Great, straightforward, listenable metal albums

[ATOMICxTomato]

Animals As Leaders - S/T
Death - Human, Symbolic, Sound of Perseverance
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Vader - The Art of War

those are the ones I can think of at the moment but sometimes whenever I listen to music I tend to just let the whole record play, but will sometimes skip songs.

 

[MUTANTOID]

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Any Deftones record is gonna be amazing all the way through.

A few other metal records I listen to on repeat.

Conducting from the Grave - When Legends Become Dust
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Opeth - Damnation

 

[Guitarman700]

Let's do this again, got a few more I love.
Deftones-Diamond Eyes as well as White Pony
Iron Maiden-Dance Of Death
Dream Theater-Awake
Darkest Hour-The Human Romance
Cloudyhead-Analog
Amorphis-Skyforger
Nevermore-Dreaming Neon Black
Protest The Hero-Fortress
Tool-10'000 Days

 

[mgh]

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Acid Reign - Obnoxious
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters

3 from this year:
Stratovarius - Elysium
Aosoth - III
Wolve of Avalon - Carrion Crows over Camlan

 

[ittoa666]

The Absence - From Your Grave

 

[Dvaienat]

Dismember - Death Metal
In Flames - Jester Race
Grave - Fiendish Regression
Deicide - Legion
Opeth - Deliverance
Lamb of God - New American Gospel
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Carcass - Heartwork
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Behemoth - Apostasy
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Vader - Necropolis
Sargeist - Let the Devil In

Some of my favoruite more straight forward, to the point and not to mention, more extreme, metal albums.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Katatonia - Day Is The New Night
Behemoth - Evangelion
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

 

[Monk]

Anthrax - Among the Living
Carcass - Heartwork
Death Angel - Act III
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Meshuggah - Catch-33
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Napalm Death - Inside the Torn Apart
Overkill - Taking Over
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sepultura - Arise
Slayer - South of Heaven
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Slipknot - Iowa
Testament - The Legacy

 

[sunbasket]

Metallica - Ride the Lightning, MoP, ...And Justice For All, Black Album

I'd say 'first 4 albums' but never was into Kill'em All. And I'd put some after that but they're just... not the same band after that.

Gojira - The Link, From Mars to Sirius
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn, Ashes of the Wake, Sacrament
In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony, Clayman

Straightforward Gothenburg metal. It's got the sweet-assed guitar harmonies, guitar solos, clean sections...many memorable riffs and grooves in these albums.

Opeth - MAYH, Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries

Didn't find gutturals to be very listenable when I first started listening to metal, but yeah...

Tool - Undertow.
Mastodon - Remission, Leviathan, Crack the Skye
High on Fire - Death is this Communion
Rage Against the Machine, debut album still fuckin' rules.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

 

[Thor_]

Lamb of God- Ashes of the wake
Slayer- Seasons in the abyss

The two albums I probably listened to the most when first getting into metal.

 

[SenorDingDong]

Haji's Kitchen - Haji's Kitchen
Toxik - Think This
Vicious Rumors - Vicious Rumors
Type O Negative - October Rust, World Coming Down
Pain of Salvation - Be, Scarsick, Remedy Lane, Entropia
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime, The Warning, Empire, Rage for Order
Fates Warning - Parallels, Awaken the Guardian, No Exit
Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
Forbidden - Twisted into Form
Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy, Dark Ride
James Labrie - Elements of Persuasion
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Mushroomhead - XIII
Taproot - Welcome, Blue-Sky Research
The Quiet Room - Reconceive
Dream Theater - Awake, Metropolis Pt. 2, Six Degree's of Inner Turbulence
Alice In Chains - Dirt, Jar of Flies, Alice In Chains
Annihilator - Never Never Land, Alice in Hell
Deftones - Around the Fur, Deftones, White Pony
Tesseract - One
John Arch - A Twist of Fate
Redemption - Origins of Ruin
Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
Pantommind - Shade of Fate
Payne's Gray - Kadath Decoded
Prototype - Continuum
Heir Apparent - Triad
DGM - Frame
Coroner - No More Color, Grin, Mental Vortex
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied
Athiest - Unquestionable Presence, Elements
Ayreon - ANYTHING YOU WANT FROM THEM


Want me to just name all 180gigs of my iTunes? Because I only listen to albums that are good the whole way through

 

[Demonbrn]

Have to throw some bumps out there;

Metallica - Lightning and Puppets
Tool - All (Aenima and undertow if you don't have any tool, those will start you out)
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Trivium - Shogun (they had some great song structure on this one in my opinion, and it didn't seem like they were trying to hard to sound like the fastest hardest band ever. Just my opinion)
Dethklok - I don't know what it is, it's fairly simple, but fun to listen to
GnR - Appetite for distruction
Megadeth - Rust in Peace and Symphony
Testament - Practice what you preach