Top 10 Metal Albums (that changed my life)

[@NikNocturnal]

*2000's Metal

[@ricardorivera2019]

Deftones ~ Around the Fur

[@pglove9554]

Metallica - Black

[@christopherlibermanorozco6435]

I feel totally identified with you, most of the bands I listened to in my childhood and adolescence.

[@christopherlibermanorozco6435]

The best that this life can leave us

[@natekent3910]

The Open Door by Evanescence is still one of my favorites. Then I discovered Babymetal. Recently I been loving multiple A7X and Yousei Teikoku's Pax Vesania

[@microsoftpain]

My top 10: 1: ERRA (self titled) 2-10: ERRA (self titled) Thank you for reading.

[@NikNocturnal]

Aha, love that

[@guitarist4life00]

Love your list my guy. Shogun from Trivium for me absolutely blew my mental doors off. Heavy? Thrash? Proggy? Clean vocals and screams?!

[@kirisutegomen12]

Shogun is a great album!

[@Gary_a_normal_human_being]

Heavy, Thrash and Proggy is probably the best way to describe Trivium

[@Sinzelenia]

Love you dude

[@Frederick0220]

A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation was the first metalcore song I ever fell in love with

[@massgeographer]

Chapter Four by A7X is arguably one of my favorite songs. Absolute masterpiece

[@NikNocturnal]

Those guitar harmonies are

[@edmuenster2436]

That snare work in the intro is chef kiss perfect. That's when Jimmy had me hooked. He was the band for me.

[@nikitaprosin4993]

@@NikNocturnal A7X to me is like metallica who is more technical and understands music theory. Lets be real, Metallica changed everything back in the day a couple of times...so one of the most influential. A7X to me is the one who got handed the the torch. (Slipknot rules too, Deftones, Lamb of God) These bands stand to the test of time.

[@Frederick0220]

Agreed!

[@AutomaticDuck300]

My top 10 (in no particular order): 1. As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise 2. Trivium - Ascendancy (got me into metal) 3. Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison 4. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies 5. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals 6. In Flames - Clayman 7. Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile 8. The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches Below 9. Katatonia - Dead End Kings 10. Erra - Augment

[@nyarlathotep34]

Katatonia!!!

[@AutomaticDuck300]

@@nyarlathotep34 was gonna say Amorphis - Eclipse too, but the list is long enough

[@dmphax]

@@AutomaticDuck300 Amorphis is incredible!

[@AutomaticDuck300]

@@dmphax saw em live just pre-covid (a month before lockdown). Amazing.

[@jhos9494]

Augment by Erra is such a forgotten album. It’s hands down their best and more people need to hear it

[@Terron35]

The bands that got me leaning towards heavier stuff were Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin. That eventually got me into A7X, BFMV, and Atreyu (primarily Bullet out of those 3). Those 3 were my mainstays for quite awhile before I got into post-hardcore stuff and Metalcore. Recently getting into some Deathcore with Lorna Shore and Slaughter to Prevail to thank for that.

[@metalmamasue3680]

The first show I took my (now 29 yr old) son to see when he was 14 for an early birthday present was Three Days Grace with Adam and Breaking Ben who's from PA like we are. That was 15 yrs ago. He told me a few months later that it was the best birthday present he ever had. Fast forward to this past September which is his birthday month, (his is the 13th like Dave Mustaine) when we saw BVB, INK & MIW headline for the 1st time in Scranton, PA their hometown on Sept 9th, then after the show we drove to NJ, stayed in a Hotel and saw Lamb Of God the with KSE on the 10th in Camden, NJ. We had a blast, LoG is sounding as good as they ever have. We also love A7X and have seen them, KoRn, Disturbed, SlipKnot, Slayer, Megadeth, Manson, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, COB (RiP Alexi) and idk who all else. We see at least one show a year, often more. We love going to live shows, there's just nothing like it and we always have the best time.

[@brunoide7446]

For me: -still life(Opeth) -Ghost reveries(Opeth) -Images and words( Dream theater) -Metropolis pt.2(Dream theater) -Korn(Korn) -Lateralus(Tool) -Obzen(Meshuggah)

[@Raab666]

As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse Unearth - The Oncoming Storm KSE - Alive or Just Breathing August Burns Red - Constellations Architects - Lost Forever Lost Together The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed Underoath - Define the Great Line A7X - Waking the Fallen Protest the Hero - Kezia Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance

[@anoceanbetweenus89]

Solid list. Mine would have a lot of similarity. Glad you brought up Unearth and Shadow Falls. Two of the most highly underrated bands in that scene who had a massive impact on metal. I’d also throw in darkest hour - deliver us, that album was a shredde.

[@Raab666]

@@anoceanbetweenus89 I had it wrote out in the list but took it out for Underoath as I still listen to that album all the time and I don't jam Darkest Hour as much these days.Could've had Still Remains - Of Love and Lunacy on there as well. 10 is not enough! I should've had Iron Maiden - Brave New World on the list really as that is the album that got me into metal and I even have a Ghost of the Navigator tattoo.

