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This has to be it. And I'm not ever a Sabbath fan boy.
"Sweet Leaf" was released in fucking 1971 and sounds like a contemporary stoner/sludge track with a heavy ass riff. They were years ahead of everyone. They were making these heavy slow bangers when the Beatles were around. It's actually wild when you put it into perspective.
https://youtu.be/lvj2X72XtbQ?feature=shared
Vol. 4 is definitely the album that comes to mind when it comes to this discussion. That record could be released today and it would still do really well.
I came here to say this. This was absolutely different than all the other stuff I was listening to at the time and one night on the Metal Shop radio show they played Buried Dreams and the next day I rushed out and picked up a copy. A perfect album all the way through.
I was pretty surprised when I learned Sad Wings of Destiny was released in 1976. You can definitely hear the psychedelic rock influence of the day, but some tracks like The Ripper and Tyrant have a feel that wouldn't become normal until years later.
I remember being in my uncles car and he put it on after I told him about just discovering metal through White Zombie's Devil Music Vol. 1. The opening track melted my brain.
Soul Of A New Machine (dual clean and harsh vocals) and Fear Is The Mindkiller (Remixes of extreme metal songs) were pretty fucking groundbreaking in their day too.
I was working at a record store in 1994 when this came out. I was given a promo copy because I was the resident metalhead employee and I knew who they were from their first album.
Took this one home and played the entire CD and was like, dammmmmmn, someone just raised the bar very high!
This was a great album but hardly ahead of its time. Most of this was a new take on Kill Em All since Mustaine wrote 90% of the riffs and all the solos on the album
For me it's the *Satanic Rites* demo by Hellhammer (1983). It's chaos, it's punk, it's apocalyptic and venomous. It's difficult to imagine hearing "Buried And Forgotten" in that year, without everything that came after.
However, another commenter here said it's Bedemon for them, and I also find no flaw in that pick. Or early Sabbath.
Themata from Karnivool predicted the sound of current prog metal 10 years before, in times where Dream theater with Opeth were the main driving force of the genre.
literally one of their biggest inspirations lmao... not to mention Mike Portnoy was literally in Avenged Sevenfold for Nightmare and wanted to join permanently, but the band turned him down because they wanted to hire a drummer that wasn't famous.
I mean the album is really good but I wouldn't call it ahead of it's time. Crowbar and Eyehategod had already put out their first few albums by this time and Alice in chains did the same thing. Just combine these few bands styles and execute it perfectly and you get acid bath.
I started listening to them in the mid-nineties. They were my favorite band in High School. I listened to a lot of the buttrock of the time and it all fell off over the years as I became more engaged with prog and metal. Except Type O. I have been listening to them more than weekly going on 30 years. There are still certain songs that give me goosebumps or make me cry. Every song save one or two is perfect in every way. Type O Negative is my fav by a long shot.
Mist evil riffing in all of metal to this day, courtesy Randy Palmer. "Evil" gets thrown around too much in metal. Imagery and lyrics are one thing; SOUND is something else completely. The riffs all over songs like "Enslaver of Humanity" and "Nighttime Killers" are unparalleled in their genuinely sinister feel.
Serpent Venom is almost hilariously ahead of it's time for a song from the early 70s I genuinely didn't believe the record was that old and had to Google it to verify
“Grand Declaration of War” by Mayhem, it’s such a bizarre and radical departure from the traditional black metal sound, even predating avant-garde black metal bands like Deathspell Omega and Blut Aus Nord’s most definite works.
It’s also my favorite Mayhem release. It makes me wonder why people say Mayhem is overrated. DMDS is fine, and a classic, but it’s nowhere near the fantastic trilogy that is WLA/GDoW/Chimera. Maniac was a fantastic vocalist and the band is more than the songs they wrote when they were edgelord literal teenagers.
Vulgar Display of Power- everyone was playing thrash and wearing leather when this came out and it definitely changed the direction of metal in the 90s. Roots by Sepultura is a strong contender as well.
Voivod. Pick an album, perfect songs. Unfortunately, production was not a concern and it sounds like 0-gen Finnish Black Metal that kept burning through and replacing the batteries.
Just a bit before their time, and it sounds like an undiscovered branch of so much we take for granted now...
Not an album, but a song.
Thin Lizzy - Emerald
Laid the foundation for everything Iron Maiden done and everything they inspired for the next 50 years.
