Your favourite 15 Metal albums?
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Topic: Your favourite 15 Metal albums?
Posted By: David_D
Subject: Your favourite 15 Metal albums?
Date Posted: November 14 2021 at 02:15
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Well, I've got this idea for a thread about our favourite Metal albums, and my own list is presented in a unranked but chronological order. In my opinion, this list can be considered as not less than a very little but yet, quite a lot telling document on Metal history, as the bands represent several, different sub-genres, and most of them have been very popular and influential. About LedZepps, however you might want to classify them, I surely consider them to be a part of Metal history, and not to do without. Best with only one album for each band and I'll hope you'll enjoy it! Be sure to see the Metal poll here, as well ( https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127779" rel="nofollow - Poll: Your favourite Metal albums? ). Black Sabbath (UK) - Master of Reality (1971) Budgie (UK) - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1973) Judas Priest (UK) - Sad Wings Of Destiny (1976) Diamond Head (UK) - Lightning To The Nations (1980) Mercyful Fate (DK) - Melissa (1983) Black Flag (US) - My War (1983) Iron Maiden (UK) - Powerslave (1984) Fates Warning (US) - The Spectre Within (1985) Metallica (US) - Master Of Puppets (1986) Celtic Frost (CH) - “Into The Pandemonium” (1987) Voivod (CAN) - Nothingface (1989) Psychotic Waltz (US) - Into the Everflow (1992) Tool (US) - Undertow (1993) Kyuss (US) - Sky Valley (1994) Aesma Daeva (USA) - The Eros of Frigid Beauty (2001) Taal (F) - Skymind (2002) Indukti (PL) - S.U.S.A.R. (2004) Riverside (PL) - Second Life Syndrome (2005) Well, that's now a couple more than 15. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 02:25
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In terms of what I think 'Metal' is then I struggle to get far past Iron Maiden. Their 80's albums are virtually unimpeachable for me. I don't really consider a lot of the bands named to be Metal ( I might be well wrong but were Sabbath ever described at this?). I tend to think it started with the likes of Judas Priest, Saxon and Maiden in the late seventies and then Metallica took it on and made it even more popular. Wiki though does reference Zep, Sabbath and Purple as the pioneers although it does credit Judas Priest with the genre's evolution by discarding the blues influence. I do quite like the technical metal stuff of Exivious and Animals As Leaders as well at later Opeth. Mastodon are also a cool band. I also like the Meshuggah album I own. I could try and put a list together especially if we are counting Deep Purple , Led Zep! |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 02:44
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Cool! I don't have a fixed list. But here are some of my absolute favourite metal albums: 1-) Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making 2-) Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite 3-) Amorphis - Tuonela 4-) Opeth - Morningrise 5-) Dream Theater - Awake 6-) Rhapsody (of Fire) - Symphony of Enchanted Lands 7-) Nocturnal Rites - Shadowland 8-) Keldian - Heaven's Gate 9-) Keldian - Journey of Souls 10-) Keldian - Darkness and Light 11-) Metallica - Master of Puppets 12-) Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth 13-) Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding 14-) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast 15-) Nightwish - Oceanborn Some additional: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element (part 1) Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast Cradle of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia Royal Hunt - Fear Obituary - The End Complete Hemlock - Exordium Therion - Theli Therion - Vovin And so on and so forth Note: The "additional"s are also in the same level with my listed favourite albums. I can come up with hundreds more, likewisely. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 02:45
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Armageddon - Armageddon (1975) Ayreon - The Human Equation (2004) Black Sabbath - Tyr (1990)Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos (1989)
Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross (2010) Delain - April Rain (2009) Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992) Girlschool - Hit and Run (1981) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (1982)
Leaves' Eyes - Vinland Saga (2005) Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won (2003) Motorhead - Ace of Spades (1980) Nightwish - Oceanborn (1998) Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin (1986) Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow Rising (1976) Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm (2007) Within Temptation - The Silent Force (2004) |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 04:28
