Metal Reviews

Hmm? Try to limit yourself to just one. .

I've mentioned this on several threads in the past, but Neutral Milk Hotel-In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. How unmetal of me.

Rush - Power Windows.

How un-metal of me as well.

Everything about the album is amazing. The Production is intense. The songs are dense as the black forest. The sognwriting has never been better. Simply put it combines my love for amazing guitar work. Amazing riffs, Excellent groove and over the top melody.

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Yeah I know, it's such an obvious album to choose out of all the amazing stuff he's done, but it has just got more godlike songs than any of the other albums.

Death-Symbolic

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute. with the title track it's like 80~ minutes of music where every part of every song is either amazing or works to build up to an amazing part. SO GOOD.

lots of runners up that either aren't as long as Frances (The Postman Syndrome, Hammers of Misfortune) or need me to be in a certain mood to totally appreciate them (Neurosis, Reverend Bizarre, Warning, Tool). or in Nomeansno's case i just can't decide on a favourite album of theirs to choose.


so far non-metal is beating out metal 4 to 1 XD

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Shit, this is a biggy. I honestly don't know, but just think of landmark thrash and you get the ballpark area:

BBB, RIP, RIB, MOP, ATL

So basically if it comes down to thrash metal and three letters it's one of them. That said, Manowar-Hail to England is up there too.

A Manowar record as your favourite album? Come on not even the most illiterate italian would choose that!

Haha, Hail to England is the odd one out in the catalogue. Save for Black Arrows the WHOLE THING is fucking brilliant.

Still Still Life.
Although Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven is gaining on it. That's the only non-metal album I have in my top ten, so I guess I'm keepin it real.

lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven

Deeply affecting to me like no other album is.

Still going with Dream Theater--Scenes from a Memory Pt. 2, although the gap isn't as big as it used to be...

hard choice... but I'll go with
The Tea Party - Transmission
it contains my all time favorite song, Psycopomp, plus lots of blistering rock with an industrial edge.

I'd have said Rush - 2112 at one point, but I'm finding it hard not to appoint Genesis - Selling England By The Pound, The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street, Bob Dylan - Highway 61, Joni Mitchell - Herjira for non-metal and for metal: Faith No More - Angel Dust, Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding, Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao, Mr Bungle - Mr Bungle, Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair, and I'll stop there because I could go on.

Impossible.

Nightwish - Oceanborn

There are 2 Savatage albums that come criminally close, but at the end of the day, every song from Oceanborn makes me spray my undies like nothing else in music.

What is with all these metalheads appointing non-metal albums as their favorites? I mean, I think I'm as open-minded as anybody here, but metal is still my favorite genre...

I suppose it could be that many of us haven't started to listen to music with metal.
I for one started with some form of rock than delved into the heavier stuff little by little. People will usually choose an album that means something to them and usually the ones that make and leave the strongest impressions are albums that they have grown up with, hence the choosing of rock albums over metal.

It can also be that many great rock bands such as Zepplin have influenced metal, anyhow I don't see anything surprising about people's choices.