Your Top 10 Metal Albums of All-Time

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ And their opinion differs slightly from the folks at metal-archives.com. The emerging picture that is consistent with most viewpoints is that there were different phases of metal:  1. a classic, pioneering phase in the 70s 2. the NWOBHM in the late 70s and early 80s 3. "modern" metal in the early 80s and beyond All we're basically arguing about is what to call them, and which albums qualify - which will be an eternal discussion

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Saperlipopette! wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: Kill 'em All could very well be the beginning of "Metal", while the 70s laid the foundations with their "Heavy Metal" albums: Rock/Blues -> Heavy Rock/Blues / Hard Rock ->  New Wave of British Heavy Metal -> (Modern) Metal ->  Thrash Metal / Death Metal / Black Metal / ... Kill Em ALl the beginning of metal? OMG. Are you serious? Metallica didn't even release the first thrash much less metal. Both Sodom and Holy Moses released thrash metal before Metallica. But come on a couple of primitively recorded german cassette demos weren't game-changers like Kill 'Em All was. Your revisionist way of thinking is nice for shining a light on overlooked bands and stuff, but not helpful in understanding music history. Era defining albums is rarely about being the very first, but the first that was widely listened to and the most influential. As with In the Court... or Bitches Brew before - for Prog and Fusion. Anyway I just wrote what I mean when I state just "metal" - and don't specify any further like with "heavy metal". If someone tells me "I listen to a lot of metal" I will associate with another kind of metal than someone saying "I listen to a lot of heavy metal". - Imo there is a before and after Kill ‘Em All. To those who heard it, it sounded harder and more aggressive than anything before. And as it actually sold a few copies - it made the biggest waves. But there’s no before and after Witching Metal (or Satan's Angel), as hardly anyone knew of its existence back then. Just like In the Court... is much better than anything by The Nice - Kill 'Em All is obviously of a much higher than quality than those earlier, thrashy demos too.

I must have about at least 50 special favourites. The first ten that initially comes to my mind are below.

1- Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
2- Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
3- Amorphis - Tuonela
4- Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
5- Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
6- In Flames - The Jester Race
7- Opeth - Morningrise
8- Nightwish - Oceanborn
9- Dream Theater Awake
10- Therion - Vovin

Edited by Archisorcerus - July 17 2023 at 10:19

siLLy puPPy wrote: The claim was Kill Em All was the FIRST METAL ALBUM. Hardly.[/COLOR]

That was not my claim. First, I used conditional language - second, I put “Metal” in quotes, on purpose. Kill ‘em All was about 1983. It, together with many other albums of the early 80s, may have kicked off the third phase of metal. You mentioned Iron Maiden - they also changed notably in style. Compare their debut with Powerslave, and the difference between the phases might become more palpable.

Edited by David_D - July 18 2023 at 09:56

I can only give five because Metal is just NOT my genre, but I would say:

5. Vovoid - Nothingface
4. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Edited by Boi_da_boi_124 - July 17 2023 at 13:38

non-prog, one-per-band, alphabetical order:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
HIM - Venus Doom
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Ministry - Filth Pig
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Rammstein - Reise Reise
Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods

there are also non-metal releases that I love, but by metal bands (Paradise Lost - Host, Deafheaven - Inifinte Granite, Metallica - Reload, etc), won't include these here

I think my list from earlier is more or less still fairly accurate enough.


Edited by bardberic - July 21 2023 at 15:31