Best metal of all time
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14 Jan 2013, 14:49
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Journals
Here I am this afternoon, trying to gather music for the upcoming exam period study sessions when I realized I'm really bored with all the new stuff, I felt compelled to go dig up all the metal all-time classics I listened in the last decade. That's when an idea hit me, instead of saving all the youtube links in a .txt for later use, I'm gonna make a journal about it on crossfire, so the other 6 maybe 7 metalheads of the site can enjoy and discuss!
I used one album per band, as the list would probably be overcrowded by Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica, Priest, Death, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond et cetera. I have to say though, this list really compiles the very best of metal, you won't find anything more complete anywhere else on the interwebs!
I used one album per band, as the list would probably be overcrowded by Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica, Priest, Death, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond et cetera. I have to say though, this list really compiles the very best of metal, you won't find anything more complete anywhere else on the interwebs!
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Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970) (heavy)
- Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984) (NWOBHM/heavy)
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Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986) (thrash)
- Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990) (thrash)
- Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990) (heavy)
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Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath (1984) (heavy)
- Death - Symbolic (1995) (progressive death)
- Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (1994) (stoner)
- Dio - Holy Diver (1983) (heavy)
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Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (1985) (thrash/black)
- Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) (thrash)
- Rainbow - Rising (1976) (heavy)
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Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss (1994) (black)
- Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (1988) (heavy/progressive)
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Helloween - Keeper of The Seven Keys Part 1 (1987) (power)
- Isis - Panopticon (2004) (atmospheric sludge)
- Motorhead - Ace of Spades (1980) (heavy)
- Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997) (melodic black)
- Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989) (death)
- Mayhem - De mysteriis dom Sathanas (1994) (black)
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Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (2005) (folk)
- Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991) (progressive death)
- Tool - Aenima (1996) (alternative)
- Agalloch - The Mantle (2002) (folk)
- Faith No More - Angel Dust (1992) (alternative)
- Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood (1996) (atmospheric sludge)
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000) (stoner/doom)
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Bathory - Blood Fire Death (1988) (black)
- Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) (doom)
- Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992) (grunge)
- Immolation - Close to a World Below (2000) (death)
- Manilla Road - Mystification (1987) (heavy/thrash)
- Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992) (progressive)
- Edge of Sanity - Crimson (1996) (progressive/death)
- Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) (melodic black)
- Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992) (alternative)
- Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (1994) (black)
- Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (1991) (death)
- Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (1999) (black)
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Sepultura - Arise (1991) (thrash)
- Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1995) (atmospheric/black)
- Mastodon - Leviathan (2004) (sludge)
- Converge - Jane Doe (2001) (metalcore)
- W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol (1992) (heavy)
- Overkill - The Years of Decay (1989) (thrash)
- Autopsy - Mental Funeral (1991) (death)
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Negura Bunget - OM (2006) (atmospheric black)
- Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream (1991) (death)
- Exodus - Bonded by Blood (1985) (thrash)
- Coroner - Mental Vortex (1991) (thrash)
- Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side (1995) (power)
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Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet (2005) (pagan)
- Savatage - Gutter Ballet (1989) (heavy)
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Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I (2012) (progressive/extreme/black)
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Drudkh - Autumn Aurora (2004) (atmospheric/pagan black)
- Maudlin of the Well - Bath (2001) (avant-garde)
- Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі (2009) (pagan black)
- Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) (progressive/extreme)
- My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River (1995) (doom)
- Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (2005) (atmospheric sludge)
- Entombed - Clandestine (1991) (death)
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Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech (1997) (progressive)
- Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (2002) (avant-garde/progressive)
- Vektor - Black Future (2009) (progressive thrash)
- Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I (2000) (progressive)
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Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (1989) (death)
- Cryptopsy - None so Vile (1996) (death)
- The Ruins of Beverast - Unlock The Shrine (2004) (atmospheric black)
- Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991) (grunge/alternative)
- Anthrax - Among the Living (1987) (thrash)
- Windir - Arntor (1999) (melodic black)
- Gorguts - Obscura (1998) (death)
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Deathspell Omega - Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (2007) (black)
- Kreator - Pleasure to Kill (1986) (thrash)
- Cynic - Focus (1993) (technical death)
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Riverside - Out of Myself (2003) (progressive metal/rock)
- Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (2005) (death)
- Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (1996) (doom/death)
- Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations [1980] (NWOBHM)
- Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (2006) (atmospheric sludge)
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Summoning - Stronghold (1999) (atmospheric/symphonic black)
- Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of Twelve Stars (2006) (black?)
- Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001) (progressive/doom)
- Sodom - Agent Orange (1989) (thrash)
- Paradise Lost - Draconian Times (1995) (gothic/doom)
- Enslaved - Vikingligr veldi (1994) (black)
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Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris (2000) (technical/progressive death)
- Slough Feg - Traveller (2003) (heavy)
- Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind (2009) (death/doom/sludge)
- Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian (1986) (progressive/heavy)
- Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law (1980) (NWOBHM/heavy)
- Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age (1996) (atmospheric black)
- Suffocation - Pierced from Within (1995) (brutal death)
- Weakling - Dead as Dreams (2000) (black)
- At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995) (melodic death)
- Obituary - Cause of Death (1990) (death)
- Warning - Watching from a Distance (2005) (doom)
- Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical (2006) (heavy/traditional doom)
- Insomnium - Above the Weeping World (2006) (melodic death)
- Sentenced - Down (1996) (gothic/heavy)
Don't have time right now to make a bigger post so will edit another time, but agree with most of the top. Great to see Agalloch quite high up, above Blind guardian but the mantle is one of their best records, though not my fav :3
Without being biased much being my fav band, I'd have put a Sentenced record up there, especially with their early death metal stuff, for example shadows of the past! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Past
Ignore me, just saw your edit :D
edit: oh and The Ruins of Beverast xD
Good call on Unlock the shrine. Fantastic album!