"In terms of what I think 'Metal' is then I struggle to get far past Iron Maiden." To begin with, I must say, I had been thinking very much in the same way - it was only beginning with the 80's, the music sounded to me as true Metal. "I don't really consider a lot of the bands named to be Metal ( I might be well wrong but were Sabbath ever described at this?)" Nevertherless, that is very much so according to the sources, I've seen, of which I can mention: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal (2003) by Ian Christe Heavy Metal. The Music and it's Culture (2000) by Deena Weinstein Mean Deviation. Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal (2010) by Jeff Wagner Edit: The existence of "Heavy Metal" in the 70's can be easyly seen by the name of the sub-genre NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) which appeared in the late 70's (and included, say Saxon). - And today, I can only say, those like Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) and Black Sabbat's Vol. 4 (1972) sound like Metal to me - even only as "early Metal". So, maybe I'll distinguish (now) between "the early Metal" and "the proper Metal". P.S. I'm very glad of this discussion, richardh, it clarified further my view on "Metal", thank you. Edit 2: richardh wrote: "Wiki though does reference Zep, Sabbath and Purple as the pioneers although it does credit Judas Priest with the genre's evolution" As far as I've seen, it's quite widely agreed on today that Black Sabbath is the most important band in inventing the style while, in Jeff Wagner's and Ian Christe's opinion (similar to Wiki), Judas Priest must be seen as the most most important band in founding the genre. - But concerning the invention of the style, I think, Wiki is very much right in it's point of view. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
richardh wrote:Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 04:38
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Allright, Paul, I like your mentioning of the years, as it's more informative, and it's interesting to see what you're into in this genre. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 06:04
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Not sure they all count as metal, but here are a fifteen pretty heavy ones: Armageddon - Armageddon (1975) Birth Control - Operation (1971) Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970) Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus (1980) Budgie - Squawk (1972) Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972) Deep Purple - In Rock (1970) Green Bullfrog - Green Bullfrog (1971)High Tide - Sea Shanties (1969) Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971) Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend (1970) UFO - Phenomenon (1974) Uriah Heep - Abominog (1982) Wishbone Ash - Twin Barrels Burning (1982) -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 08:26
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The metal categories cast such a wide span. I remember as a kid in the late 60s, early 70s, hearing bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, Judas Priest, Nazareth, and AC/DC referred to as "Heavy Metal" bands. Often their music was too aggressive/abrasive to get AM radio play (except for their ballads), but was receiving attention from the newly forming FM stations that were using album music formats. Other than perhaps giving AC/DC a little more credit, I agree with OP that it seemed as if Iron Maiden was the leader in really escalating this music into an art form with it's own separate following--separating itself from the dreary/depressing goth or decrepit blues-rock bands and music. Then Metallica and the rest is history! I also would reinforce the idea that the tech/extreme metal and all of their offshoot sub-categories almost deserve a separate consideration/thread. Where does one place albums by bands like Atheist, Enchant, Enslaved, Voivod, Exivious, Death, Cynic, Gorguts, Gojira, and Meshuggah? ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 08:42
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Based upon my limited exposure to and limited understanding of "metal," some albums I really enjoy include: AC/DC Back in Black Led Zeppelin II Blue Öyster Cult Secret Treaties Thin Lizzy Jailbreak Votum Harvest Moon Proghma-C Bar-do Travel Arcane Chronicles of the Waking Dream Dream Theater Awake Mastodon Crack the Skye Negura Bunget Om Led Zeppelin IV The Reticent The Oubliette The Contortionist Clairvoyant Stare at the Clouds This Clear Divide Karnivool Asymmetry Tool Lateralus Fen Epoch ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:20
I'm glad to hear that point of view because if accepting the distinqtion between "early Metal" and "proper Metal" then where belongs NWOBHM? - And I must say, I'm not much for considering it as "proper Metal" because to me it's not that different from earlier Judas Priest, or some of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple for that sake.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:36
NWOBHM is not a metal genre, it's exactly what it says in its name, a wave of heavy metal bands , a lot of them influenced by what came before - Purple, Heep, Priest, Budgie, Sabbath and add the likes of punk, Motorhead. If hard rock and heavy metal walked hand in hand in the past, with the NWOBHM, heavy metal went ahead and left hard rock behind.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:42
