My Favourite Metal Albums of All Time and Answering Your Metal Questions

[@russdavies9686]

I'll try not to bore you with too many details but I thought I'd share my journey into metal. I suppose I should start by saying that I'm presently 70 years old. I've loved music almost my entire life, right from when I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. I started buying albums in the late 60's, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, etc. For the next 30 years I continued buying music but mostly what became classic rock. I dabbled in punk, listened to a lot of hair metal in the 80's and got into grunge in the 90's but it always felt as though something was missing. I wanted heavier, faster & louder. Yes, I had bought Metallica, Megadeth, Motorhead, etc but that didn't completely scratch the itch. Around about 2000 I met 3 different guys through my job and we'd spend a lot of our down time talking music and all 3 told me I really needed check out more extreme music. I did but I just couldn't get it. It was chaotic & noisy but I didn't give up and kept returning to it. One night I was listening to Slayer and it suddenly clicked and I realized just how much stunning beauty is contained in those songs. From that point on I started listening to everything I could get my hands on. This is not an exaggeration but I've been literally moved to tears by the beauty of the music. I spend upwards of 6 hours a day with the headphones on listening to metal. I love listening to music, talking about music and reading about music. You could post a 12 hour video about music and I'd be there for every second of it. I don't go to shows, mainly because I'm autistic and cannot handle crowds in any way, shape or form.

[@CicoinTokyo777]

Thanks for sharing your journey! It was amazing to hear your stories and passion about metal 🎸

[@javierel22]

Interesting video as usual, Lindsay! I also have Metallica's Ride the Lightning as one of my top 10 albums ever, and also have a Death one, though I like Symbolic more than The Sound of Perseverance (great album too, very close race!) My top 10 (ordered by date), started with power/heavy, now listening more melodeath/atmospheric black honestly, but my 20 something years with metal have been such a ride! Metallica - Ride the Lightning Judas Priest - Painkiller Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Death - Symbolic Stratovarius - Visions Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows Threshold - March Of Progress Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I Sigh - In Somniphobia Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth Keep it up, cheers!

[@darrensutherland4399]

Stompy stomp cracks me up every time you say it 😂

[@KeymoEmbryo]

I'm American and still in the dark about what that means/sounds like LOL.... like what's the perfect song that encapsulates thy mighty stompy stompz?

[@DarthPizza777]

Fantastic video Lindsey. I got into metal way back in 1986. My first metal style I got into was Glam Metal. Bands like Stryper, Poison, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi etc. Then when I got into High School my friends introduced me to Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth etc. Now that I'm 52 years old the internet got me into Ghost, Mayhem Cannibal Corpse, Slipknot, Arch Enemy, Baby Metal and so on. your videos always make me smile. 🤘

[@matthewroohr9212]

Cheers, Lindsay! Love the channel, can't wait for the next 100!

[@lockharthorsburgh8601]

Congrats, Lindsay! I'm looking forward to the next hundred. Re: getting into metal, I remember listening to blue-rock and bits of heavy rock (Led Zep etc) when i was in single digits, but I think my first real interest in metal came with either Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden (depending on whether you cound Sabbath as metal) in my early teens, then heard Ride the Lightning in about 1985 and was blown away. "Piece of Mind" is a great album; for some it slightly falls between Number and Powerslave, but it's a key part of the evolution of the band (first one to make extensive use of literary references, first album with Nicko on drums) and it has stood the test of time really well. Re: Death, "SoP" is a good album with solid writing and some great guitar work and drumming, but I've always found it a difficult listen. I remember hearing the album for the first time late in 1999, and wondering what was wrong with Chuck because the vocals sounded "off" to me. A couple of years later, Chuck was gone, and I can't listen to it now without returning to that initial reaction and what followed for him. In different ways, i like everything from "Leprosy" (my proper starting point, although I had heard "Beyond the Unholy Grave" from SBG before Leprosy was released) to "Symbolic", but the high points for me now are probably "Human" and "Symbolic". Maybe it's just me but I sometimes associate particular albums with specific times and places in my life. Since you mentioned "Demanufacture", I remember hearing tracks from that album (mostly the title track and Self Bias Resistor) during the final months of a year of living and working in Finland (a good learning experience but some aspects of it were pretty tough), and knew I would need to buy the album when I returned to the UK (I'm sure there were good music stores in Finland but I didn't know one at the time). As a slighty random example, I always associate a fairly obscure album, "Manic Impressions" by Anacrusis, with the Isle of Skye (first time I went on holiday with my own car, and I played that album incessantly during the trip) . . .