[@kroach97]

Born in ‘94 & heard Chop Suey when I was 7 & after that, it was all over. But here is mine: 1. BMTH - Suicide Season 2. SOAD - Toxicity 3. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory/Meteora 4. Slipknot - Iowa 5. ADTR - Homesick 6. Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache 7. Limp Bizkit - CS&THFW 8. Korn - Follow The Leader 9. RATM - Self-Titled/Battle of LA 10. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists

[@dudeno3182]

My top 10 in no particular order: BFMV - The Poison Parkway Drive - Horizons Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet Escape The Fate - Dying is your latest fashion Asking Alexandria - Stand up and scream Confession - The Long Way Home Bring Me The Horizon - There is a hell... A Day to Remember - What separates me from you Upon a Burning Body - Red White Green Architects - Lost Together... All these really shaped my taste in metal in one way or another🙌

[@DoShawn]

2005 my dad was going to take me to Ozzfest. I remember seeing the lineup and going on Morpheus to download some of the bands I've never heard of. 1. As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security. 94 hours was the 1st song I ever heard and boom I was hooked! 2. Trivium - Ascendancy 3. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals - Prolly a top 3 album of all time in my opinion 4. Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison 5. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen 6. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil 7. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm 8. Parkway Drive - Horizons 9. Haste the Day - When Everything Falls 10. Metallica - Ride the Lightning. The reason I started listening to metal

[@mundanemorselsmundanemorse7028]

Yeah if you were into metal when Ascendancy was released, you know. It had such clean production and catchy riffs, plus arena choruses. Such a banger. They’ve made a lot of good albums since, but none compare to Ascendancy.

[@Kuxi8]

-My top 5: -Korn - Untouchables -Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia -Moongates Guardian - Leave the Northern Mountains -Svartby - Elemental Tales -Death -The Sound of Perseverance

[@nsjohn130]

I am SO HAPPY you put in Alexisonfire....the song It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd....one of the all time best songs in this genre.

[@NikNocturnal]

I actually practice screaming to that song a lot aha, love it

[@supportfox3212]

Honestly your taste in music is great. There’s lots of bands that I like that you bring up but you’ve also introduced me to new bands and albums I’ve never checked out. Keep up the great content!

[@justaguy7971]

Two albums that really changed my life are Nightmare - A7X and Somewhere In The Between - Streetlight Manifesto, both my favorite album of all time tbh, from my favorite bands, I know every lyric to both, they really got me into music

[@henryt9731]

Ha! Nightmare was the album that dragged me into metal

[@wormholes24]

Top 10 for me: 1. Underoath 'Define The Great Line' 2. Protest The Hero 'Kezia' 3. Slipknot 'Iowa' 4. Counterparts 'The Difference Between Hell and Home' 5. Senses Fail 'Let It Enfold You' 6. August Burns Red 'Constellations' 7. Saosin 'Self-Titled' 8. Killswitch Engage 'The End of Heartache' 9. Periphery 'II' 10. Northlane 'Singularity'

[@a5hen]

Constellations is one of the greatest albums ever made! ABR became my favourite band after that.

[@slipknotpurity00]

Top 10 that changed my life: 1) Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power 2) Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 3) Sepultura - Arise 4) Morbid Angel - Covenant 5) Metallica - And Justice For All 6) Megadeth - Rust in Peace 7) Opeth - Blackwater Park 8) Korn - self titled debut 9) Slipknot - self titled debut 10) Deftones - Around the Fur

[@kipw_901]

Swap sepultura for in flames - clayman and our lists are nearly identical. ‘gateways’ was my first MA album so I’d go with that one for me. Hard to choose between ‘vulgar’ ‘far beyond’ and ‘reinventing’ they were all so influential

[@JA-ng7yo]

Opeth! For some reason I forget about them with these types of list.

[@randycunningham7318]

All mainstream, household names. Not criticizing.

[@ZRisyad]

Mine probably: 1. A7X - Waking The Fallen 2. Trivium - In Waves 3. Architects - Holy Hell 4. BFMV - Scream Aim Fire 5. Suicide Silence - The Cleansing 6. Periphery - PIII: Select Difficulty 7. Spiritbox - Eternal Blue 8. Slipknot - All Hope is Gone 9. Meshuggah - Obzen 10. BMTH - Sempiternal

[@ericlenhart6343]

Holy Hell is a masterpiece

[@ZRisyad]

@@ericlenhart6343 no cap, man. That's the one got me open to more bands out there, especially the modern metalcore.

[@Greendayboy01]

I wont see you tonight part 1 is not only the most underrated songs ever, it is my favorite song ever

[@NikNocturnal]

Such a beautiful banger

[@Greendayboy01]

@@NikNocturnal really is. my dream is for them to play it live at Royal Albert Hall or a place like it with a full orchestra behind them

[@NoPrayerontheRoad91]

A Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden Rust in Peace by Megadeth Shogun by Trivium Feathers and Flesh by Avatar Hail Stan by Periphery Ire by Parkway Drive Sacrament by Lamb of God Magma by Gojira Welcome to Horrorwood by Ice Nine Kills Vol 3. The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot Id probably have multiple Avatar/Maiden/Trivium records on here but kept it one album per artist

[@danydzn]

ink is incredible

[@burnout1256]

Underoath- define the great line All that remains- the fall of ideals August burns red- messengers I feel all that remains doesn’t get enough credit- say what you want about their other albums but This darkened heart and The fall of ideals are 2 of the best albums ever written, I will die on that hill 🤘

[@centralia83]

For sure, this darkened heart is responsible for sending me on my metalcore journey. One of the albums anyway

[@anoceanbetweenus89]

Agreed, but I think they don’t get credit because of their other albums lol.

