footflaps – Member

I just dropped off half the LPs listed above at the local charity shop…

Er….which one?

I’m going for this one.

Cougar – Moderator
Aide memoire:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/warpigcat/the_top_100_heavy_metal_albums_of_the_80s__as_picked_by_the_metal_fans_of_the_world/

Thank you, that bought back some memories, and I’m now off to fill my Spotified devices to the brim.

However, some serious omissions from that list…

Voivod – Killing Technology

Reign in blood was my favourite at the time, that might change with some historical perspective though…

Well, as the thread has shown, first you have to have the argument about what is, or isn’t metal – bands like Sabbath, Deep Purple and Zep have consistently denied the label over the years, for example. And then what about bands where there’s a “metal” element, but the overall sound is more or different, so Faith No More, NIN, Jane’s Addiction, for example?

And once you resolve that, how are you defining ‘best’? Most successful? Most awards? Best distillation of influences up to that point, or most innovative / pushing things forward?

Maybe I’m over-thinking it?

My choice would be Jane’s Addiction – Nothing Shocking. Maybe not the most listened to, or the most listenable, or the most hard rockin’, but for its influence on what came after, and in particular for opening ears to other ways to use “metal” than in what was becoming, at that point in time an increasingly one dimensional genre.

I’d have to sat Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets. Love Reign in Blood too, but there’s a couple of ‘meh’ tracks compared to Angel of Death and Raining Blood.

Most of my favourite albums are from the 90s – Chaos AD, Seasons in the Abyss, The Gathering, Sound of White Noise, Burn my Eyes, Demanufacture, Draconian Times, Far Beyond Driven, Astrocreep 2000. Those were the days…

Most of my favourite albums are from the 90s – Chaos AD, Seasons in the Abyss, The Gathering, Sound of White Noise, Burn my Eyes, Demanufacture, Draconian Times, Far Beyond Driven, Astrocreep 2000. Those were the days…

funnily enough i’ve revisited half of those this week!

i was surprised how weak Demanufacture sounds today (i LOVED it at the time) and also how good Burn My Eyes sounded – thought that would have aged badly.

And Draconian Times! Sounds so 90’s it hurts, but actually pretty strong musically 🙂

Any Jane’s addiction album!

Napalm death “scum”
Slayer “reign in blood”
Wasp “live in the raw” (makes me giggle)
Bolt thrower “in battle there is no law”
Extreme noise terror “holocaust in your head”

Disagree about nin sounding timeless as its soooooo dated it hurts. Ministry fare a bit better in the age test though

Napalm death “scum”

Pah, not a patch on the “Lawnmover Death” with “Watch out Grandma, here come’s a lawn mower”

Comes down to ‘What is metal?’

Suicidal Tendencies: one of my favorites, fairly original, and rather underrated. But not really your classic metal.

Jane’s Addiction: Nothing shocking is one of my top 10 live albums. Again, fairly original, but what with covers of the Stones and Velvet Underground, not really your classic metal.

FnM: Sorry, what about ‘we care alot’? Just because they covered war pigs does not make it metal.

I reckon, and with all that in mind, it’s got to be Number of the Beast really hasn’t it. Or maybe Ride the Lightning.

Saxon – The Eagle has landed
Helloween – Live in the UK

C’mon……. Really…..

1984, Van Halen.

Thread closed.

How are AC/DC metal ??

70s stuff isn’t but Back in Black is for sure – would be interesting to try and find a list of best Metal albums – or best selling ones – that excludes it

http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/index.php?id=6

For me it’s a close call between Metallica – “Master Of Puppets” & Slayer – “Reign In Blood”. (Special mention also to Iron Maiden – Powerslave, as that’s the album that introduced me to metal and has some of their best work on it too. (Plus a couple of filler tracks, sadly.))

I think “Reign In Blood” just edges it. It was (and still is) the best thrash / speed metal album ever. It’s just perfect. Slayer may as well have hung up their guitars after that one. I don’t see how it could be bettered and they certainly never came close again.

not sure i qualify as an old punk (so didnt listen to most of them), but the only 2 i liked around then were iron maidens debut album with paul di’anno, and motorhead live at hammersmith (think that was on gold vinyl?).

do i win?

