Albums with great production

[Xiphos68]

Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy.

Becoming the Archetype's Dichotomy has fantastic production! Underated metal album imo. Devin Townsend did a great job producing it.





Be prepared... something Epic is coming your way.

 

[Korbain]

just a few ones that come to mind

Tool (especially 10,000 days)
NIN
Korn - Untouchables
Opeth - Watershed

 

[Fat-Elf]

No love for Linkin Park? Well, I I recall correctly people used to hate them just because their albums sounded too polished but I like that. Keep your trve kvlt black metal albums recorded in some pissy basement.

 

[as_i_am]

The latest Architects one and Danza IIII

 

[JosephAOI]

Some of my favorites:

Red Seas Fire - Red Seas Fire
Within The Ruins - Invade
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
David Maxim Micic - Bilo 2.0
The Contortionist - Exoplanet
The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
Twelve Foot Ninja - Silent Machine
Memphis May Fire - Challenger
Scale The Summit - The Collective

 

[Andromalia]

Seventh son of a seventh son.
Reign in Blood

 

[guitareben]

Steve Vai - Real Illusions: Reflections
Steve Vai - The Story of Light

 

[whilstmyguitardjentlyweep]

Rage against the machine - STD
Playing this album very loud through a high quality sound system is a listening experience.

Also the South Park movie OST - fucking incredible production!

 

[bozothedeathmachine]

Best album I've ever heard is Porcupine Tree's In Abesntia.

 

[Dwellingers]

Seems like a lot of the albums mentioned here are brick-walled to death.

 

[UV7BK4LIFE]

I already posted Fear Factory's demanufacture, but I found it is especially Colin Richardson's work as a metal producer that I like:

• Behemoth[2]
• Bolt Thrower
• Bullet for My Valentine[3]
• Cannibal Corpse
• Carcass
• Chimaira
• Fear Factory[4]
• God Forbid
• Gorefest
• Machine Head[3]
• Napalm Death[4]
• Sepultura[5]
• Slipknot[3]
• 3 Inches of Blood[6]
• The Exploited
• Trivium[5]

 

[trhshred]

Job For A Cowboy's album, Demonocracy. Very clean production, great guitar tones, excellent drum mix, just awesome on the production side.

 

[Marv Attaxx]

My favourite productions right now are:
- Deftones: Koi No Yokan
- Dead Letter Circus: This is the warning
- Karnivool: all of it
- Emmure: Speaker of the dead (I'm a sucker for joey sturgis mixes haha)
- the Acacia Strain: Wormwood

 

[VBCheeseGrater]

Mudvayne - The End Of All Things To Come

Forgot this one - perfect mix of guitar and bass on this album. The whole sound of the album jumps out of the speakers, killer album overall

 

[Andromalia]

Seems like a lot of the albums mentioned here are brick-walled to death.

That is sadly synonymous with "good production" these days

 

[RagtimeDandy]

For me, Axe to Fall by Converge is the pinnacle of "balls to the wall" production that maintains awesome clarity. its a rather specific sound but I LOVE Kurt's style

Periphery II is probably my favorite production as far as overall clarity and just damn good tones.

On that note, anything Nolly has touched turned to ear gold.

Meshuggah's Koloss is up there for clarity and punch.

Mastodon's Leviathan is my favorite straight forward metal album as far as production goes. No frills, just pure fuckin' metal tones

 

[Experimorph]

Anything by Porcupine Tree.

I basically came in here to say this. Or rather Fear of a Blank Planet and The Incident.

Guthrie Govan's Erotic Cakes
Devin Townsend Project - Ghost and Deconstruction
Pain of Salvation - BE

I'd include Wintersun's Time, but I don't get the volume fluctuations.

 

[NickS]

So many great ones have already been mentioned. I would add to the list At the Drive-In's Relationship of Command and The Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium.

 

[Xiphos68]

Becoming the Archetype's - Dichotomy (Really under-rated album, Devin Townsend Produced, It's a fantastic album). I am really, really, really suprised this album did not sell more than it did.



7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes of Absolution is a really, really well produced record as well.



Wintersun's - Time (Probably the most ridiculous production I have ever heard).



Star One's - Victims of the Modern Age (Best Crushing Rhythm tone I have ever heard for a seven string). Everything thing else is fantastic as well, singers, synths, it's ridiculous...




BIG EDIT: Whoops! I thought I hadn't posted in this thread already.

 

[right_to_rage]

Deftones' Koi No Yokan and Glass Cloud's Royal Thousand are my two current favourites for metal ATM.