TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- Nate lists the top 10 greatest metal albums ever made.
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This is a golden video for a 17 year old like me who is just discovering all of this amazing music!
Awesome! This is why I’m doing this.
These situations is what the internet should exist for
I was 13 when I discovered metal (2 years ago). Still discovering amazing music to this day! I think you will have a lot of fun exploring this genre
Welcome to the fold! I was about your age when I got into metal too. Now 43 it makes me real happy that you guys are up for carrying the torch 👊🏼
Put up the horns, young one!!
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Music is art and therefore is completely ‘eye of the beholder’.
Black Sabbath - ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’
Judas Priest - ‘ Screaming for Vengeance’
Black Sabbath ‘ Heaven and Hell’
Slayer ‘Reign in Blood’
Nevermore ‘Dreaming Neon Black’
Emperor ‘Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk’
Iron Maiden ‘Seventh Son of a Seventh Son’
Opeth ‘ Blackwater Park’
King Diamond ‘Them’
Behemoth ‘The Satanist’
Chat Pile ‘ Gods Country’
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Well done man. I was 25 in 1986. Insane year for music. On top of the 3 on your list there were albums from Motörhead, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensryche, Sepultura, Kreator, Megadeth and Ozzy. Your list had me digging out old albums. Liked and Subbed.
Mercyful Fate - Melissa.
Mind blowing in my opinion . No words for how good this is . If you haven’t listened to it I invite you to listen. Just be careful it’s intoxicating and it can lead to a 40 yr love affair…
I remember when somewhere in time was their “new” album. I know it’s a live album but live after death is the one to buy if you can only buy one maiden album.
A couple of bands on here I haven't listened to combined with perennial personal favorites! I like how you justified the inclusion of some lesser known names with reference to their place in metal history and now I have some new suggestions of shrapnel to check out!
Would love to hear your top non-metal albums, things that influenced you. You’ve touched on a few in previous videos but it’s always very cool to get a peak into a favorite artist’s non metal influences.
Good idea, I'll definitely do a "Top 10 non-metal albums" list. That one will have to be strictly opinion based! Impossible, otherwise
In school in the 80s there was a band from Germany called Accept and they had it all .
Love the list! Hard to believe a top 10 metal album list would have something new for me to try out considering my first concert was Iron Maiden, Somewhere On Tour. A few that would be on my list if I ever were to make one:
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops. One of those records that somehow crams the entire history of metal into one, brutal, insane record.
Opeth - Deliverance. Here’s one of those “bands firing on all cylinders” albums. Just flawless. Epic. The instrumental prowess is incredible.
ISIS - Celestial what a debut. There wasn’t much like this in 2000. They brought the atmospherics of bands like Mogwai and Bark Psychosis and rolled them up with walls of crushing guitars and otherworldly guttural vocals.
Great analysis and explanation or your choices. I've always like Manowar's Battle Hymns, but not sure if it would make anyone's top ten lists or not.
Manowar is cool, maybe Kings of Metal would be more popular from them
Trouble getting love is such a huge deal. Their early albums have been re-released by Hammerheart Records, "Run To The Light" was re-release by Metal Blade Records last month and the aforementioned Hammerheart re-released the long out of print "Trouble" and "Manic Frustration". My favorite "Plastic Green Head" also from Hammerheart, is peak Trouble. Such an amazing band that not a lot of metalheads know about.
Great list outside of that, can't wait to see more of these!
Yeah ballsy move to put Trouble on the list
@@TreatzTMA why Trouble hasn't gotten love before 2023 (at larger I mean) is a mystery to me. Eric Wagner is gone, but what a legacy he left behind.
I love the lyrics on "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Considered out of context, the lyrics are quite philosophical, their greatness taken to further heights with Bruce Dickinson's huge vocals on that song.
I love that Trouble made your list. I've been a fan since 1985. Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell are amazing. I hear the Trouble influence in Spirit Adrift
Helloween's "The keeper of the seven keys" part 1 is a monumental album for power metal (although "Walls of Jericho" is my favorite). Great stuff, it's always difficult to make a top 10 metal albums list.
Helloween we’re great … but not top ten.
Helloween 🤘🏼👊🏼💯
10. Mors Principium Est - Seven
9. Crimson Glory - Transcendence
8. Entombed - Left Hand Path
7. Ketzer - Satan's Boundaries Unchained
6. In Flames - The Jester Race
5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
4. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
3. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
1. Death - Symbolic
Jester Race, Melissa, Rust in Peace, Symbolic are all personal favorites!
Great List!
Don't have to imagine, I was there. And while I love all this, beginnings of metal and forward, the poster behind you sold me. It was an amazing time to be alive.
Rock on 🤘
What a surprise to see my favorite Maiden album. Caught Somewhere In Time is their best album opener in my opinion and now they're finally doing Alexander live and they sound incredible.
Check out the song Hell on Earth on their latest album Senjutsu. I can not believe they can still make an album like that . Irons up
@@user-qy1uz1iy6q Yeah man got everything of theirs on vinyl. Us Maiden fans are brothers as far as I'm concerned.
@@joshd3192 That is awesome, take care brother.
@@user-qy1uz1iy6q Same to you!
I found the chorus-laden Gallien-Krueger guitar tone to be really weak. Sure, the songs are better crafted than on NotB, but it doesn't have the same level of excitement for me, although I did see them twice on this tour.
Good list, if there was an eleventh pick, for me: it would be Megadeth's Rust In Peace, it's the best technical thrash album of all time, a masterpiece.
I agree
Tornado of souls is monumental
Yeah I was surprised...he didn't put it in
What a fantastic video. Very well done Nate. Great presentation ❤
Thanks!
That's a solid list and I'm stoked to check out a few of them I haven't listened to! My list would include Scorps and Sepultura. Thank you, brother.
Megadeth Rust In Peace Metallica-And Justice For All Slayer-South Of Heaven. Anthrax-Among The Living. Suicidal Tendencies-How Will I Laugh Tomorrow.... Testament-Practice What You Preach. Black Sabbath-Paranoid. Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind. Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance. OverKill-Horrorscope
Cool list man, I like the approach of trying to balance personal taste with historic significance. That seems like a tough thing to do. Mine with just considering personal taste in no irder would probably look something like Sabbath's Paranoid, Priest's Screaming For Vengeance, Maiden's Piece of Mind, Metallica's Ride The Lightning, Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss, Danzig's Lucifuge, Megadeth's Rust In Peace, Death's Symbolic, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, and Deicide's Serpents of the Light
Was just listening to Lucifuge yesterday. He played 4 songs from it the other night, such an incredible album.
Thwrs awesome you saw him the other night. I'm hoping to catch him on this tour too. Seen him a bunch of times, but you never know how much longer he'll go.
GO SEE IT if you can. I’ve seen the old boy 4 or 5 times(?) and this was by far the best. Still on cloud 9 from the quality of the performance and how epic the setlist was.
Great video and I appreciate your breakdown of your choices.
I would be interested to see you put some playlists (mixtape!) together for these kind of videos. Could you narrow it down to one song per album? Challenge...
For this one…
Into the Void
Beyond The Realms of Death
The Wish
Sanitarium
Postmortem
Caught Somewhere In Time
Maze of Torment
Shedding Skin
Where Dead Angels Lie
Where Strides The Behemoth
Great list man, and eerily includes most of the first metal albums I bought as a kid (11 year old in ‘86) although I wouldn’t consider these as the favourite go to records for those artists (eg much prefer Ride the Lightning) - so correct about the impacts of Somewhere in Time, Reign in Blood, Master of Puppets and Alters of Madness, all seminal for the expansion and definition of the metal genre and burgeoning sub-genres at the time.
Would possibly go with alternatives such as Among The Living, Heartwork, Vulgar Display of Power, Arise, Left Hand Path, Coma of Souls, Soul of a New Machine, Toxicity, Crack the Skye, Magma, The Violent Sleep of Reason, and so many new bands but not enough time…
I think Opeth Blackwater Park deserves a place being not just one of the best metal albums ever, but one of the greatest albums ever, period.
