TOP 10 METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

Nate lists the top 10 greatest metal albums ever made.
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[@pongo4505]

This is a golden video for a 17 year old like me who is just discovering all of this amazing music!

[@BornTooNate]

Awesome! This is why I’m doing this.

[@deathjester81]

These situations is what the internet should exist for

[@lucasgordon1551]

I was 13 when I discovered metal (2 years ago). Still discovering amazing music to this day! I think you will have a lot of fun exploring this genre

[@mokuscsik]

Welcome to the fold! I was about your age when I got into metal too. Now 43 it makes me real happy that you guys are up for carrying the torch 👊🏼

[@dryker7085]

Put up the horns, young one!! 🤘😆🤘

[@ItsWhat__]

Mercyful Fate - Melissa. Mind blowing in my opinion . No words for how good this is . If you haven’t listened to it I invite you to listen. Just be careful it’s intoxicating and it can lead to a 40 yr love affair…

[@roadiethegamecat4124]

Well done man. I was 25 in 1986. Insane year for music. On top of the 3 on your list there were albums from Motörhead, King Diamond, Metal Church, Queensryche, Sepultura, Kreator, Megadeth and Ozzy. Your list had me digging out old albums. Liked and Subbed.

[@tasos0140]

Helloween's "The keeper of the seven keys" part 1 is a monumental album for power metal (although "Walls of Jericho" is my favorite). Great stuff, it's always difficult to make a top 10 metal albums list.

[@Nautilus1972]

Helloween we’re great … but not top ten.

[@TKCoutside]

Helloween 🤘🏼👊🏼💯

[@billbyrd5198]

A couple of bands on here I haven't listened to combined with perennial personal favorites! I like how you justified the inclusion of some lesser known names with reference to their place in metal history and now I have some new suggestions of shrapnel to check out!

[@steeldrumsolace]

Cool list man, I like the approach of trying to balance personal taste with historic significance. That seems like a tough thing to do. Mine with just considering personal taste in no irder would probably look something like Sabbath's Paranoid, Priest's Screaming For Vengeance, Maiden's Piece of Mind, Metallica's Ride The Lightning, Slayer's Seasons in the Abyss, Danzig's Lucifuge, Megadeth's Rust In Peace, Death's Symbolic, Fear Factory's Demanufacture, and Deicide's Serpents of the Light

[@BornTooNate]

Was just listening to Lucifuge yesterday. He played 4 songs from it the other night, such an incredible album.

[@steeldrumsolace]

Thwrs awesome you saw him the other night. I'm hoping to catch him on this tour too. Seen him a bunch of times, but you never know how much longer he'll go.

[@BornTooNate]

GO SEE IT if you can. I’ve seen the old boy 4 or 5 times(?) and this was by far the best. Still on cloud 9 from the quality of the performance and how epic the setlist was.

[@Dennis-ff2pf]

In school in the 80s there was a band from Germany called Accept and they had it all .

[@maikelvoors9348]

I’m more into the extreme side of metal so I would add Incantation - Onwards to Golgotha, Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten, Darktrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Sarcofogo - INRI, Terrorizer - World Downfall, Repulsion - Horrified. Some call the latter two albums grindcore, but it sounds like extreme metal to me. These albums all had a massive impact on the more extreme side of things. Regardless, I agree with all you said about the albums on your list. Thanks! Everyone, have yourselves a nice brutal death metal day!❤

[@BornTooNate]

Some great mentions here, I REALLY love Blaze In The Northern Sky. Probably still their strongest album. Finding out Fenriz dug my band was one of the greatest days of my life 😂

[@mactamac4466]

Blaze in the northern sky 🤘🤘🔥

[@craigswensen434]

Hard to argue with this list. Great content, just subscribed.

[@BornTooNate]

Cheers!

[@martglass9503]

Awesome to see Dissection named in a greatest of all time list. Rubbing shoulders with the heavyweights and much more well known bands. Storm of the Lights Bane is exceptional and is like extreme metal poetry.

[@Leo-qe3gl]

Totally agree. I'm not a metal head but i love Storm of the lights bane. It is pure evil and beautiful 😌

[@romaincassignol]

Very good ranking....i agree with you for most of them.

[@metalinsights9664]

I love the lyrics on "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Considered out of context, the lyrics are quite philosophical, their greatness taken to further heights with Bruce Dickinson's huge vocals on that song.

[@thomasmiller5057]

Thanks for a little vindication of what mostly would be my top choices would be. I’m always preaching Trouble. I hope I can find that Sabotage figurine set someday

[@Sonny_Pinto]

Pumped to see Remission on the list...my favorite MasterDong album that doesnt get enough credit for how amazing it is

[@treff9226]

MasterDong?

[@Taras-Nabad]

Awesome video bother, been a metalhead since 1980 and embarrassed to say I never heard of Trouble. Will check them out.

[@BornTooNate]

They rule!

[@robinsongallego8641]

Great selections, Disposable heroes is an absolute banger, my humble opinion of course, and Sabbath's Vol.4 is excellent👌

[@ChrisPartykaMusic]

Just found the channel. Glad I did.

