche Mode : Opium for The Masses, Violator

Living Colour : Vivid

Killswitch Engage : The End of Heartache

Nevermore : Deadheart in A Dead World

Joe Satriani : ST

PRODIGY : The Fat of The Land

Lynyrnd Skynyrnd : ST

Jay Z : The Blueprint

Nirvana : Nevermind


What's yours Niggaz ???

Nope. I didn't.
Too long...