Metal has truly cemented itself as a hallmark genre of music. Exhilarating, cathartic, and engaging throughout the decades with new twists along the way. Definitely a great list!
I feel like metal already stands with historic genres like jazz… as far as there is not a dictionary definition of metal, but you know it when you hear it. They both make you move, and can be pretty simple or very technical
Metal mainstream era in the late 80s lasted less than 5 years yet still refuses to die. Meanwhile rap is the opposite, it should have died as a short lived fad in the late 80s but it took over everything and turned mainstream music into putrid monotonous and talentless sludge
Great album, but I have to admit that there are a couple of tracks that don't really do it for me. Subtraction, Under Siege, and Meaningless Movements I can take or leave. Each has like a riff or two that I can get down with, but I'm mostly just waiting to hear those during the other parts of the song 😅 I think Beneath the Remains stays solid all the way through and has a bit more variety, so I personally like it more. I also think the production is noticeably better; it's clearer and punchier than Arise, which sounds a bit darker and muddier to my ear. All that said, they're both great albums and you can't really go wrong choosing either!
I will always love Puppets, but when it comes to the riff department, I think it's more catchy than awesome, from a musical point of view. Always the same couple of scales and similar notes. But Kirk and Cliff's contributions are enough to disguise that. And the top notch production and James' voice, of course.
@@MrPantera123456 kirks solos were amazing and legendary on load, reload, and garage inc. he didn’t get replaced until st anger, or i guess death magnetic
Some 10/10's I'd have on my list: Imaginations from the Otherside - Blind Guardian Blackwater Park - Opeth Covenant - Morbid Angel Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom Images and Words - Dream Theater October Rust - Type O Negative From Mars to Sirius - Gojira Once - Nightwish Trying to follow your guidelines and not go too obscure, keep my personal faves mostly off the list (unless it's warranted), and making sure enough time has passed since their release date.
@MEMESupreme-by1qv nah I think its amazing too. Probably not their best IMO FMTS and Magma are better but its still like a 9/10. Although I see how one could consider it their best. I think Born for One Thing Is definitely their best album opening track. The Chant and Another World are also probably in their top 10 to maybe even top 5 songs.
I'm a motherfucking huge fan of their first album. Children of Bodom, I mean. Oddly enough, for some reason, the remaining discography never clicked the same way.
A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here: Annihilator - Never, Neverland Blind Guardian - NIghtfall in the Middle-Earth Crimson Glory - Transcendence Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Sepultura - Chaos AD Summoning - Stronghold Wuthering Heights - Far from the madding crowd
A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here: Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Deafheaven = Sunbather Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Melvins - Houdini Deftones - White Pony Acid Bath - Pagan Terrorism Tactics Death - Symbolic Tool - Lateralus Machine Head - The Blackening Sepultura - Arise Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain Pentagram - Relentless Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
@@modocp it’s just personal opinion but yeah for me it’s the best distillation of machine head into one solid album, not really any bad songs, big solos. It rocks
@@iflower3596 Piece of Mind and Powerslave are also way better than Seventh Son, I don't know what Beanley is smoking with that one. Don't get me wrong, I like Seventh Son too but not the entirety of it, Seventh Son (the song) in particular is not good.
How could you forget about Chuck Schuldiner? Ok, I understand, it's hard to peak just one album from him, because almost all of them are timeless classic. But I would stand with Symbolic. Truly masterpiece
Death never made a bad album. The first 2 were solid death metal then he started using progressive metal elements making every album better than the last.
Love how the 3 Dragonforce tracks all felt like it could have been a single excerpt from one track. They definitely didn't deviate from the formula even remotely in the earlier albums.
Yeah... I kinda tuned out for the most part after Sonic Firestorm. They're a band I can do, perhaps three songs on a good day before I'm ready to move on and not listen to them again for months or years, lol.
Seriously no one's even gonna mention Alice in Hell by Annihilator? Such a masterpiece. I think it is at peak thrash metal level, comparable to Rust in Peace and MoP
I never was a Thrash Metal Enthusiast, but if i have to name one, it would be " Alice in Hell " too. I love " Set the World on Fire " much more, and it will be always in my Top ten, for beeing a perfect Album. But this masterpiece has realy nothing to do with Thrash Metal.
True , so true. That time period spawned some genre defining classics. Extreme aggression, Peace sells but who's buying. , Enter the remains, Relms of Chaos, Harmony corruption.. etc..
Everything on Painkiller is a highlight. Definitely in my top 3 albums and, quite possibly, standing on its lonesome at the very apex. Metal PERFECTION.
Yup, it's an amazing album. Firepower is also surprisingly good and obviously modeled after Painkiller. Priest have some filler tracks in most of their albums, Painkiller is an obvious exception to that.
@@LocrianDorian Firepower is the album that proves "hey, old bands can still dish out awesome records late into their career". Iron Maiden really needs to take some pages outta their book.
@@willl676 That's my main issue with Senjutsu, it's WAY longer than it needs to be. There's moments where I'm like "there's something here" with pacing that completely misses the point.
@@MetalheadCurt Yeah I think it's pretty telling where they've gone wrong when almost everybody who listens to the album seems to agree the best song is The Writing on the Wall.
Always love that you mention symphony x, they are so incredibly talented and underrated, inferno was the first song I heard by them and that initial bent harmonic riff just blew my mind, haven’t been able to stop listening to their stuff since
Judas Priest's Painkiller, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Pantera's Cowboys From Hell, and Death's Sound of Perseverance are my "perfect" albums, and by that criteria every single track on each album would make my "best songs of all time" list.
That’s Master of Puppets for me. When I first listened to it, I didn’t even know that albums can be perfect. I always thought albums need sh*tty filler songs. Even rust in peace had some filler, at least that’s how I felt when I first listened to it (today it’s of course different; back then I didn’t really like Lucretia; today i personally think it’s one of my all time favorite guitar solos on any band ever😅).To this day, this perfection in style, expression, ideas and completeness that you describe is still only reached by MoP, subjectively for me according to my personal taste. Enjoy yours! 👍
Sound of Perseverance was one of my introductions to the extreme side of metal and it is so extreme and yet one of the easiest albums to listen to that I've ever heard
For me personally, Shogun would be the Trivium album I put here. Heafy’s vocals are just as great as they were in Ascendancy, but the narrative aspect of the album makes it so much more unique and complex
@@matthewtaylor1785 I HATED Crusade when it came out xD I wanted more juicy melodic perfection lol. But some of the best Trivium songs are actually on there. It took time for me to understand
Painkiller is so good. I always make playlists for when i go for runs, usually change the songs up when they get old, but Hell Patrol is literally always on the playlist.
