I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.
It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.
I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.
Dream Theater — Metropolis Part 2 is the best metal album ever written and I’ll die on the hill.
There are albums I like more, albums I definitely listen to more, but if we’re talking overall quality Metropolis pt 2 is an absolute masterpiece.
I’m assuming we’re just talking about metal albums, given the community.
Here’s my top 3:
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Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
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Draconian - Under a Godless Veil
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Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow is Forced into the Light
Doom and related genres have always been my fave when it comes to metal, but I used to also listen to a lot of thrash and power metal. These days it’s pretty much all stuff that is doom or goth-ish.
Hard to narrow down favorites because my feelings change often, but these 5 have been in rotation most often lately (in no particular order)
- King Woman - Celestial Blues [doom]
- System of a Down - Toxicity [alt metal? nu metal?]
- Violet Cold - Empire of Love [post-black metal]
- Liturgy - 93696 [black metal]
- Thou - Magus [sludge]
And I’ll say that I don’t necessarily think these are the best albums ever… I don’t think I could ever make up my mind about that! Looking forward to seeing everyone else’s picks.
Holy shit. I haven’t encountered another person that has listened to Violet Cold until now. I’m literally wearing a Violet Cold shirt right now.
Alright, Top 13 for me, because 13 and this is what I could figure well enough and be satisfied with right now. Ordering subject to roughly change somewhere around fifth slot depending on what mood I’m in on any given day, but these are solid mainstays in my rotation (most of them for decades at this point). Doesn’t reflect how broad my interests go, but you can see that I gravitate a lot toward black metal, and I favor stuff that isn’t afraid to be its own thing. Weird is good. Non-metal albums removed though there are a couple in my top 10 if I weren’t being genre specific.
- Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
- Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
- Murmuüre - Murmuüre
- Emptiness - Not For Music
- The Skaden - You Will Hope I Had Died
- Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
- Samael - Eternal
- At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
- Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
- Cryptopsy - None So Vile
- Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
- Rotting Christ - Khronos
- Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Many of these bands are new to me so I’m making my way down your list and Murmuüre is blowing my mind
Agalloch - The Mantle. It’s an absolute work of art that makes me want to disappear into a frozen forest.
