The Top 5 List Thread

[Vegard Pompey]

5 best trio of albums from a metal band:

1. Voïvod from Killing Technology to Nothingface
2. Immolation from Here in After to Close to a World Below
3. Slough Feg from Twilight of the Idols to Traveller
4. Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind to Somewhere in Time
5. Fates Warning from No Exit to Parallels

1. The Chasm from From the Lost Years to Procession to the Infraworld
2. The Chasm from Conjuration of the Spectral Empire to Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
3. Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind to Somewhere in Time
4. Voïvod from Killing Technology to Nothingface
5. Manilla Road from Spiral Castle to Voyager

 

[Phylactery]

Missing Darkthrone!

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky to Transilvanian Hunger

If Det Som Engang Var wasn’t a full length then, Burzum - Burzum to Filosofem would be towards the top.

Also Morbid Angel - Altars to Covenant. Or Abominations to Blessed if you’d prefer.

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny to Stained Class

 

[CiG]

I'd go with Darkthrone if I liked Under a Funeral Moon more, but I'd start the trio of albums with their debut.

 

[Phylactery]

I’m not as big on Soulside Journey as a lot of death metal heads. Good album, but not one of my favourites. I definitely prefer Goatlord. And if the vocals were different I think that would be a more common opinion.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Yeah, Goatlord is a stronger album overall and kinda shows exactly where they would've gone if they had stuck with death metal. Like Left Hand Path, Soulside Journey's biggest problem is that it starts with the best song.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Maiden - Killers, Number, Piece
2. Queensryche - Warning, Rage, Operation
3. Destruction - Eternal, Release, Cracked
4. Priest - Sad, Sin, Stained
5. Anacrusis - Reason, Manic, Screams

 

[CiG]

I’m not as big on Soulside Journey as a lot of death metal heads. Good album, but not one of my favourites. I definitely prefer Goatlord. And if the vocals were different I think that would be a more common opinion.

Yeah, Goatlord is a stronger album overall and kinda shows exactly where they would've gone if they had stuck with death metal. Like Left Hand Path, Soulside Journey's biggest problem is that it starts with the best song.

You guys are lunatics!

Don't get me wrong I like Goatlord a lot, but no way it touches the greatness of Soulside Journey.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Goatlord is their best album by a good margin.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I don't know if I'd go that far but it's fucking GOOD.

 

[CiG]

Goatlord is their best album by a good margin.

I'm sure they're thrilled to have you on their side, the guy who thinks Korn make above-average music.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i have to agree with our little fart-sniffing buddy that the first track on Soulside Journey is the best part of that album.

Darkthrone - Blaze, Under a Funeral Moon and Transylvanian Hunger

im also big on some of their later albums, especially FOAD and The Underground Resistance

 

[CiG]

I much prefer the middle of the album myself. I should probably do a track-by-track rating of the album on RYM already.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

A Blaze in the Northern Sky is Darkthrone's magnum opus to me at this point. Panzerfaust is close though and "Quintessence" is probably their best song overall.

 

[CiG]

and "Quintessence" is probably their best song overall.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i NEVER complain about production, and its NEVER a make or break for me. But damn i cant stand how high the vocals are mixed in Panzerfaust.

And yeah Blaze is their best.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Top 5 Darkthrone songs

In His Lovely Kingdom
(Birth of Evil) Virgin Sin
Rex
Paragon Belial
En vind av sorg

 

[CiG]

I can't decide if I like A Blaze in the Northern Sky or Soulside Journey more. Probably about even for me, but unlike Soulside Journey which I do like a lot, A Blaze in the Northern Sky is top-tier even within its respective genre (and is for me the very best of the genre).

 

[Manic Ferocity]

For me, it's about how fucking MEAN Blaze is and it pays so much tribute to classic Autopsy, Hellhammer, etc. Hard to find fault with it.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

top 5 black metal bands

Dissection
Darkthrone
Deathspell Omega
Inquisition
Bathory

HM:
Satyricon
Bathory
Gorgoroth
Enslaved
Marduk
Ulver
Sacramentum
Watain
Mayhem
Burzum

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

top 5 black metal albums(going to keep this at on album per band or else Dissection and Satyricon would take up 4 spots)

The Somberlain
Nemesis Divina
Far Away From the Sun
A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Paracletus

HM's off the top of my head:
Bathory
Blood Fire Death
Storm of the Lights Bane
The Shadowthrone
Fas – Ite, maledicti, in ignem aeternum
Casus Luciferi
Filosofem
Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Pentagram
Under the Sign of Hell
De mysteriis dom Sathanas
Nattens madrigal