Your top 10 must have albums

[decypher]

King Diamond - Abigail
WatchTower - Control and Resistance
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Dream Theater - ...When Dream and Day unite
Front Line Assembly - Hard Wired
IQ - Road of Bones (yes, already! Best neoprog album in +/- 57 years)
Marillion - Seasons End
Warlord - Best of Warlord
Tony MacAlpine - Maximum Security
Depeche Mode - Violator

 

[EmaDaCuz]

Mmmmh, 10 are not a lot. Here is my list, random order.

Roger Waters - In The Flesh (Live)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
Opeth - Still Life
Amorphis - Elegy
Blind Guardian - Imaginations...
Immortal - At The Heart of Winter
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Trevor Jones - The Last of The Mohicans OST
Pink - I'm not Dead
My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River

Special mentions:
Angelo Branduardi - Alla fiera dell'est
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone...
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Britney Spears - Britney
Rammstein - Mutter

 

[DarkWolfXV]

In order:
1. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
2. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
3. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
4. Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
5. Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings
6. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
7. Deafheaven - Sunbather
8. Waking the Cadaver - Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler
9. Devourment - Molesting the Decapitated
10. Chelsea Grin - S/T EP

 

[Isaac]

Rust in Peace - Megadeth
Solace - Jakob
Chaos AD - Sepultura
Personal Journals - Sage Francis
Devin Townsend - Ghost
Chimp Spanner - At Dreams Edge
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Eyedea & Abilities - By The Throat
This Godless Endeavor - Nevermore
Frank Turner - Love, Ire and Song

 

[leftyaxeman]

Andy Timmons Band ~ Plays Sgt. Pepper
Eric Johnson ~ Tones
Jimi Hendrix ~ Axis Bold As Love
Steve Vai ~ Passion & Warfare
Black Sabbath ~ Master of Reality
SRV ~ Texas Flood
Gary Moore ~ GForce
Van Halen ~ Van Halen
Blizzard of Ozz
Rush ~ 2112

 

[Dan_Vacant]

Rush - Moving Pistures
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Them Croocked Vultures - S/T
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
I can't think of the rest but something with Maynard Keenan would be in there.

 

[Pat_tct]

Top Ten Records that are a must have? No order or Preference here!

1. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius [Must have for: the grooves]
2. Whitechapel - This is Exile [Must have for: the brutals]
3. The Ocean - Anthropocentric [Must have for: the atmo and songwriting; Bonus: best vocals ever]
4. BTBAM - Colors [Must have for: the prog/chaos]
5. Opeth - Blackwater Park [Must have for: the prog]
6. Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead [Must have for: Hardcore classic]
7. AHAB - The Giant [Must have for: the doom]
8. Behemoth - Evangelion [Must have for: the blackyness? and overall awesomeness]
9. Cloudkicker - Subsume [Must have for: instrumental masterpiece]
10. Fallujah - The Harvest Wombs [Must have for: the tech and solos]

 

[Felvin]

Tool - Lateralus
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Meshuggah - Obzen
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Deftones - Around The Fur
Killswitch Engage - End Of Heartache

+ a lot more.

 

[rubbieh]

In no real order:
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Rinne
The Devil's Blood - Tabula Rasa
Shining - V: Halmstad
The Beatles - Revolver
Selim Lemouchi and His Enemies - Mens Animus Corpus
Danny Brown - XXX
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
Sebastien Tellier - My God is Blue
Leviathan - A Silhouette in Splinters
The Cure - Pornography

Runners up:
TDB - The Thousandfold Epicentre
TDB - The Time of No Time Evermore
Die Antwoord - $o$
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira Original Soundtrack
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice


These lists are hard for me because my choices largely depend on my mood, gave it a shot anyway.

