Top 10 albums that changed the way you look at music

[Crimson Velvet]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication. Got me away from that god-awful hip-hop crap I was listening to.

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine. Made me look out heavier titles.

Metallica - Load. Introdused me to this wonderful band.

Dark Tranquillity - Projector. Made me search out more death metal releases.

Opeth - Morningrise. Sat the standard for all future music that would I would listen to. Still, no one has matched it.

Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness. Introdused me to black-metal.

 

[CF87]

Cephalic Carnage-Exploiting Dysfuntion
Wicked Innocence-Omnipotence
311-Grassroots
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Acid Bath-When the Kite String Pops
Suffocation-Pierced From Within
Slayer-Reign In Blood
Gorguts-From Wisdom To Hate
TooL-Aenima
Atheist-Unquestionable Presence
Neurosis-Souls At Zero
Dillinger Escape Plan-Calculating Infinity

12, fuck it.

Damn this is to hard to do, I am sitting here high trying to figure it out. I need to list atleast 10 more for this to be complete.

 

[MFJ]

Awesome thread, man.

Not in any real order, by the way.

1) Opeth- Blackwater Park (my first real metal album, that got me into the European scene and eventually led to my passion. I must say, it scared the shit out of me the first time I heard it. Good thing I didn't listen to Marduk or something first).

2) Vintersorg- Till Fjalls (my first experience with Folk/Viking metal, and here I am in a folk metal band obsessed with the genre)

3) Vintersorg- Cosmic Genesis (showed me how epic and beautiful music can be)

4) Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (my first black metal album. Not much else to say, I was totally mystified by it)

5) Ulver- Bergtatt (again, showed me pure beauty and diversity)

6) In Flames- The Jester Race (It explains itself.. a melodic masterpiece)

7) Dark Tranquillity- Haven (Being the ignorant fool I was before getting into this type of music, I thought music with keyboards sucked unconditionally. I was wrong.)

8) Danzig- Danzig (Helped me respect traditional styles of metal/hard rock a lot more)

9) Black Sabbath (the same as above, one of my absolute favorite bands of all time. I love all of their stuff.)

10) Dissection- Storm of the Light's Bane (actually.. I could say that this was maybe my first Blackish metal CD. Needless to say, I was blown away by it. I'd never heard anything similar to it throughout my entire life).

Sorry for the meaningless explanations.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

Here's my list of beautiful serene albums that wooingly brandished the beautious palette upon which the serene serenity of music was efervecesitelavishilovely laid:

Kreator - Coma of Souls: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Slayer - Reign in Blood: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Exumer - Possessed by Fire: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Sodom - Agent Orange: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Exodus - Bonded by Blood: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Dark Fucking Angel - Darkness Descends: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Jag Panzer - Ample Fucking Destruction: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Helloween - Walls of Fucking Jerhico: Gave me fucking whiplash.
Judas Fucking Priest - Painkiller: Gave me fucking whiplash.

As you can see, I like Heavy Metal a lot.

 

[sands of the seas]

Elton John - Greatest Hits (haven't a clue which one)
Metallica - Whichever one i got first
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
Cynic - Focus
Tool - Lateralus

 

[Nico]

Probably in this order:

1.Slayer - Reign in Blood
2.Metallica - Ride the Lightning
3.Deicide - Incineratehymn
4.Opeth - Morningrise
5.Morbid Angel - Covenant
6.Agalloch - The Mantle
7.Astriaal - Renascent Misanthropy
8.Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var
9.Psycroptic - Scepter of the Ancients
10.Abyssic Hate - Suicidal Emotions

 

[Caelum Adustum]

311 - Music (got me into music in the first place...i was young)
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (got me into extreme metal)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (got me into european metal)
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (first taste of black metal)
Burzum - Burzum/Aske (first real black metal album)
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (second real black metal album)
Naglfar - Vittra (first taste of melodic black/death)
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (even better than "Vittra")
Bathory - Blood Fire Death (got me into epic metal)
Empyrium - Weiland (totally fucking genius, best acoustic album EVER.)

 

[Esteban]

Tough one, I'm sure I'll forget a few, lets see....

Iron Maiden - Live after Death: the most important, because it got me into metal

Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I: At first I loved Maiden and nothing else, until I listened to Helloween

Dark Tranquility - Damage Done: I hated death vocals until I listened to this, it had a huge impact because it opened a whole new world of great bands, melodic death, black, even some trash

Agalloch - The Mantle: This album is so good, I'd never heard anything like this before.

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness: First time I heard of it I thought it'd be boring, I mean, how can someone write a 60 minute song without it sounding repetitive... WRONG!

Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy: Awesome, I thought I was going to become a big prog metal fan, but then I found out Symphony X is an exception in a sea of bands with no song writing talent

Evergrey - In Search of Truth: The voice of Tom englund, the creative use of piano and the overall dark sound of this band makes them my second favorite.

Opeth - Still Life: I chose Still Life because it was my first Opeth album, but it could've been Morningrise, or Blackwater Park, this band is so good, took me a while to truly appreciate the beauty of their music.

Savatage - Streets: Criss Oliva is one of my favorite guitar players, that combined with the piano and voice of Jon makes Savatage and awesome band. Streets is my favorite from them.

