Top 25 most influential heavy metal albums of all time

[James Deuce]

Well, not a bad selection but I've got an issue with presence of Scorpions and absence of Rammstein (sp?).

Johnny Come Latelies

[imdying]

Johnny Come Latelies

Yep, one hit wonders with a groovy sound, but not what I'd call influential.

[98tls]

Fuck it.......i am old,never heard of either of them......something tells me i may well be better off..................

[Coyote]

My mate got Blood Mountain by Mastodon and said it was the best album he's heard. Must be pretty damn good if they consider it to be influential in under a year

And good to see Opeth making the list

[Devil]

Hrm, with the inclusion of Sepultura's Roots in there, I would have expected to see Fear Factory's Demanufacture, or Machine Heads Burn My Eyes. Probably more likely the former though.

[Chisanga]

OK then if it's 'influential' then you really have to start going back to the fore fathers of metal - Deep Purple 'Machinehead'. Or Led Zep and Uriah Heep...

And describe 'influential'? Do they mean influential to the likes of the grunge movement or brit pop bands like Oasis

Cream and Hendrix have been pretty influential as well. In more genres than metal as well

PLus some classical composers are quite "heavy" - like that violin dude - Paganni or something. Listen to some of their music and you might see what I mean. Or I could be crazy

[Skyryder]

What?? No Iron Butterfly.............In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, shit I still go all spastic when I here that. Someone mentioned Uria Heep. That takes me back todays I can hardly recall. What about that other dude, Barnstorming that's the name of the album. Jo someone............Jo Walsh. Yea that's the guy. Mind you Rainbow. They did not last long enough to influence anyone other than Deep Purple... Yea I know dodge dodge.

Skyryder

PS

In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, featuring the 17:05 minute side-long track that shook the entire music industry with its phenomenal reception. 'Vida outsold every record in the history of recorded music within the first year of its release (over eight million copies sold) and therefore outgrew and outsold the standard of the music industry's "Gold Album" award. For this achievement, Iron Butterfly was subsequently awarded: The Industry's Very First "Platinum Album"! This historic award was created and presented by then-president of ATCO Records Ahmet Ertegun, who went on to become the current CEO of the WEA Group. Most recently, "Vida" received the Multi-Platinum award.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, stayed on the charts for 140 weeks, with 81 weeks in the Top Ten. To date the album has sold in excess of 30 million copies and remains an undisputed classic in the archives of rock with DJ's and audiophiles worldwide.

[Slayer]

Only 1 Slayer album, poor poor result.....

No Overkill.

No Cannibal Corpse/Six Feet Under

No Deicide.

Also, listening to the new Mastodon album (Blood Mountain) at work, damn good. Need to get in the appreciation for them before "You Know Who" April 21 at St James.

[Chisanga]

Greatest metal band of all time = Bad News

"I could play Stairway To Heaven when I was twelve. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was twenty-two. I think that says quite a lot."

[Skyryder]

Certainly influenced me to they wrote so much better than that...

aaaand another thing..Thin Lizzy! Jailbreak has to be a top tenner surely?

Yep that's for sure and the gutiarist fella what;s his name. He did some fairly decent stuff later on too.

Skyyrder

[El Dopa]

Pretty good list, although I'd swap And Justice and Puppets over. Stoked that Rust in Peace rated to highly

Pretty much my feelings, too.

and what about Metallica - 'Metallica', aaaarggghh people who don't know SFA about music

Metallica - the black album?

I've yet to see another band go downhill faster than Metallica betwen 'Justice' and 'Black'. If they'd recorded the sound of James Hetfield taking a shit the night after a curry, that would have made a better album.

Seriously, have you actually tried to listen to it? Actually listen, as opposed to 'its a metallica album so it must be good'?

'Of wolf and man'? 'don't tread on me'? 'sad but true'? You really think those are class tracks? They make me cringe.

They sound like something Manowar would reject as being too over the top. I'd rather listen to Manowar, in fact. Cos when they do that OTT 'kings of metal' stuff, its funny. Funnier than listening to a once great metal singer going through the necessary motions before he gets his paycheck, so he can fuck off and get another drink.

There is precisely one good track on 'Black' - 'the unforgiven'.

In my imaginary alternate universe, there was a band called Metallica. They rocked so hard that all through the 80's and up to August 11th 1991 no other band could touch them. They were in a league of their own. Sadly, they split up on this date and never released any more material. Ever.

They did however make a film in 2004, which was a spoof along the lines of 'Spinal Tap', and was an ironic pisstake of how the band might have turned out if they'd kept on turning out lame shit for 13 years or so after their passion for it had gone.

Oh, and before you ask, the last time I listened to the black album was yesterday. I pulled it out of the rack, thought 'hmm, haven't listened to this for a while. I wonder if it was really as bad as I remember?' Worse, if anything.

Let the shitfight commence.

[Bytor]

Pretty much my feelings, too.



Metallica - the black album?

