These 20 METAL Albums Are 10/10s

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[@RiffSL4YER]

Rust in Peace and Seventh Son are two of the greatest albums ever .

[@iflower3596]

As a big fan of Maiden, I strongly disagree. Somewhere In Time and Brave New World are better.

[@LocrianDorian]

@@iflower3596 Piece of Mind and Powerslave are also way better than Seventh Son, I don't know what Beanley is smoking with that one. Don't get me wrong, I like Seventh Son too but not the entirety of it, Seventh Son (the song) in particular is not good.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

@@iflower3596 I am some place in between Rust in Peace and Brave New World are my favorites

[@oSileyCT-7212]

no

[@LocrianDorian]

@@emperortrevornorton3119 Brave New World is amazing, best reunion album of all time.

[@_Phantom_Productions]

We all know Bradley’s upcoming Metallica album will be the ultimate one. 500/10 For Whom My Ass Calls 🤘

[@LocrianDorian]

Surely you mean For Whom The Beans Toll

[@hugodogobob]

Nah for whom my ass tolls is way funnier

[@LenaVoices]

For whom the ass claps?

[@saulmorris9639]

"it's an ass grabbing whale"

[@p1g5m0k3]

@@hugodogobob For Whom That Smell Rolls

[@kokkoro-chan2319]

Arise from Sepultura is one hell of an album. Honestly one of my all time favorites

[@canman87]

Great album, but I have to admit that there are a couple of tracks that don't really do it for me. Subtraction, Under Siege, and Meaningless Movements I can take or leave. Each has like a riff or two that I can get down with, but I'm mostly just waiting to hear those during the other parts of the song 😅 I think Beneath the Remains stays solid all the way through and has a bit more variety, so I personally like it more. I also think the production is noticeably better; it's clearer and punchier than Arise, which sounds a bit darker and muddier to my ear. All that said, they're both great albums and you can't really go wrong choosing either!

[@fedorpopof4124]

Чертовски верно!)

[@porragames5187]

É DO BRASIL PORRA

[@DiviCaesarAugustus]

Beneath the remains >

[@knight_05]

Sepultura >>>

[@yourmatetom]

Happy you put Ascendancy here. This album single handedly improved my metal guitar playing

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@periachi4961]

For me personally, both Master Of Puppets and Rust In Piece are 11/10s

[@eccehomer8182]

Smell The Glove was recorded at 11 !!!

[@HeathenDance]

I will always love Puppets, but when it comes to the riff department, I think it's more catchy than awesome, from a musical point of view. Always the same couple of scales and similar notes. But Kirk and Cliff's contributions are enough to disguise that. And the top notch production and James' voice, of course.

[@Itsshaunbewarned]

Vulgar display of power is 111/10 then

[@ahhhhhhhhhhh9o9o9o]

Thrash guy eh?

[@periachi4961]

@@ahhhhhhhhhhh9o9o9o yes sir

[@davidmartins9468]

Gojira's From Mars to Sirius is also a 10/10 imo

[@TopSetUK]

@MEME Supreme You definitely might be the only one. I felt like it had loads of filler on it! The Chant and Sphinx are belters though.

[@ChuckBeefOG]

@@TopSetUKyeah, probably their worst album imo.

[@arminc4658]

@MEMESupreme-by1qv nah I think its amazing too. Probably not their best IMO FMTS and Magma are better but its still like a 9/10. Although I see how one could consider it their best. I think Born for One Thing Is definitely their best album opening track. The Chant and Another World are also probably in their top 10 to maybe even top 5 songs.

[@aarong5716]

Gojira were definitely a huge omission.

[@Rxbandit421]

9/10 not enough whales

[@m0skit0]

Symphony X's The Oddsey, wow that's a nice surprise. This album is very underrated, an absolute masterpiece.

[@user-rm1ib8rd9h]

Their entire discography is massively underrated imo

[@duhmzdaih]

@@user-rm1ib8rd9h Nah, the last albums are boring.

[@Incontinencia_Suma]

Also The divine wings of tragedy

[@stringnerd]

the amount of times I listened to octavarium and the odyssey in high school was unhealthy

[@Coconuthut1]

@@stringnerdoctavarium is such a good album, but it’s not even dt’s best. Goes to show how good they are.

[@MorbidGuardian]

Some 10/10's I'd have on my list: Imaginations from the Otherside - Blind Guardian Blackwater Park - Opeth Covenant - Morbid Angel Follow the Reaper - Children of Bodom Images and Words - Dream Theater October Rust - Type O Negative From Mars to Sirius - Gojira Once - Nightwish Trying to follow your guidelines and not go too obscure, keep my personal faves mostly off the list (unless it's warranted), and making sure enough time has passed since their release date.

[@captainpotato5108]

Good to see Blackwater Park and Covenant on this list! I'd add Altars of Madness and Stormblast but great list!

[@Kalkschwarz]

This is a great list!

[@EredilElexi]

Images and Words!!!

[@AMan-xg2sz]

I personally would go with Nightfall in Middle Earth over Imaginations,

[@burnttoast9890]

Blackwater park is peak music

[@RC32Smiths01]

Metal has truly cemented itself as a hallmark genre of music. Exhilarating, cathartic, and engaging throughout the decades with new twists along the way. Definitely a great list!

