Blackwater Park by Opeth is not only my favourite prog/metal album, it's my favourite album ever... The combination of the death and black metal with jazz, folk, blues, and that little bit of classical in there makes for an absolutely stunning experience front to back. It's just so drenched in melancholy, rage, and darkness in this beautifully ethereal way. To this day, I am yet to find a piece of music that can rival this... Edit: Besides Ghost Reveries, Of course, because Opeth are masters of their craft, in my honest opinion...
The Number Of The Beast was a super controversial album, gave shock value to the people who didn't understand it, and has amazing tracks, plus it has one of the greatest songs ever made: Hallowed Be Thy Name
Maiden is my favorite metal band but if I was picking a Maiden album it would be Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, followed by Brave New World, Powerslave, and Piece of Mind. The Number of the Beast is a great singles album, but it also has some of the worst songs from their golden era.
Maiden was my first favorite band. Somewhere in time. The solos and dueling guitars in the title track still hit me hard today. So many good bands and albums to list.
@@jeremyr1528black sabbath black sabbath Hawkwind Space ritual live liverpool iron maiden iron maiden couldnt choose one We sold our soul for Rock n roll Sabbath. Too
For me its either Ashes Against the Grain or The Mantle, both by Agalloch. These were the albums that got me into the genre beyond the basic dad metal. The atmosphere, and emotion in the lyrics is phenomenal.
Mine is also the Mantle. Was funny I was thinking of what mine would be while watching the video, took the video out of full screen and saw this comment - pretty wild!
Ride The Lightning will always be my favorite. It was my first real introduction into the world of metal and it showed me how great solos can really be.
My favourite album is Shadow of Intent’s Melancholy. The dark horror themed concept, the melodies, the catchy choruses, the riffs, the insane drumming, the orchestral elements and the vocals are all just a masterclass. Nothing tops it for me.
From Mars to Sirius by Gojira for me. Besides all the beautiful riffs that LITERALLY take you on another planet, all the aggression and the quiet and peaceful moments, man, the lyrics are just insane. It's the best concept album ever for me, it tells about its story and our planet's story, but also OUR personal life. I think that often lyrics in metal albums are just underrated.
Yes! 🤩 The song *The Art of Dying* is out of this world, in every possible aspect. 🤯😮 I also love *Language* by The Contortionist, the album is a musical masterpiece objectively. I’ll have to check out some of the other albums talked about in the video though.
First saw them touring with periphery for P3. They stole the show and changed my outlook on music from that day forward. I’ve always wanted to see them do their 3 hour set
And justice for all…is my favorite. The crunchy riffs, the drumming, vocals, solos all are so good. When I finally discovered the songs with bass included it was like falling in love with the album all over again
AJFA is the most fun to listen to out of all Metallica albums. The riffs, the complexity of songs, the tone, the vocals, even the drums are a strongpoint.
Mine's Architects Holy Hell. It opens my vision of how modern metal sounds after I was kinda tired of listening to just a certain band over and over again and wanted something different. Also Tom's passing gave another level of meaning to this album for me.
I’d have to say Queensrÿche’s Operation Mindcrime. I was exposed to a lot of their music growing up seeing as they are my dad’s favorite band, but this album was one of the first ones I listened to all the way through. Definitely a masterpiece
1. Follow the reaper - Children of Bodom 2. Still life - Opeth 3. The sound of perseverance - Death 4. Wintersun - Wintersun 5. Somwhere in time - Iron Maiden
For me it has to be metropolis 2 scenes from a memory. It just really opened my eyes to a different level of musicianship and conceptual scale. I still think it’s one of the most epic records ever made period.
Definitely one of the best concept albums of all time, along with the skill to either make you want to learn an instrument, or quit the instrument you currently play.
Favorite metal album is still Master of Reality. Ever track is a banger and it heavily defines so much of what metal blossomed from and what made Black Sabbath such a high influence for most metal musicians. Honorary mentions go to Megadeth's Rust In Peace and Human by Death.
3:47 woow what a deep choice! (Disillusion has ~11k monthly listeners on spotify btw) One of my favorite as well. My go to song would be though "the sleep of restless hours".
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that one. Killer EP. I honestly don't even remember how I came across it years ago, but it's always stuck with me as being a great listen from start to finish.
Van Halen 1 is the best rock album of all time, IMO. It completely changed rock guitar forever. The fact that Eddie was only like 23 when it was released is crazy. Fucking incredible.
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked. 11/10, everything is just perfect about that album. I listened to that album so many times I can sing along with every guitar lead and lyric, and air drum all the drums. Undisputed number one for me! \m/
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. That album slaps HARD! The riffs are all super memorable, the singing is extremely dramatic, and really sells the fantastical lyrics. The drumming is pretty inventive for a genre that usually doesn't have that varied drumming compared to other metal, but HOLY SHIEET, the solos! Adrian Smith is SUCH an underrated guitarist, and I'm really sad that more peple don't acknowledge him. Since Dave is the guitarist that has been with Maiden the longest, he is usually the guitarrist mentioned, but make no mistake, Adrian is just as good, if not better, and that says a LOT. Listen to the solo sections on the title track of Powerslave, and Seventh son. Adrian and Dave take turns to solo, and they are all amazing. I can probably find albums that I like as much, if not more, depending on my mood ( Rust in peace, Metropolis part 2, Images and words, Periphery 2, Language, Periphery 1, The Odessey by Symphony X, Master of Puppers, etc.) but Seventh Son is the one that has been with me the longest, and the one I can listen to on repeat for hours on end, without getting bored. My dad showed me Can I Play With Madness?, and The Evil That Men Do when I was six or seven, and those songs gave me an extreme love for rock and metal, that later made me want to pursue music. Ironically those two are the songs on the album that I like the least, but they are still both awesome songs
I own the original cd, listened to it on my car after some years and it's an AWESOME masterpiece. The mixing and the arrangement, together with the concept, make this album one of the best heavy metal album ever made.
Lost Forever // Lost Together by Architects for me. Literally shaped and defined a genre. The construction of each song was so different to past metalcore. Tom and Dan were just concocting the most intricate sections. I think Sam pushed himself with the sing screams. Along with Sam’s vocals, I think the production was insane; a lot of really cool synth and post work on the guitars to really build an atmosphere. Start to finish; no song is skippable.
Master of Puppets. The harmonies, the melodies, the riffs, the lyrics! Sanitarium's intro. MoP interlude (which is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard) Cliff's bass on Orion. Just a tight album and a masterpiece.
for me it would be "the sound of perseverance" or "symbolic" by death, the first is how i discovered death and is a masterpiece but the second theres the song symbolic is very important to me because in a way it described how i felt at the time, and the lyrics, the vocals and the melodies are just perfect to me and i've never found a similar feel in any band, it's really sad that chuck schuldiner died this young
Absolutely did not expect to see Conquering Dystopia on here. I wouldn't say it's my top, but it is one of those albums that's songs are constantly on my mind, even when listening to other artists. I'm just thinking I just want to hear that part again! from Autrarch's outro, Destroyer's legatos/sweeps, the entirety of Kufra and Ashes... yeah Paula said it best, it's just so technical and heavy.
