Mercyful Fate - Melissa. Mind blowing in my opinion . No words for how good this is . If you haven’t listened to it I invite you to listen. Just be careful it’s intoxicating and it can lead to a 40 yr love affair…
Helloween's "The keeper of the seven keys" part 1 is a monumental album for power metal (although "Walls of Jericho" is my favorite). Great stuff, it's always difficult to make a top 10 metal albums list.
Megadeth Rust In Peace Metallica-And Justice For All Slayer-South Of Heaven. Anthrax-Among The Living. Suicidal Tendencies-How Will I Laugh Tomorrow.... Testament-Practice What You Preach. Black Sabbath-Paranoid. Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind. Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance. OverKill-Horrorscope
I love the lyrics on "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Considered out of context, the lyrics are quite philosophical, their greatness taken to further heights with Bruce Dickinson's huge vocals on that song.
I’m more into the extreme side of metal so I would add Incantation - Onwards to Golgotha, Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten, Darktrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Sarcofogo - INRI, Terrorizer - World Downfall, Repulsion - Horrified. Some call the latter two albums grindcore, but it sounds like extreme metal to me. These albums all had a massive impact on the more extreme side of things. Regardless, I agree with all you said about the albums on your list. Thanks! Everyone, have yourselves a nice brutal death metal day!❤
Some great mentions here, I REALLY love Blaze In The Northern Sky. Probably still their strongest album. Finding out Fenriz dug my band was one of the greatest days of my life 😂
Not a Pantera guy myself, but I enjoyed this list. Although if it were my list it would be incomplete without something from Megadeth, probably Rust in Peace.
Well done man. I was 25 in 1986. Insane year for music. On top of the 3 on your list there were albums from Motörhead, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensryche, Sepultura, Kreator, Megadeth and Ozzy. Your list had me digging out old albums. Liked and Subbed.
Music is art and therefore is completely ‘eye of the beholder’. Black Sabbath - ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ Judas Priest - ‘ Screaming for Vengeance’ Black Sabbath ‘ Heaven and Hell’ Slayer ‘Reign in Blood’ Nevermore ‘Dreaming Neon Black’ Emperor ‘Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk’ Iron Maiden ‘Seventh Son of a Seventh Son’ Opeth ‘ Blackwater Park’ King Diamond ‘Them’ Behemoth ‘The Satanist’ Chat Pile ‘ Gods Country’
Yes 1986 was a Awesome year. i was Getting into metal then. i agree with most of your picks, BUT to put far beyond & Not cowboys from Hell is crazy. and ACCEPTs Restless & Wild is well on My List of Best METAL Albums.
A few of these bands, I admittedly have never heard of. I'm primarily a fan of esp. "Old School," NWOBHM, and "Power Metal" genres. Less of a fan of 'thrash' (though I like 80s and early 90s Metallica and some Megadeth), and almost like nothing of Speed or Death Metal. In the following order my favorite metal bands of all time are: Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath (and Heaven and Hell), Dio, and Savatage. My favorite Iron Maiden album is the very underrated "Somewhere In Time" which you ranked around number 4 or so... I'm surprised at how little attention "Iced Earth" gets in youtube circles discussing metal. As good as any metal band that has EVER existed, thematically, lyrically, musically...
Good list, if there was an eleventh pick, for me: it would be Megadeth's Rust In Peace, it's the best technical thrash album of all time, a masterpiece.
My all-time favorites are mostly older underground stuff. My tastes are acquired I guess, for some reason I don't like the popular/well known stuff that much. Long list off the top of my head: Cloven Hoof - Dominator Sortilege - Metamorphose Leader - Out in the Wasteland Attacker - Battle at Helm's Deep Blade Runner - Warriors of Rock Gillman - Levantate y Pelea Loudness - Thunder in the East Reaction - True Imitation Sacred Blade - Of the Sun and Moon Voivod - War and Pain WatchTower - Demonstrations in Chaos Heir Apparent - Graceful Inheritance Solar Eagle - Charter to Nowhere Titan Force - Titan Force Zeus - V Manilla Road - Crystal Logic Ostrogoth - Ecstasy and Danger Running Wild - Port Royal Saints' Anger - Danger Metal Hammers Rule - After the Bomb Elixir - The Son of Odin Unicorn - The Legend Returns Courage - Gold and Ivory Westfalen - Westfalen Vectom - Rules of Mystery Tankard - Chemical Invasion Straw Dogs - We are Not Amused Overkill - Taking Over Helstar - Remnants of War Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse Possessed - Seven Churches Violent Force - Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow
I can appreciate your love of certain albums over others but then there is the harsh reality as far as greatness and influence. Example: Wether u want to or not you have to replace Somewhere in Time with Number of the Beast (and I get it. I like Powerslave better). Also replace Remission with Leviathan. Also, I like Trouble; however, just in influence and importance, that album has to be Kyuss- Blues for the Red Sun. Anyway, nice channel man.
