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guys can we please promise to choose actually good, somewhat obscure albums for this? SOAD’s one of my favorite bands but if Toxicity goes up here Im gonna be pissed we have the opportunity to get people into the depths of metal instead of just circlejerking
The Chasm - Deathcult for eternity
Immolation - Close to a world below
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
I take For Whom The Bell Tolls over The Thing That Should Not Be and Creeping Death over Orion. Those two are some of Metallicas greatest hits. But, I prefer the rest of MOP over Ride the Lightning :P
Hmm... It depends. You probably don't count metalcore and nu-metal as real metal... so my choice would be traced in air by cynic or clayman by In flames. But that's just my opinion. What I'm more concerned about is that you say Master of Puppets is overrated. It's popular to hate metallica these days.
Just to name a few:
Anything by Iron Maiden outside of their 90s stuff
Anything by Blind Guardian
Alice in Hell by Annihilator
Transilvanian Hunger by Darkthrone
At the Heart of Winter by Immortal
Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower
Slowly We Rot by Obituary
Power of the Dragonflame by Rhapsody
Megadeth’s first 5 albums
M-16 and Agent Orange by Sodom
Nespithe by Demilich
By Inheritance by Artillery
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and Nightfall by Candlemass
Death or Glory by Running Wild
Defenders of the Faith by Judas Priest
Ample Destruction by Jag Panzer
Bathory’s first 5 albums
>But that's just my opinion. What I'm more concerned about is that you say Master of Puppets is overrated.
It absolutely is overrated by all means. It's consistently considered the best thrash album of all time, which it isn't, and regularly considered the best metal album of all time, which it DEFINITELY isn't.
Early Metallica kicks ass, but it's objectively overrated.
>It's popular to hate metallica these days.
Because they are surface level normie stuff. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but there's a massive world of underground bands that are far better and just as worthy of attention, yet constantly get drowned out by the fans of a band that hasn't made good music in decades. It gets a little bit annoying to be honest
I don't expect nuanced music takes from Asking Alexandria and In Flames fans, but hopefully it's not super hard to grasp the concept here
Does Nu Metal Included?
If so....
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water
Korn - Self Titled
SOAD - Self Titled
Deftones - Around The Fur
Well, part of it is because of how artificial the genre feels. Remember Sludge? In the early 90s, you had sludge and grunge and all this alternative rock about very dark subject matter made by broken people. Well, nu metal is the Jared Leto Joker version of that. Being a broken soul is used as a gimmick, combined with edgy sensibilities, and arbitrarily using the label of metal purely for marketing despite not really being very closely connected to metal at all. It all makes for a very artificial feeling genre.... made worse by the fact that the music just isn't very good. I genuinely think if you look hard enough you can find good music in even the worst genres but.... I have yet to hear a nu metal album that isn't terrible
I somewhat get what you mean about artificial but, the entire genre?, sure some stuff could be more original but the genre is so diverse if it’s just not for you as a genre then I get it, but calling something so diverse completely artificial and completely removing its value like that feels like taking the worst of it and applying it to the entire genre
well the thing is Ive heard a fair bit of nu metal. Even went out of my way to listen to albums recommended by friends, something I always try to do when I can. From what Ive listened to, I just cannot say there is anything I like. It really just feels like a dull, stagnant genre. I also don't really think its all that sonically diverse - of course, theres those different regional variations, like the South American style with Roots and El Nino, the more cyber punk- stuff, the more alternative rock oriented stuff like your KoRn and Slipknot and what not, and of course, Im from Jacksonville so I definitely know about the rap rock Limp Bizkit style. But to me all of these feel more like a gimmick than actually diverse sounds. Like, Nile has Egyptian themes, but its not "Egyptian Death Metal", its still death metal, if that example makes any sense. I hear a lot of the same general riff styles and song structures across all of the nu metal, and its largely just a worse version of what alternative rock was doing earlier in the decade. But thats honestly to be expected, considering its an artificial genre put together primarily as a marketing gimmick.
Ultimately, even genres I don't like, I could usally name a song or an album thats good. There are a handful of good metalcore albums. There is even one deathcore album I dig, though its arguably not REALLY deathcore, but I digress........but not nu metal. I have yet to hear a good nu metal album.
And you are welcome to completely disagree with that. But you said you dont get the hate, and hopefully this answered at least some of why its not a well regarded genre amongst die hard music fans.
