Top 5 Metal/Rock albums?

[GraphicBleeder]

Title says all about this post. What are your all's top 5 favorite Metal/Rock albums? You can put more if you like.

Mine personally are:

 

1. Rust in Peace - Megadeth
2. The Number of The Beast - Iron Maiden
3. Tomb of The Mutilated - Cannibal Corpse
4. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
5. Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys 

[Stupid Bunny]

I've always found this question impossible to answer because there's so many I love and which have influenced me as a person in various ways, so I'll just go with the first 5 that come to my head as ones that will always be special to me and that tickle my heart and/or brain in an especially profound way

 

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

2. Skepticism - Lead and Aether

3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

4. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!

5. Type O Negative - World Coming Down

[Swordofdanu]

I have a very wide and varied taste in classic Rock. 

 

1.  Sabotage - Black Sabbath

2.  Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.  Vol 4 - Black Sabbath 

4.  Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath 

5.  Holy Diver - Dio

[GraphicBleeder]

5 minutes ago, Swordofdanu said:

I have a very wide and varied taste in classic Rock. 

 

1.  Sabotage - Black Sabbath

2.  Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.  Vol 4 - Black Sabbath 

4.  Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath 

5.  Holy Diver - Dio

It may just be me, but I think he likes Black Sabbath.

[Nevander]

1. Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance

2. Dream Theater - Images & Words

3. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

4. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

5. DragonForce - Maximum Overload

[DJVCardMaster]

I've been locked down into grunge lately, so trying to remember what I had considered the best 5 back in the day is difficult.

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
3. Alice in Chains - Dirt
4. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
5. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Fuck it, the actual list:

1. Alice in Chains - Dirt
2. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
3. Pearl Jam - Vs.
4. Nirvana - In utero
5. Kerbdog - On the Turn

Grunge all the way, my brain is already severely damaged.

[seed]

I can never make a top 5 given how many I like, so 5 that I do:

 

1. Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism.

2. Bathory - The Return.

3. Katharsis - Fourth Reich.

4. Entombed - Left Hand Path.

5. Slugathor - Circle of Death.

[hybridial]

It's something that changes a lot, still I like to figure out what I feel it is on any given particular day. 

 

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3. Be'Lakor - Vessels

4. In Mourning - Afterglow

5. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

[Uncle 80]

Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey

Ministry - Filth Pig

LARD - Pure Chewing Satisfaction

Chimaira - The Impossibillity Of Reason

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage

 

[Boaby Kenobi]

Broken - Nine Inch Nails

Rated R - Queens of the Stone Age

The Great Southern Trendkill - Pantera

Without You I'm Nothing - Placebo

Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim - Pixes

 

[Midnight_00]

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium

Trouble - Psalm 9

Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Darkthrone - Panzerfaust

 

Five isn't many though, so my choices would probably change fairly often.

[Doom_Dude]

1> Rush - Permanent Waves

2> Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3> Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction

4> Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5> Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

 

[Taw Tu'lki]

Metal

1. Accept - Balls To The Wall (1983)
2. DIO - Holy Diver (1983)

3. Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)

4. Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990)

5. Black Sabbath - Sabotage (1975)

Edited March 5, 2021 by Taw Tu'lki

[qdash]

Motorhead - Overkill

Type O Negative - October Rust

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

Down - Nola II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow

[The Lone Wolf]

1-Stratovarius Destiny

2-Black Sabbath Psycho Man (I know it is not power metal)

3-Helloween Dark Ride

4-Frank Zappa - Muffin Man

5-Amon Amarth - Father Of The Wolf

[Nekr0s1s]

1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. KMFDM - Nihil

4. Rammstein - Mutter

5. Dir En Grey - Withering To Death

[Payload4367]

- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath: Black Sabbath

- Reign in Blood: Slayer

- Tomb of the Mutilated: Cannibal Corspe

- Dimension Hatros: VoiVod

- Harmony Corruption: Napalm Death

[joepallai]

Black Sabbath: Sabotage

Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath

Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman

Dio: Last in Line

AC/DC: If You Want Blood

[Soulless]

Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath

The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight / Acid King - Split album

Slayer: Live Undead

Sepultura: Schizophrenia

Darkthrone: A Blaze in the Northern Sky

 

 

[DesecratorJ]

I'll consider this thread as a top 5 classic rock/heavy metal to avoid a bit of a mental struggle of putting out a top 5 by not going through extreme metal or other sub shit.