Astonishing album! Also, one of the best album titles ever!
It’s really good
Solid list, and want to thank you soooo very much for leading me to Dissection, a band I knew very little about. LOVE that album now after 2 spins. Only criticism of your list would be, IMHO, any Top 10 list like this absolutely needs to have Don’t Break the Oath by Mercyful Fate 😈🤘🏻 One of the greatest albums ever, truly. Also would have put Trouble’s debut vs. The Skull but you do you 🤙🏻😁🎸
Love don’t break the oath but I like Melissa even more I think? And yea the first Trouble album rules as well! Cheers 🤘🏻
Great video and with so many years past and excellent records to pick from these were all worthy contenders (bar Pantera as never been a fan). One that almost matches the aggression of, Slayer's Reign In Blood and released in Metal's golden year of 1986, would be Dark Angel's furious, Darkness Descends. Slayer, being the bigger band at the time, will always comes out on top as the benchmark for extreme music. Reign In Blood still has the capacity to blow other newer extreme albums out the water and all these years later will still piss off the neighbourhood, when played at extreme volumes! Love the Channel \m/
Love Darkness Descends! First track has the ‘One’ double kick pattern as well 😏
Thanks for a little vindication of what mostly would be my top choices would be. I’m always preaching Trouble. I hope I can find that Sabotage figurine set someday
I was curious if you didn't put Motorhead on this list because you consider them more hard rock? Also, if so, have you done a top 10 hard rock list?
I suppose that’s right, yea! It’s certainly not because I don’t love and respect them. I could do a top 10 hard rock list. Sometimes it’s tricky to identify that line
Any suggestions? Looking for metal without growling vocals or silly clean pop-punk vocals. Also no goofy demonic bs. I like Megadeth, Metallica, Sabbath and Sabbaton. Anything else I should look into? N’Sync is too brutal for me. Thx
Great list! I would have chosen ride over puppets, congrats on the new album! It’s definitely in my top 10 this year. Keep doing what you do.
Thank you!
It's such a tricky thing to do a top 10 for a genre that's been around for this long. I probably would've added something metalcore wise from the 90's just because it has proven to be such an important subgenre with a lasting impact. Petitioning the Empty Sky or Expectational Dilution come to mind.
This is actually a pretty good top 10 list. I cant really complain too much. The fact that you mention some of the more influential bands like Celtic Frost, Bathory, Sepultura, Carcass, Death, Possessed, etc that didnt make the list was kind of a cool nod to them. Thats the tough thing about top 10s, some sacrifices must be made.
Also really cool that you mentioned Dissection in the top 10. As much as I love BM bands like Bathory, Emperor, Darkthrone, Inmortal, and even modern stuff like Mgla and The Ruins of Beverast, Dissection is really the cream of the crop. Especially SOTLB, but also The Somberlain and Reinkaos as well.
A couple of honorable mentions that I would add to the list would be Cannibal Corpse (early Hammer Smashed Face era), Opeth, and At the Gates, Slaughter of the Soul.
Cannibal Corpse represents everything that I knew about death metal as a kid back in the day. Those snare pounding blast beats, razor blade guitars, and Chris Barnes' growls. Their album artwork and covers defined the horror/gore death metal genre. Their performance in Ace Ventura is still one of the coolest metal movie moments ever.
Opeth were and are still one of the most unique and groundbreaking bands in metal (though they arent really very metal anymore). Prog mixed with Extreme metal seems like a no brainer these days, with bands like Rivers of Nihil and Ne Obliviscaris, but no one really sounded like Opeth back in 1995 when Orchid was released.
Lastly, At The Gates inspired every metal core band to come out post 1995. That sound is kinda cliche now because its been copied so much. But at the time it was incredibly unique and fresh. A perfect blend of melody and ferocity.
Totally agree with all this, and love every band mentioned.