[@mysteriousoul]

Great list man, and eerily includes most of the first metal albums I bought as a kid (11 year old in ‘86) although I wouldn’t consider these as the favourite go to records for those artists (eg much prefer Ride the Lightning) - so correct about the impacts of Somewhere in Time, Reign in Blood, Master of Puppets and Alters of Madness, all seminal for the expansion and definition of the metal genre and burgeoning sub-genres at the time. Would possibly go with alternatives such as Among The Living, Heartwork, Vulgar Display of Power, Arise, Left Hand Path, Coma of Souls, Soul of a New Machine, Toxicity, Crack the Skye, Magma, The Violent Sleep of Reason, and so many new bands but not enough time…

[@catpocalypsenow8090]

Great analysis and explanation or your choices. I've always like Manowar's Battle Hymns, but not sure if it would make anyone's top ten lists or not.

[@arekkrolak6320]

Manowar is cool, maybe Kings of Metal would be more popular from them

[@mactamac4466]

Great choices!🤘

[@sickdesmo]

Amazing top 10 metal albums 🤘

[@ItsWhat__]

Great to see Trouble mentioned , great band !

[@mokuscsik]

It's interesting what you've said about Dissection. I love SoLB to bits but it always makes me think about if and how you can separate art and artist. Do we have to? Is it possible at all? Also, Paradise Lost - Draconian Times Amorphis - Tales from a Thousand Lakes Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory Opeth - Black Water Park would also make it to my top 10 👊🏼

[@dryker7085]

I love Scenes from a Memory!

[@MrLando0]

Great list. Would love to see sub genre top tens- death, thrash, black, doom.

[@BornTooNate]

Thanks! Definitely going to do this, probably in the order that I discovered each subgenre.

[@shainhansard1672]

Brother!....Just came across your channel...i absolutely love it...we need more people like you for the Metal community and for KZbin....Lynyrd Skynyrd!!!!!!🥰

[@BornTooNate]

Hell yea. Pre-plane crash Skynyrd is in my top 5 or 10 bands of all time. That 5 album run is unparalleled by any other band.

[@JasonBenesh]

You earned a sub with this one. I don't agree with all of your picks, but I respect your analysis and general thoughtfulness. Also: Fucking Trouble!

[@charlesmaione9478]

Those are great picks. From the perspective of a 52 year old raised on metal, it’s hard not to see a Dio album there; especially Rising or Holy Diver. I discovered Spirit Adrift last week. They are awesome. New album is their best, 2 prior are great as well.

[@Glovl]

Huge respect for including trouble man one of my favorites

[@TheJimFear]

Loooove that Remission made the cut. I would’ve been around 18 when I came across it in 2004. I absolutely thrashed the fuck out of it (along with Heartwork and A Celebration of Guilt by Arsis). Nice list btw. It’s never an easy task in coming up with just 10!

[@schillinger7814]

Love the wee mention of "Voices of Omens" by Rwake at the end there. Amazing album.

[@BornTooNate]

One of my favorites. Will do a top 10 sludge list and that will certainly be on there… though it defies categorization

[@schillinger7814]

@@BornTooNate Looking forward to that one. Sludge is one of my favourites genres.

[@georgehatz9987]

With a list like that I have to subscribe two thumbs up my friend. My 10 would be Black Sabbath - Mob Rules Judas Priest - Stained Class Iron Maiden - Killers Manilla Road - Open the Gates King Diamond - Abigail Megadeth - Rust in Peace Tyrant - Too Late to Pray Yngwie Malmsteen - Marching out Razor -Evil Invaders Candlemass - Nightfall But of course this list could change tomorrow so many great albums… Also ‘Hanged Man’s Revenge’ killer track

[@dryker7085]

Aaah, you reminded me... haven't listened to GaG today... brb...

[@randallscott7801]

Early Savatage, Manowar and king Diamond (Abigail) would need to be on my list. Would have liked to hear a sample of the songs on the album as you rolled through them. Otherwise great job. I was a senior in highschool in 1986 and everything that year was tremendous.

[@daroblackheart383]

"Abigail" is a masterpiece! One of my 10 best metal albums.

[@BornTooNate]

Hall of the Mountain King rules

[@TheBigRagu67]

Dude, i thought you had antlers at first.😂😂😂 Great list🤘🤘🤘

[@BornTooNate]

It’s just a matter of time until I grow a set… we hang out with a lot of deer out here

[@necalovescake]

great list, and actually i havent even heard all of these and now i need to go check those out. for me i would have to have an opeth album on there, id want to put watershed but might have to relent and let blackwater park take its place, i would also struggle not to crowbar in nola by down or burn my eyes by machine head somewhere.

