The essential rock & metal albums

[Connacht]

What do you think are the essential rock & metal albums? The basic ones?

Two rules:

1 - only one album for band
2 - max 30 albums

I say:

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Anathema - Alternative 4
Anti-Flag - Mobilize
At the Gates - Slaugher of the Soul
Carcass - Heartwork
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Death - Symbolic
Deep Purple - In Rock
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeneance
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Korn - Korn
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Led Zeppelin - [IV]
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Queensryche - Promised Land
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Rainbow - Rainbow
Rush - 2112
Savatage - Streets: a Rock Opera
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Tool - AEnima
Yes - Close to the Edge

 

[King Chaos]

Yeah, I agree with alot of those.

Although I'd have said:
At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness.

I will make 30 sooner or later in little bursts of pain.

 

[marduk1507]

I agree too, Id add these:

Helloween - Keeper II
Kiss - Alive II
Megadeth - Rust in Piece (this one would be very close to the top)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (for a change)
Atheist - Elements (or the other two)
Cynic - Focus
Nocturnus - The Key
Nasum - Inhale/Exhale
Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso (well, I like his stuff)
Gorguts - Obscura
etc. etc...

 

[KryptoN]

Ajattara - Itse
Amon Amarth - The Avenger
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
Behemoth - Demigod
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
In Flames - Whoracle
Kiuas - The Spirit Of Ukko
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect
Naglfar - Pariah
Nasum - Shift
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Sentenced - Frozen
Skyfire - Timeless Departure
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Stratovarius - Dreamspace
The Kovenant - Animatronic
Throes Of Dawn - Quicksilver Clouds
Viikate - Surut Pois Ja Kukka Rintaan

 

[Malaclypse]

more or less random picks

1 metallica - master of puppets
2 tiamat - clouds
3 blind guardian - follow the blind
4 smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
5 nirvana - nevermind
6 rage against the machine- self-titled
7 new model army - the independent story
8 soundgarden - superunknown
9 therapy - troublegum
10 helmet - betty
11 alice in chains - dirt
12 stone temple pilots - core
13 - red hot chili peppers - blood sugar sex magik
14 type o negative - bloody kisses
15 opeth - orchid
16 sentenced - crimson
17 anathema - judgement
18 at the gates - slaughter of the soul
19 the crown - deathrace king
20 death - the sound of perseverance
21 die krupps - to the hilt
22 the doors - heh one of the best-ofs
23 dissection - the somberlain
24 the gathering - mandylion
25 machine head - burn my eyes
26 meshuggah - chaosphere
27 paradise lost - icon
28 sepultura - chaos a.d.
29 tool - lateralus
30 totenmond - reich in rost

 

[solefald]

10 helmet - betty
17 anathema - judgement
21 die krupps - to the hilt
22 the doors - heh one of the best-ofs

some really good choices

my essentials:

1.In Flames-The Jester race
2.Paradise Lots-Icon
3.At the gates-slaughter of the soul
4.Dark Tranquillity-The minds I
5.Dream Theater-Scenes from a memory
6.Metallica-ride the lightning
7.iron maiden-live in rio
8.converge-jane doe
9.ISIS-oceanic
10.refused-the shape of punk to come
11.therapy-troublegum
12.the offspring-smash
13.pink floyd-the wall
14.social distortion-white light white heat white trash
15.nirvana-nevermind
16.pearl jam-ten
17.amorphis-elegy
18.anathema-judgement
19.nevermore-dreaming neon black
20.iced earth-alive in athens
21.opeth-morningrise
22.in the woods-omnio
23.solefald-the linear scaffold
24.the cure-disintegration
25.strapping young lad-city
26.monster magnet-dopes to infinity
27.30 seconds to mars-30 seconds to mars
28.jimmy eat world-bleed american
29.deftones-white pony
30.best of THE DOORS again


Im no big fan of 70,80 music...

