Top 10 all-time favourite Metal albums 2.0

Favourite SLAYER Album?

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i'm gonna be starting the best-of-year polls in a couple days but sure, go for it. i'll have a think.

mighty list, btw! i need to spend more time with METAL.
 
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Where are you doing the polls?

here. once i wrap up the one for 2016 in a couple days i'm gonna start a thread for a different year (probably an iconic one to start off with), and so on. i may make a master thread to store all the consensus top 10s kinda like the hall of fame museum, or alternatively i'll just publish them in a RYM list or whatever.
 
No particular order here:
  • Agalloch - The Mantle
  • Aquilus - Griseus
  • Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane
  • Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
  • Metallica - Master of Puppets
  • Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
  • Opeth - Blackwater Park
  • Tool - Lateralus
  • Windir - 1184
  • Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters

And just to spam you guys, the rest of my favorite albums list. Essentially 9.5/10 or higher.

  • Akhlys - The Dreaming I
  • Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
  • Batushka - Litourgiya
  • Behemoth - Demigod
  • Black Sabbath - S/T, Paranoid
  • Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
  • Bölzer - Aura
  • Burzum - Belus, Fallen, Umskiptar (unpopular opinion, I like some of his new stuff quite a bit!)
  • Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
  • Cobalt - Gin, Slow Forever
  • Cult of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान
  • Dawnbringer - Into The Lair of the Sun God
  • Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
  • Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
  • Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
  • Enslaved - Isa
  • Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
  • Forteresse - Métal Noir Québécois
  • Fyrnask - Bluostar, Eldir Nótt, Fórn
  • Ghost - Opus Eponymous
  • Hyperion - Seraphical Euphony
  • Irkallian Oracle - Grave Ekstasis
  • Isis - Oceanic
  • Kawir - Isotheos
  • Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
  • Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
  • Mastodon - Leviathan
  • Melechesh - Emissaries
  • Mgla - Exercises In Futility
  • Midnight Odyssey - Shards of Silver Fade
  • Moonsorrow - Havitetty
  • Morbus Chron - Sweven
  • Myrkgrav - Trollskau, Skrømt Og Kølabrenning
  • Negură Bunget - Om
  • Neige et Noirceur - La Seigneurie Des Loups
  • Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
  • Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
  • Opeth - Still Life, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries
  • Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
  • Portal - Vexovoid
  • Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
  • Saor - Aura
  • Slayer - Seasons
  • Sleep - Dopesmoker
  • Spectral Lore - III
  • Summoning - Old Morning's Dawn, Minas Morgul, Dol Guldur
  • Sunnata - Zorya
  • The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
  • The Sword - Age of Winters
  • Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
  • Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation
  • Vektor - Terminal Redux
  • Walknut - Graveforests and Their Shadows
  • Weakling - Dead as Dreams
  • Windir - Arntor
  • Wodensthrone - Loss
  • Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
  • Zaum - Oracles
 
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1. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
2. Warning - Watching from a Distance
3. Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer
4. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
5. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
6. Slayer - Hell Awaits
7. Any of the last 5 Chasm albums
8. Flames of Hell - Fire and Steel
9. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
10. Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
 
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The order isn't really important.

1. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
2. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
3. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
4. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
5. Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
6. Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy
7. Scorpions - In Trance
8. Immolation - Close to a World Below
9. Sarcófago - I.N.R.I
10. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos

+ 5 that could easily make it on any given day:

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Merciless - The Awakening
Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity
Dissection - The Somberlain
 
1. Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
2. Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
3. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
4. Manowar - SotH or HtE I have to think this one over man
5. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
6. Scorpions - Taken by Force
7. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
8. Immolation - Close to a World Below
9. Grand Magus - Iron Will
10. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Too few places to choose.

Honorable mentions:

Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Napalm Death - FETO
Cobalt - Slow Forever
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Shining - Halmstad
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
 
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Cop out! Pick one.

Deathcult > Procession > Conjuration = Farseeing > The Spell for me.

The Spell of Retribution is a really frustrating album for me because it has some amazing songs on it, but it drags on and some of the songs feature the least engaging songwriting of their career.

I didn't pick one because my ranking changes on pretty much a daily basis. Today it's;

The Spell > Deathcult > Conjuration > Procession > Farseeing
 
The order isn't really important.

1. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
2. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
3. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
4. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
5. Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
6. Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy
7. Scorpions - In Trance
8. Immolation - Close to a World Below
9. Sarcófago - I.N.R.I
10. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos

+ 5 that could easily make it on any given day:

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
Merciless - The Awakening
Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity
Dissection - The Somberlain

gorgoroth and sacramentum gone by the wayside huh
 
at the gates - the red in the sky is ours
at the gates - with fear i kiss the burning darkness
warning - watching from a distance
sacramentum - far away from the sun
the chasm - deathcult for eternity: the triumph
fates warning - the spectre within
harvey milk - a small turn of human kindness
adramelch - irae melanox
jag panzer - ample destruction
slayer - hell awaits

this isn't ordered btw, i wouldn't know where to begin!
 
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Emotional bitches putting Watching From a Distance in their top ten metal albums makes me want to vomit.

Cant remember the last thread but oh well. No order.

Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Motorhead - Bomber
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Manowar - Hail to England (this is the only recent purchase in the last year or so on the list for me. had no idea how fucking magical this album is)
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
Cirith Ungol - Frost & Fire
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Autopsy - Severed Survival
 
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