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Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Deep Purple - Made In Japan (Machine Head) Led Zeppelin - IV Rainbow - Rising Motorhead - Overkill Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend Behold The Arctopus - Hapelectic Overtrove Diablo Swing Orchestra - Singalong Songs for the Damned & Delirious Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son AC/DC - Powerage Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny Tool - Laterus Honorable mentions UFO - Strangers In The Night Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion Stolen Babies - There Will Be Squabbles Slayer - Reign In Blood Meshuggah - Catch Thirty-Three Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman MC5 - Kick Out The Jams ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:44
Well, might agree, as they are not in line with my taste (Melissa being difficult enough), and unfortunately not at all represented in my OP - but there's still very good possibility to mention them here. So, this thread may be a good investigation of that idea. Edit: - Many of those bands are very popular in general, but I don't really know how much on PA.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:45
^ nice to see AC/DC's Powerage mentioned, it's my favorite album with Bon on vocals. 
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:47
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I think I’d have great difficulty giving you my favourite 15 metal albums from this year, let alone my 15 favourite of all time. 🤪 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:49
15 albums of 2021 maybe not, but favorite 15 albums in general, I agree, very hard.
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Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:50
I’ve listened to a lot of great metal albums this year. I’d honestly struggle to whittle it down to a list of fifteen that I could be confident were my absolute favourite 15. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:52
I believe you.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 09:57
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Some may not be metal, but heavy. Alice Cooper - Killer Alice in Chains - Dirt Ark - Burn the Sun Dio - Holy Diver Dream Theater - Images & Words Fates Warning - Theories of Flight Freak Kitchen - Cooking with Pagans Haken - Visions Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind Megadeth - Rust in Peace ni - Les Insurges De Romilly Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane Panzerballett - Planet Z Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition Soundgarden - Down on the Upside Honorable mentions... AC/DC - Back in Black Aerosmith - Get Your Wings Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Virgil Donati - Ruination King Crimson - Red Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 10:16
good point! ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 11:25
I won't call it "genre", either, but it has been used as a label, and yes, it has some specific, stylistic characteristics. Edit: Anyway, good point.
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 12:29
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Not taking early heavy rock or heavy prog bands into consideration (Black Sabbath counts though). Because although I acknowledge they are an essential part of metal history, I don’t think of them as metal. Something like this perhaps: Sadus- Illusions Аспид [Aspid] - Кровоизлияние Slayer - South of Heaven Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath Vektor - Black Future Atvm - Famine, Putrid and f**king Endless Death - Leprosy Metallica - Master of Puppets Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race Manowar - Hail to England Sepultura - Beneath the Remains Morbid Angel - Covenant |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 12:31
I think, NWOBHM can be said to be a transition phase between "the early Metal" and "the proper Metal". ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 12:38
About that, I can tell that Ozzy Osbourne has once said in an interview that Paranoid was ment as a Prog album, and even that interview was done many years after 70's, I think that is very probable.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 13:32
There is no such thing as "proper metal". It's still heavy metal.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 13:44
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 13:56
Can you explain further what you mean? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 14:07
What do you mean by "proper metal", I've never seen it before. Early metal was still heavy metal, a first wave of bands if it's easy to point out. NWOBHM was a continuation of that, with new influences, artists trying to come up with something new and it worked. It inspired and influenced new genres, such as speed metal, thrash, US Power and in the case of Venom even early black metal or what metalheads call the first wave of black metal (not an expert in that, but I've tried a few bands, read and watched a few things at least to understand what was going on).
