[Closed] Favourite Metal albums

"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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double post...

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 [b](...IMO!)[/b]Just superb, the basslines, drumming and Di'anno's voice are great.

I reiterate: [u] IN MY OPINION![/u]

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".

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

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?

Late 80s early 90s rock was just great, queensryche operation mind crime is an amazing album, incubus, deftones were and still are great,

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Pretty fine.

Mate of mine was stood too close to the bass speakers at a Megadeth gig and collapsed while the rest of us were happily moshing. Ah, good times.

Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Slayer - Reign in Blood

Not quite metal but heavier than most of the "metal" albums so far - Converge - Jane Doe

And this might be illegal but my favourite Metallica album is And Justice For All

Therapy? - Troublegum
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
Deftones - White Pony
Kyuss - Blues for a Red Sun
NIN - Downward Spiral
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Yeah, yeah, some of that's Stoner Rock, Grunge, Industrial, etc etc... It's all good though 🙂

And this might be illegal but my favourite Metallica album is And Justice For All

Not illegal, but contentious. St Anger or Reload would be seriously frowned upon though.

[i]Death Magnetic[/i] is surprisingly good compared to the preceding albums. In fact, that's my afternoon tunes sorted!

Master of Puppets
Burn My Eyes
Chaos AD (keeelarrrr reeeeeefs)
Demanufacture
Broken

That's all you need really! Couldn't pick one Maiden album.

Oh OK. Significant Other 😳

Ratt - Invasion of your Privacy
Dokken - Under Lock & Key
TNT - Tell no Tails
White Lion - Pride

Death Magnetic is surprisingly good compared to the preceding albums. In fact, that's my afternoon tunes sorted!

Hmm. Death Magnetic is probably slightly less atrocious than the three preceding albums. The production is appalling. Metallica completely lost it after the black album. I went to see them at the MEN on the Poor Touring Me tour in about 1996 and they've got progressively worse ever since.

Anthrax were one of my all time favourites but I think that they were at their best with John Bush doing the vocals. Taking Joey Belladona back on was a massive retrograde step.

Slayer - South of Heaven has to be their all time best. Diabolus in Musica was probably the most pretentious but I have to admit to liking God Hates us All and The Christ Illusion.

Slipknot - Iowa was probably their best effort. All Hope is Gone is so-so but not the greatest.

Metallica – Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets
Megadeth – So Far, So Good...So What? And Countdown to Extinction
Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
Anthrax – Sound of White Noise
Testament – The Gathering
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
Sepultura – Arise and Chaos AD
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Strapping Young Lad - City
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Bruce Dickinson – Chemical Wedding
Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions and Puritanical Misanthropic Euphoria
Black Sabbath – first four albums!
Carcass – Heartwork
Entombed – Wolverine Blues
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1 and Astrocreep 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (think that was the full title?)
Machine Head – Burn My Eyes and The More Things Change...
Kill II This - Deviate
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Obituary - World Demise

Anthrax were one of my all time favourites but I think that they were at their best with John Bush doing the vocals. Taking Joey Belladona back on was a massive retrograde step.

IT'S NOT JUST ME WHO THINKS THAT! \o/

Entombed - 'To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth'
Neurosis - 'Given to the Rising'
The Abominable Iron Sloth - 'The Abominable Iron Sloth'
Superjoint Ritual - 'Use Once and Destroy'
A Storm of Light - 'As the Valley of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade'
Burn the Priest - 'Burn the Priest'
Everytime I Die - 'The Big Dirty'
Church of Misery - 'Houses of the Unholy'
Mastodon - 'Crack the Skye'
Tool - '10,000 Days'
Misery Signals - 'Of Malice and the Magnum Heart'

From the top 20 most played on my MP3 player.

Most of the above 8) 🙂 plus..

Never turn your back on a friend - Budgie

Probably because its got "Breadfan" and "In the Grip of a Tyrefitter's Hand" on it.

Anthrax were way better with John Bush FACT

Any album by Anthrax, or the Maiden.

Also

Master of Puppets
Restless and Wild - Accept

Off to dig out the vinyl and annoy the neighbours now 😈

EDIT - How could I forget Megadeth - So far, So Good, So What!!!!!

I like the Ratt mentioned ^^^

and Accept is a great choice...

Fast as a shark, he'll cut out of the dark... he's a killer... on the Attack!

The names of some/most of these bands cracks me up!

