I’ll start first, it’s Once Sent From The Golden Hall. I’m also open to discussion about said albums!

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    Master of Puppets. I know it’s not a particularly daring choice, but I don’t care, it’s perfection.

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    Hard to pick a single one, so I’ll just list a few ones that I keep going back to.

    Dream Theater - Awake
    Destiny Potato - Lun
    Fear Factory - Digimortal
    In Flames - Clayman

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    Too many, and not all of them are metal. But, sticking with the theme of the community…

    Megadeth - Rust In Peace

    Suffocation - Pierced From Within

    At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

    Gorgasm - Masticate To Dominate

    Metallica - Ride The Lightning

    Slayer - Decade Of Aggression

    Pantera - 101 Proof

    Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

    Nile - Amongst The Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

    Panzerchrist - Soul Collector

    Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

    Dying Fetus - Stop At Nothing

    Burzum - Filosofem

    Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

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        There are more polished albums, I’ll grant you, but it was the first one I heard and still seems to be the one I constantly return to, so I figure it’s my favorite of theirs. For better or worse!

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          Fair point. the same goes for games and stuff: the first thing you play/consume from a franchise will always be the best :D the first song i head from DF was grotesque impalement so that ep is also my favourite

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      In my list I was having a hard time choosing between Awake and ToT. I also love Met.Pt.2 luke that other guy posted, but I find these two album just a notch above in terms of individual songs.

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        I love Awake, Images and Words, Metropolis Pt 2, and the second disc of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, but I really enjoy the ones where the entire album is basically a modern symphony from start to finish and ToT just hits every note for me perfectly.

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    Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

    Opeth - Ghost Reveries

    Mastodon - Leviathan Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

    Cynic - Traced in Air

    Symphony X - Paradise Lost

    Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

    That which you fall in love as a teenager, innit?

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      Pretty much. Amazing how everyone’s ultimate favorites are almost always something they heard from ages 14 - 25 at a formative point in their lives. I know that’s still very much my wheelhouse of music even still today.

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    Death - Symbolic

    Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

    Dream Theater - Images and Words

    Mastodon - Leviathan

    Metallica - Ride the Lightning

    Riot - Thundersteel

    Symphony X - V, The New Mythology Suite

    Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

    Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

    Megadeth - Rust in Peace

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    Fuck dude, asking a group of metal heads this is like throwing the final quark into a star about to go black hole.

    But!

    Master of Puppets is the album that turned me into a metalhead in the first place, so it takes top spot for me. It’s pretty much the perfect metal album in every way. Heavy, fast, incredible lyrics, James at his vocal peak (imo), some of the best riffs ever, and there’s not a single wasted song on it; they’re all classics. It’s a high fucking standard to even equal.

    That being said, Kataklysm dropped a new album this year that has crept right into second place for me. Jfc, Goliath is just wall-to-wall brutal, primal metal. When you consider that I am a metallica devotee that used to rank most of their albums in my top list from 1 down to five before any other band showed up, that’s pretty significant to me.

    I’ve been fucking obsessed with bringer of vengeance in specific from that album. Jumping around corners and growling it at people, literally rattling windows with it, and annoying the hell out of my kid by sneaking it into their playlists like a rickroll. Did that to my wife too, but she gets mean and refuses to let me play with her boobs when I do that kind of thing.

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    Where owls know my name by rivers of nihil The phanerozoics by the ocean

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    Heart like a grave from Insomnium. They tried to create the most melancholy melodic death metal album from Finland and succeeded. Just listen to songs like “twilight trails” or “pale morning star” (warning: it’s about suicide cause of loosing a loved person).

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    Heartwork by Carcass Stigmata by Arch Enemy Srontgorrth by Nagelfar Legends of Evil and Eternal Death by Hirilorn Carelian Satanist Madness by Satanic Warmaster Blackwater Park by Opeth

    No particular order, depends on the day.

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    This might catch laughs but…

    Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom

    It was the first album that made me stop, and start to love metal. An old friend, the kind of person who’s a literary character in real life, and now is incredibly still alive after being hit by a goddamn train introduced me to a new world of music with that album. He’s obviously never been the same since the train, but he’s no longer an alcoholic, and always seems happy in spite of (or because of) the severe brain damage. I think of him especially when I go back to that album, and remember laughing at how ridiculous some of it is, when you really listen. It’s nice and baroque, with some amusing bits, and fun to listen through.

    I’m not quite as well versed in metal as my spouse, but I’m glad to see these lists here, so I have more to check out!

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    NIN - The Fragile

    Fiona Apple - When the Pawn…

    RATM - Battle of Los Angeles

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

    Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites

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    The perfect album is Pelagial by The Ocean. My favourite however is Ride the Lightning. And the one I’ll keep spinning until I die is Somewhere Along the Highway by Cult of Luna. But you know what? I saw the Darkness last week on their 20th anniversary of Permission to Land, and that album still has it!