Must-Have Metal Albums (56K warning!)

[legacyAccount]

[image=http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c301/berserker101/43e54bda.jpg]

Trivum - Ember to Inferno

1. Inception, The Bleeding Skies
2. Pillars of Serpants
3. If I Could Collapse the Masses
4. Fugue (A Revelation)
5. Requiem
6. Ember to Inferno
7. Ashes
8. To Burn the Eye
9. Falling to Grey
10. My Hatred
11. When All Light Dies
12. A View of Burning Empires
Bonus Tracks
13. Blinding Tears Will Break the Skies
14. The Deceived
15. Demon

 

[toat97778]

Enslaved - Isa
2004

1. Intro: "Green Reflection"
2. Lunar Force
3. Isa
4. Ascension
5. Bounded by Allegiance
6. Violet Dawning
7. Return to Yggdrasil
8. Secrets of the Flesh
9. Neogenisis
10. Outro: "Communion"


A rediculously good Black Metal album. Not exactly Darkthrone, but this will make you believe that good production and considerable untr00-ness can contribute to the making of a good album. A perfect mix of progressive psychadelia and heavy riffs.

DOWNLOAD/FAVORITE TRACKS: Neogenisis, Return to Yggdrasill, Isa, Secrets of the Flesh

 

[hellfish]

For me:

Mercyful Fate:
Melissa, Dont Break the Oath, In the Shadows

King Diamond:
Abigail

Entombed:
Wolverine Blues, MorningStar, Inferno

Ozzy:
Diary of a Madman

Slater:
Seasons in the Abyss, South of Heaven, Haunting the Chapel

 

[SimpJee]

Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients
Necrophagist - any album
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Quo Vadis - Day Into Night
In Flames - The Jester Race
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

 

[America2k1]

Album:Saint Anger
Band:Metallica
[image=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008OWZG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg]
Year of Release:2003
Track Listing:
Frantic
St. Anger
Some Kind of Monster
Dirty Window
Invisible Kid
My World
Shoot Me Again
Sweet Amber
The Unnamed Feeling
Purify
All Within My Hands

Allmusic: Metallica's first new material in over five years arrives after a flurry of non-musical activity that included a much-publicized spat over Internet file sharing, the departure of bassist Jason Newsted, and a lengthy stay in rehab for James Hetfield that suspended the recording of a new album indefinitely. Hetfield returned to the fold in late 2001. Still without a bass player, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and their newly sober frontman recruited longtime producer Bob Rock to man Newsted's spot, and creation of the album commenced in May 2002. St. Anger arrived a year later as a punishing, unflinching document of internal struggle -- taking listeners inside the bruised yet vital body of Metallica, but ultimately revealing the alternately torturous and defiant demons that wrestle inside Hetfield's brain. St. Anger is an immediate record. Written largely in the first person, it never warns of impending doom, doesn't struggle with claustrophobia, and has care neither for religion's safety nor its hypocrisy. (The religious symbolism of its title and artwork seems only to function as a metaphorical device.) Lacking the heavy metal baggage of these past themes, Metallica is left to ponder only itself and its singer's psychosis, and delivers its diagnosis on slabs of speed metal informed with years of innovation and texture. The record exists as it ends. As the lockstep thrash of the eight-plus minute "All Within My Hands" tumbles toward its final gasp, Hetfield is explicit in his aims. "I will only let you breathe my air that you receive," he seethes. "Then we'll see if I let you love me." Ulrich's drums sputter in fits and starts, but the guitars are already dying, shutting down as Hetfield stabs at the microphone. "Kill kill kill kill kill," he screams, and you have to check the wall for a splatter radius. It's a brutal, ugly end to an album that switches on like a bare light bulb in an underground cave. It blasts each corner with harsh, unfiltered light for 75 minutes, until the bulb is shattered with a combat boot, leaving disquieting after-images exploding on the backs of your eyelids....

