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Best Metal Albums of All Time?
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) 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 7:39 PM Author: Ricky define the eras by years tyia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182804) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:44 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) No this is based on style not time period (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182815) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:48 PM Author: Ricky some groups encompass classic and modern like tools early albums vs last 2-3 labums (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182834) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:48 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Tool is an alternative rock band but you do what you want as long as you limit it to 3 albums per category son (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182836) |
Date: August 13th, 2025 7:38 PM Author: Ricky 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 7:43 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Agree re Crack the Skye it's a masterpiece (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182813) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:01 PM Author: scholarship It’s 18000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183274) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:47 PM Author: Rich Innerlife wtf NIN isn't metal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182832) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:48 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Cr NIN is banned from contention by the OP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182835) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: Candy Ride (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182841) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:42 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) Dying Fetus - War of Attrition Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis Necrophagist - Epitapth
but really, too many to list |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:43 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) op = fucktard for grouping dm + bm, lmao fucking poser (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182814) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:45 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I do what I want (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182819) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:45 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) i lollercaust in every one of these hilarious metal threads (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182823) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:47 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) csb everyone was sitting around waiting for your hot take (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182827) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) its rare when im not trolling and posting seriously, but when i substantively engage in a discussion its because i am actual MFE on the topic with no intellectual equal
literally every discussion of "metal" on xoxo is like kindergarters "talking about" higgs fields |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:57 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Ok nyuug-san. I am here the learn. Bring light to the darkness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182865) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:59 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) *downs syndrome baby INSISTING he be admitted to MENSA* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182869) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:59 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Story of my life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182873) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:01 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) if youre gonna do a list then break it down into eras + subgenres that arent fucktarded
Lol@ thinking carpathian forest is anything like the faceless |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:02 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I'm sticking to my guns. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182881) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) poserfag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182884) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:04 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I will not let you cum into my thread and speak to me this way. I am the OP. These are my rules. If you don't like it you can always start your own thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182890) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:28 PM Author: Poast Dispenser So by your own admission, you are an idiot about virtually everything except for metal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182949) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:37 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) He does seem to have a lot of opinions about Metal fwiw. Prior to this I don't think I knew anything about nyuug. This Humanizes him imo imo
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Date: August 14th, 2025 7:55 AM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) 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 9:09 PM Author: Echoes of Wisdom ((zurich is stained)) Zipperheads listening to metal is funny to me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183106) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:13 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) cumskins tanning to be like niggers is funny to me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183120) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) It's amazing how successful nyuug was in this thread. Grateful for his contributions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183342) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:51 PM Author: don't fight the hypo Blackwater Park should be included in the prog top 3, that album is a masterpiece (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182844) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:01 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I used to listen to Opeth as a kid. I remember thinking the melodies weren't very good though. But I should revisit it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182878) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:52 PM Author: Ricky Meshuggah has 3 entries easily
Koloss
Violent Sleep of Reason
ObZen |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:54 PM Author: Ricky Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium & Amputechture (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182856) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:59 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Mars Volta is also not a metal band Ricky you are in timeout (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182870) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 7:59 PM Author: Rich Innerlife are you fucking retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182874) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:11 PM Author: Metal Up Your Ass 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 8:36 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Really good list imo perhaps the best ITT. Thank you for following the Rules. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49182976) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:52 PM Author: Metal Up Your Ass tyty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183051) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:59 PM Author: Ricky AotW is SEVERELY underrated in riffs department (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183074) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:01 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Listening to it now. It's pretty good. The guitar is really the focal point. It's somehow very rhythmic and tasteful. I cannot say it's melodic or tuneful but it is TASTEFUL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183084) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 7:56 AM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) 180; Sad Wings of Destiny is incredible and TY for the Diamond Head love (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183782) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 10:30 AM Author: Metal Up Your Ass ofs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184172) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:37 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond black metal:
burzum - filosofem
burzum - hvis lyset tar oss
