Metal albums that are "MUST HAVES"

[Gold]

looking for albums that arent well known, but are extremely good and unique in their own way


i'd like any kind of metal other than straight black metal(blackend death ,ect are good though)

and i love good sound quality too, any recomendations?

 

[cookiecutter]

Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten

 

[The Ozzman]

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

 

[Matt]

Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic (Really all their albums are great)

 

[Seditious]

I don't have a clue what is well known to you since you didn't mention anything you think is a must have, so I'm just going to run with the thread title, and if you're not well acquainted with any part of it, get it, if you know all of them, great.


Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
Kyprian's Circle - Noitatulen Vartija
Månegarm - Vredens Tid
Mithotyn - King of the Distant Forest
Mithotyn - Gathered Around the Oaken Table
Pagan Reign - Ydeli Biloy Veri
Thyrfing - Vansinnesvisor
Wyrd - The Ghost Album
Amon Amarth - Versus the World (+ Bonus CD)
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Hypocrisy - Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy - Virus
In Flames - Lunar Strain
In Flames - The Jester Race
Cryptic Wintermoon - A Coming Storm
Graveworm - Scourge of Malice
Mirzadeh - The Creatures of Loviatar
Ajattara - Kuolema
Carpathian Forest - Were Going to Hell For This
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Samael - Blood Ritual
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites (Reissue inc. Rebellion EP)
Ulver - Bergtatt
Carcass - Heartwork
Vader - Litany
Scissorfight - Mantrapping For Sport And Profit

 

[FenriR]

Kalmah - They Will Return and Swampsong.
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars. Symphonic black metal, but it is godly imho.
The Dethalbum - Dethklok. Best animated band ever.
Sengir - Sign of Devotion. Not very heavy, but oh so good.

Also: Metallica S+M.

 

[audiophileguy]

megadeth - risk
metallica - saint anger
judas priest - turbo
anything trivium or machine head
newer kovenant, dimmu borgir, opeth, in flames, amorphis, katatonia, paradise lost, cradle of filth, def leppard, and arch enemy.

All are future inductees to the museum of modern art

 

[FenriR]

SAINT ANGER???????????
you're kidding, right? that album was a crock of crap!

 

[byrne]

At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

All eclipse everything else in their respective genres and are absolutely essential listening.

 

[The Ozzman]

SAINT ANGER???????????
you're kidding, right? that album was a crock of crap!

I would imagine he's being sarcastic.

 

[Gold]

only if he was being sarcastic about trivium and machine head

thanks for the suggeastions i cant wait to listen to all these ^_^

 

[Seditious]

only if he was being sarcastic about trivium and machine head

thanks for the suggeastions i cant wait to listen to all these ^_^

given how shit new kovenant, dimmu borgir, in flames, and amorphis is, I'd put a million on the post being blatant sarcasm.

 

[The Ozzman]

New Amorphis is good though.

 

[Seditious]

New Amorphis is good though.

each to their own.

 

[Triton]

Borknagar-Quintessence
Zyklon-World Ov Worm
Martyr-Hopeless Hopes

 

[Manowarriors]

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengance
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - First three albums
Megadeth - KIMB
Megadeth - RIP
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Manowar - Triumph of Steel
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Metal Church - The Dark

 

[waif]

Amon Amarth - Versus the World (+ Bonus CD)
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
In Flames - Lunar Strain
In Flames - The Jester Race

I would second all these, but from In Flames also get Subterranean and for Dark Tranquility go for The Gallery instead; slightly better
Also, with Amon Amarth, maybe Once Sent From The Golden Hall as well.

megadeth - risk
metallica - saint anger
judas priest - turbo
anything trivium or machine head
newer kovenant, dimmu borgir, opeth, in flames, amorphis, katatonia, paradise lost, cradle of filth, def leppard, and arch enemy.
All are future inductees to the museum of modern art

At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

All eclipse everything else in their respective genres and are absolutely essential listening.

Remember that bit about not widely known? This is the most widely known stuff I've ever seen...

