The 8 Best Metal Albums

[jimbobhickville]

1. Forbidden - "Twisted Into Form"
2. Aghora - "Aghora"
3. Nevermore - "Dreaming Neon Black"
4. Evereve - "Stormbirds"
5. Metallica - "...And Justice For All"
6. Sacred Reich - "The American Way"
7. Testament - "Practice What You Preach"
8. Thought Industry - "Songs For Insects"

Man was it hard to narrow down to 8.

 

[Confessor]

These might be the most influencial metal albums of all time:

Metallica - Metallica
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Venom - Black Metal
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Bathory - Hammerheart (or Blood Fire Death, cause in my mind Bathory is the begining of black metal)
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction

 

[bleedingskeptic]

1. Spiral Architect-A Scpetic's Universe
2. Cynic-Focus
3. Dream Theater-Images and Words
4. Fates Warning-Awaken the Guardian
5. Opeth-Blackwater Park
6. Zero Hour-Towers of Averice
7. Amorphis-Tales from the Thousand Lakes
8. Watchtower-Control and Resistance

no metallica here, just pure progressive metal
HAIL SPIRAL ARCHITECT!! THEY ARE THE BEST MUSICIANS IN THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD!!! i could just picture the little green punks opening that capsule and putting in spiral architect. their heads would explode, and if there were still some left, cynic would finish the job. i bet there heads would pop like ripe melons

mmm...ripe melons...

 

[Till Fjalls]

I'll try to keep this diverse, not necessarily my fave albums, but ones that I think are a great representation of metal...

1)Vintersorg-Cosmic Genesis
2)Opeth-MAYH
3)Borknagar-The Archaic Course
4)Dissection-The Somberlain
5)At The Gates-Terminal Spirit Disease
6)Emperor-Anthems...
7)Mayhem-Grand Declaration of War
8)Ulver-Nattens Madrigal

That is a tough call!:deb:

 

[Till Fjalls]

Dammit, nevermind.......I got that list wrong, it doesn't even take into account bands before the 90's......

 

[NastyJoan]

If I have to go somewhere out in space (jaja) i will take with me MY favorites records and not the ones that represent the scene of metal

1. Iced Earth "Alive in Athens"

2. Iron Maiden "Piece of Mind"

3. Blind Guardian "Nightfall in Middle Earth"

4. Mercyful Fate "Don't Break the Oath"

5. Nevermore "Dead Heart in a Dead World"

6. Morbid Angel "Blessed Are the Sick"

7. Manowar "The Triumph of Steel"

8. Judas Priest "Unleashed in the East"

I know maybe I regret the decision not to take a Slayer album or old Metallica's but what the hell... :s:

By the way Tyler are you the same guy from Metalplanet.cl?

 

[AngelOfDeath]

O man ......

1. Cannibal Corpse - Bleeding
2. In Flames - Colony
3. Aeon - Dark Order
4. Slayer - South of heaven
5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
6. Fear Factory - Demanufacture
7. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengence
8. Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine

If 12 then I would add:

9. Darkest Hour - Mark of the Judas
10. Six feet Under - Maximum Violence
11. Cradle of Filth - Midian
12. Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst

 

[metalized]

Originally posted by bleedingskeptic
1. Spiral Architect-A Scpetic's Universe
2. Cynic-Focus
3. Dream Theater-Images and Words
4. Fates Warning-Awaken the Guardian
5. Opeth-Blackwater Park
6. Zero Hour-Towers of Averice
7. Amorphis-Tales from the Thousand Lakes
8. Watchtower-Control and Resistance

no metallica here, just pure progressive metal
HAIL SPIRAL ARCHITECT!! THEY ARE THE BEST MUSICIANS IN THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD!!! i could just picture the little green punks opening that capsule and putting in spiral architect. their heads would explode, and if there were still some left, cynic would finish the job. i bet there heads would pop like ripe melons

mmm...ripe melons...

HAIL! It was about time I found someone that shares the same feelings about SA. You left outside Mind Over Four, though. You are a real prog dude! HAIL to progressive.

As for the 8 records I think that it depends whether the alliens listen to the other kinds of music first. If they do we are in deep shit, since they won't get to listen to the HM albums; they will attack the earth and punish humanity (by completely wiping EARTH of the face of the galaxy) for making them listen to shit! There is only one solution. Install really big speakers with very powerful HIFI systems in each part of the world playing each and every single second Heavy Metal of all kinds. The alliens will listen to it and approach our planet completely in peace and with the intention to make a strang bondage of brotherhood with the earth people because they have offered them already the gift of Metal. Thus HEAVY METAL will save our planet from complete extinction. So I won't have to choose only 8 albums because every single recorded heavy metal album will be heard throu the speakers that will save the earth. And all the people will become metalheads. And the only wars that will occur from now on will be of the kind "ICED EARTH or NEVERMORE?", and will take place in great arenas in which the groups will play live to prove the right of their fans.

-Hey nick wake up. You are late for work.
-Leave me alone mom, will you? I am saving the world right now...

 

[Melancholia]

Cool question!!!

1.Opeth-Morningrise

2.Arcturus-La Masquerade Infernale

3.Ulver-Bergtatt

4.At the gates-Terminal spirit disease

5.In the woods...-HEart of the ages

6.Ved Buens Ende-Those who caress the pale

7.Hypocrisy-Osculum obscenum

8.Skyclad-A burnt offering for the bone idol

not really representative of the metal scene,but...