[@wheelsofmercury]

Awesome video! I am actually going through Rotting Christ’s discography right now.

[@Skycladatdusk78]

Wear that Ghost shirt proudly, great band. Love your videos!

[@amarsolek]

Thank you for the video and the intro about Gatekeeping! Very Well Said!!

[@75Dragonlord]

Got the new Rotting Christ album for a record review. It literally blew me away. A masterpiece and I'm sure the album will be my favorite of the year. These melodies, this epicness, this atmosphere, the thing is constantly playing

[@Brendo2386]

Check the new Kawir album too. More epic Greek black metal

[@apoplexiamusic]

Drum & Bass and Metal are my favourite genres, and I’m starting to combine the two! Neurofunk and Djenty stuff are definitely my favourite subgenres, they actually share a lot of common ground and since there is more and more electronics in metal now, it’s easier to get a feel of how to bridge them! Fear Factory is also one of my favourite bands and i love blending Dino’s style with djent riffs that have a lot of bends and whammy pedal parts

[@SuperStrik9]

I agree with your take on gatekeeping 💯🤘

[@MetalMaps]

I missed the first 100 vids, but I'll be here for the next 100 👍

[@theheavymetaljournal]

Welcome to the channel!

[@R4tser]

Congratulations on 100. Let’s see 100 more.

[@noboundaryreviews6884]

Congrats on 100 videos. I first got into Fear Factory by buying the Demanufacture T-shirt from a magazine with not even listening to them before, I just loved the band name. I went out and got the album, luckily, I loved it or else I would've been wearing a shirt from a band that I didn't like, LOL.

[@terryowen6432]

Really enjoyed this, it took me on a journey into the past of discovering metal many, many years ago! Motorhead on the Young Ones (how and why did that happen?!) was a major turning point. Staying up late on a Friday to watch Raw Power was an absolute must! ☠️

[@steveratcliffe2181]

Great episode. Can't wait for the next question session I agree with you on so many things . Cant get into the cores much either. I do like Killswitch though. Deathcore ..love the blackened vocals and Symphonic elements but overall not my thing except Lorna and Shadow of Intent. Funnily though, not a fan of Symphonic metal or fantasy power metal. Rituals was my intro to Rotting Christ. I listened to it in the dark and it blew me away. What an experience. I bought Demanufacture, knowing nothing of the band. Thought it was gonna be a thrash album. Its killer though. Self Bias resistor is still one of my faves. And the Blackbraid records are great. Took me a few listens but the atmosphere is excellent. Really dig them.. Think im gonna have to give Green Lung another listen.

[@ScreaminT81]

I can’t remember what question I sent in, it could have been the negative one 🤔🤔🤣 Regardless I love how you answered that. Well said!

[@Brendo2386]

I also struggle with most core stuff

[@619dar]

I really liked what you had to say when it comes gatekeeping and being into only one type of metal. If you listen to what your friends listen to and just keep on listening to that type of music. Then you need to open up your mind and just go with the follow. Let you ears be the judge and not let others tell you what to listen to. I'm 52 and I'm not stuck in a decade. If something that I hear grips me from the go. Then I will listen to it. You spoke of what type's of CORE. IE Metalcore, Deathcore and hardcore. I'm more into hardcore (Hatebreed, Terror, Sick of it) and so on. But I do like the new sound of metalcore that is out right now. Bands like Erra, hollow front crystal lake is what metalcore i really like right now.

[@dsc1970]

As a 54-yo guy, I found it really surprising NWOBHM (partly) got you into heavy metal, solely because that's what got me in, back in the early 80s. I remember hearing the song 'Number of the Beast' as a pre-teen and being totally shocked, haha.. When I got back into heavy metal in 2018, I was into lighter stuff at first -- power & symphonic metal. Arch Enemy was my gateway band into heavier stuff, it tickled me pink when you mentioned them. I've explored the heavier side a lot, now I'm back into a lot of lighter tunes again, life is strange, lol. Congrats on 100, cheers from Canada.