[@picklecore3383]

My top 3 3 - Toxicity - System Of a Down 2 - Sempiternal - Bring Me the Horizon 1 - As daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage

[@psychosis8429]

Some Albums I can think of are: Killswitch Engage- Alive or Just Breathing As I Lay Dying- An Ocean Between Us Breaking Benjamin- We Are Not Alone Suicide Silence- The Black Crown Archspire- The Lucid Collective Cynic- Focus

[@Conundrums._]

My top 10: 1: L’enfant Sauvage 2: The Way Of All Flesh 3: From Mars To Sirius 4: Terra Incognita 5: Magma 6: Fortitude 7: The Link Wait a minute

[@NikNocturnal]

D:

[@Conundrums._]

@@NikNocturnal whale core

[@FernandaPereira-ow3jo]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@DerekSanford]

August Burns Red’s Thrill Seeker is what got me hooked. And that Northlane album was just perfection. Really miss Adrian and old Northlane. 😢

[@Alex-iq2ys]

For me: Vol 3 The Subliminal Verses - Slipknot Master of Puppets - Metallica Rust in Peace - Megadeth Mutter - Rammstein Nightmare - A7X House of Gold and Bones Part 1 - Stone Sour Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park F&M - Lindemann Mesmerize - SOAD Meliora - Ghost

[@felixm6730]

love the stone sour pick

[@tylersilvey1359]

Great List!

[@LuisCastillo-rt5nk]

goddamn Hybrid Theory’s one of the best 2000’s albums, not a single bad song on that one

[@eetfuk3571]

@@LuisCastillo-rt5nk yup. that album alone introduced me to listening to few rap songs even though I hated it, Chester is the man.

[@foxinsocks4693]

Not my personal favorite, but I’d say “Waking the Fallen” by A7X was the most life changing album of mine, since it was the first metal album I ever listened to. It was less than a year ago in Fall of 2020, but I’d say it started my transition into a metalhead

[@goldenhate6649]

Out of A7X’s albums, by far my favorite. Right up there with The Poison. The number of hours I jammed to those is ungodly

[@zacharyhaverkamp]

For me it was the Nightmare album

[@murrayroberts2463]

My 10 albums (Off the top of my head) that got me into metal: Metallica - And Justice for All Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss Megadeth - Rust in Peace Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake All that Remains - The Fall of Ideals Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache August Burns Red - Messengers Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God Dethklok - The Dethalbum

[@cowmark67]

Sweet list of albums. There are definitely a few albums from my childhood that "changed my life" and got me loving metal like I do today but most of the albums that got me to love metal, especially core and extreme metal, I heard over the pandemic. Anyways here are 10 metal albums that changed my life (in no specific order). 1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (I like Meteora more but Hybrid Theory was the first metal album I heard in full) 2. Breaking Benjamin - Phobia 3. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (I like Believe more now but this album initially hooked me the most out of any of their albums with it's guitar work and vocal melodies) 4. Deftones - White Pony (Diamond Eyes is my favorite but I heard White Pony first) 5. Suicide Silence - The Black Crown 6. Make Them Suffer - How to Survive a Funeral 7. Death - Leprosy 8. Deafheaven - New Bermuda 9. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane 10. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue

[@synergy1016]

Finally someone acknowledging Breaking Benjamin

[@4W0RD5]

Idk if I could make a whole top 10 because back in those days I was mostly just listening to singles not full albums but there is one album that definitely stands out as being THE ONE that I can pinpoint as being where I started becoming a metalhead, Come Clarity by In Flames. To this day I actually still have this sick charcoal drawing of the album art that my highschool girlfriend made for me lol

[@Duskwalker68]

Glad to see WtF getting the recognition it deserves! A7X gets a lot of crap from people but they're a really talented band and Matt's voice was incredible on that album.

[@NikNocturnal]

^^ true

[@thereaper23]

Not in any particular order, too hard to decide: Atreyu - Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses Children of Boddom - Follow the Reaper Psykup - Le Temps de la Refléxion Persefone - Truth Inside the Shades Gojira - From Mars to Sirius Funeral for a Friend - Hours Between the Buried and Me - Colors Oceans Ate Alaska - Lost Isles As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security System of a Down - Toxicity Honorable Mentions: Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance (I always thought it was metal, apparently not) Polyphia - Resurrect (not the Polyphia we know today but it was the EP that made me know them)

[@jeremycronic]

Great list. I got Follow the Reaper for christmas when I was a kid. The store did not have hate crew deathroll. Reaper ended up being my favorite COB album to this day.

[@thereaper23]

@@jeremycronic Sometimes the universe does good things and we only realize it years later. In my case, I was a punk rock kid until a friend who was more into metal showed me Kissing the Shadows and that changed my life in terms of music forever.

[@gem-cards]

This would be my favorite metal albums that inspired my life: Northlane - Discoveries Northlane - Singularity Architects - All Our Gods Have Abondend Us Erra - Drift (basically everything Erra has done) Invent Animate - Stillworld Veil Of Maya - Matriarch Thornhill - The Dark Pool Currents - The Way It End

[@300metalhead]

Metallica - And Justice For All Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison Edit: seeing a bunch of different Children of Bodom albums in the comments makes me really happy :)

[@thecowgoesvroom672]

My top 5: Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin Asphyx - The Rack Megadeth - Rust in Peace In Flames - The Jester Race Judas Priest - Painkiller

[@deepseaape]

Watch Out is such an underrated masterpiece in my opinion. You nailed it with the whole soundscapes and mixing that with crazy heavy sections. Unreal album

[@NikNocturnal]

OG Alexisonfire is insane!

[@deepseaape]

@@NikNocturnal Big time

[@zakkforchilli]

The two albums that legitimately 100% changed my life are the self titled Killswitch album from 2009, Howard blew me the fuck away with how far he went in the ribs for the first time seem to evolve pretty damn far it’s extremely underrated in my opinion. The other one is the powerless rise by as I lay and when you listen to like just the drums and guitar on any of those songs you can’t help but to be completely fucking blown away even in 2022 absolutely.

[@maxlorn9913]

My top 10 Metal albums that also changed my life (not in a particular order) : 1. Slipknot - Self Titled 2. Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison 3. Structures - Divided By 4. Humanity's Last Breath - Abyssal 5. Dream Theater - Awake 6. Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? 7. Parkway Drive - Horizons 8. Tool - Lateralus 9. Meshuggah - Obzen 10. Alpha Wolf - a quiet place to die

[@Mothfood3]

Cob ftw

[@Nolanv140]

Horizons yessssirr

[@yuugur666]

I'm admittedly angry that Periphery isn't in your list, given your picture

[@quantumxfluxmd6821]

@@yuugur666 I was waiting for someone to mention horizons by PWD

[@BlockbusterKnight]

Waking the Fallen- A7X As Daylight Dies- Killswitch Engage Fall of Ideals- ATR Horizons- Parkway Drive The Poison- Bullet for My Valentine The Black Swan- Story of the Year Messengers- August Burns Red The Way of the Fist - Five Finger Death Punch Saturday Night Sever- Buried in Verona Music For The Recently Deceased- I Killed The Prom Queen And many many more. Man just making this list brings back too many memories.

[@victorthemusicman7243]

Dude, "I Won't See You Tonight Part 1" is literally my favorite song off the album. I agree when you said it's one of (imo) the most beautiful metal ballads ever.

[@victorthemusicman7243]

Thx for the NikNok 💙😊

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

These aren’t necessarily my favourite but my most played metalish albums through my 25 years 1. BFMV - The Poison 2. Escape the Fate - Dying is your Latest fashion 3. Slipknot - Iowa 4. Trivium - Ascendancy 5. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideas 6. In Flames - Whoracle 7. Killswitch Engage - Either AojB or EoH can’t choose don’t make me 8. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell 9. Dark Tranquillity- Character 10. Lamb of God - Sacrament

[@massposting6845]

Dying is your latest fashion is so good sadly Ronnie makes alpha male music now

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

@@massposting6845 Hard agree new stuff is so predictable

[@colemoxie4209]

The poison is so damn good

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

@@colemoxie4209 Easily their best, highlights for me are 4 words and 10 years today, but the whole album is perfect.

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

@@massposting6845 Would honestly give up a kidney too see an alternate timeline where Ronnie didn’t go to jail and made a part 2 with ETF. DIYLF was my Black Parade for sure.

[@therestingmitchface6241]

Constellations - August Burns Red Messengers - August Burns Red Deceiver - The Word Alive Entirety - The Word Alive To Plant a Seed - We Came As Roman’s The Flood - Of Mice and Men Hollow Bodies - Blessthefall New Demons - I See Stars Indestructible - Disturbed Tomorrow We Die Alive - Born of Osiris

[@robertdavid8891]

Good choices, i saw the to plant a seed tour- was a amazing show

[@LePoneyPosey76]

*I'll be back in 10 years* Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies Oceana - The Tide/Birth Eater ABR - Constellations Alexisonfire - Crisis Bury Tomorrow - The Unions Of Crowns Miss May I - Monument Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory/Meteora The Sorrow - Selftitled

[@calebdoerksen6720]

No particular order for me As I Lay Dying - Awakened The Plot In You - Swan Song Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal Architects - Los Forever/Lost Together Sylosis - Monolith Impending Doom - Death will Reign Oh Sleeper - Children Of Fire The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne Bonus - Lamb Of God - Resolution

[@Glintingbeetle]

1: August Burns Red - Constellations 2: Breakdown of Sanity - Perception 3: Born of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die Alive 4: Veil of Maya - Matriarch 5: Thornhill - The Dark Pool 6: Oceans Ate Alaska - Hikari 7: Invent, Animate - Greyview 8: Like Moths To Flames - The Dying Things We Live For 9: Silent Planet - The Night God Slept 10: Kingdom Of Giants - Passenger

[@zanemullins9907]

This list is fire

[@amanbhakta4524]

Just Core bullshit ☠

[@robertdavid8891]

Nice list, love your thornhill, breakdown of sanity and silent planet choices! Oh and the kingdom of giants too 👌👌

[@sleepzzz5619]

My favourite albums are Rise Against - Appeal to Reason Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory BFMV - Venom (every BFMV album after discovering Venom) BMTH - That's the spirit Beyond the black - Songs of love and death Nightwish - Endless forms most beautiful FFAK - Dark Skies Architects - Holy Hell I guess these albums influenced my musical taste the most :)

[@TheKenshinEmo]

B4MV last album in deluxe edition is like smashing you 'till you admit these guys are th sh*t

[@zacharyhaverkamp]

Rise against doesn't get enough love

[@chikinonfrydai]

rise against is amazing, siren song is my personal favorite of theirs but appeal to reason is great too

[@tasteinmusic3510]

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet Soad - basically everything Subway to Sally - Hochzeit The Hirsch Effect - Eskapist Meshuggah - ObZen In Flames - Clayman At the Gates - slaughter of the soul Der Weg einer Freiheit - Finsterre Bmth - Sempiternal

[@ryandavis4936]

its cool to see your list, different albums can be wildly different for different people. every single album on this list is an album i always thought was trash but its cool to see the other side of the fence where these albums are life changing for someone

[@Custer_X_Of_The_DAU]

Disturbed got me into metal. So I'm glad you put a Disturbed album on here.