Pantera is like, one of the worst metal bands I've ever heard! Why does every geezer, think that metal ended in mid 90s? All seven albums of Haken surpasses, your choices by far. Never heard of them? You're oblivious of what you're missing!
Awesome to see Dissection named in a greatest of all time list. Rubbing shoulders with the heavyweights and much more well known bands. Storm of the Lights Bane is exceptional and is like extreme metal poetry.
That’s one of my favorite albums ever made, personally. But Stained Class is objectively more solid (there’s no Take These Chains) and more significant to the genre.
Early Savatage, Manowar and king Diamond (Abigail) would need to be on my list. Would have liked to hear a sample of the songs on the album as you rolled through them. Otherwise great job. I was a senior in highschool in 1986 and everything that year was tremendous.
10. Mors Principium Est - Seven 9. Crimson Glory - Transcendence 8. Entombed - Left Hand Path 7. Ketzer - Satan's Boundaries Unchained 6. In Flames - The Jester Race 5. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 4. Running Wild - Black Hand Inn 3. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time 2. Megadeth - Rust in Peace 1. Death - Symbolic
after years of listening this is my top 10: 1 Iron Maiden: Seventh son of a seventh son 2 Gamma Ray: Land of the free 3 Blind Guardian: Immaginations from the other side 4 Borknagar: The olden domain 5 Opeth: Morningrise 6 Emperor: In the nightside eclipse 7 Moonsorrow: Verisakeet 8 Wolves in the Throne Room: Black Cascade 9 Amorphis: Circle 10 Scorpions: Savage amusement special mentions 1 Enslaved: Riitiir 2 Morbid angel: Altar of madness 3 Dark tranquillity: Fiction
Overkill - Years Of Decay Testament - New Order Fates Warning - Spectre Within Voivod - Nothingface Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Metal Church - Metal Church Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black Motorhead - Orgasmatron Iron Maiden - Killers Best Metal album of all time is British Steel followed by Holy Diver and Master of Puppets..my opinion.
1. BLACK SABBATH 'Paranoid'; 2. JUDAS PRIEST 'Screaming For Vengeance'; 3. Ozzy OSBOURNE 'Diary Of A Madman'; 4. DIO 'Holy Diver'; 5. METALLICA 'Master Of Puppets'; 6.IRON MAIDEN 'Somewhere In Time'; 7. MEGADETH 'Rust In Peace'; 8. SCORPIONS 'Taken By Force'; 9. DREAM THEATER 'Scenes From A Memory'; 10. QUEENSRŸCHE 'Operation: Mindcrime'.
Great list. Totally agree with Somewhere in Time being peak Maiden. It's definitely their best sounding album in my opinion. Some of my personal favorites would include Vektor - Terminal Redux Pallbearer - Heartless Death - The Sound of Perseverance Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Between the Buried and Me - Colors Solstice - New Dark Age Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire Candlemass - Epicus Doomincus Metallicus Cradle of Filth - Midian Rainbow - Rising et cetera... And of course, anything by Spirit Adrift! Love the new record. It's in competition with Enlightened in Eternity for my favorite.
To me 1986 is definitely the best metal year, because I got my first metal albums back then. They where Somewhere In Time, Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood. 😉 (Among others, like Welcome To Hell, Speak English Or Die, Spreading The Desease, Kill 'Em All, Seven Churches, Pleasure To Kill, Life After Death, Piece Of Mind, In The Sign Of Evil, Sentence Of Death & Hell Awaits). I remember thinking: "This is my kind of music!", and after 37 years it still is. 🤟😎 I'm also happy to be one of the people who got these classics shortly after they were released. However, the downside would be it never really got any better after that. 😌
This is perhaps my favorite ever top 10 metal albums review.. I was sick and tired of seeing the same albums on an on / very steriotypical and popularized mentality.. So it was great to see Trouble on anybody's list out of Psalm 9.. Especially Somewhere In Time but more especially Storm of The Lİght's bane !! Only I was expecting you to change MOP to AJFA in the last second but your explanation was fair fair enough.. cheers Nate..
