I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.

It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.

I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.

  • Classy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Random albums that come to mind:

    Hatebreed — Concrete Confessional or Supremacy
    Pantera — Vulgar Display of Power
    Alice in Chains — Dirt (yes I group it in with metal)
    Gorguts — Obscura
    Cannibal Corpse — Torture
    Deftones — Diamond Eyes
    GODFLESH — A World Lit Only By Fire
    Godsmack — debut or Oracle
    Lamb of God — Ashes of the Wake
    Mayhem — Daemon
    Chimaira — Impossibility of Reason
    Nine Inch Nails — anything before Bad Witch tbh

  • FanciestPants@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Did a quick scroll and didn’t see:

    Smash - The Offspring

    I’m not going to claim that it was ground breaking music or anything, but it just dropped at a time when it was able to hit maximum nostalgia for me.

    • voodoocode@feddit.orgEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Smash

      While I agree thats a great, if not the best Offspring album, this thread is from the Metal community, so not a good fit :)

  • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago
    • Paysage d’Hiver - Winterkälte
    • Immortal - Battles in the North
    • Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
    • The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure
  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Hmmmm that’s tough.

    And I don’t think I can properly rank them because I’m weird about ranking things. But:

    Master of Puppets
    Somewhere in Time
    …And Justice for All
    Appetite for Destruction
    Fate of Norns

    That would do for top 5, yeah.

    After that,

    Dimmu Borgir, In Sorte Diaboli
    Kataklysm, Goliath
    Dio, Holy Diver Pantera, Vulgar Display Metallica, 72 seasons

    Yeah, I think that’s a solid list based on a combination of just liking the albums and the fact that I prefer to listen to them in their entirety rather than limiting myself to a few songs off of them.

    Which, I could probably do 20 by that standard, and more than that if I included metal adjacent albums/bands like ac/dc. You know, the ones that ride right on that edge between metal and hard rock.

    And, truth is, when it comes to Metallica and Amon Amarth, all of their albums are like that at least sometimes. Like, the load/reload albums aren’t where I always want to hear the whole album, but I often do. Same with Maiden there.

    I’m not saying I don’t have favorite songs off of those albums, I do. It’s just that I always want to hear the rest after I hear those lol. Justice and Master in specific, it’s hard to not want to enjoy them the way i first heard them, with the songs flowing into one another as the album plays.

  • herrcaptain@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I’m assuming we’re just talking about metal albums, given the community.

    Here’s my top 3:

    1. Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale

    2. Draconian - Under a Godless Veil

    3. Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow is Forced into the Light

    Doom and related genres have always been my fave when it comes to metal, but I used to also listen to a lot of thrash and power metal. These days it’s pretty much all stuff that is doom or goth-ish.

    • Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.orgOP
      0·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, that Trees of Eternity album is excellent. I tend to prefer the Doom:VS stuff a little bit over the Draconian stuff, but both are great.

  • con_fig@programming.dev
    English
    0·
    2 months ago

    Don’t have a list but I do have one that I think is a perfect album, Colors - Between the Buried and Me.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    1. Between The Buried and Me - Colors

    2. Mr. Bungle - California

    3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

    4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

    5. The Dear Hunter - Act III

    6. The Dear Hunter - Act II

    7. Eyedea & Abilities - First Born

    8. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

    9. The Ocean - Pelagial

    10. Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb

    • sinkingship@mander.xyzEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know about the other artists, but why remove Mr Bungle? In my opinion they’re metal af!

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        California isn’t! Lol. I mean there’s heavy parts of air conditioned night are and goodbye sober day but all in all, it’s a pretty bright album.

        • sinkingship@mander.xyzEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          I see, you’re referring to that specific album. It’s just that extremely experimental including all kinds of sounds and styles that it seems very difficult to say what genre it is.

          Thank you for that small interaction, it lead me to change my last night’s plans, getting my headphones out and listen to Mr Bungle and other Mike Patton bands like FNM and Fantomas. Was a great night!

          In case you didn’t know, there are some badass recordings from earlier days or cut together tapes like this one.

          • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            2 months ago

            Check out Peeping Tom. That was a fun project, and more recent than the rest afaik.

            I actually got to see Patton and Bungle perform My Ass Is On Fire very recently. They e been touring again if you weren’t aware!

            • sinkingship@mander.xyzEnglish
              0·
              2 months ago

              Thank you!

              I’ve been listening to Perping Tom before, so far they haven’t caught me as much as the heavier bands. However, today I started the first time listening actively to Mondo Cane and really like it.

              I guess they started touring after releasing The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny again?

              Anyway, this man is a powerhouse! I am very thankful that he dedicates his life for so, so many great projects!

  • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Dream Theater — Metropolis Part 2 is the best metal album ever written and I’ll die on the hill.

    There are albums I like more, albums I definitely listen to more, but if we’re talking overall quality Metropolis pt 2 is an absolute masterpiece.

