Classic Albums

[waif]

Okay, go ahead and change it. I'm gonna go do other shit. I leave it to you guys to start hammering out the list. I'll help if I can later.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

You're missing avant-garde metal. Strangely, you included progressive death metal, but not progressive metal.

Oh, and nu metal, and vegetarian progressive grindcore.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Okay, slow down. What's the point of having a hundred genres in this list when most of them will only include 2 or 3 albums? Let's just come up with some actual ALBUMS first, before going overboard with the classifications.

 

[King Richard]

I'd stick Painkiller into Nec's list as well.

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Painkiller?


edit: On a side note. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think breaking everything down int sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-genres isn't necessary. Besides, I don't think any sub-genre that has come out in the last 10-15 years is worthy of being "essential" anyways.

All you need are as follows:
Black
Death
Doom
Electronic
Folk/Viking
Gothic
Heavy/Traditional
Orchestral/Symphonic
Power
Progressive
Speed/Thrash

Then bam! You've got a pretty kickass list.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Yeah, the level of detail in the genre list isn't all that important. We need to come up with the actual albums first, then we can decide how many categories we need to break them into.

 

[The Ozzman]

Gothic should be included in doom tbh

Though, in that case, orchestral should be included in power metal

nevermind

 

[Einherjar86]

Traditional Doom Metal:

Pentagram - Relentless
Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning
Pentagram - Be Forewarned
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus - Hallow's Victim
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Trouble - Psalm 9
Trouble - The Skull
Revelation - Salvation's Answer
Revelation - Never Comes Silence
Revelation - ...Yet So Far

No Candlemass?

 

[mutantllama]

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Painkiller?


edit: On a side note. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think breaking everything down int sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-genres isn't necessary. Besides, I don't think any sub-genre that has come out in the last 10-15 years is worthy of being "essential" anyways.

All you need are as follows:
Black
Death
Doom
Electronic
Folk/Viking
Gothic
Heavy/Traditional
Orchestral/Symphonic
Power
Progressive
Speed/Thrash

Then bam! You've got a pretty kickass list.

I would separate Speed and Thrash.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Painkiller?


edit: On a side note. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think breaking everything down int sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-genres isn't necessary. Besides, I don't think any sub-genre that has come out in the last 10-15 years is worthy of being "essential" anyways.

All you need are as follows:
Black
Death
Doom
Electronic
Folk/Viking
Gothic
Heavy/Traditional
Orchestral/Symphonic
Power
Progressive
Speed/Thrash

Then bam! You've got a pretty kickass list.

Electronic Metal doesn't really exist, and if you meant Industrial Metal...it's not big enough really to warrant a section. But I guess it could be included if we thought of enough "classic" albums.

 

[The Ozzman]

I would separate Speed and Thrash.

I wouldn't. There are too many similarities tbh

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

To the untrained ear

 

[King Richard]

I would separate Speed and Thrash.

Electronic Metal doesn't really exist, and if you meant Industrial Metal...it's not big enough really to warrant a section. But I guess it could be included if we thought of enough "classic" albums.

Well to be honest, I just copied the sub-genres Metal-Archives has listed under "by genre."

As far as the Electronica sub-genre, that is where the played Industrial music and the likes.

And concerning Speed/Thrash, I see no reason why they should be seperated.

 

[SouthernTrendkill]

Woah wait, so Metal Archives considers "Electronic Metal" to exist... and they don't consider Rammstein metal? Granted I love the site, but they make some weird choices.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Yes they do, like accepting some barely metal metalcore bands and not accepting clearly very metal metalcore bands.

 

[Slayed Necros]

All right, seeing as I'm bored and I enjoy making ludicrous lists, I'll start with compiling a list of OSDM classics:

Acheron - Rites of the Black Mass
Afflicted - Prodigal Sun
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Asphyx - The Rack
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Atheist - Piece of Time
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Atrocity - Todessehnsucht
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Cadaver - In Pains
Cancer - To the Gory End
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Cartilage - The Fragile Concept of Affection
Cianide - A Descent into Hell
Dark Throne - Soulside Journey
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death - Leprosy
Death Strike - Fuckin' Death
Deicide - Deicide
Deicide - Legion
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Demilich - Nespithe
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Grave - Into the Grave
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Massacra - Final Holocaust
Massacra - Enjoy the Violence
Massacre - From Beyond
Master - On the Seventh Day God Created... Master
Merciless - The Awakening
Messiah - Hymn to Abramelin
Miasma - Changes
Molested - Blod Dram
Monstrosity - Imperial Doom
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity
Mortuary - Blackened Images
Necrophagia - Season of the Dead
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Nocturnus - The Key
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Obituary - Cause of Death
Order From Chaos - Stillbirth Machine
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Possessed - Seven Churches
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead
Seance - Fornever Laid to Rest
Sentenced - Shadows of the Past
Sepultura - Morbid Visions
Sinister - Cross the Styx
Slaughter - Strappado
Suffocation - Human Waste
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
Unleashed - Shadows in the Deep
Vader - The Ultimate Incantation

May have left some shit out, can't really be bothered going back and checking.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Quite honestly, I would not consider it essential for me to listen to most of that.

 

[The Ozzman]

vihris ninja'd himself

 

[Tonka Time]

Sludge:
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance

Id definently have both of acid bath's cds on the list, also any carcass album from reek... to heartwork classics from different points of view,
reek of putrefaction - goregrind
symphonies of sickness - deathgrind
necroticism - death
heartwork - melodeath

depending on how much it would be divided up by genres and stuff.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

vihris ninja'd himself

Yeah, this site is crappin' out big time on my connection.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Quite honestly, I would not consider it essential for me to listen to most of that.

So, what would we have if we left it up to you to make a list on OSDM? A few Morbid Angel records? Quite honestly, I don't give a fuck what you'd consider essential Death Metal listening.