Iron maıden Iron maıden megadeth Rust İn peace slayer south of heaven dıo holy dıver + kronık. Kayıt çok kötü ama çok iyidir türk. Haaaahaaa sepultura deep came taste the band wısh bone ash argus
I agree with you about Disposable Heroes. Though, when it comes to repetitive songs... you don't think The Thing That Should Not Be is even more repetitive? My favorites off that album are Battery, Sanitarium, Leper Messiah, and Orion. AJFA is my favorite Metallica album by far. I don't care about the bass being barely there. I don't care that the album doesn't sound as good as MOP. I just care about the songs.
I’m the old head in the room (58) and I still haven’t opened up my mind to the last 3 genres you placed up there. Never got into Death or Black and I can’t get into most of the modern (post 2005) stuff; I hate metalcore vocals (sounds like gargling with glass). That being said I do agree with about half of your choices. Master of Reality is one of my favorites as is Master of Puppets. However I like Sad Wings of Destiny or Hell Bent for Leather a little better than Stained Class but really all are good up to Screaming for Vengeance. My choices for Maiden would be Piece of Mind or the Di’Anno masterpiece Killers. For Trouble gotta go with Manic Frustration. Now I’d add Machine Head by Deep Purple, Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, and punk metal masterwork Raw Power by Iggy Pop. Took me a while to warm up to Reign in Blood but I can dig the energy and power here. Finally I’ll put in my oddball Montrose’s Gamma 2 (as close to jazz fusion as I get). Now I failed to include anything by Terry Brown era Rush because they defy categorization; they’re much more than just prog metal. They’re also my absolute favorite!
Killers rules, love that album and the raw attitude Di’Anno brought. Physical Graffiti is another personal favorite. In The Light is one of the best songs ever made
@@BornTooNate First question. Do you like Wino? Seen him 3 times, once with Spirit Caravan. Secondly I forgot to say I prefer Vulgar Display of Power as a whole but Far Beyond Driven has its moments. Finally I feel I should’ve included Heep’s Demons and Wizards instead of Raw Power; I definitely listen to it more. Last question. Do you consider Toys in the Attic or Boston’s debut to be metal? Two more I never get tired of.
I love Wino, one of my biggest heroes and I’m grateful to now be able to call him a friend. Just hung with him at Hellfest, we watched Earthless together. The lifer of all lifers. Can’t say enough good things about him and his musical legacy. I don’t consider either of those albums metal BUT Boston’s self titled is a rare PERFECT record. Just perfect. Life changing for me.
Cool list man, I like the approach of trying to balance personal taste with historic significance. That seems like a tough thing to do. Mine with just considering personal taste in no irder would probably look something like Sabbath's Paranoid, Priest's Screaming For Vengeance, Maiden's Piece of Mind, Metallica's Ride The Lightning, Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss, Danzig's Lucifuge, Megadeth's Rust In Peace, Death's Symbolic, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, and Deicide's Serpents of the Light
Thwrs awesome you saw him the other night. I'm hoping to catch him on this tour too. Seen him a bunch of times, but you never know how much longer he'll go.
GO SEE IT if you can. I’ve seen the old boy 4 or 5 times(?) and this was by far the best. Still on cloud 9 from the quality of the performance and how epic the setlist was.
Flotsam and Jetsam , doomsday for the deceiver, Savatage, hall of the mountain king. Queensryche, the warning. ACCEPT restless and wild. RACER X Technical difficulties.
Mercyful Fate Melissa Mercyful Fate Don't Break The Oath King Diamond Abigail King Diamond The Eye Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell Judas Priest Stained Class Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny Venom Black Metal Motorhead Overkill Judas Priest Painkiller
Morbid Tales, Bonded By Blood, First 3 Metallica, Apocalyptic Raids, War & Pain, In The Sign of Evil, First 4 Maiden, Endless Pain, First 3 Slayer, The Skull, Melissa, At War With Satan, Ozzy-Dio-Gillan Sabbath, Dirt, Heavy Metal Maniac, All Priest ending with Screaming, Any Clutch or Melvins metal song... Megadeth is unlistenable.