Cannibal Corpse is the AC/DC of death metal to me. They've managed to stay fresh but never compromised one bit. At all. Definitely the most reliable death metal band, probably the most reliable heavy band PERIOD, alongside Crowbar. Still absolutely crushing live and some of the nicest and best people you could ever meet. Did one tour with them years ago and still miss those dudes every day!
Opeth is one of the best bands of all time. No doubt. Deliverance and Damnation blew my mind when I was about 15 years old and I agree that they influenced a ton of bands that came after.
At The Gates rules and definitely inspired every metalcore and melodic death metal band that came after. That said, In Flames - Jester Race is my favorite melodic death metal album, and that one was tough to leave off this list. Check out Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed if you want to hear the best melodic death metal album since the 90's.
Nice Crowbar name drop Nate! Super underrated band. If you know, you know. But I don't think they (especially Kirk) gets enough credit for being an innovator, and a great song writer. I especially love the Sammy Duet on guitar era of the band. But their whole discography is awesome.
Yes, old In Flames was also very good. I didn't hear about them until the early 2000's so unfortunately they had changed their sound by then. Reroute to Remain is the one I'm thinking of. Not my cup of tea. So it took me a while to realize that their early material was more up my alley, and actually dig into it. And to be honest, I haven't listened to them as much as I should.
Arch Enemy is another band that used to be cool back in the late 90's. Even Wages of Sin with Angela on vocals in about 01-02 was good. After that, they started to change. I respect the hell out of Mike Amott, but can't help thinking, YOU LEFT CARCASS FOR THIS?? LOL. But different strokes I guess.
Thanks for that recommendation of Majesties. I'm always looking for new stuff to dig into. Not sure if you've heard of Insomnium (you probably have) from Finland, but they have been around for a while, and have released some absolutely epic Melodic Death Metal. Winter's Gate is probably my favorite, but all of their music is good.
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Great list. Totally agree with Somewhere in Time being peak Maiden. It's definitely their best sounding album in my opinion. Some of my personal favorites would include
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Pallbearer - Heartless
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Solstice - New Dark Age
Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire
Candlemass - Epicus Doomincus Metallicus
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Rainbow - Rising
et cetera...
And of course, anything by Spirit Adrift! Love the new record. It's in competition with Enlightened in Eternity for my favorite.
The solos were so standout on Somewhere in Time. Very catchy and memorable. Alexander The Great was such an epic piece.
Had to interrupt my headphone session with GaG to just say... Siren of the South's outro gives me an eargasm. Hope to hear it Sunday.
It's interesting what you've said about Dissection. I love SoLB to bits but it always makes me think about if and how you can separate art and artist. Do we have to? Is it possible at all?
Also,
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Amorphis - Tales from a Thousand Lakes
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Opeth - Black Water Park
would also make it to my top 10 👊🏼
I love Scenes from a Memory!
New sub here. I've been into metal since I became self aware 😅 I'm 58. Great list and I agree to most. Around 2014 I slipped into the rabbit hole known as Tool and just now coming out. What got me to come up for air was the new king gizzard album. Just good old fashioned thrash. Fun album they probably coming out with some psych jazz next 😂 Good channel and I'll be watching.
Interesting list, couple of unknowns for me in there. Great video, well described and thought through. My list would differ, I'm drawn to Piece of Mind as my favourite Maiden for example. And I'd have to squeeze Sabbat, the British thrash band in too. PS Your credibility immediately skyrocketed when I noticed that Skynyrd poster on your wall. 😏
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1 Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990)
2 Slayer - Reign in Blood - (1986)
3 Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (1988)
4 Black Sabbath - Master of Reality - (1971)
5 Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)
6 Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992)
7 Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn (2003)
8 Paradise Lost - Draconian Times (1995)
9 At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995)
10 Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (1982)
As The Palaces Burn and Ashes of the Wake are definitely HUGE. Not just for me personally but for the genre. There was a lot of goofball shit going on at that time and they came out whipping ass.
