Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted May 25, 2023 Author Share Posted May 25, 2023 #2: Metallica - Fade to Black (1984) Was there any doubt? The Black Album was the first "metal" album I owned, as I'm sure it was for many, and Ride the Lightning is the one I truly fell in love with. The songs are timeless, and played a large role in making Metallica the biggest metal band in history. Fade to Black in particular has always resonated with me. Whenever I hear a new Metallica song I always immediately compare it to FtB. It's a subconscious thing, but that's how I measure the quality. Have they done much since The Black Album? Not really. Load is probably the most disappointing album in history from my perspective, and it's mostly been downhill since. But we'll always have the '80s. Honorable mentions: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, One 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,725 Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 FTB is also the best Crank it Up mode in Metallica pinball, the second best metal pinball machine of all time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted May 25, 2023 Author Share Posted May 25, 2023 For some reason I've been thinking of this skit a lot. Replace Weezer with (insert metal band here) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 4,215 Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 4 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said: #2: Metallica - Fade to Black (1984) Was there any doubt? The Black Album was the first "metal" album I owned, as I'm sure it was for many, and Ride the Lightning is the one I truly fell in love with. The songs are timeless, and played a large role in making Metallica the biggest metal band in history. Fade to Black in particular has always resonated with me. Whenever I hear a new Metallica song I always immediately compare it to FtB. It's a subconscious thing, but that's how I measure the quality. Have they done much since The Black Album? Not really. Load is probably the most disappointing album in history from my perspective, and it's mostly been downhill since. But we'll always have the '80s. Honorable mentions: Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, One Solid choice. I’m in the Ride the Lightning camp too. Master of Puppets is also a fantastic album but I feel Ride the Lightning has the songs I could listen to forever if I had to choose one album. Now we patiently wait to see what Iron Maiden song you have selected. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 4,107 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Ride is my go to album. I’ve always considered Puppets their “best” album but RTL is my favorite. and give Load a break. Outlaw Torn is awesome. It was my first from Columbia House and I still love it. And Reload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWunderful | 2,932 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 FTB is top five for me, but Im a kill em all guy. Seek and destroy? metal militia? damn. I know master of puppets had the title track, and blackened. RTL also had call of ktulu and for whom the bell tolls. glad I dont make lists, they are all my favorites lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,622 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Oddly enough the only metallica album I can ever find myself going back to is Kill em All. I'm such a snob! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie | 936 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Coolest thing about Metallica: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 #1: Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (1982) The gold standard that everyone has been chasing for 40 years. Honorable mentions: The Trooper, Time of the Ancient Mariner, Aces High 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 Sleep Token - The Summoning Mercenary - The Hours that Remain Shining - Lat Oss Ta Allt Fran Varandra Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots Ayreon - Day 8: School Spiritbox - Circle With Me Skeletonwitch - Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery Arch Enemy - Silverwing The Devil Wears Prada - Constance Baroness - Shock Me Dimmu Borgir - Kings of the Carnival Creation Disarmonia Mundi - Kneeling on Broken Glass System of a Down - Aerials Epica - Kingdom of Heaven Testament - The Ritual Parkway Drive - Vice Grip Symphony X - Sea of Lies Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment Sleep - Dragonaut Dissection - Night's Blood Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe After the Burial - Berzerker Nevermore - Born Amorphis - Silver Bride Crystal Lake - Apollo Zeal & Ardor - Built on Ashes Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife Dream Theater - Pull Me Under Evergrey - A Touch of Blessing As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire Deftones - Diamond Eyes Polyphia - Ego Death Katatonia - Brave Fleshgod Apocalypse - Monnalisa Obscura - Septuagint At the Gates - Blinded by Fear August Burns Red - Meddler Machine Head - Locust Septicflesh - A Great Mass of Death Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge Lorna Shore - Pain Remains Kamelot - When the Lights Are Down Acid Bath - Tranquilized Sikth - Bland Street Bloom Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade Ice Nine Kills - Funeral Derangements Equilibrium - Blut Im Auge Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum Mr. Bungle - My Ass Is On Fire Immortal - Withstand the Fall of Time Architects - Hereafter Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine Ensiferum - Token of Time Kvelertak - Offernatt Anthrax - AIR Insomnium - Down with the Sun Protest the Hero - Spoils Iced Earth - Melancholy Amon Amarth - Victorious March Behemoth - O Father O Satan O Sun Be'lakor - Abeyance The Ocean - Mesopelagic Death - Cosmic Sea Eluveitie - Primordial Breath Devin Townsend - Regulator Slayer - Raining Blood Soilwork - Spectrum of Eternity Carcass - This Mortal Coil Between the Buried & Me - Prequel to the Sequel Arsis - The Face of My Innocence Faith No More - Zombie Eaters Dark Tranquillity - Final Resistance Swallow the Sun - Hope Queensryche - The Mission Sigh - Corpsecry Angelfall Ne Obliviscaris - And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home Emperor - The Tongue of Fire Mastodon - Crack the Skye Dio - Rainbow in the Dark Opeth - Bleak Blind Guardian - And the Story Ends Strapping Young Lad - Love? Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Kalmah - Moon of my Nights Wintersun - Battle Against Time Cynic - Veil of Maya Ghost - Rats Children of Bodom - Bodom After Midnight Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon Alice in Chains - Rain When I Die Megadeth - Holy Wars Agalloch - Falling Snow Judas Priest - The Sentinel Gojira - Backbone Mercyful Fate - Evil In Flames - Goliaths Disarm Their Davids Metallica - Fade to Black Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 4,215 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Great work. There were some fun debates along the way and I discovered a lot of new stuff. Good luck with the 100 games. That one may get heated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted May 26, 2023 Author Share Posted May 26, 2023 21 minutes ago, Brickman said: Great work. There were some fun debates along the way and I discovered a lot of new stuff. Good luck with the 100 games. That one may get heated I'll have to do movies first. Too many games I want to try and play through first. Realizing that it's a neverending battle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,725 Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,622 Posted May 27, 2023 Share Posted May 27, 2023 Great list! There were some real surprises along the way and as @Brickmanrickman said, some great discussion and I learned some new bands to check out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 862 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 On 5/19/2023 at 3:27 PM, guitarzombie said: Ok, winning me over again haha. Also to me, Tornado of Souls has the greatest metal solo of all time. The solos on that record when I first heard them blew my fucking mind. Love Marty, even if he alters the Tornado solo live and it isn't as cool as on the record :). One of the songs that really got me into guitar.. the 'sweepy-type' passage right before he goes into the sequencing caught my ear and I probably rewound the tape 100 times in a row. I just hadn't heard stuff quite like that in a metal song before. This was also one of the major events to lead me to all that virtuoso shred stuff as I looked more into Marty and fell upon Cacophony and then the rest was history. I also agree, that it's likely the best metal solo of all time although the song itself doesn't do much for me anymore. @Reed Rothchild Holy Wars would likely be my favourite Megadeth song as well. I just saw them in concert last week as they did a quick tour across Canada. Was a great show even though you can barely tell Dave is singing anymore. They played Mecanix and The Conjuring, a few I haven't heard live before. Also, a great shout-out with Washington is Next... definitely a great overlooked song from them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 4,107 Posted May 28, 2023 Share Posted May 28, 2023 Not bad. A little metalcorey for my tastes (although I’ve been exploring that direction a little bit lately) but overall solid. Nice to see Agalloch and Mercyful Fate in the top 10. Rock on 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kguillemette | 1,622 Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 Rereading the list, Arcturus is conspicuously missing. I figured The Sham Mirror would be represented somewhere on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted June 1, 2023 Author Share Posted June 1, 2023 4 minutes ago, Kguillemette said: Rereading the list, Arcturus is conspicuously missing. I figured The Sham Mirror would be represented somewhere on here. I considered it. They were probably in the next 25 somewhere. Vortex barely made the cutoff with the Dimmu song, because there's just too much stuff I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted June 27, 2023 Author Share Posted June 27, 2023 On 5/9/2023 at 8:51 AM, Reed Rothchild said: #18: Blind Guardian - And the Story Ends (1995) The kings of power metal. I've owned a lot of power metal. As in, the complete libraries of Sonata Arctica, Jag Panzer, Kamelot, Iced Earth, and many others. Stuff from Edguy, Rhapsody, Hammerfall, Delain, Avantasia, and a hundred others. I have a buddy who constantly feeds me the stuff. And overall, I find it to be pretty hit or miss. A lot of it can't connect with me because I don't really care what they're going for. But Blind Guardian always delivers. If you're going to go big, it needs to feel epic. And these guys are the king of epic. This album feels like a greatest hits compilation of big epic numbers; I could have gone with literally any of the tracks here. And the fact that they did this all the way back in 1995 just blows my mind. Every album since has revisited the same ground since they already had it perfected long ago. Honorable mentions: Nightfall, Mordred's Song, Under the Ice @Murray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox | 1,772 Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 Oh hey I know a few of these. How many have Cookie Monster vocals tho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,963 Editorials Team · Posted December 26, 2023 Author Share Posted December 26, 2023 Spotify playlist: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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