post the best release in a bands discography

[Master_Yoda77]

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (It is though, Reagers jerkoffs!)
The Obsessed - The Church Within
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Reverend Bizarre - Into the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

 

[CiG]

Venom - At War With Satan
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Riot - Rock City
Saxon - Saxon
Dio - The Last In Line
Anvil - Metal On Metal
Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos

Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse-
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side

Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Edge Of Sanity (don't know, not a huge fan of the band or anything)
Opeth - Heritage
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World

Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (It is though, Reagers jerkoffs!)
The Obsessed - The Church Within
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Reverend Bizarre - Into the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus (sorry buddypalguy)
The Obsessed - The Obsessed
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Motorhead - Bomber
Reverend Bizarre - Into The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend
Summoning (fuck knows)
Burzum - Dauði Baldrs

 

[Internally Deformed]

Venom - At War With Satan
Burzum - Dauði Baldrs

Ballsy but quite possibly accurate.

Opeth - Heritage

I also like new Opeth, but I'm surprised you put this one above Pale Communion

 

[Phylactery]

Well this quickly degenerated into posting lists. I like lists.

The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity
Liege Lord - Burn to my Touch
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Immolation - Here in After
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Asphyx - The Rack
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Manilla Road - Mystification or The Deluge

 

[CiG]

I also like new Opeth, but I'm surprised you put this one above Pale Communion

I don't actually own that album yet.

 

[CiG]

Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick

Morbid Angel - Abominations Of Desolation

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Motörhead - Overkill
Manilla Road - Mystification
Venom - Black Metal
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Pentagram - First Daze Here
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Rainbow - Rising
Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead

 

[CiG]

Manilla Road - Mystification

Woah, that's surprising. My favourite would never win, Metal, but I didn't expect anybody especially you to name Mystification.

Great album though.

 

[Phylactery]

I voted for it too. Crystal Logic would probably win here if we had a poll, but I think I prefer both The Deluge and Mystification.

 

[CiG]

Have you heard Dreams Of Eschaton yet?

 

[EternalMetal]

Funny how everyone is mentioning King of the Dead when it is their obvious magnum opus. From what ive seen, this is pretty unanimous. Does anyone else think they have a better album?

As for Manilla Road, I love their thrash era as well, but I rank The Deluge slightly higher than Mystification. Still these are my one and two MR albums respectively, though Crystal Logic is a really close third. As big of a fan of MR that I am, I admittedly still dont own Metal. I have to change that.

I go between Melissa and Dont Break the Oath as Mercyful Fate's best, both albums are equally good in different ways. If someone were to put a gun to my head I would probably pick Melissa, but please dont do this to me.

Other random ones (some already mentioned):
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Saint Vitus - S/T
Iron Maiden - S/T (more consistent than Killers, otherwise A-side Killers is best)
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Megadeth - Peace Sells...
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift
Cianide - The Dying Truth
Immolation - Close to a World Below
Venom - Black Metal
Asphyx - Last One on Earth (yes I dont think The Rack is better)
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Entombed - Left Hand Path
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
Opeth - Still LIfe

 

[Internally Deformed]

I don't actually own that album yet.

You should youtube it then. Does everything Heritage does just as well, but it has more flow. Kind of like the difference between Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse.

 

[Phylactery]

What? MA,YH doesn't sound much like Morningrise at all. It was the start of their new style which they pretty much copied for the next 4 or so albums.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

What? MA,YH doesn't sound much like Morningrise at all. It was the start of their new style which they pretty much copied for the next 4 or so albums.

That's true. They didn't use the amount of counterpount melodies in their music that was much more common when they had Johann DeFarfalla in the band. The death metal sound got heavier from My Arms, Your Hearse to Watershed. Then, they just did prog rock with the new albums.

 

[CiG]

You should youtube it then. Does everything Heritage does just as well, but it has more flow. Kind of like the difference between Morningrise and My Arms, Your Hearse.

Believe me, I plan to pick it up. It's just not really a priority right now.
It's in my sights though.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

Woah, that's surprising. My favourite would never win, Metal, but I didn't expect anybody especially you to name Mystification.

Great album though.

It's a tough call, but it ultimately comes down to the evil sound of the production and Mark's vocals being particularly baleful throughout the album.

 

[Internally Deformed]

What? MA,YH doesn't sound much like Morningrise at all. It was the start of their new style which they pretty much copied for the next 4 or so albums.

Lol I don't think any of the old albums sound much like the new albums. My point was the MA, YH was the album on which they learned to write whole songs with parts that interlock and compliment one another (you said something similar in another thread recently). Heritage felt a little like the older albums only in that it was a backwards step (for me) compositionally - too many jarring transitions, melodies tailing off into nowhere, quiet parts used to bridge the gaps between disparate riffs. Pale Communion is like MA, YH in that it feels more complete, and has more "flow", which makes sense as they're learning how to pull off a new style.

 

[Internally Deformed]

That's true. They didn't use the amount of counterpount melodies in their music that was much more common when they had Johann DeFarfalla in the band. The death metal sound got heavier from My Arms, Your Hearse to Watershed. Then, they just did prog rock with the new albums.

I always thought of MA, YH as being their heaviest album.

 

[Phylactery]

Eh, MAYH, Still Life, Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are all structurally quite similar and follow similar songwriting patterns. They're nothing like Orchid and Morningrise except superficial similarities like both having distorted and acoustic sections.

I'm not very familiar with anything past Ghost Reveries and I'm not a huge fan of the band or anything. I only listen to the first 3 in full and then select songs here and there if I ever get the urge to listen to them.

 

[Internally Deformed]

Eh, MAYH, Still Life, Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries are all structurally quite similar and follow similar songwriting patterns.

I feel like you're disagreeing with points I'm not really making. I do think there are differences between those albums, but I'm fine with grouping those four together.

They're nothing like Orchid and Morningrise except superficial similarities like both having distorted and acoustic sections.

Not so sure about this... Opeth do have a distinctive riffing style and sense of melody which was certainly in evidence on Morningrise at any rate.

I'm not very familiar with anything past Ghost Reveries and I'm not a huge fan of the band or anything. I only listen to the first 3 in full and then select songs here and there if I ever get the urge to listen to them.

I'm probably the other way round - I overlistened on mid-period Opeth when I first got into them, so I probably listen to the recent albums most often. I only really listen to the first two if I'm on a massive Opeth kick.