"Thinking" metal albums

[Nightmare_Heaven]

May not be exactly what you want, but Jesu's first album is great "thinking" music because you can just float away into your own mind while listening to it.

 

[Nehebkau]

Cheers all lots of recommendations to go through..

 

[RattFan]

Cheers all lots of recommendations to go through..

And if you want some more to go through:

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Savatage - Streets
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
WASP - The Crimson Idol

 

[genocide roach]

negura bunget- om
deathspell omega- Fas -- Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
blut aus nord- the work which transforms god
~gR~

 

[Koude Haat]

Fanisk - Noontide

 

[Vimana]

Cynic - Traced In Air

 

[Death Aflame]

Buried Inside - any
Crimson Massacre - The Lustre of Pandemonium

 

[waif]

A lot of Bathory's music makes me ponder the myths that Quorthon sings about, and what it would be like to live in a world like that.

Yeah, I guess. Hammerheart is a well-written concept album in that you have to think about the lyrics to figure out the concept.
I guess.

I'll just list some concept albums with well-written lyrics.

Emperor - Prometheus (deals with the Promethean myth, obviously, and the idea of a self-sacrificial prophet)
Suspyre - A Great Divide
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (I guess) based off the Orson Scott Card novel Seventh Son

And not a concept album but the lyrics to Dark Tranquility's the Gallery are well written and intelligent and bear scrutiny

If I want stuff to think about I read a book, though.

 

[Klämrisk]

Exivious - Exivious

Really good "fusionmetal" from the members of the IMO not good bands Cynic and Textures. The record is filled with awesomeness, so go get it now! (if you like "thinking" metal)

 

[illomens]

Lateralus of course.

Undertow is MUCH more thought provoking IMO. Plus tool started sucking hard after AENIMA..