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Recommendations welcome. For "My Criteria & Guide For Art" pages, go here: https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/v...hp?t=15503

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Best Hard Rock & Metal Albums

8.5/10
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails (1994)
Slow, Deep & Hard - Type O Negative (1991)
Kick Out the Jams - MC5 (1969)
Fontanelle - Babes in Toyland (1992)

8/10
Uncanny Valley - Stabscotch (2017)
Mother of Virtues - Pyrrhon (2014)
Master Of Puppets - Metallica (1986)
Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses (1988)
Temple Of The Morning Star - Today is the Day (1997)
Roots - Sepultura (1996)
Willpower - Today is the Day (1994)
Through Silver in Blood - Neurosis (1996)
Images and Words - Dream Theater (1992)
Frizzle Fry - Primus (1990)
Demanufacture - Fear Factory (1994)
Meshuggah (2004) [EP]

7.5/10
Ride the Lightning - Metallica (1984)
L'ordure à L'état pur - Peste Noire (2011)
OV - Orthrelm (2005)
Korn - Korn (1994)
Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss (1992)
Kill 'Em All - Metallica (1983)
Fun House - The Stooges (1970)
2 - Earth (1993)
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (1992)
Superunkown - Soundgarden (1994)
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins (1993)
Aesthetica - Liturgy (2011)
The Land of Rape and Honey - Ministry (1988)
Colors - Between the Buried and Me (2007)
Vitalogy - Pearl Jam (1994)

7/10
Aenima - Tool (1996)
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin (1971)
Toxicity - System of a Down (2001)
Nevermind - Nirvana (1991)
In Utero - Nirvana (1994)
Led Zeppelin I - Led Zeppelin (1969)
And Justice For All - Metallica (1988)
Mezmerise - System of a Down (2005)
Metallica - Metallica (1991)
Ten - Pearl Jam (1991)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins (1995)
Pretty on the Inside - Hole (1991)
Use Your Illusion I & II - Guns N' Roses (1991)
Who's Next - The Who (1971)
Undertow - Tool (1993)
Permanent Waves - Rush (1980)
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden (1991)
Dirt - Alice in Chains (1992)
Reign in Blood - Slayer (1986)
Paranoid - Black Sabbath (1970)
Master of Reality - Black Sabbath (1971)
Rust in Peace - Megadeath (1990)
Back in Black - AC/DC (1980)
The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails (1999)
Ultramega OK - Soundgarden (1988)
Purple - Stone Temple Pilots (1994)
2112 - Rush (1976)


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Appetite For Destruction 8/10? Think

Maybe you've already talked about this elsewhere and I missed it.
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baystateoftheart wrote:
Appetite For Destruction 8/10? Think

Maybe you've already talked about this elsewhere and I missed it.


Right! It should be a 10.0 as any metal head knows. Cool
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Tilly wrote:
baystateoftheart wrote:
Appetite For Destruction 8/10? Think

Maybe you've already talked about this elsewhere and I missed it.


Right! It should be a 10.0 as any metal head knows. Cool


Damn, as good as the Sistine Chapel? Wink
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I will say this: it is not Dostoyevsky or Joyce or Tolstoy but if "experienced/assmiliated" for what it is, it is quite stunning and an undeniable masterpiece of its genre. Dont forget to pay attention to the frantic and extensive "concertos" being played in counterpoint with the ferocious, juvenile delinquent vocals.

I dont really have time at the moment to revisit it and offer much more than that for insights (but maybe later). So herrrrrreeeeeee's Scaruffi!

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Guns N 'Roses was a band of psychopaths, delinquents, sex maniacs, junkies and alcoholics. Appetite For Destruction (1987) was born in a dark narrow alley of the worst Los Angeles neighborhood. William "Axl Rose" Bailey's nasty, offensive, anti-heroic vocal acrobatics fended off the double-guitar attack of Saul "Slash" Hudson and Jeff "Izzy Stradlin" Isabell, who is indulged in unbridled concertos of screeching and reckless riffs. Into the bloody fistfight.

Arrogant commentators of urban desolation in a bleak hard-boiled style reminiscent of Chandler's detective stories, Guns N'Roses were the protagonists of one of the most spectacular commercial launches in hard-rock history. Their debut album, Appetite For Destruction (Geffen, 1987), and the two anthem from it, Welcome To The Jungle and Sweet Child O 'Mine , jumped to the top of the charts.