The first metal album that paved for me the way to all those wonderfull gems of metal was Judas Priest "Painkiller" - the song painkiller, actually. As if you'd be flying with the notes of the guitar - faster than a lazer bullet :)
In MY SILENT TIME OF LOSING, MY SKIN IS was COLD when I heard 10's by Pantera in Broly the legendary super saiyan movie, I thought "is it metal? I WANT MORE OF IT!" And it's how I got in metal🤘
Back to Times of Splendour by Disillusion is a masterpiece. Was really surprised by that mention, because the band isn't super well known. For me, it's super hard to pick, but if I have to really single out just one album, I'd say *Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor* . That album is as close to perfection as I've ever encountered.
Respect to Justin for choosing such an underrated album as Disillusion - Back to the Times of Splendor. Damn, it's so hard to find anybody who has ever heard of that!
For Real Man!! I Heard "Fall" On A cable Music Channel. I was Blown away. Took me a Year to find the Album. Got that One and Sybreed's First Release at Best Buy... Back To The Times!! 🤘
I was listening to the album Gloria earlier this year out of nostalgia. Fast forward to just a few minutes ago seeing this video and hearing Justin mention this band was bloody shocking to say the least.
for me it's Kill 'em All, I just LOVE the energy and pure fun that album (and most early 80s speed metal) has, ALL of the songs are bangers, also it takes me back to my little teenage years, it's just perfect for me
Seeing a lot of older albums mentioned which is obvious, we all have a special place for the music we grew up with and what shaped our love of metal, but for me it might be amore recent release in The Sin and the Sentence by Trivium. It has the perfect mix of screaming and melodic vocals for my taste, the song writing is great, the drumming is INSANE while still being musical. It's all around an incredible album and was the first one to come to mind for me.
Ritual by The Black Dahlia Murder is one of my favorite albums ever, heard it for the first time back in 2012 and was hooked on BDM since. TBDM really drove my taste in music and what I was looking for, all the melody with story lyrics and brutal passages, solo after solo, tight rhythm and just bang your head energy.
It's difficult... But for me, I'll have to go with the following: Black Sabbath's self titled might be for me the greatest metal album ever made. I have yet to come to an album that sounds as evil and haunting as that record. Still a masterpiece. Type O Negative's October Rust, Architect's Holy Hell, Tool's 10,000 Days and Megadeth's Rust in Piece are honourable mentions.
The title track was one of the first riffs I ever learned on guitar as a kid. So simple, so haunting. Still one of my favorite metal songs ever. Such a amazing start to the music we all love. I was so fascinated by the cover art when I was a kid. That's what pulled me in initially. Over the years I grew to love Vol 4 a bit more tho which is probably my favorite metal album.
I felt the same way abt Black Sabbath's self titled for years... and then I found Electric Wizard's album Dopethrone. It was everything I loved abt Sabbath but taken to such an extreme that it almost feels like a parody. Try listening to Funeralopolis.
Heard so many albums that i would consider masterpieces from front to back, but Midian by Cradle of filth was really the one that is engraved in my soul. Every song paints such a vivid picture, that is rarely seen in music in general.
My favorite album is and always will be Nocturnal from Black Dahlia Murder. Listen to them over 20 years now and they still put out awesome music. RIP Trevor
My favorite has to be Slaughter of the Soul by At the Gates. Even as the stuff I've got into has gotten way harder or weirder, Slaughter of the Soul hasn't lost its edge or grown softer with time like so many other Gothenburg albums did. It's the album I would use to introduce anybody to death metal but also the one I can bond with any metalhead over. Just unassailable.
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor is probably my favorite metal album. Insane musicianship, incredible singing and lyrics, songwriting is a masterclass on each song but also as a whole album each song is perfectly placed. Almost 20 years later and it still blows my mind how good it is.
Nevermore are still such an underrated band, I was obsessed with them during high school. Dead Heart and Dreaming Neon Black are probably both in my top 10 list
The poison by BFMV. Great album, amazing all the way through, its got the solos, the breakdowns, the insane choruses, the riffs, the drums, all of that album is awesome.
I expected to see mostly OG bands and did not expect to see Volumes yet they were the first to come to mind for me as well. It was a tough decision but I think I'm one of the few that likes No Sleep more than Via though.
Blackwater Park from Opeth will always be my number 1. It's the band that got me into death metal vocals, and the music moved me in ways I'd never imagine
Mine without a doubt is Rust In Peace. That album is just amazing, i love the speed, i love how heavy it is, and i love the fact that none of the songs are that easy to play on any of the instruments, i like the challenge, and this album is a challenge. I also love the bass track on all the songs. My favorite song goes to holy wars... The punishment due. From the moment the song starts, to the end i feel the adrenaline rush, and ready to kill (not literally) but i do, and i either play Doom eternal, or play bass, until i hurt myself
Slipknot by Slipknot. Even though i got into metal through Linkin park and Rammstein. At around 10 or 11 years old hearing Slipknot got me so hooked i cant even explain through words. That was just pure eargasm. Whenever i needed release for my anger, Surfacing did the trick.
I did not expect “The Way of All Flesh” in this video. That caught me off guard cause a lot of people kind of dislike that album. Mainly for the deep cuts but that album is so good.
@@mochimitsu7 that’s what I said. I was watching some Gojira album tier list videos for a video I did and everyone put that record at like C or D which I thought was crazy because that record is amazing.
So hard to pick just one. Im leaning towards Trivium - in the court of the dragon though. It just has everything i want from a metal album. It got me so hyped on release.
For me, it’s Deicide by Deicide. The OSDM sound, along with the fast, chaotic riffs, the rawness of Glenn Benton’s voice, and the sound effects, along with the voice effects too makes this album my favorite
Have to truly appreciate the range in bands and the dates in which these came out. Metal has come a long way for sure. My favorite album ever may have to be The Fall of Hearts by Katatonia.
My favorite Metal Album is Ghost Reveries by Opeth and my favourite track is The Baying of The Hounds, it showed me that music is more than just music, it's the whole experience. Honour Mentions: Linkin Park's Meteora; Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare; Angra's Angels Cry; Death's The Sound of Perseverance; Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos; In Flames' Whoracle; Children of Bodoom's Follow The Reaper.
Saaaameee it is so hard to choose just one album, but Ghost Reveries has some of my favorite tracks, I listened to it so much, my fav is Beneath the mire, such an amazing and powerful solo, when Mikael screams "MASTER" its just peak metal for me, got chills thinking about it hahaha
This has been possibly my favorite video from the Mansion Uploads. You were great, Bradley. Been following you for a while so it was cool seeing you thrown into the bunch. You're roast bit at the end had me in stitches. I'm American by proxy but my humor is very British lol.
These has been my top five albums for quite some time: 1. Opeth - Blackwater Park 2. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk 3. Agalloch - The Mantle 4. Trivium - Shogun 5. Dream Theater - Images & Words
@@sanny8716 It's relevant because the video is about people's favorite albums. I did a top five because it's hard to pick just one because my favorite changes all the time, but it's always one of these five albums.