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 14:13
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 14:38
Okay, I agree that "proper Metal" is a subjective characteristic of the qualitative changes that happend in Metal beginning with the 80's. Further more, witch is not good, it's condescending towards earlier Metal. So, if I want a term to describe those qualitative changes in the 80's, it's better not to be condescending. And I agree, it's just a genre which is changing all the time. Thank you for your correction. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 14:41
Don't take it a s a correction, I did not.
I was just answering your question. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 14:48
Yes, as Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are maybe by not so few today considered as even the begining of Prog Metal - but the interview was about Paranoid, and I think that in 1973 BS had an image as a Metal band. About Paranoid, well, the year was 1970, and the Prog genre was just began to form so, what was and what not was Prog, was absolutely not clear. So, in fact, in my opinion, Paranoid viewing from historical perspective maybe surely can be considered as Prog.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 15 2021 at 14:50
Well, I do consider it as a correction, and I'm glad of it. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 00:45
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 07:04
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If we're sticking to one per band. INPO. OTTOMH. And I haven't got time to find the years... Ayreon - The Human Equation Devin Townsend - Empath Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful Suicidal Tendencies - Lights, Camera, Revolution Metallica - ...And Justice For All Eluveitie - Ategnatos Cellar Darling - The Spell Avantasia - Moonglow Dream Theater - Images And Words AC/DC - Highway To Hell Warrior Soul - Last Decade Dead Century Ghost - Prequelle Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 2 King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 16 2021 at 12:53
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Led Zeppelin - II Black Sabbath - Paranoid Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Alice Cooper - Killer Atomic Rooster - In Hearing Of Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself Aerosmith - Get Your Wings King Crimson - Red Robin Trower - Bridge of SighsRainbow - Rising Motorhead - Ace Of Spade AC/DC - Let There Be Rock Tool - Lateralus MC5 - Kick Out The Jams Anvil - Hard & Heavy i'll probably add more once I stop forgetting about them. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 05:24
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Anybody else would like to tell about their favourite Metal? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 05:36
We have a match on three favourite Metal albums.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 06:51
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 08:02
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Not a huge metal fan so picking 15 won't be doable. However I can pick a few but some of these probably aren't considered metal. Whatever. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Iron Maiden - Powerslave Alice In Chains - Dirt Rush - Caress of Steel Kings X - Dogman (listen to it. it's effin' metal) Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 08:29
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AC/DC if you want blood. Purple In Rock Rainbow Rising Iron Maiden Brave New World. Black Sabbath Sabbath bloody Sabbath. Montrose 1st album UFO strangers in the Night. Priest Unleashed in the East. Van Halen 1st album Led Zep 2 and 4 BOC Secret Treaties Michael Schenker Group 1st album Scorpions Lovedrive. Sammy Hagar Sammy Hagar. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 08:53
What a cracking list! ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Cylli Kat (0fficial)
Date Posted: November 18 2021 at 17:03
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In no particular order: King Diamond - Abigail Dream Theater - Images and Words Soul Doubt - The Dance of Light and Shade Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite Redemption - The Fullness of Time Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3547" rel="nofollow - Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime Rainbow - Rising Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast Cacophony - Go Off! Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn Arch Echo - Arch Echo Black ⚡abbath - ⚡abbath Bloody ⚡abbath Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Remedy Lane Element Pt. I  (Okay, I admit it: I cheated there...)------------- (Insert Clever Words Here) I'm actually this guy: https://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=17597" rel="nofollow - Cylli Kat |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 19 2021 at 01:00
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I hadn't really considered Rainbow but they were probably an important 'link' band between old and new in the seventies. Its much clearer to me that something like Rising is more heavy metal compared to say In Rock or Led Zep II. Also Thin Lizzy with that twin guitar thing of Gary Moore and Scott Goram was another very important band for the genre. Can only do 12 'proper' metal albums, 3 at the bottom are clearly not but do have a strong metal influence. Led Zep - II Deep Purple - In Rock Rainbow - Rising Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous Iron Maiden - Powerslave Opeth - Pale Communion Mastodon - Crack the Skye Haken - Vector Animals As Leaders - S/t Exivious - Exivious Katatonia - City Burials Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason Rush - 2112 Porcupine Tree - Deadwing Tool - Lateralus |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 19 2021 at 01:24
If you haven't seen it, I've regretted the term "the proper Metal" (after Cristi's critism), as I now find it too subjective and condescending towards the earlier Metal. Edit: I think your point about Rainbow and Thin Lizzy is quite interesting.
