IGN's Most Influential Metal Albums

[Omnis_Sathanas]

From: http://music.ign.com/articles/755/755929p1.html

Top 25 Most Influential Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, according to IGN Music:

01. METALLICA - Master of Puppets (Elektra Records, 1986)
02. BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid (Warner Bros., 1971)
03. IRON MAIDEN - Number of the Beast (Capitol Records, 1982)
04. MEGADETH - Rust in Peace (Capitol Records, 1990)
05. METALLICA - Ride the Lightning (Elektra Records, 1984)
06. OZZY OSBOURNE - Blizzard of Ozz (Jet Records, 1980)
07. SLAYER - Reign in Blood (American Records, 1986)
08. DIO - Holy Diver (Reprise Records, 1983)
09. METALLICA - ...And Justice for All (Elektra Records, 1988)
10. MOTÖRHEAD - Ace of Spades (Castle Music, 1980)
11. PANTERA - Vulgar Display of Power (East/West, 1992)
12. ANTHRAX - Among the Living (Megaforce, 1987)
13. BLACK SABBATH - Black Sabbath (Warner Bros., 1970)
14. FATES WARNING - No Exit (Metal Blade, 1988)
15. JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming for Vengeance (Columbia Records, 1982)
16. MÖTLEY CRÜE - Shout at the Devil (Elektra Records, 1983
17. MASTODON - Blood Mountain (Reprise Records, 2006)
18. OPETH - Blackwater Park (Koch, 2001)
19. PANTERA - Cowboys from Hell (Atlantic Records, 1990)
20. DEEP PURPLE - Machine Head (Warner Bros., 1972)
21. IRON MAIDEN - Piece of Mind (Capitol Records, 1983)
22. OZZY OSBOURNE - Diary of a Madman (Jet Records, 1981)
23. SEPULTURA - Roots (Roadrunner Records, 1996)
24. QUEENSRŸCHE - Operation: Mindcrime (EMI, 1988)
25. SCORPIONS - Lovedrive (Mercury Records, 1979)

One more thing before we let loose. Feel free to slag us, praise us, or better yet send in your own list of Top 25 Metal Albums. You can do that music@ign.com

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Instead of mailing them to "slag" them, I would say someone should just start a petition to have it removed because of how dumb many of their choices are. A lot of their "honorable mentions" are even worse:

Angra - Fireworks
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Black Sabbath - Volume 4
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Death Angel - Act III
Death- Symbolic
Danzig - Danzig
Dream Theater- Images and Words
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Fates Warning- Parallels
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Flotsam and Jetsam- Quatro
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys, Part I
Helloween- Better than Raw
Helmet - Meantime
In Flames - Colony.
In Flames - Come Clarity
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time
Isis - Oceanic
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Killing Machine
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica Black album
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Queensryche- Rage for Order
Queensryche- The Warning
Queensryche- Empire
Rush - Permanent Waves
Savatage- Hall of the Mountain King
Sepultura - Arise
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Shadow Gallery- Tyranny
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer - South of Heaven
Stratovarius- Episode
Stormtroopers Of Death (S.O.D.) - Speak English Or Die
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Testament - The Ritual
Testament - The Legacy
Vicious Rumors- Welcome to the Ball
voivod - Nothingface
X-Japan - Art of Life

 

[Hammer of Might]

Total fucking bollocks, as always.

 

[Carcassian]

erm....Black Sabbath - S/t at no.14 on the most influential list ?

Hello ?

McFly?

 

[Hammer of Might]

Honestly, I can't bear to read this thing, it is making me angry and argumentative!

 

[unknown]

Mastodon? uhhhh :zombie:

 

[Carcassian]

As a point of order, what, prey tell, in the name of Holy Joe wankstain is a "lo-jack" ?

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

lol @ SEPULTURA - Roots (Roadrunner Records, 1996)

 

[Mr_Haze]

Out of all of Sepultura they pick Roots. After being unable to sell my used copy I ended up throwing that cd out.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Roots Bloody Roots is the worst song I have ever heard.

edit: or Ratamahatta

 

[genocide roach]

ya know, every time a list like this comes out, we all complain. so i think ultimate metal needs to publish its own list based on submissions from this board
~gR~

 

[Carcassian]

...except that it would feature heavily with:

Rubbish NSBM bands
Obscure late 80's Finnish DM
Australian tech-death
750 copy only vinyll NWOBHM bands

...and Hell awaits, natch. (Albeit SoH is waaaaaaaaaaaaay better)

 

[black night]

i think this kind of ranks are so stupid. everything is so subjective, everything is at the point of view of the people who works in the rank. there are a lot of bands who don't have nothing to do in it and a lot of bands unrecognized in that kind of ranks.
whatever, can't understand those rankings, it's better to make oneself an idea of music and know what are the influential, best, worst or whatever bands

 

[Omnis_Sathanas]

i think this kind of ranks are so stupid. everything is so subjective, everything is at the point of view of the people who works in the rank. there are a lot of bands who don't have nothing to do in it and a lot of bands unrecognized in that kind of ranks.
whatever, can't understand those rankings, it's better to make oneself an idea of music and know what are the influential, best, worst or whatever bands

But what's so bad about this list is that they're trying to say in a purely objective sense that Mastodon's latest has been more influential in a few months than anything by bands like Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, has been in years. I guess they don't even understand the definition of the word "influential" correctly.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

not a terrible list... a lot of great albums by the pioneers in the genre (metallica, slayer, iron maiden, sabbath, etc...)

that sepultura album is atrocious

nothing by pantera motley crue or anthrax should make any top 25 list - also leviathan is far superior to blood mountain by mastodon

where is possessed - seven churches?? or scream bloody gore?? what about mercyful fate???

1 of morbid angel's first 3 albums HAS to be in the top 25 IMO

 

[unknown]

As a point of order, what, prey tell, in the name of Holy Joe wankstain is a "lo-jack" ?

Lo Jack (taken from wikipedia) is a "vehicle tracking system that allows vehicles to be tracked by police after being stolen. The manufacturer claims a 90% recovery rate.[1] The name "LoJack" was coined to be the "antithesis of hijack," meaning the theft of a vehicle through force."

 

[Armageddon's Child]

My god, you'd think that metal ceased to evolve in 1988, based on that list...

 

[Matt]

also leviathan is far superior to blood mountain by mastodon

Hell yes. Leviathan is a classic.

 

[Armageddon's Child]

Mastodon = cut rate Slayer + whales

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Mastodon = cut rate Slayer + whales

you're a fucking moron

oh yea you gotta have effigy of the forgotten by suffocation on that list as well

 

[CF87]

Out of all of Sepultura they pick Roots. After being unable to sell my used copy I ended up throwing that cd out.

I would say this is very influencial for the new generation nu-metal movement along with the first korn but not real metal music.

In a general metal sense morbid visions,schizophrenia and beneath the remains would have been much better choices. When I first got into metal these albums were bROOtal.