Your Top 5 Albums (by bands you've heard 5 albums from)

[Mort Divine]

How the hell someone can like PDM over Marduk's actually good albums is beyond me.

 

[ClichéUserName]

Grief

1. Dismal
2. ...And Man Will Become the Hunted
3. Come to Grief
4. Miserably Ever After
5. Torso

Honorable mention: Turbulent Times (Splits/rare material compilation)

 

[crimsonfloyd]

How the hell someone can like PDM over Marduk's actually good albums is beyond me.

It's because you have terrible taste in black metal. PDM is way better than all those austere early records. It's by far their best album (though I haven't heard all the newer ones).

 

[romanticism]

Please stop.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

It's because you have terrible taste in black metal. PDM is way better than all those austere early records. It's by far their best album (though I haven't heard all the newer ones).

Mortuus era Marduk is alright, I enjoy the albums but it's nothing that I would list as my favorite of all time or anything. And yes thank you, PDM is in fact Marduk's best album.

Death

1. Symbolic
2. Human
3. Individual Thought Patterns
4. Scream Bloody Gore
5. Leprosy

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Mortuus era Marduk is alright, I enjoy the albums but it's nothing that I would list as my favorite of all time or anything. And yes thank you, PDM is in fact Marduk's best album.

Death

1. Symbolic
2. Human
3. Individual Thought Patterns
4. Scream Bloody Gore
5. Leprosy

I actually haven't heard a lot of the Mortuus albums, but in general Marduk are a solid and steady band. But PDM is the only one I would consider great.

Death

1. Leprosy
2. Scream Bloody Gore
3. Human
4. Individual Thought Patterns
5. Symbolic

Ulver

1. Kveldssanger
2. Nattens Madrigal
3. Perdition City
4. Bergtatt
5. Lyckantropen Themes

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Annihilator:
Alice in Hell
Never, Neverland
Carnival Diablos
Set the World On Fire
Waking the Fury

Anthrax:
Persistence of Time
Spreading the Disease
Fistful of Metal
Worship Music
The Sound of White Noise

Coroner:
No More Color
Mental Vortex
Grin
The new songs on the S/T
Punishment for Decadence

Death:
Leprosy
Symbolic
Scream Bloody Gore
Human
Individual Thought Patterns

The Doors:
Strange Days
The Soft Parade
S/T
Waiting for the Sun
Morrison Hotel

Exodus:
Bonded By Blood
Tempo of the Damned
Pleasures of the Flesh
Fabulous Disaster
Impact is Imminent

Flotsam & Jetsam:
No Place for Disgrace
Cuatro
Drift
The Cold
When the Storm Comes Down

Funkadelic:
Maggot Brain
America Eats its Young
Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
S/T
Cosmic Slop

King's X:
Dogman
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Out of the Silent Planet
S/T
Faith, Hope, Love

Meshuggah:
Destroy. Erase. Improve.
obZen
Contradictions Collapse
Chaosphere
Catch 33

Rush:
Permanent Waves
Hemispheres
Moving Pictures
A Farewell to Kings
Fly By Night

Satan/Blind Faith/Pariah:
Court in the Act
Life Sentence
Blaze of Obscurity
Suspended Sentence
Out of Reach

Scorpions:
Taken by Force
Blackout
Fly to the Rainbow
In Trance
Lonesome Crow

Slough Feg:
Traveller
Down Among the Dead Men
Twilight of the Idols
Atavism
S/T

 

[Kara-Shehr]

Anthrax:
Persistence of Time
Spreading the Disease
Fistful of Metal
Worship Music
The Sound of White Noise

I'm curious, I noticed Among the Living is absent from this list. I'm not trying to be belligerent and I'm not a huge Anthrax fan or even a fan of that album. I'm just genuinely curious as to what you think about it. I'm sure you've mentioned it before at some point but care to elaborate?

 

[The Ozzman]

King's X:
Dogman
Gretchen Goes to Nebraska
Out of the Silent Planet
S/T
Faith, Hope, Love

Good to see another King's-X fan here. I haven't heard the self-titled, but replace Tapehead with it and it's pretty much how my top 5 goes.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm curious, I noticed Among the Living is absent from this list. I'm not trying to be belligerent and I'm not a huge Anthrax fan or even a fan of that album. I'm just genuinely curious as to what you think about it. I'm sure you've mentioned it before at some point but care to elaborate?

I'm not a fan of Anthrax either (first two and Persistence are the only ones I'd say I particularly like), but aside from State of Euphoria I consider it their worst album. I'm not against mid-tempo or tamely produced thrash as a rule, but I feel very little energy on it. One boring chugfest with kinda annoying and preachy singing after another.

Good to see another King's-X fan here. I haven't heard the self-titled, but replace Tapehead with it and it's pretty much how my top 5 goes.

