IGN's Most Influential Metal Albums

[Hell Awaits Us All]

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.

yea then I guess you can put pantera in the top 25 as well

vulgar displays and far beyond driven were both very influental to all the mallcore/nu-metal/pop metal morons out there with their downtuned guitars and their pretentious childish angst

 

[Armageddon's Child]

you're a fucking moron

Actually, I'm a fucking genius, but don't let reality get in the way of your temper tantrums, jr.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Actually, I'm a fucking genius, but don't let reality get in the way of your temper tantrums, jr.

your statement made no sense whatsoever

mastodon's guitarwork is a 100x more complex than slayer... not to mention their recent album was almost entirely prog/stoner/technical metal - Dailor's style is nothing even remotely close to lombardo

slayer's probably my 2nd favorite band but these 2 bands have very little in common

 

[Armageddon's Child]

I make no comment on the new album, but the work they made their reputation on is a total South/Seasons era ripoff.

But with whales.

 

[Hammer of Might]

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

I'd love to have a copy of that album, simply so that I could ritually destroy it!

In fact, no joke, if I saw it for very cheap in a charity shop or something, I would probably buy it to carry out just such a ceremony, and at the same time spare some naive fucker from going down a very wrong road!

 

[Death Aflame]

Besides the list in general I found the description of Opeth particularly disheartening:

When you think of death metal, you think of Sweden. When you think of Sweden's death metal scene, you must always start with Opeth.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Besides the list in general I found the description of Opeth particularly disheartening:

When you think of death metal, you think of Sweden. When you think of Sweden's death metal scene, you must always start with Opeth.

opeth is barely metal... how the hell can they be called death metal??

 

[Fury of the Storm]

A lot of their "honorable mentions" are even worse:

Lamb of God - Sacrament

How could this have been even considered an influential? It came out this year.

 

[Hammer of Might]

I sent them hate mail

 

[Alteredmindeath]

lGN is a bunch of stupid idiots.

 

[zim18]

you cant spell ignorant without ign

 

[Killbot]

You can't spell 'that list fucking sucks' without ign.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

17. MASTODON - Blood Mountain (Reprise Records, 2006)

What the mother fuck!!

 

[PanzerKunt]

What do you expect from average american game journalists?

 

[MetalAges]

Thread cleaned - keep on topic or get banned.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Thread cleaned - keep on topic or get banned.

thanks man

 

[Armageddon's Child]

I still don't see how anyone can listen to the first few Mastodon discs and not hear the Slayer worship. It really boggles the mind.

 

[Hammer of Might]

I still don't see how anyone can listen to the first few Mastodon discs

yeah

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

I still don't see how anyone can listen to the first few Mastodon discs and not hear the Slayer worship. It really boggles the mind.

remission = prog thrash/sludge (quite brutal album)
leviathan = prog thrash/sludge (much stronger prog/technical influence)
blood mountain = prog/stoner/technical/thrash metal

the thrash influence I hear in them is more reminiscient of metallica than slayer but in any case, the thrash is a smaller influence than the prog influence in their last album and the sludge influence in their first album

 

[Armageddon's Child]

Some of the interludes are Metallica-esque, but the basic music is Slayer-derived in the extreme.