My top 10 1) In Flames The Jester Race 2) Amon Amarth Versus The World 3) Trivium Ascendancy 4) Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time 5) Metallica Ride The Lighting 6) Megadeth Rust In Peace 7) Machine Head The Blackening 8) All that Remains The Fall of Ideals 9) As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us 10) Death The Sound of Perseverance
I heard a lot of these albums when they were new Judas priest sad wings of destiny on a recorded 8 track was the shit I was 13 back in 76 so I was surprised you gave props to stained class witch I loved it was the album that pushed them into doing British steel one of the best albums of all time according to some
The top two are Master of Puppets & And Justice for all. Perfect albums. I don’t think this is a matter of opinion. Facts. Then it’s between the Black Album and Maiden’s Seventh Son for four and five. Operation Mindcrime is #5. That’s my top 5. Back in black next. Followed by VH’s 1984. Then Maiden’s Number of the Beast. Then Megadeth and Rust in Peace. Pearl Jam’s Ten makes my top ten. 1988 was the pinnacle year of heavy metal. Appetite for destruction gets the honorable mention, as does ZZ Top’s Eliminator. ‘One’ is the most influential metal video of all time. Changed the game. Forever.
Feel I need to give some personal shout outs - perhaps some more recent metal records and certainly my most played: Sepultura - Quadra Gojira - Magma Amon Amarth - Jomsviking Eluveitie - Everything Remains Tool - AEinma Rammstein - Untited (2019)
I'm an asshole, lol, but my list no matter what I post on any category will always be #1. 1. Black Sabbath Vol 4. 2. Black Sabbath Sabotage 3. MetallicA- Ride The Lightning 4. PanterA Cowboys From Hell 5. Fear Factory Obsolete 6. Death Symbolic 7. Megadeth Youthanasia 8. Artillery By Inheritance 9. Slayer South Of Heaven 10. lamb of god As The Palaces Burn
Blizzard of Oz,Screaming for Vengeance,Metal Church,Rigor Mortis Vs. The earth.Legend Up from the fjords. Accept Balls to walls or Restless and Wild.Deep Purple Machine head. Sabbath Born again.big Ian Gillian fan. Iron Maiden Piece of mind. Alcatraz No parole from rock and roll. Yngwie's best
Dissection - Reinkaos Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction Death - Individual Thought Patterns In Flames - The Jester Race Metallica - And Justice For All... Trivium - Shogun Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper No specific order 😎
Metallica - And Justice for all… Burzum - Det som engang var Deicide - Once upon the cross Emperor - In the nightside eclipse Wolves in the throne room- Two hunters Drudkh- blood in our wells Gorgoroth - incipit Satan Swallow the sun - ghosts of loss Hecate enthroned - slaughter of innocence Arcturus - la masquerade infernale
Unlike the others Bands named here,any Iron Maiden album is Super or above the Average,and that what makes Iron Maiden the Greastest HEAVY METAL Band of all Times,without any doubt. And with the biggest True and Dedicated Fan base of any Heavy Metal Band in history
1969, Golden Earring released their Record Eight Miles High with the Song Everydays Torture, including a very heavy Riff, I think the first real heavy metal song.
There is a group not in the list who were just the band everybody knew in the English metal community and later Germany but never made a huge impact in the USA. They never even got a track on Ney Kays NWOBHM compilation albums. (and reflecting on bands like that Def Leopard moved to the States and became huge, but were regarded as sell outs in England for this financial direction) If in the biker community you heard of the Hells Angels then in heavy metal you heard of Motorhead. With Overkill and then Bomber smashing their mark, the next two LP could both be regarded as Greatest, No Sleep until Hammersmith for capturing the raw live act and Ace of Spades for making the main stream listen rather than growl at them for being anti establishment. It was the American Punk scene who recognised their fellow outcast with Henry Rollins saying on hearing one of the early LPs 'o no these three hippies just incinerated our whole record collection'. Using their own word to sum up Motorhead Sky high and six thousand miles away Don't know how long I've been awake On your feet you feel the beat, it goes straight to your spine Marching to a different drum, I hear a different song
Since this list encompasses all metal (Speed, thrash, progressive, death, etc.) and criteria is made up of significance to the genre and historical significance then regardless of personal opinion, shouldn't Operation Mindcrime be on the list? Many 'old school' metalheads prefer Rage for Order, and there is an argument that it is better, but there's no denying that Mindcrime was insanely popular and pulled people into progressive metal to the same extent as Master of Puppets pulled people in. Also, my list would contain an Anthrax album. Spreading the Disease got me hooked immediately and will always have a place in my metal heart, however I'm fine with Among the Living being in a top 10. Listening to the opening track 'Among the Living' right now. Among the Living was a definitive speed/thrash album.
