There are more polished albums, I’ll grant you, but it was the first one I heard and still seems to be the one I constantly return to, so I figure it’s my favorite of theirs. For better or worse!

[–] safesyrup@feddit.ch 2 points 11 months ago

Fair point. the same goes for games and stuff: the first thing you play/consume from a franchise will always be the best :D the first song i head from DF was grotesque impalement so that ep is also my favourite

[–] neidu@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In my list I was having a hard time choosing between Awake and ToT. I also love Met.Pt.2 luke that other guy posted, but I find these two album just a notch above in terms of individual songs.

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I love Awake, Images and Words, Metropolis Pt 2, and the second disc of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, but I really enjoy the ones where the entire album is basically a modern symphony from start to finish and ToT just hits every note for me perfectly.

[–] roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Mastodon - Leviathan Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Cynic - Traced in Air

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

That which you fall in love as a teenager, innit?

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pretty much. Amazing how everyone’s ultimate favorites are almost always something they heard from ages 14 - 25 at a formative point in their lives. I know that’s still very much my wheelhouse of music even still today.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Fuck dude, asking a group of metal heads this is like throwing the final quark into a star about to go black hole.

But!

Master of Puppets is the album that turned me into a metalhead in the first place, so it takes top spot for me. It's pretty much the perfect metal album in every way. Heavy, fast, incredible lyrics, James at his vocal peak (imo), some of the best riffs ever, and there's not a single wasted song on it; they're all classics. It's a high fucking standard to even equal.

That being said, Kataklysm dropped a new album this year that has crept right into second place for me. Jfc, Goliath is just wall-to-wall brutal, primal metal. When you consider that I am a metallica devotee that used to rank most of their albums in my top list from 1 down to five before any other band showed up, that's pretty significant to me.

I've been fucking obsessed with bringer of vengeance in specific from that album. Jumping around corners and growling it at people, literally rattling windows with it, and annoying the hell out of my kid by sneaking it into their playlists like a rickroll. Did that to my wife too, but she gets mean and refuses to let me play with her boobs when I do that kind of thing.

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Where owls know my name by rivers of nihil The phanerozoics by the ocean

[–] Cozy@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

Heart like a grave from Insomnium. They tried to create the most melancholy melodic death metal album from Finland and succeeded. Just listen to songs like "twilight trails" or "pale morning star" (warning: it's about suicide cause of loosing a loved person).

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The perfect album is Pelagial by The Ocean. My favourite however is Ride the Lightning. And the one I'll keep spinning until I die is Somewhere Along the Highway by Cult of Luna. But you know what? I saw the Darkness last week on their 20th anniversary of Permission to Land, and that album still has it!

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Heartwork by Carcass Stigmata by Arch Enemy Srontgorrth by Nagelfar Legends of Evil and Eternal Death by Hirilorn Carelian Satanist Madness by Satanic Warmaster Blackwater Park by Opeth

No particular order, depends on the day.

[–] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

The Suffer album by Bad Religion

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

NIN - The Fragile

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...

RATM - Battle of Los Angeles

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites

[–] Window_Error_Noises@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

This might catch laughs but...

Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom

It was the first album that made me stop, and start to love metal. An old friend, the kind of person who's a literary character in real life, and now is incredibly still alive after being hit by a goddamn train introduced me to a new world of music with that album. He's obviously never been the same since the train, but he's no longer an alcoholic, and always seems happy in spite of (or because of) the severe brain damage. I think of him especially when I go back to that album, and remember laughing at how ridiculous some of it is, when you really listen. It's nice and baroque, with some amusing bits, and fun to listen through.

I'm not quite as well versed in metal as my spouse, but I'm glad to see these lists here, so I have more to check out!

[–] sinkingship@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Fantomas - The Director's Cut

And, not really metal but you asked for just favorite:

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Don't think I can pick a favorite of anything because my interests shift so much, but I've been listening to a lot of Arch Enemy and In This Moment lately. Though if I had to pick, Volturian's Crimson is up there.

[–] danthehutt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The Contortionist - Language

Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Reflections - The Color Clear

Northlane - Singularity

Monolord - Empress Rising

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Merciless — GODFLESH

Downward Spiral or The Fragile — NIN

Gallery of Suicide — Cannibal Corpse

Daemon — Mayhem

This Heavy Void — Bodysnatcher

The Concrete Confessional — Hatebreed

Vulgar Display of Power — Pantera

October Rust — Type O Negative

Purple — STP

Posthuman — Harms Way

Eternal Steel — I AM

You Won't Get What You Want — Daughters

Korn

Not even close to a complete collection of favorites but I tried to hit a lot of different subgenres and whatnot. As you can tell I have a huge bias for the 90s lol

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Great fucking list!