Favourite [insert number] metal albums?

[Krilons Resa]

Black Sabbath - First 5 albums
Cirith Ungol - King of The Dead
Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Killers, Piece of Mind
Pagan Altar - Volume One
Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Nightfall
Solstice - New Dark Age
Warning - Strength To Dream
Manilla Road - Mystification
Count Raven - High on Infinity, Destruction of The Void
Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths of Sorrow, Beyond The Crimson Horizon
Psychotic Waltz - Into The Everflow

 

[DarkBliss]

Top 10:
Cadaver-...In Pains
Varathron-His Majesty at the Swamp
Ved Buens Ende-Written in Waters
Phlebotomized-Immense Intense Suspense
Atheist-Unquestionable Presence
Necrophobic-The Nocturnal Silence
Necromantia-Scarlet Evil Witching Black
Gorguts-Obscura
Torchure-Beyond the Veil
Summoning-Dol Guldur

 

[swizzlenuts]

In no order
Demilich - Nespithe
Pagan Altar - Volume 1
Demigod - Slumber of the Sullen Eyes
Arghoslent - IB
Manilla Road - Open the Gates
Summoning - Stronghold
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight of the Idols/Down Amongst the Deadmen
so many others as well.

 

[Killbot]

preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeadffghvhgg

 

[LivingCadaver]

a couple of my favorit right now:

Cryptopsy - none so vile
Neuraxis - Truth Beyond
Infernal War - Terrorfront
1349 - Beyond the Apocalypse
Unexpect - _We, Invaders

 

[Teh Grimace]

my top this many:

borknagar - archaic course
weakling - dead as dreams
hvis lyset tar oss
soilwork - chainheart machine
crowpath - red on chrome
the forsaken - arts of desolation
vintersorg - cosmic genesis
today is the day - in the eyes of god
mastadon - remission
ephel duath - painter's pallete
arcturus - la masqurade infernale
luddite clone - the arsonist and the architect
dillinger escape plan - calculating infinity
opeth - still life
curl up and die - unfortunately we're not robots
scarve - luminiferous
vehemence - god was created
spawn of possession - cabinet


i forgot alot probably...

any metalcore included is more metal than core....

 

[Cythraul]

in no particular order (sort of):

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
Gorguts - Obscura
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Burzum - Filosofem
Ulver - Bergtatt
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Stargazer - The Scream That Tore the Sky
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Absu - Tara
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Sadus - A Vision of Misery

edit: forgot to add Possessed - Seven Churches

 

[metal_wrath]

Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse

 

[byrne]

limiting to key genres:

death: at the gates - the red in the sky is ours
thrash: slayer - show no mercy
doom: black sabbath - master of reality
black: mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas
heavy (all encompassing of "other genres"): judas priest - stained class

 

[-Demonium-]

Off the top of my head:

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Gorgoroth - Antichrist/Pentagram/Under The Sign of Hell
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky

 

[Orfanos]

Well, I'll try my top-10. I 'll choose only one album from each band.

Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Manowar - Into Glory Ride
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
Angra - Holy Land
Orphaned Land - El Norra Alila
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy

+ bonus

Aria - Igra S Ognem

 

[Matt]

symphony x- new mythology suite
dreamtheater- scenes from a memory
mastodon- leviathan
opeth- ghost reveries
dreamtheater- train of thought
symphony x- the oddysey
trivium- ascension
bal sagoth- the chthonic chronicles
symphony x- divine wings of tragedy
black sabbath- paranoid and self-titled album
led zeppelin 4 (maybe not metal, but it deserves credit)
metallica- master of puppets
dreamtheater- awake
god forbid- constitution of treason
emperor- into the night side eclipse
sonata arctica- for the sake of revenge
strapping young lad- alien
morbid angel- alters of madness
scar symmetry- pitch black progress

 

[Krakatau]

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - (self entitled)
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Warmen - Unknown Soldier
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security
DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Planet X - Moonbabies
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider

 

[Cancer of the Soul]

In no order:

Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Metallica - Master of Puppets/Ride the Lightning
Skyfire - Timeless Departure
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites
Jungle Rot - Dead and Buried
Unleashed - Across the Open Sea
Kreator - Enemy of God
Death - Leprosy
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
Carcass - Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Comps:
The Best of Metal Blade vol. 2
Metal Massacre VII
Doomsday News

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Good to see you back dude!

 

[fat bastard]

Dark tranquillity -Damage done

played the shit outa that album when it came out. better than it gets credit for being.

right now... SYL-the new black, Reverend bizarre-in the rectory, At The Gates- the red in the sky is ours, Riverside- out of mind and second life syndrome, wintersun- s/t

 

[Solipsist]

My top 10 metal albums:

1. Aeternus- ...And So the Night Became
2. Immolation- Close to A World Below
3. Summoning- Dol Guldur (+ Nightshade Forests EP)
4. At the Gates- The Red in the Sky is Ours (+ Gardens of Grief EP)
5. Sacramentum- Far Away From the Sun (+ Finis Malorum EP)
6. Burzum- Filosofem
7. The Chasm- Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
8. Necromantia- Scarlet Evil Witching Black
9. Arghoslent- Galloping Through the Battle Ruins (+ Arsenal of Glory demo)
10. Disembowelment- Transcedence Into the Peripheral

Runner-Ups:
Therion- Beyond Sanctorum
Graveland- Thousand Swords
Wicked Innocence- Omnipotence
Blut Aus Nord- The Work Which Transforms God
Terminal Descent- Manifesting the Present

Damn, there are more I coulda put here, plus still even more yet to discover...

 

[Wires & Waves]

you have good taste and so does cythraul