The 10 greatest metal albums of all time...

[gere_thorkellsson]

cowboys from hell (pantera)
you cant bring me down (suicidal tendencies)
versus the world (amon amarth)
5 (symphony x)
painkiller (judas priest)
rust in peace (megadeth)
keeper of the seven keys part 2 (helloween)
nosferatu (helstar)
the end of all things to come (mudvayne)
images and words (dream theater)

 

[The_Prisoner]

This was tough, but I've chosen the metal/hard rock albums that I listen to the most and/or have had the most influence on me:

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
Wolfsbane - All Hell's Breaking Loose

 

[blood of millions massacred]

No order whatsoever:

Number of The Beast
Black Album
Reign In Blood
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Filosofem (black metal should count!)
Schools Out (count it!!!!)
Blood On Ice
The Sham Mirrors
Obsolete
Anthems To THe Welkin At Dusk

 

[Cold Gin]

Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
Back in Black - AC/DC
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
British Steel - Judas Priest
1984 - Van Halen
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Wheels of Steel - Saxon
Walls of Jericho - Helloween
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

 

[Turner]

1. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
2. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
3. Sepultura - Schizophrenia
4. Carcass - Heartwork
5. Testament - The New Order
6. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
7. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
8. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
9. Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
10. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

some worthy mentions:
Dissection - The Somberlain
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
Behemoth - Satanica
Nevermore - The Politics Of Ecstasy

 

[Wicked Child]

Judas Priest-Stained Class
Iced Earth-Night Of The Stormrider
Queensryche-Operation:Mindcrime
Savatage-Hall Of The Mountain King/Edge Of Thorns(tie)
Anthrax-Persistance Of Time
Overkill-Horrorscope
Coroner-No More Color
Dark Angel-Darkness Descends
Helloween-Keeper Of The Seven Keys,Pt. 1
Iron Maiden-Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Death-The Sound Of Perseverance

And if i could add some non-metal albums to my list, i'd add:

Rush-Moving Pictures
ZZ Top-Eliminator
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin-Houses Of The Holy
Deep Purple-Machine Head
Yes-Fragile
Van Halen-Van Halen II
Pixies-Doolittle
Alice Cooper-Welcome To my Nightmare

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Welcome To My Nightmare! One of the best albums ever

 

[Winmar]

No arguments here! Some good albums have been mentioned in this thread. Nice to see some international visitors popping in too.

 

[Wicked Child]

Judas Priest-Stained Class
Iced Earth-Night Of The Stormrider
Queensryche-Operation:Mindcrime
Savatage-Hall Of The Mountain King/Edge Of Thorns(tie)
Anthrax-Persistance Of Time
Overkill-Horrorscope
Coroner-No More Color
Dark Angel-Darkness Descends
Helloween-Keeper Of The Seven Keys,Pt. 1
Iron Maiden-Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Death-The Sound Of Perseverance

Let me add one more album that i bought just recently, and i'm completey in love with it......

Celtic Frost-Into The Pandemonium

Such a brilliant album. A masterpiece in every sense of the word.

 

[Goreripper]

Celtic Frost-Into The Pandemonium

Utter brilliance.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Celtic Frost!

 

[anonymousnick2001]

Godsmack - Awake
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Opeth - Morningrise
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
Dream Theater - Awake

In Flames, Machine Head, RATM, At The Gates, Carcass, Queensryche, Life Of Agony, all just missed it.

 

[PIV Bassman]

The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Draconian Times - Paradise Lost
Jonah's Ark - Skyclad
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Lights, Camera... Revolution! - Suicidal Tendencies
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
Around The Fur - Deftones
Stomp 442 - Anthrax

That is a really hard list to compile, I could easily think of another twenty albums that deserve to be in there.

 

[SculptedCold]

Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings (possibly the most evil sounding and anger/hate filled album I have ever heard. So much harder hitting than any death/black metal band, and awesome songs as well.

WHOOAAAAA there dude....what are you smoking?!?! You just can't have all that much experience of death and black surely!!!!


Insanity!!

Abruptum - In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebraum
December Wolves - Blasterpeice Theatre
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Cattle Decapitation - To Serve Man
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest
Myrkskog - Deathmachine
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
The Haunted - s/t
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

'Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings (possibly the most evil sounding and anger/hate filled album I have ever heard.'


dude......WEIRD!

 

[Spiff]

*glug*

 

[Blitzkrieg]

While I am not all that into it, I have heard quite alot of death/black metal, and most of the dark sounding stuff comes off more try hard IMO, and that is the point I was trying to make about Burnt Offerings, it isn't try hard at all, it is just a thrash album that came out sounding so damn evil because of all the emotion that was poured into it.

I do like some black, and particularly some death metal, so if you can recommend me something more evil than BO I would be glad to give it a try.

 

[spawn]

Are you saying that constant screeching about satan and his overlords over tremelo picking and blast beats doesnt sound scary Blitzy?

 

[spawn]

And dont forget the Kiss makeup!

 

[Spiff]

Kiss = black metal at its best.

 

[spawn]

You are so full of it sometimes Spiff. Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir are the only true black metal bands left Spiff.