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Tough to narrow it down, but here's 10...

1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time - magisterial songs, just the band cooking on full power
2. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction - the best riffs, songs, attitude - a spellbinding tour de force
3. Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen - some more of the best riffs ever, maybe the best trad metal album outside the 80s
4. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding - individual, atmospheric, aggressive, what else do ya need
5. Savatage - Edge of Thorns - emotional, bluesy metal with power and heart
6. Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild - a sensitive and striking listen
7. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution - death metal done up to 11 - some of the best riffs and most towering atmospheric moments
8. Tad Morose - Undead - mysterious, arcane power metal that grooves and rages by turns
9. Seasons of the Wolf - Once In a Blue Moon - old school 70s style stuff that becomes timeless through the songwriting
10. Edguy - Age of the Joker - a bunch of their most inimitable, individual songs ever

Author:	traxan [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:48 am ]
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So what is everyone's absolute Top 10 albums? Mine: 1) Testament, "The Gathering" 2) Overkill, "Ironbound" 3) Motorhead "No Sleep til Hammersmith" 4) Soilwork, "Natural Born Chaos" 5) Slayer, "World Painted Blood" 6) Shadow, s/t 7) Nevermore, "This Godless Endeavor" 8) Silver Talon, "Decadence and Decay" 9) Nightwish, "Once" 10) Aldious, "Deep Exceed"

Author:	Oxenkiller [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:51 am ]
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I'd say Testament "The Legacy" and Slayer's "Reign in Blood" would be on my list for sure. Interesting picks from those bands. I don't really know much of Nightwish, Aldious, or Silver Talon so I can't comment.

Author:	nephilim80 [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:14 am ]
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Something like this 1. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans 2. Metallica - And Justice For All 3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 4. Judas Priest - Painkiller 5. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness 6. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 7. Slayer - Hell Awaits 8. Cult of Luna - Salvation 9. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 10. Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace

Author:	democracyiscringe [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:33 am ]
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Dio - Last in Line (the perfect commercial 80s metal album? maybe.) Burzum - DSEV (HLTO has its charms, but this just has more going on musically to my ears) Grim Reaper - See You in Hell (the perfect raw, close-to-no-budget 80s metal album. Besides some stiff competition from Venom, Omen, Manilla Road, Slayer's debut, Maiden's debut, blah blah... Anyway! "Recorded in one take" spontaneity in every song. Truly great vox from a singer who would probably be considered up there with the greats if his band lasted longer, and if he had "the look.") Black Sabbath - Mob Rules (the best "80s metal" album ever released by a 60s/70s metal band. Is there a more sonically heavy 1981 release? That's rhetorical. The answer is no. Welcome to Hell comes close but not quite actually. You're not playing Mob Rules loud enough if you disagree.) Graveland - Carpathian Wolves (lugubrious nocturnal forest BM stuff from a band that never got exactly "bad," but who would never really get this wild and rabid again) Emperor - ...Nightside... (nuff said) Motorhead - Iron Fist (almost dead even with Ace of Spades, but since this is more of a black sheep, let's go with this) Peste Noire - La Sanie... (probably the most convincing BM release of the 2000s) Iron Maiden - Powerslave (the ultimate lead guitar album? maybe. it's also got great songs to boot) Guttural Engorgement - The Slow Decay of Infested Flesh (disgustingly heavy BDM/slam right before the genre became some sort of self-conscious ironic jokey haha thing) Or something. Plenty of glaring omissions. Limited to metal; my "metal and everything else" list would be about 40% different.

Author:	Benedict Donald [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:08 am ]
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1) Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 2) My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans 3) Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time 4) Queensryche - Mindcrime 5) Overkill - Years Of Decay 6) Mercyful Fate - Melissa 7) Black Sabbath - Sabotage 8) Judas Priest - Stained Class 9) Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind 10) Ozzy - "Diary Of A Madman"

