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[Andrew Korenchkin]

Honestly as a big Tool fan (might be my current favorite) I don't necessarily think of them as metal. Prog hard rock? Maybe? I dunno.

The fact that Evanescence is on the list made me laugh really hard...

Imo, Tool is a Prog Rock band.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

I don't think that I like metal, but I like most of those albums, so I guess I do like metal?

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Looks like I got some more classic metal to listen to.

lol, love that gif

Let me know if you need a genre breakdown. This list covers a wide variety of genres.

Oh, I should have included these too [edit: and the Rainbow, aye]:

Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade (how did I skip my favourite DM band? shaaaame)
Exodus - Bonded by Blood (and skipped my favourite thrash album?? WTF Morri)
Nocturnus - The Key
Obliveon - Nemesis
Demons & Wizards - s/t
Stillborn - Necrospirituals
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Vektor - Black Future
Tormentor - Anno Domini
Torture Squad - Horror and Torture
Solstice - New Dark Age
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines
Luciferion - Demonication (The Manifest)
Grand Magus - Iron Will
Grave Digger - Excalibur
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Rainbow - Rising

I fucking love metal

 

[m_dorian]

Rainbow Rising at 48.

Sigh..

Slayer South of Heaven 47 and Reign in Blood 6.
Merciful Fate Melissa 17.

No. You never put Rainbow RIsing so far down the list.
You never put Rainbow Rising below Merciful Fate and Slayer.
You can't do that.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Rainbow Rising at 48.

Sigh..

Slayer South of Heaven 47 and Reign in Blood 6.
Merciful Fate Melissa 17.

No. You never put Rainbow RIsing so far down the list.
You never put Rainbow Rising below Merciful Fate and Slayer.
You can't do that.

I agree that Rainbow Rising is much too low. Another very important Metal album that is no doubt a top 20.

 

[TheWraith]

Yep Rainbow Rising needs to be #1 in my book. Heaven and Hell also in the top 3.

And no Paradise Lost albums? For shame.

 

[jviggy43]

“…And Justice For All” pretty low there

Pantera urgh

I immediately scanned for this. First metallica album, love it.

 

[metsallica]

Justice is Metallica's best album and Demanufacture belongs in the top 25.

 

[smoothj]

Surprised Iron Maidens self titled album made the list. It's really not talked about too much. Definitely my favorite from them.

It's funny I avoided Iron Maiden when I was younger thinking they were lame. Never really listened to them until like 3 years back. Holy shit my mind blew and I binged hard on their discography. I'm 32 which was way late in the game. Hope to see them live next time they come to socal.

Some good recommendations ITT!

 

[android]

Was hoping I'd see Behemoth, BTBAM, Job for a Cowboy, Black Dhalia Murder, Cattle Decapitation,D.R.I.(ya....crossover thrash..), Rotting Christ, Fleshgod Apocalypse....but ya I'm silly haha.

 

[Chained Prometheus]

Yep Rainbow Rising needs to be #1 in my book. Heaven and Hell also in the top 3.

And no Paradise Lost albums? For shame.

Yeah, it's nuts that Rainbow Rising and Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell are both ranked considerably lower than Holy Diver. All three are classics, but I've always felt that HD was the weakest of Dio's trifecta of heavy metal classics.

 

[Schattenjäger]

Lateralus >>>>>> Aenima

 

[F0rneus]

No Annihilator (Alice in Hell) or Vio-lence (Eternal Nightmare)? Nah. Can't accept that list.

 

[Chained Prometheus]

Also Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime is all the way back in the 60s?!

That's a Top 5 Metal album right there.

 

[F0rneus]

Either I missed it, but they didn't have Testament's The Legacy either? That list is making me salty as fuck.

 

[Van Bur3n]

SOAD barely misses top 25. Good enough for me.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Streetcleaner below gnu rock like Korn and Toxicity? La Sexorcisto on the list but not Astro Creep 5000? Psalm 69 on the list but not The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste?

lol okay.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Streetcleaner below gnu metal like Korn and Toxicity?

lol okay.

Streetcleaner is actually on the list?!

Well, I guess they at least didn't forget it. GOAT Industrial Metal album.

 

[dead souls]

Ride > Master

Yep.

Oh and in what universe is Rage Against the Machine metal?

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Streetcleaner is actually on the list?!

Well, I guess they at least didn't forget it. GOAT Industrial Metal album.

It boggles my mind given that most of the nu metal acts they rank above it are literally Godflesh Lite.

Industrial metal is forever doomed to be ignored. I blame Rammstein.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

It boggles my mind given that most of the nu metal acts they rank above it are literally Godflesh Lite.

Industrial metal is forever doomed to be ignored. I blame Rammstein.

For me, pretty much every other Industrial Metal band is inferior to Godflesh. Amazing how Nine Inch Nails gets all the praise when it is debatable he is even Industrial, let alone Metal.

