siegbran's great metal list

but, anyway, yeah, most of these albums are classics of the genre, listen to all of them.

yeah, maybe yr right about the earth; it just seems to be some kinda touchstone. (i actually like 'thrones and dominions' and 'pentastar' better)

i thought of two more that i think should be on the list: st. vitus - born too late and darkspace - II.

Countess - The Shining Swords Of Hate
I love this album so much but it's not for everyone. Doesn't sound like anything else, and is very different from all other Countess records. Personal favourite but hasn't really become a canonical classic like everything else on that list.

Absu - Tara
This really is a classic & pretty widely recognized as such. IMO best US metal record since 1990.

Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Oath Bound came out two years later and is better on all points.

Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine - Rampton
This really hasn't aged very well.

I'd say Darkspace II and Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro belong up there now.

repulsion - horrified, master - s/t, obituary - slowly we rot

Yeah those too.

that countess album is my favorite by far! something about the epic quality and guitar tone makes it sound like he was listening to trad, gras och stenar or something. i'm sure he wasn't, of course, but still...

To make this list, does the album simply have to be great enough or are you also judging based on whether the album has reached a certain critical mass with underground fans?

Because I believe that Morgoth Odium is as good as anything on this list. But nobody ever talks about it as being canonical. Also, where is Sad Wings of Destiny and To Mega Therion?

And Rrroooaaarrr over Killing Technology or Dimension Hatross? Hmm.

my additions would be the Erosion of Sanity, Stillbirth Machine, Mental Vortex, and Mental Funeral but yeah you can't fuck with this list

this is a good recommendations list it largely overlaps with the huge amount of stuff De Subjectivisten recommended to me when i started a metal/hardrock listening project. (http://onvermijdelijkemetal.blogspot.com/) (just check out the pictures ;) ) (or my 14 favourites: http://onvermijdelijkemetal.blogspot.com/search/label/Onvermijdelijk

my favourite from the list is Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath.

my favourites strangely (..) correlate with softer melodic records, like Death Angel's Act II (which is awesome)

To make this list, does the album simply have to be great enough or are you also judging based on whether the album has reached a certain critical mass with underground fans?

This list was done together with friends some old bandmates etc. The idea was that it needed a critical mass of followers yes, the definitive top 100 canon of "metal for die-hard metalheads" - no crossover prog/hardcore/goth bullshit, no retro or clone bands, nothing too far into the kvlt-limited-to-66-tapes sub-sub-subgenre labyrinth etc.

Lots of my personal favourites are not on it (And The Forests Dream Eternally, Wolf's Lair Abyss, Orkblut The Retaliation, Vampires of Black Imperial Blood, Gorefest-False, Battles In The North, Individual Thought Patterns etc).

This is a good recommendations list it largely overlaps with the huge amount of stuff De Subjectivisten recommended to me

i'll make a note of it. next on the list is Slayer's Seasons of the Abyss. (after the summer-break, i don't think metal is much of a summer genre)

Been listening to With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness a lot lately. Awesome. Slowly dawning on me that I prefer Death Metal to Black.

Darkspace II but not III? III is mind-melting.

Been listening to With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness a lot lately. Awesome. Slowly dawning on me that I prefer Death Metal to Black.

^^^ real motherfucking talk

I want to start listening to some more metal.

Can any of you tell me what the best metal magazines and blogs/websites are?

www.metalsucks.net is pretty good and funny. blabbermouth nowadays is full of too much rubbish and the comments section is nearing youtube levels sometimes.

I'm a fan of Metal Inquisition myself. As for magazines, Terrorizer is a good all-round read. They get most of the popular genres covered and have a good balance between the trad and the hip. They sometimes do nice genre specials, the punk one they did some years ago was really good.

I'm going to check out all of those pubs. Thanks, guys.

They sometimes do nice genre specials, the punk one they did some years ago was really good.

I wish I could find it. :(

"Can any of you tell me what the best metal magazines and blogs/websites are?"

Pitchfork has a metal blog ya know!

;)

you can order the black metal special direct from http://www.terrorizer.com/blackmetal I think

Yeah if I don't find it in the next week or so, I think I'll end up going that route.

Borders is your best bet.

I would have thought that Aquarius was my best bet, but when I called earlier last week the guy on the phone was like "WTF are you talking about? I've never even heard of that."

Actually he was very polite and said that he was sure they would try to stock it since they stock Terrorizer.

As far as internet metal goes, this is of course the grandaddy

90% sure that my work isn't letting me get to that site.

This is the metal mag I subscribe to (and very infrequently write for):

http://www.ampmagazine.com/img/Slayersmall.png

it really does exist???

Belatedly working through this helpful list. I'm curious, what would you add to/subtract from it now, Siegbran?

Great, I'm happy that this is helping people. Wouldn't really subtract anything, I'd say it's still a pretty good list of the canonical stuff until 1999/2000. Maybe I'd pick another Voivod record but the first few are all great. I'd probably add Gorguts <i>The Erosion Of Sanity</i>.

For more recent stuff, this was my ballot for the 2000-2015 metal poll: https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=6056022&boardid=41&threadid=104546

Thanks! Much appreciated.