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53 Agalloch · Ashes Against the Grain (2006) (553 Points, 15 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/3/1/113100.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/6S3IZ2TxLgK92Rxo7XzayI

Good one from my shelf. I need to play this album more, though.

Great album by a great band.

jj check email

slayingest song from that album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPz7cMD3qs

^^^really, really slays

OK, digging that.

chay you gonna be a happier chap kinda soon, so hang around

Awesome song upthread, thanks LJ.

lj go here view youtubes Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?

ok yes let's do that

52 Led Zeppelin · Physical Graffiti (1975) (570 Points, 13 votes)
http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/PhysGraf.jpg

More cutting edge modern metal spoiling our awesome countdown

Dear "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste,"

Please show up soon.

Thanks!

Dear Josh,

Please check album 253.

Thanks!

Also Heartwork please.

yeah you know what? polls dont take requests.

51 Carcass · Heartwork (1994) (580 Points, 15 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre900/e959/e959983y174.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7D1UMHzEIHNhwa0gyqmya9

:)

Haha, fuck yeah!

My no 2.

I wonder if LJ has heard/likes Carcass.

Ned loves them, It was him who got me to check out this album.

Carcass are putatively on a to-listen list! ANATOMY METAL 4EVA

So you like Heart?

Still can't bring myself to listen to a band called Carcass.

Shallow, I know.

Heartwork kind of marks their break from anatomy metal. It has incredibly solid, almost traditional songwriting wrapped up in the most perfectly calibrated overdriven soundscapes.

ha if that name is a no go, there are going to be a lot of unpassable hallways in the metal world imo xpost

I really like that Agalloch song until the singer breaks into the "scary" voice around 7 minutes. It's really hard to take that shit seriously.

A sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeds8qK6u8o

It isn't even the names for me as much as it is some of the album covers

like, vivisection drawings are just not my bag

No Cannibal Corpse for Dan?

oh hell no

I know exactly what Dan means

50 High on Fire · Blessed Black Wings (2005) (593 Points, 18 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/8/0/5/68050.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2Fez8YmdKDD9732QTBeJzt

one of my favorite album openings EVER

damn right!

x-post MIssed that Ministry album because it shows the "Rape and Honey" cover rather than the correct cover. Retroactive fix?

JJ can you fix 253 album cover for josh please?

great band. just found out that they are coming to town in a few months with Kylesa and Torche. amazing

where do you live gman?

Awesome start to the top 50 imo.

oh jj, nice thread title but how about NEVERMIND THE GAPYDYX HERE'S:
Also please say its a Heavy Rock/Metal Poll.

cheers!

I saw High on Fire circa that album, I think, at some lame show in Chicago called the Festival of the Extreme that featured Motorhead, Mortis (I think?) and was supposed to be hosted by Dana Plato, but she killed herself a few days before. There were something like 11 people standing there watching HIgh on Fire, half with fingers in ears but all smiling like children.

Nice list so far. Some albums from these results that are new to me and my first impressions:

Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight of the Idols
This is okay. I don't really like the vocals or the bagpipes. Reminds me of Iron Maiden I guess, but I don't think I needed another Iron Maiden (I do like Iron Maiden). I like it enough to give it a few more chances to overwhelm me though.

Trouble - Manic Frustration
I don't really like this. Sounds like corny late 80's metal with bad vocals and too much of that high-pitched wailing that I can pretty much only tolerate from Rob Halford.

Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
I really like this. Not sure that I like it as metal qua metal. I'm not sure if I would put this on if I was in the mood to listen to metal, but it's really good (and clearly metal) and would definitely fulfill some other type of music listening mood for me.

Enslaved - Below the Lights
I liked this, but it's too symphonic for my tastes. I like my metal pummeling, like Seasons in the Abyss or Leviathan, not so epic and grandiose.

High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves
This is pretty good on initial listen, but I need a few more listens to digest it, I guess. Pretty good though. Pretty thunderous.

Venom - Actually listened to At War With Satan, and not the album that ranked in this list, but I thought it was really great. Loved everything about it. Looking forward to giving it another listen, and also checking out Black Metal and Welcome to Hell.

josh, i saw them on that album tour too (twice i think)

jj, cheers!

Wait, this most of been behind the first album, "Art of Self Defense." My bad. Not many folks knew what to expect!

TRD> hello. That Trouble album is very different to what came before, it's not a doom album, it's very much a psychedelic rock album, the most accessible thing they ever did, but great! but a couple of the earlier doom metal albums are even better!

Now is when all the Motley Crue and Dokken and Ratt start showing up, right? RIGHT?

I never saw hof before the bbw tour, despite being a big fan from the beginning (loved Sleep discovered circa jerusalem)

Now is when all the Motley Crue and Dokken and Ratt start showing up, right? RIGHT?

god I hope not, I hate all three of those bands

49 Yob · The Great Cessation (2009) (600 Points, 16 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/4/1/4/241433.jpg