Albums that are some sort of "experience"

[guitareben]

(first two are Buckethead) ^

 

[Lagtastic]

So many good ones in this thread.


Symphony X - V

Crimson Glory - Transcendence

Haken - Visions

 

[mike0]

they're not all metal, but:

btbam- silent circus, colors, great misdirect, parallax I & II
protest the hero- kezia, fortress
coheed - second stage, in keeping secrets
led zeppelin - II, IV
cynic - traced in air, focus
iron maiden - seventh son, powerslave
opeth - still life, my arms your hearse
metallica - ride the lightning
soad - s/t
hendrix - axis
coltrane - love supreme
miles davis - bitches
log - ashes
primus - pork soda
rush - everything from caress through moving pictures
he is legend - i am hollywood
thrice - illusion, artist, vhiessu, alchemy indices

quite a long list i know, but these are all albums that when i listen to them i have to listen to them from start to finish with undivided attention if possible. there's just something about them, whether it's nostalgia, awe, intrigue, etc. that just makes them an experience for me.

 

[Sephiroth952]

Symphony X - V

Yes, this album changed my life.

 

[flavenstein]

I'm not really a huge fan of these guys by any means, but when I read the thread title I immediately thought of this

 

[Riffer]

TOOL - Lateralus
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Back in Black
Rush - Moving Pictures
Marylin Manson - Anitchrist SUperstar
BTBAM - Colors
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Static X - Wisconsin Death Rip
Van Halen - Van Halen
NIN - The Fragile (left)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
DMX - Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Kings X - Dogman
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Foo Fighters - Colour and Shape


These are all ones that I myself think are an "experience".

 

[nsimonsen]

Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3
Converge - No Heroes & Jane Doe
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Circa Survive - Violent Waves
Born of Osiris - The Discovery
Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Evanescence
Gallows - Grey Britain
Brad Mehldau - The Art of the Trio
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Misery Signals - Controller
Dave Holland Quintet - Critical Mass
Lower Definition - The Greatest of all Lost Arts
American Football - American Football
Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun
John Mayer - Continuum (AND WHAT?!)
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Thrice - Vheissu
Underoath - Define The Great Line

and lastly.....

Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence

 

[nsimonsen]

Oh shit.........totally forgot about Grace by Jeff Buckley as well.
Impecabble record

 

[brick]

Deftones - White Pony
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Tool - Lateralus
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

haha, I was just listening to Saturdays = Youth while browsing this thread.
And I will have to strongly agree with everyone else who said Meshuggah-Catch 33

 

[FireInside]

Death - Symbolic
Tool - Aenima

 

[kamello]

Coheed and Cambria - From Fear through the eyes of Madness
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Protest the Hero - Kezia (one of my favourites)
TesseracT - One
Skyharbor - Blinding White Noise
Dream Theater - SFAM
Demian Rice - O
Scale The Summit - The Collective
Pink Floyd - Pulse and The Wall
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius (I always end up playing the whole album )
Muse - Absolution
Metallica - And Justice
Periphery ll
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead
This Town Need Guns - Animals

 

[TristanTTN]

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 1996
Piglet - Lava Land
Anamanaguchi - Power Supply
Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
Nujabes - Modal Soul
Uyama Hiroto - A Son of the Sun
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Tesseract - One
Beyond Creation - The Aura
Vildhjarta - Masstaden
Meshuggah - Nothing
Sikth - Death of a Dead Day
Sikth - The Trees are Dead and Dried Out

 

[ittoa666]

Coheed and Cambria - All of the records

 

[ASoC]

 

[7stringsofdoom]

Cynic - Focus and Traced In Air
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Versailles - Noble
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Meshuggah - Nothing
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Edge of Sanity - Crimson

Usually when I put one of these albums on, I can't stop listening until they are over. They are just meant to be listened to as a whole.

 

[vstealth]

 

[Atomshipped]

Well crap, 3 people mentioned already -_-

 

[Korbain]

So many! here's some that come to mind

NIN - the fragile/the downward spiral/with teeth
Tool - Lateralus/10,000 days
Type o negative - October Rust/World Coming Down
Deftones - White pony
Nirvana - In Utero
Opeth - Damnation/Ghost Reveries/Blackwater Park
Korn - Issues
Staind - break the cycle
Marilyn Manson - Anti Christ Superstar/Holywood
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Slipknot - Iowa
Pearl Jam - Ten
Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

[revclay]

Lots of good ones so far. +1 to the many Tool, Opeth, NIN, Miles Davis and Radiohead mentions. Some other ones that immediately popped to mind for me are:

Ulver - Lyckantropen Themes and Shadows of the Sun
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Byla - Byla
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Sunn 0))) - Black One
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Swans - The Seer
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

EDIT: Oh, and how I forgot to post this one is beyond me: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.

 

[Olin]

If we're talking concept albums and truly interesting albums, nothing has beaten:
Giles Corey - Deconstructionist, for me. Incredibly interesting, but you have to be patient with it as it's designed to be more of a meditative tool than it is music.
Other than that, the first time I heard Soundtracks For The Blind by Swans I was completely blown away. In terms of more aggressive music, I'd probably have to hand it to Petitioning The Empty Sky by Converge, that revolutionised my conception of "aggressive music."