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tea[m]sters Favorite 25 Metal Albums Of All Time
My first list! Celebrating 25+ years of listening to metal I present my 25 favorite metal albums. Mostly prog and thrash in my early years and exploring other metal avenues today, I hope my fellow metalheads…
| 1. | Rush - Moving Pictures |
| 2. | Coroner - Grin |
| 3. | Voivod - The Outer Limits |
| 4. | Fates Warning - Parallels |
| 5. | Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time |
| + 20 more |
Current Top 100, 5 Years On
Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing…
| 1. | Dream Theater - Images And Words |
| 2. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 3. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 4. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 5. | Protest The Hero - Kezia |
| + 126 more |
Great Songs Covered By Metal Bands
^^Rules 2 songs per band but not for the same record^^
The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…
The real merit of covering a song is that it has to sound so good that everyone thinks it’s own creation.
Some people say that some covers are…
| 1. | Voivod - The Outer Limits |
| 2. | Pantera - Far Beyond Driven |
| 3. | Motörhead - Motörhead |
| 4. | Metallica - The $5.98 EP - Garage Days Re-Revisited |
| 5. | Judas Priest - Sin After Sin |
| + 328 more |
Metalcore's Finest
| 1. | All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals |
| 2. | Bleeding Through - The Truth |
| 3. | Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache |
| 4. | Dry Kill Logic - The Darker Side Of Nonsense |
| 5. | Evergreen Terrace - Sincerity Is An Easy Disguise In This Business |
| + 155 more |
Essential Albums That Built My Metal Taste (not finished)
Metal and not so metal albums that had huge impact on my taste as metalhead and love for "heavy" music, ordered approximately by time I first listened to them
| 1. | Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast |
| 2. | Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll |
| 3. | In Flames - The Jester Race |
| 4. | Lamb Of God - Sacrament |
| 5. | Sepultura - Arise |
| + 12 more |
Best Album From Different Genres
My favorite albums from various genres
| 1. | Slipknot - Iowa |
| 2. | Nirvana - Nevermind |
| 3. | Summoning - Stronghold |
| 4. | Septicflesh - Communion |
| 5. | Anathema - Judgement |
| + 71 more |
Best Album I Think
These my all time favorite albums.
Not in a particular rank
Not in a particular rank
| 1. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 2. | At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul |
| 3. | Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion |
| 4. | Carcass - Heartwork |
| 5. | Children Of Bodom - Tokyo Warhearts |
| + 25 more |
Best Metal Albums Ever (IMO)
Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.
| 1. | Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory |
| 2. | Faith No More - Angel Dust |
| 3. | Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence |
| 4. | Tool - Ænima |
| 5. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| + 136 more |
2006 Albums Ranked
Ranking 2006 albums from best to worst. Just my opinion of course
| 1. | All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals |
| 2. | Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side |
| 3. | SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day |
| 4. | Trivium - The Crusade |
| 5. | Lamb Of God - Sacrament |
| + 14 more |
Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time
These are my favorite metal albums of all time! To enter this list, the album must be out for at least a year, as I feel it gives me the time to really digest the record and fully comprehend its meaning.
| 1. | Opeth - Blackwater Park |
| 2. | Metallica - ...And Justice For All |
| 3. | Opeth - Ghost Reveries |
| 4. | Sepultura - Beneath The Remains |
| 5. | Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name |
| + 34 more |
Top Ten Riffs Of Each Decade
While the order in each decade is purely personal preference, there are several rules for a song qualifying for the list. First off, the band has to be notable. I'm not going to define what that means,…
| 1. | King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King |
| 2. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 3. | Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida |
| 4. | Deep Purple - In Rock |
| 5. | Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II |
| + 59 more |