I will always love Puppets, but when it comes to the riff department, I think it's more catchy than awesome, from a musical point of view. Always the same couple of scales and similar notes. But Kirk and Cliff's contributions are enough to disguise that. And the top notch production and James' voice, of course.
Great album, but I have to admit that there are a couple of tracks that don't really do it for me. Subtraction, Under Siege, and Meaningless Movements I can take or leave. Each has like a riff or two that I can get down with, but I'm mostly just waiting to hear those during the other parts of the song 😅 I think Beneath the Remains stays solid all the way through and has a bit more variety, so I personally like it more. I also think the production is noticeably better; it's clearer and punchier than Arise, which sounds a bit darker and muddier to my ear. All that said, they're both great albums and you can't really go wrong choosing either!
Some 10/10's I'd have on my list: Imaginations from the Otherside - Blind Guardian Blackwater Park - Opeth Covenant - Morbid Angel Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom Images and Words - Dream Theater October Rust - Type O Negative From Mars to Sirius - Gojira Once - Nightwish Trying to follow your guidelines and not go too obscure, keep my personal faves mostly off the list (unless it's warranted), and making sure enough time has passed since their release date.
@@iflower3596 Piece of Mind and Powerslave are also way better than Seventh Son, I don't know what Beanley is smoking with that one. Don't get me wrong, I like Seventh Son too but not the entirety of it, Seventh Son (the song) in particular is not good.
@MEMESupreme-by1qv nah I think its amazing too. Probably not their best IMO FMTS and Magma are better but its still like a 9/10. Although I see how one could consider it their best. I think Born for One Thing Is definitely their best album opening track. The Chant and Another World are also probably in their top 10 to maybe even top 5 songs.
Metal has truly cemented itself as a hallmark genre of music. Exhilarating, cathartic, and engaging throughout the decades with new twists along the way. Definitely a great list!
I feel like metal already stands with historic genres like jazz… as far as there is not a dictionary definition of metal, but you know it when you hear it. They both make you move, and can be pretty simple or very technical
Metal mainstream era in the late 80s lasted less than 5 years yet still refuses to die. Meanwhile rap is the opposite, it should have died as a short lived fad in the late 80s but it took over everything and turned mainstream music into putrid monotonous and talentless sludge
@@MrPantera123456 kirks solos were amazing and legendary on load, reload, and garage inc. he didn’t get replaced until st anger, or i guess death magnetic
I'm a motherfucking huge fan of their first album. Children of Bodom, I mean. Oddly enough, for some reason, the remaining discography never clicked the same way.
A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here: Annihilator - Never, Neverland Blind Guardian - NIghtfall in the Middle-Earth Crimson Glory - Transcendence Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Sepultura - Chaos AD Summoning - Stronghold Wuthering Heights - Far from the madding crowd
How could you forget about Chuck Schuldiner? Ok, I understand, it's hard to peak just one album from him, because almost all of them are timeless classic. But I would stand with Symbolic. Truly masterpiece
Death never made a bad album. The first 2 were solid death metal then he started using progressive metal elements making every album better than the last.
Love how the 3 Dragonforce tracks all felt like it could have been a single excerpt from one track. They definitely didn't deviate from the formula even remotely in the earlier albums.
Yeah... I kinda tuned out for the most part after Sonic Firestorm. They're a band I can do, perhaps three songs on a good day before I'm ready to move on and not listen to them again for months or years, lol.
Seriously no one's even gonna mention Alice in Hell by Annihilator? Such a masterpiece. I think it is at peak thrash metal level, comparable to Rust in Peace and MoP
I never was a Thrash Metal Enthusiast, but if i have to name one, it would be " Alice in Hell " too. I love " Set the World on Fire " much more, and it will be always in my Top ten, for beeing a perfect Album. But this masterpiece has realy nothing to do with Thrash Metal.
A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here: Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Deafheaven = Sunbather Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Melvins - Houdini Deftones - White Pony Acid Bath - Pagan Terrorism Tactics Death - Symbolic Tool - Lateralus Machine Head - The Blackening Sepultura - Arise Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain Pentagram - Relentless Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
@@modocp it’s just personal opinion but yeah for me it’s the best distillation of machine head into one solid album, not really any bad songs, big solos. It rocks
Judas Priest's Painkiller, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Pantera's Cowboys From Hell, and Death's Sound of Perseverance are my "perfect" albums, and by that criteria every single track on each album would make my "best songs of all time" list.