 

[X-pert74]

lool

 

[legacyAccount]

Albumctavarium
Bandream Theater



http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0009A1AS2.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg



Year of Release: June 7, 2005

Track Listing:

1. Root Of All Evil
2. Answer Lies Within
3. These Walls Listen
4. I Walk Beside You
5. Panic Attack
6. Never Enough
7. Sacrificed Sons
8. Octavarium






So what do we have, exactly? We have an album that explores various areas of the progressive world. We have "The Root of All Evil", a continuation of Portnoy's multi-album suite (beginning with "The Glass Prison" and continued by "This Dying Soul"), which starts the album on a relatively heavy note. In it's 8-minute run, it re-visits riffs, rhythms and even lyrics from its predecessors (namely "I can feel my body breaking - shaking") and an impressive chorus. "Panic Attack" is a look back to Liquid Tension Experiment's rapid fire guitar riffs and blitzkrieg drums, never slowing down in its spectacular 8-minute duration. It is the fastest Dream Theater song to date and an explosive standout track.

Aside from those songs, the rest of the album is considerably slower and softer than anything we have heard from Dream Theater since the collection of ballads found on 1997's "Falling into Infinity". The serene "The Answer Lies Within" begins with the sounds of crickets and a lonely piano, leading into a soothing song where Rudess' delicate melodies journey alongside a quiet troupe of strings, which have a brief "solo".

Dream Theater have yet another politically interested song, following in the footsteps of 2001's "The Great Debate" and 2003's "In the Name of God". In fact, this album's 10-minute "Sacrificed Sons" is, most accurately described, "In the Name of God Part 2" with the same lyrical theme (religious fanaticism) and similar threatening atmospheres as its predecessor.

Then there's the surprise. The 24-minute prog-rock title track. I didn't know what to make of "Octavarium" at first as it was a complete surprise. It was one huge sonic orgy of intense instrumental virtuosity all jam-packed with a fully-backed symphony topped off with Labrie's VERY underrated vocals.

Sure, they *are* my all-time favorite band, so my standards are extremely high. "Octavarium" passes my intense scrutiny of all the important parts that make music come together. Whether you consider it metal or not(I don't see how most people here can call the incessant growling they listen to anything, honestly), it is an album unmatched in instrumental virtuosity.

 

[Progdrummer73]

Opeth's Blackwater Park

1. The Leper Affinity
2. Bleak
3. Harvest
4. The Drapery Falls
5. Dirge For November
6. The Funeral Portrait
7. Patterns In the Ivy
8. Blackwater Park

Just downright a progressive melodic death metal beauty, and one of my favorite albums of all time.

other great albums

Opeth - anything else by them
Necrophagist - Epitaph > Onset of Putrefication, but both excellent
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Pelican - Australasia
Between the Buried and Me - anything by them
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
Agalloch - The Mantle
Dream Theater - anything by them
Tool - anything by them

 

[coreytaylor88]

New Hatebreed will be a most own!

Its called Supremacy, check it out at

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/hatebreed"><img src="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/myspaceimages/hatebreedtease468x60.gif"></a><br><br>

 

[X-pert74]

New Hatebreed will be a most own!

Its called Supremacy, check it out at

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/hatebreed"><img src="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/myspaceimages/hatebreedtease468x60.gif"></a><br><br>

Yeah, go suck a pimple, advertising poser.

 

[redrumStrike]

Vital Remains - Dechristianize
BloodBath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Torture Killer - Swarm
God Dethroned - Into lungs of hell
Deicide - Legion
Entombed - Left hand path
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
King Diamond - Abigail

..and many more

 

[ZombieErotica]

Demiricous - One
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
Carnal Forge - Arent you dead yet?
Mastadon - Blood Mountain
Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead
Cannae - Gold Becomes Sacrifice
LOG - NAG
Behemoth - Satanica
Shadows Fall - Of One Blood

 

[atomatix2002]

OK. This metal board is officially t3h gh3y.


