Your top six albums

I agree that The Mantle is the best album to be released from America, but I extend it to "ever." The rest of his list is shit though, despite SIT and Burzum's s/t being good.

Agalloch is waaaaaaaaaay overrated, that album isn't that metal, there are far better metal albums to be released from America (ie. Morbid Angel, Death just o start with), that album is kinda boring, a desolation song is kinda lame, there are only 5 proper 'songs' on that album, Agalloch is kind of a joke band, this metal has no balls, you suck
 
Never mind that The Mantle is barely even a metal album, have you people who think it is America's best ever listened to anything from the 80s or earlier? So many great, great albums!
 
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Agalloch is good but way overrated.
 
1.In Flames-The Jester Race
2.Metallica-Kill em All
3.Alice in Chains-Dirt
4.Children of Bodom-Follow the Reaper
5.Blind Guardian-Imaginations from the Other Side
6.Warmen-Beyond Abilities
 
DM: (this one tends to shift a lot, so it's tentative)
Cadaver-...In Pains
Eucharist-A Velvet Creation
Revenant-Prophecies of a Dying World
Afflicted-Prodigal Sun
Phlebotomized-Immense Intense Suspense
Demigod-Slumber of Sullen Eyes

BM: (this one almost never does)

Varathron-His Majesty at the Swamp
Ved Buens Ende-Written in Waters
Necromantia-Scarlet Evil Witching Black
Emperor-In the Nightside Eclipse
Summoning-Dol Guldur
Samael-Blood Ritual


Non-metal


Puissance-Mother of Disease
Gae Bolg&The Church of Fand-John Barleycorn Must Die
Sol Invictus-Lex Talionis
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio-Make Love& War: The Wedlock of Roses& Equilibrium
The Protagonist-Songs of Experience
Devil Doll-The Sacrilege of Fatal Arms
 
6 albums you say.......... oh ye gods what do i pick...

Elfie


Battle Metal - Turisas
Pitch Black Progress - Scar Symmetry
Winterhearts Guild -Sonata Arctica
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden
Rosenrot-Rammstein
Symetric in design - Scar Symmetry

Thats just what Im mostly listening to at the moment.
 
1. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
2. Abyssos - Together we summon The Dark
3. Covenant - Nexus Polaris
4. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
5. Dark Funeral - Secrets Of The Black Arts
6. Hypocrisy - Penetralia

And I have Many more favorites..
 
My list is going to include NO Iron Maiden-take note of that. If I did they would dominate my list.

1. Immortal-Dammned in Black
2. Bathory-Blood Fire Death
3. Emperor-Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
4. Bloodthorn-Under the Shadow of your Black Wings
5. Bolt Thrower-Mercenary
6. Immortal-Sons of Northern Darkness
7. Death-Symbolic
8. Death-Human
9. Behemoth-Demigod
10. Behemoth-Satanica

Ten, for fun. This list could change around a lot, I guess.
 
Agalloch is waaaaaaaaaay overrated, that album isn't that metal, there are far better metal albums to be released from America (ie. Morbid Angel, Death just o start with), that album is kinda boring, a desolation song is kinda lame, there are only 5 proper 'songs' on that album, Agalloch is kind of a joke band, this metal has no balls, you suck

I find Morbid Angel and Death waaaaaaaay overrated, so it is a matter of opinion to the extreme. Atmosphere will always beat out riffs and technicality.
 
I find Morbid Angel and Death waaaaaaaay overrated, so it is a matter of opinion to the extreme. Atmosphere will always beat out riffs and technicality.

...unless both elements are synthesized masterfully (as shown in albums like Unquestionable Presence and Close to a World Below) :cool:
 
Yes, that is always a case that transcends the rule.

Evoken's Antithesis of Light and diSEMBOWELMENT's Transcendence Into The Peripheral are perfect examples of it as well.