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 [b]Number of the Beast[/b] really hasn't it. Or maybe [b]Ride the Lightning[/b].
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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 [u]ever[/u]. 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 - [i]The Fear[/i]
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 [i]the[/i] metal band and add [i]the[/i] metal singer and you can't lose 😀
(May I add that many of the suggestions above are probably valid too)
LS - MemberFrom 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 guitar****yconcept-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 shitTwo day ban for negative use of the forum.
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.
Footflaps, nice one. Saw them in N.Wales in March at Buckley. Great band, got loads of their stuff.
I was there at Buckley! Also caught them at the Wulfrun Hall. They're coming to Cambridge this time, so won't have to travel so far!
British Steel Judas Priest
Blackout Scorpions
Back In Black AC/DC ( forget this pigeonholing nonsense )
Industrial metal:
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
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My art teacher had the 7 inch sleeves for loads of Maiden singles on her classroom wall. Aces High was my favorite sleeve so I started with Powerslave. Maiden are a little hit and miss for me, but I have a soft spot for them.
Suicidal Tendencies – ST
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More hardcore than metal, but it influenced many and still sounds great.
Carcass – Symphonies of Sickness
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Spotted this spectacular album sleeve being proudly carried around school by a now friend of mine. It sounds as good it looks and carcass are still getting better decades later.
Slayer – Reign in Blood
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I will be moving into a detached house shortly, one of the first things I shall do is put this on and turn it up to appropriate volume 🙂
nin - pretty hate machine
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As someone else on the thread said, I'm surprised this actually sneaks into the 80s. Cracking record.
What a ggreat thread.
Can't be doing with maiden. Just boring.
Suicidal tendencies are my fave band though. Join the army is amazing.
Reign in blood is great. Carcass 80s? Jeepers. Bloody love carcass.
Spent a lot of time listening to nirvanas bleach at the time too.
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?
Def Lepard were NWOBHM and the early albums metal but Hysteria got a bit soft - so soft metal?!
Are Nirvana metal though?
Wouldn't call nirvana metal, mainly on the basis that most nirvana fans would run a mile at Carcass et al. But then I was a carcass fan and I listened to nirvana...Sod it, who cares anyway...Just shows how much variety there is in hard rock/metal.
Another vote for AC/DC BinB here. It was THE album of my youth (80's) for sure. Is it actually metal? It was then so who cares.
Classics! Mine are
Iron Maiden- Live after Death
Slayer- Reign In Blood and South of Heaven
Napalm Death- Scum was good but I think the Peel Sessions release distilled it down even further!
Ministry- Twitch is a good one, I think Land of Rape and Honey is still 80's?
If we're having a fight (seems appropriate on a metal thread)
None of them, as let's be honest here, they're all a bit shit. Honourable mentions go to:
Any ACDC track. OK, they're fine, right up until the point Brian Johnson starts "singing" and I use the phrase in the loosest possible sense of the word,
The whole cross dressing make-up, latex, death, sex, devil thing is soooo dull, which pretty much includes every single bloody metal band of the 80's
G&R just because, well, Axl really and the amazing levels of "just how big an arsehole can I actually become"
Musically dull and unimaginative tropes, such as...Ohhh let's have a bit of fretboard ****ery in the middle of this song, because no-ones' ever done that before..., and yes, Dave Mustaine, Glen Tipton, Eddie Van Halen, I'm looking at you.
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