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    In alphabetical order . Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
    . Leaves Eyes - Vinland Saga
    . Manowar - Louder than Hell
    . Metallica - Metallica (black album)
    . Moonsorrow - Voimasta ja Kunniasta
    . Nightwish - Wishmaster
    . Sabaton - Art of War
    . System of a Down - Toxicity
    . Wintersun - Wintersun
    . Within Temptation - Mother Earth

    • Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.orgOP
      0·
      2 months ago

      The Wintersun self-titled has had surprising staying power for me. I wouldn’t consider it something that’s squarely in my wheelhouse, but I still love it after… damn, that album is 20 years old…

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        The album is packed full of good songs, such as Starchild, Death and the Healing, and Sadness and Hate.

        but I still love it after… damn, that album is 20 years old…

        Obviously, we’re both getting old ;-)

  • Mezmer1zed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    1/2. both Acid Bath albums

    1. Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer

    4/5. Khanate - Khanate/Things Viral

    6-9. Black Sabbath - first 4 albums

    1. Gorguts - Obscura
        • Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.orgOP
          0·
          2 months ago

          Right on. I feel like with them it’s one of those deals where there is no wrong answer. Both albums are so good it makes complete sense why someone might like either one over the other. I go for Paegan… myself, but When the Kite String Pops is still pinnacle level stuff.

          • Mezmer1zed@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            2 months ago

            Agreed. As far as I am concerned, both perfect albums, or as close as anything can get. WTKSP has my favorite tone/vibe, but Grave Flower is my favorite song. Like you said, no wrong answer. Except maybe not digging Acid Bath.

  • Technus@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    I grew up downloading songs a la carte and now I use services like Spotify and YouTube Music, so I never paid much attention to albums as a whole.

    But there’s a couple of standouts for me, albums I have listened all the way through multiple times, and they’re both from Iron Maiden:

    • Rock in Rio live, 2001

    Most of my life, I thought concerts were stupid because I’d only been to ones at like, the county fair, with shitty country music from amateur cover artists on blown out speakers and surrounded by drunk and rowdy rednecks.

    This is the album that convinced me that live shows were worth seeing. In my opinion, this is the gold standard for live albums. I’ve never seen any other band with so many in their discography, and it makes me wish that other bands released more. But it makes sense: Iron Maiden has always been a show band first, and a studio band second.

    The crowd has the perfect amount of presence in the mix. Someome took the time to make sure you can always hear them, adjusting the levels so that they never drown out the band and vice versa. And you can feel how large the audience is. And they’re total putty in Bruce’s experienced hands.

    It inspires a real sense of community that I’ve come to crave from live shows, even as an introvert, and it helped kick off a life-long addiction.

    • Brave New World, 2000

    I think we can all agree that almost every album has a weak track or two. One that’s just boring or doesn’t fit with the rest, that seems just kind of thrown in.

    Not this album.

    This album heralded the triumphant return of lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith after 7 and 10 years, respectively.

    It’s the first album with the full-bodied, punchy Iron Maiden sound that I’ve come to love. Instead of firing Janick Gers to make room for Smith, they just said “fuck it, let’s have three guitarists,” and it fucking works. And they still have the same lineup almost a quarter century later.

    Not every song is iconic, but they’re all enjoyable, and several of them would end up being staples of their setlists going forward. (They also played many of them at Rock in Rio as part of the supporting tour.)

    It’s not explicitly a concept album, but it very nearly works as one. And the album art is actually really fucking cool (Iron Maiden’s album art is admittedly hit or miss cough Dance of Death cough).

  • Noo@jlai.luEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Not in order and from the top of my head.

    • Paul Chain, Park Of Reason
    • Devin Townsend, Ocean Machine: Biomech
    • Korn, Issues
    • Type O Negative, Bloody Kisses
    • Arcturus, The Sham Mirror
    • pootsforjesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Ocean Machine is such a clutch album. One of my favorite non-SYL Townsend albums, along with Punky Brüster.

    • Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.orgOP
      0·
      2 months ago

      Love that Arcturus album. Probably my favorite of theirs, though Aspera Heims… has my favorite guitar solo of all time on it, so I waffle on that sometimes.

      • Noo@jlai.luEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        Yes that’s a strong contestant for me as well :)

    • Classy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Fuck yeah, not enough Type O fans out there. Bloody Kisses and October Rust battle it out in my mind for top position

      • ZC3rr0r@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        What about World coming down or Life is killing me? I find the album’s that document the band and Peter’s struggles easier to connect with at an emotional level than the previous - admittedly great - albums where it sometimes felt like the band was intentionally parodying the goth scene.

  • Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.orgOP
    0·
    2 months ago

    Alright, Top 13 for me, because 13 and this is what I could figure well enough and be satisfied with right now. Ordering subject to roughly change somewhere around fifth slot depending on what mood I’m in on any given day, but these are solid mainstays in my rotation (most of them for decades at this point). Doesn’t reflect how broad my interests go, but you can see that I gravitate a lot toward black metal, and I favor stuff that isn’t afraid to be its own thing. Weird is good. Non-metal albums removed though there are a couple in my top 10 if I weren’t being genre specific.

    1. Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
    2. Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
    3. Murmuüre - Murmuüre
    4. Emptiness - Not For Music
    5. The Skaden - You Will Hope I Had Died
    6. Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
    7. Samael - Eternal
    8. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
    9. Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
    10. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
    11. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
    12. Rotting Christ - Khronos
    13. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone