The Extreme Music Forum's Top Recommended Albums Lists

[Lateralus14]

Yeah I would've definitely put it after Priest/Sabbath/Mercyful/Fates...

 

[The Ozzman]

Don't Break the Oath is probably one of my favorite metal albums. It was one of the first extreme metal discs I bought.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Submissions: 203 releases

ExMF Top 25 Recommended Heavy Metal Albums:

1. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
2. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
4. Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead
5. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
6. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
7. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
8. Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian
9. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
10. Riot - Thundersteel
11. Judas Priest - Stained Class
12. Satan - Court In The Act
13. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
14. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
15. Omen - Battle Cry
16. Helstar - Nosferatu
17. Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
18. Mercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate
19. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
20. King Diamond - Abigail
21. Cloven Hoof - Sultan's Ransom
22. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
23. Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
24. Brocas Helm - Black Death
25. Adramelch - Irae Melanox

The fact that Cloven Hoof is on there made my day.

 

[Mort Divine]

Not that most of the albums there aren't great, but lol.

EDIT: Get them to do thrash next. I want to see Holy Terror ranked over Metallica.

Minds Wars is better than anything Metallica has ever done, but that isn't to discount Metallica's work because it is good.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Minds Wars is better than anything Metallica has ever done, but that isn't to discount Metallica's work because it is good.

No it's not. I bet you'd put at least one album from each Sabbat over Ride the Lightning as well.

 

[Mort Divine]

History of a Time to Come is my favorite thrash album, so at least with the British Sabbat yes.

Mind Wars is insanity in thrash form. Crazy fast riffs with perhaps the best vocal delivery in all of thrash.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Keith Deen was easily one of metal's greatest vocalists, and it is a ridiculously intense album on a whole. Mostly I'm just having fun guessing what guys of a particular metal persuasion would go with. I'm guessing that at least two of the first three Coroner albums would make it in as well, plus None Shall Defy, Evil Invaders, and maybe From This Day Forward barely making it in as well. No Anthrax, obviously, but I bet they still manage to include Beneath the Remains and The Years of Agony, the posers. Maybe Out of the Abyss too, just for the lulz.