Quote from: RyanWreck on January 11, 2012, 09:00:59 PM
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/RyanWreck/ryanwrecks_50_favorite_metal_albums_ever___wip_
Your favorites? Comments? Ideas? Metal discussion in general is welcome.
Plenty of great releases listed but also stuff that from my point perspective is more cool and fun than anywhere close to essential (like Executioner and Virus), and on the other hand many unsurpassable classics are missing. Also I think bands like Bathory, Onslaught and Slayer improved a lot from their debuts on the subsequent records. My own taste leans towards deathrash and (today) the listing might start something like this:
Autopsy "Mental Funeral"
Burzum "Hvis lyset tar oss" or "Filosofem"
Carcass "Symphonies of Sickness"
Celtic Frost "To Mega Therion"
Dark Angel "Darkness Descends"
Death "Scream Bloody Gore"
Entombed "Left Hand Path"
Exodus "Bonded by Blood"
Iron Maiden "Piece of Mind" or "Powerslave"
Judas Priest "Painkiller"
Kreator "Pleasure to Kill"
Mayhem "De mysteriis dom sathanas"
Metallica "Ride the Lightning"
Possessed "Seven Churches"
Sadus "Illusions"
Slayer "Hell Awaits"
Voivod "Dimension Hatröss" (or "Nothingface" or "Killing Tech")
And so much more...Sepultura, Sodom, Destruction, Bathory, Assassin, Deathrow, Morbid Angel, Accept, Candlemass, Repugnant, Pestilence, Rainbow, Darkthrone, Grotesque, Repulsion, Grave, Motörhead, Exciter, Obituary ("Slowly We Rot" only!) and so forth. To my horror I have noticed that in this ripe age I have learned to tolerate Mercyful Fate to some degree. I have these two metal (of death) axioms that 1) all the best metal records are made by youngsters (max. 21 years) and 2) USA bands = debut is the best record, Euro bands = record no. 2 or 3 is the best.