The recent passing of Clive Burr caused me to revisit my dark and dingey musical past.

Have to say Killers still sounds amazing 32 years on and is still right up there for me.

What about yous lot?

“Strong arm of the Law” Saxon

Does it for me, I love “Another Perfect Day” Motorhead, purists would disagree.

Hmmmmm what else, what else?

“Ride the Lightening” Metallica
“Balls to the Wall” Accept
“Live at te Budokahn” MSG
“5051” Van Halen
ANY Bon Scot era AC-DC album
…

the list is endless

Reign in Blood and South of Heaven – Slayer
DCLXVI – Entombed
Master of Puppets – Metallica

Listening to early Maiden here also.

But Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell and Rainbows Rising are faves (I like my Dio).

Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera is up there for me. Also Fear Factory’s Obsolete.

Rising – Rainbow
Sabotage and SBS – Sabbath
One after Clive Burr but I love Piece of Mind by Maiden
Puppets or Lightning by ‘Tallica
I don’t really think of AC/DC as metal but as above, any Bon era album

Just beat me, vulgar display of power as well! Plus Cowboys from Hell

I have always said that Paul DiAnno was a better singer than B Dickenson and have always been shot down. I stand by it though that Killers and Iron maiden are the best albums by Iron maiden.

Draconian Times by Paradise Lost
Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction – Megadeth
Persistance of Time – Anthrax

Any System of a Down Album
Slipknot’s first Album
The War of Art-American Head Charge

Ride the Lightning is probably my favourite Metallica album

Does Songs For the Deaf by QOTSA count?

Early Maiden, Purple, Rainbow, Sabbath, MSG, all gets played on the ipod

The interesting debate on this thread, I’m guessing, is going to be around defining what is, and isn’t “heavy metal”.

So, to get the ball rolling, I’m going to nominate Def Leppard’s Hysteria, Guns ‘n’ Roses Appetite for Destruction and any album by Deep Purple.

EDIT: A couple of contentious ones came in while I was on the phone in the middle of typing that.

Sepultura – Beneath The Remains
Autopsy – Severed Survival
Celtic Frost – Into The Pandemonium

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The interesting debate on this thread, I’m guessing, is going to be around defining what is, and isn’t “heavy metal”.

So, to get the ball rolling, I’m going to nominate Def Leppard’s Hysteria, Guns ‘n’ Roses Appetite for Destruction and any album by Deep Purple.

Hard to argue against that when Lep spearheaded the NWOBHM.

not sure if it’s strictly metal but Powerage – AC/DC

and Superunknown by Soundgarden

Rainbow- Rising
Deep Purple-Machine Head
Scorpions-Tokyo Tapes
Judas Priest-Sad Wings Of Destiny

Pantera
Vulgar Display of Power & Great Soutern Trendkill

Machine Head
Burn My Eyes

Wildhearts
Earth v’s The Wildhearts (more rock than metal, I s’pose)

Skid Row
Slave to the Grind

Corrosion of Conformity
Deliverance

RATM
RATM

The Almighty
Powertrippin’

A perenial favourite in my ever-changing top ten is Dio’s Holy Diver.

in no particular order:
rainbow rising
whitesnake – come an get it
thin lizzy – thunder and lightening
maiden – number of the beast
sixx am – heroin diaries
van halen – van halen
stone sour – house of gold and bones
tyketto – dont come easy
journey – escape
alice in chains – dirt
bon jovi – slippery when wet
deep purple – anything by mk 3 and 4
incubus – morning view
jimmy barnes – freight train heart
linkin park – hybrid
crue – shout at the devil
scorpions – lovedrive
night ranger – dawn patrol
pantera – cowboys
skid row – skid row
gary moore – corridors of power
gillan – magic

hows that for a brain dump of good metal? <evil laugh>

Motorhead – Motorhead
Dio – Holy Diver
Judas Priest – Stained Class
Saxon – Wheels of Steel
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Not a definitive list by far but if was only allowed 5 albums to play ever again these would do….
I reckon 90% of my turbo training ipod is filled with v.late 70’s and 80’s rock/metal!

Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Black Sabbath – anything with Ozzy. (apart from never say die)
Diamond head – Lighning to the nations.
Ministry – The first half of Psalm 69

in no particular order:
rainbow rising
whitesnake – come an get it
thin lizzy – thunder and lightening
maiden – number of the beast
sixx am – heroin diaries
van halen – van halen
stone sour – house of gold and bones
tyketto – dont come easy
journey – escape
alice in chains – dirt
bon jovi – slippery when wet
deep purple – anything by mk 3 and 4
incubus – morning view
jimmy barnes – freight train heart
linkin park – hybrid
crue – shout at the devil
scorpions – lovedrive
night ranger – dawn patrol
pantera – cowboys
skid row – skid row
gary moore – corridors of power
gillan – magic

hows that for a brain dump of good metal? <evil laugh>

The OP said “metal”. 90% of that list barely qualifies as rock

Killers IS the best Maiden album (…IMO!)Just superb, the basslines, drumming and Di’anno’s voice are great.

Rage Against the Machine – RATM.
Saxon – Wheels of Steel
Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Led Zep – IV
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Opeth – Blackwater Park
Audioslave – Audioslave
Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
Judas Priest – Killing Machine
Twisted Sister – Stay Hungry
Rainbow – Rising

There are so many… and so many Metal genres!!

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Hard to argue against that when Lep spearheaded the NWOBHM.

But does that qualify “Hysteria” as a metal album? If so then, production and sound wise, it’s not a million miles away from Bryan Adams “Waking up the Neighbours”

How about Deep Purple – never considered themselves to be “metal”? Not sure that Zep or even Sabbath did either….

How about Lenny Kravitz?

Napalm Death – Scum

A random selection of my faves:

Iron Maiden – Live After Death (cop-out,I know)
Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood
Entombed – Clandestine
Death – Symbolic
Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing
Eyehategod – Take as Needed for Pain
Metallica – ‘Lightning and ‘Puppets
Black Sabbath – Masters of Reality
Slayer – Reign in Blood

Plus many many more

Killers IS the best Maiden album (…IMO!)Just superb, the basslines, drumming and Di’anno’s voice are great.

No, no it’s not.

Hard to argue against that when Lep spearheaded the NWOBHM.

No they didn’t.

Sabbath are metal. Their sound is surely the root of all metal – no!?

Great to see the Gay Germans getting some love 😉

Killers IS the best Maiden album (…IMO!)Just superb, the basslines, drumming and Di’anno’s voice are great.

I reiterate: IN MY OPINION!

a selection of mine, excluding those already mentioned above

Slayer – South of Heaven
Anthrax – Sounds of White Noise
Skyscraper – Superstate
Ugly Kid Joe – Least Wanted (it counts as metal, my computer says so)
Skid Row – this was the first CD I ever heard so it gets a mention

Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, Kyuss, Colour Haze, Truckfighters these days

Killers IS the best Maiden album (…IMO!)Just superb, the basslines, drumming and Di’anno’s voice are great.

I reiterate: IN MY OPINION!

But you are wrong

Sabbath are a lot more ‘Metal’ than Led Zep

Killers and Iron Maiden albums are awesome, so are most up to and including Seventh Son

Blackwater Park – Opeth
Train of Thought – Dream Theater
Black Sails at Midnight – Alestorm
Archetype – Fear Factory
Ashes of the Wake – Lamb of God
Sonic Firestorm – Dragonforce
Seasons in the Abyss – Slayer
Alive of Just Breathing – Killswitch Engage
Ascendancy – Trivium

this is were the thread dies a slow death, what is metal?

I grew up in the time of Gillan/Rainbow/ACDC et al.. back then it was classed as metal. At the Rainbow gig I was a heavy metal fan. Now compared to Metallica its not that heavy but when Metallica/Slayer arrived it was thrash metal, now I’m not sure but think its been downgraded to plain old just metal.

So forget labels and list what you like under your banner of ‘metal’.

The interesting debate on this thread, I’m guessing, is going to be around defining what is, and isn’t “heavy metal”.

If it originates from the Black Country, it’s Heavy Metal; anything else is Heavy Rock. Fact!

Can’t beat a bit of Spinal Tap or Bad News 🙂

Metal moods always lead me to:

Alice in Chains – Dirt, Facelift
Metallica – Puppets and Lightening

Nice to see votes for the above ^^^^^^ I’m not alone!

wilko1999 – Member

Reign in Blood and South of Heaven – Slayer
DCLXVI – Entombed
Master of Puppets – Metallica
I salute your choices sir!
Mine:-
Slayer – God Hates us all ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!
Entombed – Uprising
Napalm Death – Utopia Banished
Death – Human
Motorhead – Orgasmatron
Obituary – End Complete
Athiest – Unquestionable Presence

Pantera – any, they’re all awesome

Obituary – End Complete
Slayer – God Hates us all ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!

You favour that Obituary over Cause of death and Slowly we Rot? Wow.

… and God Hates us All is your favourite Slayer album?