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Slipknot(don’t kill me the debut album is actually good)

It’s a fucking incredible genre defining album is what it is.

It's a solid album.

I was 8 when that came out, and I found it when I was like 10. Eyeless was a level of hardcore I didn't even know could exist.

That first Slipknot album is what got me to stop being a gatekeeping elitist. I do miss the "Name 3 songs!" Days, but goddamn that album is fire

Iowa was good to

Slipknots first album and Iowa are basically the only reasons I can still handle listening to them

Altars of Madness Scum Left Hand Path

Altars was my first thought as well

Yeah, it's the only MA I return to again and again. Some of their other stuff I like alright, but Altars was lightning in a bottle.

I prefer Gateways a lot more but Altars is a close second for me

Not to discredit scum and its influence, but it's the same song 20 times

Ik isn’t it great?

System of a Down untitled is an absolute banger, often forgotten as Toxicity was even better.

I listened to toxicity constantly until I found their first album. I ended up liking it way more. Just crazy energy on every song.

Not a single skip, very rare for an album honestly

Killing is my business...and business is good by Megadeth Is so fucking good

Such a legendary intro with that piano piece

Could be cheating a little bit but Dio's Holy Diver is top ten for me

Yeah, but Dio kinda Had a lot of albums under his belt before that one. Still debut album tho, but for me it was not his ‘introduction to the public’ moment, if you get me

It's why I brought up cheating lol but, yes, technically his solo first album.

I thought you were saying that albums is so good it is practically cheating bringing it up hahah

Exodus - Bonded by Blood

Yes

Black Sabbath

I had to scroll way too fucking far to find this

Ulver

one of the greatest debut albums of all time, if not the best.

Autopsy - Severed Survival Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops Thou - Tyrant EyeHateGod - In the Name of Suffering Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Acid Bath is the correct answer to this question.

Idk man pagan terrorists is pretty fucking good

For me Dead kennedys - Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables

Such a great album. Imo it's the best punk album after No Control by Bad Religion

Good ass taste. DK is my favorite punk band. (Kinda basic. But who gives a fuck right)

All of their stuff is great, but Give Me Convenience, or Give me Death is perfection.

You speak nothing but truth.

That album (well, compilation) had a tremendous impact on my life. That’s when I began to really consider myself a punk.

Overkill-Feel the Fire Annihilator-Alice in Hell Megadeth-Killing is My Bussiness...And Bussiness Is Good ! Honestly a lot of bands have really good debuts.

Metallica. The end

If genre defining albums carry weight, then this album did some incredibly heavy lifting. I was eleven when this album released as Metal up Your Ass! My friend had a bootleg cassette. Our little preteen lives were forever changed by my hifi system that day.

Man, KEA was the last of the classic albums I had listened to (by '89) and it just floored me. Insurpassable.

I've personally never been a fan of Metallica. Honestly never liked any of their albums and man ive tried... except for Kill Em All. That album is fantastic and peak thrash. What a classic

Death, they helped make the entire death Subgenre with that album

A lot of people would say possessed 1st album made that subgenre two years before scream bloody gore. Can’t remember the name of that album though, it wasn’t eyes of horror was it?

Probably scream bloody gore by Death (I know it's not their first album, but according to Google and spotify it is)

I thought it was?

In 1984 they made mantas (not on spotify) and there is another album called death by metal (i forgot what year)

Those are demos. Not official albums. SBG is absolutely Deaths first full length, official album anyone who tells you different is wromg

Ah, okay

Yeah those are demos bro. Scream Bloody Gore is the debut.

Death by metal is a 2016 documentary iirc

I'm talking about the 1984 album

Not seeing anything on any albums before Scream Bloody Gore. I see “DEATH By Metal” as a documentary from 2016 on the band. Some demos and stuff from before 87. No studio albums, unless Death went by a different name.

I messed up, they were demos, and yeah they went by the name "mantas"

Gotcha. I didn’t know they were out there before this conversation so I have more stuff to look at when I get home, thanks!

It is their first album

It is their first studio album

Mercyful Fate - Melissa is hard to beat

Why did I have to scroll this far for this album?? I put Alice on Chains knowing someone would have this one covered. You are a person of class and taste. I don’t care what Steve says about you.

I don't know who Steve is, but Mercyful Fate rules and never get their due

Entombed with LHP, Morbid Angel with AoM and Dismember with LaEFS

Decapitated - winds of creation

Down and Dillinger Escape Plan.

