25 Greatest Debut Albums? | Nate Garrett's Big Riff Energy Ep. 65 

Happy to see some Acid Bath love on here. Sammy and Mike were a duo unmatched by any other. Riffs for days! Also High Roller has some seriously great stuff!

Metal Church was the perfect cross road album of were Metal came from and was heading when released,still relevant.Rocked the album cover tee shirt to death after waiting months for it to arrive in Australia by mail order back in the mid 80's.Forward to Termination is off the chain and what a great album intro sequence.

Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Most fans of the brilliant Swede agree that this is his best. I love it!

Not upset at all about Skid Row. Total agreement. And I'm also more of a Dismember guy (than Entombed, great as they are), making those two things be the reason for my first comment...though I've been a watcher here for quote a while. Plus - hail the memory of Acid Bath. Never anything like it, nor will be again. Great stuff, Nate.

Great List man Metal Church Very Underrated songs like "my favorite nightmare" classic

Love the first Darkness record. I got married in 2003 and that album was in heavy rotation that year. Nothing but good memories there. I'd include Baroness - Red Album, Alice in Chains - Facelift, and NIN - Pretty Hate Machine on my list for sure. Great video/list, Nate!

Agree with the vast majority of your debut picks, Nate. 👍I was especially stoked to see Mastodon 'Remission' among the chosen. 🤘 I would add Ripping Corpse 'Dreaming with the Dead'; probably the best technical death/thrash album ever made in my opinion. 👌 Sadly also their only album as well as their debut.. 🤗

Stoked for this one! Dude thank you for mentioning METAL CHURCH!! Im more of a fan of , "THE DARK" but thats a 20+ year nostalgic thing. My old band actually played with Deadbird in 2005.

Cool vid. I agree with a bunch of your picks. Here are a few hard rock (and hair metal, whatever) picks from my youth that would be on a theoretical list: Van Halen - Van Halen, Def Leppard - On Through The Night, Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love, RATT - Under The Cellar (front to back killer riffs), Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction. My thrash pick: Metallica - Kill 'Em All cuz I do think it's one of the best debuts ever (and, depending on the day, my fave Metallica). My grunge picks: Nirvana - Bleach (negative creep is one of my fave riffs ever) and Alice in Chains - Facelift.

Sick Civerous shirt🤘

Great show Nate. Thanks.

Deftones Adrenaline , Tool Opiate, you mentioned this one previously and I’ve loved it since it came out Majesties Vast Reaches Unclaimed and Nile Festivals of Atonement …Obituary Slowly We Rot …all killer debuts from some of my fav bands.

man I would REALLY love to see a "Best Third Record" review, and why, even just a top 10. I feel like that is often (though not always) the real measure of an amazing band. I could go on with a list, but I suspect "Massive Killing Capacity" by Dismember would be my #1

I'm glad you mentioned Kvelertak. One of my all time favorite bands. 🤘

Cool episode. Sacrifice Forward To Termination rips great taste on that one!!!!

I trashed my original list cuz you already covered 'em. So instead I'm presenting a list of proto-metal debuts! I count Black Sabbath as proto-metal, but left it off. I love that you love The Darkness. Seeing their first U.S. tour back in '03 kind of felt fresh in a way, because there was such a lack of that kind of hard rock at the time. That would change in subsequent years. Proto-Metal 1. High Tide - Sea Shanties (1969) 2. Stray - Stray (1970) 3. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (1968) 4. Gun - Gun (1968) 5. Night Sun - Mournin' (1972) 6. Blackwater Park - Dirt Box (1971) 7. Speed, Glue & Shinki - Eve (1971) 8. Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend (1970) 9. Leaf Hound - Growers Of Mushroom (1971) 1. Queen - Queen (1973) 11. Twink - Think Pink (1970) 12. Budgie - Budgie (1971) Granicus - Granicus (1973) Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come (1970) Rush - Rush (1974) November - En Ny Tid är Här (1970) Andromeda - Andromeda (1969) Witchcraft - Witchcraft (2004) Golden Void - Golden Void (2012) Blues Creation - Demon & Eleven Children (1971) Josefus - Dead Man (1970) Hard Stuff - Bulletproof (1972) Jericho - Jericho (1972) Randy Holden - Population II (1969) Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972) Trapeze - Medusa (1970) Pink Fairies - Neverneverland (1971) Bang - Bang (1972) Dust - Dust (1971) Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975) Avatarium - Avatarium (2013) Dust - Hard Attack (1972) Blue Öyster Cult - Blue öyster Cult (1972) The Oath - The Oath (2014) Fuzzy Duck - Fuzzy Duck (1971) Motörhead - Motörhead (1977) Kadavar - Kadavar (2012) Wytch Hazel - Prelude (2016) Sun Voyager - Sun Voyager (2022)

I dig the first 2 darkness album both are really good 🤘

I’ll die on a hill for The Legacy(Testament) til the day I die. Don’t know why it’s not mentioned more as greatest debuts. But that’s the ONE I was waiting for you to mention!

Just recently got into High on Fire, thanks to you! 🤘

Death Angel- The Ultra-Violence comes to mind

Unpopular opinion here but to me Kill Em All has become my favorite Metallica record over the years- it’s just so raw and unhinged, fun, fast and aggressive! The perfect intersection of discharge and Motörhead!

Mercyful Fate and Death !! Great stuff

Funny that you mentioned Kvelertak. While I was listening to this I was like ..”I wonder if Nate has listened to Kvelertak?” Haha . Their album Splid is so good . Great workout album too!

Testament- the legacy was the first cassette I owned. I was 8 or 9 years old. I hadn’t heard anything heavier than sabbath from my parents listening to them. I thought the cover was cool and my mom bought it for me. Then I got into Metallica and Iron Maiden, and down the rabbit hole I went.

Nice list man, I would’ve probably added Effigy of the Forgotten and the first Deicide album. There’s too many classic old school death metal debuts, it makes keeping it to 25 very difficult lol

Great List, will check out some of those I have never listened to. Any consideration for Death Angel "The Ultraviolence"?

Surprised to not see any Bolt Thrower here...insanely good list nonetheless. Thanks for the fun video man!

I wonder if you might show Samothrace some love in an upcoming video. People need to be reminded of Bryan's BRE.

Great video 🤘 Personally would have thrown skynyrd, stp, and Van Halen on there. Huge riffs. Dude if you could get Blake from power trip on an interview, that would be killer!

Good selections even Skid Row.

That is indeed the best Swedish-style death metal album Sir.

Nate, forgot to include, that Pallbearer are playing that weekend in L.A. too, and I don't know if I can do both, so...

The Darkness is bussin! But what about Def Leopard?

When you chose other albums from these artists for the top 10 metal albums of all time, was it because of different considerations like influence on later artists, or did you just change your mind? I'm mainly thinking about the Trouble album here

I'm triggered! I'm pissed! I've been clickbaited!!!! ;) 🤘🤘🤘

Deicide self titled for me its my favorite album of all time

Nate, thinkin' about catching the Death tribute show when it comes to L.A. What's the word on the street?

I'd have Kill Em All on there, I don't see what the rest of their discography has to do with it. I prefer Left Hand Path to Like an Everflowing Stream but that's just different people's preferences. Appetite for Destruction not on there??? I'd have Alice in Hell by Annihilator and Slowly We Rot by Obituary.