Death‘s Symbolic is also definitely a ten outta ten -Each song has its own wonderful moment-, Celtic Frost’s Monotheist,and the EP “Agonie” from Der Weg Einer Freiheit (German Black Metal). But also totally agree with the ones I know in your list, Brad 🙂
Thanks for sharing! Some of those I haven't had the pleasure of listening to but I'm certainly going to! Here are some that I think are 10/10 Seputura - Chaos AD Anthrax - Spreading the Disease Testament - The Gathering Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Top 20 1. The Fall of Ideals by All that Remains 2. The Sound of Perseverance by Death 3. Crack the Skye by Mastodon 4. Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God 5. The Way of All Flesh by Gojira 6. Shogun by Trivium 7. An Ocean between Us by As I Lay Dying 8. Follow the Reaper by Children of Bodom 9. Cowboys from Hell by Pantera 10. Time 1 by Wintersun 11. Rust in Peace by Megadeth 12. Avenged Sevenfold self titled 13. Colors by Between the buried and me 14. Epitaph by Necrophagist 15. Planetary Duality by The Faceless 16. Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom 17. A Perfect Absolution by Gorod 18. And Justice For All by Metallica 19. A New Order by Testament 20. A Sense of Purpose by In Flames
I've literally never heard anyone give Seventh Son proper credit before. It's always been by far my favourite Maiden album and one of the best of all time. Kudos.
it was meant to be called, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , but they ran out of space on the cover,
I don't care for a lot of songs that are classic rock radio staples, mostly on account of being overplayed, but "Crazy Train," particularly Rhoads' solo, never gets old for me.
My all times best Death - The sound of perseverance Dark tranquillity - The gallery Dream theater - Images & words Opeth - Blackwater park Plus some others already in that list
you are the 2nd person on this thread to mention dark tranquillity - the gallery. after years of playing it for friends and family, i thought i was the only one to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. unfortunately the only time i have seen dt live, punish my heaven was the only song they played from the gallery. makes sense though, as at the time they were touring on damage done.
Let’s be honest. Master and ride are the 2 metal classics that everyone would say is timeless. Wanna test a speaker or a guitar ? Listen / play those. So fun to play and just insane timeless classics.
Artillery - By Inheritance (1990) is in my opinion the definition of a 10/10 album, amazing riffs, drumming, solos, honestly doesn’t sound like any other thrash album ever, and to cap it off has amazing production thanks to Rasmussen
I think Korn's debut self-titled album should be on here too. It broke new ground, was raw and powerful, and inspired an entirely new genre of music (for better or for worse).
I feel like korn was more hard rock than metal at that time. I wasn’t expecting it here. But yeah it was definitely innovative at the time. Their first few albums were amazing.
@@DanzGmod565 yeah definitely on follow the leader, but i felt life is peachy and self titled were less so. but that's just my opinion i know it doesn't align with others.
Stunning how a modern Metal band can sound like they were one of the all time greats from days past but a lot of people don't even know them. Like all their instruments and vocals are on such a high level and they are ONE band together. Insane. They have had to be casted xD
My perfect albums would be: - ...And Justice For All by Metallica - Painkiller by Judas Priest - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden - Rust in Peace by Megadeth - Awake by Godsmack - Cowboys From Hell by Pantera - Lateralus by Tool - Wisconsin Death Trip by Static-X - No Rest for the Wicked by Ozzy Osbourne A perfect album to me is an album where I love every single song. These are just the metal ones too. I have a bunch of non-metal albums on my "perfect albums" list haha. Great video!
3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish for me came out of nowhere. Just when you though this type of metal disappeared this album dropped for me 10/10 all killer songs.
@@jip5889 i listened to the shit out of that cassette! hahaha. then i bought it on cd after the cassette started to sound funny. my buddy also had it on cassette and we wore his copy out too, riding around in his car back in high school.
My personal honorable mentions: Dream Theater - Awake Cynic - Focus Fates Warning - No Exit Edge Of Sanity - Crimson Pain Of Salvation - On Hour By The Concrete Lake Threshold - Clone Megadeth - Youthanasia Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
I think most people wouldn’t even rank Youthanasia top 4 among Megadeth. It only has one song that ever gets played live. Solid album but RIP, CTE, PS are head and shoulders better and several others like KIMB, SFSGSW, Endgame, Dystopia are at least tied with it imo
Great list! Seventh Son is an absolute epic. I'd like to suggest White Pony by Deftones. Maybe not metal in the strictest sense but still very heavy in parts
Tough to make a list like this. Everyone has different preferences. I liked a lot of Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Meadeth, Slayer, Helloween. But a band I liked a lot that doesn't seem to get enough attention is Mercyful Fate. The album Don't Break the Oath is one of my favorite metal albums.
Thanks for the great list, have a few new albums to listen to now. I think "Epitaph" by Necrophagist or "Symbolic" by Death could've made the list if it had been longer, but still a great list!
Yeah I guess it depends on which opinion you have, but like I said I think those albums are near perfection, I even might have added "Reign in Blood" and I consider "...And Justice For All" near perfection (it is not perfect thought, mostly because the Bass is missing and two songs are "only" decent), but like I mentioned it depends on which opinion you have, and that's just mine.
honestly with every album ive fully heard in this list i agree with, albums i would add would be: show no mercy - slayer pain remains - lorna shore …and i return to nothingness - lorna shore (EP) TSOP - death leprosy - death reign in blood - slayer altars of madness - morbid angel 1989 - taylor swift
Would've chosen Crack the Skye for Mastodon. Catch 33 is a wild choice for Meshuggah as It's either loved or hated. I admire your courage. System of a Down's self titled debut is their best, but I understand why you'd rather go with the universally beloved Toxicity. I fully agree with everything you said about Children of Bodom and Are You Dead Yet. Solid list. Part 2 coming?
Crack the Skye is just on another level, they really set the bar too high on that one, is an absolute masterpiece of an album. Brent killed it specially, album was mainly written by him. That's also when he lost his sanity 😂😂😂
Even the (former adepts and) current Metallica haters must admit Master of Puppets + Ride The Lightning are their guilty pleasures and both albums are untouchable in terms of (the combination of) melody, heavyness, composition, variety and speed.
Metallica were always seen as sell outs by us oldies even in the 80's, but after Dyer's Eve is the band's what spiritually broke/killed the band for me. (Holy Wars...The Punishment Due broke MegaDeth, Walk broke Pantera.. ) The Black Album onwards is commercial radio friendly trash and pop/rock and not true metal...
@@PeterKnagge so metal is all about not trying to be commercially successfull? Not about making good music? Metallica grew rapidly without any radio airplay, because their music is more accessible for 'outsiders'. What's your definition of selling out? Being commercially successfull? That's the biggest bullshit. Metallica never made music for their fans, but music they wanted to make in certain periods of time. Making music solely to please your fans for me is the ultimate example of selling out.
