I dunno if I've posted here yet. It may have changed though.

Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

Angel Witch - Angel Witch

Testament - The New Order

Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself

Rainbow - Rising

Exodus - Bonded By Blood

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

I'm not sure if I can accurately pick a top 10 because it'll probably be different tomorrow, and I also may have posted a different list in this thread at some point but here goes:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver
Mastodon - Leviathan
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Slayer - Reign in Blood

HM:
Sepultura - Arise
Marillion - Brave
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Well, thats pretty hard, but If I look on my playlist history, these are the albums I listen the most:

1. Dissection - Storm of the Lights Bane [56 Times]
2. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done [52 Times]
3. Dark Moor - Tarot [50 Times]
4. Amon Amarth - The Avenger [44 Times]
5. Death - Leprosy [44 Times]
6. X Japan - Blue Blood [40 Times]
7. In Flames - Colony [40 Times]
8. Slayer - Reign in Blood [40 Times]
9. Dark Funeral - Diabolis Interium [29 Times]
10. Kreator - Violent Revolution [28 Times]

And these ones share the same playlist counter on my log.
- Ensiferum - Ensiferum [28 Times]
- Dark Funeral - The Secrets of Black Arts [28 Times]
- In Flames - The Jester's Race [25 Times]
- In Flames - Whoracle [25 Times]
- Sepultura - Arise [25 Times]
- Therion - Theli [24 Times]
- Benediction - Trascend the Rubicon [24 Times]

I don't take those ratings as definitive, but are better than thinking "which are my fav albums???", cause these historical log, reflects my spontaneous tastes xD, and of course this changes over time.

Since I have a huge collection, (far bigger than the one on my profile), I usually tend to listen a specific genre all over the week, for example, this week I have been listening only melodeath, last week was meloblack, some weeks I listen power, but thats not a rule, anyway, I tend to listen whole albums from the same genre altogether

Metallica - Kill em all

Sepultura - Arise

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness

Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Kreator - Coma of Souls

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the moon

Death - Leprosy

Slayer - Seasons in the abyss

....will change later as usual

That's rough! Good thing my towers are in the living room so I can look at the collection and think about it. I know what's first though! And I won't put them in order, just my top ten favorite albums!

1.) Secrets Of The Moon- Carved In Stigmata Wounds
2.) Opeth- My Arms, Your Hearse
3.) Enslaved- ISA
4.) Deathspell Omega- Kenose
5.) Katharsis- VVORLD VVITHOUT END
6.) Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky
7.) AntaeuS- Blood Libels
8.) Gorgoroth- Pentagram
9.) Behemoth- Zos Kia Cultus
10.) Cryptopsy- None So Vile

I know thats quite a mix, but those are some fuckin' killer albums! Those are probably the ones (from each band) that I listen to most often.

I think this makes 100 posts! Great thread for that small special occasion!

In no particular order...actually I lie, in alphabetical order!

...And Justice For All - Metallica

And The Circus Leaves Town - Kyuss

Angel Dust - Faith No More

Arise - Sepultura

Blood Mountain - Mastodon

Crimson - Alkaline Trio

Dirt - Alice In Chains

Dr Feelgood - Motley Crue

Lunasphere - Alchemist

Sumday - Grandaddy

Anthrax-Among The Living

Testament-The Legacy

Megadeth-Rust in Piece

Judas Priest-British Steel

Vio-lence-Eternal Nightmare

Exodus-Tempo Of The Damned

Slayer-Reign In Blood

Metallica-Master Of Puppets

Overkill-The Years Of Decay

I will put one per band to include a bit more, since Iron Maiden will appear several times. They are not in order.

1. Judas Priest. Painkiller
2. Iron Maiden. Piece of Mind.
3. Helloween. Walls of Jericho.
4. Atheist. Unquestionable of presence.
5. Dark Tranquillity. Haven.
6. Samael. Passage.
7. Realm. Suiciety.
8. My Dying Bride. The Light At The End Of The World. I am not sure if I prefer this one more than the others, but I need to include this band here.
9. Therion. Secret of the Runes.
10. Senser. Asylum. IF YOU DON,T KNOW THIS ALBUM, PLEASE TRY TO FIND IT. THE OTHER ALBUMS OF THIS BAND ARE NOT METAL-LIKE.

