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Now all this polls of best ***-song etc. have made me think a lot. One thing I asked myself is "If people asked my what my favourite music is - I say metal to keep it general. But what if someone asked me what my favourite albums are? How would I reply?"...
In that process I noticed that my answer would have been very different 2 years ago. So I thought - why not make a thread of it?
So fire away Ladies and Gentlemen: What are your 25 favourite metal albums, those you are listening to weekly, daily...? |
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Well, I had a list of Top 50 I did 4 or 5 years ago on my MySpace profile, but I seem to have deleted it at some point. I was going to just post that, but, alas, it's gone. I like the topic, although it's hard to compare some albums, I do have a soft spot for top 3, top 10 or top 25 lists. I'll work out a list tonight and post it later.
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I obviously made up my own mind so here goes ...
#1 Opeth - Blackwater Park
#2 Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
#3 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
#4 KISS - Animalize
#5 Testament - The Gathering
#6 Dismember - Like an everflowing Stream
#7 Saxon - Denim and Leather
#8 Ensiferum - Victory Songs
#9 Satyricon - The Age of Nero
#10 Amon Amarth - With Oden on our Side
#11 Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols
#12 Cannibal Corpse - Eaten back to Life
#13 Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse*
#14 Unleashed - Shadows in the Deep
#15 Slayer - God hates us all
#16 Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the other Side
#17 In Flames - Come Clarity
#18 Grave Digger - Ballads of a Hangman
#19 Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
#20 At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
#21 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
#22 Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
#23 Death - Scream Bloody Gore
#24 Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
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I'll work out a list tonight and post it later.
Surely takes time ... Mind, mine went so fast coz I have "spent nights awake" wondering about this 
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#13 Opeth - April Ethereal
"My Arms, Your Hearse" 
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| Ooops - thanks ^^ ... I was listening to that while typing |
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I like the topic, although it's hard to compare some albums, I do have a soft spot for top 3, top 10 or top 25 lists. I'll work out a list tonight and post it later.
I can only second that. Will see what I can do, but such a list will most likely change quite often depending on the mood and stuff.
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I'll work out a list tonight and post it later.
Surely takes time ... Mind, mine went so fast coz I have "spent nights awake" wondering about this
Like I said before, I've done a top 50 before, so I have an idea what the top 5-10 will look like, but things depend on mood and such. Anyway, I got 45 albums (was 44 until i saw one on your list that I added) that I'll start filing down and ranking after the hockey game tonight.
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Alright, I finished. The disclaimers: First, this is based on my mood tonight, shuffling between these, adding other albums, subtracting some, etc will happen when asked from one day to the next. Second, I do not count compilations or live albums. Third, when an album has bonus tracks, I ignore them, I'm only looking at the original album. Last, this is strictly metal, it's hard enough comparing differing sub-genres of metal, trying to throw in something like Pink Floyd would be impossible. So, here we go, my top 25 today.
1 Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
2 Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
3 Enslaved - Monumension
4 Borknagar - The Archaic Course
5 Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
6 Ulver - Bergtatt
7 Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
8 Enslaved - Maurdraum
9 Immolation - Close to a World Below
10 Opeth - Still Life
11 Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis
12 COC - Deliverance
13 Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
14 Anathema - Judgement
15 Kamelot - Karma
16 Opeth - Blackwater Park
17 Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
18 Agalloch - The Mantle
19 Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
20 Megadeth - Youthanasia
21 Death - Symbolic
22 Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
23 Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
24 Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
25 Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
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| Mine varies on a week by week basis but I could probably knock you up a "at the moment" list if you like |
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So now it pays off to have prepared a similar list at last.fm a few months ago
For me the event that made me want to compile my own list of alltime favs was the regular "featured reader" in the Rock Hard magazine. They always have a top 20 up which usually is not what I prefer. When some guy had a list which contained several cool albums I liked myself I wondered what I would list if I was the featured reader.