[@NikNocturnal]

[@daviddraimanslonghair4028]

🤘🤙

[@fakeplum5495]

My brother listened to rock and metal all the time when i was a kid and i still listen to a lot of those bands. My ten favourite albums (not in any particular order) that led me to heavy music: 1. Caliban - "The Undying Darkness" and "Say Hello To Tragedy" (i discovered both in one day) 2. Whitechapel- "This is Exile" 3. Suicide Silence- "The Cleansing" 4. Lamb Of God - "Sacrament" 5. Structures- "Divided By" (love this album sooo much) 6. Metallica- "Ride the Lightning" 7. Terror- "Keepers Of The Faith" (I think this album was the most important in my life, i listened to it every day during the hardest times of my life, i even have tattoo in which K.O.T.F. is hidden) 8. BMTH - "Count Your Blessings" 9. Architects- "Hollow Crown" 10. Blood Redemption - "Picking Up The Pieces Of A Broken Past"

[@azimDUSTY]

My who-da-hell-need-next-button playlist As i lay dying - an ocean between us Underoath - they're only chasing safety From autumn to ashes - holding the wolves by the ears Trivium - ascendancy In flames - the jester race Atreyu - the curse All that remains - the fall of ideas The devil wears prada - plagues Killswitch engage - alive or just breathing

[@Cuttubus76]

This is a good Playlist 👍

[@CutestBoyInTheMorgue]

For me it is. 1: Theatre Of Tragedy - Aegis 2: Kittie - Oracle 3: Eluveitie - Slania 4: Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons 5: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 6: Cryptopsy - None So Vile 7: Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason 8: Machinehead - The Blackening 9: Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned 10: Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

[@SKYZONEGAMING]

My top 10 albums that changed my life The fall of ideals - All that remains Are you dead yet - Children of Bodom Creatures -motionless in white Atlas -Parkway Drive The poison - Bullet for my valentine The sound of truth - As I lay Dying Alive or just breathing - Killswitch engage Sacrament - Lamb of God IOWA- Slipknot The Cleansing -Suicide Silence

[@mundanemorselsmundanemorse7028]

Did you ever check out the band “Norther?” To this day they’re the only band that captures the sound of Bodom. “til death unites us” is still a banger of an album from them.

[@harvesteronenetwork1559]

Thats quite a killer list.

[@time4time242]

Since nobody asked, here's my list: Metallica - Ride the Lightning (1984) Stratovarius - Visions (1997) Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (1999) Ensiferum - Ensiferum (2000) Wintersun - Wintersun (2004) Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine (2005) Lamb of God - Sacrament (2006) Dark Tranquillity - Fiction (2007) Behemoth - Evangelion (2009) Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)

[@nyarlathotep34]

ah yes dream theater ❤

[@dmphax]

Dark Tranquillity rules!

[@yuugur666]

But Nik asked, it's the pinned comment lol

[@dermilfschreck]

Hatebreeder 🤝

[@nurax3090]

Hatebreeder>>>>>

[@sytheopath1241]

AILD- shadows are security Atreyu- the curse ABR- Constellations Parkway drive- Horizons Breakdown of sanity- perceptions Carcer city- infinite// unknown Northlane- singularity Architects- lost forever

[@Nicksrgnt]

Constellations and Horizons literally changed my life

[@sytheopath1241]

@@Nicksrgnt man i feel you

[@coin9818]

So glad that these bands and albums got you into metalcore. I got into it through them as well

[@XxXAceGXxX]

My introduction to metal wasn't entirely by albums but individual songs. My Plague by Slipknot...boi I still have my top 10 that shaped my music taste #10 Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe ( What the fuck is a 7 string and why do I want it....oh yeah, to play these songs!) #9 Symphony X - Underworld (If you want riffs that you can dance headbang to, this is it) #8 Annihilator - King of the Hill (Equally catchy and insane solos that shaped my own playing) #7 Monuments - Phronesis (Truely to catchiest and technical riffs today) #6 Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage (Lol it has ttfaf. Fr, every song has a place. Some hate but it's a real contender) #5 Drist - Orchids and Ammunition (This is where I found out that heavy music existed) #4 In Flames - Come Clarity (Every single song can makes lists of why this album is so amazing) #3 After the Burial - Evergreen (Literally changed my outlook on heavy music) #2 Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper (I bough this album in 2012 from apple music on my ipod touch 4g after finding some songs from the album on GHtunes custom songs community for Guitar Hero 5 on the wii. Heavy music was new to me and didn't think it could be melodic and catchy) #1 All that Remains - The fall of ideals (Need I say anything. This album fucks) I still think that the Fall of Ideals is still the greatest album ever made. Follow the reaper slinks above it every now and then cause they both follow a nostalgic side

[@ericibaugh8231]

I think The Fall of Ideals has a claim to the greatest metalcore album of all time, absolute masterpiece in every aspect

[@MattxxMatt]

No particular order. Define the Great Line - Underoath Parallax II: Future Sequence - Between the Buried and Me Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance Sempiternal - Bring Me the Horizon The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage Origin of Symmetry - Muse The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains Option Paralysis - The Dillinger Escape Plan Planetary Duality - The Faceless Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold

[@chloechaotic]

I'm very impressed with this list, having grown up with these albums, teens and 20's. That Northlane album is gorgeous. Also, love that Underoath and Alexisonfire are in there too.

[@Dukhevych]

I literally spent 2 weeks to download the whole Ten Thousand Fists in 128kbps quality, because of poor 28.8 kbps (3-3.5 kb per second). Each track felt so precious, so important! Same for The Poison, especially bonus tracks. Holy shit, nostalgia kills me.