[@mikew.3128]

This is actually a pretty good top 10 list. I cant really complain too much. The fact that you mention some of the more influential bands like Celtic Frost, Bathory, Sepultura, Carcass, Death, Possessed, etc that didnt make the list was kind of a cool nod to them. Thats the tough thing about top 10s, some sacrifices must be made. Also really cool that you mentioned Dissection in the top 10. As much as I love BM bands like Bathory, Emperor, Darkthrone, Inmortal, and even modern stuff like Mgla and The Ruins of Beverast, Dissection is really the cream of the crop. Especially SOTLB, but also The Somberlain and Reinkaos as well. A couple of honorable mentions that I would add to the list would be Cannibal Corpse (early Hammer Smashed Face era), Opeth, and At the Gates, Slaughter of the Soul. Cannibal Corpse represents everything that I knew about death metal as a kid back in the day. Those snare pounding blast beats, razor blade guitars, and Chris Barnes' growls. Their album artwork and covers defined the horror/gore death metal genre. Their performance in Ace Ventura is still one of the coolest metal movie moments ever. Opeth were and are still one of the most unique and groundbreaking bands in metal (though they arent really very metal anymore). Prog mixed with Extreme metal seems like a no brainer these days, with bands like Rivers of Nihil and Ne Obliviscaris, but no one really sounded like Opeth back in 1995 when Orchid was released. Lastly, At The Gates inspired every metal core band to come out post 1995. That sound is kinda cliche now because its been copied so much. But at the time it was incredibly unique and fresh. A perfect blend of melody and ferocity.

[@BornTooNate]

Totally agree with all this, and love every band mentioned. Cannibal Corpse is the AC/DC of death metal to me. They've managed to stay fresh but never compromised one bit. At all. Definitely the most reliable death metal band, probably the most reliable heavy band PERIOD, alongside Crowbar. Still absolutely crushing live and some of the nicest and best people you could ever meet. Did one tour with them years ago and still miss those dudes every day! Opeth is one of the best bands of all time. No doubt. Deliverance and Damnation blew my mind when I was about 15 years old and I agree that they influenced a ton of bands that came after. At The Gates rules and definitely inspired every metalcore and melodic death metal band that came after. That said, In Flames - Jester Race is my favorite melodic death metal album, and that one was tough to leave off this list. Check out Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed if you want to hear the best melodic death metal album since the 90's.

[@mikew.3128]

Nice Crowbar name drop Nate! Super underrated band. If you know, you know. But I don't think they (especially Kirk) gets enough credit for being an innovator, and a great song writer. I especially love the Sammy Duet on guitar era of the band. But their whole discography is awesome. Yes, old In Flames was also very good. I didn't hear about them until the early 2000's so unfortunately they had changed their sound by then. Reroute to Remain is the one I'm thinking of. Not my cup of tea. So it took me a while to realize that their early material was more up my alley, and actually dig into it. And to be honest, I haven't listened to them as much as I should. Arch Enemy is another band that used to be cool back in the late 90's. Even Wages of Sin with Angela on vocals in about 01-02 was good. After that, they started to change. I respect the hell out of Mike Amott, but can't help thinking, YOU LEFT CARCASS FOR THIS?? LOL. But different strokes I guess. Thanks for that recommendation of Majesties. I'm always looking for new stuff to dig into. Not sure if you've heard of Insomnium (you probably have) from Finland, but they have been around for a while, and have released some absolutely epic Melodic Death Metal. Winter's Gate is probably my favorite, but all of their music is good. ​@@BornTooNate

[@jerseyforhawks]

You are SO correct. Well done.

[@daveypsychotronic132]

I would be interested to see you put some playlists (mixtape!) together for these kind of videos. Could you narrow it down to one song per album? Challenge...

[@BornTooNate]

For this one… Into the Void Beyond The Realms of Death The Wish Sanitarium Postmortem Caught Somewhere In Time Maze of Torment Shedding Skin Where Dead Angels Lie Where Strides The Behemoth

[@KylerSharp]

Hey Nate! Nice list! My only disagreement (and it doesn’t matter…) is the comments on Metallica’s lyrics on Damage Inc and also the length of Disposable Hero’s. That album is a perfect record and there’s a reason it’s preserved in the Library of Congress. Interesting choice for Iron Maiden’s “Somewhere In Time.” A record I love… it’s just an interesting/unexpected pick for this list. I’m digging the new Spirit Adrift! Cheers!

[@BornTooNate]

You’re not wrong, those are just the aspects of that album that bug me personally. Thanks! Glad you dig it.

[@macnorton]

Trouble getting love is such a huge deal. Their early albums have been re-released by Hammerheart Records, "Run To The Light" was re-release by Metal Blade Records last month and the aforementioned Hammerheart re-released the long out of print "Trouble" and "Manic Frustration". My favorite "Plastic Green Head" also from Hammerheart, is peak Trouble. Such an amazing band that not a lot of metalheads know about. Great list outside of that, can't wait to see more of these!

[@TreatzTMA]

Yeah ballsy move to put Trouble on the list

[@macnorton]

@@TreatzTMA why Trouble hasn't gotten love before 2023 (at larger I mean) is a mystery to me. Eric Wagner is gone, but what a legacy he left behind.

