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Earendil 
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I'm surprised not to see Lateralus, which I consider to be the single greatest rock/metal album of all time:
 Also: Bath by maudlin of the Well Choirs of the Eye by Kayo Dot Close to the Edge by Yes Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor Sleeping in Traffic Pt 2 by Beardfish Fables of the Sleepless Empire by Unexpect Pawn Hearts by Van Der Graaf Generator I by Meshuggah Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros Of Natural History by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Hubardo by Kayo Dot Edited by Earendil - 30 Jan 2014 at 7:20pm |
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Wilytank
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Posted: 15 Jul 2012 at 10:22pm |
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Posted: 15 Jul 2012 at 10:21pm |
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Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Anathema - We're here because we're here After Forever - Prison of Desire After Forever - Decipher Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side Behemoth - Demigod Behemoth - Apostasy Behemoth - Evangelion Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant Dream Theater - Images and Words Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Pain of Salvation - 12:05 Iced Earth - Horror Show |
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Zargus
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Posted: 14 Jul 2012 at 12:14pm |
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Black sabbath - Paranoid. probobly the most perfect heavy metal album ever.
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Nick Dilley
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Posted: 14 Jul 2012 at 11:42am |
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With Oden on Our Side
I've kinda become tired with Amon Amarth recently, but I love that album! there are a bunch of other for me, but I gotta think about it a bit more... |
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CCVP
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Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 11:30pm |
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I have found many flaws on this album. Hardly Pain of Salvation's best. As for me, I may have to think hard on this one. Even though there are albums that really mare masterful and amazing, I can always see some kind of flaw or it demands some kind of mindset for me on thoroughly enjoy it. I'll edit this post with my answer. Some that do get very close (alphabetically; only metal albums/artists): Ansur - Warring Factions Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance Ars Nova - 7th Hell Ayreon - Electric Castle, Human Equation, Y Blind Guardian - Nightfall, Night at the Opera Death - Human, Symbolic, Sound of Perseverance Deep Purple - In Rock DT - I&W, Awake, Scenes from a Memory, Six Degrees, Black Clouds Disperse - Journey Through The Hidden Gardens Dynahead - Antigen Dark Angel - Time Does not Heal Enslaved - Vertebrae Fedrik Thordendal Special Defects - s/t Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony Freakeys - s/t Gru - Cosmogenesis Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Maiden - Number of the Beast John Arch - A Twist Of Fate King Crimson - In the Court, Red Leprous - Bilateral Machine Head - Blackening (it's the only album by this band I actually enjoy, though) Matr�z - Gritar�
Maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving your Body Map Mekong Delta - Dances of Death, Vision Fugitives, Wanderer Metallica - Ride, Master, Justice Mindflow - Just the Two of Us, Mind over Body Myrath - Hope Nevermore - Godless Endeavor Opeth - My Arms, Still Life, Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries, Watershed Orphaned Land - Mabool (it's the only album by this band I actually enjoy, though) Pain of Salvation - Entropia, One Hour, Remedy Lane Pantera - Cowboys Parallaxe - Soundtrack Pestilence - Spheres Porcupine Tree - Deadwing, Fear Queensr�che - Mindcrime 1 Rainbow - Rising Riverside - Second Life Syndrome, ADHD Rush - FArewell to Kings Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains, Arise Shadow Gallery - Tyranny, Room V Shaman - Ritual Symphony X - V Taal - Skymind Unmoored - Indefinite Soul-Extension Unexpect - Fables Of The Sleepless Empire Voivod - Nothingface That's it, I think.
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IMPF2112
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Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 8:48pm |
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The only four albums I would consider perfect are The Voice of Steel by Nokturnal Mortum, Hemispheres by Rush, Brave New World by Iron Maiden and Morningrise by Opeth. There about a half a dozen other albums that come pretty darn close, but not close enough for me to consider them absolutely perfect in every single sense of the term.
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Posted: 04 Jul 2012 at 2:31pm |
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parsha - june kids : while not metal, it is a perfect album in my eyes. Shame that he took down his bandcamp
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Zargus
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Posted: 04 Jul 2012 at 11:44am |
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Posted: 01 Jul 2012 at 3:05pm |
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Think the three most perfectest albums I know (doesn't HAVE to be metal, right?) are:
   Oh, and for clarification on the middle album, that's Spiderland by Slint.
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Posted: 01 Jul 2012 at 2:55pm |
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Hmmm let's see...the Dwelling by Sabbat comes to mind the most.
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@Kingcrimsonprog: Weird to see you don't have Mastodon - Leviathan in your list because of Island. Because Island was one of my fav. of the album. Though, I wouldn't say it is perfect.
Nice to see Dozer as well. Never heard the entire album really. Seen them and heard some songs which were cool. (care to share perhaps?)
And I would change Metallica - Master Of Puppets by shorten every song like 2 minutes. Or leave out the 3rd couplet. To me the album takes too long.