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Author:	lordcatfish [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:36 am ]
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Something like this I guess. If I was including all genres, then only Follow the Reaper would have a chance of a look in. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper First heard this over 20 years ago, and it still blows my mind when I listen to it now. Incredibly atmospheric, with so many memorable and catchy melodies woven around the riffs. Kreator - Coma of Souls This album is a bit of a battering ram - just wall to wall grade A riffs and lead work. Metallica - Ride the Lightning Shows an immense growth and maturity from Kill 'Em All, with a diversification of sound and a great flow to the album. There's a reason they used this as a template for the next few records. Edguy - Hellfire Club Tobias Sammet's songwriting peak, bringing in some hard rock influence whilst retaining their power metal core. He and the band also bring their A game performance wise, backed up by some beefy production. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz There was something really special about this line up. I think the chemistry really shows in the performances and song writing. The guitar tone is also a thing of beauty, elevating Randy's already exceptional playing. Shout out to Bob Daisley too for his work on bass. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Not sure why this one sticks out above all of Maiden's other work. They have such a strong catalogue. Here, the hits are hits for a reason, the deep cuts are fantastic (Invaders chorus aside… but I can live with it), it flows really well and has a good energy to it. Black Sabbath - Sabotage The pinnacle of their '70s experimentation. Mixes riff driven songs like Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe with more expansive stuff like The Writ and Megalomania. The Thrill Of It All might be the ultimate Sabbath deep cut. Also, this is Ozzy's vocal peak. Slayer - South of Heaven The change of pace really works, with the slower tracks having a gloomy aura about them. The fast stuff is high quality, as was par for the course with classic Slayer. Also has one of the best drum productions and performances of any metal album I've heard Cradle of Filth - Midian An effective mix of superb guitar work and a murky, filthy (for lack of a better term) and at times savage atmosphere. Dani delivers the goods both vocally and lyrically. Type O Negative - World Coming Down Devastatingly heavy, but also melodic and beautiful. It really encapsulates depression as I have experienced it.

Author:	ColdWindRider [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:01 am ]
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It hasn't changed for years (apart from last two albums): Bathory - Hammerheart Slayer - South Of Heaven Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath King Diamond - Abigail Death - Individual Thought Patterns Dark Angel - Darkness Descends Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Judas Priest - Stained Class

Author:	nightbreaker33 [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:02 am ]
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1) Ostrogoth - Feelings of Fury 2) Scanner - Terminal Earth 3) Leviticus - Setting Fire to The Earth 4) Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite 5) The Lord Weird Slough Feg - New Organon 6) Taym Aut - Prometheus 7) Magnit - Dies Irae 8) Lynx - Watcher of Skies 9) Lynx - Caught In A Trap 10) Heavy Load - Stronger Than Evil

Author:	Bronze Age [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:37 am ]
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These are always tough to answer. Scanner - Hypertrace Mekong Delta - Mekong Delta Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Impelliteri - Screaming Symphony Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part 1 Angra - Angel's Cry Gamma Ray - Land of the Free Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth Riot - Born in America I just realized I left Priest off. I told myself 'not Painkiller, decide on a 70's album' but I just kept typing. Oh well, we all know these lists aren't perfect. I think this thread will be interesting especially with the age differences. I am seeing some 90's picks that reminded me of meeting people who preferred the Star Wars prequels.

Author:	MetlaNZ [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:40 am ]
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A near impossible task but here's today's Top 10: Iron Maiden - Powerslave Metallica - Ride The Lightning Mercyful Fate - Melissa Slayer - Reign In Blood Manilla Road - Open The Gates Death - Leprosy Bathory - Blood Fire Death Danzig - Danzig Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning

Author:	Evil Entity [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:47 am ]
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1. Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer 2. Judas Priest - Painkiller 3. Motörhead - Bastards 4. Accept - Death Row 5. Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning 6. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol 7. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime 8. Danzig - II: Lucifuge 9. King Diamond - Them 10. Overkill - W.F.O.