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Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: November 19 2021 at 04:38
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How do some you distinguish between heavy metal and hard rock? I really don't have one. Anyway, 15 off the top of my head (1 album per artist). I am sure I have left off other favorites. 1. Metallica - Master of Puppets 2. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 3. Corrosion of Conformity - Blind 4. Prong - Prove You Wrong 5. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast 6. Motorhead - Orgasmatron 7. Anthrax - Sound of White Noise 8. AC/DC - Highway to Hell 9. Black Sabbath - Paranoid 10. Tool - Lateralus 11. Cynic - Traced in Air 12. Warrior Soul - God, Drugs and the New Republic 13. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance 14. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction 15. Dream Theater - Images and Words |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 20 2021 at 14:56
One thing more I don't understand in this question: If Look at your Self is considered Prog then why should Paranoid not be? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 03:49
don't start with another what's prog and what's not, you'll be killing your own thread.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:00
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And have you maybe thought, it would be good to move this thread to the top again? ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:02
it goes at the top of the general music page every time someone posts. But discussions like what's prog and what's not are thread killers and derail the whole initial conversation. Best be avoided in my humble opinion.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:07
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Agree, so even I find these discussions very constructive for Prog at the time being, it has to be in an appropriate quantity. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:08
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:12
due to different reasons! ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:14
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1. X Japan - Art of Life 2. Opeth - Still Life 3. Dream Theater - Images and Words 4. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 5. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse 6. Tool - Lateralus (if they count as metal) 7. Death - Individual Thought Patterns 8. Death - Symbolic 9. Ulver - Nattens Madrigal 10. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 11. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts 12. Morbid Angel - Covenant 13. Immolation - Close to a World Below 14. Sadist - Tribe 15. Between the Buried and Me - Colors ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:33
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Very welcome to you here, Necrotica, a bit late to the party but then, even more welcomed. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 04:50
I've just realized I haven't made a list here yet.  Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time Death Angel - Act III King Diamond - Abigail Testament - Practice What You Preach Kreator - Terrible Certainty Warlord - And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun Annihilator - Never Neverland Dio - Last in Line Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny Legend - From The Fjords Lake of Tears - Forever Autumn Helstar - A Distant Thunder Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow Paradise lost - Icon and many others...
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 05:57
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Yes! Christi, I've forgotten all about it, as well! But then, even more heartly welcome to you with that, as well, and it's very interesting to see some of your favourites!
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Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 05:58
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One by each artist, otherwise it would be dominated by Black Sabbath, Riverside, and Dream Theater. Ran with 19...Too difficult to separate the last eight.
