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AC/DC if you want blood.
Purple In Rock
Rainbow Rising
Iron Maiden Brave New World.
Black Sabbath Sabbath bloody Sabbath.
Montrose 1st album
UFO strangers in the Night.
Priest Unleashed in the East.
Van Halen 1st album
Led Zep 2 and 4
BOC Secret Treaties
Michael Schenker Group 1st album
Scorpions Lovedrive.
Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar.
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Originally posted by Earl of Mar Earl of Mar wrote:

AC/DC if you want blood.
Purple In Rock
Rainbow Rising
Iron Maiden Brave New World.
Black Sabbath Sabbath bloody Sabbath.

Montrose 1st album
UFO strangers in the Night.
Priest Unleashed in the East.

Van Halen 1st album
Led Zep 2 and 4
BOC Secret Treaties
Michael Schenker Group 1st album
Scorpions Lovedrive.

Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar.

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In no particular order:

King Diamond - Abigail
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Soul Doubt - The Dance of Light and Shade
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Redemption - The Fullness of Time
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Queensr˙che - Operation: Mindcrime
Rainbow - Rising
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Cacophony - Go Off!
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Arch Echo - Arch Echo
Black ⚡abbath - ⚡abbath Bloody ⚡abbath
Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Remedy Lane Element Pt. I  Wink (Okay, I admit it: I cheated there...)




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I hadn't really considered Rainbow but they were probably an important 'link' band between old and new in the seventies. Its much clearer to me that something like Rising is more heavy metal compared to say In Rock or Led Zep II. Also Thin Lizzy with that twin guitar thing of Gary Moore and Scott Goram was another very important band for the genre. Can only do 12 'proper' metal albums, 3 at the bottom are clearly not but do have a strong metal influence.

Led Zep - II
Deep Purple - In Rock
Rainbow - Rising
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Opeth - Pale Communion
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Haken - Vector
Animals As Leaders - S/t
Exivious - Exivious
Katatonia - City Burials
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason
Rush - 2112
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Tool - Lateralus



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2021 at 01:24
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Can only do 12 'proper' metal albums,... 

If you haven't seen it, I've regretted the term "the proper Metal" (after Cristi's critism), as I now find it too subjective and condescending towards the earlier Metal.
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I think your point about Rainbow and Thin Lizzy is quite interesting.


Edited by David_D - November 19 2021 at 09:22
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How do some you distinguish between heavy metal and hard rock? I really don't have one.

Anyway, 15 off the top of my head (1 album per artist). I am sure I have left off other favorites.

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
3. Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
4. Prong - Prove You Wrong
5. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
6. Motorhead - Orgasmatron
7. Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
8. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
10. Tool - Lateralus
11. Cynic - Traced in Air
12. Warrior Soul - God, Drugs and the New Republic
13. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
14. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
15. Dream Theater - Images and Words
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2021 at 14:56
Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

 Paranoid was certainly a progressive rock album of sorts in 1970, yes. And so was their debut album, really.

One thing more I don't understand in this question: If Look at your Self is considered Prog then why should Paranoid not be?
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

 Paranoid was certainly a progressive rock album of sorts in 1970, yes. And so was their debut album, really.

One thing more I don't understand in this question: If Look at your Self is considered Prog then why should Paranoid not be?

don't start with another what's prog and what's not, you'll be killing your own thread. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:00
And have you maybe thought, it would be good to move this thread to the top again? Tongue
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

And have you maybe thought, it would be good to move this thread to the top again? Tongue

it goes at the top of the general music page every time someone posts. 

But discussions like what's prog and what's not are thread killers and derail the whole initial conversation. Best be avoided in my humble opinion. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:07
Agree, so even I find these discussions very constructive for Prog at the time being, it has to be in an appropriate quantity.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Cristi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:08
Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Agree, so even I find these discussions very constructive for Prog at the time being, it has to be in an appropriate quantity.

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Agree, so even I find these discussions very constructive for Prog at the time being, it has to be in an appropriate quantity.

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1. X Japan - Art of Life
2. Opeth - Still Life
3. Dream Theater - Images and Words
4. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
5. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
6. Tool - Lateralus (if they count as metal)
7. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
8. Death - Symbolic
9. Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
10. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
11. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
12. Morbid Angel - Covenant
13. Immolation - Close to a World Below
14. Sadist - Tribe
15. Between the Buried and Me - Colors 
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Very welcome to you here, Necrotica, a bit late to the party but then, even more welcomed.
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I've just realized I haven't made a list here yet.  Embarrassed

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Death Angel - Act III
King Diamond - Abigail
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Warlord - And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun
Annihilator - Never Neverland
Dio - Last in Line
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Legend - From The Fjords
Lake of Tears - Forever Autumn
Helstar - A Distant Thunder
Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow
Paradise lost - Icon

and many others... Tongue


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2021 at 05:57
Yes! Christi, I've forgotten all about it, as well!
But then, even more heartly welcome to you with that, as well, and it's very interesting to see some of your favourites! Smile


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One by each artist, otherwise it would be dominated by Black Sabbath, Riverside, and Dream Theater. 
 Ran with 19...Too difficult to separate the last eight. 

1) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2) Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Turbulence 
3) Riverside- "Anno Domini High Definition"
4) UneXpecT- "Fables Of The Sleepless Empire"
5) Deep Purple- "Deep Purple In Rock"
6) Diablo Swing Orchestra- "Pacifisticuffs"
7) Tool - "Fear Inoculum"
8) Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime"
9) Behold...The Arctopus- "Skullgrid"
10) Ayreon- "The Human Equation"
11) Opeth- "Pale Communion"
12) Pain of Salvation- "The Perfect Element-Part 1"
13)  Katatonia- "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"
14) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- "Of Natural History"
15)  Judas Priest - "Sad Wings of Destiny"
16) Therion- "Theli"
17) Caligula's Horse- "The Tide, The Thief, & The River's End"
18) Sigh- "Imaginary Sonicscape"
19)Devin Townsend Project- "Deconstruction" 

Would like to see two lists (70's metal, that folks in the1970's called metal, but people now name "hard rock")  Bands like ACDC, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple. 
The other list?  Metal that started when Fates Warning, Metallica, and Queensryche hit the ground running. 
I think of Rainbow- Rising as the bridge album between 1970's hard rock metal and early 80's metal and beyond. 










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^ Therion - Theli - now that's a great, groundbreaking album, shame on me I didn't think about it when i made my list. I listened to it when it came out, still listen to it every once in a while, never got old. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2021 at 06:05
Ookaay, it begins to look like, this thread might have a second part!

Very much welcome to you, as well,  omphaloskepsis   - I must say, your name make me quite curious Question  

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