Top 10 Metal Albums (that changed my life) 

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My top 10: 1: ERRA (self titled) 2-10: ERRA (self titled) Thank you for reading.

Love your list my guy. Shogun from Trivium for me absolutely blew my mental doors off. Heavy? Thrash? Proggy? Clean vocals and screams?!

Chapter Four by A7X is arguably one of my favorite songs. Absolute masterpiece

The bands that got me leaning towards heavier stuff were Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin. That eventually got me into A7X, BFMV, and Atreyu (primarily Bullet out of those 3). Those 3 were my mainstays for quite awhile before I got into post-hardcore stuff and Metalcore. Recently getting into some Deathcore with Lorna Shore and Slaughter to Prevail to thank for that.

My top 10 (in no particular order): 1. As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise 2. Trivium - Ascendancy (got me into metal) 3. Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison 4. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies 5. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals 6. In Flames - Clayman 7. Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile 8. The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches Below 9. Katatonia - Dead End Kings 10. Erra - Augment

Honestly your taste in music is great. There’s lots of bands that I like that you bring up but you’ve also introduced me to new bands and albums I’ve never checked out. Keep up the great content!

For me: -still life(Opeth) -Ghost reveries(Opeth) -Images and words( Dream theater) -Metropolis pt.2(Dream theater) -Korn(Korn) -Lateralus(Tool) -Obzen(Meshuggah)

As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse Unearth - The Oncoming Storm KSE - Alive or Just Breathing August Burns Red - Constellations Architects - Lost Forever Lost Together The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed Underoath - Define the Great Line A7X - Waking the Fallen Protest the Hero - Kezia Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance

My top 10 in no particular order: BFMV - The Poison Parkway Drive - Horizons Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet Escape The Fate - Dying is your latest fashion Asking Alexandria - Stand up and scream Confession - The Long Way Home Bring Me The Horizon - There is a hell... A Day to Remember - What separates me from you Upon a Burning Body - Red White Green Architects - Lost Together... All these really shaped my taste in metal in one way or another🙌

Love this video! It was quite the nostalgia bomb seeing those album covers

A Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden Rust in Peace by Megadeth Shogun by Trivium Feathers and Flesh by Avatar Hail Stan by Periphery Ire by Parkway Drive Sacrament by Lamb of God Magma by Gojira Welcome to Horrorwood by Ice Nine Kills Vol 3. The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot Id probably have multiple Avatar/Maiden/Trivium records on here but kept it one album per artist

Born in ‘94 & heard Chop Suey when I was 7 & after that, it was all over. But here is mine: 1. BMTH - Suicide Season 2. SOAD - Toxicity 3. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory/Meteora 4. Slipknot - Iowa 5. ADTR - Homesick 6. Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache 7. Limp Bizkit - CS&THFW 8. Korn - Follow The Leader 9. RATM - Self-Titled/Battle of LA 10. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

My top 3 3 - Toxicity - System Of a Down 2 - Sempiternal - Bring Me the Horizon 1 - As daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage

So glad that these bands and albums got you into metalcore. I got into it through them as well

its cool to see your list, different albums can be wildly different for different people. every single album on this list is an album i always thought was trash but its cool to see the other side of the fence where these albums are life changing for someone

Top 10 for me: 1. Underoath 'Define The Great Line' 2. Protest The Hero 'Kezia' 3. Slipknot 'Iowa' 4. Counterparts 'The Difference Between Hell and Home' 5. Senses Fail 'Let It Enfold You' 6. August Burns Red 'Constellations' 7. Saosin 'Self-Titled' 8. Killswitch Engage 'The End of Heartache' 9. Periphery 'II' 10. Northlane 'Singularity'

Glad to see WtF getting the recognition it deserves! A7X gets a lot of crap from people but they're a really talented band and Matt's voice was incredible on that album.

Two albums that really changed my life are Nightmare - A7X and Somewhere In The Between - Streetlight Manifesto, both my favorite album of all time tbh, from my favorite bands, I know every lyric to both, they really got me into music

I wont see you tonight part 1 is not only the most underrated songs ever, it is my favorite song ever

I am SO HAPPY you put in Alexisonfire....the song It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd....one of the all time best songs in this genre.