[bMorbid Angel][/b]-Altars of Madness, Covenant, Formulas Fatal to the Flesh.

In that order of kick assery.

 

[Fuzzball_The_Shooter]

[image=http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/top50extreme/Kreator-PTK.jpg]
Kreator
Pleasure to Kill
1986, Re-Released and Re-Mastered 2000
[ol] [li] "Choir of the Damned (Intro)" – 1:40 [/li] [li] "Ripping Corpse" – 3:36 [/li] [li] "Death is your Saviour" – 3:58 [/li] [li] "Pleasure to Kill" – 4:11 [/li] [li] "Riot of Violence" – 4:56 [/li] [li] "The Pestilence" – 6:58 [/li] [li] "Carrion" – 4:48 [/li] [li] "Command of the Blade" – 3:56 [/li] [li] "Under the Guillotine" – 4:38 [/li] [li] "Flag of Hate" * [/li] [li] "Take their Lives" * [/li] [li] "Awakening of the Gods" * [/li] [/ol]*Following tracks were released on the 2000 Re-Mastered version


Defiantly one of the best thrash metal albums of all time, it's brutal, violent and all about killing. Different sound then from Kreator's new stuff but pick this one up for sure.

 

[legacyAccount]

Pungent Stench - Ampeauty

1. Lyndie (She-Wolf of Abu Ghraib)
2. Invisible Empire
3. The Amp Hymn
4. The Passion of Lucifer
5. Got Milf?
6. Human Garbage
7. Apotemnophiliac
8. No Guts, No Glory
9. Same Shit, Different Asshole
10. Fear the Grand Inquisitor

I thought this album was great, considering when I purchased it I figured it would have terrible production and be a bunch of crappy songs. It has neither. Check out their back catalog (I love the song Viva Muerte).
________________________________________________

Hollenthon - With Vilest of Worms to Dwell

1. Y Draig Goch
2. Woe to the Defeated
3. Lords of Bedlam
4. To Kingdome Come
5. The Calm Before the Storm
6. Fire Upon the Blade
7. Conquest Demise
8. Conspirator

Pungent Stench turned me on to Hollenthon, Martin Shirenc[singer, guitarist]'s solo project. His first album was a bit more black metal, though this one impressed me more as it was far beyond what I would have expected.

 

[HellsDrunkard]

Pantera: Reinventing The Steel
Released: 2000
Track List:
1. Hellbound
2. Goddamn Electric
3. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
4. You've Got To Belong To It
5. Revolution Is My Name
6. Death Rattle
7. We'll Grind That Axe For A Long Time
8. Uplift
9. It Makes Them Disappear
10. I'll Cast A Shadow

This is a badass CD (as is anything by Pantera). Really good when you're in a pissed off mood.

 

[colroycampbell]

[image=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/RammsteinHerzeleid.jpg]
Rammstein
Herzeleid
1995 in Germany

1. Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen
2. Der Meister
3. Weisses Fleisch
4. Asche Zu Asche
5. Seemann
6. Du Riechst So Gut
7. Das Alte Leid
8. Heirate Mich
9. Herzeleid
10. Laichzeit
11. Rammstein

Description: Rammstein's first album and one of my all time favourite albums. I have listened to these songs hundreds of times and I'm still not bored of them. Till's voice is incredibly deep, yet very clear. Do yourself and get this album!

 

[DJIdaho]

As Daylight Dies
Killswitch Engage
2006

i'm not supposed to have listened to it yet, but it's the rocksorz!


get anything by them

and

Pantera
Vulgar Display of Power
1992

 

[VYtodestroyUSC]

Behemoth - Demigod

 

[Conservationist]

Demilich - Nespithe

Crazy Finns make twisting hallways of neurotic delirium out of death metal. Bullfrog vocalist, offtime jazz drumming, and lead guitars that make sense only on the second or third listen.

