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!

[@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.

[@EAST.77309]

MY top 12: (sorry for the weird number) 1: Between the Buried and me- Colors 2: Opeth- Ghost reveries 3: Protest the hero- Volition 4: In flames- Clayman 5: Between the buried and me- Alaska 6: Dance Gavin Dance- Instant gratification 7: Devin Townsend- Ziltoid the omniscient 8: Parkway drive- Horizons 9: Between the buried and me- Parallax 1&2 10: Gojira- the way of all flesh 11: Dream Theater- train of thought 12: Oceans ate Alaska- Hikari

[@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🙌

[@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)

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@picklecore3383]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@Kuxi8]

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

[@thecowgoesvroom672]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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 👍

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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"

[@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]

😅😅😅😅😅

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@ВладФедотов-р3л]

Melodic death! Yeah

[@jeremycronic]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@Darknessssxz]

90% of your list My personally favorite though: Killswitch - alive or just breathing August burns red - messengers Erra - Augment Make them suffer - old souls Sikth - death of a dead day More recently Currents - place I feel safest Polaris - death of me

[@gmc182]

Top 10 for me: 10. Baptized In Filth - Impending Doom 9. The Apostasy - Behemoth 8. Archetype - Fear Factory 7. No Time to Bleed - Suicide Silence 6. Around The Fur - Deftones 5. Nocturnal - The Black Dahila Murder 4. Iowa - Slipknot 3. Domination - Morbid Angel 2. The Blackening - Machine Head 1. L.D. 50 - Mudvayne

[@coryjohnson2486]

Oooohhh LD 50. I forgot all about that album!! What a GEM!!!

[@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.

[@coin9818]

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

[@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

[@Andy-xd5dj]

Life Starts Now by Three- Days Grace HT/Meteora- Linkin Park Immortal-Lorna Shore Self Titled-Korn Come Clarity - In Flames Reroute To Remain - In Flames Marilyn Manson- The Golden Age of Grotesque Disturbed - Indestructible Architects-Holy Hell There are probably others I couldn't think of because for the rest one song is good enough to carry them

[@ericibaugh8231]

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

[@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

[@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

[@jpaxton19]

My top 10 list in no particular order....... It was harder than I thought to put this together 🤘🤘 Killswitch Engage- Alive or Just Breathing As I Lay dying- Shadows are Security Unearth- The oncoming storm Underoath- Define The Great Line Bring Me The Horizon- Suicide Season Killswitch Engage- End of Heartache All that Remains- the fall of ideals Northlane- Singularity Northlane- Alien Parkways Drive- Horizons

[@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?

[@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.

[@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 👌👌

[@BravingtheStorm]

My top ten that got me set on my music I listen to now was probably (in no order) The Poison - Bullet for My Valentine Waking the Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold Shadows are Security - As I Lay Dying Rebirth of the Temple - Silent Civilian Ascendancy - Trivium Fall of Ideals - All that Remains Nocturne - The Human Abstract Vol. III - Slipknot Dying is Your Latest Fashion - Escape the Fate Crack the Skye - Mastodon

[@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

[@Odinson_89]

1. Haste The Day - When Everything Falls 2. Parkway Drive - Don't close your eyes EP 3. Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile 4. Carpathian - Nothing to lose 5. Slipknot - Volume 3 6. I Killed The Prom Queen - Music For The Recently Deceased 7. As Blood Runs Black - Allegiance 8. Bleeding Through - This Is Love, This Is Murderous 9. As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security 10. Atreyu - The Curse Honourable mention - Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies First show was PWD & Mourningtide at Southport RSL & I was hooked to core forever!

