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"Best Metal album ever"

I've just bought Vol 3 subliminal verses by Slipknot, and I advise ANYONE who likes metal/hard rock, to buy it. It's one of the best albums I've ever heard.

dis wud be sum albums in my fav order

Kill Em All-Metallica
Master Of Puppets-Metallica
Archetype-Fear Factory
Ride The Lightning-Metallica
Fallen-Evanesence
IOWA-Slipknot
Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous-Thin Lizzy
Nirvana-Nevermind

Not a bad list, but a lot of those aren't metal at all! Hendrix wasnt, and Led Zep definitely wernt. Neither were Guns N Roses really. In fact, most of that list is more rock than metal. But im just being picky now.

The top 50 Greatest Heavy metal album according to Kerrang.

1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
2. Van Halen - Van Halen
3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
4. Montrose - Montrose
5. Guns n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
6. Def Leppard - Hysteria
7. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
8. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
9. Aerosmith - Rocks
10. AC/DC - Back In Black
11. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
12. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
13. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The B'llocks Here's The Sex Pistols
14. Rainbow - Rising
15. Deep Purple - In Rock
16. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
17. Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
18. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
19. Def Leppard - Pyromania
20. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg
21. Kiss - Alive
22. Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
23. Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
24. Rush - 2112
25. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
26. AC/DC - Powerage
27. Slayer - Reign In Blood
28. UFO - Lights Out
29. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
30. Van Halen - Women And Children First
31. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
32. Journey - Escape
33. Legs Diamond - Legs Diamond
34. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
35. Deep Purple - Machine Head
36. Kiss - Destroyer
37. Aerosmith - Draw The Line
38. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
39. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
40. Bad Company - Bad Company
41. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
42. Metallica - ... And Justice For All
43. Rush - Moving Pictures
44. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
45. Motörhead - Overkill
46. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
47. UFO - Strangers In The Night
48. Black Sabbath - Vol 4
49. Bryan Adams - Reckless
50. Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous

I pretty much agree with that list, having heard a few of the albums. However the lack of Black Sabbath is quite concerning, seeing as they invented heavy metal.

Also, I would replace Screaming For Vengeance with Stained Class- If you've ever hear it, you will see why.

"Fasttalker" wrote:
> This is my top ten choice best metal album of all time
> ...
> DO YOU AGREE

Replace POM with SSOASS and Holy Diver with Bruce Dickinson's Accident of Birth and you're pretty close to what I'd say.

This is my top ten choice best metal album of all time



1. Metallica - Master of Puppets

2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning

5. Slayer - Reign in Blood

6. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

8. Dio - Holy Diver

9. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

10. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance


DO YOU AGREE

Tell you what, this album aint half bad.

Der Nazi wrote:

> I would have added Jimi Hendrix's 'Are You Experienced?' to the list,
> but I'm not quite sure, because a) I haven't heard much of his music
> and b) Whether his music is classed as rock or hard rock. Of course
> he was one of the greatest guitarists ever (In fact the greatest in
> many people's minds, probably mine as well), but I don't fully know.

I agree with him being one of the best ever, i used to be crazy about his music, less so in recent years though. But i dont think he'd count as 'hard rock', and definitely not 'metal'. More kinda 'blues rock', stuff like Voodoo Chile and Purple Haze was very bluesy. Thats where id probably put Hendrix, Blues Rock.

Alright you've convinced me, I'm going to download it.

I read an interview with some dude from Slipknot and seeing as he mentioned Morbid Angel and Randy Rhoads he sounds like an alright chap to me. Even if he does wear a mask. But I think calling it the best metal album ever is pushing it.
This is eMule we're talking about though so give me a few weeks.

The author of this post in correct in some ways, the new Slipknot album is absolutely superb, its their best material to date.