 

1. Judas Priest - Stained Class

2. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

3. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

4. Angel Witch - Angel Witch

5. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

[ReX]

1. Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

2. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon

3. The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street

4. Deep Purple: Made in Japan

5. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery

 

[Ask me again tomorrow and I'll have a different list. Heh.]

[Serum]

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Protest the Hero - Fortress

3. Steely Dan - Aja

4. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want

5. Tool - Lateralus

 

On 2/28/2021 at 6:01 AM, hybridial said:

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park 

Man of culture i see

[Sotenga]

Damn, lots of good stuff in here. I'm also fickle, but for now, I'm going to say...

 

1: Rush - Signals

2: Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

3: Alice In Chains - Dirt

4: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

5: Metallica - Master of Puppets

 

... you know what, let's make this a top ten because why not.

 

6: Ween - Quebec

7: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

8: Yes - Close to the Edge

9: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

10: Ghost - Prequelle (practically the only modern band that I like!)

 

... and because I'm crazy, some honorable mentions: Sheer Heart Attack by Queen, Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Animals by Pink Floyd, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden, Worship Music by Anthrax, October Rust by Type O Negative, Sailing the Seas of Cheese by Primus, Obsolete by Fear Factory, Angel Dust by Faith No More, and as has been said already, Rust In Peace by Megadeth is still a classic. And there's probably even more I could list. This is... kind of my wheelhouse in music, lol.

[ReX]

@Sotenga: Amen to Selling England by the Pound, Hot Rats, Close to the Edge, and Animals.

[roadworx]

oof, only 5? why you gotta make it so hard, my list of favorites changes every two minutes so i can't have just five

 

1.) pink floyd - the wall

2.) spirit - twelve dreams of dr.sardonicus

3.) nektar - a tab in the ocean

4.) emerson, lake & palmer - tarkus

5.) the doors - the doors

 

 

 

 

edit: fuck it

 

king crimson - 21st century schizoid man
the moody blues - days of future passed
yes - close to the edge
van der graaf generator - h to he who am the only one
le orme - felona e sorona
camel - mirage
alphataurus - alphataurus
the alan parsons project - i, robot
uriah heep - look at yourself
anything pink floyd made before 1980
the doors - strange days
eloy - ocean
rush - moving pictures

gentle giant - the power and the glory

the alan parsons project - tales of mystery and imagination

yes - the yes album

jethro tull - stand up

simon & garfunkel - sounds of silence

king crimson - red

help there's too many

 

Edited March 2, 2021 by roadworx

[Lippeth]

Not necessarily in any order or well thought out enough to represent anything other than what's fresh in my mind right now. It's hard to pick just five, but luckily everyone here seems to have filled in the rest.

 

Metal:

• Gwar - Violence Has Arrived
• Death - The Sound of Perseverance
• Opeth - Still Life
• Cryptopsy - None So Vile
• Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated

Rock:

• Pink Floyd - Animals
• Nirvana - In Utero
• Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
• Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
• Tool - Undertow

[feedernseeder]

st. anger is definitely up there

[Pompeji]

Metal:

 

 - Cowboys from Hell - Pantera

 - The Nothing - Korn

 - Around The Fur - Deftones

 - Ride the Lightning- Metallica

 - Christ Illusion - Slayer

 

Rock:

 

 - Bleach - Nirvana

 - Tool - Lateralus

 - Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

 - Ohms - Deftones(dunno if it classifies as metal)

 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

[ReX]

On 3/1/2021 at 8:47 PM, Lippeth said:

Rock:

• Pink Floyd - Animals
• Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Animals and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida are such underrated albums.

 

Got to be able to pick out the easy meat with your eyes closed
Then moving in silently down wind and out of sight
You got to strike when the moment is right, without thinking......

[Lippeth]

1 hour ago, ReX said:

Animals and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida are such underrated albums.

I almost put Deep Purple's Machine Head instead of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, both really great albums for different reasons. Animals is just a classic, I probably listen to that and Meddle most often when in the mood for Floyd.