[@mitchsmix269]

I feel like metal already stands with historic genres like jazz… as far as there is not a dictionary definition of metal, but you know it when you hear it. They both make you move, and can be pretty simple or very technical

[@bake-io1cf]

Metal mainstream era in the late 80s lasted less than 5 years yet still refuses to die. Meanwhile rap is the opposite, it should have died as a short lived fad in the late 80s but it took over everything and turned mainstream music into putrid monotonous and talentless sludge

[@berniesmittens1943]

As well as having an epic fan base. Metal fan's rock..

[@mrhyde2250]

Kirk’s solos on Justice were great! He didn’t get replaced until 1990.

[@MrPantera123456]

Kirks solos were amazing and legendary on Black. He didn’t get replaced until 1996

[@ludvig5597]

The fact that St. Anger has no solos makes it pretty obvious that he was murdered somewhere between 1997 and 2003.

[@MunkeeFWRrng]

I mean he was still great on the black album as well

[@Samford_]

@@MrPantera123456 kirks solos were amazing and legendary on load, reload, and garage inc. he didn’t get replaced until st anger, or i guess death magnetic

[@wyatth2992]

​@@Samford_ Wasn't Garage a cover album?

[@pianobar-bartoszsobczynski1321]

Speaking of Judas Priest, I'm also quite fond of 1976's "Sad Wings of Destiny", along with "British Steel" and "Screaming for Vengeance"

[@earlwoodman6492]

Don't forget Stained Class!

[@bramstedt8997]

British Steel is a 10/10 hard rock album (as in, it’ll get some radio airplay), painkiller is pure metal

[@vladtepes9978]

A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here: Annihilator - Never, Neverland Blind Guardian - NIghtfall in the Middle-Earth Crimson Glory - Transcendence Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Sepultura - Chaos AD Summoning - Stronghold Wuthering Heights - Far from the madding crowd

[@mads4387]

I think I personally would place Arise higher than Chaos AD.

[@negro.galie-leo]

Operation Mindcrime was so good

[@mr.g3176]

Yes!! Annihilator and Queensrÿche for sure!

[@SomeoneThatIsHappy]

I prefer Alice in Hell over Never, Neverland personally, but great to see some Annihilator love

[@frisp973]

Mindcrime is a masterpiece

[@weisswurschtliebhaber12]

Early Bodom is godlike. Its really impressive what young people like Alexi and Trivium were able to accomplish.

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

FTR all time fave

[@HeathenDance]

I'm a motherfucking huge fan of their first album. Children of Bodom, I mean. Oddly enough, for some reason, the remaining discography never clicked the same way.

[@GuyLovesAnOnion]

@@HeathenDance more traditional melo death more raw production too

[@elBanananas]

The run from Hatebreeder to Are You Dead Yet? hits different. So good. Banger after banger.

[@Sevro720]

⁠@@elBanananas Can’t explain how much AYDY? influenced me and expanded my music taste. what a fucking amazing album man

[@somebodyMx]

How could you forget about Chuck Schuldiner? Ok, I understand, it's hard to peak just one album from him, because almost all of them are timeless classic. But I would stand with Symbolic. Truly masterpiece

[@rockfyre3095]

Death never made a bad album. The first 2 were solid death metal then he started using progressive metal elements making every album better than the last.

[@arabe66]

👌👌👌🤝

[@ins1demanwhitaker527]

Human and symbolic were the best in my opinion

[@felixhamel2398]

He said in another video that he's not really a Death fan

[@bluesrock88]

no, but let´s have SOAD Toxicity instead of Symbolic. ahahahahahah

[@dekideron5199]

0:01 general kenobi

[@masonmack7453]

Always love that you mention symphony x, they are so incredibly talented and underrated, inferno was the first song I heard by them and that initial bent harmonic riff just blew my mind, haven’t been able to stop listening to their stuff since

[@midastheunwise2423]

Love how the 3 Dragonforce tracks all felt like it could have been a single excerpt from one track. They definitely didn't deviate from the formula even remotely in the earlier albums.

[@whyisyes3957]

I mean the band came from Herman Li and Sam Totman deciding they wanted a power metal band without the ballads and mid-paced songs

[@canman87]

Yeah... I kinda tuned out for the most part after Sonic Firestorm. They're a band I can do, perhaps three songs on a good day before I'm ready to move on and not listen to them again for months or years, lol.

[@andrewghostboy475]

That one riff in Holy Wars is absolutely amazing and I love it

[@im3phirebird81]

Never thought I'd say this a year ago - because I didn't give a crap about Megadeth - but Holy Wars is pretty much the best riff of all time.

[@STMARTIN009]

I saw Megadeth and Lamb of God at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on May 13 2022. Dave sounded great after dealing with throat cancer.

[@nathanmiller9918]

There's like 17 great riffs in that song.

[@dimitrisdimitriadis4913]

Holy wars has probably my favourite metal solo of all time

[@cashman412]

This video is awesome! You give me ideas of music I've never heard before to listen to now. Your commentary and attitude are amazing!

