I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.
It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.
I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.
I don’t usually listen to whole albums, but let’s see what looking though my spotify yields:
- d’Artagnan - Felsenfest
- Scooter - God save the rave (ik, not metal)
- Nightwish - Imaginaerum
- Saltatio Mortis- Brot und Spiele (anything by them)
- Disforia - The Age of Aether
- Mandowar - Hellboys from cow
- Electroc Callboy - Tekkno
- Powerwolf - Blood of the saints
- Beast in Black - Dark connection (any of their 3 albums is great)
- Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
- Gloryhammer- Return to the kingdom of Fife
- Lord of the lost - Judas
- Demons & Wizards - Touched by the Crimson King
- Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
- Leaves’ Eyes - Symphonies of the Night
- Edguy - Hellfire Club
- Alestorm - Curse of the crystal coconut
- Visions of Atlantis - Pirates
- Ye Banished Privateers - Legend of Libertalia
- Van Canto - Voices of Fire
- In Extremo - Quid pro quo
- Feuerschwanz - Das Elfte Gebot
- Avantasia - Moonglow
- Nanowar of Steel - Stairway to Valhalla
- Brothers of Metal - Emblas Saga
Yeah, I think that’s enough :)
Hmmmm that’s tough.
And I don’t think I can properly rank them because I’m weird about ranking things. But:
Master of Puppets
Somewhere in Time
…And Justice for All
Appetite for Destruction
Fate of NornsThat would do for top 5, yeah.
After that,
Dimmu Borgir, In Sorte Diaboli
Kataklysm, Goliath
Dio, Holy Diver Pantera, Vulgar Display Metallica, 72 seasonsYeah, I think that’s a solid list based on a combination of just liking the albums and the fact that I prefer to listen to them in their entirety rather than limiting myself to a few songs off of them.
Which, I could probably do 20 by that standard, and more than that if I included metal adjacent albums/bands like ac/dc. You know, the ones that ride right on that edge between metal and hard rock.
And, truth is, when it comes to Metallica and Amon Amarth, all of their albums are like that at least sometimes. Like, the load/reload albums aren’t where I always want to hear the whole album, but I often do. Same with Maiden there.
I’m not saying I don’t have favorite songs off of those albums, I do. It’s just that I always want to hear the rest after I hear those lol. Justice and Master in specific, it’s hard to not want to enjoy them the way i first heard them, with the songs flowing into one another as the album plays.
Some faves off the dome:
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Unleash The Archers - Apex
Strapping Young Lad - City
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
Striker - Ultrapower
Astronoid - Air
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
My first extreme metal haul was three CD’s I bought at Best Buy, and Chaosphere was one of them. That album is burned into my brain.
Did a quick scroll and didn’t see:
Smash - The Offspring
I’m not going to claim that it was ground breaking music or anything, but it just dropped at a time when it was able to hit maximum nostalgia for me.
Smash
While I agree thats a great, if not the best Offspring album, this thread is from the Metal community, so not a good fit :)
Recent favourites, in no particular order:
Prog or adjacent : The ocean - Pelagial
Kglw - petrodragonic apocalypse (was my album of the year last year and one of the most fun albums I’ve heard in a long time. Felt like listening to painkiller or master of puppets for the first time. Legit top 10 all time album for me, I think)
Katatonia - the fall of hearts
Haken - affinity
Pain of salvation - in the passing light of day (or remedy lane or perfect element)
Soen - Lotus
Opeth - Ghost reveries (or any of the preceding albums, really)
Leprous - the congregation
Mastodon - crack the skye (or leviathan or emperor of sand)
Doom and adjacent: Warning - watching from a distance
Yob - our raw heart
My dying bride - feel the misery
Anathema - judgement
High on fire - death is this communion
Bongripper - Satan worshipping doom
Black and adjacent: Agalloch - the mountain
Negură bunget - virstele pamintilui (or OM)
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I or II
Bucovina - Sub stele (folk metal, really)
Power metal and such:
Dragony - viribus unitis
Blind Guardian - nightfall in middle earth (altho most of their stuff is awesome)
Adamantis - Far flung realm
Sellsword - unto the breach
Ominous Glory - the elven dream
And maaaaany more that would take me ages to list. If anyone vibes with any of the lists and wants more, hit me up, would be happy to talk more.
- Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet
- Suldusk - Lunar Falls
- Wintersun - The Forest Seasons
- Agalloch - The Mantle
- Mors Principium Est- Seven
I can’t really or an order to them as they’re all favorites of mine, but there’s a top 10:
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
Life of Agony - River runs red
At the gates - Slaughter of the soul
In Flames - Colony
Sentenced - Down
Black Sabbath - Master of reality
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens (I know this is cheating as it’s basically a best of album, but so what)
Kyuss - Welcome to sky valley
Queensryche - Operation mindcrime
Death - The sound of perseverance
Honestly though, I could put together a top “whatever” and still have too little space to place all the entries.