I've yet to see another band go downhill faster than Metallica betwen 'Justice' and 'Black'. If they'd recorded the sound of James Hetfield taking a shit the night after a curry, that would have made a better album.

Seriously, have you actually tried to listen to it? Actually listen, as opposed to 'its a metallica album so it must be good'?

'Of wolf and man'? 'don't tread on me'? 'sad but true'? You really think those are class tracks? They make me cringe.

They sound like something Manowar would reject as being too over the top. I'd rather listen to Manowar, in fact. Cos when they do that OTT 'kings of metal' stuff, its funny. Funnier than listening to a once great metal singer going through the necessary motions before he gets his paycheck, so he can fuck off and get another drink.

There is precisely one good track on 'Black' - 'the unforgiven'.

In my imaginary alternate universe, there was a band called Metallica. They rocked so hard that all through the 80's and up to August 11th 1991 no other band could touch them. They were in a league of their own. Sadly, they split up on this date and never released any more material. Ever.

They did however make a film in 2004, which was a spoof along the lines of 'Spinal Tap', and was an ironic pisstake of how the band might have turned out if they'd kept on turning out lame shit for 13 years or so after their passion for it had gone.

Oh, and before you ask, the last time I listened to the black album was yesterday. I pulled it out of the rack, thought 'hmm, haven't listened to this for a while. I wonder if it was really as bad as I remember?' Worse, if anything.

Let the shitfight commence.

OK, OK I'm not saying that the Black album is their best, but it's surley better than the Scorps 'Lovedrive' at no.25 - although I do like 'Holiday' - fuck now I've done it...

[outlawtorn]

Pretty much my feelings, too.
Metallica - the black album?

I've yet to see another band go downhill faster than Metallica betwen 'Justice' and 'Black'. If they'd recorded the sound of James Hetfield taking a shit the night after a curry, that would have made a better album.

Seriously, have you actually tried to listen to it? Actually listen, as opposed to 'its a metallica album so it must be good'?

'Of wolf and man'? 'don't tread on me'? 'sad but true'? You really think those are class tracks? They make me cringe.

They sound like something Manowar would reject as being too over the top. I'd rather listen to Manowar, in fact. Cos when they do that OTT 'kings of metal' stuff, its funny. Funnier than listening to a once great metal singer going through the necessary motions before he gets his paycheck, so he can fuck off and get another drink.

There is precisely one good track on 'Black' - 'the unforgiven'.

In my imaginary alternate universe, there was a band called Metallica. They rocked so hard that all through the 80's and up to August 11th 1991 no other band could touch them. They were in a league of their own. Sadly, they split up on this date and never released any more material. Ever.

They did however make a film in 2004, which was a spoof along the lines of 'Spinal Tap', and was an ironic pisstake of how the band might have turned out if they'd kept on turning out lame shit for 13 years or so after their passion for it had gone.

Oh, and before you ask, the last time I listened to the black album was yesterday. I pulled it out of the rack, thought 'hmm, haven't listened to this for a while. I wonder if it was really as bad as I remember?' Worse, if anything.

Let the shitfight commence.

I'm afraid you will have to pull your head out of you close minded arse next time you listen to any MetallicA post Justice.

They grew as a band and decided to try something different and on the black album they had really good production, which was sorely lacking on Justice, it seems to be a natural progession of all bands, start out rough then try something different then go back to their 'roots', classic examples are Megadeth, Testament, Kreator etc etc.

You are probably one of those MetallicA fans that would go and see them life, but tell everyone 'I'm only into their old stuff, that's all I want to see"

Holiday by the scorpions has to be one of the best songs in the world, next to the balled "Daddy's Girl", Scorpions are a great rock band, I have all the time in the world for them.

[The Stranger:Me]

Shit, this thread is turning into the special Olympics.

[Pixie]

What?? No Iron Butterfly.............In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, shit I still go all spastic when I here that. Someone mentioned Uria Heep. That takes me back todays I can hardly recall. What about that other dude, Barnstorming that's the name of the album. Jo someone............Jo Walsh. Yea that's the guy. Mind you Rainbow. They did not last long enough to influence anyone other than Deep Purple... Yea I know dodge dodge.

Skyryder

PS

In July of 1968, Iron Butterfly released the monumental LP, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, featuring the 17:05 minute side-long track that shook the entire music industry with its phenomenal reception. 'Vida outsold every record in the history of recorded music within the first year of its release (over eight million copies sold) and therefore outgrew and outsold the standard of the music industry's "Gold Album" award. For this achievement, Iron Butterfly was subsequently awarded: The Industry's Very First "Platinum Album"! This historic award was created and presented by then-president of ATCO Records Ahmet Ertegun, who went on to become the current CEO of the WEA Group. Most recently, "Vida" received the Multi-Platinum award.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, stayed on the charts for 140 weeks, with 81 weeks in the Top Ten. To date the album has sold in excess of 30 million copies and remains an undisputed classic in the archives of rock with DJ's and audiophiles worldwide.

I enjoyed it when Bart put the lyrics in the church hymn book and got the congregation to sing it.