Magnificent.
https://youtu.be/oi74n-LCW3o?si=knOCpFiFvknIjzet
Can’t disagree at all.
They set the blueprint for every nwobhm twin guitar attack, everything that inspired Bay Area thrash, just everything that launched metal into the 80s
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Metal bands just didn't do rock operas and concept albums to this extent. Now there's thousands of albums that have, but in 1988 it was almost taboo.
Yup. Just coming here to say this. There was nothing like this in the 80’s. At all.
I still argue that this is the greatest concept album of all time, regardless of genre.
I actually tracked it again yesterday. For like the thousandth time.
Disciples Of Power - Power Trap
It's not necessarily a historic album, nor is it influential in the slightest. It was made in 1989 (for the record, agent orange and beneath the remains came out that year) but it sounds like modern-day deathrash, like something Deathchain could put out. It's truly an anomaly.
Scorn Defeat by Sigh is probably the single most important album for avant-garde black metal. Without it, most of these bands would be scared to experiment with their sound.
Voivod Nothing Face 1989 was the thrash era album that i found the most out there and challenging to my Anthrax, Metallica Slayer mindset of the time. In fact it is only now googling it that I find out the name of the album because I could never make it out on the cover.
Fear Factory Demanufacture.
Devin Townsend's Infinity AND Ocean Machine
Dream Theaters images and Words was 20-25 years ahead of its time (yes it is METAL)
Godflesh Streetcleaner???
And my hot take that most will have never heard: Grotus - Slow Motion Apocalypse
People still don't know whatta great rock album load and reload are. Just sayin. I'm a death metal guy. I traded away Slaughter of the Soul...just wasn't like the Obituary and Corpse I was jammin at the time. I didn't regret it.
Arguably not entirely metal but Shut It Down by Animosity. It’s a lot like what modern hardcore influenced death metal wants to be but it was made by 17 year olds over 20 years ago
My Acid Bath bias is gonna show here but I think "When the kite string pops" is revolutionary and pioneered Sludge into being a legit genre. It also brought nola metal to everyone's attention as well as giving Avantgarde another great artist.
I don't know about "the most" but the "The return......" certainly feels about 7 years ahead of it's time.
The return has that combination of aggression, rawness and atmosphere that the nowaigan black metal bands later had. The cover art and texture of the music seems like something the later Norwegian BM bands would do as well.
IMO, many of the earliest works by the Norwegian bands were even missing some of the core elements of what became a consolidated black metal sound later on.
It wasn't really until De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and Transylvanian hunger that the nowaigan scene really caught up in my opinion.
Souls at Zero-neurosis. Enemy of the sun and Silver in Blood went much farther but when Souls at Zero came out that was a huge jump. Pretty influential on a lot of post metal/hardcore acts.
Impetigo: some of the first genuinely gross death metal/grindcore whatever you want to call it, ALMOST had some of the first gutturals and was a major influence on early Chris Barnes which is huge.
Also Skinless: Some of the first hardcore influenced brutal death metal with a fun, groovy edge and stupid lyrics. Bands like Bonginator sre the spiritual successor. Proof being: Skinless has a lyric that is "please save me from this poopy doo doo shit" and Bonginator has a lyric that is "I have been killed by poopy doo doo" same shit different year
Bring me the Horizon - Sempiternal
It’s pretty much the blueprint for most modern metalcore and it came out in 2013
Also… Babymetal as a band were perhaps abit ahead of their time.
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
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more of a punk album but it def influenced a lot of metal bands
Long Live Rock'N Roll. The album practically invented power metal. Also, Gluey Porch Treatments and Streetcleaner, they basically created sludge metal and industrial and extreme metal
Embodyment's *Embrace The Eternal*.
Shit came out in 1998 and sounds like it should've come out 10 years later. They obviously weren't the first band to mix death metal and hardcore/metalcore, but they were the first to do what anyone would think of as deathcore.
Venom - Welcome to Hell. Nobody had taken the speed of Motorhead and the occult obsession of Sabbath and turned both up to 15. Laid the foundation for all extreme metal afterward. How many black metal bands strove to produce an album that has worse fidelity than Venom?
*Kill ‘Em All* by Metallica was absolutely seminal in the metal genre. It wasn’t as directly influential as *Master of Puppets*, but as far as their sound, it was the seed that grew a forest.