Mago de Oz - Finisterra: Heavy metal with lots of celtic influences, no one does it better than spanish band Mago de Oz, I was blown away the first time I heard this album

 

[Darth Kur]

Star Wars Original Soundtrack (1977)
Led Zeppelin - IV
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Rush - 2112
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Venom - At War with Satan
Possessed - Seven Churches
Bathory - In the Sign of the Black Mark
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Deicide - Deicide
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Immolation - Here and After
Opeth - Still Life
Cynic - Focus
Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
The Gathering - Mandylion
Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...


Yeah, it's more than 10..............so sue me.

 

[Djm]

The album above all rest, Ayreon - Flight of the Migrator

2. Dan Swanö - Moontower
3. Metallica - And Justice For All
4. Days of the New - Orange
5. Opeth - Still Life
6. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
7. Ayreon - Actual Fantasy
8. Ambeon - Fate of a Dreamer(Me like Arjen Lucassen much)
9. Lana Lane - Secrets of Astrology
10. Symphony X - V

 

[Naggamanteh]

Elend - Les Tenebres du Dehors
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows - Dead Lovers' Sarabande
Brodequin - Festival of Death
Left Hand Solution - Fevered
Coph Nia - Holy War
Ordo Equilibrio - Reaping the Fallen... the First Harvest

 

[Life Sucks]

I heard many of these albums for the first time at different points in my life (I've been listening to metal for 15 years), and they therefore had different effects on me. Nowadays, I don't consider some of the old albums masterpieces, though they did play a big role in the development of my metal taste.

Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry
The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (though I actually didn't like it at first listen)
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Metallica - Kill Em All (the first heavy album I bought - I was 12)
Testament - Souls of Black (really got me to like heavier music when I still needed catchyness)
Megadeth - Rust In Peace (got it when it came out and it blew me away)
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Sepultura - Arise (the first album will all "unclean" vocals I got into, a step up in extremity)
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients

 

[Profanity]

Yeah, it's more than 10..............so sue me.

I've spoken to my solicitor about it and he thinks we'll be able to sue you for $500,000(£300,000)

 

[Episteme]

Opeth - Still Life(I heard this album after buying the rest of the Opeth albums but this just rekindled my love for Opeth and pretty much changed the way I used dynamics in my songwriting)
Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Cynic - Focus
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Miles Davis - The Bitches Brew set
Autechre - EP7(Electronica kicks ass)
Metallica - Ride the Lightning(although I listened to other more mainstream rock/metal, this pretty much reinforced my taste for metal)
Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies

 

[[0hr]Sunlapse]

no order:

Green Day - Dookie (1st album ever, the entire 5th grade got this then we all went our seperate musical ways)
Tool - Lateralus
Metallica - Black Album
Metallica - And Justice For All
Slipknot - Iowa
Opeth - Blackwater Park
In Flames - Whoracle
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (not an album, but composition of course)
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Black Sabbath - S/T

 

[-ALieN-]

Strapping Young Lad - City
Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Devin Townsend - Terria / all of his cds
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
In Flames - Clayman
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime / Empire
Boston - Boston

i guess.. kinda hard to narrow it down

 

[Kir-ir-Bannog]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Metallica - Pastor Of Muppets
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Sabbat - Dreamweaver
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Death - Human
SOD - speak english or die
Tool - Lateralus
Suicidal Tendencies - How will i laugh tomorrow
Prong - Beg To Differ

fuck that was tough......probably think of other that should be in there...oh shit....Led Zep...Black Sabbath.... :Spin: :Spin: :Spin:

 

[Freanan]

Blind Guardian: Nightfall in Middleearth
My first real metal album;
Showed me that real metal is not at all like Limp Bizkit and new Metallica.
Also showed me, that powermetal can be really good in some cases (though i did not know the term powermetal back then)

Borknagar: Empiricism
My first album with unclean vocals.
Showed me a first glimpse in the direction of viking and black metal (though imo it does not belong to any of both genres).

Ulver: Bergtatt
Showed me that primitive music can be really beautyfull (because if you ignore the folk stuff it is primitive black metal). Got me REALLY interrested in black metal.
Also showed me, how intense an atmosphere can be created by music.

Burzum: Burzum/Aske
I cannot describe in what way, but this album changed my way to think about music, definitely - when i first really got into the album, after i had found it rather boring for some time

 

[Tool]

Jesus Christ Superstar (OST): First music I ever listened to. Still love it.
Queen- A Night At the Opera: First hard-rock I listened to. Still rocking.
Bad Religion- All Ages: First album I actually bought. The only punk band I have albums of. Still like them a lot.
Tool- Lateralus/Aenima (bought them at the same time): Path to other Prog and other Metal. Still one of my favourites bands.
Iron Maiden- Brave New World: First Maiden album I bought. They continue to be my favourite band.
Blind Guardian- Nightfall in Middle Earth: Started loving powermetal
Angra- Rebirth: Loved powermetal even more.
Opeth- Blackwater Park: Started liking more "extreme" metal. Awesome album.
In Flames- Reroute to Remain: I admit it, this one actually got me started liking the other stuff. Don't like it that much anymore, though.
Dream Theater- Loved virtuoso power-prog ever since.

 

[polarity]

Bad Religion- All Ages: First album I actually bought.

Wow, same here. Not the only punk band I own CDs by, but the only one I still listen to (though I've had my eye on Minor Threat's "Complete Discography" for a while now.)