August Burns Red’s Thrill Seeker is what got me hooked. And that Northlane album was just perfection. Really miss Adrian and old Northlane. 😢

It was so awesome to hear Nik mention alexisonfire, loved Watch Out as well. I don't hear a lot of metal or even metal adjacent people mention them on these channels but they are probably the single biggest influence on me personally getting into heavier music and metal in general. Beautiful clean vocals and great arrangements and songwriting. I know they were huge in canada but I really think theyre still underrated. I wish DG hadn't pursued city and colour so hard and we would have gotten more ST - Crisis type music. Anyway, cool to hear you mention them Nik, love the vids. Our metal journey looks pretty similar!

Not in any particular order, too hard to decide: Atreyu - Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses Children of Boddom - Follow the Reaper Psykup - Le Temps de la Refléxion Persefone - Truth Inside the Shades Gojira - From Mars to Sirius Funeral for a Friend - Hours Between the Buried and Me - Colors Oceans Ate Alaska - Lost Isles As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security System of a Down - Toxicity Honorable Mentions: Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance (I always thought it was metal, apparently not) Polyphia - Resurrect (not the Polyphia we know today but it was the EP that made me know them)

2005 my dad was going to take me to Ozzfest. I remember seeing the lineup and going on Morpheus to download some of the bands I've never heard of. 1. As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security. 94 hours was the 1st song I ever heard and boom I was hooked! 2. Trivium - Ascendancy 3. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals - Prolly a top 3 album of all time in my opinion 4. Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison 5. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen 6. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil 7. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm 8. Parkway Drive - Horizons 9. Haste the Day - When Everything Falls 10. Metallica - Ride the Lightning. The reason I started listening to metal

My 10 albums (Off the top of my head) that got me into metal: Metallica - And Justice for All Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Megadeth - Rust in Peace Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake All that Remains - The Fall of Ideals Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache August Burns Red - Messengers Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God Dethklok - The Dethalbum

Since you included BfmV, A7x and Disturbed, we kinda had the same trip! I have to include Kamelot and Avantasia as well. I mostly listened to compilations though, the first album that really blew my mind as a whole was In Flames - Siren Charms. I listened to it on repeat for weeks.

From 10,000 Fists 'Deify' was the one that smacked me! I totally agree with you with that As I Lay Dying album, that one changed my life too got me hooked instantly...

Top 10 that changed my life: 1) Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power 2) Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 3) Sepultura - Arise 4) Morbid Angel - Covenant 5) Metallica - And Justice For All 6) Megadeth - Rust in Peace 7) Opeth - Blackwater Park 8) Korn - self titled debut 9) Slipknot - self titled debut 10) Deftones - Around the Fur

Not my personal favorite, but I’d say “Waking the Fallen” by A7X was the most life changing album of mine, since it was the first metal album I ever listened to. It was less than a year ago in Fall of 2020, but I’d say it started my transition into a metalhead

Almost had the same progression myself! Agreed BFMV - The Poison was my first screaming album I was really into. Even Dream Theater, I had the same experience where I found them in the late 2000s. KSE, Parkway Drive, In Flames (stemming back to MTV Headbangers ball, never got over that!) and Rammstein are some of my all time favs, and lately its been The Volumes, Architects and Amity Affliction. Gerderm there's so much good stuff out there.

Sooooo glad some one else loves I Wont See You Tonight pt 1 too. Still one of my favs

-My top 5: -Korn - Untouchables -Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia -Moongates Guardian - Leave the Northern Mountains -Svartby - Elemental Tales -Death -The Sound of Perseverance

Sweet list of albums. There are definitely a few albums from my childhood that "changed my life" and got me loving metal like I do today but most of the albums that got me to love metal, especially core and extreme metal, I heard over the pandemic. Anyways here are 10 metal albums that changed my life (in no specific order). 1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (I like Meteora more but Hybrid Theory was the first metal album I heard in full) 2. Breaking Benjamin - Phobia 3. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (I like Believe more now but this album initially hooked me the most out of any of their albums with it's guitar work and vocal melodies) 4. Deftones - White Pony (Diamond Eyes is my favorite but I heard White Pony first) 5. Suicide Silence - The Black Crown 6. Make Them Suffer - How to Survive a Funeral 7. Death - Leprosy 8. Deafheaven - New Bermuda 9. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane 10. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue

This makes me want to reminisce and document my album path. I remember most of them that i listened to on repeat and want to remember those ive forgotten.

