You criticize metal culture a lot. I don't really disagree with much of what you say, but the punk/hardcore scene is no better. Plenty of douche bags in the HC scene. Who would you rather run into at a show: a condescending metal elitist who talks down to you for not knowing the most underground death metal band or a hardcore asshole who will kick you in the teeth because you have long hair or smoke weed?
The way you look at Suicide Silence as not being metal is how Pantera were viewed when Vulgar came out. Most people (me included) saw that as a rock album. Obviously history says different but hey, I still reckon Vulgar Display of Power is a rock album. Btw pretty good list Finn. Thanks.
I agree with the sentiment that Dirt is great because it's so dark, but also kinda too dark to just put on and listen to, you have to be in the right mood for it. Even aside from the lyrics, Jerry Cantrell seems to have a natural gift for writing songs with the most despairing, evil sounding chords/riffs, really capturing the feeling of having given up on life
“Rain when I die” has one of Layne Staleys best chorus’ ever. Dude was just singing from the bottoms of his soul and that voice he had was so sonically powerful.
@@StuartHetzlerBro, i f*cking hate how i never hear about metal artists i listen to dying until years later. Vinnie paul, alexi laiho and now 2/3 of cynic are just the ones ive learned of in the last few months. Before that, it was Warrell Dane and Oli Herbert. I always find out in youtube comments. I kinda wish the media around metal wasnt an infuriating cess pit so that i could actually stay current on who died.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with admitting that bands like Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura, Iron Maiden, etc. are the best because it's 100% true lol.
@@_D01Who do you think the members of Metallica,Sepultura, and Pantera were listening to when they were kids? I'm not going to tell you what to like or that you're dumb for not liking Maiden. Maybe show some respect though. They helped lay the foundation for everything metal was to become.
To me, Dirt is the pinnacle of songwriting in heavy music. Besides the lyrical content, it's insane how Cantrell wrote riffs that match perfectly Layne's vocal lines. They complement each other so damn beautifully!
@@cmlguerra Well, that's the thing! To me personally, they never were part of the grunge sound. The time they came out coincided with the rise of the movement. In my opinion, they're alternative metal.
I think it'd be cool to see you do a "Definitive Albums From Each Subgenre of Metal" list. Like the album you feel best exemplifies thrash, groove, djent, black, metalcore, doom, melodic death, tech death, alternative metal, etc. It's a little more specific, and allows for more of a modern view as well, since some of these genres have some newer stuff that's pretty definitive as well.
@@Habeev07if AFJA had bass it would be not just the greatest thrash metal album's of all time but I dare say one of the best albums ever made. Lost count how many times I watched And justice for all with bass on the The Bass Channel... Not obvious it is one of my favourite instruments. Playing it over a decade has made me appreciate so much more music. But I unfortunately listen to the most horrible shit I can get my hands on half the time.
Wow. Massive thumbs up for including S.O.D. Loads of people are way too young to have noticed them, but back in 1985 they were such a revelation type of thing for me. Absolutely crushing!!!
It's a garbage take through and through. They have all the traits of a modern metal band. Down tuned guitars, palm muting, percussive strings, blast beats, guitar solos, double bass drums and gutteral and shrieked vocals. What genre do all those traits for into? I mean c'mon.
"Dirt" is seriously one of the best hard-rock albums ever made. It's just an absolutely devastating album emotionally. The production holds up; that guitar tone is absolutely killer, and Layne and Jerry just sound so good together. An absolute masterpiece.
Ah yes this list oozes boomer energy, but I respect it. My list would be completely different. In no particular order: - Opeth - Ghost Reveries - Slipknot - Vol 3 - Textures - Silhouettes - Periphery - II - Metallica - Master of Puppets - Mastodon - Blood Mountain - Gojira - From Mars to Sirius - Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled - BMTH - Sempiternal - Trivium - Shogun
Gotta agree with you that Cynic - Focus is a MASSIVE album! If you remaster it with modern production, people will think it just came out last week ..that's how fresh it sounds
But! Even with a Wife and a Baby... I hope you're working towards deeper-dive or more documentaryal (sp?) content. You excel at that, and when you have time, I look forward to it :)
@@lowenbad Cool story, adds nothing to the fact that sub genres have existed since the 70s. And they ALWAYS get named well after they begin. You can unbunch your panties now.
