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.
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.
Don’t have a list but I do have one that I think is a perfect album, Colors - Between the Buried and Me.
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
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Between The Buried and Me - Colors
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Mr. Bungle - California
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Opeth - Blackwater Park
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Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
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The Dear Hunter - Act III
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The Dear Hunter - Act II
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Eyedea & Abilities - First Born
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Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
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The Ocean - Pelagial
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Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
Edit: I didn’t realize this was a metal community post. I just responded for my all time top 10.
If I am focusing on metal, I remove dear hunter, porcupine tree, bungle, and sleep token.
I add both Necrophagist albums, Nobembre’s ‘Everasia’, Animals as leaders self-titled, Opeth’s Still Life, and At The Gates slaughter of the soul…
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Between The Buried and Me - Colors (2007) [Progressive Metalcore]
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Opeth - Blackwater Park (2001) [Progressive Death Metal]
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Necrophagist - Epitaph (2004) [Technical Death Metal]
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Novembre - Everasia (2002) [Progressive Death/Doom Metal]
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Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (1999) [Technical Death Metal]
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The Ocean - Pelagial (2013) [Progressive Metal]
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Animals as Leaders - Self-titled (2009) [Progressive Metal/Djent]
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Opeth - Still Life (1999) [Progressive Death Metal]
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At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995) [Melodic Death Metal]
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Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (2007) [Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore]
I don’t know about the other artists, but why remove Mr Bungle? In my opinion they’re metal af!
California isn’t! Lol. I mean there’s heavy parts of air conditioned night are and goodbye sober day but all in all, it’s a pretty bright album.
I see, you’re referring to that specific album. It’s just that extremely experimental including all kinds of sounds and styles that it seems very difficult to say what genre it is.
Thank you for that small interaction, it lead me to change my last night’s plans, getting my headphones out and listen to Mr Bungle and other Mike Patton bands like FNM and Fantomas. Was a great night!
In case you didn’t know, there are some badass recordings from earlier days or cut together tapes like this one.
Not in order and from the top of my head.
- Paul Chain, Park Of Reason
- Devin Townsend, Ocean Machine: Biomech
- Korn, Issues
- Type O Negative, Bloody Kisses
- Arcturus, The Shame Mirror
Love that Arcturus album. Probably my favorite of theirs, though Aspera Heims… has my favorite guitar solo of all time on it, so I waffle on that sometimes.
Fuck yeah, not enough Type O fans out there. Bloody Kisses and October Rust battle it out in my mind for top position
What about World coming down or Life is killing me? I find the album’s that document the band and Peter’s struggles easier to connect with at an emotional level than the previous - admittedly great - albums where it sometimes felt like the band was intentionally parodying the goth scene.