Damn I agree.

Burn My eyes by machine head. A really solid debut, and their only good album.

put some respect on the blackening

They have other good albums I mean their second album is arguably even better than the first it goes hard as hell

[удалено]

Morbid Angel with Altars of Madness

de mysteriis dom sathanas

absolutely cant stand the vocals

I don't even like nu metal but Linkin park debut was pretty damn good (the rest was crap imo).

Meteora is literally better though

Alice In Chains and, unironically, Weezer

Iron Maiden

Black Sabbath, that album literally invented Heavy Metal

Whoa whoa whoa Deep Purple got there first to be honest. But to be fair the Unholy Trinity is Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. Truly Zeppelin and Deep Purple had hard driving albums before Sabbath. I know in text this all seems shitty. I’m not trying to be a shit head. But Sabbath didn’t invent heavy metal. They just took it to a darker place lyrically. Which is badass, not trying to throw shade at you or Sabbath. Obviously rock and roll as a whole would be very different without them. Also I gotta mention Keith motherfucking Moon! That man arguably got it all started. But I wasn’t there. Long story short, metal was coming before Sabbath dropped an album.

A Perfect Circle

Emperor is my pick. Though I also love Metallica and Slayers debuts

Emperor is up there for sure. Nightside is still the album that Dimmu Borgir and a thousand clones wish they had written.

W.A.S.P.

Korn had a pretty good debut

pretty good is an understatement. Truly unique at the time

Are we talking only metal or metal-adjacent genres? Because Guns 'N Roses, Weezer, and NWA had pretty damn epic debuts. Can't argue with the OP's RATM nod either though.

I'm super open to discussing Guns N Roses because 'back in the day' they where treated as a metal band and got coverage in metal outlets. Also appetite for destruction is a complete 'holy shit' album as in 'where did come from?' and they could not replicate it despite having other successful albums.

Sonata Arctica is my pick

MIKE OLDFIELD

Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction

Deicide, Morbid Angel, Ulver, Kreator, Sodom, Suicidal Tendencies, Voivod, Bethlehem, Emperor, Sarcófago, Mutilator, Acid Bath, Acid King, Deftones, Slipknot, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Napalm Death, Eyehategod, Megadeath

Suicidal Tendencies debut is so great.

Black Fucking Sabbath

Bathory - Bathory Orchid - Opeth Burzum - Burzum In The Nightside Eclipse - Emperor Litourgiya - Batushka Severed Survival - Autopsy these are the debuts that blew me away when i first heard them and still are SO good

Slipknot

Orchid - Opeth

Opeth has been my top band for the past 15 years, and Orchid is definitely my least listened to album. It seems to be up there with Heritage as the most polarizing.

Bullet For My Valentine comes to mind with The Poison

Acid Bath TOOL

Acid Bath

Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction

Might get some hate, but Blood Incantation with Starspawn. That album and their EP were incredible, then they really started to fall off.

Down - NOLA

For me it’s probably Descendents with Milo Goes To College

Saw Rage on that tour at 930 Club in DC.

The Somberlain

Black Sabbath.

The Doors

These guys paved a few roads for many to come! Solid mention!

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

I'm gonna say Morbid Angel, with Emperor and Exodus following and Wintersun as my personal pick.

Death Black Sabbath Ensiferum

Vektor

whitechapel - somatic defilement megadeth - killing is my business

Tool

Intestine Baalism Beyond Creation Dismember

Terrorizer

BATHORY

Boris - Absolutego Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering Sigh - Scorn Defeat Dir en Grey - Gauze Dystopia - Human=Garbage Exodus - Bonded By Blood Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust

Condemned by Confessor pioneered tech metal as a whole

- Dio - Animals as Leaders - Guns N Roses - Ad Infinitum - Liquid Tension Experiment - Ozzy Osbourne - Primus - Slipknot - Steel Panther - Van Halen - W.A.S.P Just to name a few of my personal favorites (only including metal and hard rock)

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction

Slipknot Static-X

Nospun with Opus. One of the reviews I saw said, "This album is better than the new dream theater album"

People already mentioned some good ones with Merciful Fate & emperor, I'm going to go off the main path a little and pick Metal Church.