xasthur - telepathic with the deceased |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:45 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) not sure if it's the 'best' per se but Det som engang var has the coolest title possibly of any record ever. All due respect to De Mysteriis Dom Sathanus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183024) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Noah Tannebaum Kyuss is pretty good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183010) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 8:43 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Is this another troll? I am NFFI (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183018) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:03 PM Author: sealclubber uh, hair metal? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183087) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) just for you sealclubber, I'll make a one time exception owing to your limited understanding of the world (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183143) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:05 PM Author: .:.::;.:.;.::.;.:; Thick as a Brick?!? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183097) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:21 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) /banned this is prog rock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183145) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:27 PM Author: .:.::;.:.;.::.;.:; Thank you just happy to take a shot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183173) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:26 PM Author: ''''"""''""'" 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 9:31 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) can you rate Falkenbach's 1998 offering "Magni blandinn ok megintiri" please? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183197) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:44 PM Author: ''''"""''""'" In the conversation for top 5-10 viking metal album. I enjoyed it but rank it a bit lower because I never liked the vocals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183232) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:46 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) harsh, but fair. Favorite Burzum record? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183241) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:28 PM Author: Ricky 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 9:48 PM Author: hank_scorpio for classic I don't know how you can not name 3 albums with ozzy, wtf is better than sabbath or blizzard of oz? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183246) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 9:49 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I prefer Paranoid imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183248) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:07 PM Author: samoth 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 13th, 2025 10:10 PM Author: scholarship Was listening to the sword at the gym. pretty good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183307) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:44 PM Author: Ricky Cloak of Feathers from Apocryphon is fucking 18000000
you would like Elder if you like this |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 12:20 PM Author: scholarship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184686) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: samoth Also, 57 poasts without a single mention of Slayer is sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183314) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:20 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) They have One Song imo. It's a really good song. But it would be like if Metallica only had Master of Puppets and nothing else. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183328) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:22 PM Author: samoth You're nuts. They have hundreds.
And Ride >>>>>>>>>> Master, HTH. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:24 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) They're both good idrc.
Slayer were not good songwriters at all lol. They have one iconic riff but most of it is unlistenable. |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:24 PM Author: samoth You're not metal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183340) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) I just don't like Slayer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183343) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:26 PM Author: samoth We're saying the same thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183345) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:27 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Slayer sucks and you don't need to like it to be metal. You're really mad that people don't like Your Thing. You're the one who's butthurt I don't care if somebody doesn't like a metal record I care about. You're the one sperging out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183348) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 7:58 AM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) Slayer is more of a Mixed Bag. Angel of Death is possibly the greatest metal song ever written in terms of musicality + brutality + carrying that feeling of danger/'i don't know if i should be listening to this'. And Raining Blood is great.
But for as much as I find something like Piece by Piece catchy, it's pretty laughable, at least lyrically. |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184630) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:01 AM Author: cowshit Are you talking about Raining Blood from the album Reign in Blood? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183795) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:23 PM Author: Ricky Slayers only cr song is a Sabbath cover (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183335) |
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Date: August 13th, 2025 10:36 PM Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy) 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 13th, 2025 11:07 PM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) My favorite metal is Nu and my favorite metal band is Korn. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49183400) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 7:53 AM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) 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 11:12 AM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Mostly agree but Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye are better than Leviathan imo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184349) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:39 AM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) 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: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) Crack the Skye is probably the greatest prog/sludge/alternative metal album of all time. It's basically Master of Puppets. It may be too melodic for true metal heads though. Oblivion is a borderline rock song. Divinations is the hardest hitting song I've ever heard with truly elaborate musicianship. The guitar work is influenced by chicken pickin it's totally original and beyond belief. Nothing that has ever been made sounds remotely like this. Metalheads don't like it because the melodies are too good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184603) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:56 AM Author: michael doodikoff 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 11:59 AM Author: philosemitic antizionist (slop til you drop) No curveballs there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184614) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 12:00 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) lmao i started typing this exact list and then thought "i'll scroll up and see what i'm forgetting first"
great picks |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 12:03 PM Author: STEPHEN MILLER (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) Ride The Lightning over Among The Living tbh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184624) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:24 AM Author: Gefilte Fish Vindaloo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winger_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Pie_(album)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row_(Skid_Row_album) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:40 AM Author: Midwit Pun Advocate (No Future) Skid Row is really good
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:25 AM Author: don't fight the hypo ITT: ricky lists a bunch of shit that absolutely, positively IS NOT metal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762143&forum_id=2Reputation#49184423) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 12:02 PM Author: disaster capitalist wolverine blues by entombed is just a great album |