[@TBaggins96]

Great list. Totally agree with Somewhere in Time being peak Maiden. It's definitely their best sounding album in my opinion. Some of my personal favorites would include Vektor - Terminal Redux Pallbearer - Heartless Death - The Sound of Perseverance Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Between the Buried and Me - Colors Solstice - New Dark Age Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire Candlemass - Epicus Doomincus Metallicus Cradle of Filth - Midian Rainbow - Rising et cetera... And of course, anything by Spirit Adrift! Love the new record. It's in competition with Enlightened in Eternity for my favorite.

[@embracerodusk2537]

The solos were so standout on Somewhere in Time. Very catchy and memorable. Alexander The Great was such an epic piece.

[@gregdavidson4374]

Stained Class just awesome. Exciter being a prototype for thrash metal back in 1978. Beyond The Realms of Death, incredible solos. Good choice

[@davesbar7359]

Agreed. Imagine if they had re-recorded Exciter for the Painkiller album...man I wish.

[@dryker7085]

Had to interrupt my headphone session with GaG to just say... Siren of the South's outro gives me an eargasm. Hope to hear it Sunday.

[@MinestroneOfSound]

Great list. Heartwork by Carcass, released in 1993, would have to be in mine. It is such a strong album, never gets old, and the mix was great. The tuning down to B sounds beautifully brutal. Mike Hickey once told Guitar World, “Carcass tunes down to B. By that I mean we take a normally tuned guitar and then drop each string down two-and-a-half steps, so they go: B, E, A, D, F#, B, low to high. To counteract the string slackness created by this tuning, we use pretty heavy gauges--.012 to .056, I can't remember the ones in the middle, but the G string's a plain .022. B isn't the most practical tuning in the world, but it's probably the heaviest, and we're stuck with it whether we like it or not!”

[@BornTooNate]

Love Heartwork. Groovy, soulful, and brutal in equal measure.

[@radshoesbro]

It's such a tricky thing to do a top 10 for a genre that's been around for this long. I probably would've added something metalcore wise from the 90's just because it has proven to be such an important subgenre with a lasting impact. Petitioning the Empty Sky or Expectational Dilution come to mind.

[@LuisdeSousa]

Great choices, and well reasoned. Among my favourite, I would include: Crimson Symbolic Rust In Peace Rust In Peace is kind of straightforward. Crimson and Symbolic are important for their role on the development of Progressive Metal and how, though extreme, managed to become perhaps even more appreciated outside the Metal community.

[@vio-noob_6737]

Somewhere in Time is my favorite album as well. Good top 10. Sick Annihilation Time shirt too

[@BornTooNate]

Thanks! One of my favorite bands

[@wavesgroup2768]

Some great choices

[@patricdahlin6174]

Great list!! I would maby put Rainbow-Rising somewhere on the list and maby maby one album of Motörhead. Good job!!

[@BornTooNate]

Good choices

[@mrearbrass]

Glad to see so much love for The Skull by Trouble! Such an underrated album. I love all your choices, but it's too bad an album by Death didn't make it. Great list!

[@BornTooNate]

Spiritual Healing is in my top 10 personal favorites I would say… but for “greatest” I just felt like altars had to get the nod for death metal.

[@chufa72]

Excellent video. I agree for the most part. I would argue instead for Powerslave, Sad Wings of Destiny, and Leviathan over the ones you chose from their respective bands, IMO. I would take out Trouble, as I see it more like an in hindsight underrated album rather than a historic top 10 one, and put one of these instead: Slipknot’s Iowa, Opeth’s Blackwater Park, or Death’s Symbolic. Cheers!

[@BornTooNate]

Great choices here, all totally valid alternatives

[@shawnanderson6687]

Megadeth Rust In Peace Metallica-And Justice For All Slayer-South Of Heaven. Anthrax-Among The Living. Suicidal Tendencies-How Will I Laugh Tomorrow.... Testament-Practice What You Preach. Black Sabbath-Paranoid. Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind. Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance. OverKill-Horrorscope

[@tristen_jarvis_music]

Towards the end there, I started thinking that there should probably be a Meshuggah record on here and the list would be perfect. I respect the Mastodon choice though. Runners up would have to be Obzen or Ashes of the Wake LOG. Cheers!

[@kylepetruzziello3321]

Bro, respect for putting Trouble on here, ridiculous band. So dark and heavy! 🤘

[@BornTooNate]

One of the greats! Shout out uncle Jimmy Bower for turning me onto THE SKULL when I was a youngin

[@zeigbert1743]

That was great. I think my list would have to include Death -- Symbolic somewhere.

[@BornTooNate]

great album!

[@MetalHeart8787]

Yes 1986 was a Awesome year. i was Getting into metal then. i agree with most of your picks, BUT to put far beyond & Not cowboys from Hell is crazy. and ACCEPTs Restless & Wild is well on My List of Best METAL Albums.

