25 Most Influential Albums

[frantik2k3]

Top 25 Metal Albums according to IGN.com...

Source: http://music.ign.com/articles/755/755929p1.html


1. Metallica - Master of Puppets (Elektra Records, 1986)
2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Warner Bros., 1971)
3. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (Capitol Records, 1982)
4. Megadeth - Rust in Peace (Capitol Records, 1990)
5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (Megaforce Records, 1984)
6. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz (Jet Records, 1980)
7. Slayer - Reign in Blood (American Records, 1986)
8. Dio - Holy Diver (Reprise Records, 1983)
9. Metallica - ...And Justice for All (Elektra Records, 1988)
10. Motorhead - Ace of Spades (Castle Music, 1980)
11. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (East/West, 1992)
12. Anthrax - Among the Living (Megaforce, 1987)
13. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Warner Bros., 1970)
14. Fate's Warning - No Exit (Metal Blade, 1988)
15. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance (Columbia Records, 1982)
16. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil (Elektra Records, 1983)
17. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Reprise Records, 2006)
18. Opeth - Blackwater Park (Koch, 2001)
19. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell (Atlantic Records, 1990)
20. Deep Purple - Machine Head (Warner Bros., 1972)
21. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind (Capitol Records, 1983)
22. Ozzy - Diary of a Madman (Jet Records, 1981)
23. Sepultura - Roots (Roadrunner Records, 1996)
24. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (EMI, 1988)
25. Scorpions - Lovedrive (Mercury Records, 1979)


Metallica also was on the "Honorable Mentions" list with Kill 'Em All and the Black album.

[frantik2k3]

What they had to say about ...And Justice For All:
While Metallica's three previous albums are all bona fide Heavy Metal classics and seminal entries in the genre, it was this, their fourth studio effort that launched them into the arena rock-meets-MTV big time. Thanks to the edgy and disturbing video for "One," --a massive metal ditty based on Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun--the band cracked the MTV rotation and drove a serious spike into the heart of the dying New Wave scene that had formerly ruled the music television outlet. SD


What they said about Ride The Lightning:
When it comes down to it, Ride the Lightning is, beginning to end, one of Metallica's best recorded endeavors. If there is such thing as a near perfect metal album, this is pretty close to it.


What they said about Master of Puppets:
Say what you will about the Metallica of post-2000, but in their hey day the quartet from the San Francisco Bay Area were the kings of all things metal. Six string shredding? Check. Machine gun drumming? Check. Thundering sh!t-in-your-pants-bass? Check. It was all there in spades. Heavy metal fans no doubt have argued till blue in the balls about which Metallica album is the greatest. It's a tough argument, to be true, but after kicking all naysayer's in the gonads, we came to the conclusion that the band's third magnum opus was easily their best. Why? Because it built upon and perfected everything they had experimented with prior. It's the album where all the pieces come together in glorious cohesion and it's the album that finally woke the general public up to the power and the glory that Metallica was born to spread.

[kirksang]

Thanks frantik !

[even13flow]

Awesome, in my experience IGN usually sucks with everything. Glad to see they know what they are doing there at least.

[Judge B]

Motörhead is not heavy metal, it's just hard rock. Well, whatever.

[Metallifold]

it built upon and perfected everything they had experimented with prior. It's the album where all the pieces come together in glorious cohesion and it's the album that finally woke the general public up to the power and the glory that Metallica was born to spread.

Now if they could only do that with their new album, Mix what they have done so far and produce it well. So far it looks like that's what they're doin.

The New Song- St. anger, Justice, Re-Load.
The Other New Song- Kill em all, Garage inc.

[Elmoz]

there is only one think that i dont get yet

Spence D. and Ed T. countdown the most influential heavy metal albums ever.

so how come mastodon can influence someone if their album was realesed last year. hehe

[Mr.Metal]

there is only one think that i dont get yet

Spence D. and Ed T. countdown the most influential heavy metal albums ever.

so how come mastodon can influence someone if their album was realesed last year. hehe

You are 110% right, but in IGN's defense...well, it's IGN and they pretty much suck at everything they write.

[Danallica]

Thats actaully a pretty decent list, at least compared to most of this kind, even Opeth got a well deserved mention, although I think Still Life would have been a better choice.

[sacha]

That's very nice to see that Metallica has a great influence over the new bands that appear today

Speed Metal never dies !