[@nathanatos9]

Dude. Sepultura Arise definitely needs to be on this list.

[@rudy427]

Down - NOLA Carcass - Heartwork Fear Factory - Demanufacture Behemoth - The Satanist Opeth - Blackwater Park all perfect classics

[@robertdragon9478]

Daaaa. I agree with you

[@ZiggieZoo]

Blackwater Park is very nice.

[@Ryan-ds2wx]

Blackwater Park is legendary. Holy shit what masterpiece of an album.

[@jim2823]

DEATH HUMAN!

[@berniesmittens6370]

Nola by DOWN .. Never heard of them..

[@noahnaz9841]

A list of a few of my favourites by bands not mentioned here: Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Deafheaven = Sunbather Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Melvins - Houdini Deftones - White Pony Acid Bath - Pagan Terrorism Tactics Death - Symbolic Tool - Lateralus Machine Head - The Blackening Sepultura - Arise Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain Pentagram - Relentless Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath

[@chasp_0784]

Ooh the blackening, I like this call!

[@Baraka_Obama_]

Machine Head- Burn my Eyes

[@modocp]

Is the blackening that good?

[@Baraka_Obama_]

@@modocp it's a recommended listen, great album from start to finish

[@chasp_0784]

@@modocp it’s just personal opinion but yeah for me it’s the best distillation of machine head into one solid album, not really any bad songs, big solos. It rocks

[@federicocervigni7525]

Reign in blood and season in the abyss imo are perfect. I can't decide

[@santicony]

Seriously no one's even gonna mention Alice in Hell by Annihilator? Such a masterpiece. I think it is at peak thrash metal level, comparable to Rust in Peace and MoP

[@mrbill4256]

No arguments here.

[@tristanthanathan1978]

I never was a Thrash Metal Enthusiast, but if i have to name one, it would be " Alice in Hell " too. I love " Set the World on Fire " much more, and it will be always in my Top ten, for beeing a perfect Album. But this masterpiece has realy nothing to do with Thrash Metal.

[@mat.b.]

Judas Priest's Painkiller, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Pantera's Cowboys From Hell, and Death's Sound of Perseverance are my "perfect" albums, and by that criteria every single track on each album would make my "best songs of all time" list.

[@TomJacobW]

That’s Master of Puppets for me. When I first listened to it, I didn’t even know that albums can be perfect. I always thought albums need sh*tty filler songs. Even rust in peace had some filler, at least that’s how I felt when I first listened to it (today it’s of course different; back then I didn’t really like Lucretia; today i personally think it’s one of my all time favorite guitar solos on any band ever😅).To this day, this perfection in style, expression, ideas and completeness that you describe is still only reached by MoP, subjectively for me according to my personal taste. Enjoy yours! 👍

[@ryanweinburger135]

Sound of Perseverance was one of my introductions to the extreme side of metal and it is so extreme and yet one of the easiest albums to listen to that I've ever heard

[@mrbill4256]

Perseverance is my desert island album.

[@canman87]

I'm not much of a Pantera dude, but the other three I'm with you on all the way.

[@DD_Vandal]

I'd say symbolic is a bit better as an album but a great list nonetheless

[@johnhoffman9841]

Extreme Aggression by Kreator is an extremely good and underrated thrash record. Violent Revolution is great too.

[@stop-the-greed]

Good point

[@berniesmittens6370]

True , so true. That time period spawned some genre defining classics. Extreme aggression, Peace sells but who's buying. , Enter the remains, Relms of Chaos, Harmony corruption.. etc..

[@ej1025]

Pleasure to Kill is probably my favorite, followed by Terrible Certainty.

[@matttipton6009]

THANK YOU for highlighting Disposable Heroes!! It’s a criminally overlooked song by Metallica.

[@theheck5176]

Type O Negative - October Rust Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 & 2 Death - Sound of Perseverance Sepultura - Arise

[@darkalman]

October Rust is a brilliant album

[@estefamurrone]

October Rust❤

[@MetalheadCurt]

Everything on Painkiller is a highlight. Definitely in my top 3 albums and, quite possibly, standing on its lonesome at the very apex. Metal PERFECTION.

[@LocrianDorian]

Yup, it's an amazing album. Firepower is also surprisingly good and obviously modeled after Painkiller. Priest have some filler tracks in most of their albums, Painkiller is an obvious exception to that.

[@MetalheadCurt]

@@LocrianDorian Firepower is the album that proves "hey, old bands can still dish out awesome records late into their career". Iron Maiden really needs to take some pages outta their book.

[@willl676]

@@MetalheadCurt I'm gonna be honest, Senjutsu is my guilty pleasure even if I do think the intros are way too fucking long.

[@MetalheadCurt]

@@willl676 That's my main issue with Senjutsu, it's WAY longer than it needs to be. There's moments where I'm like "there's something here" with pacing that completely misses the point.

[@willl676]

@@MetalheadCurt Yeah I think it's pretty telling where they've gone wrong when almost everybody who listens to the album seems to agree the best song is The Writing on the Wall.

[@gokussjfour]

Cool to see Symphony X mentioned. Those guys should be huge!