- Paysage d’Hiver - Winterkälte
- Immortal - Battles in the North
- Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
- The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure
Aether realm- Tarot
Not in order: -Heavy metal soundtrack-various -it’s a kind of Magic-Queen -Time-ELO -Ten Summoner’s Tales -Sting -Greatest Hits-Howard Jones -Asia-Asia -Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morrisette -No Angel-Dido
I’m sure I’m forgetting some, but these are all definitely coming with me to the island.
Alphabetically by bands:
The Agonist:
- Prisoners
- Orphans
Alestorm:
- Seventh Rum of the Seventh Rum
- Sunset On The Golden Age
- No Grave But The Sea
Arch Enemy:
- Deceivers
- War Eternal
- Rise of the Tyrant
As I Lay Dying:
- Shaped By Fire
Avatar:
- Dance Devil Dance
- Hunter Gatherer
- Hail the Apocalypse
Godsmack:
- The Oracle
- Faceless
Parasite Inc:
- Dead And Alive
- Cyan Night Dreams
System Of A Down:
- Steal This Album!
- Mezmerize
I tend to listen to a lot of symphonic metal. I know some folks are turned off if the vocals aren’t harsh enough, so some of these are probably a total miss, but some of my favorite albums are:
- Delain - The Human Contradiction
- The Agonist - Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
- Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
- Opeth - Blackwater Park
- Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- Frantic Amber - Burning Insight
- Infected Rain - 86
- Dream Theater - Train of Thought
- Iron Maiden - Killers
- Epica - The Holographic Principle
Hoo boy, The Agonist… It’s unfortunate they disbanded, but yeah, Lullabies for the Dormant Mind is one of their better albums. Great pick 👍
1/2 both Acid Bath albums
3 Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
4/5 Khanate - Khanate/Things Viral
6-9 Black Sabbath - first 4 albums
10 Gorguts - Obscura
Which Acid Bath album is in the top spot? You MUST choose. (sorry)
And fuck yeah, Obscura is brilliant.
Definitely When the Kite String Pops, it’s my favorite album.
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Between The Buried and Me - Colors
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Mr. Bungle - California
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Opeth - Blackwater Park
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Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
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The Dear Hunter - Act III
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The Dear Hunter - Act II
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Eyedea & Abilities - First Born
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Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
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The Ocean - Pelagial
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Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Edit: I didn’t realize this was a metal community post. I just responded for my all time top 10.
If I am focusing on metal, I remove dear hunter, porcupine tree, bungle, and sleep token.
I add both Necrophagist albums, Nobembre’s ‘Everasia’, Animals as leaders self-titled, Opeth’s Still Life, and At The Gates slaughter of the soul…
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Between The Buried and Me - Colors (2007) [Progressive Metalcore]
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Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) [Progressive Death Metal]
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Necrophagist - Epitaph (2004) [Technical Death Metal]
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Novembre - Everasia (2002) [Progressive Death/Doom Metal]
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Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (1999) [Technical Death Metal]
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The Ocean - Pelagial (2013) [Progressive Metal]
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Animals as Leaders - Self-titled (2009) [Progressive Metal/Djent]
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Opeth - Still Life (1999) [Progressive Death Metal]
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At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995) [Melodic Death Metal]
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Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (2007) [Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore]
I don’t know about the other artists, but why remove Mr Bungle? In my opinion they’re metal af!
California isn’t! Lol. I mean there’s heavy parts of air conditioned night are and goodbye sober day but all in all, it’s a pretty bright album.
I see, you’re referring to that specific album. It’s just that extremely experimental including all kinds of sounds and styles that it seems very difficult to say what genre it is.
Thank you for that small interaction, it lead me to change my last night’s plans, getting my headphones out and listen to Mr Bungle and other Mike Patton bands like FNM and Fantomas. Was a great night!
In case you didn’t know, there are some badass recordings from earlier days or cut together tapes like this one.
Check out Peeping Tom. That was a fun project, and more recent than the rest afaik.
I actually got to see Patton and Bungle perform My Ass Is On Fire very recently. They e been touring again if you weren’t aware!
Thank you!
I’ve been listening to Perping Tom before, so far they haven’t caught me as much as the heavier bands. However, today I started the first time listening actively to Mondo Cane and really like it.
I guess they started touring after releasing The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny again?
Anyway, this man is a powerhouse! I am very thankful that he dedicates his life for so, so many great projects!
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Alright, Top 13 for me, because 13 and this is what I could figure well enough and be satisfied with right now. Ordering subject to roughly change somewhere around fifth slot depending on what mood I’m in on any given day, but these are solid mainstays in my rotation (most of them for decades at this point). Doesn’t reflect how broad my interests go, but you can see that I gravitate a lot toward black metal, and I favor stuff that isn’t afraid to be its own thing. Weird is good. Non-metal albums removed though there are a couple in my top 10 if I weren’t being genre specific.
- Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
- Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
- Murmuüre - Murmuüre
- Emptiness - Not For Music
- The Skaden - You Will Hope I Had Died
- Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
- Samael - Eternal
- At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
- Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
- Cryptopsy - None So Vile
- Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
- Rotting Christ - Khronos
- Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
At the gates and not slaughter of the soul? 😲
Alf Svensson era AtG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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