Ultimate top 10 metal album ever.

[Olddoggie]

Just curious about everybody's preferences here. These are mine:

1. Queensrÿche - The Warning
2. Dream Theater - Octavarium
3. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
4. Van Halen - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
5. Nevermore - Dead Heart, in a dead world
6. Beseech - Drama
7. After Forever - Decipher
8. Dream Theater - Images and Words
9. Autumn - My New Time
10. Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast

 

[NM 156]

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2. Queensrÿche - The Warning
3. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
4. Dream Theater - Images and Words
5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
6. Fates Warning - No Exit
7. Life of Agony - River Runs Red
8. Anthrax - Fistful of Metal
9. Biohazard - Urban Discipline
10. Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast

 

[The Wicked One]

as diversified as i can get it.

1. Iced Earth: The Dark Saga
2. Blind Guardian: Imaginations From The Other Side
3. Persuader: The Hunter
4. Testament: The Legacy
5. WASP: The Crimson Idol
6. Alice Cooper: Hey Stoopid
7. Metallica: And Justice For All
8. Megadeth: Youthanasia
9. Pyramaze: Immortal
10. Iron Maiden: Powerslave

 

[Iced Dog]

Wow, tough...here's a flexible list in no order

Angra - Temple Of Shadows
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
Masterplan - Aeronautics
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
Avantasia - The Metal Opera Pt. I
Nightwish - Once
Therion - Lemuria/Sirius B (two albums yes, but they were released together so )
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Serenity - Words Untold & Dreams Unlived (tough call between this and Seventh Wonder - Waiting In The Wings)

Hmz, all of these are within the last 10 years, with the exception of Night Of The Stormrider...interesting, maybe it signifies a new golden age of metal

 

[Thorns On My Grave]

In no particular order:

Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin At Dusk
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Bal Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendent
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
Age of Silence - Accelerator
Immortal - Damned In Black
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Judas Priest - Painkiller

 

[pyramazekeyboardist]

1. Soilwork- A Predator's Portrait
2. In Flames- Colony
3.Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
4.Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
5. Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of a DeGeneration
6. In Flames - Whoracle
7. Opeth - Blackwater Park
8. Iced Earth - Something Wicked this way comes
9.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
10. Sonata Arctica - Silence

 

[muzmaze]

Tough call, I guess for now it would be...

1. Pyramaze - LOTBC (the kings of power metal sonically improve)

2. Van Halen - Van Halen 1 (consider them hard rock, but this one has some metal tones to it)

3. Hibria - Defying The Rules (classic style metal with the right amount of prog & steriods added to it)

4. Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay (the most diverse metal I've heard done by 3-guys...NFW)

5. Pyramaze - MB (kings of power metal)

6. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (conceptual metal masterpiece)

7. Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi (thier sweat smells like metal & of course there is Urban-fuckin-Breed)

8. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time (Adrian Smith shines here...they should let him shine more often)

9. Metallica - Black Album (sellouts here??? nope, this cd is by far thier best)

10. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind (my intro to metal & officially made me a life-long metal head, thank you Maiden)

hon. ment. Angtoria - God Has A Plan For Us (the "plan" is not a good one...this chick has an amazing voice and they mix my fave genres, metal & classical)

...don't ask me, for some reason I think of these colors when I think of these bands...its a vibe / mood thing.

 

[Thorns On My Grave]

1. Soilwork- A Predator's Portrait
2. In Flames- Colony
3.Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
4.Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
5. Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of a DeGeneration
6. In Flames - Whoracle
7. Opeth - Blackwater Park
8. Iced Earth - Something Wicked this way comes
9.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
10. Sonata Arctica - Silence

Ummm... you don't happen to like scandinavian metal/melodic death eh?

 

[pyramazekeyboardist]

Ummm... you don't happen to like scandinavian metal/melodic death eh?

i hate it

 

[GuitarRage99]

Yeah I can tell....