[@ninjaking2548]

Fax, They have so many amazing albums

[@fmjprp1028]

what really helps them is having Romeo, my favorite of all time

[@GREG-SC]

Yes, fun and informative. THANK YOU! I will make sure to catch up on a few that I was missing out on.

[@Devypocalypse]

'Symbolic' by Death, 'Arise' by Sepultura and 'The Machination of Dementia' by Blotted Science all need to be on here.

[@cartmandreamer9703]

mad props for mentioning blotted science! wow!

[@Devypocalypse]

@@cartmandreamer9703 👊🏻 Absolutely insane stuff. Ron is completely unique and a monster of metal.

[@kokobi7482]

bro symbolic should've been on there

[@JetpackGamer456]

this guy gets it

[@toxicelec5960]

For me personally, Shogun would be the Trivium album I put here. Heafy’s vocals are just as great as they were in Ascendancy, but the narrative aspect of the album makes it so much more unique and complex

[@martincherubini6602]

agreed, shogun it’s easily in my top 5 favorite metal albums

[@jonass4800]

Shogun and ascendancy are my two favourite albums ever so I’m happy to see either on the list

[@matthewtaylor1785]

I’m also a big fan of The Crusade, although Ascendancy and Shogun are definitely better, with Shogun being one of the best albums ever made

[@im3phirebird81]

@@matthewtaylor1785 I HATED Crusade when it came out xD I wanted more juicy melodic perfection lol. But some of the best Trivium songs are actually on there. It took time for me to understand

[@goranilincic2644]

Ressurection 🤘🤘

[@wildboy8137]

Thanks for sharing! Some of those I haven't had the pleasure of listening to but I'm certainly going to! Here are some that I think are 10/10 Seputura - Chaos AD Anthrax - Spreading the Disease Testament - The Gathering Fear Factory - Demanufacture

[@nvlddmkm1282]

Yes! I'm firmly supportive of Symphony X The Odyssey. Such an amazing album all around.

[@Choji11]

Glad to see Mastodon on this list. I would've gone with Blood Mountain but honestly I love all their albums.

[@jameywilliams1153]

Facts!

[@calbff-ec8vg]

I've literally never heard anyone give Seventh Son proper credit before. It's always been by far my favourite Maiden album and one of the best of all time. Kudos.

[@JV-rx3ov]

I used to get shit ALL THE TIME from my friends back then because I loved (and still love) that album.

[@TylerPilizota]

100%. That album in my opinion is just perfection. Every song is a complete banger

[@agnieszkahudyka6753]

it was meant to be called, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, 7th son of a 7th son, ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , ooooooohh , but they ran out of space on the cover,

[@LilSeizures]

I went through their discog when I was like 14 and found that album, love it way more than Number of the Beast or Powerslave. Whole thing RIPS.

[@aaronzegas5270]

It's not as heavy as earlier Maiden albums, but the songwriting and the concept are great.

[@mattisixx1699]

Living dead beat has my favorite intro ever written. The dark keyboards to that awesome dive bomb, just perfect

[@RC-fi8nn]

Great list! Seventh Son is an absolute epic. I'd like to suggest White Pony by Deftones. Maybe not metal in the strictest sense but still very heavy in parts

[@Stef_Kafka]

Death‘s Symbolic is also definitely a ten outta ten -Each song has its own wonderful moment-, Celtic Frost’s Monotheist,and the EP “Agonie” from Der Weg Einer Freiheit (German Black Metal). But also totally agree with the ones I know in your list, Brad 🙂

[@bake-io1cf]

Every Death album is gold from start to finish

[@Chris-jg3km]

Yeah symbolic has gotta be their best album

[@johnunderhill9666]

Symbolic absolutely should be on this list. It’s a perfect album and very influential

[@thepeopleonthecouch2928]

I know it's overplayed, but Crazy Train is honestly my favorite song ever. Everything about Randy's guitar on that song is *perfect.*

[@STMARTIN009]

Absolutely. It was a shame he died so young.

[@erinbarillaro4428]

Yeah R. I. P Randy Rhoads

[@T0tenkampf]

hard to disagree with although the solos on Bark at the Moon might be my two favorite

[@aaronzegas5270]

I don't care for a lot of songs that are classic rock radio staples, mostly on account of being overplayed, but "Crazy Train," particularly Rhoads' solo, never gets old for me.

[@CorePathway]

Mine is Peg Steely Dan. But yeah, Crazy Train is a perfect song.

[@Hanz_Haze]

Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated My gold sandard for awesome catchy death metal. The sound is totally unmatched to this day.

[@pressman1788]

Yes Sir!

[@Andy000Burns]

Painkiller is so good. I always make playlists for when i go for runs, usually change the songs up when they get old, but Hell Patrol is literally always on the playlist.

[@WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe]

I think Korn's debut self-titled album should be on here too. It broke new ground, was raw and powerful, and inspired an entirely new genre of music (for better or for worse).

[@coorsbandit5212]

100% agreed

[@onionheadguy7094]

My personal fav Korn album probably follow the leader but your pick deserves it for sure!

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

I feel like korn was more hard rock than metal at that time. I wasn’t expecting it here. But yeah it was definitely innovative at the time. Their first few albums were amazing.

