joshb9864: Best Metal Album of Every Year 1970-2018

BerryGarlicia 10.25.18	machine head is an amzin album, but i wouldnt call it metal
TheClansman95 10.25.18	I have to disagree on several choices you made bro. BTW, Reign In Blood >>> MOP
joshb9864 10.25.18	It was 1972, my choices were very limited
joshb9864 10.25.18	Master of Puppets is better than Reign in Blood for me, two very good albums. However the songwriting is stronger on MOP, while RIB has more intensity. To me it’s just what you prefer
WoodeeX 10.25.18	neither reign in blood or MOP were even close to being the best metal album of '86
joshb9864 10.25.18	What is it then?
WoodeeX 10.25.18	Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Dark Angel - Darkness Descends Watchtower - Energetic Assembly Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
joshb9864 10.25.18	Only one I considered was Iron Maiden
Friday13th 10.25.18	lol no way those are better than Puppets fun list btw
rockandmetaljunkie 10.25.18	deep purple is not metal but whatever...
WoodeeX 10.25.18	just because you haven't heard them before doesn't mean theyre not good. I thought Metallica was groundbreaking too until I started listening to more underground and extreme bands. Dark Angel and Watchtower are far superior thrash bands to Metallica
WoodeeX 10.25.18	And I suggest putting Acid Bath in the '94 spot if you haven't listened to their debut yet
joshb9864 10.25.18	It’s not that I haven’t heard them, because I have. I genuinely believe that Master of Puppets is the best metal album of that year
joshb9864 10.25.18	I’m not on the underground music is always better train. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not.
WoodeeX 10.25.18	Im not on a "train", I just like my metal more extreme and visceral, and extreme music will never have mass appeal. Its just hard for me to go back and listen to Metallica when there's bands out there that are far better musicians with far more creativity. And even if you were trying to pick good mainstream metal records for the 2000s, this list would still be awful. After The Burial? Killer be Killed? are you kidding?
teamster 10.25.18	1993 is one of my favorite years. Two of my top three albums of all time reside there and a bunch of honorable mentions: Coroner - Grin Voivod - The Outer Limits Carcass - Heartwork Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers Sepultura - Chaos AD Entombed - Wolverine Blues
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	1989: Beneath The Remains, Extreme Aggression, Nothingface, and Blessing in Disguise alone kick Dr. Feelgood's ass any day of the week. 1992: Retribution, a Vision of Misery, and Epidemic of Violence are better albums. 1994: Emperor's In The Nightside Eclipse for sure. Otherwise the list starts off well.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	This is a really interesting idea for a list
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	List is fucking amazing btw - I love all of this, and now I love you too
Friday13th 10.25.18	@WoodeeX bro, I've heard all of those. Each one is a solid 4/5
bloc 10.25.18	Sweet, this would be a fun idea
Meridiu5 10.25.18	LOL
WoodeeX 10.25.18	23 is the most overrated metal album of the 90s
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	You watch your goddamn tongue, wood Pantera is fucking awesome - the internet hate towards that band is nice and trendy and whatever but it’s stupid and wrong
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	@WoodeeX exactly.
joshb9864 10.25.18	Agreed lucca
neekafat 10.25.18	18 sux
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	Power Metal's better.
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	@neekafat ouch
WoodeeX 10.25.18	nah bro and trust me, all of a high school I loved Pantera as well. But over the years Ive got bored with surface level groove metal where the riffs are short and catchy, sure, but that's it. Theyre riff machines, nothing else. No complex song structures, no change up of style, nothing inventive other than the riffs. Which is fine I guess, just not for me. This is kinda the same reason I fell out of nu-metal after adoring bands like Machine Head, Korn, and Slipknot. It's just musical instant gratification, the "candy" of metal.
joshb9864 10.25.18	For reference- my favorite subgenres are Thrash, Metalcore, Groove, Melodic Death, and Sludge
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	@WoodeeX I think we can all agree that Dimebag's solos are just plain awesome.
Hawks 10.25.18	This list kinda blows.
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	@joshb9864 Thrash and Death for life! m/
mandan 10.25.18	I don't see a prob with putting DP here. After all, they were pretty much as crucial as Sabbath in setting a basis for metal. The hard/rock metal line was pretty gray back then. IMO, Priest was one of the key bands in splitting hard rock from metal.
