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What do The Massive consider to be the greatest Heavy Metal album ever?
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 5 December 2009 - 9:59pm.
I will give my votes to:
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Judas Priest - British Steel
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Like I care
but the answer is Tyranny and Mutation - Blue Oyster Cult
Ooh but you must care...
to reply so promptly!
Sheev.. if you'd have cared..
It would have been Tyranny And Mutation by Blue Öyster Cult.
Diacritices mean everything in these parts, as you should know.
That
Black Sabbath one. Four.
Another vote...
..for Sabbath - Volume 4.
The Number of the Beast..
..by The Maiden. Worth it for Run to the Hills alone.
I am not a HM fan
so my vote probably doesn't count, but for me it has to be Van Halen One. Btw, isn't the interweb marvellous, this comes from Dubai airport while charging my netbook....gotta 3.00 hr wait for a plane and this is a great waste of the time
here's my top 10 in no particular order
1. Back in Black (AC/DC) - the apogee of heavy metal's crossover with rock'n'roll and one of the best records of all time (in any genre)
2. Deep Purple In Rock - blazed the trail on instrumental soloing and expressive vocal style
3. Black Sabbath I - defined the dark imagery and the spirit of most heavy metal to follow
4. Master of Puppets (Metallica) - basically the best American metal record ever made
5. Van Halen 1 - the launch of a metal guitar genius
6. Ace of Spades (Motorhead) - the best speeed metal record of all time
7. Strangers in the Night (UFO) - the best live metal album of all time
8. No. of The Beast (Maiden) - the apogee of early 80s British NWOBHM
9. Reign in Blood (Slayer) - the best thrash metal record of all time
10. Appetite for Destruction (G'n'R) - the best crossover US metal/punk record of all time
"Reign In Blood"
takes it for Dave Lombardo's drumming, the most remarkable I've ever heard on any record; no overdubs, supposedly, and no doubling-up session drummer hidden offstage...
Depends how you're defining 'heavy metal'...
but for my money I'd go for British Steel too.
For me
AC/DC - Back in Black
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed
has just about all you need.
I'm an aging Mod
but I love AC/DC and Motorhead.
Highway To Hell and Back In Black are brilliant albums.
If it's fairly 'traditional' ...
...hard rock style heavy metal you're after then I think it has to be Rainbow 'Rising'.
But if you were to allow some grindcore, or black / death / doom metal, I could be here all night...
Hmmmm...
My head says Back in Black
My heart says Reign In Blood. It's the poetry of it all...
Not Original but
Reign in Blood- Slayer
AC/DC - Back in Black
Black Sabbath 4
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
head says
something by Black Sabbath
heart says Megadeth's So Far, So Good... So What!
I'll really need to think about this as I'm 51 and metal was something I loved then avoided but couldn't deny. Personally I think the Black Sabbath album Born Again with Ian Gillian on vox was not only thee first Thrash album but the Sabs' best.
I do have friends... honest.. lots in fact but they're Goths.. very nice Goths with jobs and wives/husbands and kids
Gosh..
I'd say..
Rainbow - Rising
Sabs - Heaven and Hell
Ronnie James Dio.. take a bow..
I'd love to say BÖC but, much as I love them, I don't see them as a metal band.
Rainbow
I would agree with Rainbow Rising.
I'm pretty much in agreement
with previous posters: Rainbow Rising, Reign In Blood, Master Of Puppets - but my personal favourite Maiden slbum is Powerslave: it's them at their silliest and thus best.
'The White
'The White Album'..........Paul invented heavy metal on it.
Of course, he didn't do any after that, what would be the point?
I'll get my coat.
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Back in Black
That list
goes up to eleven
Back in Black
Don't know if it is the greatest, but if I had to explain Metal to an Alien this would be the one I'd use. Assuming they had enough fingers, they would be throwing the devil's horn shape in no time.
Montrose
The first album.
And anything by Nickelback .....
only Fraser can give us the definitive answer.
The only one I ever bought was Destroyer by Kiss - so that's my choice.
Heavy Rock/Heavy Metal?
I was never quite sure what the difference was so I'm treating them the same...
Purps - Made In Japan
Thunder - Backstreet Symphony
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmiff
Vardis - 100mph Live Guaranteed No Overdubs
AC/DC - If You Want Blood...
UFO - Strangers In The Night
it is so obviously
Led Zep One
Nooooooooo!
Led Zeppelin aren't heavy metal! They're just not! Just because they influenced a load of cloth-eared goons doesn't mean they're responsible!
Sorry, rant over. I have always had a problem with 'Led Zeppelin' and 'heavy metal' being used in the same sentence.
I had a listen again
last night..it sure sounds metally..and it sure sounds brilliant..isn't it the age old problem that the innovators always get copied and the copiers are usually rubbish..it's a reason I never go into my local music store (guitar department) on a Saturday afternoon..a cacophany of squealing and squalling..shudder!
Another vote for
Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
I was playing that vinyl this very weekend, at some volume. Goodness me it is an impressive racket. To paraphrase Wellington, I don't know what it did to the neighbours but it scared the hell out of me.
My List
Some are repeated above, but for what it worth:
Iron Maiden: Number Of The Beast
Saxon: Strong Arm Of The Law
AC/DC: Back In Black
Metallica: Ride The Lightning (Mater Of Puppets is a VERY close second)
Black Sabbath: Sabotage (just beats Vol 4)
Alice Cooper: Billion Dollar Babies
Motorhead: No Sleep Til Hammersmith
Guns n Roses: Appetite For Destruction
Quireboys: A Bit Of What You Fancy
Thunder: Back Street Symphony
Zodiac Mindwarp: Tattooed Beat Messiah
AND
Bad News: Bad News
I'm willing to stand corrected by The Massive
but I would class the beloved ZZ Top as metal.
So it follows that in my opinion that the best 'metal' album, is Eliminator.
It's perfect from soup to nuts.
Having said that 'Ace of Spades' has a ditty on it entitled 'Love Me Like a Reptile' which is the most metal of song titles of all time, so that would be my fallback option.