[@DanzGmod565]

​@@CreativeMindsAudio nah Korn is definitely nu metal

[@CreativeMindsAudio]

@@DanzGmod565 yeah definitely on follow the leader, but i felt life is peachy and self titled were less so. but that's just my opinion i know it doesn't align with others.

[@Taxable_Trophy]

Let’s be honest. Master and ride are the 2 metal classics that everyone would say is timeless. Wanna test a speaker or a guitar ? Listen / play those. So fun to play and just insane timeless classics.

[@_wayneman_]

My top 3 in no order: Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World Sentenced - The Cold White Light Blind Guardian - Nighfall in Middle-Earth

[@burieddreamer]

NEVERMORE!!!

[@jtower1000]

Who

[@viniciusdeoliveira5869]

Shout out to King Diamond's Abigail for being one of the best conceptual albums of all time, any genre

[@tuxodu]

Glad to see Symphony X, totally underrated band! Was hoping to see King Diamond's 'Abigail' though, or maybe 'Them', both 10/10!

[@folnevar]

100% agree on King Diamond!

[@Un1-ju2pq]

Agree on "Them"

[@BigSadClownBoi]

Agree for sure, I suggest Fatal Portrait for nostalgia

[@jip5889]

Yep, came down here looking for the King Diamond comment. My favorites are Them and Conspiracy.

[@paveantelic7876]

underrated as in one of the popular metal bands of all time?

[@JPetr94]

My personal honorable mentions: Dream Theater - Awake Cynic - Focus Fates Warning - No Exit Edge Of Sanity - Crimson Pain Of Salvation - On Hour By The Concrete Lake Threshold - Clone Megadeth - Youthanasia Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence

[@bramstedt8997]

I think most people wouldn’t even rank Youthanasia top 4 among Megadeth. It only has one song that ever gets played live. Solid album but RIP, CTE, PS are head and shoulders better and several others like KIMB, SFSGSW, Endgame, Dystopia are at least tied with it imo

[@rodrigo_tem7letras]

You gave me a very nice playlist to put together on my spotify. Also, I don't know some of this bands, but they sounds good! 🎉

[@ShdwftheSuN]

The nostalgia!!! Haven't heard some of these songs since my teen years. Really brought me back.

[@swapnilj1452]

Opeth's Blackwater Park is the most perfect album written in the last 25 years of Metal

[@fitrapurnomo1064]

Totally agree.. pure perfection album..don't forget to put Lateralus - Tool is also one of the best albums in 21st century 👍

[@immortalbehemoth88]

I was on the fence between Blackwater and Ghost. I won't hate too much.

[@INCRYPTIDFORM]

My Arms, Your Hearse is the best album ever written

[@rhythmandmoose]

It's one of the greatest albums, any genre. Bought it when it came out never having listened to Opeth before. Was blown away.

[@malakbrood667]

Words of wisdom.

[@salvatorecali9687]

My all times best Death - The sound of perseverance Dark tranquillity - The gallery Dream theater - Images & words Opeth - Blackwater park Plus some others already in that list

[@Concatenate]

Images and Words is absolute killer stuff. They'll never top it in my opinion.

[@yigablademaster3459]

Tbh I like all of Deaths stuff, their first album is class as well.

[@user-yn1sf9mq3z]

you are the 2nd person on this thread to mention dark tranquillity - the gallery. after years of playing it for friends and family, i thought i was the only one to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is. unfortunately the only time i have seen dt live, punish my heaven was the only song they played from the gallery. makes sense though, as at the time they were touring on damage done.

[@NebuchadnezzaR420]

@@user-yn1sf9mq3z Oh Lethe

[@sinergy111]

Tough to make a list like this. Everyone has different preferences. I liked a lot of Maiden, Priest, Metallica, Meadeth, Slayer, Helloween. But a band I liked a lot that doesn't seem to get enough attention is Mercyful Fate. The album Don't Break the Oath is one of my favorite metal albums.

[@salamipastrami69]

My perfect albums would be: - ...And Justice For All by Metallica - Painkiller by Judas Priest - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden - Rust in Peace by Megadeth - Awake by Godsmack - Cowboys From Hell by Pantera - Lateralus by Tool - Wisconsin Death Trip by Static-X - No Rest for the Wicked by Ozzy Osbourne A perfect album to me is an album where I love every single song. These are just the metal ones too. I have a bunch of non-metal albums on my "perfect albums" list haha. Great video!

[@sethmolenaar1801]

I agree. I loved vulgar display of power at the time but over the last several decades, I find cowboys from hell to be the better and more complete album by pantera. I hardly ever play vulgar display anymore

[@salamipastrami69]

@@sethmolenaar1801 that's fair. I still love Vulgar, they're like 1a and 1b to me, but Cowboys From Hell just takes the cake for me. Speaking of that, CFH just turned 34 years old today.