Author:	Marken [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:39 am ]
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Hmm... 1. Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia 2. Dark Tranquillity - Haven 3. Riot - Thundersteel 4. Lost Horizon - Awekening the World 5. Metal Church - Blessing In Disguise 6. Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator 7. Dirty Looks - Cool from the Wire 8. Scanner - Hypertrace 9. Artillery - By Inheritance 10. Lethal - Programmed

Author:	MorbidEarth [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:12 pm ]
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Always a hard question to answer but this is what it is at the moment: 1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning 2. Carcass - Heartwork 3. Judas Priest - Stained Class 4. Opeth - Blackwater Park 5. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic 6. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill 7. Sepultura - Arise 8. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion 9. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone 10. Slayer - South Of Heaven

Author:	SanPeron [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:26 pm ]
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Pantera - Cowboys from Hell Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Slayer - South of Heaven Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme Death - Scream Bloody Gore Sepultura - Arise Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten I don't think this is objectively true as the top 10 metal albums of all time, that is not a possible task to do and is a laughable matter, but these are the albums that I have heard the most in my life. I don't listen to some of them too much anymore, but it's a more realistic approach to my top ten of all time, than throwing newer names for the sake of doing a more interesting list. Edit: I replaced Soundgarden - Superunknown and Alice in Chains - Dirt with Slayer and Black Sabbath because even if Alice and SG are awesome bands, they aren't pure metal, they fall more into the grunge scene. So, my new top could be something like this.

Author:	Reid [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:42 pm ]
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This could easily change slightly month-to-month, but the first half would stay pretty consistent... 1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath The apex of what heavy metal is, IMO. Aggressive, dark, slightly progressive, each track stands on its own and comes together as a whole perfectly. 2. Bathory - s/t debut Picking this or Hammerheart as my favorite Bathory LP is tough, but I have to give the edge to this. 3. Type O Negative - October Rust Arguably Type O's least "metal" release, but easily my favorite. One of the best production jobs in metal history. 4. Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East Best live album ever, listening to this repeatedly on morning bus rides during high school is indelibly etched into my memory. 5. Sodom - Agent Orange My first Sodom album and the best thrash LP ever. 6. Candlemass - Nightfall Choosing between this one or the debut is another tough one, but everything came together for me on this release. 7. Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera The band was at its best here: Thomen's drumming, the lead guitar work, songwriting, Hansi's vocals--and the production is over-the-top but works so well. 8. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless The absolute pinnacle of grindcore. 9. Death - Human Has been my favorite Death album and death metal album overall for quite some time, the perfect mix between their more straightforwardly brutal early years and the progressive sounds that followed. 10. Voivod - Dimension Hatross One of those albums that's so good but so strange it really does sound like it was recorded by aliens.

Author:	Defenestrated [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:28 pm ]
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Without repeating bands: Opeth - Blackwater Park Slayer - Reign In Blood Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure Meshuggah - Chaosphere* Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing* This is obviously personal in the extreme (lots of gateway/formative albums, albums with important memories attached), but I tried to keep things reasonably "objective" (in terms of critical acclaim etc.) and representative of most of my preferred genres. Metal status questionable. (Discharge = punk? Meshuggah = djent?) If needed, alternative selections would be Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger* followed by, oh, Nile's In Their Darkened Shrines.

