Metal Reviews

What's your top 20? let's discuss!
I'm a novice in metal so I would like to hear some advices!Thanks for sharing!

Some of the albums I deem perfect:

1) Dream Theater -- Images & Words
2) Godspeed You! Black Emperor -- lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven
3) Deathspell Omega -- Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice

I'd list what little more I have, but dammit, I'm tired, so you'll have to manage with that. Now go out there and change the world, soldier.

Only the first 2 are certain to not change. I've only listened to metal for 4 years, almost 5 now, so I dont have a huge mass of best ever albums yet, just a bunch of kickass ones, my opinion of course.

Nightwish - Oceanborn
Savatage - Hall of The Mountain King
Dream Theater - Awake
Helloween - Keeper of The Seven Keys Part II
Dio - Holy Diver
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
Elvenking - Heathenreel
Virgin Steele - Invictus
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Gamma Ray - Power Plant
Freternia - A Nightmare Story

Good enough for now, these are the albums that more or less have never bored me no matter what my mood and I pretty much never skip a track.

I´m also new to metal, so far the only album i see as perfect is:

Rage - Soundchaser

I will probably never get bored at it.

I have been listening to metal for over 20 years (not that that makes my opinion any more valid, it is still, after all, MY opinion) so I have a few albums that I can think of. I'm sure I am forgetting some, but here is what comes to mind:


Agent Steel - Order of the Illuminati
Cage - Darker Than Black
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengence
Iced Earth - Dark Saga
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Dio - Holy Diver
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
Manowar - Battle Hymns
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
King Diamond - Abigail
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
Accept - Balls To The Wall

I have been listining to metal for roughly 24 years and it DOES make my opinioin Valid becaue I am not all nicey nice and open minded like most here: 10 from the early ears and 10 from the modern years taht are worth your time:

1. Rainbow - Raising
2. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
3. Judas Priest - Stained Class.
4. Riot - Fire Down Under
5. Scorpions - Love Drive
6. Blue Oyster Cult - Cultasaurous Erectus
7. Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
8. Accept - Restless and Wild
9. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast.
10. Angel Witch - s/t, Saxon - Wheels of Steel

1. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
2. Dark Tranquility - Projector
3. Gardenian - Soulburner
4. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
5. Tiamat - Wildhoney
6. Countess - Spawn of steel
7. Morrigan - Headcult
8. Amorphis - Tounela
9. Theatre of Tragedy - In Velvet Darkness they Fear
10. Arghoslent - Incorrigble Bigotry, Graveland - Carpathien Wolves, Mayhem - De nomw, Arcturs - Aspera Hymns, Fluerty - Min Tid Skold

Helloween - The Dark Ride
Edenbridge - Sunrise In Eden
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Primal Fear - Seven Seals
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
Fates Warning - Disconnected
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Symphony X - V
Gamma Ray - Powerplant
Gamma Ray - No World Order!
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - Falling To Infinity
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance
Rage - Soundchaser
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - The X-Factor

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both are not bad at all but i agree with the whole :shock: -thing

Keep in mind this guy lives in Finland!

Although X Factor is very underrated...

What about 10 from the in between years, and 10 from the years before the early years?

Well this is impossible to do. I do know my top 2 albums though.

1. Judas Priest - Painkiller
2. Dream Theater - Images & Words

Mine have to be:
1.Painkiller
2.Holy Diver

Well this list is covering everything, not just stuff fitting the forum description.

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Extreme - II Pornograffitti
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Hibria - Defying the Rules
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mötley Crüe - Too Fast for Love
Primal Fear - Nuclear Fire
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
Scanner - Terminal Earth
Van Halen - Van Halen
Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare
Vio-lence - Oppressing the Masses

That's 21 for ya.

my top 5
Dream Theater-Images and Words
Dream Theater-When a dream and day unite
Symphony X-Divine wings of tragedy
Symphony X-The Odyssey
Iced Earth-NIght of the stormrider

Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice


Nuff zaid.

Mine would be (in no particular order)

1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2. Helloween - The Dark Ride

3. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

4. Death - Symbolic

5. Anacrusis - Reason

6. Sodom - Tapping The Vein

7. Judas Priest - Painkiller

8. Megadeth - Youthanasia

9. Immolation - Close To A World Below

10. Alice In Chains - FaceLift

11. Dawn Of Relic - One Night In Carcosa

12. Iron Maiden - Live After Death

13. Jacob's Dream - Theater Of War

14. Atheist - Elements

15. Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients

16. Brahma - The World Beyond

17. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

18. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

19. Falconer - s/t

20. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

There might be more, but those 20 came to mind after a lot of thought.

1 Devin Townsend - Terria
2 Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
3 The Postman Syndrome - Terraforming
4 Tool - AEnima
5 Ephel Duath - Painter's Palette
6 Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
7 Tool - Lateralus
8 Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
9 Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
10 Tool - 10,000 Days
11 Neurosis - Times of Grace
12 Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
13 Strapping Young Lad - City
14 Devin Townsend - Infinity
15 Meshuggah - Catch ThirtyThree
16 A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
17 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infiinity
18 Strapping Young Lad - Alien
19 Opeth - Still Life
20 Kamelot - THe Black Halo

all masterpieces of perfect perfection ^-^

No Order for these, that would be impossible.

Thin Lizzy - Fighting
Satan- COurt in the Act
Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twighlight World
Nocturnal RItes - In a TIme of Blood and Fire
Nocturnal Rites - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell
Praying Mantis - TIme Tells no Lies
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Motorhead - Overkill
Running WIld - Gates to Purgatory
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Paradox - Heresy
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Holy Terror - Terror and Submission
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Rainbow - Rising

For heavy, prog and power metal I'd say (in no particular order):

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera or Nightfall In Middle Earth
Gamma Ray - No World Order
HammerFall - Glory To The Brave
DragonForce - their entire frigging discography
Devin Townsend - Infinity (see also: entire frigging discography)
Lost Horizon - Awakening The World (if only on the strength of "Sworn In The Metal Wind")
Dio - Holy Diver