Your personal top 10 album list of all time.

[arf]

well i only like the first 3 songs off that album anyway, from there i find it boring.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

I'm surprised so many of you have RIITIIR on your lists. It just came out a few months ago, yet it's already one of your favorite albums of all time?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Rush - Clockwork Angels

Of all the Rush albums, this one is your favorite? I mean, I do think it's a very good album, but it's nowhere near their best.

 

[EffigyForgotten]

I'm surprised so many of you have RIITIIR on your lists. It just came out a few months ago, yet it's already one of your favorite albums of all time?

Its easily their best album IMO.

 

[Exodus Prime]

Of all the Rush albums, this one is your favorite? I mean, I do think it's a very good album, but it's nowhere near their best.

My favourite Rush album til 'Clockwork Angels' came out has always been 'Hold your Fire', which isn't the most metal/rock but I found it the most satisfying listen. 'Clockwork..' is a masterpiece. Very diverse, often heavy, and a great album to get lost in. I loves it!
All their albums kick ass though. Sometimes I'm in a 2112 mood, or Fly by Night, or Signals, but Clockwork has the best of all worlds I reckon. 'Carnies' especially is a fantastic song.

 

[Westsiyeed]

I'm surprised so many of you have RIITIIR on your lists. It just came out a few months ago, yet it's already one of your favorite albums of all time?

Yeah, I thought about that when posting, but I've listened to it quite a few times now and personally think it is right up there.

There's usually only about 5 albums per year for me that I really get into and listen to a lot, and in the last few years for me RIITIR is right up the top.

 

[roostershreds]

Can we do top ten discographies?
Black sabbath
Iron maiden
Judas priest
Pentagram
Manilla road
Saint vitus
Most of manowar
Brocas helm
Anvil
Slough feg

 

[Eligos]

Hey guys who thinks this kid is Schmidt.

 

[Westsiyeed]

I'm thinking I might have to add Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors. Damn it's a good album.

 

[CF87]

The Sham Mirrors is one of my favorite albums. It's to bad Garm left and the band did not expand of it.

 

[Westsiyeed]

It's too bad Garm left and the band did not expand of it.

I agree completely, and Garm's such a good vocalist.

Apparently drumtracks have been recorded for an album release this year, will be interested to hear how it sounds (though it will be without Garm).

 

[Umodian]

Something like...

Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Holocaust - Hypnosis of Birds
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Sabbat - The Dwelling
Slayer - South of Heaven
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss (almost wanna say Target Earth, or Nothingface for that matter)

 

[Westsiyeed]

Voivod - Dimension Hatröss (almost wanna say Target Earth, or Nothingface for that matter)

Personally i think you've made the right choice - this album was at the right point between their more thrashy sound of earlier albums and progressive spaciness of later ones.

 

[Umodian]

Well, when it comes to '87~'93-era Voivod it's really just splitting hairs for me. But yeah, DH also has a great flow to it; if you put on Experiment you better be ready for the long haul y'know?

 

[Draehl]

Opeth- Blackwater Park
Dordeduh- Dar De Duh
Tool- Lateralus
Drudkh- Autumn Aurora
Metallica- ...And Justice For All
Prodigy- Music For The Jilted Generation (If only for Narcotic Suite)
Fyrnask- Bluostar
Agalloch- The Mantle
WITTR- Two Hunters
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Falkenbach- Magni Blandinn...

I so very much want to list Enslaved, but no one of their albums stands out. They probably have the best overall discog of any of the above though.

 

[EffigyForgotten]

Good list other than shitallica.

I can comfortably say Below the Lights and RIITIR are my favorite Enslaved albums.

 

[Krow]

just because I didnt before

Alice In Chains - Dirt
Saint Vitus - S/T
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush the Insects
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Camel - Mirage
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
A Forest of Stars - Opportunistic Theives of Spring
Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth N Ashes
Hour of 13 - S/T

Honorable mentions to Autopsy - Severed Survival and Pagan Altar - Mythical and Magical.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Adramelch - Irae Melanox
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
Iron Maiden - Killers
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Queensryche - Promised Land
Secrecy - Art in Motion
Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

The Sham Mirrors comes really close, btw. There are least another ~10-15 that I would put on par with these ten.

 

[Baroque]

Alright I'll give it a shot, sticking to metal subgenres only here, and only one album from each band.

Symphony X - V
Dream Theater - Changes of Seasons
Metallica - Ride the Lightning (And justice for all... close 2nd)
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Ozzy - Diary of a Madman (Deluxe edition w/bonus cd)
Dio - Holy Diver (Deluxe edition w/bonus cd)
Hexen - Being and Nothingness
Vektor - Black Future
Anthrax - Among the Living
Obliveon - From This Day Forward

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Eyehategod - Dopesick
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Burzum - Filosofem
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Will Haven - El Diablo
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

If you asked me this tomorrow I might have some other ones. Just off the top of my head, when I think about favorites, these are what come to mind.

None So Vile and the Gaza album are the only guaranteed. Those are my top 1 and 2 albums. I'd probably call NSV my #1, but HINCB is the one that hits me in the gut harder.