[@suk4ed]

Strange never heard about Dissection ( Ty mate

[@afcortes888]

Great list: I would switch Leprosy for Altars of madness, it was more important at the time, and Death also inspired an entire movement (including Altars of Madness). I would switch Far beyond driven for Vulgar display of power, it had a greater impact at the time, we didn't expect that one when it was released! And I would add Rust in Piece it was a tectonic move when it was released. (I'm a bit older so I might have a different perspective)

[@ericjenkins2737]

Solid list. I lived in Tampa and ran a record store during the early-late 90s so I saw all those death metal dudes all the time. I think all of my Christian Death records came from David Vincent when he traded them in to the store one day. I think I'd have to make room for Operation: Mindcrime or Rage For Order by Queensryche, Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations and Crimson Glory - Transcendence on my list.

[@BornTooNate]

LTTN is a classic, love that record. Thrash wouldn’t exist without that one.

[@coledelahooke809]

Would love to hear your top non-metal albums, things that influenced you. You’ve touched on a few in previous videos but it’s always very cool to get a peak into a favorite artist’s non metal influences.

[@BornTooNate]

Good idea, I'll definitely do a "Top 10 non-metal albums" list. That one will have to be strictly opinion based! Impossible, otherwise

[@MJOB-bm5kp]

I love that Trouble made your list. I've been a fan since 1985. Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell are amazing. I hear the Trouble influence in Spirit Adrift

[@Doingitrite]

Please do a top Southern Sludge list. Crowbar, Soulfly, Down etc. etc. I will be watching for it. New subscriber here. TIA!

[@BornTooNate]

100% gonna do a sludge list!

[@dryker7085]

4 days!!! Metal Injection! Let's fucking go!! Oh, yeah. Great list.

[@j.edward4141]

Any suggestions? Looking for metal without growling vocals or silly clean pop-punk vocals. Also no goofy demonic bs. I like Megadeth, Metallica, Sabbath and Sabbaton. Anything else I should look into? N’Sync is too brutal for me. Thx

[@louielicdao8364]

Try some Voivod, Testament, Forbidden, Metal Church, Sanctuary, Iron Maiden and lots of other bands.

[@Rextum]

Great list. Not only is this guy making great music with his band but also he has a very calm and collected way of analysing and making convincing arguments. However, while I do agree Somewhere in Time is amazing, I would go with Beast or Mind or Powerslave. In 1982-1984 Maiden was cutting edge metal - 1986 belongs to thrash metal in my opinion. Likewise, arguably Painkiller is Priest’s most solid, metallic, borderline thrashy album, but in 1978 Priest was truly breaking new ground. My list would look something like: Sabbath - Reality (1st wave, Doom) Priest - Stained Class (2nd wave, HM) (Rush - Kings, not really metal though, prog rock) Maiden - Beast or Slave (3rd wave? HM) Metallica - Puppets (thrash perfected) Slayer - Reign (extreme metal) Megadeth - Rust in Peace (start of modern, quite technical metal) Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick (dm) Death - Symbolic (prog dm, 1st wave) Necrophagist - Epitaph (prog dm modernized) Gorod - Leading Visions or Maze of Recycled Creeds (best post 2000 band to me, prog dm with great song-writing) If I went with Pantera, I’d pick Vulgar Display of Power. From the more modern stuff I might choose Vektor’s Outer Isolation or Spirit Adrift’s Divided by Darkness as well. Magical stuff! Or maybe something really weird and experimental like Mr Bungle or Igorrr. So many different ways to go… So many styles and genres… Thank you Mr Garrett for your excellent points and interesting and well thought-out views. It is wonderful to see someone truly living and breathing metal in its so many different forms👍🏻 Also, i love Mob Rules… so many great picks and honourable mentions… brilliant! 🤟🏻😎🤟🏻

[@BornTooNate]

I just discovered Gorod this year, such a killer band! I have no idea how I never heard of them until now.

[@MetalNeverDieswithMarkA]

What a fantastic video. Very well done Nate. Great presentation ❤

[@BornTooNate]

Thanks!

[@MrFed.]

Feel I need to give some personal shout outs - perhaps some more recent metal records and certainly my most played: Sepultura - Quadra Gojira - Magma Amon Amarth - Jomsviking Eluveitie - Everything Remains Tool - AEinma Rammstein - Untited (2019)

[@undersscore6930]

Please educate me on what the album in the bottom left at 0:00 is.

[@BornTooNate]

Trouble - Psalm 9. A great first-wave doom album

[@undersscore6930]

@@BornTooNate ok thx

[@joshd3192]

What a surprise to see my favorite Maiden album. Caught Somewhere In Time is their best album opener in my opinion and now they're finally doing Alexander live and they sound incredible.

[@user-qy1uz1iy6q]

Check out the song Hell on Earth on their latest album Senjutsu. I can not believe they can still make an album like that . Irons up

[@joshd3192]

@@user-qy1uz1iy6q Yeah man got everything of theirs on vinyl. Us Maiden fans are brothers as far as I'm concerned.

[@user-qy1uz1iy6q]

@@joshd3192 That is awesome, take care brother.

[@joshd3192]

@@user-qy1uz1iy6q Same to you!

[@MarmiteTheDog]

I found the chorus-laden Gallien-Krueger guitar tone to be really weak. Sure, the songs are better crafted than on NotB, but it doesn't have the same level of excitement for me, although I did see them twice on this tour.

[@gdubb4892]

Stained Class- excellent, underrated album. Best song- Heroe’s End.

[@chrisware6324]

Title track!

[@blackwaterrust476]

1st off the new Spirit Adrift album is great. And I definitely agree that Trouble deserves more respect. Some of my personal favorites in no order: Alice In Chains-Dirt Megadeth-Rust in Peace Katatonia-Tonight’s Decision Ahab-Call of the Wretched Sea Carcass-Heartwork Intestine Baalism-Anatomy of the Beast Mastodon-Crack the Skye Alcest-Ecailles De Lune Enslaved-In Times Type O Negative-October Rust Judas Priest-Painkiller Solitude Aeturnus-Beyond the Crimson Horizon Cryptopsy-None so Vile Cattle Decapitation-Monolith of inhumanity Immolation-Close to a World Below Motorhead-Overkill

[@BornTooNate]

Thank you! KILLER list. Was listening to None So Vile just yesterday to try and survive my 100 degree boxing workout. Nothing as brutal as that to this day.

[@markandersen5867]

Dirt is a masterpiece, along with Rust In Peace probably the 2 best metal albums of the 90's.

[@scottlancaster2958]

I can appreciate your love of certain albums over others but then there is the harsh reality as far as greatness and influence. Example: Wether u want to or not you have to replace Somewhere in Time with Number of the Beast (and I get it. I like Powerslave better). Also replace Remission with Leviathan. Also, I like Trouble; however, just in influence and importance, that album has to be Kyuss- Blues for the Red Sun. Anyway, nice channel man.

[@BornTooNate]

Valid

[@lillzico77]

Great picks! For me, other great albums would be: Entombed - Clandestine Sepultura - Arise Accept - Restless and Wild In Flames - Colony Best Live-Album: Iron Maiden - Live After Death

[@BornTooNate]

I never really listened to Colony until recently because I was so obsessed with Jester Race and Whoracle. But it’s great, I probably like it even more than Whoracle.

[@lillzico77]

Both of them are great. 😀👍🏼

[@arekkrolak6320]

surprised not to see Sepultura Chaos AD on the list, but still very interesting choice

[@abboed.4076]

To me 1986 is definitely the best metal year, because I got my first metal albums back then. They where Somewhere In Time, Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood. 😉 (Among others, like Welcome To Hell, Speak English Or Die, Spreading The Desease, Kill 'Em All, Seven Churches, Pleasure To Kill, Life After Death, Piece Of Mind, In The Sign Of Evil, Sentence Of Death & Hell Awaits). I remember thinking: "This is my kind of music!", and after 37 years it still is. 🤟😎 I'm also happy to be one of the people who got these classics shortly after they were released. However, the downside would be it never really got any better after that. 😌

[@mikec6733]

Great pick at #1.

[@mushroom13cfh]

Glad to see mastadon up there. Saw them play at ozzfest during leviathan days. Underrated CD for sure! Blood and thunder a fuckin badass pure metal song

[@nickspann89]

Nice list. Powerslave, RTLightning, Rust in Peace, Ashes of the Wake, Art of Balance, Hall of the Mountain King, Sabbath Bloody S, Screaming for Veng. are a few of my perfect metal records.

[@gianthills]

Sabbath bloody Sabbath wasn't actually metal. It was hard rock.

[@Erichmustaine88]

How he left RIP out is beyond me. He’s lost all credibility with me when leaving that album off the list

[@BornTooNate]

@@Erichmustaine88😢

[@Otomano3]

​@@gianthillsyes it is lol

[@gianthills]

@@Otomano3 Really? Then tell me what makes it a metal album, other than the cover art.

[@jeffreyknapp74]

I was curious if you didn't put Motorhead on this list because you consider them more hard rock? Also, if so, have you done a top 10 hard rock list?

[@BornTooNate]

I suppose that’s right, yea! It’s certainly not because I don’t love and respect them. I could do a top 10 hard rock list. Sometimes it’s tricky to identify that line

[@Godloveszaza]

These are the greatest metal albums from lyrics to instrumentality no other has topped these albums.

[@musicisajourney]

Somewhere In Time was the beginning of my loss of interest in Iron Maiden. Several years ago, I went back to revisit the old catalogue and all the post 2000 albums I’d missed. Somewhere in Time was still disappointing to me. But I will listen again. Sometimes you just need to hear someone say why it’s great to get your ears bent the right way to detect the greatness. Great arguments for why all these albums should be on the list!

[@brandonjackson5865]

Bold pick with Far Beyond Driven , and I like your argument for it. I think they peaked artistically on Trendkill personally Vulgar is probably my favorite but people that weren’t around don’t realize how big it was for Far Beyond Driven to debut at number one. They finally achieved a great mix on Far Beyond Driven and the mix on Trendkill is possible bigger. I like this type video you kinda say my list is going to be different than most and then you make fantastic points for why and your thought process without putting down the more traditional or “trendy” picks . It’s easy to make a list of ten common consensus or popular metal albums . Metal fans are the most loyal passionate and opinionated bunch. You got a great list without being “edge lord” like some people would. I’d argue that Slave to the Grind is metal but can respect your opinion, it wasn’t necessarily a metal record compared to what metal was at the time, but had it came out in the late 70s to 80s it would probably definitely be recognized as heavy. It sure was a heavy record to debut at number one until Far Beyond Driven, and Pantera earned that spot the hard way they weren’t playing songs off Cowboys and Vulgar on MTV and the radio, they earned every one of those sales on the road playing their ass off opening for “bigger” bands and by word of mouth through the metal community and that just makes it more incredible when everyone else was saying metal was dead, Pantera drops their heaviest record yet and it goes straight to number one.

[@BornTooNate]

Hell yeah, everything you say here is valid. And yea... lost interest in being an edgelord by my late teenage years. As it should be.

[@ibelial666]

Great video and with so many years past and excellent records to pick from these were all worthy contenders (bar Pantera as never been a fan). One that almost matches the aggression of, Slayer's Reign In Blood and released in Metal's golden year of 1986, would be Dark Angel's furious, Darkness Descends. Slayer, being the bigger band at the time, will always comes out on top as the benchmark for extreme music. Reign In Blood still has the capacity to blow other newer extreme albums out the water and all these years later will still piss off the neighbourhood, when played at extreme volumes! Love the Channel \m/

[@BornTooNate]

Love Darkness Descends! First track has the ‘One’ double kick pattern as well 😏

[@Christian-vq8rd]

Youve got super good taste in music! 👍

[@BornTooNate]

Cheers 🫡

[@yaantsudnbesdai972]

A few of these bands, I admittedly have never heard of. I'm primarily a fan of esp. "Old School," NWOBHM, and "Power Metal" genres. Less of a fan of 'thrash' (though I like 80s and early 90s Metallica and some Megadeth), and almost like nothing of Speed or Death Metal. In the following order my favorite metal bands of all time are: Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath (and Heaven and Hell), Dio, and Savatage. My favorite Iron Maiden album is the very underrated "Somewhere In Time" which you ranked around number 4 or so... I'm surprised at how little attention "Iced Earth" gets in youtube circles discussing metal. As good as any metal band that has EVER existed, thematically, lyrically, musically...

[@MrZeemonsta]

Sick list! I love Metallica and sabbath. To me they are like the essence of metal. The pioneers to to speak. How would you categorize Diamond Head? Heavy metal? I know Metallica really liked them since they covered “Am I Evil” and “it’s Electric.” I also agree that And Justice for All is a fantastic album but my biggest hang up with that album is the lack of bass (bass player here). It’s criminal what they did to Jason on that record. Aloha!

[@BornTooNate]

Diamondhead - LTTN is an all time favorite of mine. I would classify them as the top tier of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. They laid the foundation for what would become thrash metal. Super important band and album. And yeah it’s criminal what they did to Jason. His basslines on that record are insane and he wrote the majority of the opening track which is one of their best songs!

[@MrZeemonsta]

There’s an upload called And Justice for Jason, which has bass on it. It’s actually pretty sick (if you haven’t checked it out before). Aloha from the islands!

[@ethenvallance-dx4uu]

Hey just found your channel I enjoyed the video my list is way different but here are mine definitely have some controversial choices 1. Countdown to extinction- megadeth 2. Holy diver- dio 3. No more tears- ozzy 4. And justice for all- Metallica 5. Demanufacture- fear factory 6. Ravenhead- orden ogan 7. Firepower- Judas Priest 8. Prequelle- ghost 9. The sick the dying and the dead- megadeth 10. Acre it- danger danger

[@ethenvallance-dx4uu]

Screw it danger danger for 10

[@BornTooNate]

Great records here, only one controversial to me would be that latest megadeth album. I found it SUPER lacking, but just my opinion! Demanufacture is a personal fave, that one hit me like a ton of bricks when I was in 8th grade or so. Love Ghost Prequelle as well, super interesting album.

[@ethenvallance-dx4uu]

Yea I loved the new megadeth album especially killing time. Thanks for the reply

[@krasimirmartinchev6035]

Once I saw the big "T" on your T-shirt, I knew this would be a somewhat fair list 😄 Alright!Game changers for the genre , and it's forgiven for an American to not mention any of them is the power German trio - Sodom , Destruction and Kreator and their first albums respectively. Bathory 84 was the (under) ground work for Black Metal , although their (his, Quorthons) peak I would say was 88'" Blood, Fire, Death" . Also no heavy metal top 10 can go without having Queensryche's - "Operation Mindcrime" in it.

[@BornTooNate]

Love Persecution Mania by Sodom. Personal favorite of that entire style!