As their lists are not ranked, mine isn't ranked (yet) as well. Please forgive me if I don't stick to the requested format
Accept - Restless and Wild (Heavy/Power Metal) 1982
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (Death Metal) 2005
Born From Pain - War (Hardcore) 2006
Carcass - Heartwork (Death Metal) 1993
Cataract - Kingdom (Thrash/Metalcore) 2006
Clawfinger - Deaf Dumb Blind (Crossover/Alternative) 1993
Debauchery - Back In Blood (Death Metal) 2007
Die Krupps - Paradise Now (Crossover/Electro) 1997
Disbelief - Protected Hell (Post Death Metal) 2009
Evildead - The Underworld (Thrash Metal) 1991
Fear Factory - Demanufacture (Industrial Metal) 1995
Frontline Assembly - Millennium (Industrial) 1994
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh (Progressive Death) 2008
Heaven Shall Burn - Antigone (Metalcore) 2004
Helmet - Aftertaste (Crossover/Hardcore) 1997
Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter (Death Metal) 1997
Illdisposed - 1-800 Vindication (Death Metal) 2004
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness (Black Metal) 2002
Kataklysm - Serenity in Fire (Death Metal) 2004
Killing Joke - Pandemonium (Industrial) 1994
Kreator - Violent Revolution (Thrash Metal) 2001
Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction (Industrial Metal) 1997
Madball - Infiltrate The System (Hardcore) 2007
Maroon - When Worlds Collide (Metalcore) 2006
Metallica - ...And Justice For All (Thrash Metal) 1989
Ministry - Psalm 69 (Industrial Metal) 1991
Monster Magnet - Powertrip (Stoner Metal) 1998
Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd/Eternal Fall (Death Metal) 1991
Nailbomb - Point Blank (Industrial/Thrash) 1994
Neaera - Armamentarium (Deathcore) 2007
Pain - Rebirth (Crossover/Electro) 1999
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (Thrash/Groove) 1990
Paradise Lost - One Second (Crossover/Electro) 1997
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients (Death Metal) 1991
Prong - Cleansing (Groove Metal) 1994
Pungent Stench - Ampeuty (Death Metal) 2004
Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Industrial Metal) 2002
Sepultura - Arise (Thrash/Death) 1991
Slayer - South of Heaven (Thrash Metal) 1988
Strapping Young Lad - City (Industrial Metal) 1997
Suicidal Tendencies - Lights... Camera... Revolution... (Thrash/Hardcore) 1988
The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It (Thrash Metal) 2000
Therapy? - Troublegum (Crossover/Alternative) 1994
Tiamat - Wildhoney (Post Death Metal) 1994
Torture Kill - Sewers (Death Metal) 2009
Totenmond - Fleischwald (Death/Punk) 1998
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Gothic/Doom/Thrash) 1993
Venom - Black Metal (Black Metal) 1982
Volbeat - Rock The Rebel / Metal The Devil (Elvis Metal) 2007
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000 (Industrial Metal) 1995
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Apart from not being ranked, you are a bit over the 25 album mark, right?  |
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Yes, exactly. Because they are not ranked, there was no easy way to cut off after 25 entries. So yeah, I neglected the requested format in two ways.
Maybe I find time to do the ranking to come up with a proper top 25 for this thread. |
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So now it pays off to have prepared a similar list at last.fm a few months ago
For me the event that made me want to compile my own list of alltime favs was the regular "featured reader" in the Rock Hard magazine.
That influenced me as well ... However it doesn't seem to change much^^ Every month it's basically the same as before + new releases
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| For me, compiling such a list is impossible. I would leave out way too many albums that deserve to be in a top 25. |
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| Why do you think mine is not posted yet. I love lists but this is quite difficult :-S |
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| That's why i didn't put too much thought into mine. I'm sure there's things missing, but I just wanted to get a quick 25 out before I began to overthink it. Of course the list won't be 100% accurate, but it's just fun to do. Certainly more fun than pointing out the obvious and saying it's impossible to make up a top 25 list. |
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I could not rank them, but here are 25 killer albums in book from different genres and only ONE per artist, as an extra parameter added by myself:
Anthrax - Among the Living
Atheist - Elements
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Cynic - Focus
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Mastodon - Leviathan
Melechesh - Emissaries
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Rammstein - Mutter
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Saxon - Lionheart
Summoning - Oath Bound
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Volbeat - The Strength / The Sound / The Songs
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I could not rank them, but here are 25 killer albums in book from different genres and only ONE per artist, as an extra parameter added by myself:
I thought about invoking that clause myself, but I just couldn't snub Blackwater Park, Spirit the Earth Aflame and Maurdraum. Those three albums are just way too good.
