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edited April 2006 in Other Music
What are some essential heavy metal albums? I am looking to get aquainted with this genre
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  • brhf9brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    since i don't know shit about heavy metal i hope this can be helpful.

    http://rateyourmusic.com/list/bsabbath666/50_greatest_heavy_metal_albums_in_history/
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  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,561
    metallica i guess...
  • burnin-candleburnin-candle Posts: 158
    I BrisK I wrote:
    metallica i guess...

    "Early" Metallica. ;) Post 90's is just hard rock.
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  • fanch75fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    MetallicA - Master of Puppets. It begins & ends here. I'd start with that one and go from there (although pretty much everything will be a disappointment after hearing that masterpiece).

    Note - My fav MetallicA album is Ride The Lightning, but the general concensus is that Puppets is their finest work.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Slayer-reign in blood (although for a beginer seasons in the abyss is the friendliest to virgin ears)

    Metallica- master of puppets

    Iron maiden- number of the beast

    Megadeath- peace sells but who's buying

    pantera-vulgar display of power

    Venom-Black Metal

    Some newer albums i have enjoyed are :

    Mastadon- Leviathan
    High on Fire- Surrounded by Thieves
    opeth-blackwater park
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
  • transplanttransplant Posts: 1,088
    my old school favorites off the top of my head.

    Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Desting, Hell Bent For Leather, Screaming For Vengeance
    Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind
    Metallica - Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All
    Motorhead - Ace of Spades
    Anthrax - Among the Living
    Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz, Diary of a Madman
    Black Sabbath - s/t thru Sabatage
    Dio - Holy Diver, Last in Line
    Scorpions - Lovedrive, Blackout
    Queensryche - Rage For Order, Operation:Mindcrime
    UFO - Lights Out
    AC/DC - Back in Black, Highway to Hell
    Rush - 2112, Moving Pictures, Hemispheres
    Savatage - Gutter Ballet, Streets A Rock Opera
    Slayer - Hell Awaits, Haunting the Chapel, South of Heaven
    Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying

    I'll let the others list the more 'current'.
  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    don't listen to Rush or UFO or the Scorpions or ACDC if you are interested in metal.

    So uh yeah here is my current list of totally fucking amazing metal albums

    Strapping Young Lad - City
    At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
    Megadeth - Rust In Peace
    Mercyful Fate - Melissa
    Cryptopsy - None So Vile
    Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh (or Blessed Are The Sick)
    Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
    Emperor - IX Equilibrium
    Death - Scream Bloody Gore
    Pelican - The Fire In OUr THroats WIll Beckon The Thaw
    Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
    Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
    Jesu - Jesu
    Gory Blister - Art Bleeds
    Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm
    Meshuggah - Chaosphere
    Opeth - Blackwater Park
    Hellhammer - Hellhammer
    Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness
    Ensiferum - Iron
    Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
    Mastodon - Leviathan
    Burzum - Filosofem
    Sunn O))) - Flight Of The Behemoth
    Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
    Boris - Akuma No Uta (kind of)

    Yeah I guess thatis a really long list, but if you want me to explicate on any of them, I most certainly will. Got from all genres of metal there, except for the more mainstream stuff which for the most part has been pretty well covered
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  • pearl jam rulespearl jam rules Posts: 129
    LAMB OF GOD

    best newer metal band out there

    also try.....

    god forbid
    killswitch engage
    shadows fall

    and of course...
    80s metallica
    megadeth
    slayer
    PANTERA
  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    I'd like to add Operation Winter Mist's new album Imperial Grand Strategy on the list too. It is pretty awesome
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  • AxlUlrichAxlUlrich Posts: 12,652
    Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power, Far Beyond Driven, The Great Southern Trendkill
    MetallicA - first 4 albums
    Slayer - Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons in Abyss
    Mercyful Fate - Melissa
    Motorhead - Overkill
    Black Sabbath - Volume 4 or Paranoid
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    Led Zeppilen- anything by them
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Drifting Away wrote:
    Led Zeppilen- anything by them


    Ahem. Heavy Metal please.
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    since when isnt Zep heavy metal?

    or are you after metal type music?
    Heavy Metal is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1967 and 1974, took blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by the use of highly amplified distortion. Out of heavy metal various subgenres later evolved, many of which are referred to simply as "metal". As a result, "heavy metal" now has two distinct meanings: either the genre as a whole or traditional heavy metal in the 1970s style, as exemplified by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, and others.