I don't agree with the first poster. But the fact is, Metallica sold out BY THEIR OWN standards. They said, shortly before they did it, they'd never do a music video for MTV because it was all sellout bullshit. And lol and behold. They literally sold out according to their own terms and no one else's. I mean, let's be real. Metallica is super gateway level shit, and they have two top tier albums, Ride and Master. Bands like Kreator, Slayer, Testament and Overkill have been more consistent overtime and have healthier catalogs as well. Metallica is famous for being at the right place at the right time, and dropping 3 solid albums and 2 great ones. And they deserve whatever success comes from that. Simply, they aren't gods, they're sellouts by THEIR OWN standards, and they've done some hyper cringey shit from the Napster debacle to dropping "GIMME FU, GIMME FIYAH, GIMME ZEGAZEGAZAYUH"
Heavy Metal is an underground backlash against the Conservative Christian Fundamentalist Capitalist Cold War 80's. It is a secret underground counter-culture brotherhood that is anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-religious, and anti-authoritarian. Current music and gamer culture has taken minority counter-cultures and turned them upside-down and are nothing to do and the complete opposite with their 80's roots. The difference between how Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Rave, and computer gaming culture started and today is like the difference between being on Earth and on Mars. All these counter-cultures have sold out their 80's roots. It's right there in the name for you, "Heavy Metal". Most metal heads these days wouldn't know a power chord if it slapped them in the face...
Oh, Symphony X, they are so good and so underrated. Although Odyssey is a great album, I personally recommend to listen The Divine Wings of Tragedy, it's a real masterpiece from the first notes to the very end
They get put into the power metal box often, which is definitely a part of their sound but theyre so much more. Communion and the oracle is one of the most beautiful songs ever for me.
@@Jablan11 I think that's mostly due to their neoclassical metal inspiration, which for what it's worth, isn't even representative of Power Metal as a whole.
I agree with you on Rust in Peace, SFAM, Painkiller, Master of Puppets for sure. I think In Flames Jester Race deserves to be on there. Maybe Hammerfall's Glory to the Brave or Legacy of Kings. Edguy has a few albums that could be on there, maybe Mandrake or Hellfire Club. Death deserves to be on there too, Sound of Perseverance probably. It's a live album but Nightwish's End of an Era is 10/10.
You can point to Helloween's first three albums as having definitively created Power Metal, and the third album, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, is a masterpiece conclusion to a perfect 3 album run.
For spanish speaking audience: Rata Blanca's "Magos, Espadas y Rosas", and Baron Rojo's "Metalmorfosis" 7th son, Painkiller, Rust in Peace and Master of Puppets are probably in my top 5 albums I would add Keeper 1/2 by Helloween, Avantasia 1, Queensryche's Empire, Accept's Restless and Wild, and Slayer's South of Heaven or Reign in Blood. Great video!!! Thank you.
My own personal 10 Top Tier Metal Albums (in no particular order): 1. MegaDeth ~ Rust In Peace 2. King Diamond ~ "Them" 3. Overkill ~ The Years Of Decay 4. Overkill ~ Horrorscope 5. Sepultura ~ Arise 6. Pantera ~ Cowboys From Hell 7. Death ~ Human 8. Testament ~ Practice What You Preach 9. Iron Maiden ~ Powerslave 10. Death Angel ~ Act II
Some of my personal 10s: Symphony X - The Odyssey. - Divine Wings of Tragedy. Metallica - Ride the Lightning - And Justice For All. Gojira - From Sirius To Mars - Opeth - Blackwater Park
Behemoth’s ‘Demigod’ will always be one of the most brutal metal albums for me, from start to finish. Their best album. Along with Mastodon’s ‘Leviathan’.
There are so many hidden gems (10/10), almost impossible to name them all. Ever heard of Above Symmetry (former Aspera) - Ripples? Kinda a one hit wonder, but totally 10/10. Also, Scar Symmetry the whole Discography is a 10/10 (for me at least) - just perfect. Other than that very good list, lots of tens for me as well.
I like Mgla but still the hype that album got and obviously still gets shocks me. I guess around that time I wasn't even paying too much attention to new stuff in the first place, so when I heard it it was well after they got popular, and the first thing I thought was "this has been done before". Don't get me wrong, its a good album and I think Groza is even better, buuuut man even Kriegshammer gives them a run for their money, and its the same dudes!
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor Candlemass - Nightfall Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name Death - Symbolic Kamelot - The Black Halo The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal These are also some 10/10 metal albums.
I'm willing to argue that The Black Halo is the greatest power metal album ever made, and definitely in my personal top 3 metal albums, alongside Parallax 2 by Between the Buried and Me and Odyssey to the West by Slice the Cake.
Annihilation is one of my all time most memorable. Lashed to the slave stick! The solo in the first song. It's the kind of album you play to someone you love and just laugh at how good it is
@@talo718 Yes. The Black Halo is a monster album. Every single track is memorable. As a matter of fact, I think 2005 is the greatest year in metal history. The Black Halo, This Godless Endeavor, Annihilation of The Wicked, Ascendancy, Ghost Reveries, From Mars To Sirius, Those Once Loyal, Harnessing Ruin, The Gathering Wilderness, Alien...all of these albums came out in 2005.
I listened to Nightwish so much during a time that all the songs from Once now remind me of my most cringe years and that kinda ruined it for me. Tarja best waifu.
A few extra picks I would recommend -Black Sabbath, Volume 4: I consider this to be their best album, it has this sort of atmospheric magic -Dio, Holy Diver: This classic plays like a greatest hits album -Sodom, M16: This German thrash metal band is criminally underrated -Exodus, Bonded by Blood: The vocals and guitar work kick so much ass here, possibly one of the greatest metal album debuts of all time -Death, Spiritual Healing: What’s not to love about Death? Every instrument in Spiritual Healing is on point
We all know Bradley’s upcoming Metallica album will be the ultimate one. 500/10
For Whom My Ass Calls 🤘
Surely you mean For Whom The Beans Toll
Nah for whom my ass tolls is way funnier
For whom the ass claps?
"it's an ass grabbing whale"
@@hugodogobob For Whom That Smell Rolls
Metal has truly cemented itself as a hallmark genre of music. Exhilarating, cathartic, and engaging throughout the decades with new twists along the way. Definitely a great list!
I feel like metal already stands with historic genres like jazz… as far as there is not a dictionary definition of metal, but you know it when you hear it. They both make you move, and can be pretty simple or very technical
Metal mainstream era in the late 80s lasted less than 5 years yet still refuses to die. Meanwhile rap is the opposite, it should have died as a short lived fad in the late 80s but it took over everything and turned mainstream music into putrid monotonous and talentless sludge
As well as having an epic fan base. Metal fan's rock..