Author:	hells_unicorn [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:31 pm ]
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Over the years I've grown more averse to making Top 10 or 20 lists because I always end up second guessing myself, even if I distilled down to one specific sub-genre and not metal as an entire genre. So I'm going to take this opportunity to pick one favorite album out of different sub-genres (excluding grindcore and metalcore/deathcore as I haven't really followed them to a great enough degree to make a proper selection). 1. Dio - Dream Evil (probably an unlikely choice in light of the rest of Dio's classic entries, but for me this combined the brilliance of Ronnie's amazing vocals and Craig Goldy's masterful guitar work, not to mention the best instrumental input from the rest of the band) 2. Lost Horizon - Awakening The World (this was the apex of the 2nd wave of power metal, hands down; it just leans in on every aspect of what made the movement great while also avoiding many of the excesses, which is why I put this one slightly ahead of their second album, which is otherwise equally perfect) 3. Overkill - The Years Of Decay (this is basically the perfect blend of kinetic, impact-based thrash metal with a mildly progressive sense of stylistic eclecticism, oh and Blitz's vocals are why I chose this over a lot of truly amazing Bay Area and Teutonic albums) 4. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten (it's odd because overall I'm more of a Florida and Stockholm fan when it comes to old school death metal, but for me this album perfectly blends all 3 of the elements that I truly love about death metal: brutality, technicality and speed) 5. Queensryche - The Warning (This is sort of an odd pick for a progressive release given how heavily in line with USPM and earlier heavy metal practices, but every song on this just works on every level and it's tough to top Geoff Tate in his prime) 6. Ensiferum - Ensiferum (to me this is the end all, be all of the folk metal craze, it has a slight remnant of that rawness from before the style full emerged from its 90s roots into a more clearly distinct sub-genre from the hybrid black/folk approach common to said period) 7. Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (I still can't believe that this thing came out back in 1987, Quorthon all but codified what would become the 90s black metal sound about 5 years before the second wave truly exploded) 8. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (from a musical standpoint, one could argue that the Marcolin albums were more full developed, but there is just some sort of mystique about the combination of this album's rustic, 80s character and Johan Längquist's anguishing bellow that keeps me coming back to it) 9. Skyfire - Timeless Departure (as far as melodic death metal goes, this album perfectly merges a number of niches that were either common just before or soon after it came out, in many ways it more closely resembles the ultra-consonant power metal character of Children Of Bodom's early sound, but it also plays heavily into that extremely atmospheric and melancholic sound of late 90s Dark Tranquillity, as well as makes some early strides into the progressive and symphonic melodeath that would later be explored on Wintersun's self-titled album and, to an extent, Persefone and Ne Obliviscaris) 10. Rhapsody Of Fire - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands (there are scores of symphonic albums out there that are almost as good, with special note of Nightwish's Oceanborn on one end of the spectrum and Emperor's In The Nightside Eclipse on the more extreme side, but this was a life-changing album for me and also one that I regard as almost completely distinct from the rest of the principle 2nd wave power metal bands following either the Helloween Keepers albums or the Grave Digger-inspired speed metal approach. In short, it taught me to let my nerd flag fly without an iota of shame) Note: These are not in any particular order, and there are several other albums that I could throw in as honorable mentions from Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time to Dark Angel's Darkness Descends. One of the reasons why I've grown to dislike doing these lists just a tad.

Author:	Coastliner [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:00 am ]
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Only one album per band, alphabetical and excluding Rush, Deep Purple and similar borderline bands. Black Sabbath – Headless Cross Celtic Frost – Into the Pandemonium Fates Warning – Awaken the Guardian Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time Judas Priest – Sin after Sin Metallica – Master of Puppets Queensrÿche – Rage for Order Savatage – Hall of the Mountain King Slayer – Reign in Blood Voivod – Nothingface PS: In a previous discussion I chose "British Steel" instead of "Sin after Sin". I wonder where that brain fart came from as "Sin after Sin" has been my favourite Priest album since the 80s. That must have been a slip of the mouse or something.

Author:	brain hammer [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:59 pm ]
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Gun to my head, going by the gut: 01. Judas Priest - Stained Class 02. Slayer - Reign In Blood 03. Van Halen - S/T 04. Scorpions - Taken By Force 05. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 06. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within 07. Exodus - Bonded By Blood 08. Motörhead - Overkill 09. Metal Church - S/T 10. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1

Author:	LycanthropeMoon [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:04 pm ]
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Kamelot - The Black Halo Nightwish - Oceanborn Type O Negative - October Rust Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace The Gathering - Nighttime Birds Therion - Secret of the Runes Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica Theatre of Tragedy - Aégis Blind Guardian - Tales From the Twilight World Moonspell - Irreligious I'd say the first three are in the correct order. It's hard to rank after that but these are the metal albums I can listen to ad naseum without ever getting sick of them.

Author:	Empyreal [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:24 pm ]
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Tough to narrow it down, but here's 10... 1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time - magisterial songs, just the band cooking on full power 2. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction - the best riffs, songs, attitude - a spellbinding tour de force 3. Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen - some more of the best riffs ever, maybe the best trad metal album outside the 80s 4. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding - individual, atmospheric, aggressive, what else do ya need 5. Savatage - Edge of Thorns - emotional, bluesy metal with power and heart 6. Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild - a sensitive and striking listen 7. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution - death metal done up to 11 - some of the best riffs and most towering atmospheric moments 8. Tad Morose - Undead - mysterious, arcane power metal that grooves and rages by turns 9. Seasons of the Wolf - Once In a Blue Moon - old school 70s style stuff that becomes timeless through the songwriting 10. Edguy - Age of the Joker - a bunch of their most inimitable, individual songs ever

