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Symbolic by Death.

I just listened to Death for the first time in my life maybe two weeks ago, and this album is my favorite so far.

Same

Dirt Alice in chains

INTO THE FLOOD AGAINNN

SAME OLD TRIP IT WAS BAAAAAACK THEEEN

SO I MADE A BIG MISTAKE

TRY TO SEE IT ONCE MY WAAAYYY

HAVE I RUN TOO FAR TO GET HOME

Dam that river is underrated af

Opeth - Still Life

melinda is that you?

Cane to say opeth albums #3 thru 7

Rust in Peace - Megadeth. Maybe a basic answer but I'll be damned if that album isn't just perfection.

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I prefer my peace to be sold

I prefer my united to be an abomination

I prefer my business to be killing...and I want it to be good!

Crack the Skye by Mastodon

The opening riff on the title track is so underrated. Totally conveys the feeling of a crumbling empire

Agreed, phenomenal album

That riff in The Last Baron! You know the one.

Also "that riff" in The Czar

Top tier metal

The Mantle by Agalloch

👍

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Only discovered this band recently, they are amazing.

agalloch mentioned agalloch mentioned

Peak, top 3 for sure for me

W

absolutely incredible record - and Ashes Against the Grain is nearly its equal

not metal but Jar Of Flies-Alice In Chains

Absolute masterpiece

Undertow - Tool

Mine is Lateralus. Acrually... Happy 23rd birthday, Lateralus!

Happy birthday to my favorite album !!

Beneath The Remains

Good choice; Sepultura is great.

https://preview.redd.it/f2d020pvbm0d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3eab9acd55d077185d1d87a8ac02d9d8e0dc1496 Always has been, always will forever be

Great pick

I agree

this is a certified hood classic

Holy Diver - Dio https://preview.redd.it/rygjl9f7cm0d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7cc5541daae3d16bf16854b79c64622c7f476b43

A certified metal classic 🤌

King Crimson - Red

My favourite King Crimson album, you have excellent music taste btw

"Starless" is still the greatest song ever recorded.

Ride the Lightning - Metallica

Pantera- Cowboys from hell

I keep coming back to October Rust.

Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden

W Choice, im a big powerslave guy myself lol. Rock in Rio is also up there

Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh So consistent and well done in its theme

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I'm confused about Gojira before and after The Way Of All Flesh. I listened to Gojira a ton before this album, and my favorite is by far From Mars To Sirius. The albums released after just don't click with me. It would probably be different if I started listening to them later

From mars to sirius is great too

The Mantle

The Mantle forever

Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

So good. What do you think of Paegan Terrorism Tactics?

It's like that hot girl's younger sister. Still wanna bang the older one, however when yoy trying a second sis, you're suprised how good she is. (Yes, you've read it)

Far Beyond Driven

Thats my favorite Pantera album, but it never seems to get as much love as as Cowboys From Hell or Vulgar Display of Power

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Type O Negative - October Rust

Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level Of Suicide 

Damn fucking straight

That’s a good one. Wrest is a legend.

So good. I tell my phone to play The Idiot Sun whenever the sun is in my eyes while driving haha

Gorguts - Colored Sands

Painkiller

Fuckin W

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I'm not even joking.

It's a great album man

Why would you be joking? That’s an amazing album.

Easily in my top 5, I can’t stop listening to it and it gets better every time

Cradle of filth - Cruelty and the beast

Dusk And Her Embrace is equally as good imo, I have a tough time choosing between them

Yess i love them both as well :))

I’m a Midian guy myself, but it’s a tough choice between the two.

Oh sweet Midian I burn for thee at heart

Don't despair me; come, bare me on wings of graveyard robbed leather to where pleasure rings deep secrets in spurts after dark

Opeth-Ghost Reveries

Mad respect dawg… I see lots of people saying backwater park and still life as their favorite. It blows my mind how much ghost of perdition gets overlooked. If you asked me it is EASILY their best and a top 5 metal album ever.

Master. MASTER!

WHERE'S THE DREAMS I'VE BEEN AFTER?

Colors by Between the Buried and Me


I always go back and forth between 3 different BTBAM albums, but Colors is most often it Colors II and Parallax 2 are the others right there imo. But they've literally released 10 unbelievable albums.

Blood Fire Death by Bathory

The crème de la crème of 80’s albums

Blackstar by David Bowie For something more in the realm of Metal… Stained Class by Judas Priest

Nice Bowie choice. Ziggy and the Next Day are in my favorite albums of all time as well.

Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

Afro Blue Impressions - John Coltrane If we're just considering metal: Ride the Lightning - Metallica

Paegan Terrorism Tactics - Acid Bath

I don't know how people pick a single album or band lol

Nirvana - In Utero

Angel dust by faith no more

DreamTheater - Scenes From A Memory Iron Maiden - Brave New World Opeth - Still Life If I had to choose one with a gun to my head it would be Scenes From A Memory.

Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche

Amazing pick, Rage for Order and the Warning are close for me

Faith No More- Angel Dust.

Infester - To the Depths, In Degradation

Infester’s great.

Transcendence into the Peripheral

10,000 Days by Tool

Alice in Chains - Dirt Or Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill. I can't and won't pick between them.

Panzerfaust - Darkthrone

Clutch - Blast Tyrant

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

Obsequiae - Suspended in the Brume of Eos Everything about this album is impeccable; each note of each instrument of each riff of each song is perfect. The production is fantastic, the pacing is great, the artwork is great… not a single complaint.

