Best Metal Album of All Time?
 

I'm really curious to hear people's opinions on this. I don't have a ton of metal and I want to own what people think are the best of the best.

Personally...The Blackening by Machine Head is my favorite and I'll be surprised if any metal album posted here can surpass it for me, but I'm going to listen to everything!

i'll go with something that most tr00 kvlt people will go with

Darkthrone's Hate Them

it's just so ..... dark, and based on rock n roll

Easy. "Horrified" by Repulsion is the best metal album, ever. Why? Because it's fun, catchy, and you can hear the past and future in it. Great ****.

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Reign In Blood. The epitome of what metal should be.

I think this is too big an undertaking really, as metal has just got too diverse to really have "a best metal album of all time" Metal has really become a music genre of sub-genres, with fans of certain types of metal not really appreciating other styles of metal. For example, a death metal fan is not going to really have much appreciation of a classic power metal album and a thrash metal fan is not going to rave over Nu-metal and somebody into modern metal may not see what all the fuss is over a 1970s metal album etc. But I can see what you`re doing here and I`d say you`re going to end up with a very varied list of metal albums that directly affect peoples individual tastes rather than a more objective opinion.

BTW I`m a fan of Machine Head and have all their albums, but to put The Blackening as your best metal album of all time!!! well urrr hmmmm.......just how many metal albums do you own?:p:

The Blackening is far and away the best Machine Head album.

Personally I prefer Burn My Eyes.

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Far and away my favourite album related to the metal genre, it's just perfection.

Without doubt the best album suggested so far.:thumb:

ew o.O

Powerslave.

my favorites...

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Genghis Tron "Board Up The House"

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The Dillinger Escape Plan "Ire Works"

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Mastodon "Blood Mountain"

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Baroness "Blue Record"

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Pig Destroyer "Terrifyer"

Dillinger Escape Plan & Genghis Tron are metal? They sound just like more boorish new hardcore to me.

I'm just gonna go with a best metal album thing for each time period since it's hard as **** to just narrow it down to one album.

1970-1974: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (Heavy as **** for it's time, plus fun as hell to listen to high. XD)
1975-1979: Judas Priest - Stained Class (the inspiration for most, if not all thrash metal)
1980-1984: I'll have to go with Iron Maiden - Piece of Time simply for the fact that it's epic, melodic, and fun.
1985-1989: this requires effort since there's so much to choose from. I'll go with the massively underrated Pantera - Power Metal since you get the best from traditional/glam/speed/thrash metal all into one fun ass album. I'm also going with Exodus - Bonded By Blood, Overkill - Years of Decay, Megadeth - Peace Sells, and Guns & Roses - Appetite For Destruction
1990-1994: This is also a toss up between Megadeth - Rust in Peace, Judas Priest - Painkiller, Artillery - By Inheritance, Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power, and Korn - s/t for kick starting my flavor of the week when it comes to music, nu metal. =)
1995-1999: Hard to decide, I like Acidbath - Pagan Terrioism Tactics (a good stoner/doom metal album), In Flames - The Jester Race, Sevendust - Home, Korn - Follow the Leader (say what you want about Korn, but their music kicks ass if you're into nu metal)
2000-2004: (the mallcore kid in me just ****ed in his pants thinking about this list, =P)
Drowning Pool - Sinner, Ill Nino - Revolution and Confession, Sevendust - Seasons, Disturbed - The Sickness, Spineshank - The Height of Callousness, and Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish & the Hotdog Flavored Water ($5 says that every metal fan on this forum is gonna trash me listing this, but I don't give a **** what any of em think, this album is fun as **** to jam out to high as **** while blasting it in the car with friends! XD)
2005-2009: No contest here, because Disturbed is just simply "Indestructible". ;)
2010- : There really isn't enough I listened to give a fair decision yet, and I'll leave it at that, however White Wizzard's Over the Top is pretty hot, and it looks like their trying to kick start a traditonal heavy metal revival. I wish them luck.

...........................................Limp Bizkit?