 

[myco666]

Spoiler

Jane Doe at 61? what the fuck.

Punk album so good that it invades other genre lists.

 

[Livingskeletons]

It's second on my personal top twenty favorite Metal lists of all time, so at least that?

I'll take it.

Whats #1?

 

[Metalmarc]

Is Strapping Young Lad - City or Alien on the list ?

Or Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction?

 

[CloudWolf]

not a single non american or british band I see

Are you joking? In the Top 25 only there are Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Merciful Fate, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. Hell, Black Sabbath is their number 1.

 

[TheWraith]

Are you joking? In the Top 25 only there are Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Merciful Fate, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. Hell, Black Sabbath is their number 1.

Only Merciful Fate is non-US/British.

 

[myco666]

Are you joking? In the Top 25 only there are Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. Merciful Fate, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. Hell, Black Sabbath is their number 1.

I think Selddon meant non british too.

 

[RDreamer]

Korn, System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine? I don't mind/even like some of those bands but they really shouldn't be on a top 100 metal album list at all. They're like filler when you don't actually know enough metal or some shit.

Ride > Master

First post is best post.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

I'll take it.

Whats #1?

Blackwater Park is no. 1 for me. Pretty much my favorite album ever.

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

 

[bebop242]

Blackwater Park is no. 1 for me. Pretty much my favorite album ever.

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

I have homework to do. I know 2 of these, lol.

 

[platakul]

*googles best metal albums*

ah yeah there's where they all came from

fucking lol sunbather

e: aha google recognize NIME and Kot7K.
this list jesus

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Sunbather....man, I remember the hype behind that band. Such a boring album.

 

[DiscoJer]

Diamond Head's Lightning to the Nations should be higher than 41. You could make a good case Am I Evil? started Thrash Metal

 

[RDreamer]

Sunbather....man, I remember the hype behind that band. Such a boring album.

I like New Bermuda a bit more, honestly.

Blackwater Park is no. 1 for me. Pretty much my favorite album ever.

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

These all definitely deserve to be on the list.

 

[platakul]

The band's first double album, Justice was also their first full-length to feature new bassist Jason Newsted

the fuck about justice is a double album?

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Also....no Seven Churches!!!!

What the fuck?

 

[Livingskeletons]

the fuck about justice is a double album?

Double lack of bass.

Good list, Andrew Korenchkin.
Swap Symbolic and Sound of Perseverance though. Hoglan da god.

Also need Rust in Peace in there.

 

[oberjin]

Where the fuck is Machine Head's first album ???!

 

[Jarate]

The list is wrong because Rust in Peace should be #1

 

[android]

the fuck about justice is a double album?

It's over 60mins long. I think at 33 rpm you can fit just over 40 mins on a 12 inch record. Hence double album.

 

[DieNgamers]

The order is conservative but there are some good picks there. High on Fire's Blessed Black Wings, Baroness, Rainbow...

Master of Reality should be #1 over Paranoid, though.

 

[CloudWolf]

I think Selddon meant non british too.

Oh yeah, I read that as non-American or British bands. The non-British makes sense.

 

[Carcetti]

Top twenty favorite Metal Albums.

20. In The Nightside Eclipse
19. Ride The Lightning
18. Don't Break The Oath
17. Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
16. Darkness Descends
15. Remission
14. Focus
13. Obscura
12. Altars of Madness
11. Crimson
10. Eternal Nightmare
9. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
8. Storm of the Lights Bane
7. The Mantle
6. Symbolic
5. The Sound of Perseverance
4. Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Chaosphere
2. Unquestionable Presence
1. Blackwater Park

This reminded me that I should really re-listen to Crimson. Thanks.

Also, for million times better list than the OP

http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php

Because a world where Twisted Sister is on a list over stuff like Wildhoney, Arise, The Gallery, Wolfheart, Draconian Times, Icon, The Sham Mirrors, Theli, Welcome to Sky Valley, Turn Loose the Swans, Tales from the Thousand Lakes, Theogonia, etc etc is terrible.

 

[gabbo]

Lateralus >>>>>> Aenima

Yep.

 

[Martinski43]

I'd also rank Ride > MoP. GOAT Metallica album. But the list is just like the cookie cutter metal album list really, nothing personal about it really.

 

[Netherscourge]

Holy Diver should be #7.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Yep.

Oh and in what universe is Rage Against the Machine metal?

In the Rolling Stone/lamestream media universe where you'll also find Korn et al., what else.

Spoiler

Yes, I wrote lamestream. On purpose. It applies here!

 

[Laevateinn]

In the Rolling Stone/lamestream media universe where you'll also find Korn et al., what else.

Spoiler

Yes, I wrote lamestream. On purpose. It applies here!

#fakenews

 

[The Main Event]

Opeth didn't even make it in the top 50.

lol Rolling Stones.

 

[LProtag]

Neat that Sunn and Naked City were on the list.

They should have been in the top 10 easy though.