TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS

[Skaldir]

impossible to make a list like this really, but of the top of my head, that's some of my most aprreciated and listened to CDs. I actually missed "Last Fair Deal Gone Down", its a brilliant brilliant album.

For me it's also impossible to make a list. I started three times atleast and always stopped. But I should try to do one again

 

[Liverslapper]

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Judas Priest - Painkiller



These are my only 2 that need to be mentioned right off the bat. I would have to think about the others, just way to many so it will take some time to go all the way back from the early 80's to present day, only to pick just 10 albums.

 

[Elishia]

Some of my favourites ones:

Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork
Ophthalamia - Via Dolorosa
Katatonia - Brave murder day or Discouraged ones or Tonight's decision Bloodbath - Nightmares made flesh
Amon Amarth - With Oden on our side
Opeth - Still life
Edge of sanity - Purgatory afterglow
Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk in my heart
Hypocrisy - The final chapter or The arrival
Pain - Psalms of extinction

 

[Flal]

Hard....lets go with the first 10 that come into my head as TOP:

Bloodbath - Resurrection through carnage
Bloodbath - Breeding Death
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Carcass - Heartwork
Immortal - At the heart of winter
Emperor - In the nightside eclipse
Opeth - Still Life/Black water park (they're 1 album as far as I'm concerned)
Morbid Angel - Domination
Decapitated - The Negation

10's not enough......

 

[ozric]

My personal faves (in no order, varies quite a bit):

Agalloch- ashes against the grain
Bloodbath- nightmares made flesh
Ulver- bergtatt
Karnivool- themata
Tool- aenema
Katatonia- discouraged ones
Dan Swano- moontower
Edge of Sanity- crimson/crimson II
Opeth- ...let's say 'still life' for now
Nightingale- alive again

 

[Dolf9271986]

You people and your slight differences disgust me.

 

[Dolf9271986]

You people and your slight differences disgust me.

 

[JesterShadow]

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
3. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
4. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
5. In Flames - Clayman
6. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
7. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
8. Dark Tranquillity - Haven
9. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
10. Opeth - Still Life

 

[Dhell]

1. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
2. Edge of Sanity - Crimson 2
3. Opeth - Morningrise
4. Opeth - Blackwater Park
5. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
6. Anathema - Judgement
7. Beyond Twilight - Section X
8. Dan Swano - Moontower
9. Ayreon - The Human Equation
10. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

I just have to state Orphaned Land - Mabool in addition.
Why?
This is just one of the best Progressive Death Metal albums ever made.
Everyone here should try it out <:
And of course, I'm from Israel, and I have to promote my country's best metal.

I could easily fill this up with all the Opeth albums, but then it would've been stupid
So many albums that I needed to put here and couldn't...
First 5 are for sure, but I couldn't decide if Crimson 1 or 2 should go first.
Last 5 aren't really sorted, couldn't decide.

 

[Zander BUEL]

Bump. Sorry, I'm a sucker for these kinds of threads. Hard to do, but I can throw a few favorites out there.

Opeth - Still Life
Evergrey - Solitude Dominance Tragedy
Dan Swano - Moontower
Agalloch - The Mantle
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Dream Theater - Awake
Amorphis - Elegy

 

[Naglfar]

Bump is exactly what you're supposed to do for this kind of thread, instead of creating a new one. Lets us see what people thought in 2004, 2008, etc. =)

 

[GRANDIUS]

the visitor ARENA
covenant MORBID ANGEL
blackwater park OPETH
symbolic DEATH
crimson EDGE OF SANITY
themes from William Blake a marriage of heaven & hell ULVER
la masquerade infernale ARCTURUS
written in waters VED BUENS ENDE
focus CYNIC
images and words DREAM THEATER

 

[Beesson6606]

Ghost Reveries - Opeth
Moontower - Dan Swanö
Death's Design - Diabolical Masquerade
When All is Said - Edge of Sanity (3 birds with 1 stone )
Alive Again - Nightingale
The Wacken Carnage - Bloodbath
Heartwork - Carcass
Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun - Goatwhore
Ashes Against the Grain - Agalloch
A Virgin and a Whore - Eternal Tears of Sorrow

Honorable Mention:
Communion - Septic Flesh
Lunar Strain - In Flames
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Eclipse - Amorphis
The Black Waltz - Kalmah
Fallen - For my Pain
Age of Winter - The Sword

Gah, i could go on for about 20 more, but I'll cut it off there.

 

[zephody]

Damn these lists...


1. Dan Swanö - Moontower (no metal record comes close)

Now in random order:

2. Embraced - Amorous Anathema
3. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
4. Ayreon - The Human Equation
5. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life and Death
6. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
7. Ulver - Bergtatt
8. Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams
9. Wongraven - Fjelltronen
10. Slumber - Fallout

 

[Naglfar]

I think I posted here, but I don't know. I guess this is a revision then? Here's my list. I apologize for anything pre-1980 and lack of 80s stuff. I'm heavily biased to late 80s / 90s!

In no particular order:

1. Dan Swano - Moontower
2. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
3. Amorphis - Elegy
4. Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
6. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
7. Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace (yes, I know... fucking shitty band, but who will deny this is one of the most fucking amazing, metal albums ever made? I don't care how lame Dani Filth can get, this album is a masterpiece)
8. Metallica - Master of Puppets (later lameness doesn't make this album any less amazing)
9. Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
10. Therion - Theli

 

[celestialelixir]

1. Colors - Between The Buried And Me
2. Blackwater Park - Opeth
3. Moontower - Dan Swano
4. Traced AND Focus - Cynic
5. Crimson II - Edge Of Sanity
6. This Godless Endeavor - Nevermore
7. Holographic Universe - Scar Symmetry
8. Ziltoid The Omniscient - Devin Townsend Band
9. The Breathing Shadow - Nightingale
10. Metropolis Pt. 2 - Dream Theater

 

[Light]

han i scho alli metall vergasse nochman schitz lol

 

[Light]

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