TOP TEN ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

[kngdymond]

ufo strangers in the night
scorpions lovedrive
rainbow long live rock and roll
slayer reign in blood
death scream bloody gore
opeth black water park
jason becker perpetual burn
ac/dc highway to hell
metallica master of puppets
destruction release from agony

 

[Disgustipated]

Birkenau's layout wins.

At the moment, maybe these:

Solefald - Red for Fire
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Sigur Rós - ( )
Pink Floyd - The Wall
dredg - Catch Without Arms

I've been rotating those 5 quite often lately, anyway.

 

[RDreamer]

My top 10, in order, disregarding Opeth who would have 3 albums here otherwise:

10. Bush- Sixteen Stone
9. Rush- A Farewell To Kings
8. Stone Temple Pilots- Core
7. After Forever- Invisible Circles
6. Tool- Aenima
5. Pink Floyd- The Wall
4. Metallica- Kill 'Em All
3. Mastodon- Leviathan
2. AFI- Sing The Sorrow

And the Greatest Album In The History Of Ever Is...

1. Tool- Lateralus

 

[Splintered Vision]

1. Opeth Blackwater Park
2. Tool Lateralus
3. Katatonia Brave Murder Day
4. Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
5. Nile Annihilation Of The Wicked
6. Trivium Ascendancy
7. Swallow The Sun The Morning Never Came
8. Katatonia Viva Emptiness
9. Into Eternity Buried In Oblivion
10. Opeth Morningrise

Although he said no Opeth, many people have already mentioned them

 

[Prowler121]

These ten are very important to me.

In no order...

The Cure-Disintegration
Massive Attack -Mezzanine
King Crimson- Lizard
Garbage-2.0
Iron Maiden-Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Red Hot Chili Peppers-By The way
Pink Floyd-Echoes
Faith No More-Angel Dust
Mr. Bungle-California
Danzig-Self Titled

...as for Opeth, I'd just have to pick their whole catalog as I tend not to listen to whole albums ,but rather just whatever Opeth song I want to listen to at the moment.

 

[Liquid Diamonds]

If I have no Opeth albums on my list (as the guy stipulated), and restrict myself to one album er artist, it may look as follows (not really in any order):

1. Hope Of The States - The Lost Riots
2. Radiohead - OK Computer/Kid A (too hard to choose!!!)
3. Portishead - Dummy
4. Strapping Young Lad - Alien
5. Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
6. Tori Amos - Under The Pink/From The Choirgirl Hotel
7. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
8. Arcturus - La Masquarade Infernale
9. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
10. Paradise Lost - Host


That's it right now, but there are some close ones (Muse - 'Origin Of Symnetry', PT - 'Deadwing' etc.)

I love hundreds of records though, so it changes often.

And regarding Arcturus, I love it, and La Masquarade Infernale would be possibly my favourite album if Garms vocals weren't so ropey...

 

[The_Crow_]

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Agalloch - The Mantle
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Lykathea Aflame - Elevenefris
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
Tool - Lateralus
In Flames - The Jester Race
Exodus - Bonded By Blood

 

[profskett]

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt2: Scenes from a Memory
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - Led Zep IV
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
Opeth - Black Water Park
Extol - Undeceived
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
U2 - Joshua Tree
Biomechanical - Empires of the Worlds
Rush - 2112

 

[Netheral]

So here's my list, if you have any question to one of the bandsK, just ask
In no chronological order:

1. Opeth - Stillf Life
2. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
3. Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
4. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
5. Emperor - IX Equilibirium
6. Tool - Lateralus
7. Isis - Panopticon
8. Deep Purple - Machine Head
9. Camel - Mirage
10. Pat Metheny - The Way up

 

[Powers]

5. Emperor - IX Equilibirium

That's most interesting. I've never know anyone to choose that as their favourite Emperor album. It usually falls to "Nightside" or "Anthems" or the purists go for "Tyrant". Would you explain that choice please? I'm just rather intrigued.

 

[annt]

1. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
2. Tool - Lateralus
3. Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
4. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
5. Between The Buried And Me - Alaska
6. The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
7. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
8. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
9. Ulver - Perdition City
10. Camel - The Snow Goose

This could look a bit different on another day...

 

[annt]

That's most interesting. I've never know anyone to choose that as their favourite Emperor album. It usually falls to "Nightside" or "Anthems" or the purists go for "Tyrant". Would you explain that choice please? I'm just rather intrigued.

IXE is my favourite Emperor album too. I think it has the perfect balance of rawness and sophistication, the songwriting is excellent all the way through and the production is the most listenable of all their albums. Enough? (Even if it wasn't pointed at me, but anyway)

 

[Netheral]

hmm......*g*...in my opinion it's the most experimental and extreme album Emperor released. It's also the one on which Ihsahn found his ultimate own way of writing guitar riffs.......since IX Equilibrium they just sound so unique. Don't get me wrong I love all of the other Emperor albums and IX Equilibrium may be not the most important for the bm scene but in my opinion it's just their most unique and their best album........an equivalent choice for me would have been Grand Declaration of War of Mayhem, also not their most important but their most experimental one.

10 albums is far too less*g I'm missing bands like Morbid Angel, Dire Straits, Anathema, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Porcupine Tree, Arcturus, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Miles Davis, Nils Petter Molvaer, Ulver, oh of course The Mars Volta.....how could I forget them...etc.

 

[narcoleptic haze]

I can't really pick my exact top ten, but these ones are definately up there (in no order):

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing
Opeth - Deliverance
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Bass Communion - Ghosts On Magnetic Tape
Deftones - White Pony
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Aphex Twin - drukqs
Mr. Bungle - California


Honourable Mentions:

Tool - ÆNIMA (a bit too much filler to be great)
Junkie XL - Big Sounds Of The Drags
Ulver - Perdition City
Unwritten Law - Unwritten Law
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

 

[Powers]

[IX Equilibrium] hmm......*g*...in my opinion it's the most experimental and extreme album Emperor released.

I'd have said that was prometheus myself. But fairplay, like i said i was just very intrigued by your choice. It's a belting album to be fair very good choice.

 

[leigonX]

DT - Images and words
DT- Awake
DT - Scenes from a memory
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm or Inhuman rampage (tie)
COB - Hatebreeder or follow the reaper (tie)
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Tool - Aenima

 

[Mr. Josey Wales]

ive got SOOOOOOOOOO much more to hear in the genre of death metal, progressive, and jazzy stuff but...

Porcupine Tree-In Absentia

Iced Earth-Burnt Offerings

Strapping Young Lad- SYL

Borknagar- Empiricism

Iron Maiden- the number of the beast/somewhere in time

Metallica-Ride the Lightning

Opeth-My arms your Hearse

Ayreon-The human equation

agalloch- the mantle

cradle of filth- damnation and a day



those are my ten FOR NOW...in 2 years i can see that being VERY different...i would expect my arms your hearse and in absentia to stay in there though.

 

[affinityband]

Arcturus-Sideshow Symphonys
Nile- Annihilation of the Wicked
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Tool- Lateralus
Dark Tranquillity- The Gallery
Elbow- Asleep in the Back
Black Dahlia Murder -Unhallowed
Blue Oyster Cult- Fire of Unknown Origin
Eva Cassidy- Song Bird
Jeff Buckley-Grace

 

[affinityband]

FORGOT THE MANTLE BY AGALLOCH!

 

[Liquid Tension]

Opeth - Still Life
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Pt1
Taal - Skymind
7 for 4 - Contact
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Yes - Relayer
Led Zeppelin - 1
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome
Michael Harris - Sketches fro the Thought Chamber