Cool list dude, love all those records
Your list is better than his 👍
I’m more into the extreme side of metal so I would add Incantation - Onwards to Golgotha, Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten, Darktrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Sarcofogo - INRI, Terrorizer - World Downfall, Repulsion - Horrified. Some call the latter two albums grindcore, but it sounds like extreme metal to me. These albums all had a massive impact on the more extreme side of things. Regardless, I agree with all you said about the albums on your list. Thanks! Everyone, have yourselves a nice brutal death metal day!❤
Some great mentions here, I REALLY love Blaze In The Northern Sky. Probably still their strongest album. Finding out Fenriz dug my band was one of the greatest days of my life 😂
Blaze in the northern sky 🤘🤘🔥
Pumped to see Remission on the list...my favorite MasterDong album that doesnt get enough credit for how amazing it is
MasterDong?
Love the wee mention of "Voices of Omens" by Rwake at the end there. Amazing album.
One of my favorites. Will do a top 10 sludge list and that will certainly be on there… though it defies categorization
@@BornTooNate Looking forward to that one. Sludge is one of my favourites genres.
Great list. Heartwork by Carcass, released in 1993, would have to be in mine. It is such a strong album, never gets old, and the mix was great. The tuning down to B sounds beautifully brutal. Mike Hickey once told Guitar World, “Carcass tunes down to B. By that I mean we take a normally tuned guitar and then drop each string down two-and-a-half steps, so they go: B, E, A, D, F#, B, low to high. To counteract the string slackness created by this tuning, we use pretty heavy gauges--.012 to .056, I can't remember the ones in the middle, but the G string's a plain .022. B isn't the most practical tuning in the world, but it's probably the heaviest, and we're stuck with it whether we like it or not!”
Love Heartwork. Groovy, soulful, and brutal in equal measure.
Loooove that Remission made the cut. I would’ve been around 18 when I came across it in 2004. I absolutely thrashed the fuck out of it (along with Heartwork and A Celebration of Guilt by Arsis).
Nice list btw. It’s never an easy task in coming up with just 10!
That's a great list dude. If you had another spot - Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime should be on it, greatest Metal concept album of all time.
Please educate me on what the album in the bottom left at 0:00 is.
Trouble - Psalm 9. A great first-wave doom album
@@BornTooNate ok thx
Great choices! That list for me would have to include Ozzy - Diary of a Madman, Lamb of God - Resolution, Testament - Titans of Creation, and Queensryche - Rage for Order
Hard to argue with this list. Great content, just subscribed.
Cheers!
Awesome to see Dissection named in a greatest of all time list. Rubbing shoulders with the heavyweights and much more well known bands. Storm of the Lights Bane is exceptional and is like extreme metal poetry.
Totally agree. I'm not a metal head but i love Storm of the lights bane. It is pure evil and beautiful 😌
Awesome video bother, been a metalhead since 1980 and embarrassed to say I never heard of Trouble. Will check them out.
They rule!
"Any Maiden album from Killers to Seventh Son".
Great call. Totally agree.
Great list! Great to see Trouble getting some love. I don't know their stuff that well but I've always loved Psalm 9 album.
Great post! (Agree with you on Ride The Lightning,but M.O.P. has Orion!)
A Top 10 is an impossible task
Great choices, and well reasoned. Among my favourite, I would include:
Crimson
Symbolic
Rust In Peace
Rust In Peace is kind of straightforward. Crimson and Symbolic are important for their role on the development of Progressive Metal and how, though extreme, managed to become perhaps even more appreciated outside the Metal community.
Finally got to watch this, been that kind of a work week. I love that you talked about Judas Priest being the first band to self-identify as heavy metal. I've been writing about that for years yet no one seemed to think it matters. It does! To the point that I pick Sad Wings to be the first full on heavy metal album. Stained Class edges it out on my list too, for best. Martin Popoff's book Who Invented Heavy Metal? (2015) is a good read. Master of Reality is my favorite Sabbath, but I thought you were going to pick Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, since you've mentioned it as one of the greatest albums ever a couple times on this channel.
