Name your favourite rock/metal albums which you think are essential listening for anyone who is fond of the wail of the guitar.....

I'll kick it off with this 10

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore and Superstition
Opeth - Watershed
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Metallica - and justice for all
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Megadeth - Risk
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Led Zeppelin - Led Zep II

Opeth - still life
Emperor - In the nightside eclipse
Demilich - nespithe
Cynic - Focus
Death - Human
Gorguts - Obscura
At the gates - The red in the sky is ours
Summoning - stronghold
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Katatonia - brave murder day

Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

Amorphis, Tales from the Thousand Lakes.

Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Queens of the stone age - Rated R
Nirvana - Nirvana
Queens of the stone age - Songs for the deaf
Tool - Undertow
Tool - Lateralus
Fleetwood Mac - Very best of Peter Greens... (especially green manalishi)
Black Label Society - Blessed Hellride/Mafia
Eagles of Death Metal - Death by sexy
Led Zep II

But albums aren't always the best way - Think steppenwolf - born to be wild, MSG - attack of the mad axeman plus hundreds more

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Visions of Atlantis - Trinity
Kittie - Until the End
After Forever - Remagine
Three Days Grace - One X
Disturbed - Believe
Nightwish - Once
Probot - Probot
Powerworld - Powerworld
Xandria - Salome The Seventh Veil

To name but a few

One Minute Silence - Buy Now Pay Later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEF5qqpOdfY

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Montrose - Montrose
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin - 4cd Box Set
Rainbow - Rising
Airbourne - Runnin Wild
Curved Air - Second Album
Bad Company - Bad Company
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - any of them!!

More to come as the brain grinds into action...

[Edited on 17/6/09 by coozer]

[Edited on 17/6/09 by coozer]

HOW COULD I FORGET YJMs Trilogy

Deep Purple - In Rock

Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind

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Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind

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Some great suggestions, have probably heard or own 90% of those mentioned.

I'll second the Probot and Dream Theatre Albums too.

I should also add:

Motorhead - Inferno
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage

Saxon-Wheels of Steel

Dragonforce? All these great albums being posted and then you ruin it with Dragonforce, haha.

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Dragonforce? All these great albums being posted and then you ruin it with Dragonforce, haha.

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Metallica - Metallica (Black Alum)
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Disturbed - Ten Thousand fists
Greenday - Dookie
G n' R - Use your illusion 1
Kittie - Until the end
Marilyn Manson - Lest we Forget
Offspring - Smash
Tenacious D - Tenacious D

I used to listen to this stuff when I was 15, only 17 years ago...
When I hear a metal song I enjoy it a lot, but for some kind of reason I listen to other music now: Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, Chris Rea (Auberge!), Dire Straits, etc.

nirvana/pearl jam are grunge not metal.

Led Zep not metal, more like rock but I'll include.

Black Sabbath - 1
AC/TC Back in black
Led Zep - I (or is it II)?
Iron Maiden - Number of the Feast (song about chinese take aways?)
Buns and Roses - apettite for cakes
Metallica - eponymous
Hawkwind - Space Ritual


... struggling, metal is not my bag TBH.

I did include rock and or metal, or anything guitar based. Anyway I am not getting into the this is metal and thats not argument. If you like it, listen to it dont worry what someone else thinks of it.

And dont knock Dragonforce. I got into them back in the days before every school kid had heard of them and Through the Fire and the Flames. They have many better songs too. Sonic Firestorm is also an excellent album (check out Dawn Over a New World and My Spirit Will Go On)

You want Guitar then have some of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5A77cYvzA&feature=PlayList&p=7E908173BB09DBA3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

or this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGpX2A-WAQ

or my personal favourite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpVq1hfRmM

enjoy


...Neil

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Montrose - Montrose
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How can we be 3 pages in to this thread without:

GnR - Appetite for Destruction

the only ones i can think i own
(mind has gone blank)
metallica-ride the lightning

GnR-appetite for destruction

slipknot-all hope is gone

stone sour (no idea what its called tho )

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stone sour (no idea what its called tho )

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Yeah, good thread, now we're talking.

