Perfect Albums

[sevag00]

My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans is what i call a perfect album.

 

[xAzagthothx]

Morbid Angel "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh"

Immortal "Sons of Northern Darkness" (and maaaybe At The Heart of Winter)

maybe Suffocation "Pierced From Within" and Nile's "Black Seeds of Vengeance" as well

 

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

Effigy of the Forgotten >>> Pierced From Within

 

[Zarrix]

Opeth- Blackwater Park is my perfect album

My Arms your Hearse and Still Life come close though.

Other than that
Tool- Aenima, In the Woods... -Heart of the Ages and Primordial- To the Nameless Dead are very close.

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

 

[The Ozzman]

Effigy of the Forgotten >>> Pierced From Within

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[Xorv]

Gotta agree. I don't mind their stuff, but you definitely have a low standard for "perfect"

don't even start with your shit, we both obviously heard the album at different times. Where as this album is not only beautiful for a stoned induced nature expedition it also brings back a lot memories for me. Where as you probably just heard it because of the all praise it gets and don't have the same connection with the album as me. Low standards, if disintegration is a low standard then you must be the one huffing the gas.

 

[Belligerent]

are you serious? wow you must be huffing the gas then.

Well i'll take back what i said previously. I gave TW,TT,ATSOTP another chance and it is better then their new album.

 

[S<issors]

don't even start with your shit, we both obviously heard the album at different times. Where as this album is not only beautiful for a stoned induced nature expedition it also brings back a lot memories for me. Where as you probably just heard it because of the all praise it gets and don't have the same connection with the album as me. Low standards, if disintegration is a low standard then you must be the one huffing the gas.

I haven't heard TWTTTSOTP praised or even mentioned by anyone except you (and now Belligerent), actually. I checked it out because I saw the cover/title and thought it looked cool. I only listened to it once, and I thought it was a pretty, well-done Agalloch clone: good, but very derivative and nothing special.

Anyway, I definitely understand how music that doesn't seem that exciting to others could hold a special value for a particular person. Do you think it's worth re-listening to on its own merits (that is, is it worth it for me to re-listen to it), or would you say that your appreciation mostly comes from this special "connection" and the memories you've linked to it?

 

[Xorv]

1. more a brave murder day combined with some agalloch elements

2. both.

 

[S<issors]

yeah there was a lot of Katatonia in there, too, I remember that. the post-rockish-ness was kind of agalloch-esque, though.

I might give it another listen at some point, I'm still spinning Seven Chalices a lot at the moment and I wanna go through all Katharsis' old albums, but maybe I'll put it on as like a mellow break during the drive back to Jersey tomorrow

 

[immo]

Here's my list of perfect albums

Countess - heilig bitch
Primordial - spirit the bitch aflame
Graveland - thousand bitches
Destroyer 666 - unchain the bitches
Necromantia - scarlet evil bitching black
Arghoslent - galloping through the battle ruins no bitch

oh and maybe Mercyful Fate - Melissa
and Manilla Road - Necropolis
meh.. i'm sure there are more i just can't remember atm
so booooored aslkdjsakljdsalkid fuck

 

[Caveman Ninja]

Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Realm - Suiciety
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Iron Maiden - Powerslave/Somewhere in Time/7th Son
Metallica - Justice
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
Paradox - Heresy
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence

Probably some more too, but these ones are all perfect in different ways...

 

[immo]

MORE AWESOME PERFECT ALBUMS
deathspell omega - si monumentum requires, circumspice
anael - on wings of mercury
pagan altar - volume 1
samael - blood ritual
summoning - minas morgul

 

[Omni]

Judas Priest - Stained Class
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Trouble - Psalm 9

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity
Queen - Queen II
Tenhi - Väre
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Sol Invictus - In the Rain
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
David Bowie - Station to Station

There are others, but I don't feel like typing any more right now.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i could name indisputably dull/awkward moments in pretty much every one of those releases even though i love over half of them, which kind of renders this discussion irrelevant. funnily enough i think crystal logic, maybe my favourite on that whole list, has some of the most notably mediocre sections (and i'm not merely talking about feeling free again), and while i don't doubt that this perception has something to do with the sheer brilliance of the stuff surrounding them, that does lead me to question whether 'perfection' is really something to strive for - whether it isn't really just another term for playing it safe.

 

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

pagan altar - volume 1

agreed.

 

[Einherjar86]

The more I listen to Rome's Flowers From Exile, the more I think that it's a nearly perfect album.

 

[Omni]

i could name indisputably dull/awkward moments in pretty much every one of those releases even though i love over half of them, which kind of renders this discussion irrelevant. funnily enough i think crystal logic, maybe my favourite on that whole list, has some of the most notably mediocre sections (and i'm not merely talking about feeling free again), and while i don't doubt that this perception has something to do with the sheer brilliance of the stuff surrounding them, that does lead me to question whether 'perfection' is really something to strive for - whether it isn't really just another term for playing it safe.

Fair point.

The more I listen to Rome's Flowers From Exile, the more I think that it's a nearly perfect album.

I have a feeling that it's the worst Rome album, if the song on the teaser EP is any indication. I haven't bothered to check it out yet because of how mediocre that song was. The first Rome album is markedly superior to all of his other material, and also way darker and cooler.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Judas Priest - Stained Class
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Trouble - Psalm 9

I'm sorry Omni but this list doesn't feel honest. It's too perfect, it feels like a list from someone who's studied what to like in order to get cred. Nothing sticks out, except from taking Blessed instead of Altars.