[@awguitarroom8033]

Top 20 1. The Fall of Ideals by All that Remains 2. The Sound of Perseverance by Death 3. Crack the Skye by Mastodon 4. Ashes of the Wake by Lamb of God 5. The Way of All Flesh by Gojira 6. Shogun by Trivium 7. An Ocean between Us by As I Lay Dying 8. Follow the Reaper by Children of Bodom 9. Cowboys from Hell by Pantera 10. Time 1 by Wintersun 11. Rust in Peace by Megadeth 12. Avenged Sevenfold self titled 13. Colors by Between the buried and me 14. Epitaph by Necrophagist 15. Planetary Duality by The Faceless 16. Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom 17. A Perfect Absolution by Gorod 18. And Justice For All by Metallica 19. A New Order by Testament 20. A Sense of Purpose by In Flames

[@orkslayer6]

A shocking number of these are in my top 20 too

[@alexgag1117]

I love the fact that you included Colors

[@STERNWAERTS]

i love the instrumental version of mastodon's crack the skye. i heard this first and thought jesus this doesn't need vocals at all. such a fine album

[@archersomers]

You sir have great taste

[@infernalsquid]

Honestly imo Gojira just gets better with each new album. Fortitude > L’Enfant Sauvage > TWOAF > From Mars to Sirius > The Link > Terra Incognita

[@BigSadClownBoi]

Painkiller will always and forever be my #1 favorite album of all time! \m/

[@jip5889]

I listened the shit out of that cd.

[@sinergy111]

Priest has a lot of strong albums

[@user-yn1sf9mq3z]

@@jip5889 i listened to the shit out of that cassette! hahaha. then i bought it on cd after the cassette started to sound funny. my buddy also had it on cassette and we wore his copy out too, riding around in his car back in high school.

[@bananasplit7984]

Artillery - By Inheritance (1990) is in my opinion the definition of a 10/10 album, amazing riffs, drumming, solos, honestly doesn’t sound like any other thrash album ever, and to cap it off has amazing production thanks to Rasmussen

[@kenbrovost9653]

Your energy is contagious

[@Gandi2Fai]

Morbid Angel's Altar of Madness, Kreator's Coma of Souls, and Slayer's Season in the Abyss are three more 10/10 classics.

[@ozgurdenizcelik-ll4dy]

altars of madness so catchy definitely agree

[@xbenci]

Morbid Angel are overrated af to me

[@thephoenixcycle8854]

A list without Slayer and Morbid Angel goes to show the author of this video is a poser.

[@Incab]

Good call on Altars, would of gone Hell Awaits though

[@malakbrood667]

Blessed are the sick, pleasure to kill and Reign in blood.

[@faker1212]

Opeth has three 10/10 albums: Still Life Blackwater Park Ghost Reveries

[@Warmianin_z_Mazur]

If you're planning a part II, it would be really nice to see Death and Iced Earth.

[@TheSteinbitt]

Damn, I bought all of these albums back in the earlier 2000’s, your list is basically the same as I would have made. Crazy, perfect taste😂

[@AllegoryofPatrick]

Great list! Love seeing some love for Symphony X and Opeth 🤘

[@kaskas3538]

Apex by Unleash The Archers is definitely a 10/10 for me. The riffs, the vocals, the drumming, it's all just perfection.

[@djake3713]

Abyss is 11/10 then haha

[@ernestoestrada2200]

Fuck yeah!!! soo good !!!! I listen to that album almost daily

[@TheMetalGaia]

That and Abyss are both masterpieces for sure!

[@im3phirebird81]

Stunning how a modern Metal band can sound like they were one of the all time greats from days past but a lot of people don't even know them. Like all their instruments and vocals are on such a high level and they are ONE band together. Insane. They have had to be casted xD

[@DizzyMan24]

%100. What an album that was - wish I could listen to it for the first time again.

[@xxporthlioxx]

A hidden gem of an album is Dark Ages by Soulfly, something about it is special. I've shown it to a lot of people and even to those who aren't really into metal and I have yet to find someone who didn't like it.

[@Feckerhead]

3 Inches of Blood Advance and Vanquish for me came out of nowhere. Just when you though this type of metal disappeared this album dropped for me 10/10 all killer songs.

[@luken9263]

The Blackening better be in this list.

[@raptorrsr5817]

Agreed

[@sheehan666]

"Your tastes better align with mine exactly .."

[@DadOnVHS]

Oooooh, good call. Not even a huge machine head fan, but the Blackening is top tier

[@luken9263]

@@sheehan666 "I go out of my way to not see the funny side of things so I can try to make people feel bad for some reason". Lighten up champ.

[@sheehan666]

​@@luken9263 sorry bro. I'm on the instagram too much.

[@JasperT-kc6gq]

Even the (former adepts and) current Metallica haters must admit Master of Puppets + Ride The Lightning are their guilty pleasures and both albums are untouchable in terms of (the combination of) melody, heavyness, composition, variety and speed.

[@PeterKnagge]

Metallica were always seen as sell outs by us oldies even in the 80's, but after Dyer's Eve is the band's what spiritually broke/killed the band for me. (Holy Wars...The Punishment Due broke MegaDeth, Walk broke Pantera.. ) The Black Album onwards is commercial radio friendly trash and pop/rock and not true metal...