A growing number of people pick Somewhere in Time as Maiden's best, and my 16 year-old self would have been shocked and outraged, because I was extremely disappointed when it came out, between the guitar synths, the extended song lengths, and no contributions from Bruce (though had they let him apparently it would have been acoustic!). It's gradually grown on me, but I still think Piece of Mind is their peak. Did you see them at Moody Center last year? I missed it, but they should announce U.S. Future Past tour dates any day now.
Also love the Trouble love and cool to see the first Mastodon get props.
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is hard rock, not metal. Solid album, but not metal other than the cover art. The number of Sabbath metal songs with Ozzy are only hand full. Iron Man, Children of the Grave, War Pigs
Piece Of Mind is, IMO, THE classic Maiden album. The production is faultless, songs are tighter than a frogs ass, epic album...
@@gianthills Agreed. One could say Sabbath invented many of the elements of heavy metal, but weren't consistently metal themselves until Heaven & Hell.
@@Fastnbulbous1969 true
"but I still think Piece of Mind is their peak" Yep.
Early Savatage, Manowar and king Diamond (Abigail) would need to be on my list.
Would have liked to hear a sample of the songs on the album as you rolled through them. Otherwise great job. I was a senior in highschool in 1986 and everything that year was tremendous.
"Abigail" is a masterpiece! One of my 10 best metal albums.
Hall of the Mountain King rules
Great list. Would love to see sub genre top tens- death, thrash, black, doom.
Thanks! Definitely going to do this, probably in the order that I discovered each subgenre.
53 year old metal head here (new subscriber btw), and I enjoyed your list. These lists are always subjective of course, although I will say you did an excellent job explaining and justifying your picks. Stained Class for example, was a more difficult pick when it would have been easier just to say British Steel or Screaming for Vengeance. Instead, you made the tough choice and gave the rationale. Somewhere in Time also surprised me, but your justification makes sense. Master of Puppets was a really big deal at the time it came out and put thrash on the worldwide map. Even though Kill em' All really started thrash, Puppets really was the unofficial transition from the first generation to the second generation of metal. I personally have always been a bigger Megadeth fan although I cannot deny the impact Master of Puppets had on the world. Unfortunately, to many of us, Metallica ceased being a metal band with the Black Album. I was surprised that Slaughter of the Soul did not make the list. It had a massive impact on the metal world since "mainstream" metal did drift more over to Europe in the 90s, with the exception of Pantera and all the great American Death Metal at that time. Cheers.
"Stained Class for example, was a more difficult pick when it would have been easier just to say British Steel or Screaming for Vengeance. Instead, you made the tough choice and gave the rationale." Easier to say British Steel or Vengeance, for a reason. Because they're way better than Stained Class.
Towards the end there, I started thinking that there should probably be a Meshuggah record on here and the list would be perfect. I respect the Mastodon choice though. Runners up would have to be Obzen or Ashes of the Wake LOG. Cheers!
Those are great picks. From the perspective of a 52 year old raised on metal, it’s hard not to see a Dio album there; especially Rising or Holy Diver. I discovered Spirit Adrift last week. They are awesome. New album is their best, 2 prior are great as well.
Great choices!🤘
Can't argue with any of these, good list. My personal fav is Anthrax "Among The Living", it just hits all the right notes for me, pure goodness I can listen to over and over!
Among the Living is a fantastic album! Scott Ian is beyond crack-speed.
Brother!....Just came across your channel...i absolutely love it...we need more people like you for the Metal community and for UA-cam....Lynyrd Skynyrd!!!!!!🥰
Hell yea. Pre-plane crash Skynyrd is in my top 5 or 10 bands of all time. That 5 album run is unparalleled by any other band.
