Great, straightforward, listenable metal albums

[Andromalia]

 

[Osiris]

Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
In Flames - Colony
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Opeth - BWP or Ghost Reveries
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
Zoroaster - Matador
Stormwarrior - Heading Northe
The Mars Volta's first two albums

chill as fuck

 

[thedonal]

Blue Oyster Cult- Imaginos.

Go on- you know you want to.

I can listen to this album on repeat!

OK-border of heavy rock/metal but WHAT an album!

 

[Captain Shoggoth]

As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Protest The Hero - Fortress
Periphery - Periphery
All Shall Perish - Awaken The Dreamers
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Sylosis - Conclusion of an Age.

I take your Conclusion of an Age and raise you:

Sylosis-Edge of the Earth


<3<3<3

 

[decypher]

Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
WatchTower - Control and Resistance
King Diamond - Abigail
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Dream Theater - When Dream and Day unite (seriously and not trolled, might have to do with the time when it was released)
Crimson Glory - Trancendence
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Bal-Sagoth -Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
Could list a bunch more that sound like "perfect albums" to me (Titan Force!)

I need to listen to newer stuff, I know....

 

[Tranquilliser]

Meshuggah : obZen
Trivium : Shogun
Tesseract : One
A Day To Remember : Homesick

currently on cycle.

 

[zakattak192]

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (The copy I had in elementary school had "Total Eclipse" in place of "Gangland", which made it perfect for me because I LOVE Total Eclipse but I can't stand Gangland)

King's X - Dogman

Tesla - Mechanical Resonance

Any Death album

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

And also, Appetite for Destruction.

 

[Djent]

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral; The Fragile
Quicksand - Slip
Queens of the Stone Age - first 3
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun; Welcome to Sky Valley / Sky Valley / Kyuss / whatever you want to call their third LP
Rage Against the Machine - any album
Mudvayne - first 2
Marilyn Manson - first 3 LPs (not Smells Like Children)
Incubus - first 4
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Biffy Clyro - 2 most recent
Fu Manchu - In Search Of...; The Action Is Go
Fear Factory - first 3
Dream Theater - anything but WD&DU
Deftones - anything but Saturday Night Wrist
DEP - Miss Machine, Ire Works
Soundgarden - first 4
Pantera - first 3
Primus - first 3
Metallica - first 5
Meshuggah - Nothing
Periphery - Periphery
AAL - self-titled

 

[AngstRiddenDreams]

Meshuggah- Catch 33. The album to me that defines "Djent"
Tesseract- One. The instruments alone could stand by themselves, but the vocals are heavenly.
Slipknot-Iowa. I know many people don't like them, but it is a damn heavy record.
Between The Buried and Me-The Great Misdirect. To me i like this more than Colors, just something about it doesn't feel like a metal Zelda soundtrack.
A Hero A Fake- Let Oceans Lie. My favorite metalcoreish band by far.
Cloud Kicker- The Discovery. Melodic Meshuggah, nuff said.
Sikth-TTADADO. You crazy Brits, i love you.
System of a Down- Toxicity. My first favorite metal cd.
Black Sabbath- Paranoid. Without this album there wouldn't be metal IMO.

 

[geofreesun]

after the burial -- rareform
testament -- legacy
abysmal dawn -- programmed to consume
carcass -- heartwork

 

[Kamin]

Textures - Silhouettes
Sees - TheenD
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

 

[Thrashmanzac]

strapping young lad - the new black

 

[CrushingAnvil]

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

Immolation - Majesty & Decay

Morbid Angel - Gateways To Annihilation

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Necrophagist - Epitaph

 

[Tranquilliser]

I forgot
sikTh : Death of a Dead Day
and their debut:
The Trees are Dead and Dried Out... Wait for Something Wild

Both albums are brilliant.

 

[DMONSTER]

Meshuggah - Catch 33

There are others but thats immediately what came to mind when I saw the thread title, cus you'd HAVE to listen to the whole thing

 

[revclay]

al cd.
Black Sabbath- Paranoid. Without this album there wouldn't be metal IMO.

A big +1 on that. You can add Black Sabbath - S/T to that as well.

To that, I would add

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
In Flames - Clayman
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Boris - Heavy Rocks
The Hidden Hand - The Resurrection of Whiskey Foote
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down, The Great Cold Distance, Night is the New Day

 

[MFB]

Death - Symbolic
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
King Diamond - Abigail
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side/Twilight of the Thunder God
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion

 

[Thrashmanzac]

divine heresey - bleed the fifth
machine head - the blackening

 

[Leuchty]

Machine Head - Through the ashes of empires

The Sorrow - Blessings from a blackened sky

Children Of Bodom - Are you dead yet

Metallica - Metallica

 

[Daemoniac]

American Head Charge - The War Of Art
American Head Charge - The Feeding
Spineshank - The Height of Callousness
Spineshank - Self Destructive Pattern
Killing Joke - Pandemonium
Ministry - Psalm 69; The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs
Course Of Empire - Telepathic Last Words
Fear Factory - Archetype
Fear Factory - Digimortal
Filter - The Amalgamut
Godsmack - Faceless
Kidneythieves - Zerospace (for the most part)
KMFDM - Hau Ruck
Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget or The Golden Age of Grotesque (dpending on if i'm in the mood for TGAOG)
Mnemic - Mechanical Spin Phenomena
NIN - The Slip
Powerman 5000 - Tonight The Stars Revolt!!
Rob Zombie - Past, Present & Future
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Deftones - Around The Fur
Demon Hunter - The Triptych
Disturbed - Indestructible
Disturbed - The Sickness
Downthesun - Self titled
Ill Nino - Revolution Revolucion
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish
Korn - Take A Look In The Mirror
Korn - Follow The Leader
Machine Head - The Blackening
Motograter - Self titled
Mushroomhead - XIII
Skrape - Up The Dose
Slipknot - Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
Sybreed - Slave Design
S.O.A.D - Hypnotize
Vision Of Disorder - From Bliss To Devastation
16Volt - Beating Dead Horses
16Volt - SuperCoolNothing
16Volt - Skin
Acumen Nation - Psycho The Rapist
Black Light Burns - Cruel Melody
Crossbreed - Synthetic Division
Dope Stars INC. - Gigahearts
Mankind Is Obsolete - Rise
Pitchshifter - PSI




... That will do