Metal!

Ok basically I want to educate myself on more genres of metal other than prog-metal so if you guys could list some "definative/classic" albums for these genres of metal:

Power Metal

Thrash Metal

Brutal Death

Melodic Death

Folk Metal

Gothic Metal

Classic Metal( I have some Zepplin, I am thinking of getting some Sabbath what cd should I get)

Thanks for your help

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i have the metallica already, I will get the others

Folk Metal - Finntroll, Wintersun

Death Metal - Opeth, Cryptopsy, Death

Black metal - Ulver, Emperor, Burzum

Power Metal - Sonata Arctica, Hammerfall, Sinergy

Children of Bodom are also very good, dunno where to put thme though

^ Try those in the Doom/Dark or Orchestral/Gothic section of my chart.

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Many of them have Folk influences.

I'm not much of a fan of melodic death, but really the one band i like is Dark Tranquillity. I suggest you check out their album "The Gallery".

For the brutal stuff i would recommend Psycroptic's "Sceptre of the Ancients", Nile's "In Their Darkened Shrines" and Morbid Angel's "Blessed Are The Sick" (pretty old school sounding, but i don't like their latter material). If you want some more interesting (and harder to swallow) death metal i'll suggest Demilich's "Nespithe" (which you can find for free on their website) or Gorguts' "Obscura".

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Recommended Albums - these are albums that absolutely defined the genres and generally go an extra mile or two:

Power Metal - Riot : Narita, Skid Row : Slave to the Grind

Thrash Metal - Metallica : Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning, Slayer : Reign in Blood, Sacred Reich : Ignorance, Megadeth : Killing is my Business And Business Is Good, Anthrax : Spreading the Disease

I don't know about Brutal or Melodic Death Metal, but it all started with Death : Scream Bloody Gore

Folk Metal - Is there such a thing?

Gothic Metal - Cradle of Filth : Midian - every other Goth Metal band I've ever heard has just seemed watered down in comparison, and Midian is more progressive than most of the Prog Metal in the archives, IMO. Maybe I just like them because they're so progressive

Classic Metal - Now we're talking;

1st generation Heavy Metal - High Tide : Sea Shanties, Led Zeppelin : II, Black Sabbath : Black Sabbath

Mid period Metal - Judas Priest : Sad Wings of Destiny, Stained Class, Pink Fairies : Kings of Oblivion, Groundhogs : Split, Motorhead : On Parole

NWOBHM - AC/DC : Back in Black, Black Sabbath : Heaven and Hell, Motorhead : Ace of Spades, Scorpions : Lovedrive, Iron Maiden : Number of the Beast, Diamond Head : Living on Borrowed Time, Raven : All for One... and hundreds of other classics!

Death and Thrash are my main musical loves so here's some off the top of my head:

Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Death/Grind and Death/Thrash

Death, Cryptopsy, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Asphyx, early Cancer, Napalm Death, Immolation, Malevolent Creation, Sadus, Obituary, early Carcass....

Thrash Metal

Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Dark Angel, 80's Metallica, Annihilator, Kreator, Exodus, Testament, Overkill, Xentrix, Death Angel, Nuclear Assault, Suicidal Tendencies, S.O.D.....

Some of the bigger names and some more obscure bands to get a newbie started imo.

Power metal - can't really help you there, but IMO Dragonforce really seem to love what they do and you can hear it in their music

Thrash metal - Master of Puppets, Rust in Peace are great recommendations. You can also try Exodus - "Bonded by Blood". Slayer's "Reign in Blood" is sort of half-way thrash/death and an extremely infulential album, but IMO it is also extremely boring.

Brutal death -  don't get "Scream Bloody Gore" (sorry Cert), it's a good album, but it's not really death metal. Actually the only brutal death album from Death is "Leprosy" (recommended). Strik9 gave you some excellent recommendations above, but just to specify the very best: 

Morbid Angel - "Altars of Madness", "Formulas Fatal to the Flesh" (actually the only MA album to avoid is "Heretic") 

Suffocation - "Effigy of the Forgotten" (probably the best songs  in brutal death metal, beg, steal to get it)

Cryptopsy - "None so Vile"

Immolation - "Close to a World Below"

Gorguts - "Obscura"

(the last three are absolutely insane) 

Melodic death - Carcass - "Heartwork", also At the Gates, Opeth, early In Flames and early Edge of Sanity

Folk metal - In Extremo

Gothic metal - Type O Negative (quite a tongue-in-cheek band, but musically supreme, start with "World Coming Down", "October Rust" and "Bloody Kisses")

Some gothic-influenced bands in the archives - Lacrimosa and Anathema

Also Paradise Lost (although they're pure gothic metal only from "One Second" onwards and "Host" is a Depeche Mode-style album) and maybe early Theatre of Tragedy

Also why not try doom metal? It's a very rich genre, one I've only begun to explore and I love it so far... some examples -

(raw but beautiful) My Dying Bride (everything), Morgion "Solinari", Esoteric

(raw but catchy) Candlemass (everything, especially "Nightfall"), early Cathedral, Solitude Aeternus

(raw but... erm, raw, very raw) Burning Witch, Khanate, Wormphlegm, Worship (unfortunately albums by these bands are very hard to get)

Enjoy!     

EDIT: How could I have forgotten black metal... get Mayhem's "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" and "A Grand Declaration of War", Satyricon's "Nemesis Divina" and "Rebel Extravaganza", all the albums by Emperor, Dimmu Borgir's "Spiritual Black Dimensions", Cradle of Filth's "Vempire" and wait for Logos to come, give you some more black metal recommendations and flame me for suggesting Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth  

Thrash - Megadeth (Countdown To Extinction)

Please, do not tell me you think this one is better than Rust In Peace !

Topic, Machine Head-Burn My Eyes ( absolute must have )