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Forgetting your own actual musical tastes for a second, are these the definitive 5 Metal albums of all time....

Sabbath: Paranoid
Maiden: Number of the Beast
Priest: Screaming for Vengeance
Metallica: Master of Puppets
Slayer: Reign in Blood

?????????
 
I'd pretty much agree Roddy. I'd probably have Vulgar Display of Power to represent the 90's there instead of Priest though myself - Pantera's influence on current music I reckon was huge, but I guess the same could be said about Judas Priest. Don't know, pretty hard to get a top 5.
For my own tastes, I would like to see Kyuss there too, but maybe their style of music and bands influenced by it is not as big as others styles - as with Bathory's huge impact on other types metal.
 

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emperor said:
Bathory would definitely get a mention in my list. The question is, what album:o
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Yeah true. :thumbsu:
Pretty hard to pick just one as THE definitive album. I like the more epic/viking stuff, so I'd probably go Hammerheart or Twilight, but I assume many others would go the more faster Black Metal type stuff too.
To cover an influence on two genres, maybe one of the Jubileum best ofs?? :p :D
 
tima said:
Yeah true. :thumbsu:
Pretty hard to pick just one as THE definitive album. I like the more epic/viking stuff, so I'd probably go Hammerheart or Twilight, but I assume many others would go the more faster Black Metal type stuff too.
To cover an influence on two genres, maybe one of the Jubileum best ofs?? :p :D
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I can't choose because they (and by they i mean he:p ) did both the epic/viking and faster black metal genres so ridiculously well. I flipped a coin between B.F.D. and Hammerheart and it came up Hammerheart:D
 
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Forbidden - Twisted into Form
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
 
Certainly not the 5 best, in my book.. and in most cases not even each particular band's best... but on the whole, I'd say most metal fans over the age of 15 have at least four of those albums, so if "definitive" is used in a literal sense - describing the metal genre as a whole - I think it's not too far off.
 
The best metal album of all time is....

Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue















;) :D
 

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Hard Ball Get said:
Any list with Dio in the top 10 has lost all credability for me.
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hey they've got Manowar's "Kings of Metal" at #95, so it's not all bad :p
seriously though that is a great album. :thumbsu:

but yeah, surely there'd be some pretty influencial 90's bands by now (even if they don't fit in there under 'best'). Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Disembowelment perhaps??
 
I was actually debating this with myself earlier today and yesterday. IMO, the best 5 metal albums of all time (NOT my favorites)...

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

I love Priest but I dont see em cracking this list. I think British Steel is a better album than Screaming for a Vengeance anyways

Also, even though its black metal, Mayhems De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas would make a strong bid for top ten all time. Unbelievable, jaw-dropping album. The cold, grim, evil atmosphere the album exudes...it has never, nor will it EVER, be topped

I might expand on my list sometime in the future :thumbsu:
 
Good list Sandoval, and I agree with comments regarding Mayhem and Judas Priest as well.

Just want to make a comment about Metallica. Am I the only one who feels that Ride the Lightning is a better album than Master of Puppets? They are both classics, but IMO RTL just shades MOP (By the smallest of margins I might add;) ). Is there anyone else who agrees?
 
emperor said:
Good list Sandoval, and I agree with comments regarding Mayhem and Judas Priest as well.

Just want to make a comment about Metallica. Am I the only one who feels that Ride the Lightning is a better album than Master of Puppets? They are both classics, but IMO RTL just shades MOP (By the smallest of margins I might add;) ). Is there anyone else who agrees?
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I agree 100% that RTL is better than MOP. But that's NOT the point of this excersize. The point was a 'definitive 5 Metal albums', not 'my favourite 5 Metal albums'. Very fundamental difference....
 
Roddy said:
I agree 100% that RTL is better than MOP. But that's NOT the point of this excersize. The point was a 'definitive 5 Metal albums', not 'my favourite 5 Metal albums'. Very fundamental difference....
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Who woulda thought a thread would go off topic Roddy?:cool:

My apologies though, I should have started a new thread:o
 

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emperor said:
Good list Sandoval, and I agree with comments regarding Mayhem and Judas Priest as well.

Just want to make a comment about Metallica. Am I the only one who feels that Ride the Lightning is a better album than Master of Puppets? They are both classics, but IMO RTL just shades MOP (By the smallest of margins I might add;) ). Is there anyone else who agrees?
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Ahhhh. In terms of personal preference, I swing back and forth between the two as well. If you asked me to choose between the two I probably couldnt, or I would change it back the next day

I chose MOP because, even though RTL was more original, MOP was more influential
 
How about best black metal albums of all time? You could definitely make a debate for more than a few

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Darkthrone - A Blaze In the Northern Sky
Dark Funeral - Secrets of the Black Arts
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane


Ive never really tried to make a black metal list, so except for the first two, and maybe the 3rd, Im not as sure about this list as I am as my regular metal list.

Gorgoroth, Burzum, Bathory, and maybe even Immortal have some albums that could be up there. Any thoughts?
 

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