Top 5/10/20 albums of all time

[Metagloria]

Didn't find a thread like this on here...so we all know Novembre is incredible, but there's other good stuff. Count down your top whatever-number-you-want albums. I recently revised my horribly outdated top 20, and here's what I came up with.

20. mewithoutYou "Brother, Sister"
19. Thursday "War All The Time"
18. maudlin of the Well "My Fruit Psychobells...A Seed Combustible"
17. Aletheian "Apolutrosis"
16. Callisto "Noir"
15. Novembre "Dreams D'Azur"
14. Kayo Dot "Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue"
13. Protest The Hero "Kezia"
12. Between the Buried and Me "Colors"
11. Extol "Undeceived"
10. Dream Theater "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory"
9. Persefone "Core"
8. Opeth "Morningrise"
7. Ayreon "01011001"
6. mewithoutYou "[A-->B] Life"
5. Novembre "Novembrine Waltz"
4. Rosetta "The Galilean Satellites"
3. Opeth "Blackwater Park"
2. Extol "Synergy"
1. Kayo Dot "Choirs Of The Eye"

 

[foodforthegods]

tough one: my top 20 ever:

1-In Flames - Colony
2-Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
3-Metallica -AJFA
4-Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
5-Sepultura - Arise
6-Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
7-Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8-Opeth - Still Life
9-In Flames - Whoracle
10-Dark Tranquillity - Character
11-Deep Purple - Machine Head
12-Slayer - SOuth Of Heaven
13-Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
14-Children Of Bodon - Follow The Reaper
15-Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
16-Rush - Moving Pictures
17-Rage Against The Machine - ST
18-Muse - Absolution
19-Strapping Young Lad - Alien
20-At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

 

[Nightmist]

mmh i don't like numbers and position in these cases, so i just will put down 20 albums that has been really important to me:

Novembre - Novembrine Waltz
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Anathema - Alternative 4
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Opeth - Morningrise
In Flames - Whoracle
Rush - Permanent Waves
Meshuggah - Nothing
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Amon Amath - The Avenger
Klimt 1918 - Undressed Momento
Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
Eldritch - El Nino

 

[Wildhoney]

I try... even if I would've like mentioning more than one only album for each band, min. 2. There are even some promo-demo, stuff which is important to me. The first 20 names of bands and records which came to my mind, but there are a lot more...

Amorphis - Tales from the 1000 lakes
AnathemA - Alternative 4
AtaraxiA - Lost Atlantis
Carcass - Necroticism/Descanting the insalobrious
Celestial Season - Solar lovers
Death - Individual thought patterns
Dissection - Storm of the light's bane
Dredg - El cielo
Editors - The back room
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Gorefest - False
Guns N'Roses - Appetite for destruction
H.I.M. - Greatest love songs Volume 666
Katatonia - Brave murder day
Klimt1918 - Secession makes post-modern music
Magenta Skycode - IIIII
Metallica - Master of puppets
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
Novembre - Wish I could dream it again...
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Pyogenesis - Twinaleblood
Rapture - Futile
Rotting Christ - Thy mighy contract
Sadist - Above the light
Seigmen - Radio waves
Sentenced - Amok
Sinoath - Still in the grey dying
The Gathering - How to measure a planet ?
This Empty Flow - Magenta Skycode
TiamaT - Wildhoney

... really too many to mention ...

 

[mirogarm]

I'm sorry but i can't say only 20 records, and surely i forgot something...
Paradise Lost - Icon
Moonspell - Irreligious
The Gathering - Mandylion
Anathema - The Silent Enigma
My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River
Solefald - Neonism
Lux Occulta - My Guardian Anger
Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons
Manes - Vilosophe
Ulver - Themes from William Blake's Marriage of Heaven And Hell
Klimt 1918 - Undressed Momento
Enslaved - Isa
Novembre - Materia
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Tristania - Beyond The Veil
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
Peccatum - Lost In Reverie
Source Of Tide - Blueprints
Moonsorrow - V:Havittety
Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play
Evereve - Seasons
Dark Throne - Soulside Journey
Orphaned Land - Mabool
And Oceans - A.M.G.O.D.
Negura Bunget - Om
Sepultura - Roots
Biohazard - State Of The World Address
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Saturnus - Martyre
Finntroll - Nattfodd
Mayhem - Grand Declaration Of War
Beyond Dawn - In A Reverie
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Dredg - El Cielo
Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights
Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
Ataraxia - Saphir
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Audrey Horne - No Hay Banda
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

