I have seen many youtubers doing videos for this, and I saw the forum thread here for perfect bands. However I think that no band is perfect, as each album is always different from eachother. That said, I do think there are perfect albums, and we should talk about them in this thread to share with each other. These are albums that just surpass the rest, that are perfect in every note. They will keep you interested from start to finish. Here are mine

Agalloch - The Mantle
Wintersun - Wintersun
Summoning - Oath Bound (I know most people prefer the older stuff, but this one is definitely my favorite)


Also I apologize if there is another thread with the same purpose, I tried doing a search but could not find one.

Oh my gosh... That's a tough one.

hmmm...

Abigor - Supreme Immortal Art
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Deathspell Omega - The trilogy of concept albums (Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice, Paracletus and Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem)
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Limbonic Art - Moon In The Scorpio
Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Opeth - Deliverance
Rotten Sound - Exit
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina & Rebel Extravaganza
Sodom - Agent Orange
Thorns - Thorns
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
Split : Vlad Tepes, Beketre - March to the Black Holocaust
Zyklon - Worlds Ov Worms

Those albums are "perfect" for me.

Didn't we already clarify something like this in the Flawless Bands thread?

I think every album has its weaker points, some are just less pronounced than others. Are any albums really perfect? What does perfect mean for an album? What does that mean for me? There might be certain things I like in an album which I think couldn't have been done any better. If I were to think about whether an album is perfect to me I would consider it in terms of how obvious the imperfections are. With any album I've come across which led me to consider its "perfection" I've always found that there are some things less satisfying than others, even if the whole experience is a very positive one.

To me a perfect album is an album cannot possibly be improved any further. Not one note, not one riff, not one vocal line, not even a slight tweak in production or song length. Nada. Sure, they might also have high points and low points but the album has to be in a way where I wouldn't even mess with the lowest point.

I listen to a lot of metal and I only consider around 50 albums in all to be perfect (not all my tens are perfect albums), the most recent being Enslaved's Axioma Ethica Odini.

Written by [user id=126528] on 04.09.2013 at 06:13

To me a perfect album is an album cannot possibly be improved any further. Not one note, not one riff, not one vocal line, not even a slight tweak in production or song length. Nada. Sure, they might also have high points and low points but the album has to be in a way where I wouldn't even mess with the lowest point.

sump up my thoughts as well.

Written by [user id=101272] on 04.09.2013 at 04:04

Didn't we already clarify something like this in the Flawless Bands thread?

Yes, and i think you said there was a similar thread before that even.

Thy Light - Suici.de.pression.

Such a beautiful album.

Theres are many that surpass the rest. Metallica - Master of Puppets. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath. Those two come to mind.

Among Others

Dream Theater - Awake
Haken - The Mountain
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Muse - Absolution
Pulp - Different Class
Myrath - Tales of The Sands
FleshGod Apocalypse - Labyrinth
Testament - The Legacy
Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Ayreon - The Electric Castle

The most perfect album I listened are:

For me a perfect album is an album I can listen to from A to Z without ever having enough of it.

Mines:
Dimmu Borgir- Death Cult Armageddon
Opeth- Deliverance
Children Of Bodom- Follow the reaper
Necrophagist- Onset of Putrefaction
.............
and well, my guilty pleasures:
Sonata Arctica-Ecliptica
System of a Down- Toxicity

Mastodon's Leviathan - The most outstanding mainstream metal release I''ve ever heard, still fucking enjoyable to this day. The reason I think them being labelled as The Beatles of heavy metal by some is fitting in the sense that they have no weak linking in their band. All 4 guys are outstanding and give their full creative output to every one of their records.

Lykathea Aflame's Elvenefris - Now this is an album that is not only perfect, but just amazes me in its scope of amalgamating different extreme metal genres, its sheer vision and the outstanding songwriting. A one-off definitely, I could not never imagine another metal record like this anytime from anyone, even them.

Written by [user id=126528] on 04.09.2013 at 06:13

the most recent being Enslaved's Axioma Ethica Odini.

Yes, thats the most recent I can think of as well.

Well, you have to post sometimes.