Really good video 📹 👌 really gonna have to listen to all that remains, dream theater, and northlane now. I also love strickened as much as you.

For me: Vol 3 The Subliminal Verses - Slipknot Master of Puppets - Metallica Rust in Peace - Megadeth Mutter - Rammstein Nightmare - A7X House of Gold and Bones Part 1 - Stone Sour Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park F&M - Lindemann Mesmerize - SOAD Meliora - Ghost

My top 10: 1: L’enfant Sauvage 2: The Way Of All Flesh 3: From Mars To Sirius 4: Terra Incognita 5: Magma 6: Fortitude 7: The Link Wait a minute

Right there with you. All of these albums changed my life. More so crisis on the alexisonfire part for me tho.

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Soad - basically everything Subway to Sally - Hochzeit The Hirsch Effect - Eskapist Meshuggah - ObZen In Flames - Clayman At the Gates - slaughter of the soul Der Weg einer Freiheit - Finsterre Bmth - Sempiternal

My top 5: Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin Asphyx - The Rack Megadeth - Rust in Peace In Flames - The Jester Race Judas Priest - Painkiller

Watch Out is such an underrated masterpiece in my opinion. You nailed it with the whole soundscapes and mixing that with crazy heavy sections. Unreal album

I agree with you on pretty much all of them the only ones I would add is either Killing with a Smile or Horzions by Parkway Drive

Through Struggle changed my life dude. At the time. I never heard a song with such deep meaning. It did it all for me. I was obsessed with that and All These Things I Hate... and ATR Six Just seen The Fall of Ideals 15th anniversary show. So good damn good to hear all those songs live.

My brother listened to rock and metal all the time when i was a kid and i still listen to a lot of those bands. My ten favourite albums (not in any particular order) that led me to heavy music: 1. Caliban - "The Undying Darkness" and "Say Hello To Tragedy" (i discovered both in one day) 2. Whitechapel- "This is Exile" 3. Suicide Silence- "The Cleansing" 4. Lamb Of God - "Sacrament" 5. Structures- "Divided By" (love this album sooo much) 6. Metallica- "Ride the Lightning" 7. Terror- "Keepers Of The Faith" (I think this album was the most important in my life, i listened to it every day during the hardest times of my life, i even have tattoo in which K.O.T.F. is hidden) 8. BMTH - "Count Your Blessings" 9. Architects- "Hollow Crown" 10. Blood Redemption - "Picking Up The Pieces Of A Broken Past"

Underoath- define the great line All that remains- the fall of ideals August burns red- messengers I feel all that remains doesn’t get enough credit- say what you want about their other albums but This darkened heart and The fall of ideals are 2 of the best albums ever written, I will die on that hill 🤘

I never realized how young Nick is. A lot of these albums are my little brothers era of getting into metal. Amazing albums. I wasn't expecting a butt rock album though with Disturbed, that was out of left field. I was in my 20s when Shadows are Security came out and I still even consider it an album that shaped me.

AoF ❤️ I remember seeing the video for No Transitory and my jaw dropped at the solo scream. You know the one. I think we must be the same age cause almost all of these were fundamental to myself as well.

The two albums that legitimately 100% changed my life are the self titled Killswitch album from 2009, Howard blew me the fuck away with how far he went in the ribs for the first time seem to evolve pretty damn far it’s extremely underrated in my opinion. The other one is the powerless rise by as I lay and when you listen to like just the drums and guitar on any of those songs you can’t help but to be completely fucking blown away even in 2022 absolutely.

Some Albums I can think of are: Killswitch Engage- Alive or Just Breathing As I Lay Dying- An Ocean Between Us Breaking Benjamin- We Are Not Alone Suicide Silence- The Black Crown Archspire- The Lucid Collective Cynic- Focus

My most istened to has evolved over time but as new hallmarks of music have changed my taste as a whole, even if i liked that style still or prior. With that being said this my current top 10 life changing albums for reasons specific to both that band and the album release timeline. In no exact order: A7X- Waking the Fallen BMTH- Count Your Blessings, Suicide Season BMFV - V(enom) Crystal Lake - True North Periphery - P3: Select Difficulty Thy Art Is Murder - Hate Disturbed - Asylum Su!c!de Silence- The Cleansing Fit For A King - Creation/Destruction