[@JasperT-kc6gq]

@@PeterKnagge so metal is all about not trying to be commercially successfull? Not about making good music? Metallica grew rapidly without any radio airplay, because their music is more accessible for 'outsiders'. What's your definition of selling out? Being commercially successfull? That's the biggest bullshit. Metallica never made music for their fans, but music they wanted to make in certain periods of time. Making music solely to please your fans for me is the ultimate example of selling out.

[@fmlAllthetime]

I don't agree with the first poster. But the fact is, Metallica sold out BY THEIR OWN standards. They said, shortly before they did it, they'd never do a music video for MTV because it was all sellout bullshit. And lol and behold. They literally sold out according to their own terms and no one else's. I mean, let's be real. Metallica is super gateway level shit, and they have two top tier albums, Ride and Master. Bands like Kreator, Slayer, Testament and Overkill have been more consistent overtime and have healthier catalogs as well. Metallica is famous for being at the right place at the right time, and dropping 3 solid albums and 2 great ones. And they deserve whatever success comes from that. Simply, they aren't gods, they're sellouts by THEIR OWN standards, and they've done some hyper cringey shit from the Napster debacle to dropping "GIMME FU, GIMME FIYAH, GIMME ZEGAZEGAZAYUH"

[@BUFFALO_cougar_slayer]

And Kill ‘Em All. “No Remorse” is arguably the best song they ever recorded.

[@PeterKnagge]

Heavy Metal is an underground backlash against the Conservative Christian Fundamentalist Capitalist Cold War 80's. It is a secret underground counter-culture brotherhood that is anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-religious, and anti-authoritarian. Current music and gamer culture has taken minority counter-cultures and turned them upside-down and are nothing to do and the complete opposite with their 80's roots. The difference between how Heavy Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Rave, and computer gaming culture started and today is like the difference between being on Earth and on Mars. All these counter-cultures have sold out their 80's roots. It's right there in the name for you, "Heavy Metal". Most metal heads these days wouldn't know a power chord if it slapped them in the face...

[@spicyboi8008]

the fact that you didnt mention nuclear assault's handle with care is CRIMINAL

[@VampiraVonGhoulscout]

I was surprised you didn't go with Iowa for the Slipknot one, but Vol. 3 is also a masterpiece. Excellent choice.

[@its_shoot2876]

Thanks for the great list, have a few new albums to listen to now. I think "Epitaph" by Necrophagist or "Symbolic" by Death could've made the list if it had been longer, but still a great list!

[@its_shoot2876]

Yeah I guess it depends on which opinion you have, but like I said I think those albums are near perfection, I even might have added "Reign in Blood" and I consider "...And Justice For All" near perfection (it is not perfect thought, mostly because the Bass is missing and two songs are "only" decent), but like I mentioned it depends on which opinion you have, and that's just mine.

[@diamondrel5190]

You can point to Helloween's first three albums as having definitively created Power Metal, and the third album, Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2, is a masterpiece conclusion to a perfect 3 album run.

[@vladalexeev8529]

2nd keeper is just perfect. Pink Bubbles is great. Chameleon is awesome, just different. Time of the oath is also great. 7th sinner is almost perfect

[@jeffreywarf]

Their 2022 album is basically keeper of the seven keys part 3

[@diamondrel5190]

@@jeffreywarf Helloween Self titled is so fucking good, I sense 2 more perfect albums are coming

[@jeffreywarf]

@@diamondrel5190 I feel like even if we don't get those we still got out for glory, skyfall, and fear of the fallen as new power metal anthems

[@mvenuti1980]

Glad to see them mentioned.

[@gabrieleg.4667]

Arrows & anchors and Fables from a Mayfly, both from Fair to Midland, are truly masterpieces

[@emiel9958]

Chaos AD & Roots also hold a special place in my heart. Great list!!

[@DevRSVR]

AJFA and Rust in Peace are it for me. Both are the pinnacle of each band.

[@haydenrhead7692]

Aside from the nonexistent bass

[@ram76921]

AJFA is arguably the best album they've ever written, however it's one of tbe worst they ever produced and as a result I can't out it over MoP

[@ewan_mclean]

@@ram76921best way I’ve ever seen anyone put it

[@webegamingg]

@@ram76921 agreed

[@PigmaStatiX156]

​@@haydenrhead7692enough with that shizz. It's just killer tunes, maaaan

[@JG-tr8ph]

Genuinely started writing these down (get a load of this boomer!) because they're bands I've never particularly thought to check out. Thank you in advance! Also, "death metal's answer to Spinaltap" damn near killed me. Great video!~

[@3inherjar]

Hats off to including Slaughter of the Soul. That's my absolute favourite "full album without a filler" CD. Also, the opening riff of Blinded By Fear is for me one of the best riffs ever. The whole list also reminds me of some of the great albums I haven't listened to in a while, and I need to rectify that.

[@ElifDURSUN-yo9pi]

Nice list dude! But i would add Death's sound of perseverance or symbolic too :)

[@magickfire81]

A few magnificent albums: Tiamat - Wildhoney, Anathema - Serenades, Mgła - Exercises in futility, Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane; Kataklysm - Sorcery; Alcest - Écailles de Lune; Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunders Roar

[@fedorpopof4124]

О да, Тиамат) отличный альбом

[@rainer9931]

Holy Diver is one of the greatest albums of all time, easily a top 5 or even 3 or even 1 metal album

[@jfroco]

For spanish speaking audience: Rata Blanca's "Magos, Espadas y Rosas", and Baron Rojo's "Metalmorfosis" 7th son, Painkiller, Rust in Peace and Master of Puppets are probably in my top 5 albums I would add Keeper 1/2 by Helloween, Avantasia 1, Queensryche's Empire, Accept's Restless and Wild, and Slayer's South of Heaven or Reign in Blood. Great video!!! Thank you.