The S/T took a while to click for me, but I think it has more of my favorite King's X songs than any other album (although it also has some of the weakest of their first six). Ear Candy is great too if you haven't heard it.

 

[Ah0nen]

A Couple of submissions:

MOONSORROW:
1. Voimasta ja Kunniasta
2. Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
3. Kivenkantaja
4. Verisäkeet
5. Suden Uni

ENSIFERUM:
1. Ensiferum
2. Victory Songs
3. From Afar
4. Iron
5. Unsung Heroes

DARK FUNERAL:
1. Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus
2. Attera Totus Sanktus
3. Diabolis Interium
4. The Secrets Of The Black Arts
5. In The Sign...

BURZUM:
1. Det Som Engang Var
2. Filosofem
3. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
4. Belus
5. Fallen

AMON AMARTH:
1. With Oden On Our Side
2. Twilight Of The Thunder God
3. Versus The World
4. Surtur Rising
5. Fate Of The Norns

TAAKE:
1. Doedskvad
2. Noregs Vaapen
3. Taake
4. Nattestid Ser Porten Vid
5. Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

 

[Rossiya]

Motorhead

1. Snake Bite Love
2. Overnight Sensation
3. Bastards
4. Inferno
5. 1916

Sabaton

1. The Art of War
2. Carolus Rex
3. Coat of Arms
4. Primo Victoria
5. Attero Dominatus

King Diamond

1. Voodoo
2. Them
3. Conspiracy
4. The Puppet Master
5. Fatal Portrait

 

[EspaDa]

Katatonia

1. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
2. Dance of December Souls / Brave Murder Day
3. The Great Cold Distance
4. Viva Emptiness
5. Night Is the New Day

Isis

1. Panopticon
2. Celestial
3. Oceanic
4. Wavering Radiant
5. In the Absence of Truth

Death

1. Leprosy
2. Symbolic
3. Human
4. The Sound of Perseverance
5. Individual Thought Patterns

Amon Amarth

1. Once Sent from the Golden Hall
2. The Fate of Norns
3. Twilight of the Thunder God
4. With Oden on Our Side
5. Versus the World

Summoning

1. Stronghold
2. Minas Morgul
3. Dol Guldur
4. Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
5. Oath Bound

Bolt Thrower

1. Those Once Loyal
2. ...For Victory
3. The IVth Crusade
4. War Master
5. Mercenary

Centinex

1. Reflections
2. Hellbrigade
3. Decadence: Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos
4. Subconscious Lobotomy
5. World Declension

 

[Mort Divine]

It's because you have terrible taste in black metal. PDM is way better than all those austere early records. It's by far their best album (though I haven't heard all the newer ones).

PDM is awful. It showed them moving away from interesting BM with a focus on engaging melodies to nothing more than an assault of blast beats and absolutely no subtlety.

That style of BM has its place, but Marduk should never have been the one to bring it. They were doing far greater things.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

PDM is awful. It showed them moving away from interesting BM with a focus on engaging melodies to nothing more than an assault of blast beats and absolutely no subtlety.

That style of BM has its place, but Marduk should never have been the one to bring it. They were doing far greater things.

You obviously missed the point of that record. PDM the perfect sonic depiction modern total warfare. There's no subtle way to express that event. If you don't go no-holds-barred, you suggar coat the idea.

And I don't see what's special about their earlier releases. Solid mid-tier black metal? Sure. But I don't hear anything groundbreaking, distinct or excellent about them.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

PDM is the height of Marduk's sound really. Nightwing was the start of them creating harsher and more aggressive black metal as opposed to the more atmospheric and evil sounding stuff they were working with before on Heaven Shall Burn and Opus Nocturne. Which of course was blast beat heavy as well but they were mainly black metal oriented albums. On PDM they mastered that more aggressive style and took their music to a new apex of intensity.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

In Flames:

1. The Jester Race
2. Colony
3. Clayman
4. Whoracle
5. Lunar Strain

Dark Tranquillity:

1. Damage Done
2. Construct
3. Fiction
4. Projector
5. We Are the Void

inb4 OMG Y U NO LIKE The Gallery?!?!1

Candlemass:

1. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
2. Nightfall
3. Tales of Creation
4. Ancient Dreams
5. Chapter VI (underrated and over looked album)

Dimmu Borgir

1. Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
2. Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
3. Stormblast
4. Spiritual Black Dimensions
5. For All Tid

 

[EspaDa]

Marduk

1. Those of the Unlight
2. Panzer Division Marduk
3. Plague Angel
4. Opus Nocturne
5. Nightwing

 

[The Ozzman]

The S/T took a while to click for me, but I think it has more of my favorite King's X songs than any other album (although it also has some of the weakest of their first six). Ear Candy is great too if you haven't heard it.

I also own Ear Candy, but that's one of the weaker albums I own from them.

 

[Drahcir]

Dark Tranquillity

1. Fiction
2. The Gallery
3. Construct
4. Character
5. Damage Done