Metal Reviews

Now, kiddies, i know that you're all gonna say that this question has no answer, but in your opinion what are the best/your favourite extreme albums?
One from each genre:

Black Metal: Emperor-In The Nightside Eclipse

Death Metal: Deicide-Deicide

Thrash: Slayer-Reign in Blood

Thisd should be a nice flamewar

BM : Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
DM : Possessed - Seven Churches
thrash : Heathen - Breaking The Silence

BM: Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness (Let's hear it for crappy lyrics about snow and stuff!)
DM: Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Thrash: Slayer - Reign in Blood

There are other albums I like better, but for the sake of this thread, I only counted "pure" black and death metal. No Vintersorg or The Duskfall, sadly.

BM - Filosofem by Burzum
DM - Focus by Cynic
Thrash - Dances of Death by Mekong Delta

that's favourites rather than bests, of course

Black: Can't decide wich Taake album so i'll put 1184 by Windir...

Death: At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul

Trash: Bathory's Blood Fire Death

I can't agree with the Slayer pick. They are by far one of the most over rated thrash metal bands....and now they totally suck. But even if I was to pick a SLayer album as best thrash album.. (which I would never do) I would go with Show No Mercy.

hell, just put your own opinions down and THEN tell me why mine suck!

Black : I've heard way too much to have any favourites 8) I love it all!!!

Folk/black : Ulver - Bergtatt

Death : Amon Amarth - Vs the World or Nile - in their darkened shrines ... hmm... hard to decide... besides i haven't heard that much death

Gore?: Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst

Trash : Slayer - Seasons of the Abyss.... not that i like trash all that much...

Mix Crap ( good crap): Agalloch - the mantle or Orphaned Land - Mabool

did i break the rule :roll: ?

BM: anything by Cradle of Filth

DM: anything by Slipknot

Thrash: St. Anger by Metallica

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Just kidding of course!!!

Pornograffiti

Black: Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Death: Demonoid - Riders of the Apocalypse
Thrash: Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

Its thrash, folk, not "trash." Whoever the hell thought to use the term "trash" metal in the first place was a retard. And Blood Fire Death isn't thrash.

Black metal: N/A
Death metal: Atheist- Piece of Time
Thrash: Impossible for me to answer, so I'll just list a bunch:

Kreator- Coma of Souls
Heathen- Victims of Deception
Sodom- Agent Orange
Mekong Delta- Dances of Death (And Other Walking Shadows)
Exodus- Bonded by Blood
Dark Angel- Darkness Descends
Overkill- The Years of Decay
Megadeth- Rust in Peace

BLACK METAL : Emperor - IX Equilibrium or Taake - ...Doedskvad or Deathspell Omega - Kénôse those 3 are so different I can't just pick one :roll:

DEATH METAL : Death - The Sound Of Perseverance or Impaled - mondo medicale (same reason as BM)

THRASH :
EUROPE : Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
AMERICA : Metallica - Master of Puppets

Black Metal: (it'll have to be 'current favorite') Xasthur - The Funeral Of Being.

Death Metal: Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

Thrash: Umm... uh... Darkness Descends, I guess, if I have to choose.

They are not death metal, nor power or heay or hard rock, some could argue that they are first wave of BM but BFD is clearly trash sounding to me...again i'm not a big trash fan so i could be mistaken...

early Bathory is thrash, and also first wave BM, like EP era Sodom and Destruction

I especially like it when people say that. "The first wave of Black Metal is thrash."

PICK ONE YOU JERKASS...

Honestly though. There are always transition points when you come to a genre creation, whether it was thrash from NWOBHM, or Death and Black from both of those. There will always be those who say that the early black/death bands such as Bathory or Possessed were not black or death, but rather thrash, but I will always consider them to be part of those former genres. They may not be one with the current genre requirements or on par with the harshness or technicality of today's bands, but they were here first and will forever stand as a necessary part of each genre, and to try and disassociate them from the genre just to prove how discerning your ear is is bullshit and undercuts their importance and the musical statement they made.

At least that's my take on it.

Oh, and yeah, I'm with Brahm, people who consistently use the term trash instead of thrash should stop doing that. It's stupid as all hell. It's like someone going around calling Black Metal Back Metal. Shit yeah, I love Symphonic Back Metal.

:roll: uhm... sorry for ignoring the "H" in thrash... but hey... i don't give a damn about thrash anyway... so....and i don't complain about ppl liking symphonic bm either, at least not in this forum

Black Metal: I'm torn between Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky and Under a Funeral Moon.

Death Metal: Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick.

Thrash: Can't pick just one! Some that spring to mind right now are To Mega Therion by Celtic Frost, Pleasure to Kill by Kreator and Killing Technology by Voivod. And Darkness Descends and Twisted to Form and...

how. calm down champ. 1 album per genre. I hate those indecisive thrashers.

BM: Emperor - ITNE
DM: NILE - ITDS
Thrash: Megadeth - RIP