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengance
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - First three albums
Megadeth - KIMB
Megadeth - RIP
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Manowar - Triumph of Steel
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Metal Church - The Dark

Scratch that...This is the most widely known stuff I've ever seen...except Metal Church. Get some of that.

Go for some:
Gun Barrel (Hard Rock/Metal, get Power Dive)
Tad Morose (Power Metal, get Matters Of The Dark)
Avantasia (Power Metal, Get The Metal Opera Part 1)
Elvenking (folk/Power Metal, get Heathenreel)
Swashbuckle (Pirate/Death Metal, get Crewed by the Damned... www.swashbuckle.info)
The Black Dahlia Murder (Death Metal, get Miasma)
Wintersun (Melodic Death Metal, get Wintersun)
Orphaned Land (Progressive Death Metal, get Mabool)
Emperor (Symphonic Black Metal, get In The Nightside Eclipse)
Fates Warning (Prog Metal, get Awaken The Guardian)
Eluveitie (Extreme Folk Metal, get Spirit)
Bathory (Viking/Black Metal, get Hammerheart/Blood Fire Death/Nordland 1) - You should know about Bathory, but w/e

Get all of that and you should be happy...some, like Gun Barrel and Swashbuckle, are hard to get...totally worth it, though...

 

[waif]

Amon Amarth - Versus the World (+ Bonus CD)
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
In Flames - Lunar Strain
In Flames - The Jester Race

I would second all these, but from In Flames also get Subterranean and for Dark Tranquility go for The Gallery instead; slightly better
Also, with Amon Amarth, maybe Once Sent From The Golden Hall as well.

megadeth - risk
metallica - saint anger
judas priest - turbo
anything trivium or machine head
newer kovenant, dimmu borgir, opeth, in flames, amorphis, katatonia, paradise lost, cradle of filth, def leppard, and arch enemy.
All are future inductees to the museum of modern art

At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

All eclipse everything else in their respective genres and are absolutely essential listening.

Remember that bit about not widely known? This is the most widely known stuff I've ever seen...

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengance
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Metallica - First three albums
Megadeth - KIMB
Megadeth - RIP
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Manowar - Triumph of Steel
Manowar - Kings of Metal
Metal Church - The Dark

Scratch that...This is the most widely known stuff I've ever seen...except Metal Church. Get some of that.

Go for some:
Gun Barrel (Hard Rock/Metal, get Power Dive)
Tad Morose (Power Metal, get Matters Of The Dark)
Avantasia (Power Metal, Get The Metal Opera Part 1)
Elvenking (folk/Power Metal, get Heathenreel)
Swashbuckle (Pirate/Death Metal, get Crewed by the Damned... www.swashbuckle.info)
The Black Dahlia Murder (Death Metal, get Miasma)
Wintersun (Melodic Death Metal, get Wintersun)
Orphaned Land (Progressive Death Metal, get Mabool)
Emperor (Symphonic Black Metal, get In The Nightside Eclipse)
Fates Warning (Prog Metal, get Awaken The Guardian)
Eluveitie (Extreme Folk Metal, get Spirit)
Bathory (Viking/Black Metal, get Hammerheart/Blood Fire Death/Nordland 1) - You should know about Bathory, but w/e
Every fucking thing by In Flames, Dark Tranquility, and Amon Amarth, starting with The Jester Race, The Gallery, and Once Sent From The Golden Hall, respectively

Get all of that and you should be happy...some, like Gun Barrel and Swashbuckle, are hard to get...totally worth it, though...

 

[Tonka Time]

carcass - necroticism

 

[ohiogrinder]

Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed - Clandestine
Grave - Into The Grave
Carcass - Symphonies Of Sickness
Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
Napalm Death - Scum
Napalm Death - FETO
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Repulsion - Horrified
Asphyx - The Rack
Asphyx - Last One On Earth
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Satanas
Burzum - Burzum/Aske
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Discharge - any
Paradise Lost - Gothic
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Carnage - Dark Recollections