[Music] Top Metal Album of all Time(1980+)

[WaitingforMoP]

Every single one of you who did not vote for Death should be ashamed of yourself.

OriginalVocalMix you should be extra ashamed.

[OriginalVocalMix]

OriginalVocalMix you should be extra ashamed.

What can I say, they're fun

[WaitingforMoP]

What can I say, they're fun

Sure but even Oli Sykes himself would probably be appauled if someone voted one of his albums the best metal album of all time in front of Death

^Look at his shirt He knows... he knows....

[OriginalVocalMix]

BMTH and Parkway Drive are the only metal I listen to, so my opinion isn't very valuable.

[SilkDath]

Opeth is not on the list, this whole question is invalid.

[goltnum9]

Looks like Lemmy would disagree with you.

Haha ok fair enough....looks like i am the one that disagrees with Lemmy then...anyway saw them live in Sonisphere London and it felt pretty nice

[Deleted]

On this list it has to be Slayer, voted several times to be the best thrash metal album of all times. But since metal has many genres it would be hard to name a best album, but for me Slayer's thrash metal reign on blood remains to be the most iconic and influential and thus "best" album for me.

[hellhamster]

Here I am this afternoon, trying to gather music for the upcoming exam period study sessions when I realized I'm really bored with all the new stuff, I felt compelled to go dig up all the metal all-time classics I listened in the last decade. That's when an idea hit me, instead of saving everything in a .txt for later use, I'm gonna post it here, so the other 10 maybe 11 metalheads of the site can enjoy and discuss!

I used one album per band, as the list would probably be overcrowded by Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica, Priest, Death, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond et cetera. I have to say though, this list really compiles the very best of metal, you won't find anything more complete anywhere else on the interwebs!

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970) (heavy)
2. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984) (NWOBHM/heavy)
3. Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986) (thrash)
4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990) (thrash)
5. Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990) (heavy)
6. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath (1984) (heavy)
7. Death - Symbolic (1995) (progressive death)
8. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (1994) (stoner)
9. Dio - Holy Diver (1983) (heavy)
10. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (1985) (thrash/black)
11. Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) (thrash)
12. Rainbow - Rising (1976) (heavy)
13. Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss (1994) (black)
14. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (1988) (heavy/progressive)
15. Helloween - Keeper of The Seven Keys Part 2 (1988) (power)
16. Isis - Panopticon (2004) (atmospheric sludge)
17. Motorhead - Ace of Spades (1980) (heavy)
18. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997) (melodic black)
19. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989) (death)
20. Faith No More - Angel Dust (1992) (alternative)
21. Mayhem - De mysteriis dom Sathanas (1994) (black)
22. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991) (progressive death)
23. Tool - Aenima (1996) (alternative)
24. Alice in Chains - Dirt (1992) (grunge)
25. Agalloch - The Mantle (2002) (folk)
26. Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992) (progressive)
27. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood (1996) (atmospheric sludge)
28. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (2000) (stoner/doom)
29. Bathory - Blood Fire Death (1988) (black)
30. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) (doom)
31. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (2005) (folk)
32. Immolation - Close to a World Below (2000) (death)
33. Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) (progressive/extreme)
34. Manilla Road - Mystification (1987) (heavy/thrash)
35. Edge of Sanity - Crimson (1996) (progressive/death)
36. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) (melodic black)
37. Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992) (alternative)
38. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (1994) (black)
39. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (1991) (death)
40. Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (1999) (black)
41. Sepultura - Arise (1991) (thrash)
42. Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1995) (atmospheric/black)
43. Mastodon - Leviathan (2004) (sludge)
44. Converge - Jane Doe (2001) (metalcore)
45. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol (1992) (heavy)
46. Overkill - The Years of Decay (1989) (thrash)
47. Autopsy - Mental Funeral (1991) (death)
48. Negura Bunget - OM (2006) (atmospheric black)
49. Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream (1991) (death)
50. Exodus - Bonded by Blood (1985) (thrash)
51. Coroner - Mental Vortex (1991) (thrash)
52. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side (1995) (power)
53. Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet (2005) (pagan)
54. Savatage - Gutter Ballet (1989) (heavy)
55. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora (2004) (atmospheric/pagan black)
56. Maudlin of the Well - Bath (2001) (avant-garde)
57. Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі (2009) (pagan black)
58. Cynic - Focus (1993) (technical death)
59. My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River (1995) (doom)
60. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (2005) (atmospheric sludge)
61. Entombed - Clandestine (1991) (death)
62. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech (1997) (progressive)
63. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (2002) (avant-garde/progressive)
64. Vektor - Black Future (2009) (progressive thrash)
65. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I (2000) (progressive)
66. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (1989) (death)
67. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz (1980) (heavy)
68. Cryptopsy - None so Vile (1994) (death)
69. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (1991) (grunge/alternative)
70. Anthrax - Among the Living (1987) (thrash)
71. Windir - Arntor (1999) (melodic black)
72. Gorguts - Obscura (1998) (death)
73. Deathspell Omega - Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (2007) (black)
74. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill (1986) (thrash)
75. Voivod - Dimension Hatröss (1988) (progressive/thrash)
76. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (2005) (death)
77. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (1996) (doom/death)
78. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (2006) (atmospheric sludge)
79. Summoning - Stronghold (1999) (atmospheric/symphonic black)
80. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of Twelve Stars (2006) (black?)
81. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (2001) (progressive/doom)
82. Sodom - Agent Orange (1989) (thrash)
83. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times (1995) (gothic/doom)
84. Enslaved - Vikingligr veldi (1994) (black)
85. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World (2000) (heavy/trash)
86. Slough Feg - Traveller (2003) (heavy)
87. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian (1986) (progressive/heavy)
88. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth (1997) (heavy)
89. Pentagram - Pentagram (1985) (traditional doom)
90. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (2005) (progressive death)
91. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age (1996) (atmospheric black)
92. Suffocation - Pierced from Within (1995) (brutal death)
93. Weakling - Dead as Dreams (2000) (black)
94. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha (1992) (death)
95. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995) (melodic death)
96. Obituary - Cause of Death (1990) (death)
97. Warning - Watching from a Distance (2005) (doom)
98. Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical (2006) (heavy/traditional doom)
99. Insomnium - Above the Weeping World (2006) (melodic death)
100. Sentenced - Down (1996) (gothic/heavy)