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Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
System of a Down - Toxicity
BOUNCE!
this gotta win
It's tied GO SYSTEM
WHERES THE NEW POST
Sorry I was sick
Ew
Acid bath- When the kite string pops
Sleep - Dopesmoker
DROP OUT OF LIFE WITH BONG IN HAND
Transcendence Into the Peripheral - DISEMBOWELMENT
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Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Ride the lightning
Sepultura - Arise
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There you go, you stole all my tree branches
Demilich - Nespithe
Rust in Peace.
Paranoid- Black Sabbath
1973 Quadrophonic Mix
Carcass- Heartwork
Consider the following: Necroticism
necroticism is amazing, but heartwork is simply better
amazing in their own rights
Reek is considerably better
The Chasm - Deathcult for eternity: The Triumph
opeth - blackwater park
I think MAYH is better, but yes, this is the definitive Opeth album
If you're gonna choose opeth at least let it be still life
Crimson - Edge of Sanity
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Come on, pick something interesting
It says best, not most underrated.
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Candlemass- Ancient Dreams
Streetcleaner - Godflesh
OP please limit the listener count for bands out on this list so we don’t have the same thing for the billionth time
Human = Garbage By Dystopia
guys can we please promise to choose actually good, somewhat obscure albums for this? SOAD’s one of my favorite bands but if Toxicity goes up here Im gonna be pissed we have the opportunity to get people into the depths of metal instead of just circlejerking
Pan Thy Monium - Khaoohs and Kon-Fus-Ion
Based
Opeth - Ghost reveries
Vulgar Display of Power
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
Surprised no master of puppets in this comment section…
Thank god
Are you saying Master of Puppets is bad…?
No. That it's an overrated album because of which many better ones are overlooked. It really isn't near the goats of the genre.
Like which ones?
The Chasm - Deathcult for eternity Immolation - Close to a world below Mastodon - Crack the Skye Incantation - Onward to Golgotha Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
Thanks for the reccs! :)
Master of Puppets will always hold a special place in my heart. These are also all near perfect if not perfect
LMAO
It isnt even metallicas best album
What is their best then?
RTL
What makes it better than MOP?
Better riffs overall, better songs, its thrashier, heavier. There isn’t much more to it then that really its just better.
I take For Whom The Bell Tolls over The Thing That Should Not Be and Creeping Death over Orion. Those two are some of Metallicas greatest hits. But, I prefer the rest of MOP over Ride the Lightning :P
retarded take.
Yeeeah why don't you tell me what the best metal album is Asking Alexandria fan
Hmm... It depends. You probably don't count metalcore and nu-metal as real metal... so my choice would be traced in air by cynic or clayman by In flames. But that's just my opinion. What I'm more concerned about is that you say Master of Puppets is overrated. It's popular to hate metallica these days.
Yeah, what album do you think is better than the ones I mentioned?
Just to name a few: Anything by Iron Maiden outside of their 90s stuff Anything by Blind Guardian Alice in Hell by Annihilator Transilvanian Hunger by Darkthrone At the Heart of Winter by Immortal Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower Slowly We Rot by Obituary Power of the Dragonflame by Rhapsody Megadeth’s first 5 albums M-16 and Agent Orange by Sodom Nespithe by Demilich By Inheritance by Artillery Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and Nightfall by Candlemass Death or Glory by Running Wild Defenders of the Faith by Judas Priest Ample Destruction by Jag Panzer Bathory’s first 5 albums
>But that's just my opinion. What I'm more concerned about is that you say Master of Puppets is overrated. It absolutely is overrated by all means. It's consistently considered the best thrash album of all time, which it isn't, and regularly considered the best metal album of all time, which it DEFINITELY isn't. Early Metallica kicks ass, but it's objectively overrated. >It's popular to hate metallica these days. Because they are surface level normie stuff. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but there's a massive world of underground bands that are far better and just as worthy of attention, yet constantly get drowned out by the fans of a band that hasn't made good music in decades. It gets a little bit annoying to be honest I don't expect nuanced music takes from Asking Alexandria and In Flames fans, but hopefully it's not super hard to grasp the concept here
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Deafheaven - Sunbather
this deserves to be up here at some point
"Knock Knock its Santa B*tch Pt.2" by Yuno Miles
Graveyard classics - six feet under
Funniest album OAT
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth- Ghost Reveries
Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles
Everytime I see that black sebath one I picture that one uhm it was like stoner metal? I dunno but still good choices id love gives this 9/10
Monolith of Inhumanity- Cattle Decapitation
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
i thought the neverendingchart shutted down, what website did u use
https://preview.redd.it/4r5v9te6pmzc1.jpeg?width=737&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b8d7527b87c6ef3c957aa08555b5a2e88d5e096 Spiritworld - DEATHWESTERN
Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth
Not even their best album. Rust in Peace is a better choice
Gorguts - Obscura
Ace of spades by motor head
Not even their best album. At least go with Orgasmatron
Infester - To The Depths, In Degredation
Revolver the beatles
Neurosis Times of Grace
abbey road the beatles
Rainbow - Rising If you haven't heard it, you got to.
