Your favourite 15 Metal albums?

Not taking early heavy rock or heavy prog bands into consideration (Black Sabbath counts though). Because although I acknowledge they are an essential part of metal history, I don’t think of them as metal. Something like this perhaps:

Sadus- Illusions     
Аспид [Aspid] - Кровоизлияние
Slayer - South of Heaven
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Vektor - Black Future
Atvm - Famine, Putrid and f**king Endless
Death - Leprosy
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Manowar - Hail to England
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Morbid Angel - Covenant

Saperlipopette! wrote: Not taking early heavy rock or heavy prog bands into consideration (Black Sabbath counts though). Because although I acknowledge they are an essential part of metal history, I don’t think of them as metal.

Edited by David_D - November 15 2021 at 13:05

Cristi wrote: David_D wrote: Cristi wrote: NWOBHM is not a metal genre, it's exactly what it says in its name, a wave of heavy metal bands , a lot of them influenced by what came before - Purple, Heep, Priest, Budgie, Sabbath and add the likes of punk, Motorhead.  If hard rock and heavy metal walked hand in hand in the past, with the NWOBHM, heavy metal went ahead and left hard rock behind.  I think, NWOBHM can be said to be a transition phase between "the early Metal" and "the proper Metal". There is no such thing as "proper metal". It's still heavy metal.

David_D wrote: Cristi wrote: There is no such thing as "proper metal". It's still heavy metal.  Can you explain further what you mean?

Cristi wrote: David_D wrote: Cristi wrote: There is no such thing as "proper metal". It's still heavy metal.  Can you explain further what you mean? What do you mean by "proper metal", I've never seen it before.  Early metal was still heavy metal, a first wave of bands if it's easy to point out. NWOBHM was a continuation of that, with new influences, artists trying to come up with something new and it worked.  It inspired and influenced new genres, such as speed metal, thrash, US Power and in the case of Venom even early black metal or what metalheads call the first wave of black metal (not an expert in that, but I've tried a few bands, read and watched a few things at least to understand what was going on).

Saperlipopette! wrote:  Interesting that it was Paranoid and not Sabbath Bloody Sabbath or Sabotage.

David_D wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote:  Interesting that it was Paranoid and not Sabbath Bloody Sabbath or Sabotage. Yes, as Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are maybe by not so few today considered as even the begining of Prog Metal - but the interview was about Paranoid, and I think that in 1973 BS had an image as a Metal band. About Paranoid, well, the year was 1970, and the Prog genre was just began to form so, what was and what not was Prog, was absolutely not clear. So, in fact, in my opinion, Paranoid viewing from historical  perspective maybe surely can be considered as Prog.

Ok, I wasn't aware of the specific context. Paranoid was certainly a progressive rock album of sorts in 1970, yes. And so was their debut album, really.

Led Zeppelin  - II 

Black Sabbath - Paranoid 

Deep Purple  - Deep Purple In Rock 

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny 

Iron Maiden  - Iron Maiden

Alice Cooper - Killer

Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of

Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

essexboyinwales wrote: If we're sticking to one per band.  INPO.  OTTOMH.  And I haven't got time to find the years... Ayreon - The Human Equation Dream Theater - Images And Words Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos

Not a huge metal fan so picking 15 won't be doable. However I can pick a few but some of these probably aren't considered metal. Whatever.