What's your all-time favorite metal album?

I had this exact same question asked to me by my best friend and boss almost 10 years ago and then I hesitated for a while, for which he raked me over the coals mercilessly. But I finally came to a conclusion. And today I stand by it: "British Steel" by Judas Priest.


So every major business/work decision we've had to make since then, we jokingly call a "British Steel" decision.
 
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Ugh, my god, just ask for my eyes or to make me pick which kid I love more why dont you? Lmao

This is tough.....i will undoubtedly change my mind the SECOND i type this....but since you asked for favorite METAL album ( it excludes my other #1 album which could be argued as metal but mostly hard rock : Back In Black)

Im going with an album i think is flawless:



Many say Number of the Beast or Powerslave but Piece of Mind is all killer zero filler
 
Yargnad said:
I could easily swap out those 3 albums, Lateralus is right up there too. If I had to listen to it forever, it's going to be TOOL. I seem to always catch something else in their music that I hadn't heard before and that would keep it interesting for quite a while. I remember one night a group of friends and I discussed Lateralus for hours and even back then regarded it as one of the best and possibly the perfect metal album. This was right about when 10,000 Days was released.
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I've never been too big a fan of Undertow, but all four of the subsequent albums rank up there as my favorites of all time. I give 10,000 days the slightest edge, but I could happily live with AEnima, Lateralus or Fear Inoculum as a number one.

Like you, I have listened to these albums hundreds of times and am always finding new things in them, and they always remain exciting to hear. One thing for the though is I have the listen to them in their entirety - take each one in as a body of work start to finish.
 
gball said:
I've never been too big a fan of Undertow, but all four of the subsequent albums rank up there as my favorites of all time. I give 10,000 days the slightest edge, but I could happily live with AEnima, Lateralus or Fear Inoculum as a number one.

Like you, I have listened to these albums hundreds of times and am always finding new things in them, and they always remain exciting to hear. One thing for the though is I have the listen to them in their entirety - take each one in as a body of work start to finish.
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To be honest, Fear Innoculum kinda didnt work for me as well as i had hoped. Its a great album, very spacious and insanely complex, but i guess being lead up from Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 Days with the incredible heavy, quicker tempo songs; it was a big change to hear everything slowed down, I guess. 7empest was the closest song towards the the riffs i was used to.

Still like the album a lot though
 
Man that's hard.
One album only....

Off the top I would say this.

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