    Heavy metal had its peak popularity in the 1980s, during which many of the now existing subgenres first evolved. Although not as commercially successful as it was then, heavy metal still has a large world-wide following of fans known by terms such as metalheads, headbangers, and metallers.
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Zep is hard rock at their hardest. Just because they influenced heavy metal does not make them a heavy metal band, by my wager.

    I guess I am just looking out for the guy looking to get into metal music and then having all these people tell him Zep and ACDC and GNR were metal.

    edit: If you want to define it that way, I guess you could call them heavy metal if you want, but they really aren't a metal band by any stretch if you ask me.
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    However, it was the release of Led Zeppelin in 1969 that brought worldwide notice of the formation of a new genre. The first heavy metal bands—Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, UFO, and Black Sabbath

    another read for you too :)
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  • JellyrollsJellyrolls Posts: 523
    Led Zeppelin is not heavy metal.

    Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
    Evergrey - Recreation Day
    Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
    Hypocrisy - Virus
    Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
    Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
    Opeth - Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries
    Strapping Young Lad - Alien, City
    Trivium - Ascendancy
    At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    :eyeroll:

    I'll be off listening to Morbid Angel and Cryptopsy and Death. have fun with your "heavy metal."
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    Read the quotes and all would be explained.

    Heavey metal was started in the 60/70's, and compared to the Metal availble now it tis totally different, they may not have played as hard or as fast as many of the modern day bands that are powermetal, deathmetal, hairmetal, lovemetal,fashionmetal ( i had never heard of the last two genres still the last couple of weeks, but apparently they exist!) and various other kinds, doesnt rule them out from being metal.

    heavy metal was the birth of all metal today

    You'd be interested to know the biggest selling Heavy metal band from America in the 1970's was Grand Funk Railroad, i shit you not!
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Pretty much what his all boils down to is you using a 35 year old definition of the term. Just because they were considered metal then does not make them metal now, in my view.

    Also, Bathory has some good stuff too.
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    Check out this timeline too :P

    Heavy Metal Key Moments
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    Echoes wrote:
    Pretty much what his all boils down to is you using a 35 year old definition of the term. Just because they were considered metal then does not make them metal now, in my view.

    Also, Bathory has some good stuff too.

    but it is still heavy metal, like it or not, deal with the fact, they dont play as hard or as fast as you may like, but they are and always will be heavy metal.
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    I don't doubt that they were considered heavy metal in their day. The point I have always had (and haven't articulated very well) is that I don't consider them heavy metal NOW. It is a subtle difference. Trust me, I know the history of metal, but I am kind of arguing something different.
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    bah. Going nowhere
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  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    Echoes wrote:
    I don't doubt that they were considered heavy metal in their day. The point I have always had (and haven't articulated very well) is that I don't consider them heavy metal NOW. It is a subtle difference. Trust me, I know the history of metal, but I am kind of arguing something different.

    that you are, and thats the great thing about opinions, mines different to yours, and thats cool.
    However if this was a hundred + years ago, i would of had to gone a crusade and killed all the people who didnt think like i do ( yay religion :p)

    I totally agree with you that, they dont sound like anything today, and that if they were playing today it would be considered more "hard rock" then anything more metal.
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    And I agree that they were metal and one of the originators.
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  • i_am_a_wishlisti_am_a_wishlist Posts: 628
    I suggest people keep away from this rock sub-genre. Stick to classic rock. Casue it's better.
  • Drifting AwayDrifting Away Posts: 270
    dont start :P
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  • brhf9brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    check this band:

    Massacration:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6GP4-uoU4w&search=metal%20is%20the%20law
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  • keyser_sozekeyser_soze Posts: 205
    well my favourite metal bands are:

    mastodon
    early metallica
    slayer
    in flames - catchy as a motherfucker CHECK EM OUT!!!!
    system of a down

    suppose thems my faves. i'm not hugely into metal. well these bands all rock so check em out!
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