Def Leppard, Poison, Bon Jovi

I'll get my coat

It's hard to choose only ten. In no particular order :

Deep Purple – Machine Head
UFO – Obsession
AC/DC – Back in Black
Uriah Heep – Abominog
Iron Maiden - Killers
Black Sabbath – Heaven & Hell
Whitesnake –Live in the Heart of the City
Motorhead – No Sleep ‘til Hammersmith
Rainbow – Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll
Ozzy – Blizzard of Oz


(Sorry if they're a bit Old Skool - so am I )

I liked...

Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets
The Jelly Jam
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom

edit: Eric Johnson may not be the Rock/Metal category, but still kick butt guitarist


[Edited on 6/17/2009 by beagley]

[Edited on 6/17/2009 by beagley]

spot on
erm
are you watching me??

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stone sour (no idea what its called tho )

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Come whatever may - its a good album.

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Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Black Album
Motley Crue - Theatre of Pain
WASP - The Last Command (my first driving album )
Nirvana - Nevermind
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute. (Randy Rhoads + guitar + live = no further comment needed)

If it's rock/metal, I'll listen to it*, Pretty sure all the true classics have been listed already

At the moment I have a soft spot for Korpiklaani - Spirit of the forest. it's a little, different, but I enjoy it.


*Apart from Metallica, Lars is a prick (sorry, whenever metal is mentioned someone has to moan about Metallica, it's the law)

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HEY HEY


We all forgot

Van Halen OU812


Hell I didn;t even know there was a Band called MONTROSE, I live five miles from the town of MONTROSE

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How can we be 3 pages in to this thread without:

GnR - Appetite for Destruction

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At the moment I have a soft spot for Korpiklaani - Spirit of the forest. it's a little, different, but I enjoy it.

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AC/DC Let there be rock
AC/DC Flick of the switch
Nickleback Dark Horse
Iron Maiden Number of the beast

Well where to start?

Hanson - middle of nowhere
Avril Lavigne - The best damn thing
Busted - a present for everyone
basically anything by Sir Cliff

Not a bad song on any of those

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Well where to start?

Hanson - middle of nowhere
Avril Lavigne - The best damn thing
Busted - a present for everyone
basically anything by Sir Cliff

Not a bad song on any of those

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Well where to start?

Hanson - middle of nowhere
Avril Lavigne - The best damn thing
Busted - a present for everyone
basically anything by Sir Cliff

Not a bad song on any of those

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This thread needs moar porcupine tree, pineapple thief and pink floyd and other bands beginning with 'p'

well no ones mentioned pantera yet?!

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well no ones mentioned pantera yet?!

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well no ones mentioned pantera yet?!

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Good point...I dont think they made a bad album did they?

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Machine Head havent had a mention either.

So...

Both The Blackening and Burn My Eyes are brilliant!

PM5K- Tonight the stars revolt
Spineshank - The Height of Callousness
Korn - First Album. First song. All went downhill after that!
Pennywise - land of the free (more punk)
SOAD - Chop Suey
and dare I say limpbizkit - 3 dollar bill

Been listening to this one a lot recently:
(CAREFUL, CONTAINS SWEARING)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGHWQBglCZY

Quite applicable to the current climate

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Pennywise - land of the free (more punk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGHWQBglCZY

Quite applicable to the current climate

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Yup, that woke me up nicely

NiN - Broken

Wish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ9Ywarc_eM

Agalloch - The Mantle

...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLLYt-2SaZ8

[Edited on 19/6/09 by iank]

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Agalloch - The Mantle

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Therapy - Troublegum

fantastic live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94T4R8hUNIQ

NWS lyrics

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Therapy - Troublegum

fantastic live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94T4R8hUNIQ

NWS lyrics

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you've broken the website benzine

moby is a legend, i put 'everything is wrong' on occationally to annoy the lad who is a die hard metaller

what about Thin Lizzy, their songs "china town" & "killer on the loose" are excelent,

i'm more of a motorhead fan though,

oops showing my age, my neibours love em...... or not

No Slayer? What's wrong with you people?

Strapping Young Lad?

Meshuggah?

Lamb Of God?

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At the gates - The red in the sky is ours

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Strapping Young Lad?

Meshuggah?

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At the gates - The red in the sky is ours

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Toured with these years ago, biggest wee heads I've ever worked for!

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Damn forum, changed p1ss to wee. Never seen a band drink so much and still be able to play, would end up carrying Tomas to the van every night. Great band though, great fun on the road.