Been listening to metal since the 80s, and my personal favourite metal album of all time is Clayman by In Flames. Honourable mentions to Dirt - Alice in Chains, Demanufacture - Fear Factory, Arise - Sepultura AIC was criminally underrated in the 90s, but today people can't get enough AIC.
I'm born in 99, so I missed the actual grunge era. I find that very surprising that AIC was that underrated. To me, they are by far the best band of all time
@@TheLizardWizard17 they were small compared with the record sales & spotlight on bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden. They also regularly got shunned by award shows like the Grammys & American Music Awards. Those entities were uncomfortable with artists like AIC putting their hearts out there and singing about their experiences, no matter how dark they may be. Years later, I am pleased their music is being appreciated by the masses, and they're finally getting the recognition they deserve.
I'm sure all the extreme metal edgelords will come at me: 1. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality 2.Judas Priest- Stained Class 3.Metallica- Ride the Lightning 4.Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time 5.Ozzy Osbourne- Diary of a Madman 6. Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power 7. Megadeth- Rust in Peace 8. Death- The Sound of Perseverance 9. Dio- Holy Diver 10. Slayer- Show no Mercy
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Metallica - Ride the Lightning Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Megadeth - Rust in Peace Judas Priest - Painkiller Down - NOLA Dio - Holy Diver Alice in Chains - Dirt King Diamond - Abigail
Atheist was ahead of Cynic and who I would have personally picked. Unquestionable Presence is amazing. Also, as far as I remember, Cynic was well recognized as being awesome. I find myself listening to Traced in Air more often than Focus.
Totally related to freaking out when your manager asks for a word later. The worst time was when I worked myself up into such a state think about all the awful things they were going to ask that I got sent home for being too erratic. The next morning the boss had that word and all they wanted to know if I wanted to take part in the "Secret Santa" thing between all the staff that year. I was so relieved to hear that was all it was.
I remember seeing Cynic open for Cannibal Corpse in 1994. They did not fit in. I felt so bad for them. I saw them again when they opened for Dragonforce a decade or so later. I drove from Seattle to Spokane for that show. They didn't play a single song off Focus, but played Traced in Air in its entirety. I was bummed. I eventually came to love that album, but at the time wasn't happy. Especially so since I didn't care about Dragonforce. The next time I saw Cynic was at the Capitol Hill Block Party. If you know anything about Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party, you know that's not a good fit. I finally got to see them play all their old stuff and saw them another three times, touring each of their albums after Focus. Thanks, Finn, for finally doing a bit more of a deep dive into Cynic.
The nuances, stories and cool facts that Finn takes time to address on his channel made me want to listen to many of those bands for the first time and appreciate it. There is a stigma that you either get into it as a teenager or grow up to be a metal boomer, but im having a blast randomly falling for those genres today. Also, i think that best metal as made in the 80 and 90, because it was defying decades for this music. Like if you ask what was the best decade for boom bap or disco. And thats why we separate hip hop from trap. Things evolve but there is always a “you had to be there” time capsule period for all genres. Thats why we call it golden age.
As a 48 year old from the Seattle area originally I’d go with this I guess Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind Metallica - Puppets Opeth - Blackwater Park Forced Entry - As Above, So Below AIC - Facelift Dream Theater - Images & Words Pantera - Cowboys Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Lamb of God - Ashes Of The Wake Megadeth - Rust In Peace
As a 34 y/o dude: Anthrax - Among the Living Linkin Park - Hybrid theory Metallica - And Justice for all/Ride the lightning ( gotta count both XD) Judas Priest - Screaming for vengence S.O.A.D - Toxicity Killing Joke - Killing Joke Faith No More - Angel Dust Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz Some of these aren't full on metal but have metal songs on the albums.
Rest in peace to Sean Malone of Cynic as well. I feel like he was one of the first to bring that weird fretless bass sound to metal, or at least one of the first to have it noticeably present in the mix. Unfortunate that metal bass players usually just get joked about when guys like him put serious artistry into the genre.
