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Here's my top 10 as it stands these days, no particular order:

Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Crowpath - One With Filth
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
Watain - Casus Luciferi
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Orcustus - S/T
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
 
Mr. Sandman said:
Is 2013 the year of throwback metal releases?

We've had:

Ghost - Infestissumam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDaWoWwqdM "Ghuleh / Zombie Queen"

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF3XOVFqOI8 "Poison Apple"

Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQqnt67ai0g "The Mouths Of Madness"

Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SdzgPj3_o "Doomsday Machine"

Plus we're getting new Sabbath and Deep Purple albums. It's too bad The Sword released their album last year, they're the masters of this.
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Purson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBZQROAjCzE
 
This is close to impossible for me when trying to limit myself to just 10 albums (no best offs, no compilations, no live records)

Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out in Space
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Ten - Babylon
H.e.a.t - Address the Nation
Europe - The Final Countdown
Borknagar - Quintessence


Honorable Mentions:
Gamma Ray - Powerplant
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys 2
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Saxon - Heavy Metal Thunder
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Dio - Holy Diver
Iron Savior - Condition Red
Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
Nocturnal Rites - The Sacred Talisman
Falconer - Falconer
Masterplan - Masterplan
Masterplan - Aeronautics
Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave
ManOwaR - Kings of Metal
Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Invasion
Queensryche - Empire
Whitesnake - 1987
Glory - Danger in this Game
Pink Cream 69 - Endangered
Axel Rudi Pell - The Masquerade Ball
Axxis - Kingdom of the Night
H.e.a.t - H.e.a.t
H.e.a.t - Freedom Rock
Kiss - Alive 3
Kiss - Crazy Nights
Dreamtide - Here comes the Flood
Shakra - Power Ride
...
 
Some awesome albums mentioned in these lists. Enjoying reading them.

My attempt at a top 10. Difficult to be accurate when writing these things on the spot but i think it covers most of it!

Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Entombed - Clandestine
 
Mr. Sandman said:
A demon wearing a Pope hat watches over a massive (planet-wide?) city while a monster sized newborn with no eyes wearing a gold opera mask plays while wrapped in a golden blanket inside the city center as a blood red sun rises on a new day.
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That's the Saint Peter's square. I didn't notice it before you posted the pic. Nor did I see that the baby had an opera mask.
 
My top 10 metal albums. Just picked up from my last.fm scrobbles so probably I am forgetting about a ton of stuff that I have not heard in the last couple of years

Neurosis "Through silver in blood"
High on Fire "The art of selfdefense"
Cult of Luna - "Salvation" or "Somewhere along the highway", can't decide
Converge - "Jane Doe" or "Axe to Fall", can't decide
Crowbar "Odd Fellow's Rest"
Tool "Aenima"
His Hero is Gone "Monuments to Thieves"
Nasum "Human 2.0"
Helmet "Meantime"
Godflesh "Streetcleaner"

Runner-ups

Integrity "Humanity is the devil"
Wolfpack "Allday Hell"
Today is the day "Temple of the morning star"
Deathreat "Consider it War"
Snapcase "Progression through unlearning"
Tragedy "Vengeance"
Hatebreed "Satisfaction is the death of desire"
Strapping Young Lad "City"
Fear Factory "Demanufacture"
At the gates "Slaughter of the soul"
Entombed "Wolverine Blues"
Breach "Venom"
Machine Head "Burn my eyes"
Pantera "Vulgar Display of Power"
Will Haven "Carpe Diem"
Coalesce "Functioning on Impatience"
Bolt Thrower "Mercenary"
Dillinger Escape Plan "Calculating Infinity"
Botch "We are the romans"
Death "Leprosy"
 
bytesized said:
My top 10 metal albums. Just picked up from my last.fm scrobbles so probably I am forgetting about a ton of stuff that I have not heard in the last couple of years

Neurosis "Through silver in blood"
High on Fire "The art of selfdefense"
Cult of Luna - "Salvation" or "Somewhere along the highway", can't decide
Converge - "Jane Doe" or "Axe to Fall", can't decide
Crowbar "Odd Fellow's Rest"
Tool "Aenima"
His Hero is Gone "Monuments to Thieves"
Nasum "Human 2.0"
Helmet "Meantime"
Godflesh "Streetcleaner"

