great metal albums

[Killjingle]

Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror , Soul Sacrifice EP
Six Feet Under - Warpath, True Carnage, Haunted
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Slayer - Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss
Superjoint Ritual - both albums
Type O - Bloody Kisses and October Rust
Danzig - Lucifuge and How The Gods Kill
Misfits - Famous Monsters and American Psycho
Black Sabbath till Dio joined (I hate Dio more than I hate Iron Maiden)
Megadeth - So Far So Good So What ( Jeff Young is an awesome lead guitarist)
C.O.C. - Blind
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Anhilation
Obituary - Back form The Dead
Carcass - Wake Up and Smell the Carcass and Swansong (THESE GUYS RULE)
just to name a few...

[RobTheDrummer]

Some of Mine-

Pantera- Far Beyond Driven, Vulgar Display...hell, all of them!
Dream Theater- Scenes from a Memory, Train of thought.
Testament- Low (hell yea paul! John Tempesta on drums, kick ass)
Sepultura- Chaos AD (I have to agree, their best!)
Fear Factory- Obsolete
Megadeth- Countdown to Extinction
Metallica- Master of Puppets, Black album (I know, I know....I loved this growing up though)
Slayer- Divine Intervention, Diabolus en Musica
Steve Vai- Fire Garden Suite
Alice in Chains- Dirt

[Punkinhead]

have you heard sleep's dopesmoker album?

Lamb of god- ashes of the wake!!!!!! shit...any album by them!
Carcass- heartwork
old mans child- in defiance of existence

Good call....

Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder is an insane album that needs to be listed here as well. I've always thought that Michael Amott's best guitar work was on the Hearwork album.

[MOONDOGGY]

I knew you'd pull thru with the DT Rob! I didn't expect the Vai's Fire Garden though!

I haven't seen any of the 'X' bands listed: Symphony X, Planet X, etc....

[ThrashKillsYou]

Meshuggah-Chaosphere
Lamb of God-Any but New American Gospel and As the Palaces Burn rip
Cryptopsy-None so Vile or And Then You'll Beg
Nile-In Their Darkened Shrines (Nothing beats Invocation To Seditious Heresy)
Necrophagist-Epitaph
Black Dahlia Murder-Miasma

[Killjingle]

yes Carcass - Heartwork... at its time it was one of the only albums to get a 5 star rating, I can never get tired of listening to that and Swansong, because the production is so kick ass

[brett/bert]

motley crue - red, white & crue!!!!!!!!!

[HurricaneBob]

Grip Inc is one of my favs! Lombardo was his own.

[brett/bert]

I don't get it.

[HurricaneBob]

Bert meet Brett
Brett meet Burt

Now maybe youll get some...

[brett/bert]

I still don't understand what the hell you are talking about.

[HurricaneBob]

I still don't understand what the hell you are talking about.

You mean me? I get that all the time.

[brett/bert]

what? ha ha ha .

[orangekick]

There are so many good metal albums out there that I could list for days. I'll just name off my top albums that I keep coming back to...

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Anthrax - Among the Living
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Sepultura - Arise
Testament - The New Order
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Wrathchild America - Climbin' the Walls
Wrathchild America - 3-D
Meshuggah - Destroy, Erase, Improve
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Mastodon - Remission
Mastodon - Leviathan
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Opeth - Black Water Park
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth - Morningrise
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Machinehead - Burn My Eyes
Machinehead - The More Things Change
Machinehead - Through the Ashes of Empires
ISIS - Celestial
ISIS - SGNL05
ISIS - Oceanic
ISIS - Panopticon
M.O.D. - USA for MOD
Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care
The Haunted - Made Me Do It
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Damn the Machine - s/t
Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
Coroner - No More Color
Death Angel - Frolic Through the Park
Cult of Luna - s/t
Cult of Luna - The Beyond
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Neurosis - Times of Grace
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Kyuss - And the Circus Leaves Town
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1
Megadeth - Peace Sells, but Who's Buying
Megadeth - Rust in Piece
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Overkill - Under the Influence
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Voivod - Nothingface
Voivod - Angel Rat
Voivod - The Outer Limits
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Exodus - Impact is Imminent
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Clutch - Transnational Speedway League...
Clutch - s/t (space album)
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Clutch - The Jam Room
Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
Clutch - Slow Hole to China
Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus

[Jim Price]

A great metal album I'm listening to right now that I almost forgot about...