 

[Nostalgiaplatz]

MY top 20:

1. Klimt 1918 - Undressed Momento
2. Novembre - Arte Novecento
3. Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again
4. Novembre - Classica
5. Novembre - Novembrine Waltz
6. Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
7. Vintersorg - Visions from the Spiral Generator
8. Opeth - Deliverance
9. Opeth - Blackwater Park
10. Green Carnation - Light of day, day of Darkness
11. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
12. Ulver - Bergtatt
13. Alarum - Eventuality
14. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
15. Porcupine Tree - Recordings
16. Anathema - Judgement
17. Disillusion - Back to times of splendour
18. Alex Skolnick Trio - Transformation
19. Orphaned Land - Mabool
20. In Flames - Whoracle

 

[songless]

1.- My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
2.- Anathema - The Silent Enigma
3.- The Gathering - Always...
4.- Paradise Lost - Gothic
5.- Celestial Season - Solar Lovers
6.- My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
7.- Anathema - Eternity
8.- Rapture - Futile
9.- Novembre - Classica
10.- Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... and her Embrace
11.- Paradise Lost - Shades Of God
12.- Novembers Doom - To Welcome the Fade
13.- Summoning - Dol Goldur
14.- Novembers Doom - The Knowing
15.- Amorphis - Tales from the 1000 lakes
16.- Summoning - Stronghold
17.- Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
18.- Anathema - Serenades
19.- Green Carnation - Journey to the end of the night
20.- Daylight Dies - No Reply

 

[songless]

By the way, in my opinion Novembre is the best band of last 10 years:

Classica
Novembrine Waltz
Dreams D'Azur
Materia
The Blue

Not bad huh ?

 

[Nostalgiaplatz]

By the way, in my opinion Novembre is the best band of last 10 years:

Classica
Novembrine Waltz
Dreams D'Azur
Materia
The Blue

Not bad huh ?

Quite a bit, you're missing arte novecento there!

 

[Illnath]

Opeth - Still Life.
Katatonia - Discouraged ones.
Anathema - Judgement.
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse.
Opeth - Watershed.
Opeth - Black Water Park.
Opeth - Deliverance.
Opeth - Morningrise.
Opeth - Damnation.
Opeth - Orchid.
Opeth - Ghost Reveries.
Type O Negative - October Rust.
Agalloch - The Mantle.
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done.
Moonspell - The Antodote.
Saturnus - Veronica Decides to Die
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell.
Novembre - Materia.
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came.
Avec Tristesse - How Innocence Dies.
Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You.
Novembers Doom - The Pale Hunt Departure.
Before The Dawn - The Ghost.
Saturnus - Martyre.
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World.
Mercenary - 11 Dreams.
Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum.


So much more .

 

[songless]

Quite a bit, you're missing arte novecento there!

I don't like Arte Novecento I sold the CD for 30 euro to some Italian fan years ago

 

[Jester-Race]

Opeth - Still Life
Katatonia - LFDGD
Katatonia - TGCD
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Whoracle
In Flames - Colony
Novembre - Novembrine Waltz
Novembre - Materia
Novembre - Classica
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Undertow
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Watershed
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Morningrise
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Orchid
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

I obviously have many other records that I like, but these are ones that have had the most influence on me over the years.

 

[Peter2903]

Ok, here's my top 20(a bit one sided though)

1.Opeth - Still Life
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Opeth - Watershed
5.Opeth - Deliverance
6.Opeth - Morningrise
7.Opeth - Damnation
8.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
9.Opeth - Orchid
10.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
11.Slayer - Raining Blood
12.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
13.Dream Theater - Images and Words
14.Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
15.Pink Floyd - The Wall
16.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
17.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
18.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
19.Cynic - Focus
20.Anathema - Judgement