No. In a way metal is the antithesis of punk therefore your opinion is highly unlikely to be correct so don’t sweat it though!

Punk cleared out Prog Rock and made way for NWOBHM. Maybe.

That would be Lawnmower Deth, footflaps.

Master of Puppets by a mile. The 90’s was a better decade for metal on the whole though.

BAT-A-RAY!

Ooooh tough one this.
Master of Puppets was one of the first albums I bought just as I was getting into metal.
Hard to look beyond it and it still stands up now – 28 years on.
South of Heaven still gets the occasional blast too.
FNM ‘The Real Thing’ was/is still a quality listen…

Prong – Primitive Origins

Oh yeah…forgot to mention…Def Leppard are shit 😉

Lawnmower Deth 🙂 sadly Oooh Crikey was 1990 so misses the cut!

I very much love Acid Reign – The Fear

Mine would be Reign in Blood, Slayer, Powerslave, Iron Maiden & Among the Living, Anthrax.

Special mention to “Stormtroopers Of Death – Speak English Or Die”

Oh yeah…forgot to mention…Def Leppard are shit

Two day ban for negative use of the forum.

From a purely technical point of view it has to be Heaven and Hell or Mob Rules. Take the metal band and add the metal singer and you can’t lose 😀

(May I add that many of the suggestions above are probably valid too)

LS – Member

From a purely technical point of view it has to be Heaven and Hell or Mob Rules. Take the metal band and add the metal singer and you can’t lose

There’s just a lot of weak songs on those albums though. Having said that, Heaven and Hell, Children of the Sea, Sign of the Southern Cross…great songs.

Couldn’t agree more, just looking at it from an objective point of view (I do love Heaven and Hell, massive Ac/Dc, Metallica, Slayer fan but AfD would edge it simply because it’s the album that got me into music when I was 10).

Can I stick in guitarwankyconcept-tastic Operation:Mindcrime by Queensryche (if we’re going to ignore what is or isn’t metal)

and talking of diva-esque lead men, Skid Row.

in all seriousness though, you’d have to start getting very pigeonholey if you were to narrow it down.

good shout for Almighty, blood fire and love, cracking album, it’s filed under ‘metal for motorcycles’ 😉

Maidens Killers has to be there, nice well rounded production, good sound.

but yes, it’s not appetite.. bloody hated GnR when that came out, but then I realised I was in denial and the hype was justified, well for one album anyway.

Appetite For Destruction is a fantastic album.

Gotta say there are some great suggestions here.

Heart says NOTB, but a great call up there about Queensryche too.

Sabbath did nothing of note in the 80s (I love Dio but not in Sabbath).

Just missing out, 1991, Nirvana – Nevermind.

BTW – the new Foo Fighters single – ripping the riff from Holy Diver right off.

Metallica – Master of Puppets
Slayer – Reign In Blood
Anthrax – Among the Living
Anvil – Metal on Metal

Sadly Cowboy’s from Hell is just a few months out.

Oooooo, lots to choose from, some excellent choices guys, BUT, mine are-
Magnum “Storytellers Night”
Queensryche “Operation – Mindcrime”

Iron Maiden – Live after Death
if restricted to studio albums then Metallica – Master of Puppets, Slayer – Reign in Blood or DRI – Crossover.

Blizzard of Oz and Diary of a Madman were both pretty special too.

Everything after that was pretty dire though.

Oh yeah…forgot to mention…Def Leppard are shit

Two day ban for negative use of the forum. [/quote]

Surely it should be a lifetime ban for such a serious slur….

Magnum “Storytellers Night”
Queensryche “Operation – Mindcrime”

Good call on both those….

off to see Magnum for the third time this year in December…

Footflaps, nice one. Saw them in N.Wales in March at Buckley. Great band, got loads of their stuff.

Another call for Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime…
Odyssey by Yngwie Malmsteen

Oh yeah…forgot to mention…Def Leppard are shit
Two day ban for negative use of the forum.

I hope that’s for mentioning “Def Lepard” in the context of a metal thread and not for the FACT that they are actually pop?

Otherwise, physician heal thyself.