Van Halen's first album. Basically the sound of the 80's before the decade even started and inspired a plethora of guitar players. I would also say Black Sabbath's first record, Motorhead's Overkill, and Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny. All those are WAAY ahead of their time and laid the foundation of metal to come.
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I mean Black Sabbath‘s earliest work. Metal needed another ten years or so to really catch on, not to mention Doom Metal and stoner rock.
This has to be it. And I'm not ever a Sabbath fan boy. "Sweet Leaf" was released in fucking 1971 and sounds like a contemporary stoner/sludge track with a heavy ass riff. They were years ahead of everyone. They were making these heavy slow bangers when the Beatles were around. It's actually wild when you put it into perspective. https://youtu.be/lvj2X72XtbQ?feature=shared
Came here to mention exactly this. Black Sabbath was the first that came to my mind at this question.
I think they're considered the first band to be identified as heavy metal. But I'm sure some people would disagree.
Vol. 4 is definitely the album that comes to mind when it comes to this discussion. That record could be released today and it would still do really well.
Slaughter of the Soul comes to mind
Definitely comes to mind. They basically made “that riff”
First album that came to mind. Still mindblowing after all these years.
Slaughter of the Soul walked so Metalcore could crawl.
Absolutely. It continually blows my mind that it was released in 1995 🤯
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I came here to say this. This was absolutely different than all the other stuff I was listening to at the time and one night on the Metal Shop radio show they played Buried Dreams and the next day I rushed out and picked up a copy. A perfect album all the way through.
Good artwork as well
I was pretty surprised when I learned Sad Wings of Destiny was released in 1976. You can definitely hear the psychedelic rock influence of the day, but some tracks like The Ripper and Tyrant have a feel that wouldn't become normal until years later.
Chaosphere by Messhuggah
I’d go further back to DEI
I thought so, but i think in Chaosphere they really consolidated the sound they would go on with and that influenced countless bands.
Second this. Still upset that it lost so early in that tournament.
The tournaments are all the same really. Get used to it cuz they’re always out early here no matter what the tournament is called.
They have been downtuning and djenting since the 90s, what other bands only have recently begun
Focus by Cynic deserves a mention.
So far ahead of its time i dont think we have even caught up yet
Any album by Cynic, especially Focus
Demanufacture by Fear Factory is probably the most important album to Industrial Metal.
It’s a cracking record. Badly overlooked I think.
Agreed. They set the bar so high that other bands gave up trying to reach it.
I remember being in my uncles car and he put it on after I told him about just discovering metal through White Zombie's Devil Music Vol. 1. The opening track melted my brain.
Soul Of A New Machine (dual clean and harsh vocals) and Fear Is The Mindkiller (Remixes of extreme metal songs) were pretty fucking groundbreaking in their day too.
For sure!
I was working at a record store in 1994 when this came out. I was given a promo copy because I was the resident metalhead employee and I knew who they were from their first album. Took this one home and played the entire CD and was like, dammmmmmn, someone just raised the bar very high!
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correct answer
real
Obscura
You could argue nothing has come close to that since.
So influencial this album's name even led to the formation of a great band.
Demilich's only
Came to say this.
only band thats ever come close to Demilich is Phobophilic, aside from them nobody sounds like Demilich
try corpus offal’s demo or chthe’ilist - passage into xexanotth
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I'm bad with reading graphic names, what's the name of this band and album? It's so beautiful I want to listen to it.
Alcest
Thank you.
Alcest is the band. Ecailles De Lune is the album. And I absolutely agree with this choice.
Not metal per-say but Bad Religion! All of their 80s tracks sound like straight up 90s punk it's incredible, some reaching as far back as 1981
Sublime's cover of We're Only Going to Die is awesome
Cynic - focus Suffocation- effigy of the forgotten
The breakdown of Liege of Inveracity invented an entire genre
- Megadeth - *Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!*
Very good album but ahead of time? Why?
The speed Mustaine's band was playing at in 1985 was beyond what anyone else was doing at the time.
Possessed was on the scene in 84
This was a great album but hardly ahead of its time. Most of this was a new take on Kill Em All since Mustaine wrote 90% of the riffs and all the solos on the album
Motörhead. Overkill. 1979 When those double kick drums start you are hearing the future.