That Disillusion Album Is Amazing!!! People Slept On That Masterpiece...Awesome Album!! 🤘🤘 There's A Band Called Dessiderium. The New Album "Aria" ....It Is Great as Well.
To me, its probably 10.000 days by Tool. I discovered them when I was 16, and being a metalhead all my life, their approach to music shook my whole vision of what music can be.
My favourite metal album would have to be Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden. It was the first fully fledged metal album I heard when I was a kid and so it has stuck with me since then.
Man, I listened to Back To Times Of Splendor looong ago once when I was in mid school and I thought it was waay ahead of anything I've listened. Unfortunately I forgot the name of the album and the band, so I lost the track of it, until today. You've reunited me with this masterpiece once again. Thank you so much.
As I was watching the beginning of this I was thinking to myself "If i was ever famous enough to answer this question, I'd say Parkway Drive - Horizons" because only those that were present at the time can remember how influential and utterly mind blowing it was. Near flawless from start to finish and I've never seen an album rise to the pinnacle of a genre so rapidly. It was a true 'modern classic' at the time. It also reset the landscape of metalcore at the time in terms of melodic metal and technicality mixed perfectly with heaviness and breakdowns that have quite possibly never been topped. No album is 'perfect' but for me Horizons is about as close as you can get in the genre. And to think it was just a bunch of self proclaimed 'non-metal surfer guys' from a previously unknown town in Australia is whats most amazing. I was thinking all this to myself before Angel Vivaldi dropped Horizons as his choice. I was 110% no expecting that at all, my jaw dropped.
I wasn't expecting anyone to say Horizons and my jaw literally hit the floor when Angel said it. A truely incredible album that I wish I was old enough to experience at the time.
Opened up a pit to Boneyards at warped tour in 2010 and god my nose rightfully broken. Did that stop me? Nah, it made the pit so much better. I’m 30 now and it has never healed the same lmao
One of my favorite metal albums I’d say would be Periphery 1. I feel like this album often gets ignored and people only enjoy a few tracks on or but for me there’s something about the all around atmosphere, groovy ass riffage, the switching between vocals, great sounding leads, insane drumming, and much more.
Cannot pick just one album and cannot make a short list to save my life, so I will base my picks on some of the albums I have listened the most in my life, off the top of my head. In no particular order: - Metallica - Ride The Lightning - Death - Symbolic - Black Sabbath - Paranoid (could have put half of their discography here) - Candlemass - Nightfall - Judas Priest - Painkiller - Wintersun - Wintersun - Ensiferum - Ensiferum - Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse - Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (again could have put half of their discography here, really) - Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain - My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans - Swallow the Sun - New Moon - Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale - Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion - Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell - Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die - Paradise Lost - Obsidian - Therion - Lemuria - Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor - Obscura - Akróasis - King Diamond - The Eye - Ihsahn - After - Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse - Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane - Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler - Thy Catafalque - Meta - Triptykon - Melana Chasmata - Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh - Hypocrisy - Abducted
we literally have the same taste with some slight additions lmao. only thing I’d add is Watching From a Distance by Warning. My favorite doom album by far
One of my favorites is Images and Words. It sounds so happy, carefree and effortlessly technical and idiosyncratic.... There hasn't been anything similar to it in prog metal ever since.
My personal favorite would be Deep Blue by Parkway Drive. I think it's the peak of Metalcore perfection, from the riffs, breakdowns, production wise and it's SLAPS from start to finish. Incredible.
My favourite album of all time - "Ocean Machine" by Devin Townsend. I didn't think that music could touch so deeply before. His approach to making music and attitude to life are very close to me and if I wanted to become a musician I would like to become Devin Townsend.
1. Powerslave - Iron Maiden 2. Tyranny of Souls - Bruce Dickinson 3. High 'n' Dry - Def Leppard 4. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin 5. Holy Diver - Dio
@@michaellochlann4797 Agree. I like melodic metal. I can't get into modern death metal or anything where it just sounds like screaming and banging on pots. Van Halen, Metallica, Megadeth, Dio, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dream Theatre...my kinds of metal, most of which I can get my friends to listen to as well.
Animals As Leaders - The Madness of Many This album basically changed my taste in music. Heavy and still some of the most technical things I've ever heard.
Of the picks, Language is the one that resonates with me the most. I was pondering my own favorite metal album, and it crossed my mind a few times for how special it is. It's a big change for the band, and it has such a meditative quality to it, at least for me. It was my drive-to-work album for a while because it helped me to enter a headspace that got me through the stressful shifts. But I think for me it has to be Crack the Skye by Mastodon. It's such a masterful album that shows their technicality and complexity in their songwriting at its apex, and it manages to cover such a wild range of emotions. It also hit at a very critical time in my life, and that makes it so special for me. Honorable mentions all over the place, like Iron Maiden's Powerslave, BTBAM's Colors, Darkwater's Calling the Earth to Witness, Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime, and plenty more. It's so hard to pick a favorite.
'Island' by Asunojokei and 'Boris at Last -Feedbacker-' by Boris are my two favorite metal albums ever. They are both super underrated. 'Island' is one of the most innovative black metal albums I have ever heard and 'Boris at Last' is just one of the most chaotic things I have ever heard.
3:48 The only record I wasn't familiar with before watching this video, now can't stop listening to it. Thanks for sharing this! Also, never heard of Justin Bonitz, got to check him out now!
Subliminal Verses has gotta be my favorite. Slipknotwas so metal compared to anything else I had heard when they got popular. I love slipknot and that album is probably the first heavy album I ever heard.
Probably my favorite Slipknot record! I like their first two a lot because let’s be honest, is controlled chaos at its best, but this record just hits different. It marked their sound so much you can still hear some of Vol 3 in their newer music. Circle is definitely my favorite song in that record
I believe my favorite album of all times, in terms of the number of times I listened to it on auto-repeat on my portable tape player (aka "walkman"), is Slaughter of the Soul by At The Gates (1995). I also got to see them twice in small venues in Paris (in 1996 I guess), before they disbanded.
My favorite album is Galneryus's Angel of Salvation. Not only were every single songs from that album performed with virtuosity in mind, the guitar tone is also very iconic to me. The ESP Crying Star with Seymour Duncan JB, going into the Diezel VH4 boosted by a Maxon OD808 and Xotic BB Preamp...that album really had the BEST guitar tones IMHO.
I put 90% of these in a playlist and it gives me fond memories of my teenage years - some great choices by these people and so hard for me to pick just 1, but it's gotta be either Infinite // Unknown by Carcer City, Deliver Us by Darkest Hour, or Noir by Novelists. All 3 are perfect front to back
Colors by BTBAM is my no.1 pick. It's heavy, it's melodic, it's comedic, it's perfect. In short, it's BTBAM. I could easily choose Parallax II or The Great Misdirect or Colors II and the description would still fit perfectly.