Album was released in 1992 or so but the band has made it available free for download on their site

 

[legacyAccount]

[image=http://www.darkness.de/images/product_images/popup_images/agalloch_ashes.jpg]
Agalloch
Ashes Against The Grain
2006

1.Limbs
2.Falling Snow
3.This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
4.Fire Above, Ice Below
5.Not Unlike the Waves
6.Our Fortress Is Burning... I
7.Our Fortress Is Burning... II - Bloodbirds
8.Our Fortress Is Burning... III - The Grain

Total playing time 59:49

Description I find it amazing the way Agalloch implement doom metal with folk, and still create an atmosphere of intense emotion. The entire album is portrayed in a way that makes you listen to the entire album over and over. You cannot just jump into the middle of the album. It keeps you on edge, slowly letting out bits of vocals, while quickly fading back into the atmospheric and depressing sound. Some might argue that songs like 'This White Mountain On Which You Will Die' are just filler songs, but I believe that they enhance the experience and further the albums greatness. No metal collection should go without this.

 

[legacyAccount]

Definately seen some crap in here but I've seen some stuff that I am definately all for in support.

 

[atomatix2002]

Demilich - Nespithe

Crazy Finns make twisting hallways of neurotic delirium out of death metal. Bullfrog vocalist, offtime jazz drumming, and lead guitars that make sense only on the second or third listen.

Album was released in 1992 or so but the band has made it available free for download on their site

Demilich is pretty sick! Good call.

 

[legacyAccount]

Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Suffocation - Pierced From Within



Yes.


(edit: how the hell could I have forgotten Suffocation?!?)

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

[image=http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre200/e248/e24820ufiaq.jpg]
Artist: Slipknot
Album: Slipknot
Year: 1999

1.742617000027
2.(Sic)
3.Eyeless
4.Wait And Bleed
5.Surfacing
6.Spit It Out
7.Tattered & Torn
8.Me Inside
9.Liberate
10.Prosthetics
11.No Life
12.Diluted
13.Only One
14.Scissors


Amazon Review: The album cover of this self-titled release depicts the members of Slipknot in creepy masks, the dark image confirmed by the presence of a parental advisory sticker. Inside, foul language and subversive lyrics complete the picture. Yet Slipknot are no Insane Clown Posse, using hyperbole to mask a lack of talent. Slipknot's sound, while indebted to the likes of Korn, is more aggressive and creative. Indeed, it's a closer kin to Slayer and death metal, yet listenable and surprisingly melodic. The common denominator among Slipknot and the late '90s crop of neo-metal-rap bands is producer Ross Robinson (Korn, Limp Bizkit), who discovered the Iowa-bred Slipknot and signed them to his label, I Am Records. His stellar production, melded with wonderfully creepy percussive elements, a sampler, a DJ, metallic-grind guitars, and singer Corey Taylor's immense passion and wide melodic range, makes Slipknot immensely listenable. Slipknot isn't for everyone, but they provide a visceral and satisfying ride for fans of the hard stuff.



i know i will prolly catch hate because there isnt alot of slipknot fans on this board.

 

[jhndry05]

I'm just going down my playlist and picking out the good stuff:

All That Remains- The Fall of Ideals

This is by far my favorite album of last year. Even if you don't like old ATR, check this one out. Phil Labonte is the best singer in metalcore.



Avenged Sevenfold- City of Evil

Good, tasty metal.



Bleeding Through- The Truth

Really the only thing holding these guys back is the lyrics. If you dont mind middle school emo lyrics though, grab this album... its good.



Cellador-Enter Deception

Best Power Metal in years.



DragonForce- Inhuman Rampage

Yes, its DragonForce; yes their lyrics are retarded; yes its just instrumental masturbation. Its still fun to listen to though.



In Flames- Clayman

Swedish Death. nuff said




In Flames- Colony

Ditto.



Meshuggah- Catch 33

These guys are f*cking good. By far the most coherent tech metal out there.



