Best Metal Albums?

[rogers67]

I got a 160 gb iPod classic and i am looking for good heavy metal albums. It doesn't matter what kind of metal, it just has to be good.

[Mayonnaise]

I'd recommend any of the 3 Five Finger Death Punch albums.

[moneyman20]

Killers by Iron Maiden. It's my go to recommendation for metal albums.

[BoilerRoomBrawler]

Rust in Peace - Megadeth
Pleasure to Kill - Kreator
South of Heaven - Slayer

Bare minimum for thrash in my opinion.

Others though...
Abigail - King Diamond
Holy Diver - Dio
Can't decide on any specific Motörhead album, but Bomber, Iron Fist, or Orgasmatron all are good starters
Unleashed in the East - Judas Priest
Scream Bloody Gore - Death
Seven Churches - Possessed
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Number of the Beast, and/or Powerslave - Iron Maiden

[punishment]

Anything by King Diamond of course


There are gonna be people out there tho who will tell you bands like Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engaged, etc are good bands don't listen to them! lol

[Evilution E5150]

Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Anthrax - Among the Living
Slayer - Reign in blood
Testament - The New Order
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence
Doro - Force Majure
Megadeth - Killing is my business
Black Label Society - Stronger than Death
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Judas Priest - British Steel
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
Seven Churches - Possessed
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Sacred Reich - Ignorance
Sepultura - Arise
S.O.D. - Speak English or Die
Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army
Motorhead - Ace of Spade
Type O Negative - October Rust
Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
Sodom - Agent Orange
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Panter - Cowboys from Hell AND Vulgar Display of Power
Carnivore - Carnivore

and probably a zillion others!

[knifeman]

Burzum - Filosofem
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
ISIS -Oceanic
Cloudkicker -The Discovery
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Cynic - Focus
The Melvins -Houdini
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles – Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Mamaleek - Kurdaitcha

[Lord Rahl]

Dec 27, 2011 1:37:39 GMT -5 Mayonnaise said:

I'd recommend any of the 3 Five Finger Death Punch albums.

Came in here to post this. AWESOME albums, all 3 of em.

[theryno665]

Here's a bunch off the top of my head before I go to work:

Converge - Jane Doe
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Horse The Band - Desperate Living
Mastodon - Any album.
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works and/or Option Paralysis and/or the Irony is a Dead Scene EP with Mike Patton
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Satyricon - Volcano
Ghost - Opus Eponymous

I'm sure there's more I'm missing, but I just woke up and have to go to work soon.

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

Dec 27, 2011 9:09:54 GMT -5 knifeman said:

Burzum - Filosofem
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
ISIS -Oceanic
Cloudkicker -The Discovery
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Cynic - Focus
The Melvins -Houdini
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles – Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Mamaleek - Kurdaitcha

sir, I like your style.

my list skews to the heavier and more progressive stuff:

Tiamat-Wildhoney
Forgotten Tomb-Under Saturn Retrograde
Neuraxis-Trilateral Progression, Asylon
ISIS-Panopticon
Obscura-Omnivium
Agalloch-Pale Folklore
Pig Destroyer-Phantom Limb
Death-Symbolic, Individual Thought Patterns
Atheist-Piece of Time
Immolation-Close to a World Below
Anathema-The Silent Enigma
Quo Vadis-Defiant Imagination
Augury-Concealed
Dark Tranquility-Damage Done
Intronaut-Valley of Smoke
Enslaved-Axioma Ethica Odini
Primordial-Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Decrepit Birth-Polarity
Kataklysm-In The Arms of Devastation
Grave-Into the Grave

at least that's the stuff I've been listening to the most these days

[W?Y]

The Blackening by Machine Head.

What kind of metal are you looking for? Anything you don't like?

