Top 10 all-time favourite Metal albums

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Not really less thrash than Hell Awaits.

do you ever stop?

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...metal-albums-prelim-round-2.html#post10951692

 

[Burkhard]

Good segue, what's everybody's Top Ten Thrash Metal albums?

Fear of God - Within the Veil
Détente - Recognize No Authority
Hexenhaus - A Tribute to Insanity
Anacrusis - Suffering Hour
Testament - The Legacy
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Znowhite - Act of God
Voivod - Killing Technology
Coroner - R.I.P.
Mortillery - Murder Death Kill

I'm aware that "Within the Veil" is not a proper Thrash Metal album. Some songs or parts of them are, whereas others aren't. I think that this album doesn't fit any subgenre properly, but I've included it here nevertheless.

And here's my list for the original topic of this thread:

Atrox - Terrestrials
Fear of God - Within the Veil
Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth
Madder Mortem - Deadlands
Avatarium - Avatarium
Midnattsol - Nordlys
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Voivod - Nothingface
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within

Honourable mentions:
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Death - Leprosy
Détente - Recognize No Authority

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

but there are hardly any wall to wall classics in this genre imo.

IMO there are plenty. The top albums from the thrash lists that we did a few months back is filled with "wall to wall classics". More so than any of the other genre that we did those "top" lists on. But yeah, i get why some people would say that .. maybe it's to validate why they have albums like BbB(which is clearly nowhere near being a "wall to wall classic")in a top thrash metal list.

 

[no country for old wainds]

In that case, Fabulous Disaster is full of tuff-guy stuff, especially the Corruption/Verbal Razors/Open Season trifecta.

yeah tbf a good deal of that album is pretty bad lol. i first got it as a young teen though, it has sentimental value. and i still love the title track.

As early as 1985 Exodus was saying that they thought black metal and the whole Satanic thing was a joke. It may have been part of their sound very very early on, but mostly it was just to shock people and jumping on the Venom train. Their primary appeal is to the FRASHER crowd.

i'm not disputing this. jokey satanism is fun.

IMO there are plenty. The top albums from the thrash lists that we did a few months back is filled with "wall to wall classics". More so than any of the other genre that we did those "top" lists on. But yeah, i get why some people would say that .. maybe it's to validate why they have albums like BbB(which is clearly nowhere near being a "wall to wall classic")in a top thrash metal list.

maybe it's not tho. opinions are great and it's so nice we got to share them with each other. i suppose testament albums do tend to be wall-to-wall something.

 

[CiG]

Plenty of wall to wall classics in Thrash Metal, Bonded By Blood being one of them.

 

[no country for old wainds]

your list is good tbf. i don't actually think there are a huge amount of 'wall to wall classics' in the whole of metal i guess, i'm picky.

 

[CiG]

Really? Could just be that I'm easy to please, haha.
Or maybe you have a higher standard for the word classic.

For you, what are some classic albums just in general?

 

[no country for old wainds]

Or maybe you have a higher standard for the word classic.

ya it's probably this. i do distinguish between 'classic' and 'wall to wall classic', the latter implies consistent excellence whereas i think most albums id call classic don't maintain that 'classic' standard all the way through. it just feels weird to me having an all time top ten that contains stuff like RIDE THE LIGHTNING which has a couple songs i don't rate very highly, or ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL which frequently overelaborates and just generally has dubious songwriting, BENEATH THE REMAINS which only sometimes really works for me, SENTENCE OF DEATH which is kinda basic and underdeveloped at times. i love all of those albums a LOT at their best, when it's on song i feel like thrash could even be my favourite genre, but i suspect my BM, DM, trad metal etc lists would be of a better standard overall. *shrug* i suppose a lot of my all time faves in other genres aren't exactly consistent either but tend to have more ambition and are less inclined to follow established blueprints, which makes it harder to be consistently effective (but more rewarding when they manage it). thrash has never exactly struck me as the most creative of the metal subgenres for whatever reason (and yes, of course there are exceptions), but i feel like we already had that debate here not long ago.

anyways, some archetypal wall to wall classics for me would be stuff like SAD WINGS, AMPLE DESTRUCTION, UNDER A FUNERAL MOON, DEATHCULT FOR ETERNITY etc... not expecting anyone to agree, but those are ones which come to mind. these are albums which would still be classics if they were consistently the standard of their weakest songs, imo.

 

[CiG]

What about outside of Metal? By your definition of wall-to-wall classic I might agree about Thrash, actually most extreme Metal styles probably fall short for me in that regard.
Only some Doom Metal and Heavy Metal, for me, reach that standard.

Now that I'm thinking about it, most of my wall-to-wall classics are non-Metal.

 

[no country for old wainds]

just to pick a few jumping genre to genre: CAPTAIN BEYOND, HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED, VESPERTINE, PORNOGRAPHY (maybe), AMBER

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I assume you're referring to Pornography by The Cure, but what the hell? You're just going to assume that we'll automatically know the corresponding band for each album title when it's not even within the realm of metal?

 

[Mort Divine]

only one that isn't ridiculously obvious is amber but i assume he means the Autechre album

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

They are obviously not ridiculously obvious, elsewise I would have recognized them without googling them first.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Amber was the only one I didn't know (although I've seen the cover art a billion times, just didn't know that was its title). I don't like The Cure or Bob Dylan but both of those albums are very well known. Any fan of metal owes it to themselves to know Captain Beyond's S/T as well (which reminds me that I really need to hear their second one some day).

 

[CiG]

Captain Beyond is ridiculously obvious, great album by the way, magic!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Anyways, I still think that classics are often less consistent anyways. Most lauded albums have those handful of godly tracks surrounded by comparatively weaker ones, whether we're talking merely excellent or just decent. Death metal doesn't have many albums like that, even if it has consistency.

 

[no country for old wainds]

yea, i guess i feel that in other genres the best bands more often make up for that by being ridiculously creative and unusual, whereas thrash doesn't have that to fall back on very often.

and sorry yeah i prob should've listed the bands, i'm lazy! i did mean who yall assumed i meant though so i guess it wasn't too big of an issue

 

[CiG]

Of all the genres I love I think Death Metal seems to have the least amount of classics.

 

[its me bitches]

definitely think metal albums tend to be less solid front to back than other genres. part of the problem (for me at least) is that the limited aesthetic range of the more extreme metal subgenres leads to a fatiguing monotony even when each track taken on its own is good. i find it pretty hard to get through an entire death metal album these days. honestly a lot of bands would probably benefit from just releasing singles or EPs rather than feeling compelled to churn out second-rate material just so they can fill a full-length release.

 

[CiG]

I disagree myself, I'm all about the album experience.
But EPs hold a special place in my heart.