It's only the perfect albums that I give tens, since that is a number(of the ten scale-thingie) a really rare few manage to get, partly because there's no flaws with it, but mostly because every song is great and the whole album have reached a stadium where it wont be forgotten and that will blow your mind every time you listen to it. I'm really bad at giving tens, not because I don't find amazing music, but because for me a ten will only be given to a band that truly is something beyond other bands, if that makes sence.
For me there is only two albums, or if one has to be precise, two eps that I can call perfect, and those are:

• Ovid's Withering - The Cloud Gatherer
• Advent Sorrow - Before The Dimming Light

I hope what I wrote made sense, because sometimes I can fail at doing so

Autopsy - Severed Survival

If I go by MS's standard in terms of rating albums, then I would consider a lot of albums to be perfect ones (I hand out a lot of those, and for me those albums deserve 10's). But actually, I don't think there really is such a thing as a perfect album. But I believe, without question, that there is such a thing as a masterpiece of an album. Does this mean that every masterpiece is perfect?

For example, I would consider the self-titled new Dream Theater album to be a masterpiece. As a whole, I think that album deserves a 10. But I'm not necessarily sure I'd give all songs on that album a 10/10 despite the fact that I think the album itself is a masterpiece.

For me there are basically two ways to "look" at an album. A whole entity, or as a collection of songs. Most masterpieces are masterpieces because of how much you enjoy it as a whole body-of-work. Then there are other albums that are masterpieces because every song on the album is individually a top-notch 10/10 ("perfect"), but as a whole there isn't all that much flow or a lot of variety or climatic build-up's, etc (which might make the album as a whole, a 9 instead of 10, meaning it's not "perfect").

What I'm trying to say is, for me, the best albums are masterpieces (it's easier for me that way).

ONE: If we use the term "perfect" more as an indicator to single out those albums that are the best of the best among the masterpieces... Okay, then I guess some albums are "perfect" while other masterpieces come close but aren't quite there.
TWO: But if we mean literally, then only the very best album out there (for us all, individually) would be a perfect album. Because nothing can be better than perfect. Absolutely every other perfect album would have to be absolutely perfect in every concievable way, and it would have to be exactly as good as the other albums you'd think were perfect. It can't be perfect while only being "almost as good" as the other perfect album, because that wouldn't be perfect...

To "figure out" if any album is perfect, we should first establish a definition on exactly what we mean by that. If I go by ONE, then I can agree that there are "perfect albums" out there. If I go by TWO, then I really don't see it. In the end I think there are many masterpieces out there (incredible/fantastic albums). The best albums out there aren't necessarily perfect (in my opinion)... Just INSANELY good!

Tool- Lateralus
Godflesh- streatcleaner
Ulcerate- The destroyers of All

I used to think that esoteric TMV is also prefect but I rechecked it a few days ago and one of the songs was not on par with the others.

I love these lists. It's fun to create your own favorite list of anything and share your own music identity with other people especially those that love METAL!! My list is as follows and this is just off the top of my head.

Slayer- Reign in Blood
Slayer- Seasons in the Abyss
Metallica- Ride The Lightning
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Exodus- Exhibit B
Children of Bodom- Follow the Reaper
Wintersun- Wintersun
AC/DC- Highway to Hell
Led Zeppelin- I
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Alice In Chains- Dirt
Soundgarden- Louder Than Love
Cataract- Cataract
Lamb of God- Sacrament
Lamb of God- Wrath
Machine Head- The Blackening
Judas Priest- Painkiller

there are dozens more, but if I keep listing them my list will be too long and no one will read it. Maybe no one will read this, but whatever I love metal and classic rock/hard rock. It's Miller TIME!!!

I forgot. Iron Maiden- Powerslave and Number of the Beast. Both are perfect and I feel like a fool for leaving them off my already long list. Up the Irons!!!!

Written by [user id=126528] on 04.09.2013 at 06:13

To me a perfect album is an album cannot possibly be improved any further. Not one note, not one riff, not one vocal line, not even a slight tweak in production or song length. Nada. Sure, they might also have high points and low points but the album has to be in a way where I wouldn't even mess with the lowest point.