Arise from Sepultura is one hell of an album. Honestly one of my all time favorites
Great album, but I have to admit that there are a couple of tracks that don't really do it for me. Subtraction, Under Siege, and Meaningless Movements I can take or leave. Each has like a riff or two that I can get down with, but I'm mostly just waiting to hear those during the other parts of the song 😅
I think Beneath the Remains stays solid all the way through and has a bit more variety, so I personally like it more. I also think the production is noticeably better; it's clearer and punchier than Arise, which sounds a bit darker and muddier to my ear.
All that said, they're both great albums and you can't really go wrong choosing either!
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Beneath the remains >
Sepultura >>>
Symphony X's The Oddsey, wow that's a nice surprise. This album is very underrated, an absolute masterpiece.
Their entire discography is massively underrated imo
@@user-rm1ib8rd9h Nah, the last albums are boring.
Also The divine wings of tragedy
the amount of times I listened to octavarium and the odyssey in high school was unhealthy
@@stringnerdoctavarium is such a good album, but it’s not even dt’s best. Goes to show how good they are.
For me personally, both Master Of Puppets and Rust In Piece are 11/10s
Smell The Glove was recorded at 11 !!!
I will always love Puppets, but when it comes to the riff department, I think it's more catchy than awesome, from a musical point of view. Always the same couple of scales and similar notes. But Kirk and Cliff's contributions are enough to disguise that. And the top notch production and James' voice, of course.
Vulgar display of power is 111/10 then
Thrash guy eh?
@@ahhhhhhhhhhh9o9o9o yes sir
Kirk’s solos on Justice were great! He didn’t get replaced until 1990.
Kirks solos were amazing and legendary on Black. He didn’t get replaced until 1996
The fact that St. Anger has no solos makes it pretty obvious that he was murdered somewhere between 1997 and 2003.
I mean he was still great on the black album as well
@@MrPantera123456 kirks solos were amazing and legendary on load, reload, and garage inc. he didn’t get replaced until st anger, or i guess death magnetic
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Wasn't Garage a cover album?
Some 10/10's I'd have on my list:
Imaginations from the Otherside - Blind Guardian
Blackwater Park - Opeth
Covenant - Morbid Angel
Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom
Images and Words - Dream Theater
October Rust - Type O Negative
From Mars to Sirius - Gojira
Once - Nightwish
Trying to follow your guidelines and not go too obscure, keep my personal faves mostly off the list (unless it's warranted), and making sure enough time has passed since their release date.
Good to see Blackwater Park and Covenant on this list! I'd add Altars of Madness and Stormblast but great list!
This is a great list!
Images and Words!!!
I personally would go with Nightfall in Middle Earth over Imaginations,
Blackwater park is peak music
Speaking of Judas Priest, I'm also quite fond of 1976's "Sad Wings of Destiny", along with "British Steel" and "Screaming for Vengeance"
Don't forget Stained Class!
British Steel is a 10/10 hard rock album (as in, it’ll get some radio airplay), painkiller is pure metal
Gojira's From Mars to Sirius is also a 10/10 imo
@MEME Supreme You definitely might be the only one. I felt like it had loads of filler on it! The Chant and Sphinx are belters though.
@@TopSetUKyeah, probably their worst album imo.
@MEMESupreme-by1qv nah I think its amazing too. Probably not their best IMO FMTS and Magma are better but its still like a 9/10. Although I see how one could consider it their best. I think Born for One Thing Is definitely their best album opening track. The Chant and Another World are also probably in their top 10 to maybe even top 5 songs.
Gojira were definitely a huge omission.
9/10 not enough whales
Early Bodom is godlike. Its really impressive what young people like Alexi and Trivium were able to accomplish.
FTR all time fave
I'm a motherfucking huge fan of their first album. Children of Bodom, I mean. Oddly enough, for some reason, the remaining discography never clicked the same way.
@@HeathenDance more traditional melo death more raw production too
The run from Hatebreeder to Are You Dead Yet? hits different. So good. Banger after banger.
@@elBanananas Can’t explain how much AYDY? influenced me and expanded my music taste. what a fucking amazing album man
Happy you put Ascendancy here. This album single handedly improved my metal guitar playing
hey
A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here:
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Blind Guardian - NIghtfall in the Middle-Earth
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Summoning - Stronghold
Wuthering Heights - Far from the madding crowd
I think I personally would place Arise higher than Chaos AD.
Operation Mindcrime was so good
Yes!! Annihilator and Queensrÿche for sure!
I prefer Alice in Hell over Never, Neverland personally, but great to see some Annihilator love
Mindcrime is a masterpiece
A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here:
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Deafheaven = Sunbather
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Melvins - Houdini
Deftones - White Pony
Acid Bath - Pagan Terrorism Tactics
Death - Symbolic
Tool - Lateralus
Machine Head - The Blackening
Sepultura - Arise
Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain
Pentagram - Relentless
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Ooh the blackening, I like this call!
Machine Head- Burn my Eyes
Is the blackening that good?
@@modocp it's a recommended listen, great album from start to finish
@@modocp it’s just personal opinion but yeah for me it’s the best distillation of machine head into one solid album, not really any bad songs, big solos. It rocks
Rust in Peace and Seventh Son are two of the greatest albums ever .
As a big fan of Maiden, I strongly disagree. Somewhere In Time and Brave New World are better.
@@iflower3596 Piece of Mind and Powerslave are also way better than Seventh Son, I don't know what Beanley is smoking with that one. Don't get me wrong, I like Seventh Son too but not the entirety of it, Seventh Son (the song) in particular is not good.
@@iflower3596 I am some place in between Rust in Peace and Brave New World are my favorites
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@@emperortrevornorton3119 Brave New World is amazing, best reunion album of all time.
THANK YOU for highlighting Disposable Heroes!! It’s a criminally overlooked song by Metallica.
My top 3 in no order:
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Blind Guardian - Nighfall in Middle-Earth
NEVERMORE!!!
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How could you forget about Chuck Schuldiner? Ok, I understand, it's hard to peak just one album from him, because almost all of them are timeless classic. But I would stand with Symbolic. Truly masterpiece
Death never made a bad album. The first 2 were solid death metal then he started using progressive metal elements making every album better than the last.
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Human and symbolic were the best in my opinion
He said in another video that he's not really a Death fan
no, but let´s have SOAD Toxicity instead of Symbolic. ahahahahahah
Love how the 3 Dragonforce tracks all felt like it could have been a single excerpt from one track. They definitely didn't deviate from the formula even remotely in the earlier albums.
I mean the band came from Herman Li and Sam Totman deciding they wanted a power metal band without the ballads and mid-paced songs
Yeah... I kinda tuned out for the most part after Sonic Firestorm. They're a band I can do, perhaps three songs on a good day before I'm ready to move on and not listen to them again for months or years, lol.
Seriously no one's even gonna mention Alice in Hell by Annihilator? Such a masterpiece. I think it is at peak thrash metal level, comparable to Rust in Peace and MoP
No arguments here.