Cool to get a lot of different answers. Impossible to nail down how metal moves and flows within genres. I loved "Horizons" when it was released, as if I couldn't love Angel anymore than I already do! Lol. My favourites personally though? It's a toss up between "Leading Visons" by Gorod and "Symbolic" by Death. RIP being Rudy's favourite is nice and Sophie coming in with P2? My friends love that album.
probably battle cry by omen or cowboys from hell by pantera. but, i have a reason, cowboys from hell is the album that got me into metal as a whole. battle cry is just beautiful, it has great choruses and JD Kimballs voice is so raw and just beautiful. i love them. edit: OH MY GOD SUNFYRE I KNOW HER
Also Justin Bonitz!! I know Tallah's getting bigger, but it warms my heart seeing him in stuff like this. Genuinely one of my favorite modern artists, Hungry Lights is fucking stellar
If I had to pick one... Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche. The concept. The vocals. The grooves. The leads. The hooks. Its just so fucking good. Honorable mentions: Christ 0 by Vanden Plas. Ride The Lightning and Rust In Peace cant go without mentioning either. Also, since AiC and Soundgarden are sometimes labelled alt metal: Dirt and Badmotorfinger.
I guess it's technically two, but I can't separate them, so I'm gonna say Keeper of the Seven Keys by Helloween. There are bands I like more than them overall, but I can't single out one album from those. As far as just one album goes, this is perfection.
That's a great one! They truly set a bar high for Power Metal bands. "Halloween" still being one of my favorite metal songs (and I recommend it as an entry point for the opera fans if you know any, worked on my mother lol)
Thanks for the video. I never heard some albums, so i go for it immediatly ^^ ps : i started with Disillusion Back to times of splendor, i took a giant slap in my head !!
What did you think of everyone's picks? And what is YOUR favorite Metal album??
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There are so many albums that I love, I can't decide. 🤘
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sunfyre saying sidewinder was her favourite legit made my day. that song is incredible and doesn't get the recognition it deserves
that song is fucking insane i love the acoustic outro
Sidewinder made me love avenged sevenfold
Such a great song. I can’t believe they’ve never played it live.
@@Talonglowmr sm64 guy
@@snazzythesnaz wait do you actively watch my shit?
Blackwater Park by Opeth is not only my favourite prog/metal album, it's my favourite album ever...
The combination of the death and black metal with jazz, folk, blues, and that little bit of classical in there makes for an absolutely stunning experience front to back. It's just so drenched in melancholy, rage, and darkness in this beautifully ethereal way. To this day, I am yet to find a piece of music that can rival this...
Edit: Besides Ghost Reveries, Of course, because Opeth are masters of their craft, in my honest opinion...
It's the poor man's Tiamat.
I like Morningrise and Orchid much more than Blackwater Park, I think they are more sincere
Brother the is my favorite Pantera album to
@@Kashtayev sincere as in, they had no clue what they were doing
@@Kashtayevfr blackwater was just too nickelback for me
The Number Of The Beast was a super controversial album, gave shock value to the people who didn't understand it, and has amazing tracks, plus it has one of the greatest songs ever made: Hallowed Be Thy Name
THE PRISONER!!!
One of those albums that just gets better with every song, Hallowed could be the best Heavy Metal song ever made
Maiden is my favorite metal band but if I was picking a Maiden album it would be Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, followed by Brave New World, Powerslave, and Piece of Mind. The Number of the Beast is a great singles album, but it also has some of the worst songs from their golden era.
Maiden was my first favorite band.
Somewhere in time.
The solos and dueling guitars in the title track still hit me hard today. So many good bands and albums to list.
@@jeremyr1528black sabbath black sabbath Hawkwind Space ritual live liverpool iron maiden iron maiden couldnt choose one We sold our soul for Rock n roll Sabbath. Too
For me its either Ashes Against the Grain or The Mantle, both by Agalloch. These were the albums that got me into the genre beyond the basic dad metal. The atmosphere, and emotion in the lyrics is phenomenal.
same!! both amazing albums I can't choose between them
I loved The Mantle as a kid.
Two of the best albums ever!
Ashes Against the Grain all the way man, that album takes me to a different place.
Mine is also the Mantle. Was funny I was thinking of what mine would be while watching the video, took the video out of full screen and saw this comment - pretty wild!
We better be getting something big from this gathering
jared dines shred collab type shit probably
I was thinking that. How did they end up in the same house?
@@tboj Someone ordered a pizza with every UA-cam metal content creator as a topping, and this what was was in stock.
Obviously.
Yep pay to play... :)
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Ride The Lightning will always be my favorite. It was my first real introduction into the world of metal and it showed me how great solos can really be.
Same for me
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pure Metallica thrash!!
A lot of MetallicA fans would say Master of Puppets, I'm glad we are here think Ride the Lighting is the favorite, rock on bros ❤️
My favourite album is Shadow of Intent’s Melancholy. The dark horror themed concept, the melodies, the catchy choruses, the riffs, the insane drumming, the orchestral elements and the vocals are all just a masterclass. Nothing tops it for me.
Shadow of intent is just such a monster of a band 🤘
Mine too
Pfp checks out. What a great album.
absolutely
Fall of ideals is one of the most underrated metal records of all time. Such a perfect record.
It's my number 2 behind wrath by log
I remember when i first was exposed to This Calling. it was a new epoch of my life
I personally think their album before that was better. And that's saying a lot, because I also think Fall of Ideals is amazing.
To this day its top 5 metalcore albums of all time
I'm so happy Nik feels that way because it is also my favorite metal album of all time.
From Mars to Sirius by Gojira for me. Besides all the beautiful riffs that LITERALLY take you on another planet, all the aggression and the quiet and peaceful moments, man, the lyrics are just insane. It's the best concept album ever for me, it tells about its story and our planet's story, but also OUR personal life. I think that often lyrics in metal albums are just underrated.
Yes! 🤩
The song *The Art of Dying* is out of this world, in every possible aspect. 🤯😮
I also love *Language* by The Contortionist, the album is a musical masterpiece objectively.
I’ll have to check out some of the other albums talked about in the video though.
If From Mars to Sirius had the same sound as The Way of All Flesh, it would be PERFECT.
BASED that album is peak
@@eviekai The Art of Dying is not in From Mars to Sirius btw
@@CrappycrapCrappy yes ty, I know my Gojira.
Language is a BRILLIANT album! Seeing The Contortionist live changed me.
Hopefully this will happen to me someday
yeah man i've seen them live a couple times and each performance they kinda always stole the show.
I really want them to come to the UK
First saw them touring with periphery for P3. They stole the show and changed my outlook on music from that day forward. I’ve always wanted to see them do their 3 hour set
Man i was not expecting to see Disillusion on here. Their new album Ayam is crazy good!
Very rare that someone mentions Disillusion! Such an underrated band! Very good album! :)
And justice for all…is my favorite. The crunchy riffs, the drumming, vocals, solos all are so good. When I finally discovered the songs with bass included it was like falling in love with the album all over again
If only it was mixed well 😐
Dude same.
I never realized bass was missing till all the nerds hated on it.
Killer from beginning to end
Cannot blame you for choosing AJFA, great choice indeed
100%. When I was younger it was MOP but the older I got the more I realized that front to back AJFA is just a gem.
AJFA is the most fun to listen to out of all Metallica albums. The riffs, the complexity of songs, the tone, the vocals, even the drums are a strongpoint.
1) Blackwater Park
2) R.I.P.