Very good ranking....i agree with you for most of them.
after years of listening this is my top 10:
1 Iron Maiden: Seventh son of a seventh son
2 Gamma Ray: Land of the free
3 Blind Guardian: Immaginations from the other side
4 Borknagar: The olden domain
5 Opeth: Morningrise
6 Emperor: In the nightside eclipse
7 Moonsorrow: Verisakeet
8 Wolves in the Throne Room: Black Cascade
9 Amorphis: Circle
10 Scorpions: Savage
amusement
special mentions
1 Enslaved: Riitiir
2 Morbid angel: Altar of madness
3 Dark tranquillity: Fiction
Stained glass is the best at illustrating the change of 70s metal to 80s. Stained class was the nail in the coffin for heavy dirty "bluesy" metal🤘
These are the greatest metal albums from lyrics to instrumentality no other has topped these albums.
Stained Class- excellent, underrated album. Best song- Heroe’s End.
Title track!
Stained Class just awesome. Exciter being a prototype for thrash metal back in 1978.
Beyond The Realms of Death, incredible solos.
Good choice
Agreed. Imagine if they had re-recorded Exciter for the Painkiller album...man I wish.
great list, and actually i havent even heard all of these and now i need to go check those out. for me i would have to have an opeth album on there, id want to put watershed but might have to relent and let blackwater park take its place, i would also struggle not to crowbar in nola by down or burn my eyes by machine head somewhere.
I totally agree with your list (you actually introduced me for the first time to a couple of them) but these are I also include to the best and most important:
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Meshuggah - Obzen
Death - Sound of Perseverance
Gojira - From Mars to Sirus
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Tool - Lateralus
All GREAT albums
I give the nod to Vulgar Display Of Power over Far Beyond Driven, it's tighter and sonically superior and Phil over does the screaming on Far Beyond. Really can't argue with any of the other picks, really cool to see Trouble in there! Your list, especially the Meshuggah album, shows a deep knowledge of all things hard and heavy! 🤘
You are SO correct. Well done.
Great to see Trouble mentioned , great band !
Great selections, Disposable heroes is an absolute banger, my humble opinion of course, and Sabbath's Vol.4 is excellent👌
Please do a top Southern Sludge list. Crowbar, Soulfly, Down etc. etc. I will be watching for it. New subscriber here. TIA!
100% gonna do a sludge list!
1. BLACK SABBATH 'Paranoid'; 2. JUDAS PRIEST 'Screaming For Vengeance'; 3. Ozzy OSBOURNE 'Diary Of A Madman'; 4. DIO 'Holy Diver'; 5. METALLICA 'Master Of Puppets'; 6.IRON MAIDEN 'Somewhere In Time'; 7. MEGADETH 'Rust In Peace'; 8. SCORPIONS 'Taken By Force'; 9. DREAM THEATER 'Scenes From A Memory'; 10. QUEENSRŸCHE 'Operation: Mindcrime'.
Solid list. I lived in Tampa and ran a record store during the early-late 90s so I saw all those death metal dudes all the time. I think all of my Christian Death records came from David Vincent when he traded them in to the store one day. I think I'd have to make room for Operation: Mindcrime or Rage For Order by Queensryche, Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations and Crimson Glory - Transcendence on my list.
LTTN is a classic, love that record. Thrash wouldn’t exist without that one.
Stained Class, my all time favorite Priest record
Great list: I would switch Leprosy for Altars of madness, it was more important at the time, and Death also inspired an entire movement (including Altars of Madness). I would switch Far beyond driven for Vulgar display of power, it had a greater impact at the time, we didn't expect that one when it was released! And I would add Rust in Piece it was a tectonic move when it was released. (I'm a bit older so I might have a different perspective)
1st off the new Spirit Adrift album is great. And I definitely agree that Trouble deserves more respect.
Some of my personal favorites in no order:
Alice In Chains-Dirt
Megadeth-Rust in Peace
Katatonia-Tonight’s Decision
Ahab-Call of the Wretched Sea
Carcass-Heartwork
Intestine Baalism-Anatomy of the Beast
Mastodon-Crack the Skye
Alcest-Ecailles De Lune
Enslaved-In Times
Type O Negative-October Rust
Judas Priest-Painkiller
Solitude Aeturnus-Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Cryptopsy-None so Vile
Cattle Decapitation-Monolith of inhumanity
Immolation-Close to a World Below
Motorhead-Overkill
Thank you! KILLER list. Was listening to None So Vile just yesterday to try and survive my 100 degree boxing workout. Nothing as brutal as that to this day.