[@Guitarist19887]

36 crazyfists snow capped romance KsE end of heartache Both got me into metal core and my fave bands still.

[@Jarlaxle_Baenre]

Props on the 36 crazyfists mention. Bloodwork and slit wrist theory are still in rotation on my playlists.

[@Darrkness]

@@Jarlaxle_Baenre same

[@Guitarist19887]

@@Jarlaxle_Baenre bitterness was my favourite album from them but Snow capped was close and what got me interested . Saw them live it was amazing

[@Ober1kenobi]

Where do I start As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us Misery Signals - Controller It Dies Today - Sirens Architects - Hollow Crown Underoath- Define the Great Line The Ghost Inside - Dear Youth/GWYG really can’t pick Currents - The Way it Ends TDWP - Plagues I Killed the Prom Queen - Music for the Recently Deceased In this Moment - Beautiful Tragedy

[@Wylide9]

Yo that In This Momet album was GREAT !

[@Ober1kenobi]

@@Wylide9 a Hidden Gem

[@yuugur666]

Hmmm... If we have to list 10 (In no particular order for me) Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone Recode the Subliminal - The Cost of Every Man Be'lakor - Stone's Reach Nightwish - Once In Flames - Sounds of a Playground Fading Attack Attack! - This Means War Soilwork - The Ride Majestic Asking Alexandria - Stand Up And Scream Shadow of Intent - Reclaimer Periphery - Juggernaut Alpha/Omega It was really hard to limit it to front and back albums, instead of just "a smattering of everything they release" like it has been with a few perception changing fixations I've had, such as with a lot of Tool/Disturbed/A7x/SOAD as a kid, and a lot of Jinjer/Spiritbox/Infected Rain recently

[@apesson639]

1. Dark Tranquility - Fiction 2. In Flames - Colony, Sounds of a playground fading 3. Insomnium - Above the weeping world 4. Gojira - Magma 5. As I lay dying - shadows are security 6. Metallica - Master of puppets 7. Architects - For those that wish to exist 8. Mokoma - elävien kirjoihin 9. Death - the sound of Perseverance 10. Rammstein - Zeit Not in any order just absolute bangers and beautiful albums.

[@user-jb7wf4cb3s]

Melodic death! Yeah

[@jeremycronic]

Great list. Love that Insomnium album. Killjoy is one my all time favorite songs.

[@bigboreleveraction933]

Albums that got me a lot more interested in music but more so rock/ metal. Definstly a lot more that belong here but these are the main ones that I remember. I took a turn into the death metal scene which also brought me to black metal. Deathcore is where my main interest lies now. Although I love all types of music. 1: Linkin Park- Meteora 2: All that remains- This Darkened Heart 3: Avenged Sevenfold- Sounding the seventh trumpet 4: Lamb Of God- Ashes of the wake 5: Children of Bodom- Hate Crew Deathroll 6: AFI- Sing the Sorrow 7: Slipknot- Iowa 8: Bleeding Through- This is love, this is murderous 9: Three Days Grace- Three Days Grace 10: In Flames- Sound Track to Your Escape

[@mikehurt3290]

I agree with you on pretty much all of them the only ones I would add is either Killing with a Smile or Horzions by Parkway Drive

[@hashbiasshate8904]

Train of Thought-Dream Theater City of Evil-A7X Blackwater Park-Opeth As Daylight Dies-Killswitch Engage In Waves-Trivium The Poison-BFMV Minutes to Midnight-Linkin Park That's The Spirit-BMTH

[@CodyKeltner]

For me it’s: A thousand suns by Linkin Park Ride the lightning by Metallica Life starts now by Three Days Grace Issues by KoЯn Kin by Whitechapel Phobia by Breaking Benjamin. .5 the grey chapter by Slipknot The Stage By Avenged Sevenfold Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera One-X by Three Days Grace

[@blackmamba5659]

The Stage is a masterpiece but the average A7X fan can't totally appreciate it which makes me pretty sad.

[@RxSOS]

System of a Down - Hypnotize Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk Opeth - Ghost Reveries Slipknot - Subliminal Verses Asking Alexandria - Stand Up and Scream Between the Buried and Me - Parallax II Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings

[@Chaosdude341]

Blooddrunk is so, so good.

[@centralia83]

My favorite album by Opeth will always be blackwater park. What a masterpiece of an album. In my opinion, they have never been able to top that album.

[@mr.apathyy913]

Blooddrunk is seriously underrated

[@Jeffrey_Tyler]

I never realized how young Nick is. A lot of these albums are my little brothers era of getting into metal. Amazing albums. I wasn't expecting a butt rock album though with Disturbed, that was out of left field. I was in my 20s when Shadows are Security came out and I still even consider it an album that shaped me.