Vulgar Display o f Power is Pantera's best Album put them on the pedestal of the Greatest. Who cares about the Bilboard Chart. saw them in Germany 1993
Great list. Not only is this guy making great music with his band but also he has a very calm and collected way of analysing and making convincing arguments. However, while I do agree Somewhere in Time is amazing, I would go with Beast or Mind or Powerslave. In 1982-1984 Maiden was cutting edge metal - 1986 belongs to thrash metal in my opinion. Likewise, arguably Painkiller is Priest’s most solid, metallic, borderline thrashy album, but in 1978 Priest was truly breaking new ground. My list would look something like: Sabbath - Reality (1st wave, Doom) Priest - Stained Class (2nd wave, HM) (Rush - Kings, not really metal though, prog rock) Maiden - Beast or Slave (3rd wave? HM) Metallica - Puppets (thrash perfected) Slayer - Reign (extreme metal) Megadeth - Rust in Peace (start of modern, quite technical metal) Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick (dm) Death - Symbolic (prog dm, 1st wave) Necrophagist - Epitaph (prog dm modernized) Gorod - Leading Visions or Maze of Recycled Creeds (best post 2000 band to me, prog dm with great song-writing) If I went with Pantera, I’d pick Vulgar Display of Power. From the more modern stuff I might choose Vektor’s Outer Isolation or Spirit Adrift’s Divided by Darkness as well. Magical stuff! Or maybe something really weird and experimental like Mr Bungle or Igorrr. So many different ways to go… So many styles and genres… Thank you Mr Garrett for your excellent points and interesting and well thought-out views. It is wonderful to see someone truly living and breathing metal in its so many different forms👍🏻 Also, i love Mob Rules… so many great picks and honourable mentions… brilliant! 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻
I've seen quite a few of these lists and it pains me that I never see Death Angel's Act III mentioned. That record is phenomenal. Back in the days I had a tape with Act III on one side and Rust in Peace on the other. I could travelled to the end of the world with just that tape in my walkman.
System of a down toxicity. And maybe slipknot Iowa. Those CDs along with anything Pantera was my teenage years. Toxicity shoulda been on this list but to each their own 🤘
The number of the beast an album of iron maiden this album was one of the 13 filthy black book parental guidance labeling agendas of Tipper gore's.. how could iron maiden is not in the R n R music hall of fame?
I'm not gonna list all my top ten but probably my favourite metal album is Odyssey by Malmsteen , still listening to it now and never found anything as good or even similar. Others include metallica, maiden , ozzy , helloween, rush , megadeth , a lot of mid to late 80s and early 90s then nu metal and grunge came along and never really did anything for me . One of the few modern bands i really like is Muse .
I think the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Maiden was about the 1962 film and not just about running in general. The idea in the film was, that protagonist could use his running skill to be freed from his juvenile delinquent center sentence. He needed to win a running race etc, in other words, he was going to Run to the Hills, while he was, Running Free, yeah!
+Death's Human. I consider it something like the Reign in Blood of death metal in the sense that it took death to a whole new level the same way Reign turbocharged thrash. I personally consider it the best extreme metal record. Power, cohesion, flow. And a lot of that magic came from Paul and Sean's contribution. I don't think Chuck quite managed to reach that magic again, as phenomenal as Symbolic is.
Problably i agree with half of this list. Master of reality is the most masterpiece ever. After that, i enjoy Reign in blood, master of puppets and somewhere in time.
Although I do agree with the choices and I like the way you described in great detail why they were chosen, very surprised Anthrax did not make it. Anthrax undoubtedly is credited with putting a unique spin on metal. I remember when Anthrax first played at L'Amour, the direction of metal changed that night.
My terrible list in no order: Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian Opeth - Blackwater Park (or MAYH) Black Sabbath - Paranoid Metallica - Master of Puppets Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime King Diamond - Abigail Gojira - From Mars to Sirius Meshuggah - Chaosphere Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny Wilderun - Epigone
Towards the end there, I started thinking that there should probably be a Meshuggah record on here and the list would be perfect. I respect the Mastodon choice though. Runners up would have to be Obzen or Ashes of the Wake LOG. Cheers!
The heavy metal the supersedes every list of 10 greatest metal albums of all time: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Nothing ever will come even close to the greatness of that album.
I remember when somewhere in time was their “new” album. I know it’s a live album but live after death is the one to buy if you can only buy one maiden album.