Not a genre that I get on with particularly, but I love to be surprised by something that challenges my dearly held prejudices 😀

Lateralis is a superb album, love the ambition and the melodic, heavy, groove. Yes, that's right, groove.

I'll just copy and paste Mrs Toasts selections and add Therapy? Troublegum

Metallica – Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets
Megadeth – So Far, So Good...So What? And Countdown to Extinction
Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss
Anthrax – Sound of White Noise
Testament – The Gathering
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
Sepultura – Arise and Chaos AD
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Strapping Young Lad - City
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Bruce Dickinson – Chemical Wedding
Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions and Puritanical Misanthropic Euphoria
Black Sabbath – first four albums!
Carcass – Heartwork
Entombed – Wolverine Blues
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1 and Astrocreep 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (think that was the full title?)
Machine Head – Burn My Eyes and The More Things Change...
Kill II This - Deviate
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Obituary - World Demise

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
AC/DC - Back in Black
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Judas Priest - British Steel

Slipknot - Iowa was probably their best effort.

Haha I remember this! That's the album with "People = ****" as the second track. Genius. Weirdly, my enduring memory of Leeds in 2001 was watching Slipknot on a stage and this kid walks past wearing massive boots and huge baggy jeans... complaining to his accompanying mother about the mud getting on them. Good times 😆

I think one of my parents bought me "Seventh Son" on cassette when I was 7 years old. Memories are hazy, is that worth a (re-)listen??

Master of Puppets.

So far Master of Puppets is the fave, followed by Ride the lightning and Reign in Blood, hard to argue with that.

slayer - riegn in blood
metallica - puppets.
Anthrax - spreading the disease

all the above were the best albums those bands did and anything after these where poor in comparision. All Slayer did was slow done riegn in blood and release it as south of heaven.

And
Tankard - anything

Tigertailz - Young & Crazy

mikey74 - Member

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?

I dont have to justify myself to anyone.

Calm down, it's only a light-hearted thread.

South of Heaven - Slayer

My favourite album of all time! about half the album makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I hear it.

other fav's for me,

Ride the lightening/Metallica
Killers/Maiden
Operation Mindcrime/Queensryche
Led Zepp' 3/Led Zeppelin
2112/Rush

mikey74 - Member

I dont have to justify myself to anyone.

Calm down, it's only a light-hearted thread.

I really liked St Anger. I also have a soft spot for Fear of the Dark as it was my first metal album.
Less controversial, Master of Puppets.

Operation Mindcrime/Queensryche
Led Zepp' 3/Led Zeppelin

Rusty Shackleford - Member

The names of some/most of these bands cracks me up!

Wot no Lawnmower Deth? I 'met' them at a record shop signing as a young impressioable teenager, slightly deflated to hear Qualcast Mutilator addressing Mr Flymo as "Kev".

I love Rust In Peace, especially the bit that sounds like the beginning of the Fools and Horses Music.
Also Master Of Puppets and, err, And Justice For All.

just some
the headless children/crimson idol w.a.s.p

downward spiral nin

any iron maiden album (especially early stuff)

raining blood slayer

chaos ad sepultura

cowboys from hell/far beyond driven/a vulger display of power pantera

dirt alice in chains

badmotorfinger/superunknown soundgarden

master of puppets/the black album metallica

some of these i haven't heard for years (i sold all my albums in a moment of stupidity years ago 🙁

My fave albums in about '87 were:

Operation Mindcrime/Queensryche
Hysteria / Def Leppard
1987 / Whitesnake
Mechanical Resonance / Tesla
Back in Black / AC-DC
Signals / Rush
Number of the Beast / Iron Maiden

+ Machine Head- The Blackening. Awesome, and they managed to stretch about half a dozen tours out of it! A highlight was seeing them in the round on the Death Magnetic Tour.

Incidentally, someone hit the nail on the head with Death Magnetic - it's actually a great album ruined by horrendous production.

Great thread though

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Also..
Giant - Last of the Runaways

Led Zepp' 3/Led Zeppelin

Wowzers that Giant album is the biz. A better AOR album doesn't exist. Saw them touring it at the Marquee many moons ago.

"Arise" by Sepultura is still sooooooooooo good 💡

Oooo how could I forget to add Crack the Skye by Mastodon: A sheer masterpiece.

A few more...

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Anthrax - Among the Living
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavour
The Secret - Agnus Dei

Here's another.. Be prepared for a bit of..
Loudness - Thunder in the East

Here's the vid,
Loudness