3) Ride the⚡️
4) Follow the Reaper
5) Powerslave
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This is the most based opinion I've ever seen
Based
You left out a certain 1988 album with the pink cover
great list
This… this is a good list
Mine's Architects Holy Hell. It opens my vision of how modern metal sounds after I was kinda tired of listening to just a certain band over and over again and wanted something different. Also Tom's passing gave another level of meaning to this album for me.
I’d have to say Queensrÿche’s Operation Mindcrime. I was exposed to a lot of their music growing up seeing as they are my dad’s favorite band, but this album was one of the first ones I listened to all the way through. Definitely a masterpiece
The Warning better.
Listened to it today again, that is a perfect album.
@@Bellathor You should watch Operation Live crime. Great performance of the entire album.
My daddy loves operation mindcrime. I think it's cool but a bit silly tbh. Reminds me of him a lot tho
Queensryche is awesome.
1. Follow the reaper - Children of Bodom
2. Still life - Opeth
3. The sound of perseverance - Death
4. Wintersun - Wintersun
5. Somwhere in time - Iron Maiden
Any mentions of Somewhere in Time gets my upvote heh
Follow the Reaper is a diamond. The solo on Kissing the Shadows is still in my top 3
@@veiddimaddur8354 the solo on everytime i die is amazing aswell and a little different from the usual alexi laiho solo
That's a great list
Primary School taste
For me it has to be metropolis 2 scenes from a memory. It just really opened my eyes to a different level of musicianship and conceptual scale. I still think it’s one of the most epic records ever made period.
easily the best DT record
Metallica got me into Metal, DT's SFAM made me pick up the guitar and Opeth really made me appreciate extreme vocals.
@@tornoutlaw opeth is like one of the only extreme vocals I like. A lot of other extreme vocals sound generic to me
Definitely one of the best concept albums of all time, along with the skill to either make you want to learn an instrument, or quit the instrument you currently play.
Rush has heavier songs than any Dream Theater song and Rush isn’t called metal. I’m not sure how Dream Theater was ever classified as metal.
Disillusion love ❤️ Their last one was my AOTY 2022. Ayam is simply amazing from start to finish.
Favorite metal album is still Master of Reality. Ever track is a banger and it heavily defines so much of what metal blossomed from and what made Black Sabbath such a high influence for most metal musicians.
Honorary mentions go to Megadeth's Rust In Peace and Human by Death.
3:47 woow what a deep choice! (Disillusion has ~11k monthly listeners on spotify btw)
One of my favorite as well. My go to song would be though "the sleep of restless hours".
got the chills when that popped out of nowhere. still my all-time favourite over two decades now
Yeah, I wasn't expecting that one. Killer EP. I honestly don't even remember how I came across it years ago, but it's always stuck with me as being a great listen from start to finish.
van halen 1 is criminally underrated. not a single bad song and one of the most consistent albums i’ve ever heard
Van Halen 1 is the best rock album of all time, IMO. It completely changed rock guitar forever. The fact that Eddie was only like 23 when it was released is crazy. Fucking incredible.
Yeah not metal so Dines defeats the purpose of the video as usual.
Ah. So Van Halen is now underrated.
@@dragonballfanscantread2383heavy metal 🤘
Van Halen II has a lot more Metal in it than their first album does! Check D.O.A or Light Up The Sky.
Either Iron Maiden's self titled debut album, or Ride the Lightning. I used to love Paranoid as well
great choices, ive always liked pauls vocal over bruces
@@mgrillo2863 it's always the second album man
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked. 11/10, everything is just perfect about that album. I listened to that album so many times I can sing along with every guitar lead and lyric, and air drum all the drums. Undisputed number one for me! \m/
Yah, that's a solid pick.
Cast down the heretic is one of the most face melting songs of all time I love that album so much. Karl Sanders leads are so expressive as well
@@Goose21 the leads on that song are the best in the game and awesome to play air guitar to :D
Annihilation was peak Nile and peak DM in general
Man that album changed my fuckin life, changed my entire taste in music, Nile is still my favorite band because of it.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. That album slaps HARD! The riffs are all super memorable, the singing is extremely dramatic, and really sells the fantastical lyrics. The drumming is pretty inventive for a genre that usually doesn't have that varied drumming compared to other metal, but HOLY SHIEET, the solos!
Adrian Smith is SUCH an underrated guitarist, and I'm really sad that more peple don't acknowledge him. Since Dave is the guitarist that has been with Maiden the longest, he is usually the guitarrist mentioned, but make no mistake, Adrian is just as good, if not better, and that says a LOT. Listen to the solo sections on the title track of Powerslave, and Seventh son. Adrian and Dave take turns to solo, and they are all amazing.
I can probably find albums that I like as much, if not more, depending on my mood ( Rust in peace, Metropolis part 2, Images and words, Periphery 2, Language, Periphery 1, The Odessey by Symphony X, Master of Puppers, etc.) but Seventh Son is the one that has been with me the longest, and the one I can listen to on repeat for hours on end, without getting bored.
My dad showed me Can I Play With Madness?, and The Evil That Men Do when I was six or seven, and those songs gave me an extreme love for rock and metal, that later made me want to pursue music. Ironically those two are the songs on the album that I like the least, but they are still both awesome songs
This exactly. Favorite Iron Maiden album by a long mile, one of the most underrated of theirs for sure.
I own the original cd, listened to it on my car after some years and it's an AWESOME masterpiece. The mixing and the arrangement, together with the concept, make this album one of the best heavy metal album ever made.
Great album! But for some reason I like Somewhere in Time the most.
My favorite maiden album!!
Hey Justin, thanks for the tip about Disillusion, what an album!
Lost Forever // Lost Together by Architects for me. Literally shaped and defined a genre. The construction of each song was so different to past metalcore. Tom and Dan were just concocting the most intricate sections. I think Sam pushed himself with the sing screams. Along with Sam’s vocals, I think the production was insane; a lot of really cool synth and post work on the guitars to really build an atmosphere. Start to finish; no song is skippable.
Master of Puppets. The harmonies, the melodies, the riffs, the lyrics! Sanitarium's intro. MoP interlude (which is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard) Cliff's bass on Orion. Just a tight album and a masterpiece.
The song master of puppets is just such a great piece itself.
It’s in a vault for a reason, legendary
Back To Times of Splendour is life changing, Justin has an absolute great taste!
I much prefer their last two albums, actually. They're basically flawless and don't get nearly enough credit or recognition.
@@DraugrGrog Ayam is an absurd achievement too. It was my favorite of last year.
Just found out about it and it's incredible. Excited to give it a listen in full!
The fact that it's their debut album is just incredible! Still remember the first time i spin it!
for me it would be "the sound of perseverance" or "symbolic" by death, the first is how i discovered death and is a masterpiece but the second theres the song symbolic is very important to me because in a way it described how i felt at the time, and the lyrics, the vocals and the melodies are just perfect to me and i've never found a similar feel in any band, it's really sad that chuck schuldiner died this young
Great pick, RIP Chuck
The Sound of Perseverance is most definitely not a masterpiece.