My perfect list: Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard. Grindcore. First grindcore I've heard and has been one of my fav. all this time.
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness. Cool and occult.
Slayer - Hell Awaits. Evil and satanic thrash. I think this has a better sound than their jewel, Reign In Blood.
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire. Great Atmospheric brutal death metal.
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten and Human Waste.
Cephalotripsy - Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies. Slamming brutality at it's best.
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Time Signature
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Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 3:30am |
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I'm going to stick with metal releases for this one (and it's not exhaustive - I might add to it later):
   
 In part driven by a fanboyism that�ll never go away, but still I think these albums are no less than awesome. They are loaded with hits, and even the fillers are top notch.      "Dirty Deeds..." might not belong to the same category of mega-hit albums as the others, but it is still - like the other albums - one of those albums where I simply like all the songs on it. Part of the attraction factor is also that it is kind of obscure and has a gritty heavy sound.  With its totally unique sounds and nearly superhuman musicianship (and not a single weak moment), this album is no less than perfect.   First off, there are no weak tunes on the albums. Secondly, both albums are very innovative. Thirdly, they sound very different from each other.   "Master..." is probably the most important thrash metal album ever, and one major factor is probably the ultra-dubbed crushingly brutal guitar sound. "Justice" may not be perfect production-wise, but I really love how every single song is a pure riff-fest.  The epitome of epic doom metal with soaring vocals by Rob Lowe and big, yet depressive, songs.   Probably the best tech thrash releases of the 90s.  An album that I never get tired of listening to - has no tracks that I do not enjoy.   Blackmore + Dio = perfection   Another pair of albums where all songs are fully enjoyable (and especially the presence of Zonder's drumming and Alder's vocals make these two releases perfect).   "Painkiller" should be a no-brainer, but "Turbo" might need some explaining. It's true that it is much more pop-oriented, but compared to all other pop metal releases of that decade, "Turbo" was head and shoulders above in terms of musicianship and songwriting.  Simple, heavy, and groovy   Both releases are unique, innovative and groundbreaking. Edited by Time Signature - 08 Nov 2011 at 3:32am |
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Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 7:05pm |
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Yes!! There's another one for me.
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From metal albums: - Therion: Secret of the Runes.
- Within Temptation: Mother Earth.
- Apocalyptica: Cult, Reflections.
- Nightwish: Highest Hopes (yes, a best of album).
- Led Zeppelin: IV (well, not metal, but they are widely considered as one of the main precursors of metal).
Though I might say Dream Theater is among my very favourite bands, there's no album from them that I really like from start to end.
Some prog albums that I would consider perfect:
- Pink Floyd: Wish you were Here, Animals, The Division Bell. Live in Pompeii (though this is a video instead of a sole music CD... but indeed I wish it was available as CD too). Dark Side of the Moon I would say almost perfect (On the Run and Money bring it down a bit).
- Yes: Fragile, Close to the Edge.
- King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King almost perfect (the long noodling in Moonchild bring it down a bit).
- Rick Wakeman: Six Wives of Henry the VIII, Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Out There. Perhaps even some albums like Stella Bianca a la Corte di Re Ferdinand, and Songs from Middle Earth, which are not quiet as stellar as other albums, but every song is enjoyable and nice.
- Focus: Hamburger Concerto.
- Anglagard: Hybris.
- Triana: El Patio, Hijos del Agobio.
- Le Orme: Felona e Sorona.
- Metamorphosi: Inferno.
- Transatlantic: The Whirlwind.
- Cast: Originalis.
Not metal (nor prog):
- Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman.
Well... I didn't expect to get so many albums into the list, but once I started going I remembered more and more and couldn't leave them out.
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Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:11pm |
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I guess I can come up with some more, especially if we are listing non-metal albums
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Mingus) A Love Supreme (Coltrane) Get Up With It (Davis) Zeit (Tangerine Dream) In Den Gartens Pharaos (Popol Vuh) In The L...L...Library Loft (Toby Driver) Panopticon and Oceanic (Isis) Jean Louis (Jean Louis) |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 10:32am |
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Four definites for me without thinking about it: Metallica - Master Of Puppets King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic King Crimson - Red Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue + At least 1/2 the albums I've given 5 stars to here (some probably do have flaws that I choose to ignore  )I always blank on some obvious ones when trying to fill out a list like this, so I'll come back to this as I think of more. Since lists have already deviated from metal, I'll move this topic to one of the general music forums.
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Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 8:04am |
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Sepultura - Chaos AD
Metallica - Master of puppets Random - Todos. os Colores Del Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon Genesis - Selling England By the Pound Rush - A Farewell to Kings Maudlin of The Well - Part The Second Angra - Temple of Shadows None from Maiden, 'cause they are ALMOST perfect |
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Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:56am |
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Priest - Unleashed In The East
Metallica - AJFA John Arch - A Twist Of Fate Fates Warning - Parallels FNM - The Real Thing Sepultura - Arise
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Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:49am |
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I'll try to keep this list as small as possible.
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