What are your top 5 albums?

[ham]

so cmon, what are your favourite 5 albums, metal or otherwise

mine are (in no order):

1) Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
2) Opeth - Still Life
3) Soundgarden - Superunknown
4) Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic
5) Radiohead - OK Computer

there hundreds more, but.. you know.. top 5.
- ham

 

[fleshhead]

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Godflesh - Songs of Love and Hate
Main - Hz
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Opeth - Deliverance/Damnation (double album, 'k?)

 

[ham]

who are my bloody valentine? what do they sound like?

 

[Aecliptica]

hmmm i so cant put any in order but...

Tool - Lateralus
In Flames - Whoracle
In Flames - Jester Race
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Children Of Bodom - Hatercrew Deathroll

 

[The Evil Toucan]

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

[rgbeach]

This is a tough one, but I'd say:

Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Queensryche - Rage For Order
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Opeth - Still Life
Metallica - Master Of Puppets

 

[Sadistik]

in no order

Storm of the Light's Bane- Dissection
Anthems...- Emperor
Morningrise- Opeth
Noitatulen Vartiija- Kyprian's Circle
At the Heart of Winter- Immortal

to name just a few of many...if this was "top 50" then we'd be talking realistically.

NP- SHroud of Despondency- For Eternity Brings no Hope.

 

[AfAiRJudgEmenT]

Opeth - MAYH
In Flames - Whoracle
Evergrey - Recreation Day
Enamored - A Stolen Season (indepedent release by my friends band, very good)
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper

No particular order.

 

[loebs]

tough question,, ill do it like this

Hendrix: Are You Experienced (Maybe the album that introduced what the guitar is really capable of doing)
Pink Floyd: Wish You were Here (musicians just doing what they want and at their best)
Morbid Angel: Covenant (Metal's maybe best hour of death, thrash and grooves)
Opeth:Blackwater Park (A combo of hard metal and beautiful acoustics mixed together in a good honeycomb)
Led Zeppelin: 2 (Another album that was all about guitar and has good variety of original riffs)

Runner Ups
Death: Symbolic,
Metallica: Master of Puppets
At the Gates: Terminal Spirit Disease
Crytopsy: And then youll beg,None so Vile
Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness, Formulas
Impaled: Mondo Medicale
Beatles: Sgt Peppers lonely hearts,Magical Mystery Tour
Nile: In their darkened shrines
Dave Matthews Band: Before these crowded streets
Fear Factory: Demanufacture
Opeth: Orchid
Sepltura: Schizophrenia
RATM: self titled
Type O NEgative: Bloody Kisses (original)
At the Gates: slaughter of the soul
Decapitated: Winds of Creation
Pink Floyd: Darkside of the Moon

 

[LuminousAether]

My Bloody Valentine are shoegazer rock, the album Loveless is characterized by very loud and hypnotic guitars and a dreamy pop sound. There are also a lot of strange guitar effects similar to Fripp & Eno's experimental rock.

Here's my list:

1. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
2. Radiohead - Ok, Computer
3. The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
4. Anathema - Eternity
5. Maudlin of the Well - Bath + Leaving Your Body Map

 

[cityofthemoon666]

Don't give me shit im new to the Death metal/black metal genre

1. Tool- lateralus
2. Mr. Bungle- Mr. Bungle
3. Opeth- Still Life
4. Deftones-White Pony
5. Mudvayne-Ld 50

 

[Eno_Mun]

My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills

 

[LuminousAether]

Eno_Mun... very nice list. But Solefald - Pills should be changed to Solefald - Neonism or Solefald - In Harmonia Universali.

 

[fleshhead]

who are my bloody valentine? what do they sound like?

Good response by LuminousAether above. You can find out more at www.allmusic.com.

- d

 

[Schism]

Blackwater Park -Opeth
Last Fair Deal Gone Down-Katatonia
Lateralus-Tool
Biomech-Ocean Machine
A Fine Day To Exit-Anathema

Just nudging these five are The Perfect element pt1-Pain of Salvation, In Absentia-Porcupine Tree and Still Life, Deliverence and Damnation.

 

[The Shape]

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt.II Scenes From A Memory
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Blind Guardian - Tales From the Twilight World

Thats it really...
Possible runner up:
Gamma Ray - No World Order

I can't list just one Opeth album, it would take up the whole list.

 

[Static]

Opeth - Still Life
SYL - City
Maudlin of the Well - Bath + Leaving Body Map
Camel - Mirage

 

[Eno_Mun]

Thanks Luminous...
But I haven't listened to the new one yet
We will see which is better once I listen to it

 

[esjade]

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Opeth - Blackwater Park
The Cure - Pornography
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery

gawd, so hard to select just five

btw, long time opeth listener, first time poster, lovely to be here

 

[Schism]

Another Ozzie woohoo!!