Norma Jean- Reedemer

More accessible Norma Jean... if there is such a thing



Strapping Young Lad- The New Black

Not much to say about it other than its SYL.



The Black Dahlia Murder- Miasma

American Death... Good American Death... Good New American Death.

 

[LoxxO)))]

Avenged Sevenfold = no

Bleeding Through's lyrics fit their music.

Norma Jean is accessible. All the scene kids love them.

Fully edit your swearing.

Also, your "witty" mini-reviews suck. Nuff said.

 

[X-pert74]

Indeed, it's a closer kin to Slayer and death metal, yet listenable and surprisingly melodic.

Ugh

 

[LoxxO)))]

Indeed, it's a closer kin to Slayer and death metal, yet listenable and surprisingly melodic.

Ugh

What is that for Kurt?

 

[X-pert74]

The claim that it's "listenable and surprisingly melodic" in comparison to Slayer and Death Metal.

 

[jhndry05]

Melodic death is far more listenable than Slipknot.

 

[jhndry05]

Avenged Sevenfold = no

Bleeding Through's lyrics fit their music.

Norma Jean is accessible. All the scene kids love them.

Fully edit your swearing.

Also, your "witty" mini-reviews suck. Nuff said.
--------------------------------------------



I seem to have missed this somehow.

Avenged Sevenfold=yes

Bleeding Through needs to grow up.

Mathcore is inherently inaccessible.

I'm sorry for offending you dammit...ass. PS This is the metal board. Half the bands have cuuuurse words in their names.

I would have given full reviews, but really who has the time?

 

[LoxxO)))]

The claim that it's "listenable and surprisingly melodic" in comparison to Slayer and Death Metal.

I meant what artist Kurt.

 

[SheriffBigStick]

"I seem to have missed this somehow.

Avenged Sevenfold=yes

Bleeding Through needs to grow up.

Mathcore is inherently inaccessible.

I'm sorry for offending you dammit...ass. PS This is the metal board. Half the bands have cuuuurse words in their names.

I would have given full reviews, but really who has the time?"

--------------------------------------

It may be true that many bands have curse words in their names, but writing partially edited curse words is against IGN's TOS. Face the fact.

 

[jhndry05]

So if I were to talk about A*** ****, would I write A*** ****, A*** ****, A*** ****, or A*** ****? Because its very hard to have a coherent conversation about A*** ****

(I'm super serial on this one, guys)

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

The claim that it's "listenable and surprisingly melodic" in comparison to Slayer and Death Metal.

I meant what artist Kurt.

he is talking about Slipknot

 

[LoxxO)))]

Have you never used IGN? STOP DOUBLE POSTING. FULL EDIT YOUR SWEARING. I'm really close to reporting you and getting you banned.

 

[SheriffBigStick]

You could say Anal ****. I agree, it can be tricky to hold a conversation with a bunch of edited words, but hopefully a person doesn't have to list off a long string of obscenities to get his/her point across. As for band names, you just have to hope that people know who you're talking about when you write the edited name.

 

[X-pert74]

Yes, I'm talking about Slipknot.

joelaundry, you can say Anal ****. Now bye bye.

 

[jhndry05]

Have you never used IGN? STOP DOUBLE POSTING. FULL EDIT YOUR SWEARING. I'm really close to reporting you and getting you banned.
--------------------------------------

Sorry you ******* *****. I ******* edited every ******* **** and ****. I wasn't aware anyone could be so ******* ******. I would love to **** your ***** and ******* telephone *** ****** with the salami.


Back to the Metal:

Bad Acid Trip- Lynch the Weirdo

 

[X-pert74]

joelaundry's pissed off now!

 

[jhndry05]

joelaundry's pissed off now!
--------------------------------

**** you! Don't ****** call me joelaundry you **** ** **** I could **** so far up your ***** you'll be ******* strawberries.

I think I'm getting used to this whole censorship thing. Was my point clear?