e: another German band, pretty unknown but great start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qHy0dUJT8A
Ahab
Nadja
Ophis
i know daylight misery (and ofc rotting christ although lets put that in brackets because the last thing we need is a genre war)
On Thorns I Lay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygaklA70EN8
(Early) Septic Flesh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXsIEokyHKI
Horrified
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fND-RZzgmEo
Nightfall (they use more aggression in their riffs but their core is doomy death)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H78GuP-s2BA
And some newer stuff I enjoyed alot:
Shattered Hope
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmcSgTl3T7M
Universe 217
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lJXs_ME7AY
:))
New:
Alcest
Amon Amarth
Arcturus
Arsis
Black Sabbath
Cult of Luna
Cynic
Dark Tranquillity
Empyrium
Equilibrium
Falkenbach
Fallujah
Galar
Ghost
Gorguts
Havok
Helloween
Hypocrisy
Immolation
Inquisition
King Diamond
Malevolent Creation
Mayhem
My Dying Bride
Ne Obliviscaris
Negură Bunget
Nightrage
October Tide
Omnium Gatherum
Opeth
Orphaned Land
Pain of Salvation
Possessed
Satyricon
Slayer
Sodom
Suffocation
Summoning
Thyrfing
Triptykon
Ulcerate
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats
Vektor
Voivod
Panda already beat me with Sentenced :) That's a personal thingie for me too. Great list, have to freshen some memories.
Might add something like,
let me know what you think!!
only 11th...
BURN IN HELL ! :DDD
/edit
+ i am missing Pantera !
My experience with metal at that time was up to Linkin Park and some classic rock like Deep Purple through older buddies and my dad. When I came home I inserted Reign in Blood first on the CD player, I was scared to death because of the cover, but I was compelled to to go listen to it. Now imagine an 11 year old listening to Angel of Death as his first metal song ever. 12 years later I still didn't return those CD's.
\m/
Almost 14 when I was introduced to black metal with DMDS by Mayhem by some guy I used to skate with. Gave me the CD and said to give it a try, still got it somewhere too x)
Also a huge factor is Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
either that or somewhere in time
Yes, Brave New World is awesome.
SSS is also great.
If I had to pick a favorite it would be The Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, mainly due to Moonchild.
Still remember when i was like 7 and went to one of Iron maidens concert in Stockholm Globen, truly amazing
Nice frag btw, lugerownage
Thanks, clutched it like a boss, learned from the best ;)
will there be best hiphop of all times, and best rock, best pop, indie and all that stuff stickied soon?
nicely thought out admins
or they are discriminating
hiphop for example its not possible to have an opinion on
RIP. 9 years deaded today!
+1 for Insomnium, Warning, Summoning and Paradise lost. Would pick mostly the same albums too.
You a fan of 40 watt sun if you included Warning? Patrick is amazing.
I have to say though I'm not a really huge doom listener, I follow the scene but I'm generally more interested in the faster/heavier doom bands like
Would still rate Mournful Congregation's "The monad of creation" right up with the best though!
They know who I am. They got my shield, don't you get it?
Up the Irons!
But other than that I think I balanced the unknowns with the "mainstream", whatever the hell that term actually means in metal nowadays.
For example, is Pestilence or Gorguts mainstream? If you don't listen to death metal alot you've probably never heard of them, but if you do listen, their cds are some of the most mainstream you know. The whole debate is pointless. Anyway, I ranted enough for today :p.
(BTW, just for some self ego stroking, I'm the Greg Hansen in the liner notes on Cannibal Corpse's earliest releases :P )
please tell me lyrics
Pretty nice list overall imo.
edit: Lol, just noticed your list is missing Pantera.
And while I'm a fan of Saxon, I don't think I'd consider them Metal.
MAJOR PROPS for adding Cynic. I didn't think too many people even knew that band!
You can say that all Sabbath albums are hard rock too, and you would be wrong as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HTl-w6e9H0
Let me know what you think :)))
edit: For example on the second half of the song I was expecting something different like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7r1zH-QXRI#t=4m05 . (Seeing he is from from Wales I'm assuming you know him?)
Hearing that live the first time was refreshing! Don't know too many BM bands/projects from around my way.
corelol
480p for not-kvlt
that would have been fun
do you ever go to gigs??
i guess you like bm??
Here's some other black metal I find totally essential. For some reason i couldn't find any Lunar Aurora (Andacht especially) on YT :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgiIN3YyKns
The mother of all atmospheric bm albums is out.
edit : + korpiklaani : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZpmFORHBA
About those 2 bands, I never really liked them so much except some songs off Toxicity when it was first out and I was discovering alt metal.
In love with their Wintersun cover atm
Entrancing black metal from Switzerland, from Darkspace's guitarist's band.