That’s Master of Puppets for me. When I first listened to it, I didn’t even know that albums can be perfect. I always thought albums need sh*tty filler songs. Even rust in peace had some filler, at least that’s how I felt when I first listened to it (today it’s of course different; back then I didn’t really like Lucretia; today i personally think it’s one of my all time favorite guitar solos on any band ever😅).To this day, this perfection in style, expression, ideas and completeness that you describe is still only reached by MoP, subjectively for me according to my personal taste. Enjoy yours! 👍
Sound of Perseverance was one of my introductions to the extreme side of metal and it is so extreme and yet one of the easiest albums to listen to that I've ever heard
Everything on Painkiller is a highlight. Definitely in my top 3 albums and, quite possibly, standing on its lonesome at the very apex. Metal PERFECTION.
Yup, it's an amazing album. Firepower is also surprisingly good and obviously modeled after Painkiller. Priest have some filler tracks in most of their albums, Painkiller is an obvious exception to that.
@@LocrianDorian Firepower is the album that proves "hey, old bands can still dish out awesome records late into their career". Iron Maiden really needs to take some pages outta their book.
@@willl676 That's my main issue with Senjutsu, it's WAY longer than it needs to be. There's moments where I'm like "there's something here" with pacing that completely misses the point.
@@MetalheadCurt Yeah I think it's pretty telling where they've gone wrong when almost everybody who listens to the album seems to agree the best song is The Writing on the Wall.
Always love that you mention symphony x, they are so incredibly talented and underrated, inferno was the first song I heard by them and that initial bent harmonic riff just blew my mind, haven’t been able to stop listening to their stuff since
I've literally never heard anyone give Seventh Son proper credit before. It's always been by far my favourite Maiden album and one of the best of all time. Kudos.
it was meant to be called, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , but they ran out of space on the cover,
True , so true. That time period spawned some genre defining classics. Extreme aggression, Peace sells but who's buying. , Enter the remains, Relms of Chaos, Harmony corruption.. etc..
I don't care for a lot of songs that are classic rock radio staples, mostly on account of being overplayed, but "Crazy Train," particularly Rhoads' solo, never gets old for me.
Painkiller is so good. I always make playlists for when i go for runs, usually change the songs up when they get old, but Hell Patrol is literally always on the playlist.
For me personally, Shogun would be the Trivium album I put here. Heafy’s vocals are just as great as they were in Ascendancy, but the narrative aspect of the album makes it so much more unique and complex
@@matthewtaylor1785 I HATED Crusade when it came out xD I wanted more juicy melodic perfection lol. But some of the best Trivium songs are actually on there. It took time for me to understand
I think Korn's debut self-titled album should be on here too. It broke new ground, was raw and powerful, and inspired an entirely new genre of music (for better or for worse).
I feel like korn was more hard rock than metal at that time. I wasn’t expecting it here. But yeah it was definitely innovative at the time. Their first few albums were amazing.
@@DanzGmod565 yeah definitely on follow the leader, but i felt life is peachy and self titled were less so. but that's just my opinion i know it doesn't align with others.
Thanks for sharing! Some of those I haven't had the pleasure of listening to but I'm certainly going to! Here are some that I think are 10/10 Seputura - Chaos AD Anthrax - Spreading the Disease Testament - The Gathering Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Death‘s Symbolic is also definitely a ten outta ten -Each song has its own wonderful moment-, Celtic Frost’s Monotheist,and the EP “Agonie” from Der Weg Einer Freiheit (German Black Metal). But also totally agree with the ones I know in your list, Brad 🙂
Let’s be honest. Master and ride are the 2 metal classics that everyone would say is timeless. Wanna test a speaker or a guitar ? Listen / play those. So fun to play and just insane timeless classics.
My personal honorable mentions: Dream Theater - Awake Cynic - Focus Fates Warning - No Exit Edge Of Sanity - Crimson Pain Of Salvation - On Hour By The Concrete Lake Threshold - Clone Megadeth - Youthanasia Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
I think most people wouldn’t even rank Youthanasia top 4 among Megadeth. It only has one song that ever gets played live. Solid album but RIP, CTE, PS are head and shoulders better and several others like KIMB, SFSGSW, Endgame, Dystopia are at least tied with it imo
My all times best Death - The sound of perseverance Dark tranquillity - The gallery Dream theater - Images & words Opeth - Blackwater park Plus some others already in that list
you are the 2nd person on this thread to mention dark tranquillity - the gallery. after years of playing it for friends and family, i thought i was the only one to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. unfortunately the only time i have seen dt live, punish my heaven was the only song they played from the gallery. makes sense though, as at the time they were touring on damage done.
