Whats your favorite debut album?

[BlackLodge]

Devin's debyt wasn't Infinity, it was Ocean Machine.

Actually it isn't. Ocean Machine is the name of another project by Devin Townsend, and their first, and only, album was called Biomech. Devin later changed that whole thing. And replaced the Ocean Machine band name with his own name, and also changed the original album name from Biomech to Ocean Machine. So..Devin's first solo album (under his name) is Infinity.

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

A big list of fantastic first albums:

Abigor - Verwüstung/Invoke The Dark Age
Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
Deeds of Flesh - Trading Pieces
Ulver - Bergtatt
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Opeth - Orchid
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Iron Maiden - s/t
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
Bethlehem - Dark Metal
Borknagar - s/t
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
Deicide - s/t
Demilich - Nespithe
DiSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral
Dissection - The Somberlain
Drudkh - Forgotten Legends
Hate Forest - The Most Ancient Ones
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency
Gorguts - Considered Dead
Immolation - Dawn of Possession
Incantation - Onwards to Golgotha
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Jesu - s/t
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Peter Gabriel - s/t
Khanate - s/t
Korn - s/t
Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Napalm Death - Scum
October Tide - Rain Without End
New Order - Movement
Nocturnus - The Key
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
The Prodigy - Experience
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You
Setherial - Nord
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Thergothon - Stream from the Heavens
This Empty Flow - Magenta Skycode
Testament - The Legacy
Cynic - Focus
Atheist - Piece of Time

 

[Sad Madrigal]

Opeth - Orchid
Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life
Anathema - Serenades
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Queen - Queen
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
King Crimson - In The Court of Crimson King
ELP - ELP
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite (very underrated)
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (superb album)
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica (masterpiece....their best album)
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Ulver - Bergtatt

 

[Wander]

Actually it isn't. Ocean Machine is the name of another project by Devin Townsend, and their first, and only, album was called Biomech. Devin later changed that whole thing. And replaced the Ocean Machine band name with his own name, and also changed the original album name from Biomech to Ocean Machine. So..Devin's first solo album (under his name) is Infinity.

But didn't he release Ocean Machine under his own name BEFORE Infinity?
I read somewhere that it was only released as "Biomech" in Japan and then released worldwide under the name Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine.

I think this would rather make his "Ocean Machine" more of a debut album than Infinity.

E: Wikipedia seems to be on my side with this too..

E2: Actually, I'm not quite sure which is the debut, but does it even really matter?

 

[Frosties]

E2: Actually, I'm not quite sure which is the debut, but does it even really matter?

Being right on the internet MATTERS!!!!!

 

[BlackLodge]

But didn't he release Ocean Machine under his own name BEFORE Infinity?
I read somewhere that it was only released as "Biomech" in Japan and then released worldwide under the name Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine.

I think this would rather make his "Ocean Machine" more of a debut album than Infinity.

E: Wikipedia seems to be on my side with this too..

E2: Actually, I'm not quite sure which is the debut, but does it even really matter?

Hehe it doesn't really matter.

But just to be an ass...."Ocean Machine - Biomech, Later re-released as Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine-Biomech."

 

[Kristopher]

Opeth-Orchid
Riverside-Out of Myself
Scar Symmetry-Symmetric In Design
Morbid Angel-Altars Of Madness
Jeff Buckley-Grace
The Smiths-The Smiths
Pink Floyd-Pipers At The Gate Of Dawn
Metallica-Kill Em All

 

[RoadKing]

Opeth - Orchid
Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life
Anathema - Serenades
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Queen - Queen
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
King Crimson - In The Court of Crimson King
ELP - ELP
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite (very underrated)
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (superb album)
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica (masterpiece....their best album)
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Ulver - Bergtatt

^Niiiice... I'll start with these and add:

Dio - Holy Diver
Queensryche - Warning (not counting EPs)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Savatage - Sirens (Dungeons are Calling was an EP)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Aquarium Rescue Unit - In a Perfect World
Testament - The Legacy
Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple
Michael Schenker Group - s/t
Rush - s/t
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
Van Halen - I
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Jeff Beck Group - Truth
Metallica - Kill 'em All
King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
Badlands - s/t
Andy Timmons Band - Ear X-tacy

I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch, but these are a good start for me!