[@chaosreborn5988]

•A7X - Waking the Fallen •Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory •ABR - Constellations •Whitechapel - Somatic Defilement •Suicide Silence - The Cleansing •Of Mice & Men - Self-titled •Phinehas - The Last Word •Wage War - Blueprints •Impending Doom - Baptized in Filth •Shadow of Intent - Elegy There’s a lot more I could list but I wanted to give a broad timeline haha

[@WHOREHAMMER_OFFICIAL]

1.Parkway drive: horizons 2. Thy art is murder: hate 3. Whitechapel: Whitechapel 4. Slipknot: .5 gray chapter 5. Disturbed: Asylum 6. Asking alexandria: reckless and relentless 7. Stone sour: Audio secrecy 8. Mudvayne: Lost and found 9. Breaking benjamin: phobia 10. Ice nine kills: every trick in the book

[@NikNocturnal]

All of those are absolute bangers

[@WHOREHAMMER_OFFICIAL]

@@NikNocturnal Agreed Oh wise mr. Popovic

[@goCubsgo102]

Picked the worst slipknot album imo

[@WHOREHAMMER_OFFICIAL]

@@goCubsgo102 thats your opinion. I hated vol 3, thats the only album i didnt like and .5 had so much emotion in it

[@goCubsgo102]

@@WHOREHAMMER_OFFICIAL yep that's what imo means. Definitely emotional post Paul death but it didn't really translate to great songs. Negative one was really good, devil in I and skeptic both good, but that's it.

[@furyz100]

These are my top 5 , been listening to them for as long as i can remember. Linkin park - Hybrid Theory Red - End of Silence Soilwork - Figure Number Five Breaking Benjamin - Phobia Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

[@theangledsaxon6765]

Ehyyyyyy got some Red love here

[@HurleyAndVans]

I've thought about this for way too long but Hybrid Theory was the first heavy music I encountered. Constellations - ABR Killing with a smile - Parkway Drive Stick to your guns - The Hope Divison Stray From the Path - Make Your Own History Killing Season - BMTH Suicide Silence - The Cleansing Knocked Loose- Pop Culture Veil of Maya - It's not safe to swim today Your Demise - Ignorance Never Dies Sworn In - Start/End that's off the top of my head, you can tell i ended up liking more hardcore stuff pretty early on. Stick to your guns - The Hope Divison Stray From the Path - Make Your Own History

[@lilmonkmonk808]

Linkin Park and Avenged Sevenfold were the main bands that really got me into metal

[@vinyredx9220]

For me it was the same bands with System of a down and Evanescence with it, i know most of them are not metal, but they were gateway bands for me

[@Simplemana]

same here at first i thought one step closer was too heavy for me haha but look at me now

[@nikLyt]

My top 10 Metal albums (not in a particular order): 1. Deftones - Around the Fur 2. Bullet for my valentine - the Poison 3. Whispered - Shogunate Macabre 4. Born of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die Alive 5. Infant Annihilator - The Elysian Grandeval Galeriarch 6. Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper 7. Korn - Life Is Peachy 8. Black Tongue - Nadir 9. In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape 10. Linkin Park - Meteora

[@southernbohemian]

not necessarily all metal but heres my top 10 albums: 1. Colors - Between The Buried And Me 2. Koloss - Meshuggah 3. City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold 4. Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater 5. The 2nd Law - Muse 6. Shogun - Trivium 7. Royal Blood - Royal Blood 8. The Further Side - Nova Collective 9. Vector - Haken 10. Zodiac Arrest - ChuggaBoon

[@oneofthecrucibleknights1679]

Dude…shogun…insurrection riff introduced me to a solid metalcore riff (I know it wasn’t the first but it showed me the style)

[@ryancozzolino7832]

Colors was what got me into metal as well! One of my favorite albums of all time, if not my favorite. What are your thoughts on Colors II?

[@kaimcbeth5015]

For me (born mid 90's): 1. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 2. Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison 3. Escape the Fate - Dying is Your Latest Fashion 4. Trivium - Shogun 5. Periphery - Periphery II 6. Polyphia - Inspire EP 7. Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together 8. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 9. Rings of Saturn - Lugal Ki En 10. To The Grave - Global Warning

[@NikNocturnal]

Hybrid Theory is definitely GOAT'd

[@Zach61575]

Inspire EP best girl

[@ilcarnifex]

Fuck yeah man i was looking for Shogun in the comments

[@PlasmicEuphoria]

Solid picks my dude

[@kaimcbeth5015]

@@ilcarnifex Yeah underated classic that bridges the gap perfectly between classic heavy metal and core.

[@user-kn6dq8uw2p]

Man WTF was one of my first too. Also an ocean between us by AILD

[@edmuenster2436]

Metal albums that had a pivotal influence on my taste in metal 1. End of heartache- Killswitch engage 2. Waking the fallen- A7X 3. Ten thousand fist- disturbed 4. Take a look in the mirror & follow the leader- Korn (listened to both albums when I first discovered them) 5. Through the ashes of empires- Machine Head 6. The blackening- Machine Head 7. Death album- DethKlok 8. Hillbilly Deluxe- Rob Zombie 9. Mesmerize- system of a down 10. Reclaimer- Shadow of intent (after years of hating deathcore SOI got me on board and now I'm exploring the genre more)

[@ValkyrieLightwing]

Periphery II is still one of my favourite albums ever. It's so insanely good, and just the other day was 10 years since it's release!

[@MaestroKatProductions]

Way too many factors that make it so good: the somewhere in time trilogy, track transitions, Spencer's first lyrical inputs, Mark and Nolly becoming new members

[@johnoconnell7318]

We need a Periphery II 10th Anniversary tour right about now...

[@ValkyrieLightwing]

@@johnoconnell7318 Yesssss

[@mikehurt3290]

People complained so much about the clean singing but I loved it and they were so great at it too!!!