Really liked the video. Not to be pedantic but there were metal bands with some groove before Pantera. Stuff thay comes to mind: Black Sabbath (Sweet Leaf), Metallica (No Remorse), Exodus (And Then There Were None), even Napalm Death (Unchallenged Hate), etc.
The first time I ever heard Among the Living I bought it on cassette at a garage sale for .50 cents in 96. When I heard the opening to the title track I wanted to slam into the walls of my room. That shit hit me like a lighting bolt. I did have to get used to Joeys vocals slowly but what a perfect groove and riff filled album.
Great list Finn, I agree Alice in Chains is lyrically dark. 1.) Megadeth - Rust in Peace 2) Metallica - Master of Puppets/The Black Album. 3.) Pantera - Cowboys From Hell/Far Beyond Driven 4.) Death - Human 5.) Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve 6.) Parkway Drive - Horizons 7.) Periphery - Self Titled 8.) Within The Ruins - Creature 9.) August Burns Red - Thrillseeker 10.) I Killed The Prom Queen - Music for the Recently Deceased
Thank you for the ranking, Finn, since I really wanted to know your thoughts because I don't have your historical perspective. I was born in the 90s, and my favorite genre as a kid was Sports Metal. Growing in my faith, I tried cleaning up my music, but back then, I thought KoRn's first album was the greatest album I heard. Now, I can't say since I don't think a lot of tracks are good for me from albums I listened to. Appreciated you mentioning "Silent Scream" by Slayer! I read that the theme of the track was based on the 29 minute 1984 documentary the Silent Scream. It has Bernard Nathanson Obstetrician-gynecologist, the co-founder of NARAL in 1969, and after the arrival of ultrasound and other technology, he became a vocal opponent to the procedure after performing 5,000 of them. Really heartbreaking documentary imo. Thanks again. Hope you and your family have a peaceful good day.
My Top 5 01. Metallica - Master Of Puppets (1986) 02. Slayer - Reign In Blood (1986) 03. Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984) 04. Anthrax - Spreading The Disease (1985) 05. Nuclear Assault - Game Over (1986) Runner up....Judas Priest - British Steel (1980)
I think in the rhythm guitar conversation, Scott Ian often gets overlooked (easy I guess when Papa Het is one of your contemporaries). His riffs are so good.
Man, Dirt reminds me of this album called a Crow Looked at Me by Mt Eerie. If you're going through some rough times, that album will come in and snap the last few tiny twigs in your heart (that you have always wanted)
My thoughts: 1. AIC Dirt is my pick for Best Rock album of the 90s, and in my Top 10 all time! 2. Slayer’s SOH album is solid, but I never cared for the overall sound of the album, or the pitch of Araya’s vocals on throughout . Seasons is my favorite for sure, and in my Top 10 albums all time. 3. It’s crazy close, but I actually choose Far Beyond Driven as my favorite Pantera album and in my Top 10. 4. And finally, Finn you’re going to absolutely adore this, lol, but my favorite album of all time is definitely Megadeth’s RUST IN PEACE. I mean it’s always ranked high in greatest Metal albums of all time, and sold in big numbers, around the world, so I ain’t alone for Fs sake 🤟😎
Here are my top ten: 10: Children of Bodom- Hatebreeder 9: Rhapsody- Symphony of Enchanted Lands 8: Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky 7: Pantera- Vulgar Display of Power 6: Venom- Black Metal 5: Bathory- Blood Fire Death 4: Akercocke- Choronzon 3: Death- Symbolic 2: Judas Priest- Painkiller 1: Megadeth- Rust in Peace
@@johndef5075 Tripod is like the darkest fucking album you could ever find. I mean, of course there are bands that try to be as dark as it's possible just to be dark, but Alice In Chains were dark naturally. If you listen to them from Facelift to the Unplugged one, you can see how struggles in life made them sound more emotional through time. Frogs is the shit...