 

[Rock4ever]

Dream Theater- Score
Porcupine Tree- Voyage 34
Nightwish- Showtime, Storytime
Blind Guardian- At the Edge of Time
Ayreon- Theory of Everything
DTP- Deconstruction
Steven Wilson- The Raven that Refused to Sing
Tool- 10,000 Days
Alter Bridge- Blackbird
AC/DC Back in Black

 

[MstrH]

Megadeth Rust in Peace
Iron Maiden 7th Son
Glenn Danzig Black Aria
Watchtower Control and Resistance
Cacophony Speed Metal Symphony
Candlemass Tales of Creation
Slayer Seasons in the Abyss
Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Thievery Corporation The Outernational Sound
Juno Reactor Labyrinth

And honorable mention: Pink Floyd The Division Bell

 

[musicaldeath]

Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Blink182 - Blink182
Days of Thunder Soundtrack (mostly just because of the GnR cover of Knockin' on Heaven's Door - plus lots of memories tied with this album from when I was a kid)
Metallica - MoP
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (the purists are going to hate me lol)
Pink Floyd - Pulse
AC/DC - Back in Black
Meat Load - BoH2 (Because memories as a kid)

 

[macgruber]

Meat Load - BoH2 (Because memories as a kid)

your slight slip of the keyboard makes meat loaf sound that much funnier

 

[ArtDecade]

1. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
2. Mr Big - Lean Into It
3. Joe Satriani - The Extremist
4. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
5. AC/DC - Back In Black
6. Toto - Toto IV
7. Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
8. Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
9. Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
10. Night Ranger - Midnight Madness

 

[blaaargh]

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Gregor Samsa - Rest
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Mouth of the Architect - Quietly
Rodan - Rusty
Venetian Snares - Songs About My Cats
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love//Return To Dust
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

Honorable mentions:
Sleep's Holy Mountain, Blackwater Park, Leviathan, Stream From The Heavens, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life, 36 Chambers, etc

 

[TheHandOfStone]

1) Death - The Sound of Perseverance
2) In Flames - The Jester Race
3) Amorphis - Skyforger
4) Soundgarden - Superunknown
5) Howard Shore - LotR Soundtrack(s)
6) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
7) Angra - Temple of Shadows
8) Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
9) Opeth - Damnation
10) Live One - Tommy Emmanuel, CGP

The top 6 are non-negotiable, the other 4 could rotate in and out depending on my mood and/or recent listening preferences.

 

[ONE]

I refuse to decide on a list so here's the only bit I can decide on:

Emancipator - All three albums (can't even decide which one.)

 

[Brodessa]

Mine are in no particular order!

1. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
2. De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
3. Alaska (or Colors) - Between the Buried and Me
4. Masstaden - Vildhjarta
5. Exoplanet - The Contortionist
6. Lesser Matters - The Radio Dept.
7. Fortress - Protest the Hero
8. The Common Man's Collapse - Veil of Maya
9. The Money Store (or No Love Deep Web) - Death Grips
10. Relationship of Command - At the Drive-In

And here's 10 more albums that I believe need to be mentioned, because they helped guide me to a lot of the music I listen to today. I still love and cherish each one! Even if they don't get played as often anymore.

Antichrist - Gorgoroth
This is Exile - Whitechapel
Shogun - Trivium
Zen and the Art of Total ....ing Destruction - Total ....ing Destruction.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About - Modest Mouse
Dark Ages - Soulfly
Manipulator - The Fall of Troy
Leviathan - Mastodon
New Junk Aesthetic - Every Time I Die.

 

[Chiba666]

Hmm

Amorphis - Tales
Skyrim Soundtrack
Maiden - 7th Son
Immortal - At the heart of Winter
Enslaved - Vertabre (how ever it is spelt)
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Amon Amarth - With Odin
Warduna - Yggdrasil
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Emperor - In the Nightside

So hard missed out so many and chances are will have changed once Ive clicked reply

 

[protest]

No Order

• Protest the Hero - Fortress
• Death - Symbolic
• Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: SFAM
• The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (any one really except Ire)
• The Mars Volta - De Loused in the Comatorium
• Pantera - Live 101 Proof
• Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
• Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance
• Opeth - Blackwater Park
• Mastodon - Crack the Skye