Favourite metal album?

[JohanGasMask]

"Fear of the dark" by Iron Maiden and
"And the Circus Leaves Town" by Kyuss.

 

[brass munkey]

Exactly what it says on the tin, really, what's your favourite metal album(by metal, I'm covering a pretty broad spectrum, heavy rock, hardcore punk, etc, also acceptable.)

My overall favourite is probably Mastodon's Leviathan, but Slipknot's Vol. 3.0: The Subliminal Verses and Black Sabbath's eponymous album come pretty close.

Please learn that slipknot is not - ugh, nevermind. I might as well read your thread rules.

Ride the Lightning
Metalica rules

You love Metallica so much you can't even spell their name right!

My favorite albums would be:

Artificial Emotions by Hieronymus Bosch - Progressive Death Metal
Traced in Air by Cynic - Jazz Fusion/Technical Death Metal
Cosmic Genesis by Vintersorg - Progressive/Black Metal with Folk Influences
Neurotripsicks by Gorod - Technical Death Metal
Sing Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious by Diablo Swing Orchestra - Avant-garde Metal
The Scepter of the Ancients by Psycroptic - Technical Death Metal

Oh no i missed one l in Metallica!
Lord baby Jesus have mercy on my soul!

 

[technoted]

Well I'd have to say Alice in Chains - Dirt but it's not a completely Metal album despite using a lot of metal techniques so instead I will go with Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power.

And to everyone naming bands such as Suicide Silence and Bring me the Horizon, please just stop, they arent metal in the slightest if anything they're ***** slapping real metal music with their emo fringes...

 

[aruseusx]

"Melissa" by Mercyful Fate and "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?" by Megadeth.

Finally! Someone else who listens to Mercyful fate

Seconded.

Kold by Solstafir (Icelandic metal band)
Tripsis by Alchemist (Australian actual metal band, not that Parkway Drive abomination)
Any album by Death
Ride the Lightning by Metallica
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying by Megadeth
Babylon by W.A.S.P.
Hell is empty and all the Devils are Here by Anaal Nathrakh
Both Necrophagist albums
Dance of Death by Iron Maiden
Any Behemoth album

A taste of Solstafir

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

I could never really narrow it down to one, there are just too many. However Slayer's God Hates us All and Metallica's Ride the Lightening are definitely high up there. That said...Opeth's Watershed or Blackwater Park is also pretty high up there...so I don't know.

[EDIT] Like I said, too many bands...forgot to mention Maiden, Priest, Megadeth, etc, etc, etc.

 

[Veret]

I say Dream Theater's Scenes From A Memory.
It has just about everything I look for in music all jam packed into one album.
simply beautiful

Scenes from a Memory is cool as a unified work, but it's not actually even my favorite Dream Theater album (more on this later). Some other albums that do the same thing get an honorable mention:

Symphony X - Paradise Lost: These guys are just amazing.
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy: Props to the person who mentioned this one already. Not a particularly high concept album (especially since Mark Jansen has been writing the same kind of stuff for years), but it's very nicely put together.
After Forever - Invisible Circles: Okay...so every song on this album is (to me) at least some degree of bad. But it just works so well as a cohesive whole that I really like it anyway (plus Floor Jansen is amazing).

I would have to go with Systematic Chaos (by Dream Theater, for those who don't know) for my favorite album. Really, since it's got three of my all-time favorite songs on one CD, I couldn't go any other way.

 

[Mechanix]

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

 

[Karlaxx]

Extremely hard tie between The Number of The Beast and Master of Puppets.

 

[drisky]

For me is its probably Heaven and Hell-Black Sabbath

 

[rabidmidget]

Well since the only thing I listen to that could be considered metal is Tool, I would say Aenima

 

[CNKFan]

Cannibal Corpse's classic Tomb of the Mutilated.

 

[Malevolent Stranger]

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(Opeth)

 

[6PrinceofDarkness6]

Megadeth's recent album, Endgame, is absolutely BRRRRRRUUUUUUTTTTAAALLLLL.

 

[gostchiken]

Bit off topic, but it saddens me how many people give the devil horns salute and say they are metal, yet when asked who brought this holy symbol to the genre they draw a complete blank. FUCKING RONNIE JAMES DIO!!! And as such my pick is the epic Holy Diver. Learn your metal history fools.

 

[RanD00M]

Slipknots First album - though that technically doesnt count as a metal album really.

The self titled one or Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat.?

Mine would be wither Iowa by Slipknot or Morningrise by Opeth.

Slipknot is metal,and if you call me out on it,i will not give a shit.

 

[Kortney]

In Absentia by Porcupine Tree.


If that counts as metal.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Somewhere between system of a down and toxicity.

 

[DSEZ]

crack the skye-mastodon
any TOOL album
emotive-a perfect circle

 

[Rohammad]

I'd have to say either Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood by Volbeat or Megadeth's Rust in Peace

 

[Drudgelmir]

'Blackwater Park' by Opeth is the only one that comes to mind. Fine album, that.

I second that.