Runner-ups

Integrity "Humanity is the devil"
Wolfpack "Allday Hell"
Today is the day "Temple of the morning star"
Deathreat "Consider it War"
Snapcase "Progression through unlearning"
Tragedy "Vengeance"
Hatebreed "Satisfaction is the death of desire"
Strapping Young Lad "City"
Fear Factory "Demanufacture"
At the gates "Slaughter of the soul"
Entombed "Wolverine Blues"
Breach "Venom"
Machine Head "Burn my eyes"
Pantera "Vulgar Display of Power"
Will Haven "Carpe Diem"
Coalesce "Functioning on Impatience"
Bolt Thrower "Mercenary"
Dillinger Escape Plan "Calculating Infinity"
Botch "We are the romans"
Death "Leprosy"
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your taste in music is superb :D integrity and botch should have made it into the top 10 though

mine would probably be (might have some hardcore/crust too)
fall of efrafa - elil
converge - axe to fall
converge - all we love we leave behind
blacklisted - heavier than heaven, lonelier than god
neurosis - the eye of every storm
integrity - closure
botch - we are the romans
black sabbath - never say die
ictus - imperivm
poison idea - feel the darkness

and lots of stuff I'm forgetting right now
 
trab pu kcip said:
your taste in music is superb :D integrity and botch should have made it into the top 10 though

mine would probably be (might have some hardcore/crust too)
fall of efrafa - elil
converge - axe to fall
converge - all we love we leave behind
blacklisted - heavier than heaven, lonelier than god
neurosis - the eye of every storm
integrity - closure
botch - we are the romans
black sabbath - never say die
ictus - imperivm
poison idea - feel the darkness

and lots of stuff I'm forgetting right now
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We really do have similar taste :P
Surprised that The eye of every storm is your fav neurosis album, maybe it's the one I have listened to the least! Same with Black Sabbath's, I mostly only heard the first records.
Poison Idea, that one should have made my runner-ups list too.
 
bytesized said:
We really do have similar taste :P
Surprised that The eye of every storm is your fav neurosis album, maybe it's the one I have listened to the least! Same with Black Sabbath's, I mostly only heard the first records.
Poison Idea, that one should have made my runner-ups list too.
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no river to take me home is easily one my all time fav neurosis tracks

also I forgot about a guilty pleasure :X for years I've been coming back to nargaroth's jahreszeiten album, I don't know how well it's known outside of germany but I get laughs for it all the time here.
I like it a lot though :x
 
trab pu kcip said:
no river to take me home is easily one my all time fav neurosis tracks

also I forgot about a guilty pleasure :X for years I've been coming back to nargaroth's jahreszeiten album, I don't know how well it's known outside of germany but I get laughs for it all the time here.
I like it a lot though :x
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The first three tracks on EoES are like a mini album to me. I have to listen to them all the way through.
 
Mr. Sandman said:
I'm listening to the new Howl album, so far it's good stuff.

Have you ever tried to describe a metal album cover to someone and realized how out there it can sound?

howl-bloodlines.jpg


There's a naked seer? holding a bleeding heart which has bled an ocean of blood. A wolf is drowning in the blood ocean while a Skeleton is rowing? his way through it. Oh and ravens vultures fly over a blackened sky with a blood moon.
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Oh I know the feeling.

The+Raven+And+The+Reaping++HQ+P.png


So it looks like this: there's this like half-raven, half-human with like six arms and bandaged liked a mummy, carrying beads and a dagger and chalices and a reaper's scythe. The thing has like a halo of bones and there's this weird red ball. All in front of a dying tree and abstract sky.
 
Giant Robot said:
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insaulbrious
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Death - Human
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
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You have the best taste so far, sir/madam. *tips non-existent hat*

I guess I might as well post mine. In no particular order and limited to one per band (I'm lazy so I am posting the same Top 20 list I sent to Iron Fist magazine for their interview last year):

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Skyclad - The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
Therion - Theli
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Rotting Christ - Non Serviam
Accept - Restless and Wild
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Bathory - Hammerheart
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
King Diamond - Abigail
Samael - Blood Ritual
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
 
Morbid Angel "Altars of Madness"
Slayer "Reign in Blood"
Megadeth "Rust in Peace"
Iron Maiden "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
Metallica "Ride the Lightning"
Judas Priest "Painkiller"
Immortal "Sons of Northern Darkness"
Emperor "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk"
Blind Guardian "Nightfall in Middle Earth"
Darkthrone "A Blaze in the Northern Sky"

