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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: vibrant spot
I think this should be broken down by category because the subgenres are so distinct
1. Classic Era (Sabbath, Iron Maiden)
2. Thrash Era (Metallica, Megadeath)
3. Prog/Mathcore (Dream Theater, Animals As Leaders)
4. Death/Black metal (Death, Mayhem)
5. Modern (Gojira, Mastodon, anything contemporary etc)
Please limit your responses to THREE albums per category. You must adhere to the RULES
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:38 PM Author: iridescent filthpig temple
will update as they come to mind
Lateralus - Tool
Aenima - Tool
Crack the Skye - Mastodon
7th Son of a 7th Son - Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath (1970) - Black Sabbath
The Joy of Motion - Animals as Leaders
Home - Sevendust
Dead Roots Stirring - Elder
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Downward Spiral - NIN
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:42 PM Author: histrionic sticky ticket booth
Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Necrophagist - Epitapth
but really, too many to list
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Date: August 14th, 2025 7:55 AM Author: Avocado Plaza Giraffe
cr
although I remember one of my old rock album guides from the late 90s slammed Cannibal Corpse, My Dying Bride, Deicide, and Emperor all together under the heading "Death Metal".
Which, lol, but I guess if you're a normie music guy writing for the normie music market it makes sense to think of all the extreme metal coming out as kind of similar.
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:52 PM Author: iridescent filthpig temple
Meshuggah has 3 entries easily
Koloss
Violent Sleep of Reason
ObZen
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:11 PM Author: awkward cracking trailer park
1. Classic Era - Master of Reality, Sad Wings of Destiny, Lightning to the Nations
2. Thrash Era - Master of Puppets, Twisted into Form, Arise
3. Prog/Mathcore - Obzen, Focus, Scenes from a Memory
4. Death/Black metal - Spiritual Healing, Cause of Death, Heartwork
5. Modern - From Mars to Sirius, Ashes of the Wake, Outer Isolation
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:37 PM Author: Slap-happy lay shitlib
black metal:
burzum - filosofem
burzum - hvis lyset tar oss
xasthur - telepathic with the deceased
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:26 PM Author: Magenta deep principal's office
Black metal:
Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas
Taake - Doedskvad
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Viking metal:
Bathory - Hammerheart
Windir - 1184
Obtest - Auka Seniems Dievams
NSBM:
Absurd - Blutgericht
Goatmoon - Finnish Steel Storm
Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:28 PM Author: iridescent filthpig temple
Circadian album by Intervals is the most underrated potus djent metal album imo
unskippable
ive probably listeend to signal hill like 50K times
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:07 PM Author: talented arrogant church
Turn Loose the Swans is definitely towards the top of any metal list.
Ulver's trilogie, Borknagar's first few LPs, & La Masquerade Infernale are up there on the BM side, but these likely reflect my tastes in the genre. Nightside Eclipse for straightforward BM. Dictius Te Necare still wins most necro.
Hail to England for straight metal. And yes, I'm a diehard Manowar fan.
Draconian Times is up there as well.
I'm biased towards 90s melodic DM. It's hard to compare that to some of the highly technical/produced stuff over the last 20 years. Allegaeon has some great work, but you really can't compare them to early Benediction.
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Date: August 14th, 2025 12:50 PM Author: Shaky indian lodge volcanic crater
INFAMOUS
BUTCHER
ANGEL OF DEAAAAAAAAAAATH
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:36 PM Author: histrionic sticky ticket booth
Lol@ thinking they are even worth mentioning ITT
exodus - shovel headed kill machine is probably better than all of slayers work combined. pantera not mentioned ITT either yet they were far more influential
retarded op included thrash, then left out quintessential power, speed, and neoclassical
you can smell these poser bitches from a mile away if you are an actual metalhead
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Date: August 14th, 2025 7:53 AM Author: Avocado Plaza Giraffe
1. Classic: Paranoid, Number of the Beast, Screaming for Vengeance [Sabbath, Maiden, Priest]
2. Thrash: Master of Puppets, Among the Living, Reign in Blood [Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer]
3. Prog: Images and Words, Imaginos [I'd argue it's pretty proggy even if it isn't traditional progressive metal], IDK, Mr. Bungle?? [Dream Theater, Blue Oyster Cult, Mr. Bungle]. Otherwise I guess Blackwater Park [Opeth].
4. Extreme Metal: Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here; The Autophagous Orgy; Left Hand Path [Anaal Nathrakh, Lord Gore, Entombed]
5. Modern: Leviathan, Lord of the Wasteland, Closing In [Mastodon, Steelwing, Early Man]
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:39 AM Author: Avocado Plaza Giraffe
TY
Blood Mountain actually is better IMO. I never gave Crack the Skye enough listens.
"Blood and Thunder" really carries a lot of Leviathan but Iron Tusk and Island are good
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:56 AM Author: violet milk
this is a great list, but I only have knowledge of #1 and #2 categories and a little of #3
Mine would go like this, in no particular order:
Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (just fucking amazing for 1970)
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Slayer - Reign in Blood
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Date: August 14th, 2025 3:21 PM Author: Avocado Plaza Giraffe
I went through a huge hair metal phase in law school, not flame, so have Qualifications to speak on this
I like "Seventeen" but never really listened to much other Winger
Kip sounds chill though
Skid Row is top tier hair metal in my opinion
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Date: August 14th, 2025 3:09 PM Author: jet-lagged glittery pistol gay wizard
Classic Era
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Iron Maiden – The Number of the Beast
Thrash Era
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Modern
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:24 PM Author: iridescent filthpig temple
they made 2 pretty good riffs and thats it, they are white trash hacks imo
shitty melodies, cringe solos, no understanding of hooks, pacing, chorueses are trash. Drummer has zero pocket and fills are retarded, and some of the worst mixing other than metallica with cliff
i cant stand pantera
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