What are your top 5 albums?

[scorpian007]

still life
deliverance/damnation
mayh
blackwater park
morningrise
orchid

 

[esjade]

yup there are a few of us here ain't there?

our plans of world (or Ultimatemetal Opeth forum) domination are slowly being realised LOL.

 

[stefan86]

I'll do 2 lists, one for right now and one all-time top 5.

Right Now:
1. In Flames - Whoracle
2. Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance
3. The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
4. Opeth - Damnation
5. Dissection - Storm of The Lights Bane

All-Time:
1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
2. Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. Metallica - ...And Justice For All
4. Slayer - Reign In Blood
5. Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast

 

[bleed for me]

in no particular order:

Isis - Oceanic
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Novembre - Novembrine Waltz
Novembre - Classica
Emperor - IX Equilibrium
Dredg - Leitmotif
Katatonia - LFDGD


couldn't narrow it down to 5

 

[illbeleavinnow]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Who - Tommy
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Paul Simon - Love Songs and Negotiations
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

Yes, Paul Simon, you heard me.

 

[Sympozium]

In Flames - The Jester Race
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Symphony X - V
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reapear
..in that order.

 

[DarkenedSkies]

No particular order.

Sentenced - Frozen
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Amorphis - Tuonela
The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It

 

[IcemanJ256]

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

mine are (in no order):
4) Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic

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

Wow, you consider Virgin Black that good? definately must check out more.

Mine are <in order> :
1. Opeth - Morningrise
2. Agalloch - Pale Folklore
3. Agalloch - The Mantle
4. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
5. Dark Tranquillity - Projector

 

[Slynt]

1. Opeth: Morningrise
2. Opeth: My Arms Your Hearse
3. Edge Of Sanity: Purgatory Afterglow
4. My Dying Bride: Turn Loose the Swans
5. Metallica: ...And Justice for All

Damnit, this is impossible! How can I possibly exclude such fantastic albums as 'Still Life', 'Individual Thought Patterns', 'Arise', 'Orchid', 'Unorthodox', 'Rust in Peace' etc etc? Well, by hitting the "Post quick reply" button I think

 

[groteZk]

Motorpsycho: Demon Box
Opeth: Morningrise
Porcupine Tree: Lightbulb Sun
God Machine: Scenes From The Second Storey
Motorpsycho: Timothy's Monster

 

[Dev]

Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Sure in Top 5 .
After maybe Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Obtained Enslavement - Soulblight
Devin Townsend - Infinity , Terria
Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Carcass - Heartwork
Opeth - Any
Ark - Burn The Sun
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
etc..etc...

 

[DE]

(No Order)

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Still Life
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Dark Tranquility - Projector





actually, that probably is roughly in order 1-5.

 

[Dusk]

nevermore - dreaming neon black
opeth - still life
metallica - ...and justice for all
sepultura - chaos ad
satyricon - nemisis divina

 

[Finntroll]

Opeth : Still Life & BWP & Deliverance
Dark Tranquillity : The Gallery & The Mind's I
Metallica : Metallica
Guns N' Roses : Use Your Illusion I & II
In Flames : Whoracle & Colony
etc...

 

[svenske kocken]

Non metal too? Okay, then I'll go with just one album per artist, or else my list would only consist of Iron Maiden and Bruce Springsteen. :Spin:

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
3. Opeth - Still Life
4. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

 

[Pieless]

#1: Pink Floyd - The Wall
#2: The Who - Quadrophenia
#3: The Clash - London Calling
#4: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
#5: Rush - 2112

Runner-ups that fill out the list:

#6: The Beatles - Revolver
#7: Devin Townsend - Terria
#8: Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

 

[wankerness]

1. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element 1
2. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
3. Novembre - Novembrine Waltz
4. Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
5. Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse

 

[Stormwatch]

In no particular order,

Appetite For Destruction - G N'R
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
...And Justice For All - Metallica
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin 2

 

[thebleakaffinity]

No real order:

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Nirvana - Unplugged
Tool - Lateralus or Aenema, depending on my mood
Opeth - Blackwater Park

Honorable mentions:
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
The Cure - Disintegration
In Flames - The Jester Race
Opeth - Still Life, My Arms, Your Hearse
nine inch nails - Still, Downward spiral
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore

Man that was hard.

 

[BarronBlod]

1. Tool - Lateralus
2. Opeth - Blackwater Park
3. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
4. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness.
5. Solefald - In Harmonia Universali

some I would like to squeeze in: Seigmen - Total, My Dying Bride - Like Gods of the Sun, Anathema - Alternative 4, Pink Floyd - The Wall....+ +