1.Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (iron maiden)
2.Brave New World (iron maiden)
3.Painkiller (judas priest)
4.Metallica (metallica)
5.Wintersun (wntersun)
6.The Number of the Beast (iron maiden)
7.Theli (therion)
8.The wall (pink floyd)
9.Ensiferum (ensiferum)
10.Where Lovers Mourn (draconian)

Here is mine.. no order (And i'll do it for Metal only it would be to hard to mix every genre)

1. Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) .. Do i really have to explain why i love this album?

2. Piece of Mind (Iron Maiden) Its crazy, i didn't like it the first time but then after few times it became my fav

3. The Sound of Perseverance (Death) Theres not alot of bands that can get better and better with every single album they create and makes you feel like their last was the best of all...

4. Kill em' all (Metallica) Raw, Brutal... Thrash metal !

5. Unquestionable Presence (Atheist) Well its a masterpiece created by the fathers of Tech death metal.

6. Keeper of the Seven Keys, pt 1 (Helloween) The first time i listened to this album i felt like my ears were having a big orgasm.

7. Reign in Blood (Slayer) bah its just obvious..

8. Epitaph (Necrophagist) Love it for being damn crazy...

9. Denim and Leather (Saxon) ^^ It brought us all together ! It was this, that set the spirit free !

10. Spreading the Disease (Anthrax) For being the most original Thrash Metal album ever...

In no order:
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Belphegor - Pestapokalypse IV
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our side
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Ensiferum - Iron
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Wintersun - Wintersun
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Honorable Mentions (in no order):
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
The Absence - From Your Grave
Death - The Sound of Perserverence
Death - Symbolic
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - every other album
Turisas - Battle Metal
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Slayer - Reign in Blood
yeap.

Here's my favourites in no particular order:

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2: Scenes from a Memory
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle
Doro - Doro
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Kamelot - Epica
Within Temptation - Mother Earth

... And Justice For All - Metallica
Annihilation Of The Wicked - Nile
Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk - Emperor
Covenant - Morbid Angel
Demigod - Behemoth
Follow The Reaper - Children Of Bodom
Mirror Of Madness - Norther
Non So Vile - Cryptopsy
Sons Of Northern Darkness - Immortal
Wintersun - Wintersun

1.Marduk - "PDM"[1999]
2.Immortal - "Sons Of Northern Darkness "[1995]
3.Anorexia Nervosa - "Redemption Process"[2004]
4.Marduk - "Heaven shall burn... when we are gathered"[1996]
5.Sadist - "Tribe"[1996]
6.SWORN(Armenia) - "Tended High"[2007]
7.Arcturus - "sideshow symphonies"[2005]
8.Emperor - "Andems to the welkin at dusk"[1997]
9.Opeth - "Blackwater Park"[2001]
10.Emperor - "Prometheus"[2001]

...no particular order:

- dream theater...images & words
- pantera...cowboys from hell
- death...the sound of perseverance
- cynic...focus
- blind guardian...nightfall in middle earth
- gordian knot...emergent
- pitbulls in the nursery...lunatic
- necrophagist...epitaph
- the beatles...white album
- after forever...decipher

Everyone, please remember to give reasons for your choices!

Written by Richard on 02.11.2008 at 05:25

Everyone, please remember to give reasons for your choices!

what reasons I can give for on such shit as "PDM" . I think in such topics all are built on subjective opinion of the people.for me this shit is a masterpiece ....

Written by Khaldi on 02.11.2008 at 13:11

Written by Richard on 02.11.2008 at 05:25

Everyone, please remember to give reasons for your choices!

what reasons I can give for on such shit as "PDM" . I think in such topics all are built on subjective opinion of the people.for me this shit is a masterpiece ....

Quote from metal arena rules

Always give detailed opinions, with explanations and as much as information as needed. If you're gonna answer the topic "Mayhem vs Marduk" with "MAYHEM!!!!!", you can count the days till you get banned. That's just spamming.

I just wrote on the topic of 10 personal metal songs, and I got tired of writing so for this one, short reasons. In no particular order:

My arms your hearse- Opeth- Their best album to date, the perfect combination between death metal and mellow parts, its a flawless record

Altars of Madness- Morbid Angel- One of the bests debuts on death metal, a perfect album

De Profundis- Vader- Extreme and brutal from the first second to the last one of the last song

Effigy of the Forgotten- Suffocation- Same reason

Reign in Blood- Slayer- its there anything to add?