[H-Virus]

Blind Guardian: Pretty much any of them, though 'Imaginations from the Other Side' and 'Night at the Opera' are my favorites.
Devin Townsend: Pretty much any of them, though 'Infinity', 'Addicted' and 'Deconstruction' are my favorites.
Helloween: Keeper of the Seven Keys 1 & 2; The Dark Ride
Dream Theater: Images and Words
Symphony X: The Odyssey; Paradise Lost
Pagan's Mind: Celestial Entrance
Amon Amarth: With Oden on our Side
Cage: Darker Than Black
Bal-Sagoth: The Chtonic Chronicles
Lost Horizon: A Flame to the Ground Beneath
While Heaven Wept: Of Empires Forlorn
Bruce Dickinson: Accident of Birth; Chemical Wedding
Edguy: Hellfire Club
Kamelot: Epica; The Black Halo
Fates Warning: Awaken the Giant
Candlemass: Nightfall
Outworld: Outworld
Gamma Ray: No World Order
Iced Earth: Something Wicked This Way Comes; Horror Show; Dystopia; Night of the Stormrider
Judas Priest: Painkiller
November's Doom: The Novella Reservoir
Pharaoh: Be Gone
Primordial: To the Nameless Dead
Immortal: Sons of Northern Darkness
Serenity: Fallen Sanctuary
Suspyre: The Silvery Image
Twisted Tower Dire: Crest of the Martyr
After Forever: After Forever
Triosphere: The Road Less Traveled
Grave Digger: Rheingold
Falconer: Chapters From a Vale Forlorn


Just to name a few.

[Red Lion]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Metallica yet.

Master of Puppets

[riseofsetian1981]

Iron Maiden- Killers, Powerslave, or Somewhere in Time
Iced Earth- Night of the Stormrider
King Diamond- Abigail, Them, Conspiracy, and The Eye
Opeth- Still Life
Death- Symbolic
Anthrax- Spreading The Disease
Symphony X- The Odyssey
Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime
Savatage- Hall of the Mountain King
Pain of Salvation- The Perfect Element
Killswitch Engage- As Daylight Dies
Shadows Fall- The Art of Balance
Trivium- Ascendancy
Machine Head- The Blackening
Metallica- And Justice For All
Megadeth- Rust in Peace
Nightwish- Oceanborn
Lana Lane- Secrets of Astrology
Theocracy- Mirror of Souls
W.A.S.P.- The Crimson Idol
Heathen- Victims of Deception
Cynic- Focus
Cradle of Filth- Cruelty and the Beast
God Forbid- Gone Forever

[zeez]

The Jester Race by In Flames. One of the best melodeath albums ever made.

[Phosphor Glow]

Dec 27, 2011 9:09:54 GMT -5 knifeman said:

Burzum - Filosofem
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
ISIS -Oceanic
Cloudkicker -The Discovery
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Cynic - Focus
The Melvins -Houdini
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles – Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Mamaleek - Kurdaitcha

Second Oceanic SO hard. That is an absolutely classic album that you must listen to. And while not actually metal, Thrice's "Vheissu" was HEAVILY influenced by Oceanic, so if you dig on it, Vheissu would be worth checking out too.

[RedSmile]

Dec 27, 2011 1:30:00 GMT -5 rogers67 said:

I got a 160 gb iPod classic and i am looking for good heavy metal albums. It doesn't matter what kind of metal, it just has to be good.

There are thousands of good metal albums, have you never listened to metal before?

[Ghostorm]

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Craft - Terror Propoganda
Gorelord - Zombie Suicide pt. 666
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Skyclad - Wayward sons of Mother Earth
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Belphegor - Fleshclut
Falkenbach - Heralder
Hooded Menace - Never cross the dead
Mortiis - (Anything Era 1)

[Soultastic]

If you like the Spawn comics I'd recomend Iced Earth's "The Dark Saga". If you don't, I'd still recomend it. Damn good album.

[Wailing Fungus]

Capricorns - Ruder Forms Survive
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
Pentragram - Relentless
Pentragram - Be Forewarned
Shrapnel - The Devastation To Come (cheap plug for a friend's band *foleythumbsup.gif*)
Pretty much anything by Electric Wizard