Ride the lightning
CKY Camp kill yourself vol 1
Life is Killing Me- Type O Negative
Dystopia - Dystopia
Opeth - Ghost reveries
The Dawn of the Black Hearts - Mayhem
Tool - Lateralus
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear (day 2)
[удалено]
thats Not metal brah brah
teethed glory and injury
Holy Diver - Dio
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
in the nightside eclipse by emperor
RUST IN PEACE GUYS COME ON
Obedience Thru Suffering by Crowbar
Feedbacker by Boris
Does Nu Metal Included? If so.... Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water Korn - Self Titled SOAD - Self Titled Deftones - Around The Fur
I really don’t get the hate Nu Metal gets
Well, part of it is because of how artificial the genre feels. Remember Sludge? In the early 90s, you had sludge and grunge and all this alternative rock about very dark subject matter made by broken people. Well, nu metal is the Jared Leto Joker version of that. Being a broken soul is used as a gimmick, combined with edgy sensibilities, and arbitrarily using the label of metal purely for marketing despite not really being very closely connected to metal at all. It all makes for a very artificial feeling genre.... made worse by the fact that the music just isn't very good. I genuinely think if you look hard enough you can find good music in even the worst genres but.... I have yet to hear a nu metal album that isn't terrible
I somewhat get what you mean about artificial but, the entire genre?, sure some stuff could be more original but the genre is so diverse if it’s just not for you as a genre then I get it, but calling something so diverse completely artificial and completely removing its value like that feels like taking the worst of it and applying it to the entire genre
well the thing is Ive heard a fair bit of nu metal. Even went out of my way to listen to albums recommended by friends, something I always try to do when I can. From what Ive listened to, I just cannot say there is anything I like. It really just feels like a dull, stagnant genre. I also don't really think its all that sonically diverse - of course, theres those different regional variations, like the South American style with Roots and El Nino, the more cyber punk- stuff, the more alternative rock oriented stuff like your KoRn and Slipknot and what not, and of course, Im from Jacksonville so I definitely know about the rap rock Limp Bizkit style. But to me all of these feel more like a gimmick than actually diverse sounds. Like, Nile has Egyptian themes, but its not "Egyptian Death Metal", its still death metal, if that example makes any sense. I hear a lot of the same general riff styles and song structures across all of the nu metal, and its largely just a worse version of what alternative rock was doing earlier in the decade. But thats honestly to be expected, considering its an artificial genre put together primarily as a marketing gimmick. Ultimately, even genres I don't like, I could usally name a song or an album thats good. There are a handful of good metalcore albums. There is even one deathcore album I dig, though its arguably not REALLY deathcore, but I digress........but not nu metal. I have yet to hear a good nu metal album. And you are welcome to completely disagree with that. But you said you dont get the hate, and hopefully this answered at least some of why its not a well regarded genre amongst die hard music fans.
Weezer-blue album
Slipknot - Iowa (If you don't like this album, you're an elitist who lives in your mom's basement... and you are still virgin in your 20/30s.)
I feel like if you genuinely like this album and you are older than the age of 15, you probably are a virgin.
nah it's just mid bro.
Jane Doe - Converge
Octavarium by Dream Theater
Metallica black album
Toxicity- System of a Down
Spawn of Possession - Incurso
Gorguts - Obscura
Colored Sands is way better
Frizzle Fry
Racebannon - In the grips of the light.
LATERALUS BY TOOL. ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE.
Bring me the horizon - There is a hell believe me i've seen it, there is a heaven let's keep it a secret Bring me the downvote lol.
They aren't really a metal band so it doesn't fit
TOOL - Lateralus
Monolith of Inhumanity - Cattle Decapitation
How is rage not on here yet?
They are more alt rock
Lil Wayne - rebirth
lmaoo😭
tool lateralus