[Deleted]

Here I am this afternoon, trying to gather music for the upcoming exam period study sessions when I realized I'm really bored with all the new stuff, I felt compelled to go dig up all the metal all-time classics I listened in the last decade. That's when an idea hit me, instead of saving everything in a .txt for later use, I'm gonna post it here, so the other 10 maybe 11 metalheads of the site can enjoy and discuss!

I used one album per band, as the list would probably be overcrowded by Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica, Priest, Death, Mercyful Fate/King Diamond et cetera. I have to say though, this list really compiles the very best of metal, you won't find anything more complete anywhere else on the interwebs!

While I know that the last part was a joke I just want to point to this thread: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...l-Metal-Albums (though I wouldn't say it's anywhere near complete I think it's a decent list for a gaming website)

[Kalyyn]

My top five, ordered from 1-5:

Fairyland - Score to a New Beginning
Elvenking - Heathenreel
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Pathfinder - Fifth Element

Somebody had to bring some power metal into this thread.

[hellhamster]

While I know that the last part was a joke I just want to point to this thread: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...l-Metal-Albums (though I wouldn't say it's anywhere near complete I think it's a decent list for a gaming website)

Yeah dude if I had to put up everything there it would surely be a 200+ bands list. I'm not gonna study that long! I'll probably be done by Kyuss .

[Pull My Finger]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries.

[Cairhiin]

Eh from that list probably Master of Puppets but for me personally probably Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian or Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black.

[Deleted]

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Hands down beat most of the albums listed in the poll in my own personal opinion.

Not to say the other albums are bad by the way, not fanboying up Pantera I'm just surprised they're not mentioned while Slipknot - Iowa is there... which personally I think is slipknots worst album with the exception of a couple of tracks, and nowhere near the par set by mentioning Master of Puppets or Reign in Blood in the poll.

[Herecius]

Gotta be Maiden. Though I'd personally put Powerslave and Fear of the Dark just the tiniest notch above Number of the Beast.

[Deleted]

"What's your top 200 metal albums?" would be a better thread. I can't even pick my favorite from that list as a few of the albums are just as good.

[goltnum9]

i should have put Pantera and Guardian instead ACDC and Motorhead then, so i can make it harder for you

[Pua]

But Rust in Peace is truly timeless. Mustaine, Ellefson, Friedman & Menza were such a killer combo.

When people talk of the "big four", that was Megadeth's era. Rust in Peace was a classic (which I voted for), but Countdown to Extinction had one of the greatest thrash title tracks of all time on it. Given Metallica's commercial success, plus Mustaine's musical talent, I still catch myself wondering what might have happened had Mustaine screwed the nut, just a little.

Oh, wait - I know.

We'd only have had one of those two amazing bands to listen to.

As for the poll, it's necessarily limited but the spread shows it's a good bit of fun. Master of Puppets rather than the black album is a strange choice, given the impact the latter had on more mainstream trends (often cited as a reason to ignore it). Are we arguing Burton was a better technician than Newsted? I still think ... And Justice For All was Metallica's best work, musically.

Was a better metal song than Harvester of Sorrow ever written?

Fear of the Dark

Oh, yeah. Damn you.

Meh, rambling. Nice topic!

[goltnum9]

thanks, yes i find it interesting too