Definitely. They both play the crossover genre "mathcore", but that's more of a metal genre than it is a hardcore genre. And neither are "boorish"... or generic.

Boorish would indicate that they are incompetent musicians, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Might as well just pass it up and go with "Demanufacture" by Fear Factory if you wanna go that route. "Demanufacture" is better than anything Machine Head did. I will always say Machine Head are the best Fear Factory tribute band going though. Especially on "Burn My Eyes". Fear Factory have much much emulated since, Static X is a poor mans Fear Factory as well.

But for best metal album of all-time... I do not know if I could pick one. So many great ones. Would have to put some serious thought into it.

"No More tears" by Ozzy Osbourne is a must own by all metal/music enthusiast.

After all the bad reviews Zakk Wylde received through the years by critics..:cool:

They're not boorish but they're also not metal. I love DEP btw.

I'm not going to try to define any "best ever" metal album. Pointless.

That's debatable, they certainly use metal riffs but the blending of hardcore and metal in the past two decades makes it really tough to distinguish one from the other in certain cases.

I'd say Calculating Infinity era DEP was less metal than say Ire Works era DEP.

Iron Maiden-Piece Of Mind.

One band is gonna make you ignore the rest of the list?

Couldn't agree more

I would say mathcore is just as close to metal as grindcore. As a derivative of grindcore it also has a ton of grindcore elements (especially Genghis Tron)

It's too hard. Personal favourites: Black Sabbath - Paranoid, Metallica - ...And Justice For All, Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power, Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction, Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride, Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears, Parkway Drive - Horizons, Mastodon - Leviathan, Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Anthrax - Among the Living, Lamb of God - Sacrament. That's just a start.

i would still maintain Limp Bizkit's first two albums are brilliant

he's a nu-metal d00d, BTW

and i'm just newly discovering nu-metal (metal has slipped off my radar during its heyday)

I like their first three albums as well and picked them up really cheap a couple of years ago.

I may listen to those albums and enjoy them more less out of nostalgia. I like to listen to some of those albums I liked when I was 16 and see which ones hold up as still being as good or sometimes better than I remember. But LB falls into the worse, but good for a laugh catagory.

One I loved just as much is one I mentioned before, "Demanufacture", 16 years later and I still love it as much as I did then.

"Spectrum of Death" by Morbid Saint. It's like Slayer on crack, and that's saying something.

Yeah, I've been quite a nu metal junkie as of late. It's whatever though, most of the bands may not be all that technically skilled (it doesn't take all that much talent to play a few down tuned power chords, but for the style anyway, it works), but hey, at least the beats are cool, and I can easily relate to the music and lyrics, plus, the style is very versatile, so you get a little bit of hip hop, some funk, and even some industrial/electronica once in while mixed in with the heavy rock (god forbid if I dare call it metal around here =P) sound.

There is so much diversity in the sub genres of Metal it is impossible to put any one album above another really.

Maybe it would be better saying that if you could only have one album of the genre what would it be and that really must be a Sabbath album because EVERYTHING that came after was influenced by them.

Master Of Reality will do for me.

Someone should start an essential album per genre in Metal maybe with a poll etc.

I think you just sold me on that album. :laughing:

It is a cracking album and was recommended to me by a MB member too :beer:

Classic album but far from the best.

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - Iron Maiden deserves a mention, with no doubt my favorite metal album.

that's awesome - but my fave Iron Mayden is Powerslave

I'll have to go with:

Powertrip by Monster Magnet
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System of a Down by System of a Down.

Powertrip is when Monster Magnet got stupid to me. Dopes to Infinity beats it in every way.

Monster Magnet are an all time favourite of mine but Powertrip is one of their poorer albums, its when they ditched their creativity to steer into a more commercial direction. The three Monster Magnet gems are Spine of God and Superjudge two classics with their psychedelic Doors influenced sound, also Dopes to Infinity which is a stoner rock classic. Monster Magnet do have metal elements but they are borderline heavy metal/hard rock and I prefer to place them in the latter category.