honestly with every album ive fully heard in this list i agree with, albums i would add would be: show no mercy - slayer pain remains - lorna shore …and i return to nothingness - lorna shore (EP) TSOP - death leprosy - death reign in blood - slayer altars of madness - morbid angel 1989 - taylor swift
Top 20 1. The Fall of Ideals by All that Remains 2. The Sound of Perseverance by Death 3. Crack the Skye by Mastodon 4. Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God 5. The Way of All Flesh by Gojira 6. Shogun by Trivium 7. An Ocean between Us by As I Lay Dying 8. Follow the Reaper by Children of Bodom 9. Cowboys from Hell by Pantera 10. Time 1 by Wintersun 11. Rust in Peace by Megadeth 12. Avenged Sevenfold self titled 13. Colors by Between the buried and me 14. Epitaph by Necrophagist 15. Planetary Duality by The Faceless 16. Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom 17. A Perfect Absolution by Gorod 18. And Justice For All by Metallica 19. A New Order by Testament 20. A Sense of Purpose by In Flames
Tough to make a list like this. Everyone has different preferences. I liked a lot of Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Meadeth, Slayer, Helloween. But a band I liked a lot that doesn't seem to get enough attention is Mercyful Fate. The album Don't Break the Oath is one of my favorite metal albums.
@@jip5889 i listened to the shit out of that cassette! hahaha. then i bought it on cd after the cassette started to sound funny. my buddy also had it on cassette and we wore his copy out too, riding around in his car back in high school.
3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish for me came out of nowhere. Just when you though this type of metal disappeared this album dropped for me 10/10 all killer songs.
Artillery - By Inheritance (1990) is in my opinion the definition of a 10/10 album, amazing riffs, drumming, solos, honestly doesn’t sound like any other thrash album ever, and to cap it off has amazing production thanks to Rasmussen
Even the (former adepts and) current Metallica haters must admit Master of Puppets + Ride The Lightning are their guilty pleasures and both albums are untouchable in terms of (the combination of) melody, heavyness, composition, variety and speed.
Metallica were always seen as sell outs by us oldies even in the 80's, but after Dyer's Eve is the band's what spiritually broke/killed the band for me. (Holy Wars...The Punishment Due broke MegaDeth, Walk broke Pantera.. ) The Black Album onwards is commercial radio friendly trash and pop/rock and not true metal...
@@PeterKnagge so metal is all about not trying to be commercially successfull? Not about making good music? Metallica grew rapidly without any radio airplay, because their music is more accessible for 'outsiders'. What's your definition of selling out? Being commercially successfull? That's the biggest bullshit. Metallica never made music for their fans, but music they wanted to make in certain periods of time. Making music solely to please your fans for me is the ultimate example of selling out.
I don't agree with the first poster. But the fact is, Metallica sold out BY THEIR OWN standards. They said, shortly before they did it, they'd never do a music video for MTV because it was all sellout bullshit. And lol and behold. They literally sold out according to their own terms and no one else's. I mean, let's be real. Metallica is super gateway level shit, and they have two top tier albums, Ride and Master. Bands like Kreator, Slayer, Testament and Overkill have been more consistent overtime and have healthier catalogs as well. Metallica is famous for being at the right place at the right time, and dropping 3 solid albums and 2 great ones. And they deserve whatever success comes from that. Simply, they aren't gods, they're sellouts by THEIR OWN standards, and they've done some hyper cringey shit from the Napster debacle to dropping "GIMME FU, GIMME FIYAH, GIMME ZEGAZEGAZAYUH"
Heavy Metal is an underground backlash against the Conservative Christian Fundamentalist Capitalist Cold War 80's. It is a secret underground counter-culture brotherhood that is anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-religious, and anti-authoritarian. Current music and gamer culture has taken minority counter-cultures and turned them upside-down and are nothing to do and the complete opposite with their 80's roots. The difference between how Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Rave, and computer gaming culture started and today is like the difference between being on Earth and on Mars. All these counter-cultures have sold out their 80's roots. It's right there in the name for you, "Heavy Metal". Most metal heads these days wouldn't know a power chord if it slapped them in the face...