1) Black Sabbath - Paranoid 2) Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Turbulence 3) Riverside- "Anno Domini High Definition" 4) UneXpecT- "Fables Of The Sleepless Empire" 5) Deep Purple- "Deep Purple In Rock" 6) Diablo Swing Orchestra- "Pacifisticuffs" 7) Tool - "Fear Inoculum" 8) Queensryche - "Operation: Mindcrime" 9) Behold...The Arctopus- "Skullgrid" 10) Ayreon- "The Human Equation" 11) Opeth- "Pale Communion" 12) Pain of Salvation- "The Perfect Element-Part 1" 13) Katatonia- "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" 14) Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- "Of Natural History" 15) Judas Priest - "Sad Wings of Destiny" 16) Therion- "Theli" 17) Caligula's Horse- "The Tide, The Thief, & The River's End" 18) Sigh- "Imaginary Sonicscape" 19)Devin Townsend Project- "Deconstruction" Would like to see two lists (70's metal, that folks in the1970's called metal, but people now name "hard rock") Bands like ACDC, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple. The other list? Metal that started when Fates Warning, Metallica, and Queensryche hit the ground running. I think of Rainbow- Rising as the bridge album between 1970's hard rock metal and early 80's metal and beyond. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 06:01
| ^ Therion - Theli - now that's a great, groundbreaking album, shame on me I didn't think about it when i made my list. I listened to it when it came out, still listen to it every once in a while, never got old. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 06:05
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Ookaay, it begins to look like, this thread might have a second part! Very much welcome to you, as well, omphaloskepsis - I must say, your name make me quite curious  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 06:08
You can always add something in "edit" - as you know. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 06:11
you said 15 albums, I made a 15 albums list. I could make a 15 albums list for every metal subgenre I enjoy.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 27 2021 at 06:15
I can easy believe in that. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: December 20 2021 at 03:32
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------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 12 2022 at 16:35
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refresh ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: February 14 2022 at 10:20
I think we’re all metalled out David😲☺️ |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 14 2022 at 10:25
Okay, I can imagine that, thanks.
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: February 15 2022 at 07:27
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Keeping in mind that I haven't listened to much metal for a few years, off the top of my head, leaving out most what I consider more hard rock or proto-metal, the list would be something like this: Shared 1st place: Black Sabbath - Paranoid Black Sabbath - Master of Reality The rest in alphabetical order, one album/band: Amorphis - Karelian Isthmus Autopsy - Mental Funeral Barathrum - Infernal Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Convulse - World Without God Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Death - Human Entombed - Left Hand Path Goatlord - Reflections of the Solstice Iron Maiden - Powerslave Morbid Angel - Covenant Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet Unholy - From the Shadows Please don't ask how I define metal vs hard rock or proto-metal or whatever. I don't know.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 15 2022 at 14:07
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Good to know what Metal you're most into, Hiram. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: February 15 2022 at 14:37
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I'll try and go for 15 non-prog albums: Black Sabbath: Heaven & Hell Black Sabbath: Headless Cross Blind Guardian: A Night At The Opera Epica: Design Your Universe Therion: Theli Therion: Vovin Dark Moor: Tarot Judas Priest: Painkiller Kamelot: The Black Halo Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Metallica: Paster Of Muppets Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime Within Temptation: The Unforgiving Nightwish: Wishmaster Rainbow: Rising (Ok, it's Hard Rock!) In no particular order, of course... |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 15 2022 at 14:48
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nice to see you here with your favourites, Jared Metallica: Paster Of Muppets  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: February 15 2022 at 16:27
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I'm more of a classic metal head, nothing obscure.....This is still a tough list to complete. (not in any order) Iron Maiden~Powerslave Iron Maiden~Piece Of Mind Saxon~Power & The Glory Saxon~Wheels Of Steel Dio~Holy Diver Judas Priest~British Steel Ozzy~No More Tears UFO~Lights Out Black Sabbath~s/t Black Sabbath~Paranoid Scorpions~Animal Magnetism AC/DC~For Those About To Rock.. Accept~Balls To the Wall Ratt~e/p Blackmore's Rainbow~Rainbow Rising -------------   
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 16 2022 at 02:45
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very good to see you here as well, Catcher, and your favourites  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 16 2022 at 03:12
great list! I love all those bands as well, nice to see Saxon in there, a band often overlooked (they have just released a new album).
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 19 2023 at 04:25
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Here's something I wrote in another thread but I'd like to quote it in this thread as well:
And these points show very significant difference between early 1970s Black Sabbath and say Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. I find all this important to state in order to give Black Sabbath the credit as the main inventor of the Metal style.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: July 19 2023 at 05:46
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I find also Master of Reality together with Vol. 4 to be the crucial albums, and not Paranoid or debut. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |