I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.
It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.
I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.
Recent favourites, in no particular order:
Prog or adjacent : The ocean - Pelagial
Kglw - petrodragonic apocalypse (was my album of the year last year and one of the most fun albums I’ve heard in a long time. Felt like listening to painkiller or master of puppets for the first time. Legit top 10 all time album for me, I think)
Katatonia - the fall of hearts
Haken - affinity
Pain of salvation - in the passing light of day (or remedy lane or perfect element)
Soen - Lotus
Opeth - Ghost reveries (or any of the preceding albums, really)
Leprous - the congregation
Mastodon - crack the skye (or leviathan or emperor of sand)
Doom and adjacent: Warning - watching from a distance
Yob - our raw heart
My dying bride - feel the misery
Anathema - judgement
High on fire - death is this communion
Bongripper - Satan worshipping doom
Black and adjacent: Agalloch - the mountain
Negură bunget - virstele pamintilui (or OM)
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I or II
Bucovina - Sub stele (folk metal, really)
Power metal and such:
Dragony - viribus unitis
Blind Guardian - nightfall in middle earth (altho most of their stuff is awesome)
Adamantis - Far flung realm
Sellsword - unto the breach
Ominous Glory - the elven dream
And maaaaany more that would take me ages to list. If anyone vibes with any of the lists and wants more, hit me up, would be happy to talk more.
Did a quick scroll and didn’t see:
Smash - The Offspring
I’m not going to claim that it was ground breaking music or anything, but it just dropped at a time when it was able to hit maximum nostalgia for me.
Smash
While I agree thats a great, if not the best Offspring album, this thread is from the Metal community, so not a good fit :)
Some faves off the dome:
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Unleash The Archers - Apex
Strapping Young Lad - City
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All
Striker - Ultrapower
Astronoid - Air
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
My first extreme metal haul was three CD’s I bought at Best Buy, and Chaosphere was one of them. That album is burned into my brain.
1/2 both Acid Bath albums
3 Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer
4/5 Khanate - Khanate/Things Viral
6-9 Black Sabbath - first 4 albums
10 Gorguts - Obscura
Which Acid Bath album is in the top spot? You MUST choose. (sorry)
And fuck yeah, Obscura is brilliant.
Definitely When the Kite String Pops, it’s my favorite album.
Alright, Top 13 for me, because 13 and this is what I could figure well enough and be satisfied with right now. Ordering subject to roughly change somewhere around fifth slot depending on what mood I’m in on any given day, but these are solid mainstays in my rotation (most of them for decades at this point). Doesn’t reflect how broad my interests go, but you can see that I gravitate a lot toward black metal, and I favor stuff that isn’t afraid to be its own thing. Weird is good. Non-metal albums removed though there are a couple in my top 10 if I weren’t being genre specific.
- Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
- Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
- Murmuüre - Murmuüre
- Emptiness - Not For Music
- The Skaden - You Will Hope I Had Died
- Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
- Samael - Eternal
- At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
- Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
- Cryptopsy - None So Vile
- Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
- Rotting Christ - Khronos
- Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
At the gates and not slaughter of the soul? 😲
