What are your timeless albums?

[fps]

There’s quite a few, but the ones that pop into my head immediately were:

Opeth - Blackwater Park / Still Life
Tool - Lateralus / Aenema
RATM - Self Titled
Metallica - MoP / AJFA
Nirvana - In Utero
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Death - Symbolic
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Fear Factory - Demanufacture

Basically, soundtrack to my childhood/teenage years.

This is a massive selection

 

[sirbuh]

Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Van Halen - F.U.C.K.

 

[Omzig]

Some fantasic stuff listed sofar as well as a few ive never checked out so i'll be hunting a few of them down over the holiday break, as for a few of my own timeless loves

Dream Theater - I&W
Cynic- Focus
Def Leppard - Hysteria
T-Ride - T-ride
Allan Holdsworth - Secrets
Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Yes - 90125
Ohm - Ohm

 

[Choop]

This album is so fucking good. The title track is intense. I wish more people heard SF.
My personal favorite of theirs is the album w/ Fireworks At Dawn, can’t remember the name right now, but ITILIWFY is right up there.

Oh yeah! That one is on "Life Is Not A Waiting Room", which is definitely my second favorite Senses Fail album. I like how real Buddy Nielson is with his lyrics, and he practically wrote ITILIWFY himself, which I guess explains how it has such a different yet familiar feel in regards to the rest of their stuff.

 

[Mboogie7]

And Justice For All
Master of Puppets
And yes, even the Black album.
Dark Side of the Moon (blows me away every time)
Reign In Blood
My Arms, Your Hearse
Ghost Reveries

The Jester Race — I’ve got this thing where if I’ve had a long, exhausting stretch at work, I’ll throw this album on in my car on the way home. It’s like hearing it for the first time, every time.

Blut Aus Nord — all the Memoria Vetusta albums and Hallucinogen — even though that last album came out last year it’s like it hits my nostalgia senses anyway.

I suppose you could say these are my favorite albums of all time; some of them for legitimate nostalgic reasons (I’m older than most of you), but they all have this ability to take me away to someplace special.

Yes!! I was just thinking The Jester Race needs to be mentioned. By far my favorite In Flames record.

Mine would probably be

Metallica- Master of Puppets /AJFA
In Flames - The Jester Race
Fleet wood Mac - Rumors
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The away
Breaking Benjamin-We are not alone/ saturate
The Carpenters - Greatest hits
Green Day - Nimrod
Good Charlotte- the young and hopeless

 

[Brutal08]

Cryptopst - None So Vile
Neuraxis - Truth Beyond
Augury - Concealed

Deftones - White Pony
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Necrophagist - both of them
Suffocation - Liege Of Inveracity
Deeds Of Flesh - Trading Pieces
Dissection - Storm Of The Light Bane

Pretty much my go to playlist

 

[TheBlackBard]

Deftones-Around The Fur
Emperor-Nightside/Anthems
Vouna-Vouna
Refused-The Shape of Punk to Come
Metallica-...AJFA
Seether-Disclaimer II (except Broken with Amy Lee. God I hate that nasally ass voice.)
Trivium-Ascendancy/Shogun
Alcest-Les Voyages de l'Âme
Powerman 5000-Tonight The Stars Revolt
The Rasmus-Dead Letters/Hide From The Sun
Guano Apes-Proud Like A God
Team Sleep-Team Sleep
MS MR-Secondhand Rapture
Chevelle-This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In
Rammstein-Sehnsucht
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory/Meteora
As I Lay Dying-Shadows Are Security
Avenged Sevenfold-Waking The Fallen
AFI-Sing The Sorrow
Killswitch Engage-The End of Heartache
Incubus-Make Yourself

 

[SD83]

Vader - Impressions in blood. Still my favourite album of all times. Every song is just the same mindless full speed assault, and "Amongst the ruins" has one of my favourite guitar solos of all times as well.
Slayer - Reign in blood
Arch Enemy - Anthems of rebellion
In Flames - Reroute to remain
Kittie - Oracle
Beginner - Blast action heroes
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Tool - 10,000 days
Chimaira - The impossibility of reason

 

[Spicypickles]

BTBAM - The Great Misdirect
The Contortionist- Language
Devy - Ocean Machine
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
Killswitch - As Daylight Dies
Lamb o’ Got - As the Palaces Burn
Meshuggah - Obzen
Metallica - MOP/RTL
Periphery - Alpha/Omega
Rammstein - Mutter
SYL - Alien

This took a bit of thinking, but out of everything I listen to or own, I wouldn’t give these up

