Kerrang covering metal again? it's their top 50 heaviest albums ever list. How Many Do You Own?

uh where is the 10 option

oops

you dont own/like 10 anyway shakey

Have 13 albums on that list. The terrible stuff is obvious.... I recommend people take a first or second chance on Slipknot's Iowa -- its one of those nu-metal albums that's on all these lists for a reason, IMO.

if you do just select 5-10 we will know what you meant

40-49

a few mershmetal things spoiling a p awesome list

Aren't there any rich metal-heads who can buy Kerrang! and make it a decent magazine? I mean its been a joke for 20 years or more...

Oh and I'd have to say about 3 or 4 of those 13 I own I don't consider to be metal or hard/heavy like at all... but I like them.

Where oh where are Cromagnon on this list?

I have 29 of them. the ones I don't own either suck or slipped by my radar

smh at Slipknot at #4

plz explain how the white album makes the list, preferably with an answer in the form of a .gif

that slipknit album is gr8 fuiud

heard this for the first time recently, really blew me away...safe to say slayer were considerable fans, i'd imagine:

20 Discharge - Hear nothing see nothing say nothing

slipknot more like tb;dl

yes that Discharge is fuckign fantastic

i'd say Rudimentary Peni must have also been fans

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xposts to winston

plz explain how the white album makes the list, preferably with an answer in the form of a .gif

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also that Mayhem album is one of my favorite black metal albums of all time but it isn't really 'heavy' so much as atmospheric, like...most black metal.

and what the fuck is The Prodigy doing on here...

that album is p heavy, but feel free to be a snob abt it

a folk artist is why its metal?

voted 5-9, not sure any of them are metal records tho.

you know what's also funny about this list? no modern death metal. plenty of old school late 80s-early 90s thrash-influenced death metal, but like nothing by oh, say....SUFFOCATION type bands.

Whiney methinks you and I define 'heavy' differently

that Botch album is pretty awesome tho. and Jane Doe goes without saying, ranked a little too high but whatev

you dont own/like 10 anyway shakey

my 10:
49 The Beatles - White Album
47 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
39 Nirvana - Bleach
34 Megadeth - Rust In Peace
25 Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
17 Sleep - Dopesmoker
14 Metallica - Master Of Puppets
07 Black Flag - Damaged
02 Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
01 Slayer - Reign In Blood

a folk artist is why its metal?

LOL yes, I often refer to Charles Manson as "a folk artist."

that brutal Truth is underrated too. saw them last year, put on a helluva show. but Need to Control should be on the list in its place, or Extreme Conditions Deserve Extreme REsponses. Animal Kingdom is more noisy than heavy (which is a lot of its appeal).

meh- how it invokes feelings in murder means that this list should have a bunch of hiphop and that record where the lead singer shot his own face off while his band killed each other and burnt down churches. instead, a record that had ringo starr jams makes it.

helter skelter, sam

i guess mastodon never struck me as "top 5 of all time" heavy

it's almost as if things that aren;t metal can be heavy too

also 'heaviest' is a way different list to 'did it encourage someone to do crime and be crazy'

but yo it means that martha my dear made it.

m@tt i agree, I love Mastodon's first three albums but they're too way hella high

It has indirectly cause ritualized satanic murder, gangland murders don't count. OBVIOUSLY!

^ xxxp

Revolution No. 9 is p fucking heavy too

hell Mozart's Requiem should be on this list

And Elend's "The Umbersum"

Carcass's Reek shoulda been top ten imo

Carcass's Reek shoulda been top ten imo

― Neanderthalp

qft

don't know where that p came from though.

Cryptopsy's None So Vile too

well i dont suppose kerrang is aimed at you (or any of us)

oh i know.....just enjoying listing some of my fav heavies that i haven't played in ages

Lame Satyricon pick.

Also no Melvins is (o_O)

It's a good list, if a bit random on what heaviness actually means. But over half of it is as heavy as balls. The trouble with listing all the heaviest albums ever is it just ends up being a list of Warhorse, Eyehategod, Gojira, Winter, UFOmammut, Anaal Nathrakh etc, and it gets a bit tedious. Anyway, \m/ Dopethrone, 31 - 39 and I own two copies of Iowa.

i own 8

49 The Beatles - White Album
47 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
46 Judas Priest - British Steel
44 Alice in Chains - Dirt
30 NIN - The Downwards Spiral
14 Metallica - Master Of Puppets
07 Black Flag - Damaged
2 Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

calculating infinity is awesome, yeah. i went absolutely apeshit over it when it came out. hadn't heard anything like it at the time.

but you know, calculating infinity revolves quite a bit around flashiness and a "look at me" mentality, whereas jane doe is 100% heart and raw instinct, no matter how technically adept it is.