I never was a Thrash Metal Enthusiast, but if i have to name one, it would be " Alice in Hell " too. I love " Set the World on Fire " much more, and it will be always in my Top ten, for beeing a perfect Album. But this masterpiece has realy nothing to do with Thrash Metal.
Dude. Sepultura Arise definitely needs to be on this list.
Down - NOLA
Carcass - Heartwork
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Behemoth - The Satanist
Opeth - Blackwater Park
all perfect classics
Daaaa. I agree with you
Blackwater Park is very nice.
Blackwater Park is legendary. Holy shit what masterpiece of an album.
DEATH HUMAN!
Nola by DOWN .. Never heard of them..
Extreme Aggression by Kreator is an extremely good and underrated thrash record. Violent Revolution is great too.
Good point
True , so true. That time period spawned some genre defining classics. Extreme aggression, Peace sells but who's buying. , Enter the remains, Relms of Chaos, Harmony corruption.. etc..
Pleasure to Kill is probably my favorite, followed by Terrible Certainty.
Reign in blood and season in the abyss imo are perfect. I can't decide
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
My gold sandard for awesome catchy death metal. The sound is totally unmatched to this day.
Yes Sir!
That one riff in Holy Wars is absolutely amazing and I love it
Never thought I'd say this a year ago - because I didn't give a crap about Megadeth - but Holy Wars is pretty much the best riff of all time.
I saw Megadeth and Lamb of God at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on May 13 2022. Dave sounded great after dealing with throat cancer.
There's like 17 great riffs in that song.
Holy wars has probably my favourite metal solo of all time
Everything on Painkiller is a highlight. Definitely in my top 3 albums and, quite possibly, standing on its lonesome at the very apex. Metal PERFECTION.
Yup, it's an amazing album. Firepower is also surprisingly good and obviously modeled after Painkiller. Priest have some filler tracks in most of their albums, Painkiller is an obvious exception to that.
@@LocrianDorian Firepower is the album that proves "hey, old bands can still dish out awesome records late into their career". Iron Maiden really needs to take some pages outta their book.
@@MetalheadCurt I'm gonna be honest, Senjutsu is my guilty pleasure even if I do think the intros are way too fucking long.
@@willl676 That's my main issue with Senjutsu, it's WAY longer than it needs to be. There's moments where I'm like "there's something here" with pacing that completely misses the point.
@@MetalheadCurt Yeah I think it's pretty telling where they've gone wrong when almost everybody who listens to the album seems to agree the best song is The Writing on the Wall.
This video is awesome! You give me ideas of music I've never heard before to listen to now. Your commentary and attitude are amazing!
Always love that you mention symphony x, they are so incredibly talented and underrated, inferno was the first song I heard by them and that initial bent harmonic riff just blew my mind, haven’t been able to stop listening to their stuff since
Judas Priest's Painkiller, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Pantera's Cowboys From Hell, and Death's Sound of Perseverance are my "perfect" albums, and by that criteria every single track on each album would make my "best songs of all time" list.
That’s Master of Puppets for me. When I first listened to it, I didn’t even know that albums can be perfect. I always thought albums need sh*tty filler songs. Even rust in peace had some filler, at least that’s how I felt when I first listened to it (today it’s of course different; back then I didn’t really like Lucretia; today i personally think it’s one of my all time favorite guitar solos on any band ever😅).To this day, this perfection in style, expression, ideas and completeness that you describe is still only reached by MoP, subjectively for me according to my personal taste. Enjoy yours! 👍
Sound of Perseverance was one of my introductions to the extreme side of metal and it is so extreme and yet one of the easiest albums to listen to that I've ever heard
Perseverance is my desert island album.
I'm not much of a Pantera dude, but the other three I'm with you on all the way.
I'd say symbolic is a bit better as an album but a great list nonetheless
Cool to see Symphony X mentioned. Those guys should be huge!
Fax, They have so many amazing albums
what really helps them is having Romeo, my favorite of all time
Yes! I'm firmly supportive of Symphony X The Odyssey. Such an amazing album all around.
Shout out to King Diamond's Abigail for being one of the best conceptual albums of all time, any genre
Glad to see Mastodon on this list. I would've gone with Blood Mountain but honestly I love all their albums.
Facts!
For me personally, Shogun would be the Trivium album I put here. Heafy’s vocals are just as great as they were in Ascendancy, but the narrative aspect of the album makes it so much more unique and complex
agreed, shogun it’s easily in my top 5 favorite metal albums
Shogun and ascendancy are my two favourite albums ever so I’m happy to see either on the list
I’m also a big fan of The Crusade, although Ascendancy and Shogun are definitely better, with Shogun being one of the best albums ever made
@@matthewtaylor1785 I HATED Crusade when it came out xD I wanted more juicy melodic perfection lol. But some of the best Trivium songs are actually on there. It took time for me to understand
Ressurection 🤘🤘
carcass's heartwork deserves a place here as well
Painkiller is so good. I always make playlists for when i go for runs, usually change the songs up when they get old, but Hell Patrol is literally always on the playlist.
Glad to see Symphony X, totally underrated band!
Was hoping to see King Diamond's 'Abigail' though, or maybe 'Them', both 10/10!
100% agree on King Diamond!
Agree on "Them"
Agree for sure, I suggest Fatal Portrait for nostalgia
Yep, came down here looking for the King Diamond comment. My favorites are Them and Conspiracy.
underrated as in one of the popular metal bands of all time?
Death‘s Symbolic is also definitely a ten outta ten -Each song has its own wonderful moment-,
Celtic Frost’s Monotheist,and
the EP “Agonie” from Der Weg Einer Freiheit (German Black Metal).
But also totally agree with the ones I know in your list, Brad 🙂
Every Death album is gold from start to finish
Yeah symbolic has gotta be their best album
Symbolic absolutely should be on this list. It’s a perfect album and very influential
Mgła - Exercises in futility deserves to be on this list
Thanks for sharing! Some of those I haven't had the pleasure of listening to but I'm certainly going to!
Here are some that I think are 10/10
Seputura - Chaos AD
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Testament - The Gathering
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
'Symbolic' by Death, 'Arise' by Sepultura and 'The Machination of Dementia' by Blotted Science all need to be on here.
mad props for mentioning blotted science! wow!
