top 10 metal albums of all time?

[Nerdius Maximus]

 

[Pingfah]

Wow, i don't think I can compile a definitive top 10 because of the sheer bulk of material in my collection to choose from, but i'll give it a shot. Metal is a pretty wide definition so excuse me if you don't think some of these qualify, no actually, don't excuse me I don't care

These are the ones that get the most spins in my house.

1. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

2. Anthrax - Sound of White Noise

3. Faith No More - Angel Dust

4. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

5. Alice In Chains - Dirt

6. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

7. Tool - Lateralus

8. Anthrax - We've Come For You All

9. Probot - Probot

10. Iron Maiden - Killers

And before anyone says anything, no, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Faith No More are NOT grunge bands!!!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I actually like Rage For Order more.

Wow, i don't think I can compile a definitive top 10 because of the sheer bulk of material in my collection to choose from, but i'll give it a shot. Metal is a pretty wide definition so excuse me if you don't think some of these qualify, no actually, don't excuse me I don't care

These are the ones that get the most spins in my house.

1. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

2. Anthrax - Sound of White Noise

3. Faith No More - Angel Dust

4. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

5. Alice In Chains - Dirt

6. Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

7. Tool - Lateralus

8. Anthrax - We've Come For You All

9. Probot - Probot

10. Iron Maiden - Killers

And before anyone says anything, no, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Faith No More are NOT grunge bands!!!

Ah, sound of white noise, that's a good one. And Dirt is one of my favorite albums of all time.

 

[Space Black]

These are getting forgotten much too often:

Current favorite:

 

[John Picard]

Oh hell yeah! I cannot figure out Mindcrime: 2, though.

 

[Deckerd]

Smell the glove, Spinal Tap

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

These are getting forgotten much too often:

Current favorite:

Wow, I thought for sure that I had put British Steel on my list. My mistake.

 

[elbarto]

Metallica's Masterpiece - Master of puppets

 

[Space Black]

 

[CorporalClegg]

These are getting forgotten much too often:

These two get my vote, but I don't know if they count as "metal."

 

[HappyDayRiot]

And before anyone says anything, no, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Faith No More are NOT grunge bands!!!

Faith No More aren't metal either. They may well have some metal songs, but they also have jazz, rock, easy-listening and all sorts of other songs. Other than Jizzlobber, Caffeine, Smaller and Smaller and Malpractice, Angel Dust is more rock than metal.

If Soundgarden count, then Down On The Upside doesn't even compare to Superunknown.

I would submit (more my favourites than actual top 10 ever)
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill; Far Beyond Driven
In Flames - Colony; Clayman
System of a Down - self-titled; Toxicity
Rammstein - Mutter
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway; Salvation
Tool - Aenima
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Sepultura - Roots; Chaos AD
Soulfly - Primitive; Dark Ages

 

[voggmo]

Scorps ain't really metal, but their best are Lovedrive & Blackout.

In no particular order..

Paranoid. Sabbath
No Sleep Til Hammersmith. Motorhead
Reign In Blood. Slayer
Heaven & Hell. Sabbath
Unleashed in the East. Priest.
Wheels of Steel, or Strong Arm of the Law. Saxon
Number of The Beast. Maiden
The Outer Limits. Voivod
Kill Em All. Metallica
Black Metal. Venom
Melissa. Mercyful Fate

1st Anthrax album & Dio's 1st are also classics. Hard to leave these off, same goes for Powerslave, couple more Sab records, & British Steel.

& yes I cheated, there's 11 on the above list. Swedens Oz had 1 really good one too.

 

[Pat]

 

[Captain Euphoria]

No one included Helmet's "Meantime!"

 

[Pingfah]

^ It occurred to me that I had left it off after i posted. I wasn't by my CD collection at the time.

Faith No More aren't metal either. They may well have some metal songs, but they also have jazz, rock, easy-listening and all sorts of other songs. Other than Jizzlobber, Caffeine, Smaller and Smaller and Malpractice, Angel Dust is more rock than metal.

Oh sorry, I didn't realise bands had to be over a particular percentage metal to qualify

Anyway, Angel Dust is plenty heavy enough to qualify as a metal album but it's pretty pointless trying to categorise anything MikePatton does. Although I find the distinction between a lot of hard rock and metal pretty pointless, finnicky and redundant personally.

If Soundgarden count, then Down On The Upside doesn't even compare to Superunknown.

Eh, i love it, better tunes. Superunknown was too sludgy.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

Faith No More aren't metal either. They may well have some metal songs, but they also have jazz, rock, easy-listening and all sorts of other songs. Other than Jizzlobber, Caffeine, Smaller and Smaller and Malpractice, Angel Dust is more rock than metal.

Oh sorry, I didn't realise bands had to be over a particular percentage metal to qualify

Anyway, Angel Dust is plenty heavy enough to qualify as a metal album but it's pretty pointless trying to categorise anything MikePatton does. Although I find the distinction between a lot of hard rock and metal pretty pointless, finnicky and redundant personally.

I once heard one of his bands (think it was Fantomas) branded as 'thrash jazz'... so yes

If Soundgarden count, then Down On The Upside doesn't even compare to Superunknown.

Eh, i love it, better tunes. Superunknown was too sludgy.

Yeah I think that is actually the most prevalent opinion amongst fans. In saying that mind I had Superunknown for 3 years before I fully appreciated it, and I've only had DOTUS for about 3 months, so anything could happen there!

 

[JonathonWally]

Besides Van Halen being one of my favorite bands of all time, 1984 is one of the best albums ever made, but, I would never classify it as "Metal"

 

[Pingfah]

I once heard one of his bands (think it was Fantomas) branded as 'thrash jazz'... so yes

Oh, that band are absolutely insane, I left them off my Patton list in the top 20 thread, not one of my preferred Patton projects to be honest, they seem not to bother writing albums they just walk into a studio and record them the same day by the sound of it

Yeah I think that is actually the most prevalent opinion amongst fans. In saying that mind I had Superunknown for 3 years before I fully appreciated it, and I've only had DOTUS for about 3 months, so anything could happen there!

Hmm, yeah I think I probably preferred Superunknown myself at first, there are some really amazing songs on both. Burden in My Hand is the one that really clinches it for me though.

 

[Rÿcher]

Oh hell yeah! I cannot figure out Mindcrime: 2, though.

Nikki gets out of the hospital/prison whatever and goes out looking for Dr. X to exact revenge for screwing up his life.

Great duo, Geoff Tate and Ronnie James Dio!

All of Queensrÿche's albums prior to Q2K were awesome.