In my original list of 45 I had, there were two albums by those three bands plus two each from Megadeth, Green Carnation, Celtic Frost (although neither made it to the top 25) and Ozzy. I imagine if I did a top 100, all those would appear twice plus Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Destroyer 666 and Enslaved would appear three, maybe four times.
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Top 100 might take a bit too long but you could eventually expand the idea to say Top 50 all time fav albums? Of course that might include non metal too but it depends on what you have in your collection. Top 25 is possible but like I said, it would be the "at the moment" favs with only a few remaining in rank from week to week
Still here is the "at the moment" Top 25 Metal Albums(In no particular order):-
Cantata Sangui: On Rituals And Correpondence In Constructed Realities,
Arcturus: Sideshow Symphonies,
Amorphis: Far From The Sun,
Ayreon: Ayreonants Only
Cynic: Traced In Air
Sigh: Hangman's Hymn
Chthonic: Mirror Of Retribution
Flowing Tears: Jade
Funeral: As The Light Does The Shadow
Gnaw Their Tongues(Hol): All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
Green Carnation: Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
Madder Mortem: Deadlands
Moonspell: Night Eternal(Limited Edition)
October Falls: The Womb Of Primordial Nature
Opeth: Watershed
Threshold: Critical Mass
Pain Of Salvation: One Hour By The Concrete Lake
Dream Theater: Images And Words
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Megadeth: Rust In Peace
Metallica: The Black Album
Judas Priest: Painkiller
Lacuna Coil: Unleashed Memories
Sinergy: To Hell And Back
Black Sabbath: Cross Purposes 
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As others have already suggested, not an easy task.
As a rule the albums on my list have had to stand the test of time, so you won't find to many recent releases. It is not a fixed list, and next week if asked again no doubt would be different.
I've limited it to one album, one band (no live or best of albums). My only other criteria being that when I press play the music instantly induces that wonderful primal urge to bang your head, all the time, every time.
In no other order than alphabetically.
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Arsis - We are the Nightmare
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Callenish Circle - My Passion//Your Pain
Catamenia - VIII-The Time Unchained
Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Dew-Scented - Inwards
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Flotsam and Jetsom - Doomsday for the Deceiver
God Dethroned - The Lair of the White Worm
Judas Priest - Point of Entry
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Krokus - Headhunter
MasseMord - Let the World Burn
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Nightrage - Sweet Vengeance
Occult - Elegy for the Week
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Sacred Reich - Ignorance
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...When I Can't even Smile Today
The Crown - Deathrace King
The Mandrake - The Burning Horizon at the End of Dawn
Warriour Soul - Salutations From the Ghetto Nation
My first ten alternates right now would be
AC/DC - Powerage
Amon Amarth - VS the World
Carcass - Descanting the Insalubrious
Death - Symbolic
Dio - The Last in Line
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Sabbat - Dreamweaver
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Sodom - Agent Orange
Testament - The Legacy
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| Hm those are all very nice rankings amigos keep'em coming |
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I've limited it to one album, one band (no live or best of albums).
I did that too. I usually find it not too hard to decide on which album I like best for a given band. Comparing that to the best album of all the other bands is a manageable task. Now, if I opened it up to more than one album per band, somehow that makes it more difficult to me. Plus the fact that this means to leave out some bands completely.
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Alright, I'll give it a go. This is what my corrent top 25 would like like:
1. Flotsam And Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
2. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
3. Manilla Road - Mystification
4. Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
5. Vanden Plas - Christ.0
6. Wolf - Evil Star
7. Toxik - Think This
8. Attacker - Battle At Helm's Deep
9. Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
10. Realm - Endless War
11. Omen - Battle Cry
12. Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead
13. Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit
14. Krux - II
15. Sleepy Hollow - Sleepy Hollow
16. Hammers Of Misfortune - The Locust Years
17. Watchtower - Control And Resistance
18. Satan - Court In The Act
19. Bulldozer - The Day Of Wrath
20. Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
21. Procession - The Cult Of Disease
22. Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning
23. Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Chainsaw
24. Hobbs' Angel Of Death - Hobbs' Angel Of Death
25. Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan
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TOP 25 Favourite Albums
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