Your Top Albums - list 'em

[Xaios]

Figured it's time to review my list. At this point I can really only say the top 2 are cemented. The rest of the top 10 is fluid.

1) Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
2) Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
X) Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element
X) Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
X) In Flames - Colony
X) Jakub Zytecki - Wishful Lotus Proof
X) Testament - The Gathering
X) Angra - Temple of Shadows
X) Owane - Dunno
X) Darkane - Layers of Lies

 

[Ralyks]

I'm going to try to give this a go:

- Fates Warning - Parallels
- Dream Theater - Awake
- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
- Agent Fresco - Destrier
- Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
- Toxik - Think This
- Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
- Matchbox Twenty - Yourself or Someone Like You
- Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
- Hurt - Vol. 1
- Death Angel - Time Does Not Heal
- Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
- Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
- Caligula's Horse - In Contact
- Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
- Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang 9 36 Chambers
- Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
- Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
- Fear Factory - Demanufacture
- Persona 5 OST
- Faith No More - The Real Thing
- Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstacy
- A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
- Redemption - Snowfall on Judgement Day
- Type O Negative - Slow, Deep, and Hard

Yeah, I couldn't do a top 10, so I went for 25. Parallels is my favorite, the rest depends on my mood.

 

[Aumann]

+1 for Agent Fresco, i was debating putting in my list above.

 

[Ralyks]

+1 for Agent Fresco, i was debating putting in my list above.

Some of the songs on that album give me the feels I never knew possible. I seriously get emotional when I hear "Wait For Me" for personal reasons.

 

[nightlight]

I can think of a Top 5, and the order of preference changes based on my mood.

1) Divine Intervention - Slayer
2) The Sound of Perseverance - Death
3) Rust In Peace - Megadeth
4) And Justice for All - Metallica
5) Train of Thought - Dream Theater

 

[spudmunkey]

Morphine: Cure for Pain or Yes (my preference changes daily)
VAST: Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Sister Machine Gun: Metropolis
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
Sugarman 3 & Co.: Pure Cane Sugar
Guns and Roses: Appetite for Destruction
Portishead: Roseland NYC Live
Simon and Garfunkle: Greatest Hits
Led Zeppelin: iV
Tool: Aenima
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Therapy?: Troublegum

 

[pastanator]

Devin Townsend - Addicted
Waking The Cadaver - Real Life Death
Jig Ai - Katana Orgy
Anal Cunt - Fuckin' A
Tycho - Dive
Polyphia - The Most Hated EP
Slayer - World Painted Blood
After The Burial - Rareform
Nine Pound Hammer - Hayseed Timebomb
Set And Setting - A Vivid Memory
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza III: A Series Of Unfortunate Events

 

[nightlight]

I should have included Pantera's Live 101 Proof live album. That one is pretty kickass.

 

[OSBRU]

Hard to rank all these great albums but from 1 to 10:
1.) Slipknot - Iowa
2.) Slipknot - Vol. 3
3.) Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
4.) Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
5.) Meshuggah - Obzen
6.) Dream Theater - As I Am
7.) Trivium - Silence In The Snow
8.) Deftones - Adrenaline
9.) Slipknot - Slipknot
10.) Megadeth - Rust In Peace

 

[Reasoning Reflections]

Not in a particular order but thats my top 10:

Fellsilent - The Hidden Words

Archspire - Relentless Mutation

Periphery - Hail Stan

Fallujah - How Fleeting How Fragile

Northlane - Node

Veil of Maya - Matriarch

Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know my Name

After the burial - Rareform

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Cynic - Traced in Air

 

[Charlie Foxtrot 3rd]

PanterA -Vulgar display of power

This was the first metal album that crushed me from start to finish, every damn song.

Bands before and after that I was kinda liking 80% of the songs on each album

 

[Choop]

Some may be subject to change since I haven't listened to newer releases enough times to drill into my brain (ex: Hail Stan) but for the most part this list is stuff I gravitate toward and give full listens to pretty regularly.

- Rush - 2112
- Cult of Luna - Salvation
- Nirvana - In Utero
- Opeth - Watershed
- Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
- Senses Fail - Life Is Not a Waiting Room
- Dream Theater - Images and Words
- Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
- Devin Townsend - Terria
- AFI - Sing The Sorrow
- The Used - In Love and Death
- Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
- Megadeth - Rust in Peace
- Isis - Wavering Radiant
- The Ocean - Precambrian
- Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders
- Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
- Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
- Daft Punk - Discovery
- Meshuggah - Nothing

 

[FretsOnFyre]

Let's give this a try - I'll keep myself to 10 because I want to write a bit about them too.

