I want to get into metal. What are the best metal albums to start with?
I want to get into metal. What are the best metal albums to start with?
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
ok but how about an actual answer
System of a Down: Toxicity
Mastodon: Blood Mountain
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden
source: my 9th grade metal phase
to add to this
Avenged Sevenfold: City of Evil
then after that stuff
In Flames: Clayman and then The Jester Race to get into some "heavier" stuff but still melodic enough so it's easy to get into
The first four Black Sabbath albums.
What type of metal do you wanna get started with? Old school heavy metal? Doom? Death? Black? I got some reccs depending on what you want
dope trip, i'd go with his picks on that alone
You're right that's too advanced. Try Twisted Sister
I have an interest in Doom Metal
Start with the more accessible stuff like:
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You should sample metal from various sub-genres because of how diverse it is and see what sticks.
For starters:
Thrash:
Slayer- Reign in Blood
Prog Metal:
Dreamtheater (idk them well enough to recommend an album)
Power Metal:
Blind Guardian (idk them well enough to recommend an album)
Melo-death:
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Traditional Metal
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Slam Metal:
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Death Metal:
Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
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For power metal I would definitely suggest Helloween
Listen to Keeper of the Keys Part 1 and if you like it enough move onto Part 2
Technical Death Metal:
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
gimme a chart like that for melodeath
Thanks for all the recs, my dudes. I'll check those albums out.
>melodeath
>Slam Metal:
>Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
uhhhhhhh
I don't have an eyeroll big enough for you
I'm not a huge metal fan but I like Veil of Maya specifically the Matriarch album (basically everything on there's awesome but Mikasa and Lucy are my favorites)
What would you call it? Seen people call it "grove" but that's a really shitty term. It's good at what it does which makes it decent for somebody who doesn't know what they like.
well slam is a type of extra brutal and harsh death metal so I wouldn't call it slam for sure
Your best bet gotta go where it all started.
Then go to accessible (90's/00's) metal that is still good
White Pony - Deftones
AENIMA - TOOL
Mesmerized/Toxicity - SOAD
Leviathan - Mastodon
Then try some melodic death metal
Heartwork - Carcass
Death - Death
That's how I would start
trying hard not to throw in personal favorite and just give you something that will be easy for you to get into.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Check out:
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone for noisy, raw stoner doom (One of my favorite albums)
Sleep - Dopesmoker for pure stoner doom
Candlemass - Nightfall for traditional doom/heavy metal
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality for where doom metal truly began
It's not doom metal, but Opeth - Blackwater Park has to be my favorite metal record of all time, the title track is insanely good (they're prog death metal)
Listen to VENOM and HELLHAMMER (The band, not the drummer)
I'd throw some middle-career opeth in there and sleep's holy mountain too
If you want some great Black Metal that are good starters, try:
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Batushka - Litourgiya
Want some starter death metal? Highly recommend all of In Flames' early stuff (The Jester Race, Whoracle, Clayman) or anything by Amon Amarth (Jomsviking, Twilight of the Thunder God).
If you're into video games and books and shit like lord of the rings, elder scrolls etc please listen to power metal bands like Blind Guardian (Nightfall in Middle Earth, A Night at the Opera) or Tyr (The Lay of Thrym, Eric the Red). They're really easy to listen to (clean/moderately heavy vocals) and really inspiring/victorious melodies with lyrics pertaining to the stuff mentioned above.
Hope this helps!
Sunn o)))s Black One and Passage Dhivers discography are the only metal albums you need
Pls prove me wrong
Melvins album Houdini was a great introduction to metal for me. Bonus points for listening to it high- holy shit, man. That's a god-tier listening experience.
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you're not wrong, but more wouldn't hurt
Night Goat's intro makes me jizz
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also Monoliths and Dimensions is better than Black One
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Pretty accessible, alternative metal
Start by listening to the almighty Neurosis
youtube.com
Aghartha's the only decent track off M&D
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we might disagree but I fucking love this image