[@xale]

This was fun to think about! Periphery II Suicide Season - BMTH Watch Out. - AoF Constellations - ABR Blood Mountain- Mastodon Come Clarity - In Flames Horizons - Parkway Drive Ascendancy - Trivium In Keeping Secrets - Coheed & Cambria A Snow Capped Romance - 36CF

[@Pugthedog1]

My Top 10: Killswitch Engage - AOJB Atreyu - Suicide Notes Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison All that Remains - The Fall of Ideals As I Lay Dying- Shadows are Securities Poison the Well - Opposite of December Underoath- Chasing Safety August Burns Red - Messengers Shadows Fall - War Within A7X - Waking the Fallen

[@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>>>>>

[@jabebas]

Mine (all genres, even it's mainly metal): Meteora - Linkin Park As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage The Union of Crowns - Bury Tomorrow Fortitude - Feed Her To The Sharks Around The Fur - Deftones Vessels - Starset The Last Sunset - Breakdown of Sanity Phanerozoic II - Mesozoic/Cenozoic: The Ocean Muerte - Canserbero Killing With A Smile - Parkway Drive

[@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

[@datkid605]

My most istened to has evolved over time but as new hallmarks of music have changed my taste as a whole, even if i liked that style still or prior. With that being said this my current top 10 life changing albums for reasons specific to both that band and the album release timeline. In no exact order: A7X- Waking the Fallen BMTH- Count Your Blessings, Suicide Season BMFV - V(enom) Crystal Lake - True North Periphery - P3: Select Difficulty Thy Art Is Murder - Hate Disturbed - Asylum Su!c!de Silence- The Cleansing Fit For A King - Creation/Destruction

[@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 💙😊

[@thefallenfaith1986]

I'm a tiny bit older than most everyone else here, being an Xennial (mini-generation straddling Gen X and Gen Y). I spent my preadolescent years listening to Metallica and Megadeth, made it through the metal drought of the nineties on Pantera, Machine Head and Slayer, and discovered metalcore and melodeth in the early 2000s. In no particular order: Metallica - Master of Puppets Megadeth - Rust In Peace Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing In Flames - The Jester Raysce / Who - racle (it's a tie) Moonspell - 1755 Su - ee - cidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance Alice In Chains - Dirt / Jar of flies (another tie, and yes Jar counts because Nutshell is the most metal song ever recorded) Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss As you can tell, I'm not huge into metalcore - although I do enjoy it a lot. I'm subscribed to this channel because I like metal of all kinds and varieties, and I'm always looking to expand my horizons.

[@dmphax]

Gen X'er here, and a lot of the albums being named escape me! I lean more towards traditional heavy metal/thrash/melodeath.

[@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)

[@NicVspz]

Drink every time Nik says "to this day" My list: 1. Nightwish - Oceanborn 2. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence 3. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns 4. Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal 5. Faith No More - Angel Dust

[@iliantenev2706]

Faith no more is the real deal man.

[@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!

[@kristopherhauser]

My list: Meteora - Linkin Park Exodus - Fabulous Disaster Gojira - The Art of Dying As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us Thy Art is Murder - Holy War Fit For an Autopsy - The Great Collapse After the Burial - Wolves Within Sabaton - Carolus Rex (Swedish Version) When the Kite String Pops - Acid Bath and Exercises in Futility - Mgła

[@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

[@yungplague5534]

Damn you know Nik was sceeeeeeeene anyways Top 10 no particular order: 1. Fortress - Protest The Hero (reason why I even picked up the guitar) 2. Fever - BFMV 3. Human - Death 4. My Damnation - Chelsea Grin 5. An Ocean Between Us - As I lay Dying 6. Overcome - All That Remains 7. The Flood - Of mice & men (shut up) 8. Dying is your latest fashion - Escape The Fate ( SHUT UP) 9. Ruination - Job For A Cowboy 10. This Is Exile - Whitechapel Honorable mentions: Deflorate - The Black Dahlia Murder Hate - Thy Art Is Murder

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@mattiamontato8414]

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

[@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

[@danuwisnuwardhana4173]

My list: 1. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage . My gateway to metal music. Still my favourite album of all time 2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace 3. Feared - Furor Incarnatus . Main reason why i loved extended range guitar until now 4. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideas 5. Meshuggah - Koloss 6. Monuments - The Amanuensis 7. Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil 8. Conquering Dystopia - Conquering Dystopia 9. Galneryus - Advance to the Fall 10. Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake

[@ROUGHSEES]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Beau1990]

From 10,000 Fists 'Deify' was the one that smacked me! I totally agree with you with that As I Lay Dying album, that one changed my life too got me hooked instantly...

[@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

[@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