 

[Sickman]

1. Alice in Chains - Dirt
2. Soundgarden - Superunknown
3. Faith No More - Angel Dust
4. At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
5. In Flames - Whoracle
6. Dark Tranquillity - Projector
7. Amorphis - Elegy
8. Deadboy and the Elephantmen - If This is Hell, Then I'm Lucky
9. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
10. Dan Swano - Moontower
11. Hypocrisy - Abducted
12. Isis - Oceanic
13. Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
14. Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
15. The Crown - Crowned in Terror
16. The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito
17. Opeth - Morningrise
18. Anathema - Eternity
19. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
20. Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
21. Ulver - Kveldssanger
22. Agalloch - The Mantle
23. Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
24. Tiamat - Wildhoney
25. Pelican - Australasia
26. Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
27. Mad Season - Above
28. Tool - Lateralus
29. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
30. All That Remains - This Darkened Heart

 

[n0thing]

At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Dark Funeral - De Profundis Clamavi Ad Te Domine
Dissection - The Storm of Light's Bane
Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process
Bloodbath - Breeding Death
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
Carcass - Heartwork
The Crown - Crowned in Terror
Darkane - Layers of Lies
In Flames - Jesters Race
Duskfall - Source
Embraced - Amourous Anathema
Fuck... I'm Dead - Bring On The Dead
Grotesque - In The Embrace of Evil
Lockup - Hate Breeds Suffering
Mastodon - Leviathan
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Naglfar - Sheol
Nightrage - Descent into Chaos
Seance - Fornever laid to Rest
Six Feet Under - 13
Slayer - Reign in Blood
System of a Down - Toxicity (Yeah, I like it, stop bitching)
Candlemass - Candlemass

 

[Overlord Purple Rainbow]

Too many to list...

 

[Jingjang]

From the top of my head... I think everybody should at least listen to the following albums:

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Napalm Death - Utopia Banished
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Souls
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dan Swano - Moontower
Edge of Sanity - (damn I can't pick out of some 3, let it be Purgatory Afterglow)
Entombed - Clandestine
Biohazard - Urban Discipline
Nasum - Shift (as well as any other actually)
Testament - The Gathering
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Machine Head - Burn my Eyes
Illdisposed - Submit
Hatebreed - Perseverance
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Cataract - With Triumph Comes Loss
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr

 

[Angelbreeze]

Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Dark Tranquillity - Projector
Death - Symbolic
In Flames - Jester Race
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
Lacuna Coil - In a Reviere
Opeth - My Arms, your Hearse
Soilwork - Chainheart machine

 

[Salamurhaaja]

Oh yeah, of course my piece of shit work proxy fucks me over and crashes
my browser, just as I was replying. Anyway, here goes, in no particular order,
except how they come back to me.

The Doors - The Doors
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
DIO - Holy Diver
AC/DC - Back In Black
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Moonspell - Irreligious
Paradise Lost - Shades Of God
Candlemass - Epicus Metallicus Doomicus
Sepultura - Roots
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
Van Halen - 1984
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Nirvana - Nevermind
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Therapy? - Troublegum
Pearl Jam - Ten
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Venom - Black Metal
Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Voivod - Angel Rat
Ministry - Psalm 69
KMFDM - Angst
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

Might have missed a few.
Anyway, I've been listening to a lot of old stuff lately, which is why there is
hardly any new bands on the list.

 

[marduk1507]

originally posted by solefald
21.opeth-morningrise

How could I forget that?

 

[Salamurhaaja]

How could I forget that?

Cos it's shit?

 

[King Chaos]

Cos it's shit?

yeah.

If you're gonna put an opeth album it's going to be still life guys. Serenity Painted Death is the best song they ever wrote, and the songs around it complement it perfectly (acousticky more mellowed out build up to the tracks ulti riff).

I still can't really decide on what mine would be. It'll take me too long to make a big list in one go, so for now I'll just say...

Nightwish - Oceanborn
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - 4
Rhapsody - The dawn of Victory
At The Gates - with Fear I kiss the Burning Darkness
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
Deicide - Deicide
Nile - Annhilation of the Wicked
Killswitch engage - Alive or just breathing
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

 

[Dafne]

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden - Killers
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Pantera - Vulgar Display of power
Dissection - Storm of the Light Bane
The haunted - Made me do it (trespass has one of the best riffs ever IMO )
In Flames - Whoracle
Rage - XIII
and especially
DT - The Gallery
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth

 

[marduk1507]

@Salamurhaaja: No, it isnt.
@KC: If something else, then definitely Blackwater Park.

 

[solefald]

no the first 3 opeth albums are unbelievable but from still life on they lost their magic touch...

 

[Angelbreeze]

no the first 3 opeth albums are unbelievable but from still life on they lost their magic touch...

I agree about the first 3 Opeth albums, but I think they did good songs after those albums, however, after listening to "The Grand Conjuration" I don't know WTF is going on with Opeth, indeed.

 

[Malaclypse]

i actually like every opeth song, apart from serenity painted death