50 Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die (Jimpy Edition)

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This list was totally yoinked from @slickleg, go give 'em a follow!

The list will be compiling 50 metal albums that you should give a spin before your pump vessel goes "AIGHT I'M BOUTTA HEAD OUT". I'll try to make this a balance of influential albums across all genres, as well as masterpiece that may have gone a bit under the radar. One album per band, although exceptions MAY be made if they're pressing enough.

(I have, in fact, heard pretty much every album on this list. Some haven't been rated because I never did in the past and don't wanna review anything until I'm done with THE DAY OF DEATHCORE, and the finale for that is taking a while if you haven't noticed lol.)

This is what I'm doing instead of listening to the last DAY OF DEATHCORE album

1.

Metallica

Kill 'Em All1983

100

Genre: Thrash Metal
3 Essential Tracks: The Four Horsemen, Jump In The Fire, Seek & Destroy

2.

Melvins

Houdini1993

Genre: Sludge Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Hooch, Lizzy, Goin' Blind

3.

Boris

Flood2000

Genre: Post-Metal / Drone Metal
Essential Tracks: Flood Pts. 1-4

4.

System of a Down

Toxicity2001

100

Genre: Alternative Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Needles, ATWA, Toxicity

5.

System of a Down

System of a Down1998

100

Genre: Alternative Metal / Thrash Metal / Avant-Garde Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: Sugar, War?, Mind

6.

Gojira

From Mars to Sirius2005

100

Genre: Technical Death Metal / Progressive Metal / Groove Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: Ocean Planet, Where Dragons Dwell, From the Sky

7.

Converge

Jane Doe2001

100

Genre: Metalcore / Mathcore
3 Essential Tracks: Fault and Fracture, Heaven in Her Arms, Jane Doe

8.

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath1970

99

Genre: Heavy Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Black Sabbath, The Wizard, N.I.B.

9.

Black Sabbath

Master of Reality1971

100

Genre: Heavy Metal / Doom Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Sweet Leaf, Children of the Grave, Into the Void

10.

Slayer

Reign in Blood1986

100

Genre: Thrash Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Angel of Death, Altar of Sacrifice, Raining Blood

11.

Tool

Lateralus2001

100

Genre: Progressive Metal
3 Essential Tracks: The Grudge, The Patient, Lateralus

12.

Opeth

Blackwater Park2001

Genre: Progressive Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: The Leper Affinity, Bleak, Blackwater Park

13.

Darkthrone

A Blaze In the Northern Sky1992

Genre: Second Wave Black Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Kathaarian Life Code, Where Cold Winds Blow, A Blaze In the Northern Sky

14.

Waste of Space Orchestra

Syntheosis2019

100

Genre: Doom Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post-Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: Journey to the Center of Mass, Wake Up the Possessor, Syntheosis

15.

Rage Against The Machine

Rage Against The Machine1992

100

Genre: Rap Metal / Funk Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Killing in the Name, Know Your Enemy, Freedom

16.

Death

Symbolic1995

100

Genre: Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Symbolic, Crystal Mountain, Perennial Quest

17.

After The Burial

Rareform2008

85

Genre: Technical Deathcore / Progressive Death Metal / Melodic Death Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: Berzerker, Ometh, A Vicious Reforming of Features

18.

Slipknot

Slipknot1999

86

Genre: Nu Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Eyeless, Wait and Bleed, Spit It Out

19.

Anthrax

Spreading the Disease1985

100

Genre: Thrash Metal
3 Essential Tracks: A.I.R., Madhouse, Medusa

20.

Suicidal Tendencies

Suicidal Tendencies1983

Genre: Crossover Thrash
3 Essential Tracks: I Shot The Devil, Institutionalized, I Want More

21.

Alice in Chains

Dirt1992

100

Genre: Alternative Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Sickman, Rooster, Dirt

22.

Motörhead

Overkill1979

Genre: Speed Metal / Heavy Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Overkill, Stay Clean, Damage Case

23.

Pantera

Vulgar Display of Power1992

Genre: Groove Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Walk, Fucking Hostile, Rise

24.

Type O Negative

Bloody Kisses1993

Genre: Gothic Doom Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Christian Woman, Black No. 1, Too Late: Frozen

25.