[@SergioDeMuerte]

The Sound Of Perseverance is the GOAT, based opinion, much respect ✊. Overall, great list, well, predictably)

[@darksideinferno3454]

Congrats to 100 great Videos! Hope for 100 more to come! Thanks for your great work Lindsay!! 🖤🖤🖤

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Saem hier. "Vellcam. Gett daun hier.""

[@joachimandersson2594]

Being the same generation as you I can relate to a lot. My gateway band was Hammerfall and their Legacy of Kings and Renegade album. I still think Heeding The Call is total banger. Later came Metallica and today I devour most types of metal, even if I also have a hard time with metal-core (those clean vocals just kills the energy for me). Always nice to hear a persons metal journey. Rock On!

[@ericv7720]

I got into metal in the late 80s, hearing bands like GnR, Def Leppard, and Van Halen on the radio. But bands like Iron Maiden, Dio, Priest, and Motorhead always held a mystique with me because of older kids wearing their t-shirts, so I got into those. I skipped thrash, got into death metal in the early 90s, got sick of it, then got into power metal and (finally) thrash in the mid 90s, then explored black metal and melodic death metal in the late 90s, and from there just explored different genres. Fast forward to today: I just got off a 5-year run listening to nothing but brutal death metal and goregrind, and I completely burned out on it, so as usual I returned to my traditional/power metal roots. Favorite albums: Iron Maiden "Powerslave," Black Sabbath "Tyr," Queensryche "The Warning," Mercyful Fate "Don't Break the Oath," Liege Lord "Burn to My Touch," Cirith Ungol "Frost & Fire," Fates Warning "Awaken the Guardian." For "exreme metal" it would be Morbid Angel "Blessed are the Sick," In Flames "The Jester Race" (is that extreme? I don't know, and don't care), the Lust of Decay debut, and Deeds of Flesh "Inbreeding the Anthropophagi."

[@michaelelliot3532]

Fantastic show! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and recommendations. Im new to metal and have already downloaded your suggestions..

[@johnpoulsen77]

Downloaded? Really? First it's illegal, and second a real metal fan BUY the music. I still to this day buy cd's. I have around a collection of 800 metal albums on cd. Downloaded music do not support the music, supporting a band do make the experience even better in my opinion. And another time you should not brag about downloading music tbh.

[@fredrikhallin3528]

Congrats! I'm watching every week, keep up the good work! 🔥 I have a suggestion: an episode with bands that has under 1000 followers on Instagram or Facebook (or both) A great way to give them more attention than they have. Maybe your followers could write suggestions? I'm sure there are many bands out there who'd need more followers than they have today 🙂

[@TheCodyK]

my heart stopped when you said shadows fall. can't wait to see what they record next

[@Skycladatdusk78]

They're recording again? Great news!

[@TheCodyK]

@@Skycladatdusk78 yeah they've played a few shows recently!

[@deanmentjes7774]

Congratulations on 100 videos!

[@whitelinefever8769]

Congratulations! Here's to another 100 and beyond🍻

[@apoplexiamusic]

Sound Of Perseverance is one of the greatest albums ever. Definitely my favourite Death and Death Metal album

[@djinn9345]

My journey started when I was in a punk band and we were opening for American Me in Augusta GA and there was a kid in the front row who had on a Trivium “Shogun” shirt and I thought it was sick looking so I looked them up and that was the beginning. I always knew super popular metal but this was my first dive below surface level

[@Count_Deangeli]

Little surprised to see "The Heretics" among your all time favorites cause it's a very late album in Rotting Christ's discography and don't remember a lot of fanfare when it was released. Will give it a listen

[@fiend1983]

Congratulations on the milestone Linds!

[@paulwhite1109]

I've just found your channel and you talk really well and seem to have a similar taste to me and I saw this video. Interesting choices, I like some of the bands you mentioned but would go for different albums, I agree with Ride the Lightning though. Eonian wouldn't be in my top 3 of Dimmu, I'd go for Death Cult Armageddon. I'd go for 7th Son from Maiden, Leprosy for Death and The End Complete for Obituary. No More Tears is good but I just prefer The Ultimate Sin. I liked Demanufacture when it came out but not so much nowadays. It would be boring if everyone was the same.

[@rogerscully5401]

Saving to watch later and can’t wait to see it.

