Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1995
Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1995
Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/
Honourable mentions:
Anathema - The Silent Enigma (Doom/Death)
The Gathering - Mandylion (Gothic)
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side (Power)
Saint Vitus - Die Healing (Doom)
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust (Black)
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings (Power)
White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head (Industrial/Alternative)
Non-Metal mentions:
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery (Goth)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Alternative/Rock)
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (Punk) (Shout out to my favourite wrestler, Ruby Soho
)
Honourable mentions:
Anathema - The Silent Enigma (Doom/Death)
The Gathering - Mandylion (Gothic)
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side (Power)
Saint Vitus - Die Healing (Doom)
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust (Black)
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings (Power)
White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000 - Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head (Industrial/Alternative)
Non-Metal mentions:
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery (Goth)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Alternative/Rock)
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (Punk) (Shout out to my favourite wrestler, Ruby Soho
)
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Dissection
- Storm Of The Light's Bane
1995 (Black) Where Dead Angels Lie, Thorns of Crimson Death, Unhallowed
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Immortal
- Battles In The North
1995 (Black) Cursed Realms Of The Winterdemons, Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark), Battles In the North
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Cathedral
- The Carnival Bizarre
1995 (Doom) Vampire Sun, Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, Night of the Seagulls
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Storm of the Light's Bane and Symbolic are definitely my favorites of 1995! I should listen to more Immortal - I only know At the Heart of Winter  I recommend Minas Morgul by Summoning - great melodies and Tolkien-themed lyrics! Also, Pierced From Within by Suffocationand The Gallery by Dark Tranquillity would be honorable mentions for me.
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Posts: 249 Written by F3ynman on 18.10.2021 at 21:45 Storm was an easy pick for top spot, listening to Symbolic for the first time in a while yesterday bumped it up a few. Somehow must’ve forgotten just how great it is.  You definitely should. Battles In The North is my favourite Immortal album, I feel like it’s kind of a nice in-between in regards to the furious style of Pure Holocaust and the more epic style of At the Heart of Winter but at the same time a bit more raw in its sound. Summoning and Dark Tranquility are two bands I’ve been intending to get into but, sorry, Suffocation have never appealed to me...
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Posts: 3432 Written by blackwreath13 on 18.10.2021 at 23:58 Yeah I just bought Symbolic on CD yesterday and listened to it again for the first time in a while. It's really incredible! The highlight is definitely the blending of heavy riffs and super melodic solos. The lyrics are also very thought-provoking and emotional. I like Chuck's voice in it too - it's a pretty unique mix of his deeper growls and a kind of sickened/raspy/strained style. Written by blackwreath13 on 18.10.2021 at 23:58 No worries - I've only listened to one of their albums once (Pierced From Within) Thanks for doing these lists. Keep it up!
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Nice to see The Gathering getting (at least) an honorable mention. Underrated and often overlooked band.
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Posts: 249 Written by F3ynman on 19.10.2021 at 08:28 I think my Leprosy worship might’ve hurt my perception of the album lol. I was assuming something pretentious and was like “oh wait this is just as brutal as it is melodic and progressive”. I have tried Pierced From Within and Effigy Of The Forgotten but they always seem to come off as technical riff-salad style devoid of hooks or atmosphere which some people like but isn’t what I like in Death Metal. Who knows? I’ve come around on None So Vile so maybe I’ll like it too eventually.  Cheers, I intend to. 
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Posts: 3432 Written by blackwreath13 on 18.10.2021 at 23:58 Did you happen to change your vote on Symbolic - and thereby push it past Rust in Peace to 1st place on MS? 
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Posts: 249 Written by F3ynman on 19.10.2021 at 17:36 Well I have bumped it up to 9 but I didn’t know it had made a difference.
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I've returned to this list and to the album Burnt Offerings by Iced Earth. Nice to see it in your honorable mentions, although I'd put it higher in the ranking  I started to listen to The Gathering's Mandylion and I'm intrigued - I didn't expect the female vocalist
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Posts: 249 Written by F3ynman on 05.11.2021 at 16:37 It was a tight squeeze at the end and tbh I am kinda questioning whether Deicide really deserve to be on instead of those two let alone at 9. Maybe it should be changed? Hey if it’s Gothic Metal I figure there’s a 75% chance the vocalist will be female.
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Posts: 3432 Written by blackwreath13 on 06.11.2021 at 13:58 I'm totally new to gothic metal, so I didn't know that
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Posts: 5630 Written by blackwreath13 on 06.11.2021 at 13:58 not yet in 1995. It was usually "beauty & the beast" type of interaction, The Gathering did it without the beast 
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Posts: 249 Written by F3ynman on 06.11.2021 at 14:06 It’s a cool genre, some evil shit... some beautiful shit. Something for everyone (although not much happy shit).
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Posts: 249 Written by John_Doe on 06.11.2021 at 14:12 True that although female vocals is the thing I first associate with it, I guess I am a product of my time - the 2000’s when people seemed to call most bands with female vocalists Gothic Metal whether a fair assessment or not.
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And the 90's keep on improving with what is their best year so far. Too much stuff to talk about means I'm going to extend my list a little bit! 1. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane 2. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons 3. Hex Minora - Ai (noise) 4. Suffocation - Pierced From Within 5. Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler 6. Shiro Sagisu] - Neon Genesis Evangelion 7. Ved Buens Ende..... - Written in Waters 8. Forgotten Silence - Thots 9. Darkthrone - Panzerfaust 10. Opeth - Orchid 11. Hospice - Irreparableness 12. Sigh - Infidel Art 13. David Wise - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest 14. David Wise / Eveline Fischer - DK Jamz: The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack 15. Sieges Even - Sophisticated 16. Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons Shoutout to the donkey kong country soundtracks, which have no right being this good.
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