 

[RedCriss]

That's a hard choice:

1. PYRAMAZE - Legend Of The Bone Carver (Muz, I totally agree)
2. ICED EARTH - Days Of Purgatory (actually not a real album, but the old songs with Matt's voice are the best)
3. PYRAMAZE - Melancholy Beast
4. METALLICA - Master Of Puppets (Cliff R.I.P.)
5. MORGANA LEFAY - The Secret Doctrine
6. RUSH - Moving Pictures (Geddy is the ultimative bass player)
7. IN FLAMES - Clayman
8. MERCYFUL FATE - Don't Break The Oath
9. SAVATAGE - Edge Of Thorns (the only album with Criss & Zak!)
10. PANTERA - Vulgar Display Of Power (though I hate the cover)

I've got to mention IMMORTAL, that will soon be my no. 1! Thanks for that masterpiece Pyramaze!

And I haven't got a Communic album yet, but the songs on myspace are really amazing, so there might be another change soon.

 

[TheAnonymous]

OK I don't know my 10 favorites, so I'll just name 10 albums that are somewhere on the top

Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
Pyramaze - Immortal
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Evergrey - Solitude Dominance Tragedy
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Iced Earth - Something Wicken This Way Comes
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Communic - Payment of Existence
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

 

[SilverPhoenix]

Well, its hard for me to say since I listen to a few bands but Ill try

1. Pyramaze - Immortal
2. Blind Buardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
3. Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
4. Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
5. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
6. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
7. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
8. Demons & Wizards - Demons and Wizards
9. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
10. Iced Earth - Horror Show

Those are my bands.

 

[General Zod]

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime - nothing else is even close.

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
Queensryche - Rage for Order
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin

Zod

 

[Xendra]

Yes, Operation: Mindcrime is magic, Eyes of A Stranger is probably the best piece of music I've heard.

Then, in no particular order:

Keldian - Journey Of Souls
Blind Guardian - A Night At the Opera
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
Virgin Steele - Invictus
Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
X Japan - Art of Life
Kamelot - The Black Halo or Karma, it's impossible to choose one .

 

[Tatsumaru]

Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings (I also must say that Alive in Athens is the best live album EVER)
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor/Dreaming Neon Black (can't decide here)
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Helloween - The Dark Ride
Wintersun - Wintersun
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Insomnium - In the Halls of Awaiting
In Flames - The Jester Race
Mercenary - The Hours that Remain

 

[Re-Aligned]

Right now, this is my list...

Pyramaze - Immortal
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth - Horror Show
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Beyond Fear - Beyond Fear
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
Communic - Waves of Visual Decay
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World

 

[Rockula]

1. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga (1st Iced Earth album I bought)
2. Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
3. Pyramaze - Immortal
4. Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
5. Dead Again - Type O Negative
6. Blackwater Park - Opeth
7. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden (weird how its the 7th on my list...)
8. Painkiller - Judas Priest
9. Viva Emptiness - Katatonia
10. Killing the Dragon - Dio

 

[Metalmilitia2000]

I will not name them in order, as I don't really have an order, but here goes.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Annihilator - Alice In Hell/Never Neverland/Refresh The Demon (3 way tie there)
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Megadeth - Killing is My Business...
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Gamma Ray - No World Order

There are so many more that I could mention, but these tend to be my favorites time after time.

 

[RedCriss]

Thanks Olddoggie for starting this thread! I'm now going to check out all the stuff I don't know yet... and as everyone is talking about Urban breed right now, I thought I could start with Tad Morose. I already listened to the short bloodbound-samples that BurtOfferings posted, but didn't listen close enough. As soon as I heard "Anubis" of Modus Vivendi, wow, I was infected with the Urban-virus! Up to now I wanted to hear Matt or a completely unknown vocalist on the next album, but now I guess Urban would perfectly fit as well. He's got a great range and emotion in his voice, really great!

And as Pyramaze make a great singer shine even more - in my opinion Lance and Matt did their best jobs ever with Pyramaze - I guess it would be very interesting to hear Urban!