Highly Influential Albums for Metal
If my knowledge is correct that is
Not counting demo tapes,since these would make it even more complicated(for the most) |
| 1 |  | Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
1969
Even if not metal it was a high influence for all of its genres |
| 2 |  | Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
1970
Birth Of Goth Rock,Heavy Metal and Doom Metal |
| 3 |  | Judas Priest
Rocka Rolla
1974
First New Wave Of British Heavy Metal album |
| 4 | | Motorhead
Motorhead
1977
Second Band to follow the trend |
| 5 |  | Riot
Rock City
1977
First ridicolous album cover |
| 6 |  | Iron Maiden
The Soundhouse Tapes
1979
NWOBHM developes further,now having Punk influences |
| 7 |  | Cirith Ungol
Frost and Fire
1980
The first Doom Metal Album,having strong Black Sabbath Influences |
| 8 |  | Venom
Welcome to Hell
1981
British Metal continues and reaches a new extreme,to the time the fastest and most Punk influenced album.The first time less subtle "satanic" lyrics are use |
| 9 |  | Accept
Restless and Wild
1982
First Speed Metal Album,technically |
| 10 |  | Metallica
Kill 'Em All
1983
First actual Thrash Album |
| 11 |  | Slayer
Show No Mercy
1983
Second album considered Thrash |
| 12 |  | Bathory
Bathory
1984
First album considered Metal |
| 13 |  | Swans
Cop
1984
First Industrial Metal Album |
| 14 |  | Queensryche
The Warning
1984
First Progressive Metal Album |
| 15 |  | Destruction
Sentence of Death
1984
First Emerge of heavier Euro Thrash |
| 16 |  | Celtic Frost
To Mega Therion
1984
Another of the first Black Metal Albums |
| 17 |  | Helloween
Helloween
1985
First Power Metal EP/Album |
| 18 |  | Pentagram
Pentagram
1985
Technically one of the first doom metal albums,since most of the songs were already written in the 70s,but it wasnt released until 85 |
| 19 |  | Possessed
Seven Churches
1985
First utterance of the Phrase "Death Metal" and also later a heavy influence for Death Metal |
| 20 |  | Sepultura
Morbid Visions
1986
Also a heavy influence for Death Metal |
| 21 |  | Napalm Death
Scum
1986(First Half)
1987(Second Half)
The first band to play a heavier form of Crossover |
| 22 |  | Mayhem
Pure Fucking Armageddon
1986
First release of Black Metal as we know it today |
| 23 |  | Kreator
Pleasure to Kill
1986
Another heavy influence for Death Metal |
| 24 |  | Melvins
Gluey Porch Treatments
1987
First sludge metal album |
| 25 |  | Death
Scream Bloody Gore
1987
First album actually considered Death Metal |
| 26 |  | Ministry
With Sympathy
1987
First Brutal Death Metal Album |
| 27 |  | Ministry
The Land Of Rape And Honey
1988
Most influential Industrial Metal Album.Somehow even Linkin Park is influenced by it.I dont know which influence either,but somehow they are |
| 28 |  | Pestilence
Consuming Impulse
1989
First Technical Death Metal Album |
| 29 |  | Primus
Suck On This
1989
First Primus Album |
| 30 |  | Pantera
Cowboys from Hell
1990
First Groove Metal Album and huge improvment over alot of their earlier albums |
| 31 |  | Type O Negative
Slow, Deep, and Hard
1991
First Gothic Metal Album |
| 32 |  | Autopsy
Mental Funeral
1991
First Doom Death Metal Album(I honestly have no idea what the actual Genre is called) |
| 33 |  | Cannibal Corpse
Butchered at Birth
1991
First Brutal Death Metal Album |
| 34 |  | Carcass
Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
1991
Carcass start playing more in a oldschool Death Metal style and lay down the basis for Deathgrind |
| 35 |  | Kyuss
Wretch
1991
First Stoner Metal Album |
| 36 |  | Burzum
Burzum
1992
First Atmospheric Black Metal Album |
| 37 |  | White Zombie
La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1
1992
Combination of Groove Metal and Industrial never seen before and again |
| 38 |  | Carcass
Heartwork
1993
First Melodic Death Metal Album |
| 39 |  | Exhumed
Gore Metal
1994
Horrific Expulsion Of Gore Demo
THe first or not the first Deathgrind release,depending on if you count Carcass as Deathgrind |
| 40 |  | Korn
Korn
1994
First Nu Metal Album,to the demay of many of us |
| 41 |  | Amorphis
Tales From the Thousand Lakes
1995
First Folk Metal Album |
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