Also, get back to posting ****** ***** Albums, you *** *****.

 

[LoxxO)))]

Yes, I'm talking about Slipknot.

joelaundry, you can say Anal ****. Now bye bye.

I don't see the Slayer thing... but you've got to admit... Slipknot occasionally does resemble death metal. And they are easier to listen to than death metal for a lot of mainstream people.

 

[X-pert74]

Okay, johndried

Please calm down, mister. It's not healthy to threaten people like that

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

Yes, I'm talking about Slipknot.

joelaundry, you can say Anal ****. Now bye bye.

I don't see the Slayer thing... but you've got to admit... Slipknot occasionally does resemble death metal. And they are easier to listen to than death metal for a lot of mainstream people.

i 2nd that because im prolly what would be consided mainstream to rock

 

[jhndry05]

Okay, johndried

Please calm down, mister. It's not healthy to threaten people like that
------------------------------------------------------------------------

It appears this board is lacking a sarcasmometer.

Just do what I do when I come across censored words and mad lib them. Its much more fun.

 

[X-pert74]

Slipknot is easier to listen to than Death Metal is for most people, but I just don't like how it acts like Death Metal isn't spectacular at all, musically.

Okay, johndried

Please calm down, mister. It's not healthy to threaten people like that
------------------------------------------------------------------------

It appears this board is lacking a sarcasmometer.

Just do what I do when I come across censored words and mad lib them. Its much more fun.

ooowaa!

 

[chookmaster7]

Avenged Sevenfold: city of Evil--- good album....

also



Avenged Sevenfold: Sounding the seventh trumpet....

The reason Avenged sevenfold dont scream in there newer stuff is coz M. Shadows (lead singer) screamed a little too hard in "sounding the seventh trumpet" so he needed surgery and cant scream as loud any more, just incase ur wondering

BTW both albums are a MUST have....

 

[jhndry05]

Replace Sounding the Seventh with Waking the Fallen and you are correct on both counts. Sounding the Seventh is above average though... If you have extra, extra money pick it up.

 

[DMG99]

[image=http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/dmg9946/Albums/200px-Through_the_Ashes.jpg]

Album: Through the Ashes of Empires
Band: Machine Head

Track List:

1. Imperium - 6:40
2. Bite the Bullet - 3:21
3. Left Unfinished - 5:45
4. Elegy - 3:54
5. In the Presence of My Enemies - 7:06
6. Days Turn Blue to Gray - 5:28
7. Vim - 5:11
8. All Falls Down - 4:28
9. Wipe the Tears - 3:54
10. Descend the Shades of Night

Total run time: 59:41

Who could have expected this out of Machine Head? After a sudden, nauseating digression into the realm of nu-metal, these thrashers out of Oakland seemed to be doomed. For three years after Supercharger not much was heard out of the Machine Head camp, until April of 2004 when they dropped this bomb shell. Right from the opening track (and what an opening track it is - Imperium is at least as good, if not better than MH's calling card Davidian) this album kicks your ass. Groovy riffs through out, not to mention some exceptional work from Phil McClain on the drums (again, see Imperium) make this album a must own for any metal fan.



[image=http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/dmg9946/Albums/11184.jpg]

Album: The Morning Never Came
Band: Swallow The Sun

Track List:

1. Through Her Silvery Body - 8:40
2. Deadly Nightshade - 5:48
3. Out of This Gloomy Light - 5:37
4. Swallow (Horror Pt.1) - 5:23
5. Silence of the Womb - 6:50
6. Hold This Woe - 8:04
7. Under The Waves - 6:46
8. The Morning Never Came - 9:19

Total run time: 56:27

An exceptional piece of doom metal, this band hailing from the wilds of Finlandia have released two solid albums since this, Ghosts of Loss and Hope, but they don't touch The Morning Never Came. Broodingly dark and atmospheric, Mikko Kotamäki's vocals really have to be heard to be believed, he has one of the best growls I've heard in a long time.