Stunning how a modern Metal band can sound like they were one of the all time greats from days past but a lot of people don't even know them. Like all their instruments and vocals are on such a high level and they are ONE band together. Insane. They have had to be casted xD
Great list! Seventh Son is an absolute epic. I'd like to suggest White Pony by Deftones. Maybe not metal in the strictest sense but still very heavy in parts
My perfect albums would be: - ...And Justice For All by Metallica - Painkiller by Judas Priest - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden - Rust in Peace by Megadeth - Awake by Godsmack - Cowboys From Hell by Pantera - Lateralus by Tool - Wisconsin Death Trip by Static-X - No Rest for the Wicked by Ozzy Osbourne A perfect album to me is an album where I love every single song. These are just the metal ones too. I have a bunch of non-metal albums on my "perfect albums" list haha. Great video!
I agree. I loved vulgar display of power at the time but over the last several decades, I find cowboys from hell to be the better and more complete album by pantera. I hardly ever play vulgar display anymore
@@sethmolenaar1801 that's fair. I still love Vulgar, they're like 1a and 1b to me, but Cowboys From Hell just takes the cake for me. Speaking of that, CFH just turned 34 years old today.
I like Mgla but still the hype that album got and obviously still gets shocks me. I guess around that time I wasn't even paying too much attention to new stuff in the first place, so when I heard it it was well after they got popular, and the first thing I thought was "this has been done before". Don't get me wrong, its a good album and I think Groza is even better, buuuut man even Kriegshammer gives them a run for their money, and its the same dudes!
For spanish speaking audience: Rata Blanca's "Magos, Espadas y Rosas", and Baron Rojo's "Metalmorfosis" 7th son, Painkiller, Rust in Peace and Master of Puppets are probably in my top 5 albums I would add Keeper 1/2 by Helloween, Avantasia 1, Queensryche's Empire, Accept's Restless and Wild, and Slayer's South of Heaven or Reign in Blood. Great video!!! Thank you.
Thanks for the great list, have a few new albums to listen to now. I think "Epitaph" by Necrophagist or "Symbolic" by Death could've made the list if it had been longer, but still a great list!
Yeah I guess it depends on which opinion you have, but like I said I think those albums are near perfection, I even might have added "Reign in Blood" and I consider "...And Justice For All" near perfection (it is not perfect thought, mostly because the Bass is missing and two songs are "only" decent), but like I mentioned it depends on which opinion you have, and that's just mine.
Some of my personal 10s: Symphony X - The Odyssey. - Divine Wings of Tragedy. Metallica - Ride the Lightning - And Justice For All. Gojira - From Sirius To Mars - Opeth - Blackwater Park
You can point to Helloween's first three albums as having definitively created Power Metal, and the third album, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, is a masterpiece conclusion to a perfect 3 album run.
Behemoth’s ‘Demigod’ will always be one of the most brutal metal albums for me, from start to finish. Their best album. Along with Mastodon’s ‘Leviathan’.
My list would be: Heaven & Hell - Black Sabbath Bonded By Blood - Exodus Lightning To The Nations (1980) - Diamond Head Kill 'Em All - Metallica Angel Witch - Angel Witch Restless And Wild - Accept Defenders Of The Faith - Judas Priest These for me are ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECES.
@@whatthemaze5450 because their music is too technical and sometimes too complicated. People usually like to listen to a repetitive riff, a killer solo and a short song to head bang to, whereas to listen to symphony x, one needs to be in the mood for progressive metal, unpredicted, yet tasty change of times and riffs. Which not many people like. I saw them during a festival a couple of years back in Germany, was surprised, as not many people were there. Lucky for me I could stand directly in front of the stage.
Oh, Symphony X, they are so good and so underrated. Although Odyssey is a great album, I personally recommend to listen The Divine Wings of Tragedy, it's a real masterpiece from the first notes to the very end
They get put into the power metal box often, which is definitely a part of their sound but theyre so much more. Communion and the oracle is one of the most beautiful songs ever for me.
@@Jablan11 I think that's mostly due to their neoclassical metal inspiration, which for what it's worth, isn't even representative of Power Metal as a whole.
Would've chosen Crack the Skye for Mastodon. Catch 33 is a wild choice for Meshuggah as It's either loved or hated. I admire your courage. System of a Down's self titled debut is their best, but I understand why you'd rather go with the universally beloved Toxicity. I fully agree with everything you said about Children of Bodom and Are You Dead Yet. Solid list. Part 2 coming?
Crack the Skye is just on another level, they really set the bar too high on that one, is an absolute masterpiece of an album. Brent killed it specially, album was mainly written by him. That's also when he lost his sanity 😂😂😂
Listening to "Painkiller" when I was 12 years old made me a metalhead for life! Banger track after a banger track. My favourite would be either the title track, "Leather rebel" or "Between the hammer and the anvil."