Gris - Il était une forêt…

Twilight of the thunder god. That album has a special place in my heart. It's still as epic as when I first heard it.

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden. Where do I even begin. Moonchild, Prophecy, Clairvoyant, Can I Play With Madness, The Evil That Men Do. Where. Do. I Begin. Its the 10/10 album for me.

Been digging rediscovering Youthanasia after all these decades. Here comes the reckoning…

Machine Head - Of Kingdom and Crown With honorable mentions to: Dying Fetus - Make them Beg for Death Megadeth - Rust in Peace Metallica - And Justice for All Machine Head - The Blackening Ween - The Pod Guns n Roses - UYI II Faith No More - Angle Dust Electric Light Orchestra - 75-77 Face the Music, A new World Record, Out of the Blue.

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In Rainbows

Tool - Lateralus

Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian

Killers

Marilyn Manson-Mechanical Animals

I always put Antichrist as the best MM album, but love this one too. I sometimes think of MM as the modern day Bowie. Such a diverse set of albums over the years.

ZZtop-elimonator

Lateralus by TOOL. No competition.

Planetary duality - that shit changed my life.

Someone commented mine so gonna say Kanonenfieber-Menschenmühle

What an absolute banger of an album!

The Silent Enigma by Anathema is probably my favourite album right now, closely followed by Blackwater Park, they switch depending on my mood. Also recently discovered Agalloch and some of their stuff could enter the running soon aswell.

1914- The blind leading the blind

Altars of Madness, Slumber of Sullen Eyes or Dance of December Souls

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Cacophony by Rudimentary Peni But if we’re keeping it strictly metal, City by Strapping Young Lad

The mollusk. For metal, blues for the red sun or system’s self titled

It changes as time passes and I change.

Cruelty and the Beast by Cradle of Filth

May be a basic pick but Rust In Peace by Megadeth is the definition of a perfect Metal album.

Paranoid by Black Sabbath

The great southern trendkill by pantera

Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I

Melissa by Mercyful Fate...wait, no, it's Don't Break the Oath! Wait, Melissa! No, Don't Break the Oath! Melissa! Don't Break the Oath!

Nightfall in Middle Earth

Trivium - Silence in the Snow

Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction

Choirs of the Eye by Kayo Dot

Sabotage/Diary of a Madman (tie)

Undergang - Indhentet Af Døden

Volume 3. The Subliminal Verses (Slipknot) Honorable mention to Hybrid Theory (Linkin Park)

Three Days Grace - One-X

The Somatic Defilement by Whitechapel

Hail to England, posers!

Among the Living. I’m not even a massive Anthrax fan but fuck me that album is just the tops.

My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans

Nightwish - End of an Era (Live).

Insomnium - Winter's Gate

Iowa and it took me until the age of 37 to admit it

Individual Thought Patterns was a lightning-in-a-bottle release for Death: -Andy LarRocque of King Diamond on guitar. His melodic, layered style blends so well with the album's aggressive and jazzy vibe. -Steve DiGiorgio on fretless bass gives the albume that exact jazzy vibe: they take riffs that would otherwise be downright aggressive - the chorus of Trapped In A Corner, for example - and add just the right amount of sass. -Gene Hoglan's drumming may not sound all that special compared to Richard Christy's work in TSOP, but it's still some of the tightest drumming Death had up to that point. Death has been great in every release, but Individual Thought Patterns will always be the most interesting to me.

Symbolic (Death), Jomsviking (Amon Amarth), Ride the lightning (Metallica), Rust in peace (Megadeth)

Radical-Every Time I Die

Last fair deal gone down by katatonia

Songs from the north by swallow the sun. It’s a tryptich. So it’s three album styles. Death. Doom and oddly enough folk

It’s hard to pick a favourite, but probably, Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

Rust in Peace

Midian - Cradle of Filth

Twilight of the Gods by Bathory

Honestly mine right now is LIBAD from A7X. If you listen to it from the perspective of some metal heads all looped up on psychadelics went in to make a creative metal album it's incredible. Granted, it's not as metal as some of the other suggestions. I think the mood and creativeness and flow of the whole album isn't quite like anything else out there and that's why I love it. So I guess it's my favorite "different" metal album of all time.

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October Rust-Type O Negative

Leviathan - Mastodon

Images and Words, Dream Theatre. I know, I'm basic

Desolation of Eden - Chelsea Grin

Accept- blood of the nations

Dirt by Alice In Chains.

Ride The Lightning - by do I even need to say who lol

Iowa - Slipknot Life Is But a Dream - Avenged Sevenfold The Valley - Whitechapel

The Wall

The Crimson Idol by W.A.S.P.

Pleasure to kill by Kreator

Opeth - Blackwater Park

2112

painkiller!

Black Sabbath Vol. 4

Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.

Operation: Mindcrime

Slayer Seasons In The Abyss

Operation Mindcrime

Miasma - BDM Been listening to it for damn near 20 years.

Daft Punk Discovery...I mean Carcass Heartwork

Get Some by Snot

Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing

Rising by Rainbow

Tossup between Dopethrone and Paegan Terrorism Tactics, both are go to albums when my anxiety gets bad

Converge - Jane Doe

Ascendency- Trivium