YES! Both of them are masterpieces. Death is the GOAT
@@dragonballfanscantread2383 then what is ??
@@limul97
From Death's discography?
I wouldn't call it a masterpiece but Human is Death's best work.
Absolutely did not expect to see Conquering Dystopia on here. I wouldn't say it's my top, but it is one of those albums that's songs are constantly on my mind, even when listening to other artists. I'm just thinking I just want to hear that part again! from Autrarch's outro, Destroyer's legatos/sweeps, the entirety of Kufra and Ashes... yeah Paula said it best, it's just so technical and heavy.
The first metal album that paved for me the way to all those wonderfull gems of metal was Judas Priest "Painkiller" - the song painkiller, actually. As if you'd be flying with the notes of the guitar - faster than a lazer bullet :)
In MY SILENT TIME OF LOSING, MY SKIN IS was COLD when I heard 10's by Pantera in Broly the legendary super saiyan movie, I thought "is it metal? I WANT MORE OF IT!" And it's how I got in metal🤘
I didn’t have Sophie as a Periphery fan either but that made me super happy. I love P2.
And Nik just spitting facts as always
Oli really did write some of the catchiest riffs and solos. The dude was a guitar virtuoso for sure.
Back to Times of Splendour by Disillusion is a masterpiece. Was really surprised by that mention, because the band isn't super well known. For me, it's super hard to pick, but if I have to really single out just one album, I'd say *Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor* . That album is as close to perfection as I've ever encountered.
Such an underrated album, Nevermore are great and TGE is one of the goats
Got both Fall of Ideals and P2 back-to-back. Two perfect albums. Also, didnt expect Austin to be that big of a Contortionist fan.
Respect to Justin for choosing such an underrated album as Disillusion - Back to the Times of Splendor. Damn, it's so hard to find anybody who has ever heard of that!
For Real Man!! I Heard "Fall" On A cable Music Channel. I was Blown away. Took me a Year to find the Album. Got that One and Sybreed's First Release at Best Buy... Back To The Times!! 🤘
And their last two albums are both masterpieces, I can't thank angrymetalguy enough for this amazing discovery !
what a recommendation, it rips!
I was listening to the album Gloria earlier this year out of nostalgia.
Fast forward to just a few minutes ago seeing this video and hearing Justin mention this band was bloody shocking to say the least.
I'm listening to it now for the first time
It's good but if I'm being honest it kinda just makes me wanna listen to Be'Lakor lol
for me it's Kill 'em All, I just LOVE the energy and pure fun that album (and most early 80s speed metal) has, ALL of the songs are bangers, also it takes me back to my little teenage years, it's just perfect for me
Happy 30th b-day, Kill 'Em All!
Hit the lights is such a dope opening track
It really was a turning point and revolutionary. :)
@@allofmars 40th🙂🤘
@@boa1678 Woah, that's right
Seeing a lot of older albums mentioned which is obvious, we all have a special place for the music we grew up with and what shaped our love of metal, but for me it might be amore recent release in The Sin and the Sentence by Trivium. It has the perfect mix of screaming and melodic vocals for my taste, the song writing is great, the drumming is INSANE while still being musical. It's all around an incredible album and was the first one to come to mind for me.
Ritual by The Black Dahlia Murder is one of my favorite albums ever, heard it for the first time back in 2012 and was hooked on BDM since. TBDM really drove my taste in music and what I was looking for, all the melody with story lyrics and brutal passages, solo after solo, tight rhythm and just bang your head energy.
It's difficult... But for me, I'll have to go with the following:
Black Sabbath's self titled might be for me the greatest metal album ever made. I have yet to come to an album that sounds as evil and haunting as that record. Still a masterpiece.
Type O Negative's October Rust, Architect's Holy Hell, Tool's 10,000 Days and Megadeth's Rust in Piece are honourable mentions.
Cheers mate! Black Sabbath’s self titled is a masterpiece and also my favorite metal album of all time
October Rust is a fantastic pick
The title track was one of the first riffs I ever learned on guitar as a kid. So simple, so haunting. Still one of my favorite metal songs ever. Such a amazing start to the music we all love. I was so fascinated by the cover art when I was a kid. That's what pulled me in initially. Over the years I grew to love Vol 4 a bit more tho which is probably my favorite metal album.
Holy hell and 10000 days were the first two coming up in my mind when thinking about my favorite metal albums!
I felt the same way abt Black Sabbath's self titled for years... and then I found Electric Wizard's album Dopethrone. It was everything I loved abt Sabbath but taken to such an extreme that it almost feels like a parody. Try listening to Funeralopolis.
My absolute favorite is Operation: Mindcrime - Queensrÿche
Same
Heard so many albums that i would consider masterpieces from front to back, but Midian by Cradle of filth was really the one that is engraved in my soul. Every song paints such a vivid picture, that is rarely seen in music in general.
My favorite album is and always will be Nocturnal from Black Dahlia Murder. Listen to them over 20 years now and they still put out awesome music. RIP Trevor
My favorite has to be Slaughter of the Soul by At the Gates. Even as the stuff I've got into has gotten way harder or weirder, Slaughter of the Soul hasn't lost its edge or grown softer with time like so many other Gothenburg albums did. It's the album I would use to introduce anybody to death metal but also the one I can bond with any metalhead over. Just unassailable.
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor is probably my favorite metal album. Insane musicianship, incredible singing and lyrics, songwriting is a masterclass on each song but also as a whole album each song is perfectly placed. Almost 20 years later and it still blows my mind how good it is.
Nevermore are still such an underrated band, I was obsessed with them during high school. Dead Heart and Dreaming Neon Black are probably both in my top 10 list
Yeahhh dude my favorite as well it is a masterpiece of an album. Listened to it 1000 times and never gets old 🤘
Heard that album for the first time about 3 or 4 years ago. First band I ever heard to compete with how much I loved Symphony X
Some of the sickest riffs on that album
That album is a masterpiece from beginning to end. I haven't heard it in a while but still remember each song. The album cover is amazing too.
The poison by BFMV. Great album, amazing all the way through, its got the solos, the breakdowns, the insane choruses, the riffs, the drums, all of that album is awesome.
I expected to see mostly OG bands and did not expect to see Volumes yet they were the first to come to mind for me as well. It was a tough decision but I think I'm one of the few that likes No Sleep more than Via though.
+1 agreed! Volumes probably most listened band on my library. I’d take no sleep as well lol. Dudes are great at writing bangers for sure.
Volumes have a great blend of groove, heaviness and technicality. I don't think they've released anything bad.
Blackwater Park from Opeth will always be my number 1. It's the band that got me into death metal vocals, and the music moved me in ways I'd never imagine
Mine without a doubt is Rust In Peace. That album is just amazing, i love the speed, i love how heavy it is, and i love the fact that none of the songs are that easy to play on any of the instruments, i like the challenge, and this album is a challenge. I also love the bass track on all the songs. My favorite song goes to holy wars... The punishment due. From the moment the song starts, to the end i feel the adrenaline rush, and ready to kill (not literally) but i do, and i either play Doom eternal, or play bass, until i hurt myself
Wasn't expecting Back to times of splendor to be cited. Phenomenal album, top of the 2004 class along Orphaned Land's Mabool.