[@CrownxofxHorns]

Johnny Cage vs Scorpion is the best intro to Fear Factory that you could have. Loved hearing that story

[@pauliewalnuts829]

The minute I heard the first Slipknot album in 2007 when I was 12 I was hooked. Been a metal guy ever since. Before that I was into stuff like Good Charlotte and Green Day.

[@HorizonMetal]

Great video as always and I’m glad I found your channel a few months ago and will continue to watch as you reach hundreds more

[@r.w.culbertson2030]

'Voice of the Soul' on TSOP is aural perfection.

[@619dar]

Yes please can there be a part 2. As I would like to know of what you have to say.

[@roberthachtel1833]

I love that you broke your tooth on classic metal. My first concert was 1984 Iron Maiden Powerslave tour with Twisted Sister opening. I had been a metal fan for 3 years at the time. What sucked about that era is there was a lot of separation like you discussed in the opening of your video. If you like Judas Priest and Ratt you can't like Megadeth and Metallica. It keep me from listening to great music. Now I listen to almost all genres from Blues to Metal (all subs) to opera to jazz. Don't let other tell you what you like.

[@Gotterdam]

Thanks for tips.

[@amarsolek]

Deicide album artwork has always been basic, but flashy...but not AI. Great job on calling it out. Ride the Lightning production was much better, but Master of Puppets was raw and to the bone! I like both albums, but listened to Puppets more so. For a band to add to your show, Brodequin I heard throws a great show... but they don't go on tour often. Hulder also throws a monster show, Marz is awesome! Thank you for the video!

[@EmrahUncu]

The first time I heard Fear Factory was through their rendition of Gary Numan's "Cars" in Test Drive 6.

[@Michael-zs7yy]

I like your show Lindsay C. and this day in metal.Like your taste in music too.

[@theheavymetaljournal]

Thank you so much! 🤘🏻

[@johnpost5133]

I love the Green Lung album 👍

[@SuperStrik9]

I'll keep it as simple as possible Thrash Metal: Evildead - Annihilation Of Civilization Death Metal: Gorefest - False Doom Metal: Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium Heavy Metal: Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality Black Metal: Impaled Nazarene - Ugra Karma

[@EncoreASMR]

The first "metal" style I liked was metalcore. I hated nu metal, but I listened to Killswitch Engage and fell in love out of nowhere when I was 15

[@russdavies9686]

Have you heard Sakis Tolis's solo album "Among The Fires Of Hell" from 2022. Absolutely a fantastic album, one of my favourite albums of that year. What a great singer.

[@theheavymetaljournal]

Yes! It was in my Top 20 of 2022. I love the piano version of that album too!

[@endlessorbaggins8223]

I used to look at album reviews and critics. They were trying their best in giving an objective review based on criterias. But, in the end of the day music is subjective. I am 45, listening to metal since 12. The only albums I would give a review on are the ones I gave more than 666 spins. And still then this would be my personnal subjective opinion about them. Like you and many others, the albums that standed the test of time for me are the ones that have a special story attached to it or that connected on a deep level with me for unknown reasons. Here a list of some of top albums that have some story attached or blew my mind: Spiral Architect, Individual Thought Patterns by Death, Arise by Sepultura, Metropolis part 2 by Dream Theater, The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony-X, Rust in Peace by Megadeth, The Bleeding by Cannibal Corpse, The Mantle by Agalloch, The art of dying by Gojira, After by Ihsahn, The Congregation by Leprous, Once Upon the Cross by Deicide, Cowboys from Hell by Pantera, Sorrow of Sophia by Draconian, Slave Design by Sybreed. There is a lot more but will stop here.

[@benjaminafonso1776]

Hi, I quite agree with your rankings especially for fait factory.I'm giving you my list of favorite metal albums but I wouldn't know how to classify them.Metallica with master of puppets machine head with burn my eyes fea factory with demanufature death with symbolic deftones with around the fur slayer wituh reign in blood burial with chaos AD pantera with vulgar display of power and a few other groups...good for you

[@Maykholiv]

In my opinion, Fear Factory is one of the most underrated bands in the whole metal spectrum.