My introduction to DT and Prog was Systematic Chaos as well. I bought it on a whim because some friends talked about the band. Been a massive fan ever since

Mine probably: 1. A7X - Waking The Fallen 2. Trivium - In Waves 3. Architects - Holy Hell 4. BFMV - Scream Aim Fire 5. Suicide Silence - The Cleansing 6. Periphery - PIII: Select Difficulty 7. Spiritbox - Eternal Blue 8. Slipknot - All Hope is Gone 9. Meshuggah - Obzen 10. BMTH - Sempiternal

Albums that got me a lot more interested in music but more so rock/ metal. Definstly a lot more that belong here but these are the main ones that I remember. I took a turn into the death metal scene which also brought me to black metal. Deathcore is where my main interest lies now. Although I love all types of music. 1: Linkin Park- Meteora 2: All that remains- This Darkened Heart 3: Avenged Sevenfold- Sounding the seventh trumpet 4: Lamb Of God- Ashes of the wake 5: Children of Bodom- Hate Crew Deathroll 6: AFI- Sing the Sorrow 7: Slipknot- Iowa 8: Bleeding Through- This is love, this is murderous 9: Three Days Grace- Three Days Grace 10: In Flames- Sound Track to Your Escape

Rarely see mention of alexisonfire in the metal community, super cool! I Love the first 3 albums as well

I was pretty stoked to see you mention Alexisonfire!!

Metallica - And Justice For All Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison Edit: seeing a bunch of different Children of Bodom albums in the comments makes me really happy :)

This would be my favorite metal albums that inspired my life: Northlane - Discoveries Northlane - Singularity Architects - All Our Gods Have Abondend Us Erra - Drift (basically everything Erra has done) Invent Animate - Stillworld Veil Of Maya - Matriarch Thornhill - The Dark Pool Currents - The Way It End

No particular order for me As I Lay Dying - Awakened The Plot In You - Swan Song Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal Architects - Los Forever/Lost Together Sylosis - Monolith Impending Doom - Death will Reign Oh Sleeper - Children Of Fire The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne Bonus - Lamb Of God - Resolution

P2 is THE album that changed music for me but before that, to plant a seed by WCAR was huge for me.

Idk if I could make a whole top 10 because back in those days I was mostly just listening to singles not full albums but there is one album that definitely stands out as being THE ONE that I can pinpoint as being where I started becoming a metalhead, Come Clarity by In Flames. To this day I actually still have this sick charcoal drawing of the album art that my highschool girlfriend made for me lol

For me it is. 1: Theatre Of Tragedy - Aegis 2: Kittie - Oracle 3: Eluveitie - Slania 4: Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons 5: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 6: Cryptopsy - None So Vile 7: Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason 8: Machinehead - The Blackening 9: Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned 10: Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

Lifelines by I Prevail is the #1 reason why i love metal and is what got me into it, ill never forget the feeling of listening to the whole album for the first time, then immediately listening to it again.

I don't usually listen to this kind of metal but I loved hearing you talk so passionately about these albums, makes me realize how much I also love my personal favourites! aaand a little list from me as well: Metallica "Ride the Lightning" Megadeth "Peace Sells..." (these two started my love for metal) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard "Infest the Rats' Nest" (my favourite metal album by a non-metal band) Kat "666" (old school thrash from Poland) Venom "Welcome to Hell" (a classic) Coroner "Grin" (heavy, dark and psychedelic) Morbid Angel "Altars of Madness" (my gateway into death metal) Intruder "A Higher Form of Killing" (amazing thrash album) Razor "Violent Restitution" (just insane) although the truth is it's hard to pick just one album from any of these bands!

36 crazyfists snow capped romance KsE end of heartache Both got me into metal core and my fave bands still.

My favourite albums are Rise Against - Appeal to Reason Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory BFMV - Venom (every BFMV album after discovering Venom) BMTH - That's the spirit Beyond the black - Songs of love and death Nightwish - Endless forms most beautiful FFAK - Dark Skies Architects - Holy Hell I guess these albums influenced my musical taste the most :)

damn Nik, no Trivium? i was sure "Ascendancy" would have been one. def agree with most of these albums tho 💯🔥👏🏼

Try Mutiny Within 1st self titled album, Chris Clancy is a phenomenal signer . Also try Textures : Dualism album ( all of them actually)

Man WTF was one of my first too. Also an ocean between us by AILD

Grew up with 70s rock / 80s metal and now into the cores so heres my top 10: 1. And Justice For All - Metallica 2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 3. Sheer Heart Attack - Queen 4. Horizons - Parkway Drive 5. Killing with a Smile - PWD 6. LIFAD - Rammstein 7. Master of Puppets = Metallica 8. Deep Blue - PWD 9. Dynasty - KISS 10. Destroyer - KISS

Dude, not only do we have SO many of the same bands in common that shaped our taste in music, but you pulled out the NFS: Most wanted reference! One of my favorite games of all time! Great sound track!

Dude...WTF is and Fall Of Ideals are also some of my fav albums from my budding metal days. Gotta say Desecrate Through Reverance, Iwsyt pt 1 and 2, and Second Heartbeat for my picks on WTF. Fall of ideals...probably Weak willed,Whispers,Air,This Calling,Six,Become the Catalyst, Indictment. Shannon Lucas was the drummer for that album too, who also played for Dahlia. (RIP Trevor!) Heres a story about Fall of Ideals. I befriended the best friend of Oli Herbert posthumously, and he gifted me Oli's college notebook. The cover of this yellow notebook is COVERED in resin. RIP Oli.

Watch Out album made a HUUUGE impact in my taste for music. Funny thing is, I was listening to it today on my way to work reliving nostalgia.

Thrill Seeker - August Burns Red Discovering this album in 2005 changed my life. Never heard of metalcore or even understood what metal really was before this album came out. I had heard of some of the more radio friendly Demon Hunter singles, because of youth group/church, but nothing got me invested until ABR.

My top ten that got me set on my music I listen to now was probably (in no order) The Poison - Bullet for My Valentine Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold Shadows are Security - As I Lay Dying Rebirth of the Temple - Silent Civilian Ascendancy - Trivium Fall of Ideals - All that Remains Nocturne - The Human Abstract Vol. III - Slipknot Dying is Your Latest Fashion - Escape the Fate Crack the Skye - Mastodon

if we talking sick rifts i LOVE the opening rift to American nightmare off INK silver scream album

1. Dark Tranquility - Fiction 2. In Flames - Colony, Sounds of a playground fading 3. Insomnium - Above the weeping world 4. Gojira - Magma 5. As I lay dying - shadows are security 6. Metallica - Master of puppets 7. Architects - For those that wish to exist 8. Mokoma - elävien kirjoihin 9. Death - the sound of Perseverance 10. Rammstein - Zeit Not in any order just absolute bangers and beautiful albums.

My introduction to metal wasn't entirely by albums but individual songs. My Plague by Slipknot...boi I still have my top 10 that shaped my music taste #10 Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe ( What the fuck is a 7 string and why do I want it....oh yeah, to play these songs!) #9 Symphony X - Underworld (If you want riffs that you can dance headbang to, this is it) #8 Annihilator - King of the Hill (Equally catchy and insane solos that shaped my own playing) #7 Monuments - Phronesis (Truely to catchiest and technical riffs today) #6 Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage (Lol it has ttfaf. Fr, every song has a place. Some hate but it's a real contender) #5 Drist - Orchids and Ammunition (This is where I found out that heavy music existed) #4 In Flames - Come Clarity (Every single song can makes lists of why this album is so amazing) #3 After the Burial - Evergreen (Literally changed my outlook on heavy music) #2 Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper (I bough this album in 2012 from apple music on my ipod touch 4g after finding some songs from the album on GHtunes custom songs community for Guitar Hero 5 on the wii. Heavy music was new to me and didn't think it could be melodic and catchy) #1 All that Remains - The fall of ideals (Need I say anything. This album fucks) I still think that the Fall of Ideals is still the greatest album ever made. Follow the reaper slinks above it every now and then cause they both follow a nostalgic side

So many of these bands, you listed my favorite albums of them.

I think what really got me into metal was the new metal era with limp bizkit, korn etc in early 2000, but i cleary remember listening to the impossibility of reason by Chimaira and blew my mind at the time.

Dude, "I Won't See You Tonight Part 1" is literally my favorite song off the album. I agree when you said it's one of (imo) the most beautiful metal ballads ever.