@@cartmandreamer9703 👊🏻 Absolutely insane stuff. Ron is completely unique and a monster of metal.
bro symbolic should've been on there
this guy gets it
Top 20
1. The Fall of Ideals by All that Remains
2. The Sound of Perseverance by Death
3. Crack the Skye by Mastodon
4. Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God
5. The Way of All Flesh by Gojira
6. Shogun by Trivium
7. An Ocean between Us by As I Lay Dying
8. Follow the Reaper by Children of Bodom
9. Cowboys from Hell by Pantera
10. Time 1 by Wintersun
11. Rust in Peace by Megadeth
12. Avenged Sevenfold self titled
13. Colors by Between the buried and me
14. Epitaph by Necrophagist
15. Planetary Duality by The Faceless
16. Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom
17. A Perfect Absolution by Gorod
18. And Justice For All by Metallica
19. A New Order by Testament
20. A Sense of Purpose by In Flames
A shocking number of these are in my top 20 too
I love the fact that you included Colors
i love the instrumental version of mastodon's crack the skye. i heard this first and thought jesus this doesn't need vocals at all. such a fine album
You sir have great taste
Honestly imo Gojira just gets better with each new album. Fortitude > L’Enfant Sauvage > TWOAF > From Mars to Sirius > The Link > Terra Incognita
Yes, fun and informative. THANK YOU! I will make sure to catch up on a few that I was missing out on.
Symphony of Enchanted Lands by Rhapsody of Fire should also be included. Greatest symphonic power metal ever written.
I've literally never heard anyone give Seventh Son proper credit before. It's always been by far my favourite Maiden album and one of the best of all time. Kudos.
I used to get shit ALL THE TIME from my friends back then because I loved (and still love) that album.
100%. That album in my opinion is just perfection. Every song is a complete banger
it was meant to be called, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh ,
but they ran out of space on the cover,
I went through their discog when I was like 14 and found that album, love it way more than Number of the Beast or Powerslave. Whole thing RIPS.
It's not as heavy as earlier Maiden albums, but the songwriting and the concept are great.
I know it's overplayed, but Crazy Train is honestly my favorite song ever. Everything about Randy's guitar on that song is *perfect.*
Absolutely. It was a shame he died so young.
Yeah R. I. P Randy Rhoads
hard to disagree with although the solos on Bark at the Moon might be my two favorite
I don't care for a lot of songs that are classic rock radio staples, mostly on account of being overplayed, but "Crazy Train," particularly Rhoads' solo, never gets old for me.
Mine is Peg Steely Dan. But yeah, Crazy Train is a perfect song.
Slipknot Vol.Mid? But no Self Titled???!!!
Iowa is the best slipknot album!
A few magnificent albums: Tiamat - Wildhoney, Anathema - Serenades, Mgła - Exercises in futility, Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane; Kataklysm - Sorcery; Alcest - Écailles de Lune; Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunders Roar
О да, Тиамат) отличный альбом
My all times best
Death - The sound of perseverance
Dark tranquillity - The gallery
Dream theater - Images & words
Opeth - Blackwater park
Plus some others already in that list
Images and Words is absolute killer stuff. They'll never top it in my opinion.
Tbh I like all of Deaths stuff, their first album is class as well.
you are the 2nd person on this thread to mention dark tranquillity - the gallery. after years of playing it for friends and family, i thought i was the only one to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. unfortunately the only time i have seen dt live, punish my heaven was the only song they played from the gallery. makes sense though, as at the time they were touring on damage done.
@@user-yn1sf9mq3z Oh Lethe
Let’s be honest. Master and ride are the 2 metal classics that everyone would say is timeless. Wanna test a speaker or a guitar ? Listen / play those. So fun to play and just insane timeless classics.
Artillery - By Inheritance (1990) is in my opinion the definition of a 10/10 album, amazing riffs, drumming, solos, honestly doesn’t sound like any other thrash album ever, and to cap it off has amazing production thanks to Rasmussen
Living dead beat has my favorite intro ever written. The dark keyboards to that awesome dive bomb, just perfect
I think Korn's debut self-titled album should be on here too. It broke new ground, was raw and powerful, and inspired an entirely new genre of music (for better or for worse).
100% agreed
My personal fav Korn album probably follow the leader but your pick deserves it for sure!
I feel like korn was more hard rock than metal at that time. I wasn’t expecting it here. But yeah it was definitely innovative at the time. Their first few albums were amazing.
@@CreativeMindsAudio nah Korn is definitely nu metal
@@DanzGmod565 yeah definitely on follow the leader, but i felt life is peachy and self titled were less so. but that's just my opinion i know it doesn't align with others.
Apex by Unleash The Archers is definitely a 10/10 for me. The riffs, the vocals, the drumming, it's all just perfection.
Abyss is 11/10 then haha
Fuck yeah!!! soo good !!!! I listen to that album almost daily
That and Abyss are both masterpieces for sure!
Stunning how a modern Metal band can sound like they were one of the all time greats from days past but a lot of people don't even know them. Like all their instruments and vocals are on such a high level and they are ONE band together. Insane. They have had to be casted xD
%100. What an album that was - wish I could listen to it for the first time again.
My perfect albums would be:
- ...And Justice For All by Metallica
- Painkiller by Judas Priest
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
- Rust in Peace by Megadeth
- Awake by Godsmack
- Cowboys From Hell by Pantera
- Lateralus by Tool
- Wisconsin Death Trip by Static-X
- No Rest for the Wicked by Ozzy Osbourne
A perfect album to me is an album where I love every single song. These are just the metal ones too. I have a bunch of non-metal albums on my "perfect albums" list haha. Great video!
3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish for me came out of nowhere. Just when you though this type of metal disappeared this album dropped for me 10/10 all killer songs.
Painkiller will always and forever be my #1 favorite album of all time! \m/
I listened the shit out of that cd.
Priest has a lot of strong albums
@@jip5889 i listened to the shit out of that cassette! hahaha. then i bought it on cd after the cassette started to sound funny. my buddy also had it on cassette and we wore his copy out too, riding around in his car back in high school.
My personal honorable mentions:
Dream Theater - Awake
Cynic - Focus
Fates Warning - No Exit
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Pain Of Salvation - On Hour By The Concrete Lake
Threshold - Clone
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
I think most people wouldn’t even rank Youthanasia top 4 among Megadeth. It only has one song that ever gets played live. Solid album but RIP, CTE, PS are head and shoulders better and several others like KIMB, SFSGSW, Endgame, Dystopia are at least tied with it imo
Great list! Seventh Son is an absolute epic. I'd like to suggest White Pony by Deftones. Maybe not metal in the strictest sense but still very heavy in parts
Tough to make a list like this. Everyone has different preferences. I liked a lot of Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Meadeth, Slayer, Helloween. But a band I liked a lot that doesn't seem to get enough attention is Mercyful Fate.
The album Don't Break the Oath is one of my favorite metal albums.
Opeth's Blackwater Park is the most perfect album written in the last 25 years of Metal
Totally agree.. pure perfection album..don't forget to put Lateralus - Tool is also one of the best albums in 21st century 👍
I was on the fence between Blackwater and Ghost. I won't hate too much.
My Arms, Your Hearse is the best album ever written
It's one of the greatest albums, any genre. Bought it when it came out never having listened to Opeth before. Was blown away.