Authentic psychopathic animals (with a special predilection for sexual violence, vandalism and heroin), singer William "Axl Rose" Bailey (a young offender from Indiana), guitarist Saul "Slash" Hudson (born in Great Britain) , the second guitarist Jeff "Izzy Stradlin" Isabell (born in Lafayette, Indiana), bassist Duff McKagan (car thief) and drummer Steve Adler, all drug addicts and alcoholics, embody what is commonly associated with rock , in clear controversy with the conformism of the humanitarian causes embraced by most rock musicians. In this way the Guns'n'Roses gave a new voice to the fatalistic "lived" tone

Axl Rose was the spokesperson with his anti-heroic singing recitation, made of shrill declamations, Steve Tyler meows, lewd verses, light crooning, exaggerated musichall, whispers, solemn sermons.

The album opens with the sinister blows of Welcome To The Jungle , a song by charonter barker and fresco of the decadence of Hollywood. It is the beginning of an obsessive ordeal in the moral miseries of the metropolitan "jungle": the shameless machismo of It's So Easy , the hymn to the heroine addiction Mr Brownstone (a music-hall nursery rhyme on a Bo Diddley riff ), the cry of freedom of Out Ta Get Me , the parody of sarcasm of My Michelle (virgin pudibonda daughter of a ras of pornography and a heroin addict), the real erotic ritual of Rocket Queen (first arrogant, then tender and finally poignant), and epic blues-rock blues glowing like Paradise City , agitated hymn to solemn step of a condemned man to death. In them, the inexhaustible flying solos of Slash inject the brady violence of street life, often opening the songs with martial toll. The most epileptic delusions are found in the thrash-punk of You're Crazy and in the funk-boogie of Anything Goes .

The only moment of redemption is Sweet Child O 'Mine , a tender serenade for the Lady Jane . Welcome ,Paradise , Michelle and Sweet Child Of Mine are among the masterpieces of youthful frustration.

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Is this to include every subgenre of metal? If so, I recently updated my chart to include lots of metal so check it out for recs. I've listened to tons of black metal and death metal as of late, and musically I find many of them to be far superior to the more known bands and subgenres.

I think Kill Em All is Metallica's best album personally. It's so raw and heavy compared to everything that came after it.

Oh and Appetite for Destruction is overrated (though it's still better than every other GNR record combined). Don't get me wrong, it's a banger, but unfairly it's way more famous than many great metal albums from the same year.
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badseed wrote:
Is this to include every subgenre of metal?


Yes, that's the idea ... providing the rating is high enough ... As I update, I will probably extend it to 7/10 like the other genre lists.

badseed wrote:
If so, I recently updated my chart to include lots of metal so check it out for recs. I've listened to tons of black metal and death metal as of late, and musically I find many of them to be far superior to the more known bands and subgenres.


EXACTLY the sort of thing I'm looking for Very Happy Would love to find some 8.5s. Currently, I would have to include NINs The Downward Spiral to have just one (which, first and foremost industrial, would be an arguable choice) ... and I am wondering if there are more, or hell, even another 9? Prog Metal (and accompanying branches) has the best shot probably.

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I think Kill Em All is Metallica's best album personally. It's so raw and heavy compared to everything that came after it.


I will be revisiting it soon and wouldn't be surprised if it ends up getting upgraded. But I'm not sure if I'll ever favor it over the "symphonies" of Master of Puppets. The "baroque" harmonic counterpoint, astounding technical precision and maniacal rhythmic emphasis of its compositions are akin to its genre's elaborate technical narrations (that it influenced) being relayed by a supreme orator (instrumentals and vocals and the unification thereof), perfectly arranged and emphasized in expression and form (later bands made far more elaborate and progressive examples, but rarely bettered in such perfect congruence of all elements).

badseed wrote:
Oh and Appetite for Destruction is overrated (though it's still better than every other GNR record combined). Don't get me wrong, it's a banger, but unfairly it's way more famous than many great metal albums from the same year.


Though I doubt it will drop below 8/10, I would love to find some better examples.
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Oh, 8/10 sounds about right. Like I said, it's good, just overrated. I wasn't suggesting it go lower. Just counter-arguing those that say it should be higher.

For some reason I was thinking it came out in '89, not '87. But even for '87 I'd put it behind Scream Bloody Gore, Under the Sign of the Black Mark and Keeper of the Seven Keys.
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Well, if you're looking for recs you can check out my metal chart. I've never been able to get much into thrash or death metal, but there's a lot of black and doom on there. A bit of progressive metal and other stuff too. If you like Neurosis you could check out the ones I marked as atmospheric sludge metal. And don't freak out that Appetite for Destruction isn't on there, I just didn't consider it metal enough haha.
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