Slipknot by Slipknot. Even though i got into metal through Linkin park and Rammstein. At around 10 or 11 years old hearing Slipknot got me so hooked i cant even explain through words. That was just pure eargasm. Whenever i needed release for my anger, Surfacing did the trick.
My favorite is hands down Human by Death. Such a heavy album, and Sean Reinert's work on it made such a massive impact on the drumming world.
So based no way i’m listening to it rn
fuck yea death rules
Amazing album. Chuck was a genius!
took drumming to a whole new level and chuck is the god of metal
My second fav album!
I did not expect “The Way of All Flesh” in this video. That caught me off guard cause a lot of people kind of dislike that album. Mainly for the deep cuts but that album is so good.
How can people dislike it? It's literally Gojira's best album. It's an absolute masterpiece.
@@mochimitsu7 that’s what I said. I was watching some Gojira album tier list videos for a video I did and everyone put that record at like C or D which I thought was crazy because that record is amazing.
@@mochimitsu7It's a masterpiece. Gojira's best album is still From Mars to Sirius though.
Agree with the other comments. The Way of All Flesh and From Mars to Sirius are their best albums. How can anyone dislike TWOAF?
So hard to pick just one. Im leaning towards Trivium - in the court of the dragon though. It just has everything i want from a metal album. It got me so hyped on release.
For me, it’s Deicide by Deicide. The OSDM sound, along with the fast, chaotic riffs, the rawness of Glenn Benton’s voice, and the sound effects, along with the voice effects too makes this album my favorite
Shoutout to Justin for bringing up Disillusion. One of my favourite Bands, only 4 LPs released in 20 years.
We we're playing with them on a Festival in Germany few weeks ago. Didnt Know they are so Well knows outside of Germany
Have to truly appreciate the range in bands and the dates in which these came out. Metal has come a long way for sure. My favorite album ever may have to be The Fall of Hearts by Katatonia.
Someone else that loves the Fall of hearts? Never thought I'd see the day
Godlike album, my favourite from Katatonia
My fave from them is Discouraged Ones
My favorite Metal Album is Ghost Reveries by Opeth and my favourite track is The Baying of The Hounds, it showed me that music is more than just music, it's the whole experience.
Honour Mentions: Linkin Park's Meteora; Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare; Angra's Angels Cry; Death's The Sound of Perseverance; Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos; In Flames' Whoracle; Children of Bodoom's Follow The Reaper.
My favourite Opeth track too. Finally someone who has it over Ghost of Perdition or the other ones.
Saaaameee it is so hard to choose just one album, but Ghost Reveries has some of my favorite tracks, I listened to it so much, my fav is Beneath the mire, such an amazing and powerful solo, when Mikael screams "MASTER" its just peak metal for me, got chills thinking about it hahaha
Still Life for me.
This has been possibly my favorite video from the Mansion Uploads. You were great, Bradley. Been following you for a while so it was cool seeing you thrown into the bunch. You're roast bit at the end had me in stitches. I'm American by proxy but my humor is very British lol.
These has been my top five albums for quite some time:
1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
3. Agalloch - The Mantle
4. Trivium - Shogun
5. Dream Theater - Images & Words
Why are y'all posting top5s? This isn't even a video about top5s...
@@sanny8716because we feel like it
@@sanny8716 It's relevant because the video is about people's favorite albums. I did a top five because it's hard to pick just one because my favorite changes all the time, but it's always one of these five albums.
@@phobixthething5692 Just seems kinda out of place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@sanny8716 becaue people want to
It's definitely Sepultura's Beneath the Remains. RIFFS everywhere. The perfect album: 10/10.
Arise better.
@@stephenhughes5156Beneath the remains is better, Arise is too polished
That Disillusion Album Is Amazing!!! People Slept On That Masterpiece...Awesome Album!! 🤘🤘 There's A Band Called Dessiderium. The New Album "Aria" ....It Is Great as Well.
To me, its probably 10.000 days by Tool. I discovered them when I was 16, and being a metalhead all my life, their approach to music shook my whole vision of what music can be.
My favourite metal album would have to be Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden. It was the first fully fledged metal album I heard when I was a kid and so it has stuck with me since then.
A classic choice 👍🏼
Man, I listened to Back To Times Of Splendor looong ago once when I was in mid school and I thought it was waay ahead of anything I've listened. Unfortunately I forgot the name of the album and the band, so I lost the track of it, until today. You've reunited me with this masterpiece once again. Thank you so much.
That Album Is Still Great!! Underrated As Hell. People Slept On That Album!!
As I was watching the beginning of this I was thinking to myself "If i was ever famous enough to answer this question, I'd say Parkway Drive - Horizons" because only those that were present at the time can remember how influential and utterly mind blowing it was. Near flawless from start to finish and I've never seen an album rise to the pinnacle of a genre so rapidly. It was a true 'modern classic' at the time. It also reset the landscape of metalcore at the time in terms of melodic metal and technicality mixed perfectly with heaviness and breakdowns that have quite possibly never been topped. No album is 'perfect' but for me Horizons is about as close as you can get in the genre. And to think it was just a bunch of self proclaimed 'non-metal surfer guys' from a previously unknown town in Australia is whats most amazing.
I was thinking all this to myself before Angel Vivaldi dropped Horizons as his choice. I was 110% no expecting that at all, my jaw dropped.
I wasn't expecting anyone to say Horizons and my jaw literally hit the floor when Angel said it. A truely incredible album that I wish I was old enough to experience at the time.
Hell yeah. I think it’s my number 1 as well.
Opened up a pit to Boneyards at warped tour in 2010 and god my nose rightfully broken. Did that stop me? Nah, it made the pit so much better. I’m 30 now and it has never healed the same lmao
One of my favorite metal albums I’d say would be Periphery 1. I feel like this album often gets ignored and people only enjoy a few tracks on or but for me there’s something about the all around atmosphere, groovy ass riffage, the switching between vocals, great sounding leads, insane drumming, and much more.
Cannot pick just one album and cannot make a short list to save my life, so I will base my picks on some of the albums I have listened the most in my life, off the top of my head. In no particular order:
- Metallica - Ride The Lightning
- Death - Symbolic
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid (could have put half of their discography here)
- Candlemass - Nightfall
- Judas Priest - Painkiller
- Wintersun - Wintersun
- Ensiferum - Ensiferum
- Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
- Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (again could have put half of their discography here, really)
- Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
- My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
- Swallow the Sun - New Moon
- Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
- Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
- Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
- Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
- Paradise Lost - Obsidian
- Therion - Lemuria
- Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
- Obscura - Akróasis
- King Diamond - The Eye
- Ihsahn - After
- Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
- Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
- Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
- Thy Catafalque - Meta
- Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
- Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
- Hypocrisy - Abducted
we literally have the same taste with some slight additions lmao. only thing I’d add is Watching From a Distance by Warning. My favorite doom album by far
ashes against the grain 👌🏻 one of my favorites
One of my favorites is Images and Words. It sounds so happy, carefree and effortlessly technical and idiosyncratic.... There hasn't been anything similar to it in prog metal ever since.
My personal favorite would be Deep Blue by Parkway Drive. I think it's the peak of Metalcore perfection, from the riffs, breakdowns, production wise and it's SLAPS from start to finish. Incredible.
My favourite album of all time - "Ocean Machine" by Devin Townsend. I didn't think that music could touch so deeply before. His approach to making music and attitude to life are very close to me and if I wanted to become a musician I would like to become Devin Townsend.
1. Powerslave - Iron Maiden
2. Tyranny of Souls - Bruce Dickinson
3. High 'n' Dry - Def Leppard
4. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
5. Holy Diver - Dio
Excellent choices
Shoutout to Jared for Van Halen 1. Van Halen got me in to metal without me realizing it was metal.
@@michaellochlann4797 Agree. I like melodic metal. I can't get into modern death metal or anything where it just sounds like screaming and banging on pots. Van Halen, Metallica, Megadeth, Dio, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dream Theatre...my kinds of metal, most of which I can get my friends to listen to as well.
Van Halen is closer to hard rock though
Animals As Leaders - The Madness of Many
This album basically changed my taste in music. Heavy and still some of the most technical things I've ever heard.
hell yeah. so dope VIA is getting love. I miss the old volumes lineup
Of the picks, Language is the one that resonates with me the most. I was pondering my own favorite metal album, and it crossed my mind a few times for how special it is. It's a big change for the band, and it has such a meditative quality to it, at least for me. It was my drive-to-work album for a while because it helped me to enter a headspace that got me through the stressful shifts.
But I think for me it has to be Crack the Skye by Mastodon. It's such a masterful album that shows their technicality and complexity in their songwriting at its apex, and it manages to cover such a wild range of emotions. It also hit at a very critical time in my life, and that makes it so special for me.
Honorable mentions all over the place, like Iron Maiden's Powerslave, BTBAM's Colors, Darkwater's Calling the Earth to Witness, Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime, and plenty more. It's so hard to pick a favorite.
'Island' by Asunojokei and 'Boris at Last -Feedbacker-' by Boris are my two favorite metal albums ever. They are both super underrated. 'Island' is one of the most innovative black metal albums I have ever heard and 'Boris at Last' is just one of the most chaotic things I have ever heard.
Island was my aoty that year. From front to back, that album put a smile on my face.
Both of these are amazing picks
Island is a great pick but I wouldn't say underrated, it only just came out last year
Boris are by no means underrated, quite the opposite, it’s just that they are overlooked by most
Island AOTY of that year for sure! Awesome to see that mentioned here. Amazing show as well recently!
vh 1 is among the best albums i've ever heard, the riffing, the groove, the solos, the drumming, everything on that record is amazing
Oh damn, Back to Times of Splendor was an unexpected surprise. It's definitely in my all time best list.
Wow, Disillusion - Back To Times of Spendour is an amazing album, highly under-rated imo. 🤘
Damn haven’t heard that one in a long time!!
Each person has different tastes and opinions which must be respected. I loved the video. 🖤🤘
❤❤
Metalheads apparently can't grasp that concept at all 😂
Noooo ! You can only have objective correct opinions and tastes! Poser!
@@WoockerSocket2 Lol, many but not all.
@@XiaSalax thanks Sherlock!
3:48 The only record I wasn't familiar with before watching this video, now can't stop listening to it. Thanks for sharing this! Also, never heard of Justin Bonitz, got to check him out now!
Did you check Justin out
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Oh, Disillusion was such a nice pick. One of The best for me definitely!
Subliminal Verses has gotta be my favorite. Slipknotwas so metal compared to anything else I had heard when they got popular. I love slipknot and that album is probably the first heavy album I ever heard.
Probably my favorite Slipknot record! I like their first two a lot because let’s be honest, is controlled chaos at its best, but this record just hits different. It marked their sound so much you can still hear some of Vol 3 in their newer music. Circle is definitely my favorite song in that record
I believe my favorite album of all times, in terms of the number of times I listened to it on auto-repeat on my portable tape player (aka "walkman"), is Slaughter of the Soul by At The Gates (1995). I also got to see them twice in small venues in Paris (in 1996 I guess), before they disbanded.
My favorite album is Galneryus's Angel of Salvation. Not only were every single songs from that album performed with virtuosity in mind, the guitar tone is also very iconic to me. The ESP Crying Star with Seymour Duncan JB, going into the Diezel VH4 boosted by a Maxon OD808 and Xotic BB Preamp...that album really had the BEST guitar tones IMHO.
I put 90% of these in a playlist and it gives me fond memories of my teenage years - some great choices by these people and so hard for me to pick just 1, but it's gotta be either Infinite // Unknown by Carcer City, Deliver Us by Darkest Hour, or Noir by Novelists. All 3 are perfect front to back
Colors by BTBAM is my no.1 pick. It's heavy, it's melodic, it's comedic, it's perfect. In short, it's BTBAM. I could easily choose Parallax II or The Great Misdirect or Colors II and the description would still fit perfectly.
Cool to get a lot of different answers. Impossible to nail down how metal moves and flows within genres. I loved "Horizons" when it was released, as if I couldn't love Angel anymore than I already do! Lol. My favourites personally though? It's a toss up between "Leading Visons" by Gorod and "Symbolic" by Death. RIP being Rudy's favourite is nice and Sophie coming in with P2? My friends love that album.
Exoplanet by the Contortionists is in my opinion one of the best albums ever. The Contortionists as a whole just have a brilliant and emotional sound.
I was really hoping Language would make the cut! That’s so cool to see
The solo in "Ice Cream Man" is absolutely one of my favorite solos of all time! Seriously. Top 5, easy.
probably battle cry by omen or cowboys from hell by pantera. but, i have a reason, cowboys from hell is the album that got me into metal as a whole. battle cry is just beautiful, it has great choruses and JD Kimballs voice is so raw and just beautiful. i love them.
edit: OH MY GOD SUNFYRE I KNOW HER
Also Justin Bonitz!! I know Tallah's getting bigger, but it warms my heart seeing him in stuff like this. Genuinely one of my favorite modern artists, Hungry Lights is fucking stellar
Oh props for the The Way of All Flesh and the “Sidewinder” shoutouts. 🤘🏼
If I had to pick one... Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche. The concept. The vocals. The grooves. The leads. The hooks. Its just so fucking good.
Honorable mentions: Christ 0 by Vanden Plas. Ride The Lightning and Rust In Peace cant go without mentioning either. Also, since AiC and Soundgarden are sometimes labelled alt metal: Dirt and Badmotorfinger.
All fine choices!!
I guess it's technically two, but I can't separate them, so I'm gonna say Keeper of the Seven Keys by Helloween. There are bands I like more than them overall, but I can't single out one album from those. As far as just one album goes, this is perfection.
That's a great one! They truly set a bar high for Power Metal bands.
"Halloween" still being one of my favorite metal songs (and I recommend it as an entry point for the opera fans if you know any, worked on my mother lol)
Thanks for the video. I never heard some albums, so i go for it immediatly ^^
ps : i started with Disillusion Back to times of splendor, i took a giant slap in my head !!
Nik always keeps it real. Respect.