My list: Opeth - Ghost Reveries Metallica - Master of Puppets Pantera - Cowboys From Hell Slayer - Reign In Blood Black Sabbath - Master of Reality Death - The Sound of Perseverance Iron Maiden - Powerslave Linkin Park - Meteora Rings of Saturn - Lugal Ki En Guns ‘N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction Megadeth - Rust In Peace Mastodon - Leviathan (Edit: Forgot Leviathan)
I remember buying City of Evil in a Target back in '05 just because I wanted something new to listen to. I had only heard Bat Country on the radio. I didn't like the album right away. It wasn't really my thing at the time. But I kept listening to it while I delivered pizzas. Probably half a year later I was loving it. I got Waking the Fallen and Sounding the 7th Trumpet and they were my main band for about 10 years.
There are so many great metal albums from the 90s that it's impossible to pick just a few. The 90's was by far the best decade for metal - excitingly innovative and influential new releases on a weekly basis. It was just such a burst of creativity.
Great list man! I'm in the same boat as you, most of my faves are from the 90's. Mine would be something like: Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill Sepultura - Chaos AD Alice In Chains - Dirt Down - Nola Zao - Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest/Liberate Te Ex Infernus Converge - Jane Doe Living Sacrifice - Reborn Vision Of Disorder - Imprint
Being a boomer is ok. Welcome to the club! That being said, I still love finding new music....mostly now through this channel and prmba. Thank you for that! Btw....for me the defining metal album for me being 49 was when I traded my Psalm 69 tape for friends Arise tape. Beat deal ever. Sepultura was my gateway band into the heavier stuff. That might be a good topic to dive into (gateway bands or artists for different genres.)
I'm the complete opposite with DIRT/AIC. I listen to them when i'm depressed & feel better after. I also never took drugs in my life. Easily my favorite band of all time.
Solid picks. Mine, in no particular order: Black Sabbath - masters of reality Death - Symbolic Judas Priest - Painkiller Bolt Thrower - Those once loyal Blind guardian - Imaginations from the other side Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the lost lovers Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time Slayer - Seasons in the abyss Megadeth - Rust in Peace King Diamond - Abigail
@@rybread28 Cheese is good. Painkiller is the epitome of heavy metal imho. Perfect album beginning to end, songs perfectly written and executed. It´s the sound of heavy metal itself.
I remember being so exhausted and worn out about ten years ago and putting Them Bones on and it just clicking. That shit sounds like how it feels to be just beaten down and burnt out.
(1 album per band): 1. Judas Priest - Painkiller 2. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 3. Metallica - And Justice for All 4. Dio - Holy Diver 5. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 6. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules 7. Megadeth - Rust In Peace 8. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell 9. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman 10. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 11. Scorpions - Taken By Force 12. Danzig - 4 13. Rainbow - Rising 14. Savatage - Gutter Ballet 15. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning 16. King Diamond - Abigail 17. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding 18. Accept - Russian Roulette 19. Deep Purple - In Rock 20. Halford - Resurrection 21. Faith No More - Angel Dust 22. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger 23. Motley Crue - Shout at The Devil 24. Riot - Fire Down Under 25. Candlemass - Nightfall
Avenged sevenfold has always been getting hate for not being completely original. I never cared about original art tbh. You’re always going to put limits on yourself, if you flip out because you hear 15 seconds of a copy and paste every now and then, than you will never enjoy music again. It’s part of art to recycle to create something new within your genre as well, but there’s nothing wrong in putting something already done in your work on purpose to show the world this is what we love, or what we grew up with a long time ago. Another thing to add, fans believe a band is completely original simply because if an artist doesn’t want to explain the inspirations or what made them to create this new album. Then in your mind, you view it as completely original music, even tho the actual artist knows fully well, where they got their inspiration from, and there probably from bands people have never heard of, and they keep the doors locked until somebody officially finds out where they got their inspiration from. But when they discovered the bands that inspired your favorite artist, all of a sudden you’re calling them out as being a rip off? Deal with it except music is recycled. It’s part of the art creation to create something new. Start putting limits on yourself. 🎶🎵🎶
In no particular order Top 15 Underground (to a fair weather metal fan) 1. Sepultura- Beneath the Remains 2. Kreator -Coma of Souls (or Extreme Agression take your pick) 3. Morbid Angel-Alters of Madness 4. Malevolent Creation- Retribution 5. Bleeding Through-Portrait of a Goddess 6. Obituary- Cause of Death (or Slowly we Rot) 7. Cannibal Corpse-The Bleeding 8. Hatebreed-Satisfaction is the Death of Desire 9. Sick Of It All- Blood Sweat and No Tears (Utter Hardcore mayhem live shows circa '90.) 10. Fear Factory-Soul of a New Machine 11. Gorgots-Considered Dead 12. Machine Head-Burn My Eyes 13. Acacia Strain- Continent & Wormwood together 14. Black Dahlia Murder-Unhallowed 15.Sacred Reich-Ignorance
"In Waves"( Special Edition)" by Trivium is easily my favorite metal album of all time. It's got such an atmospheric quality to it with some of the most technical and catchiest songs I have ever heard. It's got a combination of some of Tivium's catchiest and most accessible songs like In Waves, Built to Fall, and Of All These Yesterdays while also having some of their heaviest songs like Dusk Dismantled, Chaos Reigns, and Skyline's Severance. The instrumentation is top tier and Matt's harsh vocals sound the best in this album. Even his low death metal growls sound fantastic considering that was always his weakest point when it came to harsh vocals prior to this album. Just an absolute 10/10 album. My personal favorite song from the album has to be "Inception of The End".