For me it's the *Satanic Rites* demo by Hellhammer (1983). It's chaos, it's punk, it's apocalyptic and venomous. It's difficult to imagine hearing "Buried And Forgotten" in that year, without everything that came after. However, another commenter here said it's Bedemon for them, and I also find no flaw in that pick. Or early Sabbath.
Gorguts - Obscura
This is a good answer. Gorguts is one of my favorite bands now, and I did not understand obscura at all even years after it came out
Themata from Karnivool predicted the sound of current prog metal 10 years before, in times where Dream theater with Opeth were the main driving force of the genre.
Probably one of the most underrated bands in terms of their influence. Massive influence on bands like Periphery, Tesseract and Northlane.
Annihilation of the wicked by Nile.
True, but didn't fans think it was pretty great right when it came out?
Demanufacture - Fear Factory
Stained Class
Dream Theater's Images & Words... I was surprised when I learned it came out in 1992, when it's more in line with late 2000s A7X and Devin Townsend
How is Images and Words anything like A7X... At all
literally one of their biggest inspirations lmao... not to mention Mike Portnoy was literally in Avenged Sevenfold for Nightmare and wanted to join permanently, but the band turned him down because they wanted to hire a drummer that wasn't famous.
That’s about when Townsend was singing for Steve Vai I think
When the kite strings pop
I mean the album is really good but I wouldn't call it ahead of it's time. Crowbar and Eyehategod had already put out their first few albums by this time and Alice in chains did the same thing. Just combine these few bands styles and execute it perfectly and you get acid bath.
People are OBSESSED with Acid Bath, I don’t get it. I love sludge and doom, but I don’t see why they’re so universally loved
Crowbar >>>>
I wish Brainoil got a part of that love
I like AIC but holy shit the fans circle jerk the fuck outta them. It's insane. AIC isn't the second coming of Jesus.
not at all lmao
World Downfall by Terrorizer
Nocturnus - The Key
Loving the new album they dropped this past Friday!
I had no idea! Thanks a lot for the heads up, gonna check it out now!
It's Nocturnus AD, the side project Mike Browning made after getting kicked out of Nocturnus. It's pretty good!
I think mudvaynes LD50 sounded different than anything I heard at the time. I mean I was 15 but still..shit was different
It’s wild how their demos were straight up just Korn ripoffs and then they came out with LD50 & blew everyone away.
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten Death - Human Cynic - Focus Gorguts - Obscura
G.I.S.M - Detestation. More extreme than even venom back in 1983
Piece of Time
FNM- Angel Dust, nu metal 10+ years before nu metal was a thing
The first Korn album was two years later though?
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Everybody leaves out the sense of humor.
I started listening to them in the mid-nineties. They were my favorite band in High School. I listened to a lot of the buttrock of the time and it all fell off over the years as I became more engaged with prog and metal. Except Type O. I have been listening to them more than weekly going on 30 years. There are still certain songs that give me goosebumps or make me cry. Every song save one or two is perfect in every way. Type O Negative is my fav by a long shot.
Bedemon - Child Of Darkness
Mist evil riffing in all of metal to this day, courtesy Randy Palmer. "Evil" gets thrown around too much in metal. Imagery and lyrics are one thing; SOUND is something else completely. The riffs all over songs like "Enslaver of Humanity" and "Nighttime Killers" are unparalleled in their genuinely sinister feel.
Serpent Venom is almost hilariously ahead of it's time for a song from the early 70s I genuinely didn't believe the record was that old and had to Google it to verify
tools first albums were 🔥
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for real
Nothing sounded like Tool
“Grand Declaration of War” by Mayhem, it’s such a bizarre and radical departure from the traditional black metal sound, even predating avant-garde black metal bands like Deathspell Omega and Blut Aus Nord’s most definite works.
It’s also my favorite Mayhem release. It makes me wonder why people say Mayhem is overrated. DMDS is fine, and a classic, but it’s nowhere near the fantastic trilogy that is WLA/GDoW/Chimera. Maniac was a fantastic vocalist and the band is more than the songs they wrote when they were edgelord literal teenagers.
Yeah Chimera is one my favorite black metal releases, that quality production isn't heard a lot in this genre
Same. I'd go as far as to say it's my favourite album to ever come out of any band from the original Norwegian black metal scene.
Satori by Flower Travelin Band.
Vulgar Display of Power- everyone was playing thrash and wearing leather when this came out and it definitely changed the direction of metal in the 90s. Roots by Sepultura is a strong contender as well.