WoodeeX 10.25.18	Pantera has great solos? big fuckin whoop. Solos don't mean anything. Its just the guitarist jerking himself off in front of a crowd. Im interested in the creativity going into the making of a song: time signatures, song structure, progressive elements, dynamic transitions, etc
joshb9864 10.25.18	Danny boy couldn’t have said it better, everything you said is correct
joshb9864 10.25.18	“Progressive elements” well there ya go. You lost all of your arguments for me right there.
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	@WoodeeX How about jammin' some Power Metal? best non-Cowboys Pantera.
Nazzadan 10.25.18	Good list idea, I kinda wanna make one of these now :DAB:
WoodeeX 10.25.18	josh.. that makes no sense. just because you don't like prog doesn't mean I lost an argument. and Strike, i'm done listening to Pantera. Ive listened through most of their records hundreds of times in the ages 14-18. Yes I still concede they're a good band but compared to bands like Acid Bath, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Meshuggah, and Kyuss, Pantera is pretty shit
RippingCorpse1986 10.25.18	Lmaoooooo Lucca snapped. This list kinda blows. [2]
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	Eh I digress
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	Nah man, Phil anselmo sounds like a monster, dimebags riffs and solos are genuinely awesome and vinne Paul was actually the man when he was in Pantera. I was around for the 90s as well, no one was making music like them, especially in the mainstream. They had genuinely heavy and interesting moments and brought a sincere southern style to the genre that didn’t exist before. Vulgar display of power definitely deserves that spot imo. I listen to mostly death and thrash metal but Pantera still pumps me up more than most bands.
Casavir 10.25.18	Cowboys from Hell is the one that deserves it the most and even then, that album came out in a year with ludicrously strong competition from both more established bands and then newcomers. There were much more forward-thinking and well-rounded albums to come out in 1992 than Vulgar Display imo
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	Also what are you expecting with Pantera? Some crazy progressive experimental shit? They’re Pantera. They were great at what they did, my man. @rippingcorpse- YOU GODDAMN RIGHT
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	We really are seeing...... the dark side of Lucca.
Casavir 10.25.18	Honestly, one of the shittiest things about this list is putting Spreading the Disease for '85 when albums like Energetic Disassembly were coming out that same year. It's even shittier with Among the Living as well since it's easily one of the most mediocre metal albums of all time, let alone in thrash metal.
swipenet 10.25.18	Nice list
WoodeeX 10.25.18	actually theyre were bands making music in the same style during the same period. you just didn't know about them. As I said before, Acid Bath, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Kyuss, and Exhorder were all around the same time as Pantera and were far superior. also look at your quote:"vinnie Paul was actually the man when he was in Pantera." wtf is this supposed to mean? "the man", ya theres a lot of people who identify as male, whats your point?
joshb9864 10.25.18	I like prog, I don't like it when people want everything to be prog. Also Kyuss, Meshuggah, Crowbar, all fantastic bands.
WoodeeX 10.25.18	and that fucking song "Walk".....easily one of the worst metal songs of all time. I will never know how it got so popular. I hated it even when I was obsessed with the band
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	“There are a lot of people who identified as male” Jesus Christ you know what I meant lol. Post Pantera vinnie Paul sucks, but he was great back in the day. I love all those bands you mentioned but they don’t make Pantera any less amazing imo We may not come to an agreement on this issue, wood and it makes me sad
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	Exhorder....goddamn what a band. m/
WoodeeX 10.25.18	also I didn't say I wanted Pantera to be prog. I said prog "elements". An example of this would be like Black Sabbath's "Fairies Wear Boots", or Kyuss' "Suba Scoop", where the song changes up its style throughout to make the song interesting and fresh. Sure, Pantera can hammer a riff but its gets boring when its the same riff the entire song.
joshb9864 10.25.18	I love Fairies Wear Boots
WoodeeX 10.25.18	Lucca I thought exactly what you were thinking when I was into Pantera, trust me. For years I couldn't get enough of it. But im burned out on them now and Id rather listen to other bands.
StrikeOfTheBeast 10.25.18	YEAH FAIRIES WEAR BOOTS AND YOU GOTTA BELIEVE MEEEE YEAH I SAW IT, I SAW IT AND I TELL YOU NO LIHIEEEES
Casavir 10.25.18	I like how Woodee tries to do this whole "muh pruhgressif" thing but put bands like Darkest Hour and Bell Witch on his top 10 list for last year.
DarkSideOfLucca 10.25.18	I like Pantera because they remind me of early Genesis
mandan 10.25.18	BTW, where's MF?