Panzer Division Marduk- Marduk- After releasing Heaven shall burn...one could say "these guys are never going to make a fastest record" but they did, I Love Heaven....but this one its more extreme, brutal and blasphemous

Close to a World Below- Immolation- The most extreme, brutal and blasphemous album to date in death metal, it has great rough riffs, the lyrics are great and Ross Dolan's voice its perfect on this one

Osculum Obscenum- Hypocrisy- Caligula's voice fit perfect to this album and its extreme as hell

This Godless Endeavour-Nevermore- This album symbolises their best moment of their career, its a flawless record

The Bleeding- Cannibal Corspe- IMO, their best record 'cause you can actually understand what Chris Barnes sings. The riffs, solos, and drumming are perfect and the lyrics are awesome.

*Honorable mention: Every DEATH record

It is very very hard to chose only 10 albums, but I'll try... though I won't put them in a "top 10" order, it would be much too difficult... Here we go:

Cruelty And The Beast - Cradle Of Filth It would have been COF's highlight if the sound had been better, but it is still one of the best metal works ever.

Sagas - Equilibrium I can listen to this one every day and I do. Unbesiegt is AWESOME.

The Scattering of Ashes - Into Eternity Best canadian metal album I know.

Serenity In Fire - Kataklysm So fucking brutal...

In Sorte Diaboli - Dimmu Borgir I'm aware some of you BM maniacs would throw stones at me for loving this one, but there's nothing I can do about it, I just love it.

Communion - Septic Flesh Symphonic Death Metal. Need I say more?

Holographic Universe - Scar Symmetry The singer has been fired after this superb album

Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder - Cradle Of Filth Well, yes, Cradle Of Filth IS my favorite band after all.

Follow the Reaper - Childen Of Bodom Just like 90% of this site's members, I love Follow the Reaper... nothing really original here.

Almost all of them are the last album from the band, but that does NOT mean I don't listen to older stuff, ok? It just happens these ones are my favourite from these bands.

Wouldn't say that 90 % here loves "Follow the Reaper"... oh, I love it though.

Written by Richard on 02.11.2008 at 05:25

Everyone, please remember to give reasons for your choices!

Kind of like this?


Wow, my top 10 favorite albums. I have to tell you all, I have spent over a month working on this list. I narrowed it down to 15 picks and got stuck. Going back and re-analyzing each one of them I was able to bring it down to 10. I went into this with the following criteria:

Only one album from a band

No "Best of", "Greatest Hits" or compilations

No restriction on genres or styles

No live album, bootlegs or demos

So here are my top ten, in order, after weeks of debate.

10.
ALBUM: Ecliptica
BAND: Sonata Arctica
GENRE: Power Metal
For me, I never liked Power Metal. Especially ultra cheesy European Power Metal. But after going to see Sonata Arctica in concert, I fell in love with their music, and it was this album that did it. Not only a stunning achievement as a début album, this is a rather solid record. The soaring vocals, catchy lyrics, head-bobbing guitar rifts, and a song about a dude turning into a werewolf! One word: Fun! Is this the album to end all albums? No, of course not, but I always feel good when I hear it, and it brings back memories of a great couple of weeks last year when this was out soundtrack.

9.
ALBUM: End of Heartache
BAND: Killswitch Engage
GENRE: Metalcore
WHOA! Hold on! What is a Metalcore album doing on your list Dane Train? I thought you were a Prog guy?! My buddy Vinnie introduced me to this band, and this album at church. We began using songs like "Take This Oath", "Rose of Sharyn" and "World Ablaze" during worship. So, on the side I was secretly listening to this album. Well, what can I say? It really got to me. Every song is solid. The music is surprisingly rather technical, with some great parts. Fantastic spiritual/relationship based lyrics. This is still one of the few Metalcore albums I can listen to all the way through and be stunned by it, or even sit through it.

8.
ALBUM: Rabbit Songs
BAND: Hem
GENRE: Contemporary American Folk
I fell in love when I first heard this album. Was it the album I fell in love with? The vocalist? Or something else? Any which way you cut it the beauty that drips from this album can not be denied. Hailing from New York, this album features lush, traditional instrumentation (accents of mandolin, pedal steel, piano, and standup bass) and Sally Ellyson's sweet, mysterious vocals. The haunting sounds remind me so much of my childhood in the back country of New York state, and the cold stunning environmental all around. This album's most famous song "Half an Acre" has been featured on a very popular bank commercial here in America. Every time I put this album on tears swell in my eyes and I fall in love all over again.

