[Iron_Dreamer]

Good list, asr!

Here's a few more for you, with album recommendations in parenthesis:

Fates Warning (Awaken the Guardian)
Virgin Steele (The House of Atreus, Act 1)
Rage (Unity)
Running Wild (Pile of Skulls)
Gamma Ray (Land of the Free)
Jag Panzer (Mechanized Warfare)
Overkill (Horrorscope)
Dark Angel (Darkness Descends)
Kreator (Coma of Souls)
Therion (Theli)
Stratovarius (Visions)
Gorguts (Obscura)

 

[scytheavatar]

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Originally Posted by Asr /img/forum/go_quote.gif This thread has been really helpful as I've been building my metal collection over the past several months. I've amassed the below artists so far (inclusive of all metal sub-genres). Any notable ones I'm missing, given my list? I do have a few more queued up next, like the aforementioned Amon Amarth. (List is in two "columns" to prevent it from looking too long.) Agalloch | Amorphis Anthrax | Arch Enemy Arcturus | Bathory Burzum | Black Sabbath Beyond Twilight | Dark Tranquillity Darkthrone | Diablo Swing Orchestra Dimmu Borgir | Dio Dissection | Disturbed Dream Theater | Entombed Epica | Fear Factory Godsmack | Iced Earth Immolation | Immortal In Flames | Incubus Iron Maiden | Isis Judas Priest | Kamelot Katatonia | Killswitch Engage Lacuna Coil | Mastodon Megadeth | Metallica Motorhead | Nightwish Nile | Opeth O.S.I. | Queensryche Rainbow | Satyricon Seether | Sepultura Sirenia | Slayer Sonata Arctica | Symphony X Testament | Tool | Within Temptation

Ten Death:
Death *
Morbid Angel *
Atheist*
Carcass
Dismember
Edge of Sanity
Suffocation
Pestilence
Amon Amarth
Gorguts

Ten Black:
Emperor*
Enslaved*
Moonsorrow
Shining
Taake
Summoning
Drudkh
Windir
The Ruins of Beverast
Sigh

Ten Prog:
Cynic*
maudlin of the Well
Disillusion
Green Carnation
Solefald
Nightingale
Pain of Salvation
Crimson Glory
Psychotic Waltz
Anacrusis

Ten Power:
Blind Guardian*
Helloween*
Lost Horizon
Virgin Steele
Gamma Ray
Edguy
Wuthering Heights
Hibria
Running Wild
Angra

Ten Trash:
Dark Angel*
Coroner*
Nevermore
Sodom
Overkill
Artillery
Heathen
Vio-Lence
Kreator
Sabbat

Get the ones with * first, as they are considered essentials and you have no right to call yourself a metal fan until you have heard them.

 

[Azathoth]

scytheavatar's recs are solid, can't argue much with his picks for death and black metal. In the spirit of his "ten" theme, adding doom essentials to the list:

Ten Doom (albums included):

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Pagan Altar - Volume 1
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
The Obsessed - Lunar Womb
Trouble - Psalm 9
The Gates of Slumber - Suffer No Guilt
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum

 

[acolyte289]

Based on your list I would add the following, in addition to previous recs of course.

Seventh Wonder (Prog, a must try if you like Dream Theater at all)

Only one I can think of off the top of my head that hasn't already been mentioned, people in here know their stuff

Also another strong recommendation to check out Disillusion which scytheavatar already suggested in his list. Back to Times of Splendor is the album to get and I would consider it essential listening if you like prog metal at all.

 

[Azathoth]

Another great new discovery, Orgone. Wanky, post-ey tech death with a good amount of crushing brutality and neoclassical stylings.

 

[esotericjester]

Based on what I have heard from other people, I want to check out Emperor. What's the best place to start? Just buy the albums in order of release (I won't be buying them all at once), or is there one album that serves as a good introduction?

 

[MaZa]

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Originally Posted by esotericjester /img/forum/go_quote.gif Based on what I have heard from other people, I want to check out Emperor. What's the best place to start? Just buy the albums in order of release (I won't be buying them all at once), or is there one album that serves as a good introduction?

In Nightside Eclipse is considered their best album. Good melodic blackmetal, though not in Dimmu Borgir style. Anthems To The Welkins At Dusk is also great album, much cleaner production. But also its bit different, songs thend to be more chaotic feeling, though not as demented as Tartaros.

Either is a good starting point, judge your self.

YouTube - Emperor - I am the Black Wizards
YouTube - Emperor - Inno A Satana

YouTube - Emperor - Ye Entrancemperium
YouTube - Emperor - Ensorcelled by Khaos

 

[esotericjester]

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Originally Posted by MaZa /img/forum/go_quote.gif In Nightside Eclipse is considered their best album. Good melodic blackmetal, though not in Dimmu Borgir style. Anthems To The Welkins At Dusk is also great album, much cleaner production. But also its bit different, songs thend to be more chaotic feeling, though not as demented as Tartaros. Either is a good starting point, judge your self. YouTube - Emperor - I am the Black Wizards YouTube - Emperor - Inno A Satana YouTube - Emperor - Ye Entrancemperium YouTube - Emperor - Ensorcelled by Khaos

Awesome. Thank you.

 

[thornygravy]

Loving this cd

Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion

 

[Azathoth]

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Originally Posted by esotericjester /img/forum/go_quote.gif Based on what I have heard from other people, I want to check out Emperor. What's the best place to start? Just buy the albums in order of release (I won't be buying them all at once), or is there one album that serves as a good introduction?

What MaZa said. You won't go wrong with either "In the Nightside Eclipse" or "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk" as starting points for Emperor.

As for their other albums, "IX Equilibrium" captures the band at their most venomous and extreme, while the more experimental "Prometheus" is bombastic in its execution.

IMO Emperor has never released anything mediocre, one of those rare bands whose entire discography is worthy of any BM fan's collection.

 

[thornygravy]

My vote goes for 'In the Nightside Eclipse', most enjoyable IMO.

 

[Hyperfluxe]

Get the Live Inferno release, it has all their best songs with the best production. The live production is actually better than studio by a large margin...Black Metal - go figure.

 

[Asr]

Thanks for the recs on the previous page, lots of more muzak to look into.

Wouldn't exactly call myself a "metal fan" btw, at least not yet. Sure there are plenty of bands I like so far, but I'm still exploring the genre, I only just got into it last year.

 

[donunus]

I only heavily got into metal just a little above 2 months and I already consider myself a metal fan just because I now listen to it more than 70% of the time versus my other music

 

[Meliboeus]

Check out this prog metal band, top quality production for a free album, interesting sound combining very melodic vocals Dream Theater style with a slightly heavier edge...

WENDIGO - AUDIO LEASH