What is your Favorite Metal Recording!

[Risen Ashes]

Let's have some fun with this my fellow bangers.

What is your favorite(s) Heavy Metal album of all time?

I'm tied somewhere between Metallica's Master of Puppets, Megadeth's Peace Sells but Who's Buying? and Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by Risen Ashes

Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime

Someone else here likes Queensryche!?
SWEET!

Anyway, my favorite is probably Iron Maiden - Powerslave

[fenderhutz]

Not exactly 100% in the Metal catergory but Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Just for punch and clarity on that recording, doesn't hurt it also kicks serious rear end.

[*smb]

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Mastodon - Lifesblood
Sleep's Holy Mountain

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by *smb

Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
Mastodon - Lifesblood
Sleep's Holy Mountain

+1 for stoner and sludge

[projectMalamute]

Slayer - Reign in Blood
Iron Maiden - Killers
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Electric Wizard - Dope Throne
Entombed - Clandestine
Carcass - Necroticism

[StanFan]

Metallica- Puppets, Justice, and Load are probably my favorites
Carcass- Necrotism, Heartwork
Cannibal Corpse- The Bleeding, Wretched Spawn
Death- all albums starting from Human
Testament- Low, The Gathering
Opeth- Still Life and later
Fates Warning- Perfect Symmetry
Dillinger Escape Plan- Irony Is a Dead Scene

There are several others. I never usually have a consistent favorite for no more than a month or two.

[Risen Ashes]

Originally Posted by Valerus

Someone else here likes Queensryche!?
SWEET!

Anyway, my favorite is probably Iron Maiden - Powerslave

Valerus, def man, but I miss the Chris Degarmo days, ever since he left it has never been the same.

[XtraLongScale]

Type O Negative: October Rust
Queensryche: The Warning
Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power
Slayer: Seasons in the Abyss / Decade of Aggression
Judas Priest: Painkiller
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality / Vol 4 / Heaven & Hell / Mob Rules
Alice in Chains: Dirt
Yngwie Malmsteen: Rising Force

I could go on all day, but that's off the top of my head.

[Dfinch]

Operation Mindcrime is the only 80's album that I still listen to on almost a daily basis on my mp3 player.

Don't get me wrong, I have tons of stuff that I listen to in a variety of genres, but I never ever skip over a song from that album, which isn't true of any other band.

[agreatheight]

If I had to pick just one it would be

Tool - Lateralus

The album is a beyond what anyone had done before in metal - in terms of technicality, emotion and thematic element. Most listeners will never realize the depth of the concept in the record involving the fibonacci sequence - mind blowing stuff.

http://www.bofe.org/overthinking.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY

But who wants to pick just one! Top 15, no particular order:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
King's X - Dogman
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Tool - Lateralus
Anthrax - Among the Living
Sevendust - Home
Tool - 10,000 Days
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Galactic Cowboys - Self Titled
Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
Slipknot - Vol 3 Subliminal Verses
Tool - Aenima
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

[Lucas G]

man, i'll probably catch a lot of flak for this, but my favorite metal album is probably gwar's 'scumdogs of the universe.'

a close second would be corrosion of conformity's 'blind'

i am a way bigger fan of the stoner rock, i.e. kyuss, sleep, etc. but for regular metal, those are my picks. you can also see by the era of those two albums (late 80's/early 90's) that i discovered kyuss shortly afterwards and never looked back.

[Lesfunk]

Black Sabbath: Heaven & Hell

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by Risen Ashes

Valerus, def man, but I miss the Chris Degarmo days, ever since he left it has never been the same.

Yeah dude...Oh well.
I'm seeing them on the 15th of February!

Originally Posted by XtraLongScale

Queensryche: The Warning

Dude, that is my favorite album by them.

Originally Posted by StanFan

Opeth- Still Life and later
Fates Warning- Perfect Symmetry

Great albums!!

Originally Posted by Lesfunk

Black Sabbath: Heaven & Hell

That is my favorite Sabbath album.

[El-Bob]

Entwine: DiEversity
Iced Earth: Alive In Athens
Dark Moor: Beyond The Sea
Opeth: My Arms, Your Hearse
Iron Maiden: Brave New World
Death: Symbolic
Def Leppard: Pyromania
Nevermore: This Godless Endeavor
Shadow Gallery: Tyranny
Skyfire: Spectral, Timeless Departure, and Mind Revolution
Slayer: Decade of Aggression & Christ illusion
S.O.D: Speak English Or Die
Stratovarius: Visions & stratovarius
Tony MacAlpine: Maximum Security
Zero Hour: Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond
Black Sabbath: Heaven And Hell
Dio: Holy Diver
that's all that comes to mind ATM

[Jismy]

Alarum - Eventuality
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Martyr - Feeding The Abscess

[pjmuck]

I don't really listen to Metal (at least on an album by album basis; I like songs here and there), but Tool's Aenima is a f*cking masterpiece. Hell, any Tool release is amazing.

I'll also mention Alice in Chains Dirt and the self-titled one. That self-titled album is especially overlooked. The chord structures, harmonies (nearly every song features intricate harmonies on the lead vocals), and overall arrangements are ingenious.

[NKUSigEp]

Originally Posted by fenderhutz

Not exactly 100% in the Metal catergory but Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Just for punch and clarity on that recording, doesn't hurt it also kicks serious rear end.

+1

That is until Mastodon's "Blood Mountain" was released. The production is flawless - hard edgy sound, everything is EQ'ed perfectly, the music is amazing, and just could go on and on about it.

[Eric Perry]

Originally Posted by Risen Ashes

Valerus, def man, but I miss the Chris Degarmo days, ever since he left it has never been the same.

Agreed. Regardless, hard-core Queensryche fan here!

[derrenleepoole]

Fantomas - Fantomas
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene (EP)
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

*The more observant among you will notice 3 recordings that feature Mike Patton