7.
ALBUM: Accelerated Evolution
BAND: The Devin Townsend Band
GENRE: Industrial Progressive Metal
Devin Townsend is without a doubt one of the most talented men in the Metal scene. Dealing with Bi-Polar Disorder, Devin's mood swings come out in his music. His main project, Strapping Young Lad may possibly be the sound track to the end of humanity. But this other band he put together (only releasing two albums) is much the opposite. The melancholy guitar parts mixed with soaring, yet haunting vocals, all over solid drum and bass work creates some amazing atmosphere. Listening to this album I feel like I am flying through the clouds. The heartfelt lyrics are driven home so well by Devin's various vocal styles. This album takes me to a whole other place when I don't want to be here.


6.
ALBUM: Testimony
ARTIST: Neal Morse
GENRE: Symphonic Progressive Rock/Neo-Prog
Neal Morse, mastermind behind probably the second biggest Prog band of the 1990's, Spock's Beard, and the international super group, TransAtlantic, left both projects very suddenly. The reason: his life took a radical new direction when he accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Now stretching out to write music with a Christian theme Neal assembled an amazing cast for his first major solo album including fellow Christian Musician, Kerry Livgren (Kansas) and fellow TranAtlanian, Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater). This sophisticated and sprawling double album flows so beautifully with its combination of rock, folk, classical, and prog. Testimony is just that, Neal's own testimony put to music. The first disk tells of Neal's destructive life style and how everything seemed to be wrong. The second disk begins with a friend taking him to church and how things began to change from there. The passion that is wrapped around every song is heartfelt and personal that it is hard to find an album that matches this one. The music is outstanding, the production is flawless and the testimony is heart warming.


5.
ALBUM: Echo Echo
BAND: Carbon Leaf
GENRE: Acoustic-Electric-American-Celtic Folk Rock
"Couldn't ask for a better day?" The opening lines of the first song "The Boxer" sums up how I feel when I play this album. Carbon Leaf is a band I have known for many years before their national exposure a few years ago. This album may be the highlight of their early career. With up tempo, fun uplifting songs, Echo Echo is an album that never gets old. While Carbon Leaf may not be the most talented band out there, their skill is still noticeable, but, like any folk band, the focus is on lyrics. Seeing these guys play concerts out in the middle of the woods in a Lean-To, brings back many memories. The songs on this album are catchy, memorable entertaining and amusing.


4.
ALBUM: Blackwater Park
BAND: Opeth
GENRE: Progressive Death Metal
Dark. Elegant. Powerful. Haunting. Captivating. All words I would use to describe this album from Opeth. "The Drapery Falls" was the first song I ever heard from these Swedish musicians, and I was blown away. With elements from 70's Prog Rock acts like Yes, Camel and Genesis mixed with the tour de force power of Death Metal, Blackwater Park shines through and through. Outstanding guitar riffs entwined with stunning solo work, tasteful solid drumming and that voice! Oh that voice! A soothing baritone with crushing grunts. The emotional rollercoaster that these songs bring you on are some of the best by Opeth as they lift you into the clouds then slam you into the ground and back up again. A perfect mix of Death Metal and Progressive Rock/Metal, and one I can't put down.



3.
ALBUM: The Human Equation
BAND: Ayreon
GENRE: Psychedelic/Space Progressive Metal
What do you get when an incredibly skilled multi-instrumentalist gathers the vocalists from Dream Theater, Opeth, Strapping Young Lad, Deadsoul Tribe, Saviour Machine, Shadow Gallery, Mostly Autumn, and The Quill to all sing together on an album about a man who is in a car accident caused coma where his emotions become personified? You get The Human Equation! Arjen put together this masterpiece of an album virtually on his own. I can't even begin to figure out what my favorite aspect is. Is it the mind-blowing collection of vocalists? Is it the jaw dropping mix of classical, folk, electronic, Prog, Death, psychedelic and metal? Is it the assembly of amazing musicians who pull it off? Or is it the captivating story of love, fear, rage, passion, agony, reason, pride and family? In the end, it is everything put together. It is not music?It's an Adventure!


2.
ALBUM: Remedy Lane
BAND: Pain of Salvation
GENRE: Progressive Metal
I wept the first time I heard it. And the second. And pretty much every time I put it on and listen to it all the way through. Daniel Gildenlow defines the word "Progressive" on this album. Possibly the most mature album in the Metal scene I have ever heard, these guys kick out all the typical clichés and stereotypes and re-invent themselves while pushing the envelope. The music innovative, captivities and provokes emotions you didn't know you had. The lyrics tell a tale of love and loss and loving again, and how we call can relate to it on some level. When asked what it sounds like, there are no words that could describe the sound of this album. I can only describe the feelings of love, sorrow, and pain mixed with epic theatrical dreamscapes.