[@glen3509]

Metallica's Best album Ride the Ligh⚡️ning🤘🤘 "YEAH❗️"

[@alexanderivanov8850]

Yeah, the classics like old Metallica and Iron Maiden are great. I also don't like the new metal subgenres like matalcore, industrial metal, alternative or progressive metal, but I also don't like the pure death or black metal, these sounds too monotonous and not very varied. It's always good when these are refined with catchy melodies and clean vocals (especially if they are female). In terms of content, it's also good if the songs aren't just about murder and agony. So my favorite albums are: Gothic Metal: HIM-Razorblade Romance (9/10) many would say, that they didn't fit in metal, but some albums or songs can be seen as such Symphonic Metal: Nightwish-Oceanborn (9/10) with the two added songs Sleeping Sun and Nightquest Eternal Tears of Sorrow-Chaotic Beauty (8/10) Trail of Tears-Bloodstained Endurance (8/10) Melodic Death Metal: In Flames-Clayman (10/10) Dark Tranquillity-Damage Done (10/10) Children of Bodom-Follow the Reaper (10/10) Kalmah-Kalmah (9/10) Melodic Black or Blackened Metal: Siebenbürgen-Delictum (9/10) Pagan or Folk Metal: Wintersun-Wintersun (10/10)

[@maximilianschmid9890]

"Itt vasn't featschrd inn thie original muuwie bat inn tha 2nd 1; 1st aw 2 that'r skoord bj George S. Clinton."

[@zippymagee]

maybe review favorite albums that before or after you don't like the band or genre they changed to... Like my introduction to Death Metal was XGames on TV played Twist the knife slowly - Napalm Death and a friend gave me their copy of Fear Emptiness Despair. It's an all time favorite but Scum the legendary Grindcore album not so much. I don't often purposely listen to Grindcore but Death Metal for sure.

[@theheavymetaljournal]

That's a good idea, I'll get that noted!

[@fathertedcrilley3988]

Your thoughts on Mastodon? I get that you can't get into to stoner metal - I love thrash but I just can't get into Slayer even though everyone else says they're awesome, I have tried a couple of times, but...........meh [edit] just watched this to the end...Flight of Icarus is the pinnacle of metal

[@theheavymetaljournal]

I like a couple of tracks by Mastodon but I'm not really a huge fan of them

[@Brendo2386]

I love some Slayer albums bit get it. The fanbase can be very toxic too

[@ezioaltair2194]

back in black paranoid painkiller rust in peace reing in blood reing in blood x2 reing in blood x3🔥🤘🏻☠ show no mercy celtic frost emperors return EP under the sign of black mark (bathory) deicide pleasure to kkiihll (kreator) symbolic dismember (first album)🔥🤘🏻 entombed left hand path those are part of me

[@weirdsounds-f3616]

You will read this comment Btw I just discovered your channel and I rlly like it 👍

[@glen3509]

And you have a cool Tw🐦tter account 🤘🤘

[@Russel-rb9cc]

metal is metal..whatsoever what genre you like..

[@r.w.culbertson2030]

Scotland...can't be from Glasgow, I can understand ye. 😋

[@theheavymetaljournal]

Hahaha no, I'm on the opposite coast from Glasgow

[@GordonHeaney]

Too many metal subgenres!!! Can't stand it! I just don't get why it's so important to some people. I appreciate there are different styles, but it's just got silly over the years, with so many "core" subgenres, whatever the difference is. For me, in my long association with metal, 42 years, it's either heavy or not, fast or slow, good or bad. I liked the simple life! Greetings from Glasgow.

[@mar290377]

Your favourite band is Fear Factory, but you very seldom talk about other industrial bands. Why?

[@zikfu150]

what's the cringiest metal subgenre? 80s US glam metal or 90s european power metal?

[@Absu-uu1qj]

Subgenres i don’t consider real or good Metal,like Groove stuff,numetal or deathcore. Far cringier than power or glam.

[@Lupine.]

Ewww.... Sacrament was when Lamb of God went downhill. (Teasing, but I really do hate that album and onward.)

[@theheavymetaljournal]

This made me laugh 😂🤘🏻

[@mahoelihaai]

once was a huge Metallica fan....since black album i was done....that band should have chosen another name for the shit they brought out since then(even the later ons who sounded like the early work was complete failure)

[@MarcoReusel]

Nice video and story. Little bit scarry how much your music taste same as mine. Hahahaha find your channel because of blackbraid : googled for some more info. Heretics feels when it came out.... Ride the lightning.... Only fear factory not realy my cup of tea but that can change, hope not lol. Kreator is my guilty pleassure #staymetal