Faith No More

Angel Dust1992

95

Genre: Alternative Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Caffeine, Midlife Crisis, Be Aggressive

26.

Deicide

Deicide1990

100

Genre: Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Lunatic of God's Creation, Dead by Dawn, Mephistopheles

27.

Terrorizer

World Downfall1989

100

Genre: Deathgrind / Grindcore
3 Essential Tracks: Fear of Napalm, Strategic Warheads, Whirlwind Struggle

28.

Gorgoroth

Pentagram1994

100

Genre: Melodic Black Metal / Second Wave Black Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Crushing the Scepter, Drømmer Om Død, Måneskyggens Slave

29.

Mastodon

Leviathan2004

98

Genre: Sludge Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Blood and Thunder, Naked Burn, Hearts Alive

30.

Coroner

No More Color1989

99

Genre: Technical Thrash Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Die by My Hand, Read My Scars, Why It Hurts

31.

Whitechapel

A New Era of Corruption2010

88

Genre: Deathcore
3 Essential Tracks: Breeding Violence, Reprogrammed to Hate, Necromechanical

32.

Primus

Pork Soda1993

99

Genre: Funk Metal / Alternative Metal
3 Essential Tracks: My Name Is Mud, Bob, Nature Boy

33.

Toxic Holocaust

An Overdose of Death2008

95

Genre: Blackened Thrash Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Nuke the Cross, In the Name of Science, Gravelord

34.

Behemoth

The Satanist2014

100

Genre: Blackened Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel, Amen, O Father O Satan O Sun!

35.

Bathory

Bathory1984

Genre: First Wave Black Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Hades, Necromancy, Raise the Dead

36.

Dir En Grey

Dum Spiro Spero2011

Genre: Avant-Garde Metal / Progressive Metal / Alternative Metal / Deathcore, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: The Blossoming Beelzebub, Diabolos, Vanitas

37.

Rammstein

Mutter2001

99

Genre: Industrial Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Mein Herz brennt, Links 2 3 4, Feuer frei!

38.

Horna

Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne2005

99

Genre: Black Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Musta Temppeli, Kuoleva Lupaus, Zythifer

39.

Obituary

Cause of Death1990

Genre: Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Body Bag, Chopped in Half, Infected

40.

Autopsy

Mental Funeral1991

Genre: Death-Doom / Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: In the Grip of Winter, Hole in the Head, Destined to Fester

41.

Electric Wizard

Dopethrone2000

100

Genre: Stoner Doom / Sludge Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Funeralopolis, Weird Tales, We Hate You

42.

Pig Destroyer

Terrifyer2004

98

Genre: Grindcore
3 Essential Tracks: Pretty in Casts, Towering Flesh, Terrifyer

43.

Helmet

Meantime1992

100

Genre: Alternative Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Ironhead, Give It, He Feels Bad

44.

Sectioned

Annihilated2018

86

Genre: Mathcore / Noisecore / Grindcore / Metalcore, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: Beautiful Struggle, Synchronicity, Release

45.

Voivod

Killing Technology1987

90

Genre: Progressive Thrash / Technical Thrash Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Killing Technology, Forgotten in Space, Ravenous Medicine

46.

Cryptopsy

None So Vile1996

Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Technical Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Crown of Horns, Slit Your Guts, Orgiastic Disembowelment

47.

Deathspell Omega

Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum2007

Genre: Avant-Garde Black Metal / Progressive Black Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: The Shrine of Mad Laughter, The Repellent Scars of Abandon..., A Chore for the Lost

48.

Meshuggah

obZen2008

100

Genre: Djent / Avant-Garde Metal / Progressive Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: Bleed, Lethargica, Dancers to a Discordant Systen

49.

Cannibal Corpse

Tomb of the Mutilated1992

Genre: Brutal Death Metal
3 Essential Tracks: Hammer Smashed Face, I Cum Blood, Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt

50.

Altar of Plagues

Teethed Glory and Injury2013

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal / Post-Metal / Industrial Black Metal, etc.
3 Essential Tracks: God Alone, A Remedy and a Fever, Reflection Pulse Remains

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JackSkull

2y

great picks man! We Actually have a similar taste in metal

notbuzzzila

2y

@slickleg glad you liked it! thanks for letting me use your idea!