 

[Mantraschism]

Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Opeth - Orchid
Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder (still my favorite Finntroll album)
Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk in My Heart
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Vintersorg - Hedniskhjaertad
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Weakling - Dead As Dreams (of course)
Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came
Demons and Wizards - Demons and Wizards
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Imogen Heap - I Megaphone
Tenhi - Kauan
Ulver - Bergtatt
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine - Biomech
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force - Rising Force

 

[Blackwater Demon]

Tool - Opiate
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Opeth - Orchid

 

[Lightbulb Sun]

@ People who said On the Sunday of Life... is Porcupine Tree's best album, I think that in comparison to some of the newer albums (IN ABSENTIA), On the Sunday of Life... is incomparable. It's my favorite "Delerium Years" album but compared to the newer stuff, it's not as good.

Am I being a troll saying that?

 

[murderedbysound]

Kalmah - Swamplord
Bloodbath- RTC
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Moonsorrow - Sunden Uni
Pelican - Australasia
Rimfrost - A Frozen World Unknown

 

[Hlfreak]

Russian Circles-Enter

 

[RoadKing]

@ People who said On the Sunday of Life... is Porcupine Tree's best album, I think that in comparison to some of the newer albums (IN ABSENTIA), On the Sunday of Life... is incomparable. It's my favorite "Delerium Years" album but compared to the newer stuff, it's not as good.

Am I being a troll saying that?

Who said OTSOL was PT's best album? This thread is about favorite debut records. "In Absentia" has always been my favorite, too, but it wasn't exactly their "debut". All their shit is pretty much brilliant in my book, but I would agree that their newer, heavier stuff is their overall best work, though. PT's evolution has been fun to observe from one record to the next, and much like with Opeth, you can pretty much count on them to continue pushing the envelope and we're all lucky enough to be around to witness it!

It's a great time to be alive... (well, from a musical standpoint, anyway!)

 

[Draehl]

Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Godsmack - Godsmack (Say what you will about them but this is a great album)
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Metallica - Kill Em All
Rammstein - Herezeleid

 

[BlueSky]

@ People who said On the Sunday of Life... is Porcupine Tree's best album, I think that in comparison to some of the newer albums (IN ABSENTIA), On the Sunday of Life... is incomparable. It's my favorite "Delerium Years" album but compared to the newer stuff, it's not as good.

Am I being a troll saying that?

Yeah, as Roadking said this is your fav "debut" album thread.

Anywho, I'm a huge Tree fan, but I don't even like that album. Nine Cats, and It Will Rain for a Million Years are the only two tracks I find any good off it. Actually besides a few songs here, and there I don't find anything too outstanding until Signify, and Stupid Dream is where they became amazing.

 

[Frosties]

Forgot to mention, Keane's album Hopes And Dreams is great too - very mature sounding.

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

On the sunday of life has some really good songs, but imo pales in comparison to stupid dream, lightbulb and in absentia and even deadwing. Actually I like Up the downstair more than on the sunday, I was saying earlier that On the sundy while a good album, I wouldn't put it amongst some of the best debuts hands down. But that's my opinion in terms of where PT's debut ranks amongst their others. Nice lists guys, and nice picks with Russian Circles and Pelican, hadn't thought of those two. A few more I thought of, Iron & wine, Isis, GY!BE, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Tori Amos, Mogwai, Scott Walker- Scott 1, Morte Macabre, Comus, Peter Gabriel and the shoegaze band Ride with their debut Nowhere is awesome. I really like Sigur Ros- Von, although it isn't as good as they get, its still a pretty good debut imo. Smashing Pumpkins- Gish and Radiohead's Pablo Honey are both pretty good Alt rock albums, while they reach a lot more potential on both their following albums I still find them to be impressive debuts.

 

[BlueSky]

Forgot to mention, Keane's album Hopes And Dreams is great too - very mature sounding.

Good cd.


How's their second cd in comparison?

 

[My Arms, Your Purse]

Russian Circles-Enter

and This Will Destroy You - s/t