**** me. I have no idea how to pick a favorite. I didn't even really know about choosing ten. **** it, I'll just go with Bathory's Hammerheart. I'll be as satisfied with that as anything.
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I think I've mentioned this to you before, but metal is just too vast now after 40 years for people to really pigeon hole bands and have a vast enough knowledge to create the type of list you're looking for. I'd say you're better off getting people to do lists either by the decade or by metal sub-genre, it's the only way you'll get any real focus. |
Yeah I know. On the face of it, dumb idea. Oh well. Probably just leave it then; no point creating EVEN MORE work than I already have set out for myself!
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Looking at some of the other lists and noting my ignorance of most of the bands listed, it's clear that I'm NOT a metal head. Well, anyway......
Oldest to newest:- Black Sabbath's PARANOID (1970) AC/DC's HIGH VOLTAGE (1975) UFO's LIGHTS OUT (1977) IRON MAIDEN (1980) Judas Priest's BRITISH STEEL (1980) Queensryche's RAGE FOR ORDER (1986) AC/DC LIVE (1992) The Offspring's SMASH (1994) Manic Street Preachers' THE HOLY BIBLE (1994) Steve Vai's FIRE GARDEN (1996) :) |
Psst... The Offspring is a pop punk band...
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Not quite sure what's going on with this thread now but I want to do a top ten anyway. I'm keeping it one album per artist.
10. Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler The peak of their black metal era. The perfect blend of atmospheric black metal and dark folk. 9. Sabbat - Dreamweaver The English band not the Japanese band. Has some mind-bending lyrics inspired by Wyrdism and paganism and some great riffs courtesy of Andy Sneap. Thinking man's thrash metal. 8. Opeth - Ghost Reveries A progressive metal masterpiece that I haven't grown tired of after nine years. This is Opeth at the peak of their game. 7. Slayer - Reign in Blood The first metal album to both genuinely frighten me and make me think "this is friggin' badass!" You can read a review of it in my journal here. 6. Death - Human I had a tough time deciding on a Death album. This album is the perfect introduction to death metal. It's relatively accessible in terms of the genre yet has amazing depth. This is the band at their most focused and best. 5. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss The best thing to come out of Norwegian black metal. It took the genre into a more adventurous and atmospheric territory with long compositions and some dark ambient electronica. Read my journal review here. 4. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand Residing at the meeting points of drone, doom metal and shoegaze. Probably the heaviest album in my music collection. Not solely in terms of crushing, speaker-destroying guitars, but also in terms of soul-sucking emotion. 3. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... The choice between this and Dopethrone was tight, but I just love the guitar sound on this album. It's like being pinned to the ground by some invisible force as the sky above you turns red. 2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death How do you know whether you love extreme metal or not? Listen to this album, turn the volume up so loud your ears start to itch and you will soon find out. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...fter_Death.jpg 1. Iron Maiden - Live After Death I could have gone with Powerslave but I decided to go with the live album they recorded during the Powerslave tour. To me this album represents Maiden at their 80's peak and is a damn perfect slice of heavy metal. Then there's that artwork. Just look at it. Iron ****ing Maiden. |
Well done Zero, even more albums that Trollheart won't know.
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