Originally posted by Confessor
Im giving you the essential in metal that really anyone should have in their collection for each of the mentioned categories below. I think they are all excellent albums obviously.
Some Classic Death Metal:
Possessed - Seven Churches
Death - Scream Bloody Gore (Not pure death, but still essential)
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
Deicide - Deicide (their 1st and their best)
Some Black Metal:
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky (simply their best and the obvious choice for anyone wanting to listen to the truest black metal music)
Bathory - Hammerheart, Blood Fire Death (pure viking metal)
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Satanas
Some Thrash Metal:
Slayer - Reign In Blood, Hell Awaits
Sodom - Agent Orange, Persecution Mania
Kreator - Extreme Agression (their best), Terrible Certainty
Sadus - A Vision Of Misery (influenced by old sepultura, amazing thrash album)
Annihilator - Alice In Hell (A very underated band and album, it seems to be extremely influencial and i personally think its awesome)
Some Heavy Metal:
Metallica - Master, Kill em all, Ride the lightning
Pantera - Vulgar display of power
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz,Diary of a madman
Some Doom Metal:
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
St-Vitus - really the 1st doom metal band, anything from their 1st albums
Katatonia - Dance of the december souls
Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium
Anathema - The Crestfallen, Serenades
Candlemass - Nightfall, Ancient Dreams
Sorry about the power metal albums, i dont listen to that music!
!us nioj
NP: Dimmu Borgir - In Death's Embrace