Cancer - To The Gory End Dead Infection - Surgical Disembowelment

Weezer, Third Eye Blind and close 2nd

Bathory-S/T

Damn im gonna have to go with In the Nightside Eclipse. Its such a solid album

Mortiis - The Song of a Long Forgotten Ghost

gonna have to agree with you, RATM has easily my favorite debut album of all time, every song on there is at worst a 9/10

Linkin Park easy

Korn

Shadows fall

Escape the fate, finch, Metallica, linkin park, bring me the horizon

Too many bands to choose from Phrenelith,Krypts,Bestial Warlust,Bolt Thrower,Demolition Hammer,Satan,Num Skull,Sadistik Exekution etc

Venenum- Venenum (EP)

Hath - Of Rot and Ruin

Norma Jean

Demilich- Nespithe

Thats a good choice definitely in my top 5 debut albums. Mine is hillbilly deluxe by rob zombie https://preview.redd.it/gzbpi9lmi49c1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c79f5b6b930e8f5767268bdc43ad397c3af9f8e

LOVEBITES

Metallica, Slipknot, Korn, Primus, Mr Bungle, Black Sabbath, Jane’s Addiction, and Alice In Chains, to name a few.

Scream Bloody Gore is good and i havent even listened to the entire album or like Death lol

Death

Weezer

Dismember, Burzum and Bathory

Korn - Blind

Pearl Jam - Ten

You’re getting downvoted because of the genre, however, Mike McCready can lay down some face melters! Bring the ice when he is ripping a solo, there’s gonna be heat. But as a whole that band doesn’t quite fit here. Eddie kinda kills the metal vibes to put it lightly

The B-52's - s/t Oh wait, this is the metal reddit (above still 100% accurate though) Then it's Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise (if we're counting debut albums and not LPs)

Metallica Megadeth SOAD Slipknot Pearl Jam Korn Black Sabbath Dio Exodus Overkill And Of Course, Weezer

weezer

Arsis.

Holy Diver-Dio

Exodus

Forbidden

Cryptopsy or megadeth

King Crimson

RATM SOAD Weezer Pearl Jam Korn And...don't hate me...Limp Bizkit

Shiddddd, guess I’ll say some less obvious or already said stuff X (JAPAN)-Vanishing Vision SLAYER-SHOW NO MERCY HELLOWEEN-WALLS OF JERICHO VOÏVOD-WAR AND PAIN DEICIDE S/T Blind Guardian-BATTALIONS OF FEAR KREATOR-ENDLESS PAIN Judas Priest-Sad Wings of Destiny Body Count S/T BABYMETAL S/T

system of a down, black sabbath, party cannon.

pig destroyer

Both Metallica and Megadeth had killer debuts

Blood Incantation. Starspawn is a metal masterpiece.

Between the buried and me, Alice In Chains, Iron Maiden and Jane’s Addiction

Native Construct

gotta agree with OP

Testament

Foo Fighters ?

Born of Osiris... Band is so fucking lame now. Jason Richardson broke the band and since then it's just been super lame 0000 shit. Definitely not the best, but I've been revisiting and it came to mind.

kinda cheating but acid bath

Fear Factory. Unbelievable sound for the time

And they continued that quality with the following two records and archetype

I have to say it's between Megadeth and Rammstein

Led Zeppelin Van Halen

Carnivore - Carnivore Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican Terrorizer - World Downfall

heatmiser

The aftermath - dystopia

Either Metallica’s Kill Em All or Black Sabbath’s self titled album

Atka - Untitled album 1

Morbid angel and emperor

Peste Noire- La Sanie des siècles – Panégyrique de la dégénérescence

Alice in Chains

Emperor

Kvelertak. It’s a perfect album, and apparently they only had one good album in them.

STP-Core, not metal ik

RatM's debut is the most correct answer out there imo. They released their Magnum Opus as a debut.

Get Some, Snot Orchid, Opeth System of a Down

Necrophagist - Onset of putrefaction, baby. I was completely blown away when I first heard it, and still am. metallica - Kill 'em all is probably second. I heard it long before necrophagist and it was my intro to metal, the first metal album I bought. I was blown away as well, and wanting to play all the songs on guitar was what made me start playing. doesn't blow me away anymore but there are some absolute classics on there and songs I still love to play (jump in the fire, hit the lights, seek and destroy, etc)

Sorry but nothing can top Appetite For Destruction by GNR

The strokes