[@aaryanramesh7761]

Grew up with 70s rock / 80s metal and now into the cores so heres my top 10: 1. And Justice For All - Metallica 2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 3. Sheer Heart Attack - Queen 4. Horizons - Parkway Drive 5. Killing with a Smile - PWD 6. LIFAD - Rammstein 7. Master of Puppets = Metallica 8. Deep Blue - PWD 9. Dynasty - KISS 10. Destroyer - KISS

[@hanzwuw]

It’s interesting to see everyone’s list! So I decided to dig into my iTunes library (nostalgia) and made this: 10 albums introduced me to metal/metalcore 1. Dir en Grey - Withering to Death (2005) (UROBOROS is my favorite but this one opened the door for me) 2. Korn - Korn (1994) 3. Slipknot - Slipknot (1999) 4. Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold (2007) 5. Underoath - Ø (Disambiguation) (2010) 6. Architects - Daybreaker (2012) 7. Northlane - Singularity (2013) 8. Deftones - White Pony (2000) 9. Meshuggah - obZen (2008) 10. Utsu-P - Diarrhea (2009)

[@klarenu1163]

Wasnt expecting to see Utsu-P. nice list

[@musicmandan4857]

Amazing list, I feel like you're me in another universe. Mine's: 1. Master of Puppets - Metallica 2. Meteora - Linkin Park 3. Rust in Peace- Megadeth 4. Ashes of the Wake- Lamb of God 5. Vol 3. - Slipknot 6. Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold (the Resurrected version is even better IMO) 7. Shadows Are Security - As I Lay Dying 8. The Poison- Bullet For My Valentine 9. The Fall of Ideals (RIP Oli!) - All That Remains 10. Train of Thought - Dream Theater

[@NikNocturnal]

Oh hell yeah, all bangers!

[@TheAk4r]

'As I Am' might be my favourite Dream Theater track off of Train of Thought, that is favourite track within all of Dream Theater's discography!

[@dsquare3033]

Does anyone know the band Diecast? They have a few albums and one is named Tearing down your blue skies and OMG that shit so fucking good it has every thing riffs,break downs ,screaming and singing and really powerful lyrics too , I highly recommend the song called Pendulum every needs to hear it!!

[@Cuttubus76]

Bro! I feel like I'm the only one who knows that band lol. Rise and Oppose got me pumped! The video is hilarious also

[@dsquare3033]

@@Cuttubus76 yea same, your the first person I’ve seen talk about them other than me , I love the song Medieval so fucking badass

[@Cuttubus76]

@@dsquare3033 yeah Medieval is awesome! Diecast is very underrated

[@dsquare3033]

@@Cuttubus76 They need to make a come back

[@mattiamontato8414]

At the Drive In - Relationship of Command Converge - Jane Doe Helmet - Meantime Poison the Well - The Opposite of December.

[@TeamTechSkaters]

This makes me want to reminisce and document my album path. I remember most of them that i listened to on repeat and want to remember those ive forgotten.

[@Sillyhouette4863]

My favorites are 1. Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park 2. Self titled album - A7X 3. All hope is gone - Slipknot 4. Sempiternal - BMTH 5. Indestructible - Disturbed

[@know_hope]

Thrill Seeker - August Burns Red Discovering this album in 2005 changed my life. Never heard of metalcore or even understood what metal really was before this album came out. I had heard of some of the more radio friendly Demon Hunter singles, because of youth group/church, but nothing got me invested until ABR.

[@erkutsoyer4970]

0:17 I just love the 140p thumbnail, true A7X experience on KZbin

[@sherman614]

Dude, not only do we have SO many of the same bands in common that shaped our taste in music, but you pulled out the NFS: Most wanted reference! One of my favorite games of all time! Great sound track!

[@ShatteredToDust]

Watch Out album made a HUUUGE impact in my taste for music. Funny thing is, I was listening to it today on my way to work reliving nostalgia.

[@NikNocturnal]

:D

[@Ethan-nw4ww]

As a young metalhead (18), my albums are substantially different. The 10 albums that shaped my love for metal have got to be: Fear Factory - Mechanize Fit For A King - Dark Skies Parkway Drive - Horizons Divine Heresy - Bleed the Fifth Blessthefall - Hollow Bodies Carnifex - Die Without Hope After the Burial - Wolves Within Machine Head - The Blackening Miss May I - Monument Thy Art is Murder - Hate

[@Death-in-D-Minor]

Sooooo glad some one else loves I Wont See You Tonight pt 1 too. Still one of my favs

[@implodingnerd]

SycAmour - Indulgence: A Saga of Lights Sylar - To Whom It May Concern My Ticket Home - Strangers Only Get Scared - Demons I See Stars - New Demons Secrets - Fragile Figures Fit For A King - Creation|Destruction Of Mice & Men - Restoring Force Architects - Daybreaker Woe, Is Me - Number[s] 10 of my favourites

[@ImDehydrate]

A7x was my intro to metal. Shepard of Fire playing on BO2. The perfect band to introduce you into the genre

[@mxtchxvz]

same here

[@limalobo7133]

Minha lista: A7X - avenged sevenfold B4MV - the poison Amon amarth - fate of norns Killswitch engage - the end of heartache Slipknot - Iowa As I lay dying - frail words collapse Children of bodom - follow the Reaper SOAD - toxicity Lamb of god - Sacrament Evanescence - fallen

[@rpiian]

Almost had the same progression myself! Agreed BFMV - The Poison was my first screaming album I was really into. Even Dream Theater, I had the same experience where I found them in the late 2000s. KSE, Parkway Drive, In Flames (stemming back to MTV Headbangers ball, never got over that!) and Rammstein are some of my all time favs, and lately its been The Volumes, Architects and Amity Affliction. Gerderm there's so much good stuff out there.

[@whatsinameme5258]

Nice picks! Honestly Systematic Chaos, Fall of Ideals, Waking the Fallen, and Periphery 2 should be considered sacred.