[@johnnyweills]

great list, brutha!! My list in no particular order but numbered as tho. 10. Bolt Thrower-Realm of Chaos 9. Black Sabbath-Sabotage 8.Venom-Black Metal 7. Celtic Frost-Morbid Tales 6. Judas Priest-sad Wings of Destiny 5. Monster Magnet-Spine of God 4. Guns & Roses-Appetite for Destruction 3. Slayer-HellAwaits 2. Iron Maiden-Piece of Mind 1. Morbid Angel-Altars of Madness extra mentions: Eyehategod-Dopesick/Saint Vitus-Hallow's Victim/Church of Misery-Houses of the Unholy/Deadbird-The Head and The Heart/Entombed-Wolverine Blues/Merauder-Master Killer/Trouble-The Skull/Cannibal Corpse-The Bleeding/WASP-WASP/Obituary-Obituary.....I'll stop there. I get carried away sometimes! Love ya', Brother Garrett!!

[@BornTooNate]

Spine of God fuckin rules!!! And sabotage is my favorite sabbath album. Favorite album period!

[@johnnyweills]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIvHmKCYf8mjjpo@@BornTooNate This shit blew my mind! best cover ever! That soft breakdown is sooo lush and B is incredible on it! Sabotage is definitley my favorite album ever!! It screams inside my soul everytime I listen to it!

[@chadg7496]

Fucking Stained Class 👍 great list Dude

[@user-qy1uz1iy6q]

Cant believe I never heard of Trouble. Scull is a fkn badass album!!! Thanks brother

[@BornTooNate]

Hell yes! Check out the previous album Psalm 9, and the self-titled album that Rick Rubin produced from 1990.

[@user-qy1uz1iy6q]

@@BornTooNate 10-4, thanks man.

[@ayb100]

You have a Maiden Album on your list. That's good enough for me. :)

[@authordavidabare7077]

Solid list, and want to thank you soooo very much for leading me to Dissection, a band I knew very little about. LOVE that album now after 2 spins. Only criticism of your list would be, IMHO, any Top 10 list like this absolutely needs to have Don’t Break the Oath by Mercyful Fate 😈🤘🏻 One of the greatest albums ever, truly. Also would have put Trouble’s debut vs. The Skull but you do you 🤙🏻😁🎸

[@BornTooNate]

Love don’t break the oath but I like Melissa even more I think? And yea the first Trouble album rules as well! Cheers 🤘🏻

[@gravitationalconstant]

Great list! Fabulous hair!

[@BornTooNate]

Nice username 🟢🎃

[@Rage-of-War]

Stained Class, my all time favorite Priest record

[@bayareathrasher666]

I like that you put Trouble in there. Bonded by Blood by Exodus and Burn My Eyes by Machinehead... very important...and no Motorhead...?!

[@tmex9588]

Damn good list! Some of my personal favs that weren’t on this list: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - BS Catch 33 - Meshuggah Rust in Peace - Megadeth Scream Bloody Gore - Death The Bleeding - CC Organic Hallucinosis - Decapitated Vertebrae - Enslaved October Rust - TON Sun That Never Sets - Neurosis As the Palaces Burn - LOG Chaos AD - Sepultura There’s so many…

[@BornTooNate]

Catch 33 is sooooooo sick, that one never gets talked about. My favorite in a totally insane catalog.

[@tmex9588]

@@BornTooNate agree man! IMO it was their last true prog masterpiece. Nothing against anything they’ve released since but C33 is just such a mind fuck and way ahead of its time.

[@kidd7359]

Stained glass is the best at illustrating the change of 70s metal to 80s. Stained class was the nail in the coffin for heavy dirty "bluesy" metal🤘

[@pauly237]

My all-time favorites are mostly older underground stuff. My tastes are acquired I guess, for some reason I don't like the popular/well known stuff that much. Long list off the top of my head: Cloven Hoof - Dominator Sortilege - Metamorphose Leader - Out in the Wasteland Attacker - Battle at Helm's Deep Blade Runner - Warriors of Rock Gillman - Levantate y Pelea Loudness - Thunder in the East Reaction - True Imitation Sacred Blade - Of the Sun and Moon Voivod - War and Pain WatchTower - Demonstrations in Chaos Heir Apparent - Graceful Inheritance Solar Eagle - Charter to Nowhere Titan Force - Titan Force Zeus - V Manilla Road - Crystal Logic Ostrogoth - Ecstasy and Danger Running Wild - Port Royal Saints' Anger - Danger Metal Hammers Rule - After the Bomb Elixir - The Son of Odin Unicorn - The Legend Returns Courage - Gold and Ivory Westfalen - Westfalen Vectom - Rules of Mystery Tankard - Chemical Invasion Straw Dogs - We are Not Amused Overkill - Taking Over Helstar - Remnants of War Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse Possessed - Seven Churches Violent Force - Malevolent Assault of Tomorrow

[@BornTooNate]

Love Taking Over so much… all the best aspects of NWOBHM combined with the early aspects of thrash. Also hell yea to Crystal Logic, great album.

[@nobbynoris]

@@BornTooNate Great to see Cloven Hoof get a mention on KZbin!

[@Frostwulf1313]

YES! Caught Somewhere in Time!

[@lordslothrop365]

Good list, but I'd have to include King Diamond's Abigail in there somewhere. It's not my favorite of his, but I do think it was important and seminal at the time, especially considering he was a solo artist from an underground band.