1.
ALBUM: Images and Words
BAND: Dream Theater
GENRE: Progressive Metal
Is it any surprise that the album that got me into Metal, turned me into a musician and changed my life is my number one pick? Fifteen years later it is still one of the best albums ever recorded. From the opening of "Pull Me Under" to the closing of "Learning To Live" every single part of this album is memorable. Mike Portnoy's relentless drumming, John Petrucci's jaw dropping guitar work, John Myung's fluid bass playing and Kevin Moore's heart felt keyboard work prove why these guys are hands down some of the best musicians out there. Mix all of that with the first appearance of James LaBrie's stunning operatic vocal work with thought provoking lyrics and you have the center piece of Progressive Metal music. For me, I had never heard Dream Theater, but a friend recommended that I check them out. So I bought the one with the coolest looking cover (this was right before Scenes From a Memory came out), took it home, and peed my pants. I had never heard music like this before. It completely changed the way I perceived music and would shape my future. No other album has had the effect that this one has had on me. Maybe that is why I have it tattooed on my body. Maybe that is why I listen to it at least three times a week. Images and Words evokes emotions like no other album can in me.



*NEWS BREAK* Albums listed here are subject to change at any time without a U.N. hearing on the matter. Please be advised to seek proper shelter in case of nuclear holocaust, zombie invasion and massive famine if #1 spot is to change. *NEWS BREAK*

@Dane Train: seems progressive element is quite dominant in your taste. Btw, Carbon Leaf and Hem music genres are very interesting and uinque for me to discover.

Written by Warman on 10.11.2008 at 02:14

Wouldn't say that 90 % here loves "Follow the Reaper"... oh, I love it though.

Yeah, well it is a great album, like the band or not. Its up there for me too, probably not top 10 or 20 for that matter, but still one a havn't grown tired of. I noticed at least 1 Opeth album is on most peoples list as well.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 28.05.2008 at 03:38

It is impossible to compile alist of my 10 favourite albums of all time. Cause I don't have just 10 favs. It is highly mood dependent which ones will make such a list. I think that after 29 years of metal it is better for me, and a lot easier as well but still almost an impossible task, to compile a list of the 666 favourtie albums of all time.

I have the same problem...but for slightly different reasons. I must have come in here and deleted my old list and posted a new one like 3 or 4 times, it changes far too frequently so I've stopped trying. The only 4 that remained really consistent in the top 10 for me are WASP's "The Last Command", High On Fire's "Death Is This Communion", Opeth's "Still Life" and Motorhead's "Inferno". Two weeks ago I probably would have thrown in some MC5, some Danzig or Misfits, and probably Chrome Division. This week there would probably be some 3 Inches Of Blood and some Destroyer 666, next week? Who knows! It all really depends on the mood I guess.

Moonspell - Wolfheart
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Anathema - Judgement
Manowar - Louder Than Hell

Written by TOUGHEST MEMBER on 10.11.2008 at 08:52

@Dane Train: seems progressive element is quite dominant in your taste. Btw, Carbon Leaf and Hem music genres are very interesting and uinque for me to discover.

I highly recommend Hem to almost everyone. Sure, their music mey be the complete opposite of Master of Puppets but the atmosphere and emotions that pour from them will really hit you deep. I honestly listen to Hem as much as I listen to Dream Theater (and those who know me know about my DT fetish).

Carbon Leaf is just plain old fun. I have seen them more than any other band in concert. Just a great group of guys making great music and having fun.

Written by TOUGHEST MEMBER on 10.11.2008 at 08:52

@Dane Train: seems progressive element is quite dominant in your taste.

Haha, you discovered that now?

@Dane Train: those 2 sounds applealing to me cuz I like folk. Will check them out soon.
@Warman: "discover", is it big word for me ?..:D. Just find so out when read Dane's post.

Written by TOUGHEST MEMBER on 11.11.2008 at 05:20

@Warman: "discover", is it big word for me ?..:D. Just find so out when read Dane's post.

Ah well, I thought it was common knowledge here at MS. Like Marcel being a big Doom fan, K7 a bad speller and me obviously being a pain in the ass.

Written by Warman on 17.11.2008 at 01:36

Written by TOUGHEST MEMBER on 11.11.2008 at 05:20

@Warman: "discover", is it big word for me ?..:D. Just find so out when read Dane's post.

Ah well, I thought it was common knowledge here at MS. Like Marcel being a big Doom fan, K7 a bad speller and me obviously being a pain in the ass.

So, Dane would be prog fan as knowledge here at MS, , right?. I would dedicate painkiller for you as your a pain, lol