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#2: Metallica - Fade to Black (1984)

Was there any doubt?  The Black Album was the first "metal" album I owned, as I'm sure it was for many, and Ride the Lightning is the one I truly fell in love with.  The songs are timeless, and played a large role in making Metallica the biggest metal band in history.  Fade to Black in particular has always resonated with me.  Whenever I hear a new Metallica song I always immediately compare it to FtB.  It's a subconscious thing, but that's how I measure the quality.

Have they done much since The Black Album?  Not really.  Load is probably the most disappointing album in history from my perspective, and it's mostly been downhill since.  But we'll always have the '80s.

Honorable mentions: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, One

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4 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

#2: Metallica - Fade to Black (1984)

Was there any doubt?  The Black Album was the first "metal" album I owned, as I'm sure it was for many, and Ride the Lightning is the one I truly fell in love with.  The songs are timeless, and played a large role in making Metallica the biggest metal band in history.  Fade to Black in particular has always resonated with me.  Whenever I hear a new Metallica song I always immediately compare it to FtB.  It's a subconscious thing, but that's how I measure the quality.

Have they done much since The Black Album?  Not really.  Load is probably the most disappointing album in history from my perspective, and it's mostly been downhill since.  But we'll always have the '80s.

Honorable mentions: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, One

Solid choice. I’m in the Ride the Lightning camp too. Master of Puppets is also a fantastic album but I feel Ride the Lightning has the songs I could listen to forever if I had to choose one album.

Now we patiently wait to see what Iron Maiden song you have selected. 

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  • Sleep Token - The Summoning
  • Mercenary - The Hours that Remain
  • Shining - Lat Oss Ta Allt Fran Varandra
  • Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots
  • Ayreon - Day 8: School
  • Spiritbox - Circle With Me
  • Skeletonwitch - Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery
  • Arch Enemy - Silverwing
  • The Devil Wears Prada - Constance
  • Baroness - Shock Me
  • Dimmu Borgir - Kings of the Carnival Creation
  • Disarmonia Mundi - Kneeling on Broken Glass
  • System of a Down - Aerials
  • Epica - Kingdom of Heaven
  • Testament - The Ritual
  • Parkway Drive - Vice Grip
  • Symphony X - Sea of Lies
  • Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment
  • Sleep - Dragonaut
  • Dissection - Night's Blood
  • Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
  • After the Burial - Berzerker
  • Nevermore - Born
  • Amorphis - Silver Bride
  • Crystal Lake - Apollo
  • Zeal & Ardor - Built on Ashes
  • Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife
  • Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
  • Evergrey - A Touch of Blessing
  • As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire
  • Deftones - Diamond Eyes
  • Polyphia - Ego Death
  • Katatonia - Brave
  • Fleshgod Apocalypse - Monnalisa
  • Obscura - Septuagint
  • At the Gates - Blinded by Fear
  • August Burns Red - Meddler
  • Machine Head - Locust
  • Septicflesh - A Great Mass of Death
  • Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge
  • Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
  • Kamelot - When the Lights Are Down
  • Acid Bath - Tranquilized
  • Sikth - Bland Street Bloom
  • Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows
  • Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
  • Ice Nine Kills - Funeral Derangements
  • Equilibrium - Blut Im Auge
  • Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum
  • Mr. Bungle - My Ass Is On Fire
  • Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time
  • Architects - Hereafter
  • Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine
  • Ensiferum - Token of Time
  • Kvelertak - Offernatt
  • Anthrax - AIR
  • Insomnium - Down with the Sun
  • Protest the Hero - Spoils
  • Iced Earth - Melancholy
  • Amon Amarth - Victorious March
  • Behemoth - O Father O Satan O Sun
  • Be'lakor - Abeyance
  • The Ocean - Mesopelagic
  • Death - Cosmic Sea
  • Eluveitie - Primordial Breath
  • Devin Townsend - Regulator
  • Slayer - Raining Blood
  • Soilwork - Spectrum of Eternity
  • Carcass - This Mortal Coil
  • Between the Buried & Me - Prequel to the Sequel
  • Arsis - The Face of My Innocence
  • Faith No More - Zombie Eaters
  • Dark Tranquillity - Final Resistance
  • Swallow the Sun - Hope
  • Queensryche - The Mission
  • Sigh - Corpsecry Angelfall
  • Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope
  • Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
  • Emperor - The Tongue of Fire
  • Mastodon - Crack the Skye
  • Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
  • Opeth - Bleak
  • Blind Guardian - And the Story Ends
  • Strapping Young Lad - Love?
  • Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
  • Kalmah - Moon of my Nights
  • Wintersun - Battle Against Time
  • Cynic - Veil of Maya
  • Ghost - Rats
  • Children of Bodom - Bodom After Midnight
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
  • Alice in Chains - Rain When I Die
  • Megadeth - Holy Wars
  • Agalloch - Falling Snow
  • Judas Priest - The Sentinel
  • Gojira - Backbone
  • Mercyful Fate - Evil
  • In Flames - Goliaths Disarm Their Davids
  • Metallica - Fade to Black
  • Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
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21 minutes ago, Brickman said:

Great work. There were some fun debates along the way and I discovered a lot of new stuff. 

Good luck with the 100 games. That one may get heated 😆

I'll have to do movies first.  Too many games I want to try and play through first.  Realizing that it's a neverending battle.

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On 5/19/2023 at 3:27 PM, guitarzombie said:

Ok, winning me over again haha.

Also to me, Tornado of Souls has the greatest metal solo of all time.  The solos on that record when I first heard them blew my fucking mind.  Love Marty, even if he alters the Tornado solo live and it isn't as cool as on the record :).

One of the songs that really got me into guitar.. the 'sweepy-type' passage right before he goes into the sequencing caught my ear and I probably rewound the tape 100 times in a row. I just hadn't heard stuff quite like that in a metal song before. This was also one of the major events to lead me to all that virtuoso shred stuff as I looked more into Marty and fell upon Cacophony and then the rest was history. I also agree, that it's likely the best metal solo of all time although the song itself doesn't do much for me anymore.

@Reed Rothchild Holy Wars would likely be my favourite Megadeth song as well. I just saw them in concert last week as they did a quick tour across Canada. Was a great show even though you can barely tell Dave is singing anymore. They played Mecanix and The Conjuring, a few I haven't heard live before. Also, a great shout-out with Washington is Next... definitely a great overlooked song from them.

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4 minutes ago, Kguillemette said:

Rereading the list, Arcturus is conspicuously missing. I figured The Sham Mirror would be represented somewhere on here.

I considered it.  They were probably in the next 25 somewhere.  Vortex barely made the cutoff with the Dimmu song, because there's just too much stuff I like.

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On 5/9/2023 at 8:51 AM, Reed Rothchild said:

#18: Blind Guardian - And the Story Ends (1995)

The kings of power metal.

I've owned a lot of power metal.  As in, the complete libraries of Sonata Arctica, Jag Panzer, Kamelot, Iced Earth, and many others.  Stuff from Edguy, Rhapsody, Hammerfall, Delain, Avantasia, and a hundred others.  I have a buddy who constantly feeds me the stuff.  And overall, I find it to be pretty hit or miss.  A lot of it can't connect with me because I don't really care what they're going for.

But Blind Guardian always delivers.  If you're going to go big, it needs to feel epic.  And these guys are the king of epic.  This album feels like a greatest hits compilation of big epic numbers; I could have gone with literally any of the tracks here.  And the fact that they did this all the way back in 1995 just blows my mind.  Every album since has revisited the same ground since they already had it perfected long ago.

Honorable mentions: Nightfall, Mordred's Song, Under the Ice

@Murray

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