[@RafireRocksNRules]

Operation Mindcrime is far better than Empire.

[@althazarr]

Pretty decent picks. I was a bit worried in the beginning when I saw you wearing a Ghost shirt though.

[@pursuethehunter]

You should do a top power metal albums video. Allen/Lande The Battle is pure gold. I remember discovering the album at a SymphX concert in 2008. Dude was trying to get Russell to sign his CD case of it. So glad to see Symphony X mentioned. That album is a masterpiece. The Odyssey is the only 20+ minute song that I never tire of.

[@sshez99]

I would have chosen Pantera- Far Beyond Driven as their perfect album

[@cryo2156]

Yes slaughtered is a banger

[@user-yn1sf9mq3z]

cowboys or trendkill for me. haha

[@sshez99]

@@user-yn1sf9mq3z I have been listening to Trendkill lately. Floods is just an amazing song with a truly profound solo.

[@bramstedt8997]

That 5th song is a huge miss and I could definitely do without the cover at the end. Lose those two and it’s a 10/10

[@RafireRocksNRules]

The most recent 10/10s albums are: Vektor - Terminal Redux (2016) Mgla - Exercises in Futility (2015)

[@patrickbertlein4626]

I like Mgla but still the hype that album got and obviously still gets shocks me. I guess around that time I wasn't even paying too much attention to new stuff in the first place, so when I heard it it was well after they got popular, and the first thing I thought was "this has been done before". Don't get me wrong, its a good album and I think Groza is even better, buuuut man even Kriegshammer gives them a run for their money, and its the same dudes!

[@spicyboi8008]

honestly with every album ive fully heard in this list i agree with, albums i would add would be: show no mercy - slayer pain remains - lorna shore …and i return to nothingness - lorna shore (EP) TSOP - death leprosy - death reign in blood - slayer altars of madness - morbid angel 1989 - taylor swift

[@Zeta9966]

Not only did they multitrack Nergals vocals… they multitracked them like 4 times. Beastly

[@WyldestZakk1980]

"The Chemical Wedding" By Bruce Dickinson. I would say it´s one of the best Hardrock/Metal Album of the 90´s. Great solos, great songs.

[@malawigw]

You are pretty spot on here, accident of birth is a real metal gem too

[@averybondeson3322]

so happy to see leviathan and toxicity here. absolutely love both of those. soads self titled album is probably my favorite metal album ever

[@user-yn1sf9mq3z]

i agree that system's self-titled is their best, but i think toxicity is their worst. it's still a great album, just not as good as the others.

[@LJBlue1]

I know they're a lot smaller than the bands on this list, but Veil of Maya - False Idol is one of my favorite albums of all time

[@daagaarasplaysvideogames980]

Daemons & Wizzards’ first album is perfect. Nothing left, everything is just perfect and epic Heavy metal riffing.

[@zero0_434]

carcass's heartwork deserves a place here as well

[@nhogan84]

I actually wrote an entire paper in college on "Ghost Reveries". That album changed my life.

[@cartmandreamer9703]

Link me up

[@rafyta7]

link?

[@Metal_Screamer]

Where’s Death?

[@Gaiddan]

There are so many hidden gems (10/10), almost impossible to name them all. Ever heard of Above Symmetry (former Aspera) - Ripples? Kinda a one hit wonder, but totally 10/10. Also, Scar Symmetry the whole Discography is a 10/10 (for me at least) - just perfect. Other than that very good list, lots of tens for me as well.

[@CosmicCamelClash]

YES. YES. VOL 3. THANK YOU. I feel seen. Also : City by Strapping Young Lad should be in there. It's perfect from beginning to end.

[@Volttikoira]

Would've chosen Crack the Skye for Mastodon. Catch 33 is a wild choice for Meshuggah as It's either loved or hated. I admire your courage. System of a Down's self titled debut is their best, but I understand why you'd rather go with the universally beloved Toxicity. I fully agree with everything you said about Children of Bodom and Are You Dead Yet. Solid list. Part 2 coming?

[@brandon6759]

That first System of a Down album was a game changer for sure

[@exortor]

Crack the Skye is just on another level, they really set the bar too high on that one, is an absolute masterpiece of an album. Brent killed it specially, album was mainly written by him. That's also when he lost his sanity 😂😂😂

[@Great-Scotthew]

Hey Bradley, have you ever listened to the album One For Sorrow by Insomnium? I'd say it's a 10/10 melodic death metal album. You'll love it!

[@badrlerhilani4114]

Some of my personal 10s: Symphony X - The Odyssey. - Divine Wings of Tragedy. Metallica - Ride the Lightning - And Justice For All. Gojira - From Sirius To Mars - Opeth - Blackwater Park