That was hard. I had to edit, Honorable mentions which I struggle to leave out:

Kreator "Coma of Souls"
WASP "The Crimson Idol"
Crimson Glory "Transcendence"
Opeth "Ghost Reveries"
Queensryche "Operation: Mindcrime"
 
My list is here, one or two are not metal but decided to post them anyway, and in no particular order, save if i liked more than one album per band, then i put them together:

Wintersun - Wintersun
Wintersun - Time I
Ex Deo - Caligvla
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Megadeth - Youthanasia
The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!
The Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
Avantasia - The Mystery of Time
Avantasia - The Metal Opera I and II
Stratovarius - Infinite
Blackmore's Night - Shadow of the Moon
Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Rhapsody of Fire - Triumph or Agony
Heidevolk - Uit Oude Grod
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Ensiferum - Iron
Turisas - The Varangian Guard
Eluveitie - Slania
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Rainbow - Rising
Sarah Brightman - Harem
Peter Murphy - Deep
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Nightwish - Imaginaerum
Epica - Consign to Oblivion
Tristania - Illumination
Tristania - Beyond the Veil
Theatres des Vampires - Desire of Damnation
The Gathering - If Then Else
Apocalyptica - Cult
Amorphis - Skyforger

There are more but those are my all time favourites.
 
More Sabbath dates go on sale today.

FB Presale: Thursday 5/2 10am local time
Presale Code: SABBATH

*Bristow show Presale Thursday 5/9, On sale 5/10
Tampa show Presale Thursday 5/9, On Sale 5/11

DATE CITY VENUE
+Thu- Jul 25 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
+Sat-Jul 27 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
<Mon-Jul 29 Tampa, FL Live Nation Amphitheatre
+Wed-Jul 31 W. Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
~Fri-Aug 02 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
*Sun-Aug 04 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
+Tue-Aug 06 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
+Thu-Aug 08 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
+Sat-Aug 10 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
^Mon-Aug 12 Boston, MA Comcast Center
*Wed-Aug 14 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
+Fri Aug 16 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
+Sun-Aug 18 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center
+Thu-Aug 22 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena
*Sat-Aug 24 Seattle, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
+Mon-Aug 26 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre at Mountain View
+Wed-Aug 28 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
+Fri-Aug 30 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center
+Sun-Sep 01 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
*Tue-Sep 03 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Sports Arena

*Previously announced date.
^On sale Friday, May 3
+On sale Saturday, May 4
~On sale, Friday May 10
<On sale, Saturday, May 11
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Jeff Hanneman died :(

Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11AM this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed.

Our Brother Jeff Hanneman, May He Rest In Peace (1964 - 2013)
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You guys and your lists! I'm going to try this and probably want to editX1000 to add/remove stuff but, whatever!

Sabbath/Maiden are disqualified because I won't be able to pick just one...

Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad
Bride - Show No Mercy
Carnivore - Retaliation
Death Angel - Act III
Dio - Dream Evil
GWAR - Hell-o!
Judas Priest - Stained Class (I almost disqualified Priest too but man, SC is some good shit :P)
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Obituary - Cause Of Death
Outrage - Blind To Reality

Didn't make it to the 'P' section yet! Ahem...

Praying Mantis - Live At Last
Sheavy - The Golden Age Of Daredevils
Slayer - Show... no... Hell Awa... no.... Reign in... no .. forget it, disqualified.
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Trouble - The Skull
Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll
Type O Negative - Slow, Deep And Hard
Venom - Black Metal
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Wrath - Nothing To Fear


EDIT: WHAT

bytesized said:
Jeff Hanneman died :(
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That's some bullshit! Man... I don't even know what to say.
 
Oh man, RIP Hanneman. Listened to some Slayer during my teenage years and still own a couple of albums. Shocking news.
 
Woah, holy shit... I don't even know what to say. Slayer is one of my favorites. I'm so lucky that one of the very few live shows I've seen in my time is them performing Seasons In The Abyss in its entirety. Hanneman ruled.

RIP
 
RIB!

hard to argue with Show no Mercy, Haunting the Chapel, Hell Awaits, Reign in Blood, and South of Heaven. Best run of the big 4 imo.
 
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