 

[DrakkarTyrannis]

I forgot to add NIN-Broken, and Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process

 

[maliciousteve]

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - Zoso
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Metallica - Black Album (awaiting hate)
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

 

[Alex79]

I had a look through my collection, I might've missed a few:

The ones that pop up a lot on this board:
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma & Nocturnal
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Dream Theater - Metropolis II & Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin & Anthems of Rebellion
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Carcass - Heartwork

The ones that are less well known
Kreator - Enemy of God & Phantom Antichrist (Come on guys, show some more love for Kreator!)
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the other side (Really? No one?)
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Robert Cray - Nothin but love
Shery Crow - The Globe Session
Billy Talent - II
Fearless Vampire Killers - Unbreakable Hearts (Never met another person who even knows this band.)
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore and Superstition
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast (I thought lots of people would list this one. Midian is also great.)
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Ghost - Prequelle
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human
Powerwolf - Blessed & Possessed
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears (Who wasn't a Zakk Wylde-fan when this came out???)
Slash - World On Fire (I actually prefer this to GnR nowadays.)
Steel Panther - Feel the Steel (All the hair metal you would ever need.)
Trivium - Shogun
Lordi - The Arockalypse
Rise To Remain - City of Vultures
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Die Ärzte - Planet Punk & 13
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Aerosmith - Get a grip


And then I feel there should be something from Amon Amarth, In Flames, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Machine Head or In Extremo on the list, but the problem is that those bands are incredible when they're at the best, but it's hard to pick an album where they really got everything right as opposed to "just" some awesome songs/moments.

 

[EmaDaCuz]

I had a look through my collection, I might've missed a few:

Amazing list, and lots of my favourite albums. I would have listed Imaginations, Demanufacture, and The Arokalypse myself, but they are not "timeless" for me.

 

[Alex79]

In no particular order, including all genres

• Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
• Mayhem - Wolf Lair's Abyss
• Opeth - Still Life
• Britney Spears - Britney
• Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son...
• Roger Waters - In The Flesh (Live)
• Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
• P!nk - I'm Not Dead
• Rammstein - Mutter
• Rainbow - Rising
• Deicide - Serpents of the Light
• Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
• My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans and The Angel...

Amazing list, and lots of my favourite albums. I would have listed Imaginations, Demanufacture, and The Arokalypse myself, but they are not "timeless" for me.

I was likewise thinking about Altars of Madness; it’s kind of a true classic of death metal.
I find Imaginations from the other Side has the right mix of power metal, fantasy, progressive elements and great songwriting- I always go back to this album from time to time, sometimes after years.

 

[Carl Kolchak]

Morbid Tales - Celtic Frost
Masters of Reality - Black Sabbath
Earth AD - Misfits
Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing - Discharge
But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? - Death In June
The Serpent's Egg - Dead Can Dance
First and Last and Always - Sisters of Mercy
Juju - Siouxsie and the Banshees
It's Alive - The Ramones
This Island Earth - Dr Know

 

[ImNotAhab]

Clash - London Calling.

 

[rokket2005]

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Charlotte Martin - Stromata, On Your Shore
Collective Soul - Dosage
Ra - From One
Toto - Past to Present
Atomship - The Crash of 47

 

[TOM4S]

It's a bit all over the place but those are my timeless albums

In no particular order (excepted for the 1st band):

KoRn - KoRn, Life is Peachy, Follow The Leader, Issues
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Deftones - Adrenaline, White Pony, Deftones
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D
Metallica - Ride, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, S&M
Slayer - Reign In Blood, Seasons in the Abyss
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display of Power
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated, The Bleeding
Limp Bizkit - Significant Other, Chocolat Starfish, Wes Borland
Mastodon - Remission, Crack The Skye
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Californication
The White Stripes - All discography
Queens Of The Stone Age - All discography
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Nirvana - Nevermind, In Utero
Daniel Johnston - Fun
Machine Head - Burn my eyes
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius, The Way of All Flesh
Led Zeppelin - II, IV

 

[MaxOfMetal]

Clash - London Calling.

Damn, good call.

 

[Mathemagician]

Going to play fair and only list one album per band

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Trivium - Ascendancy
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Megadeth - Rest In Peace
Misfits - American Psycho
Carcass - Heartwork
Avenged Sevenfold - Bat Country
Muse - The Resistance
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

I could keep going but depending on my mood if anything from those comes up on Spotify I will often immediately load up the whole album. To me that’s “timelessness” at work.