Angel Dust - Enlighten the Darkness - A concept album by German metalheads coming to grips with how Hitler and Naziism took over their people and homeland, through the eyes of a soldier on the frontlines. Powerful and interesting stuff...

[ThrashKillsYou]

I'm really interested in hearing that, JP.

[lonewolf]

Lots of good stuff posted here, but isn't Judas Priest considered metal? If so, I'd have to add Hell Bent for Leather, British Steel and Defenders of The Faith.

[Bag]

Overkill / From the Underground and Below
Kiss / Alive
Iron Maiden / Number of the Beast
Judas Priest / Screaming for Vengeance
Spread Eagle / Spread Eagle
Overkill / Years of Decay
Led Zeppelin / The Song Remains the Same
Black Sabbath / Black Sabbath
Dio / Holy Diver
Led Zeppelin / II
OLD Aerosmith
OLD Def Leppard
ANY Overkill record

[ToonaRockGuy]

Here's some more albums that I've been enjoying over the past 24 months: (bands in bold)

Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama
Hypocrisy - Virus
Darkane - Secondary Effects
Bleed The Sky - Killtank
Malevolent Creation - Warkult
Graveworm - {N}Utopia
Barcode - Showdown

[Victor Synn]

Where are my Power Metal brothers at?

Stratovarius- Infinite
Stratovarius- Elements Pt. 2
Balance of Power- Ten More Tales of Grand Illusion (I need to rebuy this disc. I played mine so much, it's scratched beyond playability)
Gamma Ray- Powerplant
Nightwish- Century Child

Regular Metal:
Every Maiden album with Bruce Dickinson
King Diamond- House of God
Megadeth- Peace Sells
Something Wicked This Way Comes- Iced Earth

[Banned]

Metallica- Kill Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All
Megadeth- Killing Is my Business and Business is Good, Peace Sells, So Far, So Good, So What, Rust In Peace, Youthanasia
Judas Priest- Sin After Sin, Stained Class, Defenders Of the Faith, Hell Bent for Leather, British Steel
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
Mercyful Fate- Melissa, Dont Break the oath
Angel Witch- Angel Witch
Black Sabbath- Volume 4, Sabotage
Diamond Head- Lightning to the Nations
Venom- Welcome to Hell
Motorhead- Ace of Spades, Overkill
Testament- The New Order

[Possessed]

Autopsy-Severed Survival
Obituary-Cause of Death
Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast
Metallica-Ride the Lightning
Mercyful Fate - Don't break the Oath/Melissa
Slayer- Reign In Blood
S.O.D.- Sgt. D. and the SOD
Megadeth- Peace Sells...
Venom- Black Metal
Death-Leprosy
Carcass - Discanting the Ensalubrous (sp)
Anything from Sabbath/Dio/Priest/ NWOBHM
Best New Metal
Hail of Bullets - Of Frost and War / Warsaw Rising
The Sword - Warp Riders
High on Fire's last two albums
Immortal - All shall fall

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

Some of my favorites are:

Children of Bodom--Hatecrew Deathroll--Actually all COB
In Flames--Colony--Clayman--Whoracle--pretty much all In Flames
Soilwork--Stabbing The Drama
Pantera---Everything except Reinventing the Steel
Slayer-- Seasons in the Abyss
The Autumn Offering-- Embrace the Gutter--Embers to Inferno
Sylosis--Sylosis
Lamb of God--As the Palaces Burn and Everything else
Killswitch Engage-- All albums

The list goes on and on!!!!!!