Also, I'm not sure what planet you are living on when you say that fucking Korn s/t is heavy.

well it was a totally gamechanging album for better or worse and they were p much one of the biggest bands in the world at one point - it's pretty 'heavy' for something selling as much as it did

imo it serves a much more useful purpose on a list like this (which is based on an essentially abstract idea) than most ultra slow doom rekkids or whatnot, as much as I might think that stuff is 'better'

http://truecultheavymetal.com/blog1.php/2011/11/11/the-heaviest-albums-ever-the-albums-kerrang-forgot

Our friends over at Kerrang! have done an (actually rather splendid) feature on the 50 heaviest records of all time. We put our heads together do our own top 20, and highlight a few they might have missed.

20. Acid Bath - 'When The Kite String Pops'

With the cover art a painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy and songs about drugs, murder, blasphemy and getting wasted, Acid Bath's raw, rumbling industrial sludge on 1994 album 'When The Kite String Pops' is ferocious and flanked by gruff yowls that make it an explosive listening experience.

19. King Crimson - 'Red'

The album that shut the door on 70's progressive rock and arguably gave birth to nasty, dissonant metal. And 'Starless' is an utterly seismic experience.

18. Deathspell Omega - 'Si Monumentum Requires, Circumpice'

Taking black metal to even more twisted levels of devastation and evil, the sheer chaotic insanity behind Deathspell's finest hour is designed to fuck the mind and warp the soul.

17. My Bloody Valentine - 'Loveless'

They may only have two full-length releases, but if you can resist the sheer compulsive power behind this, their second album, you're hardier than most.

16. Blasphemy - 'Fallen Angel Of Doom'

Heavier than the entire forests of Canada falling on your big toe. As Fenriz summed them up, "CANADIAN METALLLLLLLL!"

15. Van der Graaf Generator - 'Godbluff'

Four utterly stunning tracks that culminate in the colossal 'Sleepwalkers', listen to with Still Life's 'La Rossa' for authenticity.

14. Triptykon - 'Eparistera Daimones'

Last year's Terrorizer critics' poll album of the year is a claustrophobic, back-breaking assault of evil that should come with a warning for anyone with spinal problems.

13. Deep Purple - 'In Rock'

From the crash of Speed King to the rather butch chaos of Hard Lovin' Man via Child in Time, the album that defined heavy blues rock and kick-started the career of one Martin Birch.

12. Mastodon - 'Remission'

'March Of The Fire Ants'. Squiddly-diddly-BONG, squiddly-BONG, squiddly-diddly-diddly-BONG-BANG-BONG. *brains dribble out of ruined skull*

11. Beherit - 'Drawing Down The Moon'

One of the most weird, spine-chilling things you'll ever hear, the Finnish black metal pioneers managed to create a record that still creeps and crushes the mind a generation on.

10. Iron Monkey - 'Iron Monkey'

Doom. Neck-snapping, life-ruining doom. Put this on and feel your knees age five clear years.

9. Teitanblood - 'Seven Chalices'

When people say "they don't make death metal records like they used to", play them this. It's as evil as Mayhem, as sick as Autopsy, as necro as Bathory and heavy enough to flatten the Himalayas.

8. Venom - 'Black Metal'

It founded an entire movement and scared the shit out of Monte Conner. This choice is a no-brainer.

7. Melvins - 'Gluey Porch Treatments'

Often described as the founding fathers of sludge metal, the Melvins' aptly named 1987 debut album 'Gluey Porch Treatments' is thick, dark, gritty and grungy, paving the way for every sludge metal band you've heard since.

6. Celtic Frost - 'Into The Pandemonium'

Tom G Warrior's second entry on the list is when he started to show how far ahead of his time he was with this, a record that's still total extremity more than two decades later. Just overlook the 'Mexican Radio' cover.

5. Immolation - 'Dawn Of Possession'

This list could easily have been filled with all those bands who end their name in 'TION but it's down to these Noo Yawkers to take us into everlasting fire with an album that is heavier than getting it by a Yankee baseball bat. No Forgiveness!

4. Swans - 'Cop'

There's very little as heavy as Swans this side of a neutron star. Michael Gira and co. make music that generates its own gravity well, never more so than here.

3. Angelcorpse - 'Hammer Of Gods'

Born from chaos, literally, Pete Helmkamp is one of the mightiest riff-masters of our time and Angelcorpse is just one of his many 1000-ton projects. He claimed Angelcorpse was inspired by "the constant struggle, strife, camaraderie, and unified will that forged the iron, blood, and blasphemy". We believe him.

2. Neurosis - 'Through Silver In Blood'

Neurosis may be one of the most influential bands on the planet, but they're also pretty much the heaviest. The relentless, driving drums and the yawning chasms between the riffs of the title track threatens to make a pancake of your head.

1. Godflesh - 'Streetcleaner'

Try standing in the same room as this. Go on, try it. It almost physically pushes you to your knees and grovel in its crushing presence.

lol at #17 being in there. dj mencap are you responsible?

That second list is even worse than the original one.

I own these four:
49 The Beatles - White Album
47 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
37 Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
06 Mastodon - Leviathan

35.

