What's your favourite album?

Master of Puppets. I know it's not a particularly daring choice, but I don't care, it's perfection.

Blackwater Park by Opeth

Hard to pick a single one, so I'll just list a few ones that I keep going back to.

Dream Theater - Awake
Destiny Potato - Lun
Fear Factory - Digimortal
In Flames - Clayman

Fuck dude, asking a group of metal heads this is like throwing the final quark into a star about to go black hole.

But!

Master of Puppets is the album that turned me into a metalhead in the first place, so it takes top spot for me. It's pretty much the perfect metal album in every way. Heavy, fast, incredible lyrics, James at his vocal peak (imo), some of the best riffs ever, and there's not a single wasted song on it; they're all classics. It's a high fucking standard to even equal.

That being said, Kataklysm dropped a new album this year that has crept right into second place for me. Jfc, Goliath is just wall-to-wall brutal, primal metal. When you consider that I am a metallica devotee that used to rank most of their albums in my top list from 1 down to five before any other band showed up, that's pretty significant to me.

I've been fucking obsessed with bringer of vengeance in specific from that album. Jumping around corners and growling it at people, literally rattling windows with it, and annoying the hell out of my kid by sneaking it into their playlists like a rickroll. Did that to my wife too, but she gets mean and refuses to let me play with her boobs when I do that kind of thing.

Where owls know my name by rivers of nihil The phanerozoics by the ocean

Too many, and not all of them are metal. But, sticking with the theme of the community…

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Suffocation - Pierced From Within

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Gorgasm - Masticate To Dominate

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Slayer - Decade Of Aggression

Pantera - 101 Proof

Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

Nile - Amongst The Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

Panzerchrist - Soul Collector

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

Dying Fetus - Stop At Nothing

Burzum - Filosofem

Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

It’s hard to just pick one but my favorite is probably Chaos A.D.

Death - Symbolic

Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

Dream Theater - Images and Words

Mastodon - Leviathan

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Riot - Thundersteel

Symphony X - V, The New Mythology Suite

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Mastodon - Leviathan Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Cynic - Traced in Air

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

That which you fall in love as a teenager, innit?

NIN - The Fragile

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...

RATM - Battle of Los Angeles

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Yo-Yo Ma - Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suites

Heart like a grave from Insomnium. They tried to create the most melancholy melodic death metal album from Finland and succeeded. Just listen to songs like "twilight trails" or "pale morning star" (warning: it's about suicide cause of loosing a loved person).

The perfect album is Pelagial by The Ocean. My favourite however is Ride the Lightning. And the one I'll keep spinning until I die is Somewhere Along the Highway by Cult of Luna. But you know what? I saw the Darkness last week on their 20th anniversary of Permission to Land, and that album still has it!

Merciless — GODFLESH

Downward Spiral or The Fragile — NIN

Gallery of Suicide — Cannibal Corpse

Daemon — Mayhem

This Heavy Void — Bodysnatcher

The Concrete Confessional — Hatebreed

Vulgar Display of Power — Pantera

October Rust — Type O Negative

Purple — STP

Posthuman — Harms Way

Eternal Steel — I AM

You Won't Get What You Want — Daughters

Korn

Not even close to a complete collection of favorites but I tried to hit a lot of different subgenres and whatnot. As you can tell I have a huge bias for the 90s lol

Heartwork by Carcass Stigmata by Arch Enemy Srontgorrth by Nagelfar Legends of Evil and Eternal Death by Hirilorn Carelian Satanist Madness by Satanic Warmaster Blackwater Park by Opeth

No particular order, depends on the day.

The Suffer album by Bad Religion

This might catch laughs but...

Hatebreeder by Children of Bodom

It was the first album that made me stop, and start to love metal. An old friend, the kind of person who's a literary character in real life, and now is incredibly still alive after being hit by a goddamn train introduced me to a new world of music with that album. He's obviously never been the same since the train, but he's no longer an alcoholic, and always seems happy in spite of (or because of) the severe brain damage. I think of him especially when I go back to that album, and remember laughing at how ridiculous some of it is, when you really listen. It's nice and baroque, with some amusing bits, and fun to listen through.

I'm not quite as well versed in metal as my spouse, but I'm glad to see these lists here, so I have more to check out!

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Fantomas - The Director's Cut

And, not really metal but you asked for just favorite:

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

The Contortionist - Language

Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Reflections - The Color Clear

Northlane - Singularity

Monolord - Empress Rising

Don't think I can pick a favorite of anything because my interests shift so much, but I've been listening to a lot of Arch Enemy and In This Moment lately. Though if I had to pick, Volturian's Crimson is up there.