Words of wisdom.
Thanks for the great list, have a few new albums to listen to now. I think "Epitaph" by Necrophagist or "Symbolic" by Death could've made the list if it had been longer, but still a great list!
Yeah I guess it depends on which opinion you have, but like I said I think those albums are near perfection, I even might have added "Reign in Blood" and I consider "...And Justice For All" near perfection (it is not perfect thought, mostly because the Bass is missing and two songs are "only" decent), but like I mentioned it depends on which opinion you have, and that's just mine.
honestly with every album ive fully heard in this list i agree with, albums i would add would be:
show no mercy - slayer
pain remains - lorna shore
…and i return to nothingness - lorna shore (EP)
TSOP - death
leprosy - death
reign in blood - slayer
altars of madness - morbid angel
1989 - taylor swift
Rust in peace By megadeth, Gojira from Mars to Saturn and sound of perseverance by death.Probably have to be my favorite albums
"The Chemical Wedding" By Bruce Dickinson. I would say it´s one of the best Hardrock/Metal Album of the 90´s.
Great solos, great songs.
You are pretty spot on here, accident of birth is a real metal gem too
Would've chosen Crack the Skye for Mastodon.
Catch 33 is a wild choice for Meshuggah as It's either loved or hated. I admire your courage.
System of a Down's self titled debut is their best, but I understand why you'd rather go with the universally beloved Toxicity.
I fully agree with everything you said about Children of Bodom and Are You Dead Yet.
Solid list. Part 2 coming?
That first System of a Down album was a game changer for sure
Crack the Skye is just on another level, they really set the bar too high on that one, is an absolute masterpiece of an album. Brent killed it specially, album was mainly written by him. That's also when he lost his sanity 😂😂😂
The nostalgia!!! Haven't heard some of these songs since my teen years. Really brought me back.
Even the (former adepts and) current Metallica haters must admit Master of Puppets + Ride The Lightning are their guilty pleasures and both albums are untouchable in terms of (the combination of) melody, heavyness, composition, variety and speed.
Metallica were always seen as sell outs by us oldies even in the 80's, but after Dyer's Eve is the band's what spiritually broke/killed the band for me. (Holy Wars...The Punishment Due broke MegaDeth, Walk broke Pantera.. )
The Black Album onwards is commercial radio friendly trash and pop/rock and not true metal...
@@PeterKnagge so metal is all about not trying to be commercially successfull? Not about making good music? Metallica grew rapidly without any radio airplay, because their music is more accessible for 'outsiders'.
What's your definition of selling out? Being commercially successfull? That's the biggest bullshit.
Metallica never made music for their fans, but music they wanted to make in certain periods of time.
Making music solely to please your fans for me is the ultimate example of selling out.
I don't agree with the first poster. But the fact is, Metallica sold out BY THEIR OWN standards.
They said, shortly before they did it, they'd never do a music video for MTV because it was all sellout bullshit. And lol and behold.
They literally sold out according to their own terms and no one else's. I mean, let's be real. Metallica is super gateway level shit, and they have two top tier albums, Ride and Master. Bands like Kreator, Slayer, Testament and Overkill have been more consistent overtime and have healthier catalogs as well.
Metallica is famous for being at the right place at the right time, and dropping 3 solid albums and 2 great ones. And they deserve whatever success comes from that.
Simply, they aren't gods, they're sellouts by THEIR OWN standards, and they've done some hyper cringey shit from the Napster debacle to dropping "GIMME FU, GIMME FIYAH, GIMME ZEGAZEGAZAYUH"
And Kill ‘Em All. “No Remorse” is arguably the best song they ever recorded.
Heavy Metal is an underground backlash against the Conservative Christian Fundamentalist Capitalist Cold War 80's. It is a secret underground counter-culture brotherhood that is anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-religious, and anti-authoritarian.
Current music and gamer culture has taken minority counter-cultures and turned them upside-down and are nothing to do and the complete opposite with their 80's roots.
The difference between how Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Rave, and computer gaming culture started and today is like the difference between being on Earth and on Mars. All these counter-cultures have sold out their 80's roots. It's right there in the name for you, "Heavy Metal". Most metal heads these days wouldn't know a power chord if it slapped them in the face...
Oh, Symphony X, they are so good and so underrated.
Although Odyssey is a great album, I personally recommend to listen The Divine Wings of Tragedy, it's a real masterpiece from the first notes to the very end
They get put into the power metal box often, which is definitely a part of their sound but theyre so much more. Communion and the oracle is one of the most beautiful songs ever for me.
Gotta have Paradise Lost
@@Jablan11 I think that's mostly due to their neoclassical metal inspiration, which for what it's worth, isn't even representative of Power Metal as a whole.
I agree with you on Rust in Peace, SFAM, Painkiller, Master of Puppets for sure. I think In Flames Jester Race deserves to be on there. Maybe Hammerfall's Glory to the Brave or Legacy of Kings. Edguy has a few albums that could be on there, maybe Mandrake or Hellfire Club. Death deserves to be on there too, Sound of Perseverance probably. It's a live album but Nightwish's End of an Era is 10/10.
Jester Race is awesome!
Type O Negative - October Rust
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 & 2
Death - Sound of Perseverance
Sepultura - Arise
October Rust is a brilliant album
I would have chosen Pantera- Far Beyond Driven as their perfect album
Yes slaughtered is a banger
cowboys or trendkill for me. haha
@@user-yn1sf9mq3z I have been listening to Trendkill lately. Floods is just an amazing song with a truly profound solo.
That 5th song is a huge miss and I could definitely do without the cover at the end. Lose those two and it’s a 10/10
You can point to Helloween's first three albums as having definitively created Power Metal, and the third album, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, is a masterpiece conclusion to a perfect 3 album run.
2nd keeper is just perfect. Pink Bubbles is great. Chameleon is awesome, just different. Time of the oath is also great. 7th sinner is almost perfect
Their 2022 album is basically keeper of the seven keys part 3
@@jeffreywarf Helloween Self titled is so fucking good, I sense 2 more perfect albums are coming
@@diamondrel5190 I feel like even if we don't get those we still got out for glory, skyfall, and fear of the fallen as new power metal anthems
Glad to see them mentioned.
I was surprised you didn't go with Iowa for the Slipknot one, but Vol. 3 is also a masterpiece. Excellent choice.
You gave me a very nice playlist to put together on my spotify. Also, I don't know some of this bands, but they sounds good! 🎉
For spanish speaking audience: Rata Blanca's "Magos, Espadas y Rosas", and Baron Rojo's "Metalmorfosis"
7th son, Painkiller, Rust in Peace and Master of Puppets are probably in my top 5 albums
I would add Keeper 1/2 by Helloween, Avantasia 1, Queensryche's Empire, Accept's Restless and Wild, and Slayer's South of Heaven or Reign in Blood.