1. Cloudkicker - Beacons. Weirdly, I don't listen to that much Cloudkicker otherwise, but I really like this album as a whole because of its cohesion and the fact that it really seems to tell a story. I most often listen to this as an entire album from start to finish and I find new things to appreciate every time. Has definitely influenced how I write the most out of any album on this list.
2. Devin Townsend - Transcendence. This was a tricky one - I knew Devy was going to be high up the list, but a lot of my favorite tracks from him span the years and don't really come from a single album. Transcendence for me brings together a lot of the different elements I like about him - the more atmospheric vibes on Stormbending, the heavier elements in Failure or Higher, and the pop sensibilities in Stars and Offer Your Light. Really just summed up everything I loved from the DTP.
3. Periphery - Juggernaut. As a couple other folks have done, I'm considering Alpha/Omega a single album. When this first came out, I shut myself away in a dark room to listen to it front to back, and it's an incredible musical journey. I love music that tells a story, and I love motifs that call back to certain characters and events, and this is chock full of both.
4. Intervals - The Shape of Colour. Aaron Marshall's style has come to be a pretty big influence on the way I write. This is an incredibly dynamic album with a lot of complexity, but not at the cost of musicality, and it has tons of little hooks that get stuck in my head randomly even if I haven't listened to the song in weeks. The drum work (courtesy of Travis Orbin) is killer as well - lots to like here.
5. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Again, hard to pick a single album, and this is maybe an unpopular choice, but it has a ton of my absolute favorite moments from DT. Definitely one of their heavier albums, so maybe I'm a little biased by the rhythm guitar work on this album - some of my favorite riffs between A Nightmare to Remember and The Shattered Fortress. The ballad ending of The Count of Tuscany is one of my top musical moments from any song.
6. Thomas Bergersen - Sun. Film scores have been a huge source of inspiration for me, and I first discovered this album when Final Frontier was featured in an Interstellar trailer. Really tasteful writing that covers a lot of emotional ground, from grand and dramatic to soft and intimate.
7. Gojira - Magma. A relatively recent discovery, I got super into this album when it first came out. For me, the perfect combination of harmonically interesting/complex and brutal - plenty of their riffs seem simple at first listen but there's so much to unpack beneath the surface. Huge fan of Joe Duplantier's vocals as well - there's a very musical quality to his harsh vocals that I don't find anywhere else, except with Devin Townsend. This record is just solid all the way through. While they might have better albums, I'm pretty biased towards this as the one I first got into.
8. Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien. I started out playing classical guitar, wasn't super into it, but my eyes just about fell out of my head when I heard Satriani for the first time. I'm not sure how I got it (I think my parents bought it on a recommendation?) but it was on a Best of Satch CD that was largely tracks from Surfing, and it completely changed how I thought of guitar. That and Master of Puppets were the reason I bought my first electric, and I have those two records to thank for changing my life.
9. Metallica - And Justice for All. Not much that needs to be said here - IMO their best moments guitar-wise are all over this album. I got into Metallica nearly ten years ago now with the usual suspects (Puppets, Battery, Fade to Black, and so on) but when I dug a little deeper, this album is full of some absolute gems. Now if only there were any bass on it
10. Scorpions - Love at First Sting. Big nostalgia pick for me, because I grew up with my dad blasting Rock You Like a Hurricane (we've all been there, right?). That opening riff is still the archetypal sound of an electric guitar for me, and I suspect that it played a big part in me picking up the guitar years later.

Honorable mention: Symphony X - Underworld.

 

[efiltsohg]

Burzum - Filosofem
Burzum - Belus
Swans - Filth
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Old Man Gloom - Christmas
Sumac - The Deal
Earth - Pentastar
Espers - Espers
Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (the Theusz Hamtaahk trilogy in general but this is the only good studio recording from it)
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
Faust - C'est Com Com Compliqué
Fripp & Eno - Equatorial Stars

 

[Sammy J]

Damn, where to start:

Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Tool - Lateralus
Opeth - Still Life
Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy
Nirvana - In Utero
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Slipknot - Iowa
Cynic - Focus
Behemoth - Demigod
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Carcass - Heartwork
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Death - Human
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Metallica - And Justise for All
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Soreption - Monument of the End

really that’s just a taster though. So many amazing albums that this list could change day to day. Well, except Organic Hallucinosis as that’s the GOAT.

 

[Louis Cypher]

Too many to list but here are some (in no particular order):
King Diamond - Abigail
Godflesh - Songs of Love & Hate
Apollyon Sun - Sub
Meshuggah - Nothing & Chaosphere
My Ruin - Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish
Roadrunner United Compilation
Extreme - Pornograffitti & Waiting for the Punchline
Dokken - Tooth & Nail
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation
Korn - Debut & Untouchables
Guns n Roses - AfD
Whitesnake - 1987
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Slayer - Reign in Blood
White Zombie - Astrocreep.....
Ozzy - Tribute & Diary or a Madman & Blizzard of Ozz
Van Halen - Debut/II/Women/Fair Warning
Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh...
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Dweezil Zappa - Confessions
Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Shotgun Messiah - Violent New Breed
The Scream - Let it Scream
Fight - War of Words
NIN - Downward Spiral
RHCP - One Hot Minute
WWIII - WWII
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Led Zepplin - IV

Too many more tbh.....

 

[DECADENCE]

In no particular order:

Humanity’s Last Breath - Abyssal
Vildhjarta - Thousands of Evils
Northlane - Alien
Deftones- Koi No Yokan
Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Three
The Daysleepers - Creation
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
The Sight Below - It All Falls Apart
Silk Demon - The Embrace Between the Circus and the Sky

 

[nightlight]

I think this is an overlooked album that everybody needs to listen to.

Overkill's W.F.O. It's fucking kickass, do not miss out on this.

 

[Prince Acheampong]

Everybody geh favorite..#check my list
1. Post Malone - beerbong & Bentley
2. Juice WRLD - death race for love
3. YBN cordae - Lost boy
4. PnB Rock - Trapstar stunt rockstar
5. Nasty c - strings and blings
6. Tank - Savage
7. Post Malone - Hollywood bleeding
8. 6lack - east Atlanta love letter
9. Asa - soul
10. J.cole - 4 your eyes only
+ More...etc

 

[Daemoniac]

Funnily enough I did this the other day.

I made sure I only picked one album per artist, but there are a lot of artists who deserve to have three or four albums in here. Still. I'll upload the genre specifics later.

This is a limited top 100. One album per artist only, tried to leave space for every artist I love in there.