I own:

50 Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
49 The Beatles - White Album
48 Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium
47 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
46 Judas Priest - British Steel
44 Alice in Chains - Dirt
42 The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
40 Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
39 Nirvana - Bleach
38 Sepultura - Chaos AD
37 Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
36 Mogwai - My Father My King
34 Megadeth - Rust In Peace
30 NIN - The Downwards Spiral
29 Korn - Korn
27 Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
26 Death - Scream Bloody Gore
25 Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
17 Sleep - Dopesmoker
16 Sunn 0))) - Black One
14 Metallica - Master Of Puppets
10 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
08 Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
07 Black Flag - Damaged
06 Mastodon - Leviathan
05 At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
04 Slipknot - Iowa
03 Converge - Jane Doe
02 Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
01 Slayer - Reign In Blood

But seriously, fuck these guys for putting Bring Me the Horizon on this list.

Is British Steel really heavy?

This list could have been much better. The self imposed limitation of only one album per artist really was a mistake. Also, I'm not sure what planet you are living on when you say that fucking Korn s/t is heavy. Also, I like Mastodon, but if you were going to put a truly heavy band currently going I think High on Fire would be a better pick.

― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

agreed, british steel is great, but it's really a great pop metal album...earlier stuff like sin after sin or stained class is much heavier...as is later stuff like painkiller

I like the idea of "heaviest" as not just a list of brutal DM/grindcore but more like "the heaviest at the time in a genre and/or a large part of society ever had heard" but still...no Bolt Thrower?

i wonder who actually compiled the kerrang list

In honor of the Sabbath reunion, I listened to Master of Reality tonight over some beers and some other things. Not only is it the heaviest album of all time, it is also the best.

I listened to Vol.4, Sabotage, Master of Reality, Heaven And Hell and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath yesterday. Sabotage won.

Really enjoyed your Sabbath rundown Doran
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&p=11436&title=black_sabbath_rate_the_albums&more=1&c=1

Metal as a genre didn’t really get too big on the whole Satanism business until Venom broke ranks in the early 80s and said, ‘Way aye man, ye divnae wanna praise god ye wanna hail that gadge Satan.’

Cheers!

i have heard (but don't necessarily 'own') 5 of the not-really-metal albums.

Awesome that American Nightmare is on there, although I don't have that record. Is the general thing to call them American Nightmare still or Give Up The Ghost? Has everybody managed to forget about the "original" American Nightmare yet?

I have or have had maybe 14 of those.

I have owned 18 of these, but not all currently.

dj mencap are you responsible?

nah I think they just threw it together in the office yesterday afternoon, p much just to get traffic on their Facebook page

same deal w/ the Korn album though, Loveless is the sort of thing that should be on there rather than the Tryptikon album which may well be great but isn't, as far as I can see, making anyone think differently about how to be 'heavy'

WFT. I ended up in the 5-9 category!

WFT?

Where's the Fucking Tune?!

Would Fuck Tiger

WTF. But I like Doran's proposal here :)

WFT. I ended up in the 5-9 category!

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Beatles, Hendrix, Prodigy, Nirvana, & NIN?

British Steel is full of the kind of tunes you can whistle in the shower. Even if that shower might be in prison.

Sex prison.

hahahahahaha

Beatles, Hendrix, Prodigy, Nirvana, & NIN?

All of those, but also a bit of Metallica and Black Sabbath.

I even own a Mastodon CD I bought at a discount, but not that one.

I counted 16.

I even own a Mastodon CD

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, November 13, 2011 11:09 AM Bookmark

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I listened to Vol.4, Sabotage, Master of Reality, Heaven And Hell and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath yesterday. Sabotage won.

― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Saturday, November 12, 2011 6:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Great article. My ranking-which changes all the time-1) master, 2) sabbath bloody sabbath, 3) vol. 4 4) never say die, 5) s/t , 6) sabotage, 7) paranoid,8) technical ecstasy

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i def like Vol 4 more than Sabotage, which I've only heard recently and probably comes in 2nd

50 Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
49 The Beatles - White Album
43 Deftones - Around The Fur
42 The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
39 Nirvana - Bleach
29 Korn - Korn
28 Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
27 Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
23 Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipe Out
18 Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
16 Sunn 0))) - Black One
14 Metallica - Master Of Puppets
09 Napalm Death - Scum
08 Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
07 Black Flag - Damaged
05 At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
02 Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
01 Slayer - Reign In Blood

^^ tho i really don't care about '60 second wipeout' and 'fat of the land' at all, nowadays. and i own 'jerusalem' which is almost the same as 'dopesmoker'...

at first i thought that was geir listing the albums he owns

the lovely Four Freshman-esque harmonies of Reign in Blood

British Steel is full of the kind of tunes you can whistle in the shower. Even if that shower might be in prison.

I like "United" a lot. Don't own that album though.

Twenty-one but no Machine Gun, no cred.

I take it you don't mean Machine Gun by The Commodores Marcello.

I'm waiting for the day Geir finally reveals after all these years that he is really Fenriz

I take it you don't mean Machine Gun by The Commodores Marcello.

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I take it you don't mean "United" by Throbbing Gristle, Geir.

Excellent.

Can't think of many other Throbbing Gristle songs he'd like better

"United":Judas Priest::"Abracadabra":Steve Miller Band

machine gun was marcello's fave Warrant song iirc