Dirt is a masterpiece, along with Rust In Peace probably the 2 best metal albums of the 90's.
Amazing top 10 metal albums 🤘
Glad to see mastadon up there. Saw them play at ozzfest during leviathan days. Underrated CD for sure! Blood and thunder a fuckin badass pure metal song
Bro, respect for putting Trouble on here, ridiculous band. So dark and heavy! 🤘
One of the greats! Shout out uncle Jimmy Bower for turning me onto THE SKULL when I was a youngin
Parents in '94: "so let me check this album thats #1 on billboard" 😂 I can only imagine
featuring the hottest pop single Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills
Dude, i thought you had antlers at first.😂😂😂 Great list🤘🤘🤘
It’s just a matter of time until I grow a set… we hang out with a lot of deer out here
Somewhere in Time is my favorite album as well. Good top 10. Sick Annihilation Time shirt too
Thanks! One of my favorite bands
I’d argue that Altars of Madness was super influential on 2nd wave Black Metal. The use of tremolo picking coupled with blast beats and the use of dark synths all were fused together in a very black way one Altars.
solid point
+Death's Human. I consider it something like the Reign in Blood of death metal in the sense that it took death to a whole new level the same way Reign turbocharged thrash. I personally consider it the best extreme metal record. Power, cohesion, flow. And a lot of that magic came from Paul and Sean's contribution. I don't think Chuck quite managed to reach that magic again, as phenomenal as Symbolic is.
I live about a kilometer from where 'Master Of Puppets' was recorded. And 'Ride The Lightning' for that matter.
Strandlodsvej, Copenhagen. The house still stands, although the studio has since moved.
We were just over there trying to find the spot! Couldn’t figure it out.
Just found the channel. Glad I did.
You earned a sub with this one. I don't agree with all of your picks, but I respect your analysis and general thoughtfulness. Also: Fucking Trouble!
Excellent video. I agree for the most part. I would argue instead for Powerslave, Sad Wings of Destiny, and Leviathan over the ones you chose from their respective bands, IMO. I would take out Trouble, as I see it more like an in hindsight underrated album rather than a historic top 10 one, and put one of these instead: Slipknot’s Iowa, Opeth’s Blackwater Park, or Death’s Symbolic. Cheers!
Great choices here, all totally valid alternatives
14. Entombed - Left Hand Path
13. Burzum - Filosofem
12. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
11. Ulver - Bergtatt
10. Baroness- Red Album
9.Mastodon- Leviathan
8. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
7. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
6. St Vitus - Born Too Late
5. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
4. Sleep - Holy Mountain
3. Cynic - Focus
2. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
1. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Great list!
I love that you have many slow albums in top 5 but all of a sudden there's Cryptopsy's None So Vile on the 7th spot
@@bartoszgamrat4848me too lol
Fucking Stained Class 👍 great list Dude
Hey Nate! Nice list! My only disagreement (and it doesn’t matter…) is the comments on Metallica’s lyrics on Damage Inc and also the length of Disposable Hero’s.
That album is a perfect record and there’s a reason it’s preserved in the Library of Congress. Interesting choice for Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere In Time.” A record I love… it’s just an interesting/unexpected pick for this list. I’m digging the new Spirit Adrift! Cheers!
You’re not wrong, those are just the aspects of that album that bug me personally.
Thanks! Glad you dig it.
Feel I need to give some personal shout outs - perhaps some more recent metal records and certainly my most played:
Sepultura - Quadra
Gojira - Magma
Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
Eluveitie - Everything Remains
Tool - AEinma
Rammstein - Untited (2019)
Sabbat - A history of a time to come.
surprised not to see Sepultura Chaos AD on the list, but still very interesting choice