Best METAL album ever?
 

This is whats playing at the shop now :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAITxlCsj4Y

Haha tell me why am I not surprised :P I don't know why but metallica seems to aim for very specific listeners and not all of their songs are great. I love some of their songs, my most fev including the unforgiven (all 3) and nothing else matters.

On the other hand, if I were to say for the "absolute" best metal album ever, I would pick any album of black sabbath or ozzy (blizzard of ozz came to my mind before anything). All the songs are listenable even for non-metal listeners (excluding justin bieber listeners!).

one of them forsure!!

justice for all is my personal fav!

Pantera cowboys from hell!

Tossup between justice and black. I love both for different reasons.

I was never able to get into Ozzy, not sure why. I won't change the channel if its on the radio but I won't play it at the gym either....well except for Paranoid.

Was never able to get into Pantera as well. Maybe I should give it another shot...must great gym motivation!

Heck, that are all great!

Haha. That's understandable. Ozzy's songs are more like "opening the door for metals", only few are pumped enough for headbanging. :razz:

give pantera far beyond driven a shot.

right now im into volbeat alot

The best thing about Ozzy was his....


...wait for it......wait for it...



...his reality show :-)

just kidding LOL


Ray

I will!

i rank white zombie's 'la sexorcisto' pretty high up there too.

:lol: Well you gotta agree if Ozzy wasn't there in 70s, we would have been taken over by bieber long time ago. :razz:

I'll look them up

100% agreed lol

Jokes aside, he paved the way for many!

Yah. Almost all the non-wannabee metal bands have him as an inspiration. :smile:

BTW since you are a big fan of metallica, you should give trivium a try.

Blah stop the girl metal music :p
Start head banging to opeth ,lamb of god , chimaira , inflames \m/
Love having these playing when running beads in the shop

there was so much more to ozzy then ozzy himself lol

love the randy rhoads day , RIP

diary of a madman:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiEJOzAVAXc

i play rhythm guitar , mostly stuff alot more complex then most " metal and thrash" out there but i love me some old school rhoads gutar:)


some of the artist i like and play:

bullet for my valentine
as i lay dying
slayer
megadeth( hence the reefwars name--holywars lol)
all that remains
children of bodem
shadows fall


some ideas of what i play:



as i lay dying: sound of truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFxFsTZaMs


children of bodem: are you dead yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATIVuynOPTM



slayer: raining blood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATIVuynOPTM


bullet for my valentine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqlrrbIosxs


megadeth: tornado of souls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LlgrMO4kJk

all that remains: two weeks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKOA5TsV6MM


avenged sevenfold: unholy confessions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-QaFWURsMU

i can go on forever lol grew up playing megadeth and then expanded from there , love all types of metal(not so much the singing lol) :)

played lamb of god for years still rock out the odd tune like redneck or laid to rest:)

may have to give them a shot

Unfortunately Metallica and Ozzy are no longer considered metal. You guys must be old like me. This stuff ^^^ has taken over.

Um not old but I like doing water changes of my tank and run T5s on my tank so basically um old school :lol:

The album Overcome by All That Remains is one of my favorites of all time. Cover to cover all the songs do it for me.
They have put out a few other good ones as well. This one is just tops for me.


And I do agree that Metallica has put out some of the best albums of all time, just not that metal anymore.

Slayer Reign In Blood...How can any other true Metal Head say anything different...

love it:)


how about made of hate which use to be archeon back in the day??

heres a sample:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5697f8-T7TY

they have alot of good gee-tar riffs:)


i could go all day lol

the best metallica was back when dave mustain played with them , taught them how to create hopping spider licks and wrote all the best songsd and solos.


kirk.....well heres his skills at its best lol




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDZ5Zozejh4




sad really ........


megadeth all the way baby , metallica came mainstream

forgot to mention i'm just a mainstream candy-ass =)

Metallica set the stage for what was to become mainsteam, Megadeth tried to become mainstream but never gained enough popularity.

My top favorites are Metallica, Slayer, White/Rob Zombie, Danzig, Disturbed, Rammstein, Linkin Park, Sepultra

For a mixture or metal/classical/Christmas the Trans Siberian Orchestra is great and if you ever get to see them in concert you will be amazed. Extremely talented musicians.

I listen to bit symphonic metal such as Therion and Celtic Frost as well.

There is lots of others but I only listen to few of their songs.

without dave there probably wouldnt have been a metallica no?

safe to say dave wrote most of the songs with hettfield and burton in fact all the first album and most of ride the lightning.

megadeth had no choice but to try and go mainstream , remember the late 80's and early 90's?? brutal for metal with all that grunge etc. lol

hettfield , great guitarist and musician , in fact ive seen them in concert over a dozen times and met kirk(wasnt great either lol) and i give full credit to james , hes whats kept metallica going year after year to influence every great metal muscian today:)

fact is , kirks no bethoven lol

My all time fav has to be the TRUE metal GODS Judas Priest or anything from Rob Halford. His other 2 bands, FIGHT & Halford and kick ass, he also had a 3rd band called TWO.

Big Ozzy, Metalica, Megadeath, Maiden, Coheed & Cambria, Striker, Zombie, Hell Ya & Penny Wise fan but you can never forget the pioneers like Sabbath, Dio, Moterhead & naturally Priest.

There are so many versions of metal out there but Im really not a big fan of the "scream like your nuts are in a vise" form of metal like Lamb of God.

They all had a hand in the bands development but Lars actually started it. I agree that not everyone is a Kirk fan but I will give him credit that his solos actually fit the songs they are in and when people hear a part of the solo they know what song it came from. Most metal song solos just sound like they were made up on the spot and are quite forgettable.

As far as Dave goes, who else could get kicked out of a band on the way to stardom and still end up a major star with his own band. Megadeth put out some of the most influential metal albums of the 80's. I think its a true testament to his talent. As for Metallica, Dave & Cliff were the real talent, I'm sure Cliff starting rolling over in his grave in the 90's with the **** Metallica was putting out.
And how come nobody mentions Overkill??? Most underrated American Thrash Metal Band ever. Going since 1980 and still staying true to the music with both studio albums and live shows. Even through the 90's they still did what they always did weather it was mainstream or not.

EVER? Or personally?

Gojira - The way of all flesh
Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad

Not the 4th one?

I don't think I could ever pick one as I have many favorites for different reasons and it all depends on what I feel like listening to at the moment. If people are guitar fans Stratovarious and Symphony X are pretty good as well.

Wow i thought i was the only one into Metal and Fish! \m/
Slayer of course, how about some cannibal corpse, Behemoth, Devil driver to name a few.

If some of you are into Death Metal check out my band http://www.reverbnation.com/hammerdrone. New album coming out soon!

All I gotta say is master of puppets I'm pullin your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreeeeaaaamms!

I'm a huge 80-90s metal fan. As I'm reading this thread my wife just tells me she bought tickets to Lady Gaga and that I'm going with her. I tried to argue my way out but apparently she says she's gone to all my "crap" and I owe her. Dammit!!!

Duuuudddeee, lol. I feel for ya but unfortunately she's right, lol.

Lots of great bands in this thread!

One thing is for sure, what used to be metal back in the day is now considered mellow. Music sure has changed, but certainly not for the better lol

Ray