Author:	Ivan Drago [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:44 pm ]
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I could so this again next week and come up with a mostly different list, and not even going to try putting them in an order Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine Metallica - Ride the Lightning Rhapsody - Power of the Dragonflame Death - Symbolic Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time Cynic - Traced in Air Vektor - Terminal Redux Mastodon - Crack the Skye Faith No More - King for a Day Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

Author:	gabber [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:02 pm ]
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I've actually got an elaborate rating/ranking system. I use iTunes, I've utilised the 'hack' for half star ratings and with this I rate all albums, songs, bands etc. My top 10 (and I'm counting Rush as metal here) 1. Rush - Hemispheres 2. Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast 3. Rush - Power Windows 4. Manowar - Kings Of Metal 5. Bathory - Hammerheart 6. King Diamond - Fatal Portrait 7. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time 8. Iron Maiden - Powerslave 9. Metallica - Master Of Puppets 10. Helloween - Keeper Of The 7 Keys Part 2 If you do want to exclude Rush, then the next two are Maiden's 7th Son and Candlemass' Ancient Dreams.

Author:	MetlaNZ [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:09 pm ]
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Empyreal wrote: Tough to narrow it down, but here's 10... 1. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time - magisterial songs, just the band cooking on full power 2. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction - the best riffs, songs, attitude - a spellbinding tour de force 3. Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen - some more of the best riffs ever, maybe the best trad metal album outside the 80s 4. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding - individual, atmospheric, aggressive, what else do ya need 5. Savatage - Edge of Thorns - emotional, bluesy metal with power and heart 6. Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild - a sensitive and striking listen 7. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution - death metal done up to 11 - some of the best riffs and most towering atmospheric moments 8. Tad Morose - Undead - mysterious, arcane power metal that grooves and rages by turns 9. Seasons of the Wolf - Once In a Blue Moon - old school 70s style stuff that becomes timeless through the songwriting 10. Edguy - Age of the Joker - a bunch of their most inimitable, individual songs ever Fuckin cool list Emp. Would've loved to have put Down Among The Deadmen on my list coz it had a huge and lasting impact on me when it came out.

Author:	Empyreal [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:16 pm ]
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Yeah - fuck I should've added Celtic Frost's To Mega Therion instead of one of those, possibly Edguy. But there's always too many choices. That was just 10 albums I've loved for at least over a decade just plucked out of my brain.

Author:	Benedict Donald [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:31 pm ]
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ColdWindRider wrote: It hasn't changed for years (apart from last two albums): Bathory - Hammerheart Slayer - South Of Heaven Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath King Diamond - Abigail Death - Individual Thought Patterns Dark Angel - Darkness Descends Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Judas Priest - Stained Class A fantastic list.

Author:	CelestialEmissary [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:28 pm ]
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Tough question but I'll give it a shot: In no particular order: Riot-Thundersteel Carcass-Necroticism Bolt Thrower-For Victory Death-Individual Thought Patterns Bathory-S/T Darkthrone-Panzerfaust Morbid Angel-Altars of Madness Danzig-Danzig II: Lucifuge Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell Iron Maiden-Somewhere In Time

Author:	rarezuzuh [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:06 pm ]
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Black Sabbath - Sabotage Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath Mystifier - Goetia Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Panopticon - Kentucky Gorgoroth - Pentagram Pentagram - Relentless Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä This was an easy list to make, but would be an impossible one to perfect. I'm almost certain it would be slightly different from month to month, with only the top few remaining solidly in place. I did give myself a few rules though. 1. Only one album per band, just feels right. 2. I have to have loved the album for several years at least. There are multiple new or new to me albums that I feel could end up on my top ten, but they'll have to wait their turn. 3. I need to have some kind of emotional connection with the album. It needs to make me feel something that other albums can't.

Author:	Opus [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:26 pm ]
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I see some people have good taste in music. Tad Morose - Undead Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia Falconer - s/t Lost Horizon - Awakening the World Nocturnal Rites - The Sacred Talisman Riot - Thundersteel Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath Samson - Before the Storm Trow in some Death and King Diamond at the end.