Great video!!! Thank you.
Operation Mindcrime is far better than Empire.
My own personal 10 Top Tier Metal Albums (in no particular order):
1. MegaDeth ~ Rust In Peace
2. King Diamond ~ "Them"
3. Overkill ~ The Years Of Decay
4. Overkill ~ Horrorscope
5. Sepultura ~ Arise
6. Pantera ~ Cowboys From Hell
7. Death ~ Human
8. Testament ~ Practice What You Preach
9. Iron Maiden ~ Powerslave
10. Death Angel ~ Act II
Overkill are horrendously underrated. Incredible band, incredible longevity. Ironbound could qualify too.
Agree 10/10! \m/
I would also add... Some of CARCASS (Heartwork, Swansong, Torn Arteries, any...), because, I love that sound and production
@@Igoya972 carcass heartwork is on mine
Love Death Angel - Act III was the best for me
İ would say İron Maiden or somewhere in time to İron Maiden. İ like powerslave to but these 2 stands out more for me
Your energy is contagious
Some of my personal 10s:
Symphony X - The Odyssey.
- Divine Wings of Tragedy.
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
- And Justice For All.
Gojira - From Sirius To Mars
- Opeth - Blackwater Park
AJFA and Rust in Peace are it for me. Both are the pinnacle of each band.
Aside from the nonexistent bass
AJFA is arguably the best album they've ever written, however it's one of tbe worst they ever produced and as a result I can't out it over MoP
@@ram76921best way I’ve ever seen anyone put it
@@ram76921 agreed
@@haydenrhead7692enough with that shizz. It's just killer tunes, maaaan
The Blackening better be in this list.
Agreed
"Your tastes better align with mine exactly .."
Oooooh, good call. Not even a huge machine head fan, but the Blackening is top tier
@@sheehan666 "I go out of my way to not see the funny side of things so I can try to make people feel bad for some reason". Lighten up champ.
@@luken9263 sorry bro. I'm on the instagram too much.
Edge of Sanity - Crimson and Crimson II, are both 10/10 imo
Death - The Sound of Perseverance, is probably 10/10 aswell.
Behemoth’s ‘Demigod’ will always be one of the most brutal metal albums for me, from start to finish. Their best album. Along with Mastodon’s ‘Leviathan’.
Honestly, Behemoth got better with their discography since Thelema.6 in 2000 but still, ditto that on Demigod. The Satanist is my favorite, though.
Morbid Angel's Altar of Madness, Kreator's Coma of Souls, and Slayer's Season in the Abyss are three more 10/10 classics.
altars of madness so catchy definitely agree
Morbid Angel are overrated af to me
A list without Slayer and Morbid Angel goes to show the author of this video is a poser.
Good call on Altars, would of gone Hell Awaits though
Blessed are the sick, pleasure to kill and Reign in blood.
Opeth has three 10/10 albums:
Still Life
Blackwater Park
Ghost Reveries
Where’s Death?
There are so many hidden gems (10/10), almost impossible to name them all. Ever heard of Above Symmetry (former Aspera) - Ripples? Kinda a one hit wonder, but totally 10/10. Also, Scar Symmetry the whole Discography is a 10/10 (for me at least) - just perfect. Other than that very good list, lots of tens for me as well.
The most recent 10/10s albums are:
Vektor - Terminal Redux (2016)
Mgla - Exercises in Futility (2015)
I like Mgla but still the hype that album got and obviously still gets shocks me. I guess around that time I wasn't even paying too much attention to new stuff in the first place, so when I heard it it was well after they got popular, and the first thing I thought was "this has been done before".
Don't get me wrong, its a good album and I think Groza is even better, buuuut man even Kriegshammer gives them a run for their money, and its the same dudes!
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Candlemass - Nightfall
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Death - Symbolic
Kamelot - The Black Halo
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
These are also some 10/10 metal albums.
I'm willing to argue that The Black Halo is the greatest power metal album ever made, and definitely in my personal top 3 metal albums, alongside Parallax 2 by Between the Buried and Me and Odyssey to the West by Slice the Cake.
Oh yea that dahlia album was 🔥... havent listened to it in a bit but I remember there were no skips for me
Annihilation is one of my all time most memorable. Lashed to the slave stick! The solo in the first song. It's the kind of album you play to someone you love and just laugh at how good it is
@@talo718 Yes. The Black Halo is a monster album. Every single track is memorable. As a matter of fact, I think 2005 is the greatest year in metal history. The Black Halo, This Godless Endeavor, Annihilation of The Wicked, Ascendancy, Ghost Reveries, From Mars To Sirius, Those Once Loyal, Harnessing Ruin, The Gathering Wilderness, Alien...all of these albums came out in 2005.
@@NAT-turners-Revenge Yes. It's a beast of an album and Deathmask Divine is one of the greatest songs ever written.
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Daemons & Wizzards’ first album is perfect. Nothing left, everything is just perfect and epic Heavy metal riffing.
For me Nightwish - Once is a 10/10 album love it
I listened to Nightwish so much during a time that all the songs from Once now remind me of my most cringe years and that kinda ruined it for me. Tarja best waifu.
Agreed. Even the bonus tracks are awesome. If you have that version that is.
@@jimthar17 yepp I love all the songs!
agreee ... l listen it during my workout session ...really boosts me up
Once is my favorite fucking album of all time. Everything about it is gold.
I actually wrote an entire paper in college on "Ghost Reveries". That album changed my life.
Link me up
link?
Death_ the sound of perseverance is a 11/10
I know they're a lot smaller than the bands on this list, but Veil of Maya - False Idol is one of my favorite albums of all time
I love A7X's self-titled, but City of Evil wipes the floor with it
100%
Absolutely
Yeah definitely agree here.
Waking the Fallen is better than both
My personal favorite favorite "album" of theirs is diamonds in the rough, second by coe and third nightmare
Great list! Love seeing some love for Symphony X and Opeth 🤘
Damn, I bought all of these albums back in the earlier 2000’s, your list is basically the same as I would have made. Crazy, perfect taste😂
If you're planning a part II, it would be really nice to see Death and Iced Earth.
A few extra picks I would recommend
-Black Sabbath, Volume 4: I consider this to be their best album, it has this sort of atmospheric magic
-Dio, Holy Diver: This classic plays like a greatest hits album
-Sodom, M16: This German thrash metal band is criminally underrated
-Exodus, Bonded by Blood: The vocals and guitar work kick so much ass here, possibly one of the greatest metal album debuts of all time
-Death, Spiritual Healing: What’s not to love about Death? Every instrument in Spiritual Healing is on point
Great..
ong im disappointed that death was not even on there, and sodom are extremely underrated, they're so good.
Sodom - Agent Orange would be close to my top 20, so would Exodus