Rooster makes me think about what my dad went through after he got back frrom Vietnam. Going to fight for your country and being sent to some godawful jungle and then come home and seen a pariah, called a baby killer having people try to pick fights with you and spit on. He talked a little about it, but there was pain there. Thank you Jerry Cantrell.
Taking the grunge label away (which was really more of a marketing tactic than anything) do you consider Melvins a metal band? Or more of a punk one? In any case, Houdini and Stoner Witch are two of my favorite albums of the '90s.
Interesting! My top 10 metal albums, in no particular order:- Metallica: Master of Puppets Anthrax: Among the Living Slayer: Reign in Blood Megadeth: Peace Sells Slipknot: Iowa Korn: Korn Tool: Lateralus Satyricon: Dark Medieval Times Lamb Of God: Omens Napalm Death: Scum Honorable mentions: SYL: City Job for a Cowboy: Genesis Sepultura: Morbid Visions Soulfly: Primitive Deftones: Adrenaline SOAD: Toxicity Hed Pe: Broke Papa Roach: Infest RATM: S/T BFMV: The Poison Coal Chamber: S/T COF: Principal of Evil made flesh 5FDP: Way of the Fist American Head Charge: The Feeding Disturbed: The Sickness Therapy: Troublegum Soil: Scars Trivium: The Crusade Good to see AIC getting a mention, but i think Facelift is better than Dirt......
Great list. Life of agony -river runs red Vision of disorder- self titled Mudvayne-ld 50 Are 3 that would have to be on my list. There albums that are no skips to me
On the Anthrax note: Persistence Of Time is their best album and the best song on ATL is actually I Am The Law. You did perfectly lay out why I fell in love with them in middle school though, their riffs were all just nasty
Hail to the king is one of my favorite AV7x albums. It was also the first I heard so I'm probably biased. It's the album that got me into metal. My local library had the CD and I borrowed it and I was hooked
Hail to the king is special to me because I learned about a7x through cod bo2. Shepherd of fire playing during the origins intro cutscene is so iconic.
I'm not a metal guy, but my favorite metal albums are probably ...And Justice For All by Metallica and Meantime by Helmet. I do love a ton of metal adjacent rock stuff including Dirt (huge grunge fan in general)
Nice taste! As a 34 y/o dude born the year AJFA came out... (Dec birthday) I love your choices of Helmet and Metallica. Not a metal diehard but love certain things. My list goes: Anthrax - Among the Living Linkin Park - Hybrid theory Metallica - And Justice for all/Ride the lightning ( gotta count both XD) Judas Priest - Screaming for vengence S.O.A.D - Toxicity Killing Joke - Killing Joke Faith No More - Angel Dust Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz Some of these aren't full on metal but have metal songs on the albums.
Maybe you are a metal guy and just don't know it and just so happened to have those two albums and that's why you like them, because Helmet in particular is an extremely random selection for someone claiming not to be into metal music except for that (don't get me wrong, Helmut's a pretty decent band). I wasn't a metal guy either until I was in 9th grade and got my first metal album which blew me away, so I went down the list of what are considered to be the best and they all blew me away. If you liked Justice, then check out Mater of Puppets and the Black album, which will probably open pandora's box for you. Two more would be Tool - Aenima and Lateralus.
