Top 5 albums since 1992

[Sydo]

Originally posted by Cooperman
I think SFAM is brilliant... it's the only album that has come out in the last 8-10 years that makes my top 5 albums of all time.

This made me think, which 'recent' albums would I consider to be my favourites. As usual it's near impossible to list just one, so try 5.

I'd have to say..

1- TestAmenT Low
2- Nevermore Dead Heart In A Dead World
3- Dream Theater Awake
4- Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding
5- Alice Cooper Brutal Planet

Out of these, probably only Low would make top 5 of all time.
(I listened to it again this week after leaving it for months, and I couldn't believe how awesome it was! It was the album that got me into the 'heavier' side of metal. )

Your thoughts?

 

[spawn]

Horror Show - Iced Earth
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Iced Earth
Demons and Wizards - Demons and Wizards
Dark Saga - Iced Earth
Night Of The Stormrider - Iced Earth

Easy If I had to include stuff before 92 I would have been in more trouble!

Honourable mentions:
Brave New World - Iron Maiden: Awesome album, just a little too long in some songs is the only fault I can have with it, a classic!

SFAM - Dream *TheatER*<-- Thats for you spiff : Awesome as well, talk about a headphones record

Dead Heart In A Dead World - Nevermore: Goes from brutally heavy to quiet acoustic with ease, fantastic lyrics, brilliant musicianship!

The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson: Great as well, but a few weaker songs on the end of the album hold it out of my top 5

Im sure you guys will name about 100 albums I'll think are great too, thats the problem with these lists, they are too hard to choose.........well if you dont include Iced Earth anyway

 

[9mm]

In no particular order:

1-- Faith No More - Angel Dust
2-- Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
3-- Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
4-- Iced Earth - Something Wicked
5-- Tonic - Sugar


NP: Faith No More - Land of Sunshine

 

[Sydo]

Hmm, it would appear I'm gopping have to get Something Wicked.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

1. Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
2. Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
3. Iced Earth - Dark Saga
4. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
5. Iced Earth - Horror Show/Something Wicked

Hehehe

 

[duellist]

Queensryche-Promised Land
Rollins Band-Get Some Go Again
Anthrax-Sound of White Noise
Wasp-Crimson Idol
Bad Religion-Tested

but on that is on the fringe is Ozzy's No More Tears..

 

[Lord Tim]

Shit, that's a hard one...

In no particular order...

1. Somewhere Far Beyond - Blind Guardian
2. Better Than Raw - Helloween
3. Iron Savior - Iron Savior
4. Dark Order - 5000 Years Of Violence
5. Uhhh.... Brave New World, maybe?

Man, what was released in the last 10 years that was good?!!

 

[Cooperman]

In no particular order:

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero
In Flames - Colony
Allegiance - Destitution

I've used 8 years as my cut off mark... if I use 10 then bye bye Youthanasia, hello Countdown To Extinction (which for the record makes it into my top 5 of all time)

 

[TinMan666]

Originally posted by Sydo
Hmm, it would appear I'm gopping have to get Something Wicked.

I'll sell ya mine mate.

 

[Icarus]

In no order

Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far beyond
Opeth - Orchid (cause it fucken rules )
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Iced Earth - Dark Saga/Horror show

WOO!

 

[Joe Salami]

1. Land Of The Free - Gamma Ray
2. The Dark Ride - Helloween
3. Troublegum - Therapy?
4. The Colour And The Shape - Foo Fighters
5. Magica - Dio

LIVE

1. Reunion - Black Sabbath
2. A Fistful Of Alice - Alice Cooper
3. Scream For Me Brazil - Bruce Dickinson
4. Double Live Assassins - W.A.S.P
5. Alive '95 - Gamma Ray

 

[Kem]

Yes ALL the Opeth albums

Orchid
Morningrise
My Arms, Your Hearse
Still Life
Blackwater Park

There

But where does that leave Iced Earth. Hmmmmm...
I'll get back to this.

 

[Spruce Goose]

Studio:
Dream Theater - SFAM (Best album ever)

Deep Purple - Purpendicular, (Steve Morse injected energy into the band)

Liquid Tension Exp - #2, (brilliant compositions)

Dream Theater - Awake, (DT's heaviest, with awesome songs)

Iced Earth - Something Wicked or Horror Show or Dark Saga


Live:
Deep Purple - Total Abandon (Crystal Clear and flawless performance... and recorded in Melb too

Dream Theater - SFNY 3 cd.... (Not out yet, but have seen the DVD, and this will rock my friends!!)

Dixie Dregs - California Screaming (Steve Morse is just phenominal..... and the music that the Dregs play is damn tecnical, but they make it sound so easy.,....... Check out "The Bash" from this cd..... Genious!)

Dream Theater - OIALT (Although not the perfect live album, it has some golden moments on it.)

Joe Satriani - Live in SF

 

[Seventh Son]

1. Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake (perfect!)
2. Dream Theater - Awake (only in here until the new album comes out next year)
3. Fates Warning - APSOG (flawless album)
4. LTE - LTE 2 (awesome)
5. Ice Age - Liberation (The best album of all time)

Honourable mentions:
Iron Maiden - BNW (best for a long time)
Ice Age - The Great Divide (The best first album ever!)
Zero Hour - The Towers Of Avarice (Best new prog metal)
Pain Of Salvation - Perfect Element Pt. 1 (perfection again)
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory (Has to be here.... you know why)
Symphony X - V (kick arse album)

Live:
1. Dream Theater - Live At The Marquee (the best live album since LAD)
2. Iced Earth - Alive In Athens (Awesome)
3. Bruce Dickinson - Scream For Me Brazil (Bruce has to be here)
4. Steve Vai - Alive In An Ultra World (best guitar live album...)
5. Deep Purple - Live At The Royal Albert Hall ('99)

 

[Bucko]

Live : Sabbath- Reunion
Dio - Last in Live
Halford - Live Insurrection
Deep Purple - Come Hell or High Water
Guns n Roses : Live Era 87/93
AC/DC - Live
Ozzy - Live & Loud
Dream Theater - Once In A Live Time

Zakk Wylde -Book of Shadows
Ozzy - No More Tears
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Soundgarden - Superunkown
GZR- Plastic Planet

 

[Wrathchild]

In no particular order, assuming here that stuff from 1992 is not included:

Tori Amos: Under The Pink
Soundgarden: Superunknown
Iron Maiden: Brave New World
Iced Earth: Pick a Barlow album, any Barlow album! .
KISS: Carnival of Souls (I like Revenge better, but it doesn't fit my above criteria)

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