[Music] Your top 5 metal albums ?

[Synyzta]

Hard to choose just 5 albums, but here we go...

1) Queen - A Night At The Opera
2) Mushroomhead - XIII
3) In Flames - Come Clarity
4) The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
5) Alter Bridge - Blackbird / One Day Remains

6) Backyard Babies - Making Enemies Is Good
7) Buckcherry - 15
8) The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls


Whilst not 'metal' in the truest sense of the word, it's still more metal than Justin Bieber.

[sircaw]

abit to much rock but some of my favs

Ugly kid joe-America's Least Wanted
Black sabbath-Dehumanizer
Sepultura-Chaos A.d
Ministry-Psalm 69
Pantera - Vulgar display of power

[shadowlich]

TSFH - Power of Darkness
TSFH - Pathogen
TSFH - Legend
TSFH - Shadows and Nightmares
Thomas Bergersen - Illusions

[gypsybob]

In no particular order:

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Metallica - Black Album
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Dio - Holy Diver
Megadeth - Rust in Peace

[Ferrn]

Hard to list 5, but..

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mastodon - Leviathan
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Death - Sound of Perseverance
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Did you really just list "St. Anger"?
Jesus dude, you're tastes are terrible.

True, everyone has their own taste, but I have the same feelings towards St. Anger as charbrec..
One of the worst albums I've ever heard in my life. Totally corny and uncreative lyrics, tightest snare drum ever, shi**y riffs and NO SOLOS.
Don't forget this was a Metallica album!! If it would've been some nu-metal band, I wouldn't have cared less, but being Metallica...
And I actually really love what they released after ..And Justice for All... true, it's not thrashy Metallica once Bob Rock took them in another direction, but I like the country-influenced rock that stayed, and riffs + lyrics still stayed interesting!
Death Magnetic helped me forgive them, but St. Anger has been one of the biggest letdowns of all my life coming from any band!

But yeah, to each his own

[Tonjoon]

^Each to his own yeah, being a diehard Metallica fan throughout my childhood I've grown to like St.Anger to a degree that it is now their best album. Simple and heavy. (Yes, I'm a guitarist but some songs just don' need solos).

[Moosedrool]

1.) Death - Symbolic
2.) Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
3.) Devin Townsend Band - Deconstruction
4.) Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
5.) Nile - Ithyphallic

Glad to see a lot of Pantera and Death fans in here.

R.I.P. Dime and Chuck

[Mikey P]

No particular order, and not necessarily "metal"

Mastodon - Leviathan
Deftones - Adrenaline
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Mastodon - Crack the Skye

[Neemo]

Hmm... Just 5.... /Scratches chin.

Framing Hanley - The Moment <<< Under-rated band. Try them out.
Nightwish - Century Child
Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
In This Moment - A Star-crossed Wasteland

[DarkSanctuary]

Can't do only 5 ...

Heavy Metal:
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast / Somewhere in time
Judas Priest - Defenders of the faith / Painkiller

Thrash Metal:
Metallica Master of puppets / Ride the lightening / And justice for all
Slayer - Reign in blood / Season in the abyss / south of heaven
Sepultura - Arise / Beneth the remains
Megadeth - Rust in peace

Death Metal:
Entombed - Clandestine / Left hand path
Death - Human / Indivitual thought patterns

Black Metal:
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss

Doom Metal and related:
Anathema - Alternative 4 / Judgment
Empyrium - Songs of moors and misty fields
Forest of Shadows - Where dreams turn to dust
Katatonia - Brave murder day / Discouraged ones
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Tenhi - Kauan
Tiamat - Wildhoney / Deeper kind of slumber
Dark Sanctuary - De Lumiere Er L'obscure

[Bozzna]

no specific order:

With Oden on our side - Amon Amarth
Blutaar - Varg
Roomservice - Panzerchrist
1800-Vindication - Illdisposed
Ashes of the Wake - Lamb of God

[morgoroth]

Isis-Oceanic
Converge-Jane Doe
Meshuggah-I
HORSE the band-R.Borlax
Deftones-Adrenaline

like seeing Isis on a lot of peoples lists, truly an under appreciated band, same with Converge...

[skylla05]

I have many more than 5, and my tastes in metal expand from everything from neo-classical, doom, to melodeath. These are the first 5 that came to mind.

Avrigus - The Secret Kingdom (very slow and gothic, female vocals)
Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance (Very classical. Very dark. Absolutely remarkable use of raw, unprocessed female vocals)
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (Pure melodeath and probably one of the single greatest metal albums of all time)
Naglfar - Vittra (Simply amazing album. Enough said. Back when Jens Ryden was their vocalist. Their new guy is okay, but he's no Jens)
Cradle of Filth - Principle of Evil Made Flesh (mostly nostalgic. CoF have long since fallen from my interests. But the albums from Principle to Cruelty are all very good albums for me)

Oh, I'm also tossing an honorable mention to Summoning - Stronghold.

[slambulance76]

5 Tool - Lateralus
4 System of a Down - Toxicity
3 Pantera - A Vulgar Display of Power
2 Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
1 Tool - Aenema

[weekendnachos]

In no particular order:
Primordial - To the nameless Dead
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
Bone Awl - Meaningless Leaning Mess
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Suffocation - Pierced From Within

[Enders]

In no particular order:

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell (Cemetery Gates is timeless, one of my favourite songs of all time)
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Eluveitie - Slania
Wintersun - Wintersun
Thyrfing - Hels Vite

HMs:
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Naglfar - Vittra
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

Of course this is all opinion and has more to do with my personal taste in music than anything else.

[Dalleo]

5 Slipknot - self titled
4 Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
3 Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
2 Metallica - Master of Puppets
1 Megadeth - Rust in Peace

[Berndoriu]

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Licht
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Dio - Holy Diver
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth

[Kreyzor]

It changes, but at least at the moment and in no order:

A Loathing Requiem - Psalms of Misanthropy
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Beyond Creation - The Aura
Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

[thedb]

Megadeth - So far so good so what
Anthrax - Sound of white noise
Pantera - Vulgar display of power
Megallica - Master of puppets
Megadeth - Rust in peace