There isn't a single album that fits that description for me.

Written by Zap on 23.02.2014 at 02:50

Written by [user id=126528] on 04.09.2013 at 06:13

To me a perfect album is an album cannot possibly be improved any further. Not one note, not one riff, not one vocal line, not even a slight tweak in production or song length. Nada. Sure, they might also have high points and low points but the album has to be in a way where I wouldn't even mess with the lowest point.

There isn't a single album that fits that description for me.

Agreed, but obviously we can't always nit pick.

Frameworks - Small Victories

Deafheaven - Libertine Dissolves

Woods Of Ypres - Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat

Protest the Hero - Kezia

These are probably my favorites. Notice all but one are Eps, and the full length is pretty short itself.

I rarely consider an album perfect. A perfect album to me is an album which not only achieves everything it sets out to do, but does it better than I could have ever imagined. It not only meets my expectations, it proceeds to smash them to pieces and shove them up my ass.

Judas Priest - Painkiller: There's a reason it's a cliche'. Because It's so womb-wrending-reality-shattering-virgin-impregnatingly awesome that it simply cannot be praised enough. I've seen people who dislike Master of Puppets, and I've met some who dislike Ride the Lightning. I've not met one person yet who dislikes Painkiller. It's heavy meets thrash to create some seriously catchy shredding that draws you in closer and punches you in the gut simultaneously, in the most awesome way you could possibly imagine.

Dethklok - The Doomstar Requiem, A Klok Opera: Ah yes, the toon band. And not only am I vouching for them, I'm saying they made a perfect album. Flawless. Could not be made better. Well, yes, this is a perfect album, from dark melodeth to soothing lullabies, from Broadway show tunes to Micheal Jackson tributes, not one track on this album is out of place. Since it came out, I have listened to it in its entirety almost every day. That is how goddamn good it is.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 23.02.2014 at 04:06

Written by Zap on 23.02.2014 at 02:50

There isn't a single album that fits that description for me.

Agreed, but obviously we can't always nit pick.

True, it's just that there aren't any albums that, however brilliant, couldn't benefit from some (sometimes minor) improvements in my opinion.
So I'll post mine.
The metal album that's the nearest to perfection for me is probably Night Of The Stormrider by Iced Earth. Outside of metal there's Massive Attack's Mezzanine. There are probably two or three more, but that's just off the top of my head.

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Dislike it you may. Moments not to your liking maybe. Yet fuck with it you dare.

Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
Opeth- Ghost Reveries

Amazing albums!

I think a concept like "perfect album" isn't something to be taken too literally.
Even for the albums which I think are timeless, the best albums ever, those which I can go back to them 5 years late and they'll still amaze me like they used to, there are always some bits of songs which I think that could be skipped or better done.
Also, for a guy who looks most for feeling rather than technique on an album, probably a perfect album on the strict sense (riffs, vocals, productions can not be improved etc) could be not that amazing like some of the "imperfect" ones.
Perhaps this implies that the perfect is some sort of a relative concept, in which for me, for instance, it means the album which has the most successful feeling exploitment, which succeeds on transporting the mind of the listener to where it was supposed to.
But then, to cite my example again: If I'm in a bad mood, some albums will sound like shit, and the same albums will sound good when I'm in a better day, and vice-versa, depending on what the intention of the artist was.
Perhaps this implies now that the perfect album concept not only is relative for person to person, but also depending on mood or time. And hence it's not a worthy concept at all, since it can always be changing.

What I find "perfect" may be absolute garbage to someone else. Why not start your own MS list instead?

It's difficult to say that an album is perfect, but, for me, if there is a perfect album, it would be A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay for Yesterdays

Written by Silent Jay on 23.02.2014 at 05:21

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

That's my favourite too.

Arcturus: The Sham Mirrors
Tool: Lateralus
Therion: Theli
Pain of Salvation: Remedy Lane
Pain of Salvation: The Perfect Element
Dream Theater: Images & Words
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
Vanden Plas: Christ.0

I think they are all as near perfect as possible imho...