Top 10 Metal Albums

[incubus2432]

These aren't necessarily my favorite albums but they are definitive selections from my collection (some is more loud rock I realize but it's my list). I've somewhat drifted recently from the more "traditional" death/speed metal and have gone for more melody lately.....I'm old and go through phases I suppose.

Pantera-Vulgar Display of Power
Slayer-Reign In Blood
Metallica-Master of Puppets
G&R-Appetite for Destruction
Iron Maiden-Killers
Motorhead-No Sleep til Hammersmith
Tool-Undertow
White Zombie-La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
Mudvayne-L.D.50

(DISCLAIMER....my lists of "favorites" changes constantly so this list may certainly contradict prior statements made in that regard)

[chuck_king]

I am shocked, shocked, by the lack of Judas Priest on these lists.

Just one listing by one person? For Painkiller?

I don't know what all would make my top 10, but it would almost certainly include Unleashed in the East, Screaming for Vengeance, and Point of Entry.

I may be dating myself here.

[incubus2432]

I am shocked, shocked, by the lack of Judas Priest on these lists.

Just one listing by one person? For Painkiller?

I don't know what all would make my top 10, but it would almost certainly include Unleashed in the East, Screaming for Vengeance, and Point of Entry.

I may be dating myself here.

If it was "Top 11" I may have added "Hell Bent for Leather" or "British Steel".

[phlemmy]

Once I post my Judas Priest review, you'll see my hatred towards Painkiller.

I love Priest...pre-81. Sin After Sin and Stained Class could rotate into my top 10, but only on special occasions.

[incubus2432]

OOoooohhhhhh, I forgot about Stained Class (a little mellow but I love Heroes End)....fantastic album. Good call Sean.

For Painkillers I get disinterested after the drum intro.

[nattiep]

What's wrong with Painkiller?! It's better than Turbo.

I'll be looking forward to your review of the Priest.

[incubus2432]

What's wrong with Painkiller?! It's better than Turbo.

....and Turbo is horrendous (IMO). For me, their last acceptable album was Defenders of the Faith. They peaked earlier however.....Point of Entry and earlier almost sounds like a completely different and far better band to me.

[nattiep]

I dunno, Screaming For Vengeance is a near perfect album. That's pretty up there, I just had ta put up the "killer". It's a return to form after the Turbo and Ram It Down (Turbo part two).

[phlemmy]

I'll post my Priest reviews this week. They are generally unpopular.

[nattiep]

I'll post my Priest reviews this week. They are generally unpopular.

I'll post back what I know than. I'm not too familiar with them... I just know a bunch of stuff to sing.

[phlemmy]

Funny that none of mine came after 1987! Some on this list can rotate out from time to time with albums like Metal Church's The Dark or Death's Individual Thought Patterns falling in the mix. The one thing that will always remain true is that Powerslave is my #1.

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Overkill - Feel the Fire
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Megadeth - Peace Sells
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Warlord - Deliver Us
Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching Out
King Diamond - Abigail
Sacred Rite - Is Nothing Sacred?

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So what about your list?

I added an 11th to my top 10:
Arsis - We are the nightmare

[wayang]

1. King Crimson, Lark's Tongues In Aspic
2. King Crimson, Starless And Bible Black
3. King Crimson, Red
4. King Crimson, Discipline
5. King Crimson, USA
6. King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King
7. King Crimson, Lizard
8. King Crimson, The Great Deciever (Live 1973-1974)
9. King Crimson, Frame By Frame: The Essential King Crimson
10. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Clear Spot

Aside from that...Judas Priest??? How can you take a band seriously whose name is something your mom used to scream when she dropped a noodle casserole on the kitchen floor?

I once featured Judas Priest on my radio show, pairing them in one of my staggeringly popular "2-for-1"s with the lamentable John Denver, for something I liked to call "Thank God I'm A Country Boy Screaming For Vengeance"...a completely (on my part)inadvertant 'shout out' to all the 'boys' in the Aryan Brotherhood...

A small portion of what's been labelled 'metal' is pretty good stuff, but most of it is crippled by the notion that more volume is an adequate disguise for being a bonehead...

[nattiep]

Too much hate for Priest in here now.

[TheVolumeDealer]

Here's my top ten for now, it will change in ten minutes (not sure if they all qualify as metal but ...)

1.) Paranoid (black sabbath)
2.) Highway to Hell (AC/DC)
3.) Holy Dive (Dio)
4 .) Stained Class (Judas Priest)
5.) Piece of Mind (iron maiden)
6.) ....and Justice for all (Metallica)
7.) Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (black Sabbath)
8.) All the worlds a stage (Rush)
9.) Unleashed in the East (Judas Priest)
10.) Black Out (Scorpions)

Up the irons

[paologregorio]

I am shocked, shocked, by the lack of Judas Priest on these lists.

Just one listing by one person?

I was about to say the same thing.

I'm also surprised not to see the first Motley Crue album, no matter what they did afterwards. I would think that "She's got the Looks that Kill" alone would qualify that recroding. No takers?