your ten essential metal albums

[bwv 1080]

Sabbath - vol 4
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Agalloch - The Mantle
Negura Bunget - Om
Opeth - Deliverance
Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters

[Philoctetes]

1. Mayhem - Live in Leipzig

The Rest
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Slayer - Undisputed Attitude
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter of Innocence
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Immortal - Battles in the North
Burzum - Burzum

[Sergeant Rock]

Motörhead No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Motörhead Ace of Spades
Suicidal Tendencies Join the Army (the soundtrack of my life  )
Rainbow Down to Earth
Rainbow Difficult to Cure
Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Deep Purple Machine Head
Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum
Vanilla Fudge Vanilla Fudge (perhaps not metal but certainly proto-metal)


Sarge

[CD]

This thread reminds me: where is Lethe?

[MN Dave]

Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE
Judas Priest - SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE

[DavidW]

Don't know if you call all of these metal, but who cares they are awesome!

Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Metallica Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Opeth Blackwater Park
Judas Priest British Steel
AC/DC Highway to Hell
AC/DC Back In Black
Metallica Ride the Lightning

[Josquin des Prez]

Don't know if you call all of these metal, but who cares they are awesome!

Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
Metallica Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden Number of the Beast
Megadeth Rust in Peace
Opeth Blackwater Park
Judas Priest British Steel
AC/DC Highway to Hell
AC/DC Back In Black
Metallica Ride the Lightning

Nice classic list.

[snyprrr]

Cynic

[DavidW]

Thanks JdP.  Or maybe I just don't listen to enough newer metal!

[Scarpia]

Thanks JdP.  Or maybe I just don't listen to enough newer metal!

When I feel the need for Metal I listen to Wagner.

[Henk]

When I feel the need for Metal I listen to Wagner.

Let me suggest something else. It's just your listening habits and your poorness that you can't decide what you want to listen, probably because you don't want to listen to music. So my advice would be when you turn up listening to, for instance, Wagner, feel the need to do something else.

Henk

[snyprrr]

I was listening to Schmitt's PQ last night (@ turn of the century), and the Finale starts with what all of us would probably consider a pretty familiar sounding "riff". Not famous, mind you, but the same kind of thing Sabbath would start in the middle of one of their "middle sections", where the rhythms change in that unmistakable, "metal", way.

Pretty much, whenever I hear a minor third as a rhythm, I think of rock/metal/whatever.

Bartok's SQs 4-5 have that extended, metal-type, blocky construction, perhaps (especially 4)?



Sabbs Vol.4, though,... ALWAYS at the top!

Aphrodite's Child!

[snyprrr]

Sabbath had the more rolling feel, whilst Cynic (and many bands mentioned above) go for that over the top virtuosity.

I prefer the more organic kind,... where you can hear the guitar amp's tubes growling with harmonic rich overtones (some of Tool),... that then get squashed by brutal, crunching ensemble crunches. Zorn's Naked City comes to mind also.

Testament??

King Diamond, haha??



...my fav "rocker" has to be Reggie Wanker (Malcolm McDowell) in the uproarous comedy Goin' Crazy. Anyone??

..."I'm a Hot Shot, burning with fire now",...

[canninator]

Slayer-Reign in Blood
Metallica-Ride the Lightening
Amon Amarth-Vs the World
Agalloch-The Mantle
Enslaved-Vikingligr Veldi
Opeth-Blackwater Park
The Ruins of Beverast-Rain upon the Impure
Mayhem-De Mysteriis dom Santhanas
Drudkh-Autumn Aurora
Graveland-Thousand Swords

[greg]

Cool topic!

Meshuggah- Catch 33
Meshuggah- I
Meshuggah- obZen
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Opeth- Morningrise
Opeth- Still Life
Psyopus- Odd Senses
Necrophagist- Epitaph
Buckethead- Inbred Mountain
*Tool- Lateralus

*yes, I just listened to it once two days ago, but I can already tell. 

There is still so much I want to listen to more that in a year a top 10 list will be impossible for me.

(such as Sunn 0))), Animals as Leaders, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Candlemass, and some doom metal or melodeath stuff)

False. One cannot feel the need for Metal of course. It's just your listening habits and your poorness that you can't decide what you want to listen, probably because you don't want to listen to music. So my advice would be when you turn up listening to, for instance, Wagner, feel the need to do something else.

Henk

Be careful, man. You just might have exploded somebody's head with a post like that. 

[greg]

Bartok's SQs 4-5 have that extended, metal-type, blocky construction, perhaps (especially 4)?

Yes, exactly! Bartok's SQs were metal before metal was invented. 

[canninator]

(such as Sunn 0))), Animals as Leaders, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Candlemass, and some doom metal or melodeath stuff)

Sunn 0)))-not my cup of tea
DEP-Calculating Infinity, Candlemass-Nightfall - I find anything else by these bands is the law of diminishing returns
Doom-Winter, Thergothon, this is the business
Melodeath-good luck with this, I'd rather chew off my own foot
Animals as Leaders-not heard this, I'll have to check it out

[DavidW]

Yes, exactly! Bartok's SQs were metal before metal was invented. 

Heck yeah!  I'm with you two. But some of Shostakovich's SQs are very metal too.

[canninator]

So does anybody post over at Metal Archives? I used to a lot but haven't been to the forums in a couple of years now. Lethe used to post a lot under a different username (as did I).

I got tired of the unrelenting stupid but, having said that, they didn't tolerate drama queens, a modus operandi this board could learn from methinks 

[greg]

Sunn 0)))-not my cup of tea
DEP-Calculating Infinity, Candlemass-Nightfall - I find anything else by these bands is the law of diminishing returns
Doom-Winter, Thergothon, this is the business
Melodeath-good luck with this, I'd rather chew off my own foot
Animals as Leaders-not heard this, I'll have to check it out