Constellations - August Burns Red Messengers - August Burns Red Deceiver - The Word Alive Entirety - The Word Alive To Plant a Seed - We Came As Roman’s The Flood - Of Mice and Men Hollow Bodies - Blessthefall New Demons - I See Stars Indestructible - Disturbed Tomorrow We Die Alive - Born of Osiris

Hands down, ten thousand fists started my metal journey but all hope is gone sealed the deal. I couldn't tell you how many times I would crank the songs up with nfs:mw especially when the Disturbed - decadence came on. Such amazing memories

One album that comes to mind in this category is Miasma by The Black Dahlia Murder. The first time I heard Novelty Crosses, I was absolutely in love. Album is so freaking amazing. RIP to my boy Trevor Strnad, you are definitely missed brother.

8/10 were the same for me. Only differences were dream theatre and underoath. I'd switch those for End of Heart Ache by KSE and Reroute to Remain by InFlames. But now I've got a great excuse to listen to these other albums.

Disturbed got me into metal. So I'm glad you put a Disturbed album on here.

Mine (all genres, even it's mainly metal): Meteora - Linkin Park As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage The Union of Crowns - Bury Tomorrow Fortitude - Feed Her To The Sharks Around The Fur - Deftones Vessels - Starset The Last Sunset - Breakdown of Sanity Phanerozoic II - Mesozoic/Cenozoic: The Ocean Muerte - Canserbero Killing With A Smile - Parkway Drive

soo happy to find out that we have almost the same taste, i was probably 14 when i first heard Quantum flux and its still one of my most favorite songs, for me the band that introduced me to metal and changed my life was As a lay dying, particularly the song Overcome, awesome stuff

For me (born mid 90's): 1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 2. Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison 3. Escape the Fate - Dying is Your Latest Fashion 4. Trivium - Shogun 5. Periphery - Periphery II 6. Polyphia - Inspire EP 7. Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together 8. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 9. Rings of Saturn - Lugal Ki En 10. To The Grave - Global Warning

I literally spent 2 weeks to download the whole Ten Thousand Fists in 128kbps quality, because of poor 28.8 kbps (3-3.5 kb per second). Each track felt so precious, so important! Same for The Poison, especially bonus tracks. Holy shit, nostalgia kills me.

Train of Thought-Dream Theater City of Evil-A7X Blackwater Park-Opeth As Daylight Dies-Killswitch Engage In Waves-Trivium The Poison-BFMV Minutes to Midnight-Linkin Park That's The Spirit-BMTH

The very first metaphorical hook that plunged me into Metal: Six by All That Remains. I very much followed a similar, but gentler decent into metal as a whole.

My top 10 Metal albums that also changed my life (not in a particular order) : 1. Slipknot - Self Titled 2. Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison 3. Structures - Divided By 4. Humanity's Last Breath - Abyssal 5. Dream Theater - Awake 6. Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? 7. Parkway Drive - Horizons 8. Tool - Lateralus 9. Meshuggah - Obzen 10. Alpha Wolf - a quiet place to die

These are my top 5 , been listening to them for as long as i can remember. Linkin park - Hybrid Theory Red - End of Silence Soilwork - Figure Number Five Breaking Benjamin - Phobia Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

I got to see As I Lay Dying in 2006 as a support band on Taste Of Chaos and they stood out on a bill that had Atreyu, Story of the Year, Thrice and Deftones. Incredibly heavy!

I gotta be honest, same with Shadows are Security. Such a good album with some sick riffs.

Metal albums that had a pivotal influence on my taste in metal 1. End of heartache- Killswitch engage 2. Waking the fallen- A7X 3. Ten thousand fist- disturbed 4. Take a look in the mirror & follow the leader- Korn (listened to both albums when I first discovered them) 5. Through the ashes of empires- Machine Head 6. The blackening- Machine Head 7. Death album- DethKlok 8. Hillbilly Deluxe- Rob Zombie 9. Mesmerize- system of a down 10. Reclaimer- Shadow of intent (after years of hating deathcore SOI got me on board and now I'm exploring the genre more)

I think The Fall of Ideals has a claim to the greatest metalcore album of all time, absolute masterpiece in every aspect

These albums are really from a specific era. You talk about these albums exactly like I would talk about a lot of my favorite albums from the mid 90s.

Idk the senses fail album Let it Enfold you holds a death grip on me. I can listen to that thing front to back just has so many memories. Bite to break skin so good still