What is your Favorite Metal Recording!

[Kgoodrich]

without even reading this thread I can hands down say without a single doubt in my mind that Between The Buried And Me-Colors is the best metal album I've ever heard, and quite possibly the best recording in music history.

[troll]

Originally Posted by Lucas G

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

Good call, that album is amazing.

[Mayers]

Dawn

[Murder_Worship]

Benighted - grind wit
Cannibal Corpse - The wretched spawn
Carcariass - killing process
Cryptopsy - slit your guts
Gojira - Global Warming
Impaled - rest in faeces
Mercenary - 11 dreams
Municipal Waste - terror shark
Opeth - in my time of need
Strapping young lad - You suck

[Gubna]

Megadeth Holy Wars

Metallica Master Of Puppets

Forbidden Twist Into Form

Blind Illusion The Sane Asylum

[Earthday]

THANK YOU someone for mentioning Pain of Salvation. I'll never understand how these guys are still so under appreciated.

Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element is the best album ever written.
Agalloch - The Mantle
Opeth - Still Life
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Maudlin of the Well - Bath
Cynic - Focus
Gordian Knot - Emergent
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Devin Townsend - Terria
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Isis - Oceanic
Pelican - Australasia
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

[A Toxic Muffin]

Metallica- Ride the Lightning .

[Spinal Tapper]

DETHKLOK!!!!

[ryco]

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss

[ErebusBass]

I could throw out a huge list but I'll keep it short and sweet.
Emperor: IX Equilibrium and Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Immortal: At the Heart of Winter
But lately it's been At the Gates: Slaughter of the Soul. Those guitars are sooooo sick. That cd has been in my cd player in my car for like a month... Some of that is probably because I'm going to see them in a month

[Thursday]

For me in general, the best metal albums would be

Between The Buried And Me - Colors
White chapel - The Somatic Defilement
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Behold... The Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning

[Bassplayer_479]

Metallica - Kill Em' All, MOP, RTL, Black Album - Will always be at the top of the heap
Black Sabbath - Paranoid--The record that started it all. Love this album

Some darn good more recent stuff--
Mastodon - Leviathan
KsE - As Daylight Days
In Flames - Clayman
Protest the Hero - Fortress

[joeydavidson]

Possessed - Seven Churches
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Demilich - Nespithe
Massacra - Final Holocaust
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse/Malleus Maleficarum
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying
Cynic - Demos 1988-91
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered EP

[laboitenoire]

Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
ARK - Burn the Sun

Unfortunately most of my metal collection is only partial albums.

[dj150888]

Mine'd be (in no particular order)

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse or Prometheus
Bathory - Blood, Fire Death
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Immortal - Battles in the North
Mael Mordha - Cluain Tarbh
Slough Feg - Traveller
Mourning Beloveth - Dust or A Disease for the Ages

I'd curl up into a little ball and cry if I lost my copies of all the above.

[optikhog]

For me, there's a big difference between my favorite metal album and my favorite metal *recording*.

I love the first 5 Metallica albums, but they were recorded very poorly.
All of the Tool albums since Undertow are my favorite recordings in that they sound beuatiful, each one better than the last.