Heh, I've met at the gates a couple of times, the singer was always hammered
I mean hammered compared to the rest of the band, who were hammered. Never had to work with 'em though.

Slayer, saw 'em first time at Manchester over 20 years ago Jeez...

Strapping Young Lad's "Heavy as a really heavy thing" is on my phone, love it. I do like a decent drummer, which is probably the reason I still listen to MDB every now and again

Slayer? Not the South Of Heaven tour?

Sure I've mentioned to you before that I toured with MDB, crashed the bloody van in Leipzig.

As for SYL, great band, but I couldn't cope with their constant moaning, only tour I've ever walked off, its a long way from Lyon to Huddersfield when you've borrowed a van from Dortmund!

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I do like a decent drummer, which is probably the reason I still listen to MDB every now and again

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Yeah, south of heaven tour, in 87-88 ?

Hehe, never met SYL, actually I've drunk with Gene the drummer, he seemed like a sound bloke.

I remember the stories told about the crash, didn't you finish off the tour in a transit and a Nova or summat ?

I went to school with a couple of members of MDB, but Rick's my mate, we half built our car in his garage.
It annoys me that he doesn't drum pro anymore, if I was that good at something I'd do it 'til I died.

It certainly is a long time ago, I worked with 'em early on, mainly in the UK. When the tours got longer I mainly did driving around to press/vid shoots/studio etc.

All these stories I can't tell me kids

*Every* band needs an egotistical guitarist

Got another one for ya.

STEEL PANTHER

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One Minute Silence - Buy Now Pay Later

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Sepultura - Arise & Chaos AD
Pretty much anything by My Dying Bride
Nailbomb's first album (forgot the name)

Gamma Ray - New World Order

Not easy to pick albums, but a bit of Ministry always works well.

KMFDM can't hurt either.

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Sepultura - Arise & Chaos AD

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Opeth - Watershed

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Therapy? - Troublegum

fantastic live

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Opeth - Watershed

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only just read this. Watershed above orchid, morningrise, my arms your hearse, still life? Still a good album but has 10% the gr1mness and kvultness of early opeth. Seen them live?

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They're great live, mikael is very funny too ^_^

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Therapy? - Troublegum

fantastic live

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good call - is that the one with isolation?

need to listen to that again as am listening at the mo' to one cure fits all which is spankling.

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fantastic live

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good call - is that the one with isolation?

need to listen to that again as am listening at the mo' to one cure fits all which is spankling.

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Sepultura - Arise & Chaos AD

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Your meant beneath the remains... right?

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This is an awesome black metal song (don't let the production put you off, it's meant to sound like that )
Ulver - Hymne I

This is the same band 4 years later... quite a contrast (also an awesome song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uocPJ33YBk

well bugger me thats some change in 4 years. Prefer the first i think but they are so different you cant really compare them. 'They' say Amorphis did the same but ive not heard later stuff really, flicked through some on youtube but nowt caught my ear. Ive linked to this early vid before but its still awesome

Amorphis - Black Winter Day

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Idea for a car club: MHSCECDOC (Metal head sevenesque car-engined-car-drivers owners club) I call junior vice president!

do you still want the chair of my club, the aborted mutated volvo powered car owners club? The AMVPCOC

Yours if you want it



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machine fuckin head - burn my eyes
deicide - the stench of redemption
dimmu borgir - enthrone darkness triumphant / puritanical
pantera - strength beyond strangth
burzum - burzum
satyricon - mother north
cradle of filth - midian
akercocke - words that go unspoken, deeds that go undone
darkthrone - transylvanian hunger
amon amarth - with oden on our side

oh crap..just remembered alestorm...oh, and old dragonforce was the best!! what about slayer?

do they have to have car engines??

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I've got Wrath by Lamb Of God on at the mo', sounds pretty good to me.

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do you still want the chair of my club, the aborted mutated volvo powered car owners club? The AMVPCOC

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Disturbed - 10,000 Fists

Bit mod for me, but a good album anyway

Sergeant Pepper's or any of the later Beatles Albums, Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms, Any thing by the Quo or the Mac.

I didn't see any mention of Hendricks yet, possibly the greatest Guitarist of the last century.