Author:	Opus [ Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:36 pm ]
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nightbreaker33 wrote: 9) Lynx - Caught In A Trap That really is a good album. But for early Swedish one album bands I'd go for Proud. Or maybe Universe. nightbreaker33 wrote: 8) Lynx - Watcher of Skies And a completely different Lynx. What are the odds?

Author:	ChoujuX [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:25 am ]
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1.) Theocracy - Mosaic 2.) DragonForce - The Power Within 3.) Jorn - Spirit Black 4.) Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare 5.) Dio - Dream Evil 6.) Skid Row - Skid Row 7.) Dream Theater - Images and Words 8.) Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer 9.) Judas Priest - Turbo 10.) Trivium - The Crusade First two have near-perfect discographies, but I went with the albums I play the most.

Author:	Xytras71 [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:06 am ]
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We’ve had a similar thread during the Pandemic. I dug it out and seems no changes as far as my top 10 go. So copy and paste for me: 10. Iron Maiden - Killers 9. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Satanas 8. Suffocation - Pierced From Within 7. Entombed - Clandestine 6. Death - Spiritual Healing 5. Slayer - Show No Mercy 4. Judas Priest - Sin After Sin 3. Immolation - Unholy Cult 2. Morbid Angel - Covenant 1. King Diamond - Conspiracy

Author:	MorbidSaint69 [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:58 am ]
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In no particular order because I love them all: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Cryptopsy - None So Vile Kreator - Terrible Certainty Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire Opeth - Orchid Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane Bathory - Blood on Ice Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops It was hard not to make this a top 10 Black Sabbath albums list lol.

Author:	HelluvaGuy [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:55 pm ]
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Metallica - Master of Puppets Megadeth - Rust In Peace Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Alice In Chains - Dirt Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger Sevendust - Animosity Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Savatage - Edge of Thorns Slayer - Reign in Blood

Author:	Horned_Owl_Holocaust [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:59 pm ]
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The more I thought about it the harder it got. Couldn't get it under 15 and even then there's at least 5 honorable mentions that would be near equal with many of these. Basically just albums that have stuck with me from the time I heard them and never lost their grip. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Lost Horizon -A Flame to the Ground Beneath Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane Agalloch - Pale Folklore Lacuna Coil - Comalies Dark Tranquility - Character Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing Paradise Lost -In Requiem Hypocrisy - Abducted Skullfist - Chasing the Dream

Author:	Ghost of Christmas Last [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:05 pm ]
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Sure I could throw together a list of 10 but at the same time there are several albums which to me are absolutely timeless - the list is always open to expansion however. Maybe a better way of framing this would be that my top 10 is still in progress, although I can never see myself ranking them either. Thus in no particular order I nominate: The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution Vital Remains - Forever Underground Shaarimoth - Temple of the Adversarial Fire Skáphe - Skáphe³ All arguably sound unique and also without any clear imitators down the line.

Author:	darthlazy [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:02 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Your all-time top 10 albums?
I believe it is nearly impossible for me to list my top 10 all time albums, but I can list 10 albums that most certainly put me on the road to where I am today. I have the utmost respect and love for these records each uniquely, and could never imagine not having them in my life. Corrosion of Conformity- Blind Prong- Beg To Differ Metal Church- Blessing In Disguise Faith No More- King For A Day Acid Bath- When The Kite String Pops Trouble- S/T Unleashed- Where No Life Dwells Morbid Angel- Altars of Madness Metallica- ...And Justice For All King Diamond- Conspiracy I also was following the hair/glam scene as a youngster, and could easily comprise a list of records from those bands that were equally personal to me, but I'm sure there is another thread for that already

Author:	j_bentley12885 [ Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:08 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Your all-time top 10 albums?
1) Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell 2) Motorhead - Orgasmatron 3) Rainbow - Rising 4) Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness 5) AC/DC - Powerage 6) Iron Maiden - Killers 7) Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time 8) Germs - GI 9) Gnawed - Purge 10) Metallica - Master of Puppets (had I not heard this in my younger years I probably wouldn't listen to any of the above albums)