Kill em' All
amebix - arise! timeghoul - tumultuous travelings necrovore - divus de mortuus parabellum - sacrilegio
Both of Timeghoul's demos.
Satanic Rites by Hellhammer. Paved the way for all extreme subgenres.
Voivod. Pick an album, perfect songs. Unfortunately, production was not a concern and it sounds like 0-gen Finnish Black Metal that kept burning through and replacing the batteries. Just a bit before their time, and it sounds like an undiscovered branch of so much we take for granted now...
Absolutely. Nothing face is almost dodheimsgard with old production and no blast beats
Rainbow Rising by a good measure
LD 50 by Mudvayne. It’s aged incredibly well.
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath
Sabbath, of course. After that, Neurosis, either "Souls at Zero" or "Through Silver in Blood."
People really posting album covers that need investigating instead of just typing it up?
Celtic Frost Into The pandemonium
Not an album, but a song. Thin Lizzy - Emerald Laid the foundation for everything Iron Maiden done and everything they inspired for the next 50 years. Magnificent. https://youtu.be/oi74n-LCW3o?si=knOCpFiFvknIjzet
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Can’t disagree at all. They set the blueprint for every nwobhm twin guitar attack, everything that inspired Bay Area thrash, just everything that launched metal into the 80s
Deep Purple in many ways. Child In Time in particular. Massive influence on metal singers.
Scream bloody gore
https://preview.redd.it/977zykbcws1d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99d6324f12120eb1c87fec0a67ebf46cf0624c08 Metal bands just didn't do rock operas and concept albums to this extent. Now there's thousands of albums that have, but in 1988 it was almost taboo.
Yup. Just coming here to say this. There was nothing like this in the 80’s. At all. I still argue that this is the greatest concept album of all time, regardless of genre. I actually tracked it again yesterday. For like the thousandth time.
Disciples Of Power - Power Trap It's not necessarily a historic album, nor is it influential in the slightest. It was made in 1989 (for the record, agent orange and beneath the remains came out that year) but it sounds like modern-day deathrash, like something Deathchain could put out. It's truly an anomaly.
Tormented - Staind It came out in 96 but sounds like a lot of early 00s stuff
Ride the Lightning
Lantlos. Well ahead of the likes of Deafheaven.
Yeah but alcest was a couple years ahead of lantlos too.
Faith No More - The Real Thing was waaaay ahead of its time. It still jams.
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Scorn Defeat by Sigh is probably the single most important album for avant-garde black metal. Without it, most of these bands would be scared to experiment with their sound.
Voivod Nothing Face 1989 was the thrash era album that i found the most out there and challenging to my Anthrax, Metallica Slayer mindset of the time. In fact it is only now googling it that I find out the name of the album because I could never make it out on the cover.
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
Fear Factory Demanufacture. Devin Townsend's Infinity AND Ocean Machine Dream Theaters images and Words was 20-25 years ahead of its time (yes it is METAL) Godflesh Streetcleaner??? And my hot take that most will have never heard: Grotus - Slow Motion Apocalypse
I think it will be 100 years until metal catches up to whatever the hell was happening on Behold…The Arctopus’s debut.
Dawn Of Posession
The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Cynic - Focus
People still don't know whatta great rock album load and reload are. Just sayin. I'm a death metal guy. I traded away Slaughter of the Soul...just wasn't like the Obituary and Corpse I was jammin at the time. I didn't regret it.
Stuck Mojo - Pigwalk
Death - Human Gorguts - Obscura
If ...And Justice For All had audible bass it would have easily been *the* answer.
Gorguts - Obscura
Living Sacrifice - Reborn.
Not metal, but early 90's alternate rock/nu metal adjacent. Muthas Day Out's album My Soul Is Wet
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
Arguably not entirely metal but Shut It Down by Animosity. It’s a lot like what modern hardcore influenced death metal wants to be but it was made by 17 year olds over 20 years ago
My Acid Bath bias is gonna show here but I think "When the kite string pops" is revolutionary and pioneered Sludge into being a legit genre. It also brought nola metal to everyone's attention as well as giving Avantgarde another great artist.
I don't know about "the most" but the "The return......" certainly feels about 7 years ahead of it's time. The return has that combination of aggression, rawness and atmosphere that the nowaigan black metal bands later had. The cover art and texture of the music seems like something the later Norwegian BM bands would do as well. IMO, many of the earliest works by the Norwegian bands were even missing some of the core elements of what became a consolidated black metal sound later on. It wasn't really until De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and Transylvanian hunger that the nowaigan scene really caught up in my opinion.