@@LibertyRapsher I'm a fan of Metallica in general, I've heard and like most of their albums. Also a fan of Tool, I've listened to everything from Undertow through 10,000 Days and (Lateralus is probably my favorite). Helmet is more on the Alternative side, they're kind bunched in with grunge and some post-hardcore stuff like Quicksand, which I'm also a fan of lol. I just call myself a rock fan because I'm generally not into a lot of metal, like a lot of these other bands Finn talked about I don't like very much.
@@1mlb704 - I rememember when both helmut and Quicksand where taking off. At the time those two bands were often put in the same category as Tool (Undertow and Opiate)... then of course Tool's music expanded astronomically from Undertow to AEnima. I'm actually not familiar with some of the bands he mentioned, which I grew up at the same time he did and caught that 91 metal boomb. I never really distinguised the different styles of music that much from one another. Almost everything I just put in the metal category, but I liked everything from heavy rock to punk to heavy metal to death metal. I didn't get to sample everything like some of the bands he mentioned here because I was taking in everything. In the grunge realm I consider Pearl jam the biggest talent in that realm, but it's difficult for me to even categorize them as grunge. To me they're heavy rock, but whatever.
@@LibertyRapsher I feel that! People like to label things and put them into categories, especially with music. It's always debatable what is considered what. At the end of the day, if I like it I listen to it haha
On Silent Scream being anti-abortion. I don't know. It could be, but it could also be "hey, Beavis, do you know what abortion is? It's, like, killing unborn babies, dude. Cool!". It's like: in death metal (which Slayer is adjacent to), a song about killing of anything is never intended to make you think about what a terrible idea killing someone is. It's usually just "this kicks ass, dude!". No reason to think Silent Scream is any different. Angel Of Death might've been commentary on WWII war crimes. But who are you kidding? This ain't Bob Dylan. Hannemann just thought "let's write a song about something evil. What have you got? Hell has been covered, black magic has been covered. Oh, I know: Nazi!". People in metal just like evil imagery in and of itself, without the need to comment on it.
Been listening to Haste the Day recently again. Their Attack of the Wolf King is absolutely solid. It’s one of maybe 10 albums I can listen from beginning to end.
Depends on how I’m feeling on the particular day but 60% of the time I’d probably go with “Pressure the Hinges” over “Attack of the Wolf King.” Idk, they’re both fantastic, so maybe it’s nostalgia playing a factor in my slight preference?
@@justinphillis9598 I can understand that. I remember listening to burning bridges nonstop for a couple weeks. I enjoy all their albums but wolf king has been the one that’s tickled my fancy the most. Can’t go wrong with any of them though 🍻
@@justinphillis9598 They are for certain a metalcore band. I know the video is only about metal bands but it reminded how much I’ve been enjoying this other album 🍻
Any best metal album list that has Pantera on it fails, and since when were AIC metal? How are you going to say that Suicide Silence arent metal and have a fucking grunge band in the top 10?
Great list. You hit on a lot of stuff I was into in my teens. Ironically, the only Anthrax I ever really got into was the stuff with John Bush (and Dime). I would have to throw Chaosphere somewhere in there. It's so hard to do these cause there's so many good bands and albums.
You made my night with Vulgar Display Of Power pick as number 1! At a time when metal music was on life support, Pantera simply whooped ass! How bout Dime's tone on this album - filthy! Yeah, the grooves on this molten lava of an album make it even heavier! Great episode, my friend!
If I had to pick anything after the 90s as the greatest metal albums, I'd have to pick..... Trivium - Ascendancy BFMV - The Poison BMTH - Sempiternal Killswitch - As Daylight Dies I know some picks may trigger the metal nerds, but for me Sempiternal is the perfect album for my music preferences.
All the Death albums after Human are excellent including my favorite, the vastly underrated Control Denied, the fragile art of existence, which anyone that doesn't have or heard this ,go get it
As a "Metal Boomer" myself this is such a stellar list Finn. I completely agree with all of your choices. This is your list and I find it excellent man.