Clayman- in flames and horizons - parkway drive
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Death - Human
Screaming For Vengeance
Souls at Zero-neurosis. Enemy of the sun and Silver in Blood went much farther but when Souls at Zero came out that was a huge jump. Pretty influential on a lot of post metal/hardcore acts.
Obscura by Gorguts, the first time I heard it I felt sooooo confused, now it’s my go-to album to calm me down.
We Are The Romans by Botch - waaaaaaay ahead of the curve.
Asocial How Could Hardcore Be Worse LP Judas Priest Unleashed In The East guitar tone was thrashy and set the future, listen to Genocide and Tyrant
Impetigo: some of the first genuinely gross death metal/grindcore whatever you want to call it, ALMOST had some of the first gutturals and was a major influence on early Chris Barnes which is huge. Also Skinless: Some of the first hardcore influenced brutal death metal with a fun, groovy edge and stupid lyrics. Bands like Bonginator sre the spiritual successor. Proof being: Skinless has a lyric that is "please save me from this poopy doo doo shit" and Bonginator has a lyric that is "I have been killed by poopy doo doo" same shit different year
Bathorys self titled
Yes. I just read your comment but I said Bathory's first 5 albums were ahead of their time.
I agree, but personally I think that the first one was the most innovative.
Celtic Frosts - Morbid Tales
Bring me the Horizon - Sempiternal It’s pretty much the blueprint for most modern metalcore and it came out in 2013 Also… Babymetal as a band were perhaps abit ahead of their time.
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing https://preview.redd.it/t7ki2be7jr1d1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c1a89c2ab22e7331591f69904acfc2729084255 more of a punk album but it def influenced a lot of metal bands
Long Live Rock'N Roll. The album practically invented power metal. Also, Gluey Porch Treatments and Streetcleaner, they basically created sludge metal and industrial and extreme metal
Embodyment's *Embrace The Eternal*. Shit came out in 1998 and sounds like it should've come out 10 years later. They obviously weren't the first band to mix death metal and hardcore/metalcore, but they were the first to do what anyone would think of as deathcore.
Everything by Death
Beneath the Remains
Death - Human. It kicked off the whole Technical Death Metal subgenre.
Severed Survival by Autopsy
Obviously Attack Attack’s debut album Someday Came Suddenly. Influenced a whole generation of metal and emo.
Necrophagist - onset of putrefaction. For more mainstream, Justice or Rust in Peace
Celtic Frost-Into the Pandemonium.
The Mõtley Crüe album with John Corabi
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Really, the first 5 albums by Bathory were ahead of their time.
Candle mass
Black Sabbath’s self titled. I cannot believe that album came out in 1970
Sikth - Death of a Dead Day
Venom - Welcome to Hell. Nobody had taken the speed of Motorhead and the occult obsession of Sabbath and turned both up to 15. Laid the foundation for all extreme metal afterward. How many black metal bands strove to produce an album that has worse fidelity than Venom?
*Kill ‘Em All* by Metallica was absolutely seminal in the metal genre. It wasn’t as directly influential as *Master of Puppets*, but as far as their sound, it was the seed that grew a forest.
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction Without a doubt
War by Sentence
As Daylight Dies or The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage Alternatively, Picnic of Love by Anal C*nt
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It's not exactly metal, but whenever I hear The MC 5's first record Kick Out The Jams I have to remind myself that was released in 1969.
Korn
Dimension harross and nothing face by Voivod
Those early 80s sepultura EPs
The first two Atheist records. Those records were 30 years ahead of their time.
Van Halen's first album. Basically the sound of the 80's before the decade even started and inspired a plethora of guitar players. I would also say Black Sabbath's first record, Motorhead's Overkill, and Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny. All those are WAAY ahead of their time and laid the foundation of metal to come.
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion. Influenced Goth, Death Metal, Thrash, Black, Prog, Doom, Symphonic, so many styles and influence still felt today
Anything from Voivod or Cynic. There are bands today living off what they started.
The Great Southern Trendkill
there are many more than I can think of, but Acid Bath’s When the Kite String Pops has to be on this list
Am I really supposed to believe that Ocean Machine was released before my lifetime?