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Topic: Albums You Think Are Absolutely Perfect
Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Subject: Albums You Think Are Absolutely Perfect
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 7:06pm

The following, for those of you who don�t read titles, is a List of what I�d consider to be �Perfect Albums.� What I mean by this is that the albums don�t contain any bad songs and nothing about them whatsoever annoys me.

This is different from stating a list of my favourite albums, because many of my favourite albums have some absolutely amazing highlights but unfortunately feature some filler, or one really annoying interlude, or bad lyrics� or some other key flaw that means that while they may still be one of the best albums around, they aren�t a perfect album.

Some of my favourite bands never made a perfect album despite me thinking of them more highly in general than some of the bands who have.

Anyway; In my opinion, the following are all Perfect Albums:

 

 

1. Dozer � Through The Eyes Of Heathens : Though I�ve only owned it for a relatively short period of time, there isn�t one riff, vocal line or drum fill on this that I don�t love, it all fits together well with an excellent flow and it is a really difficult album to stop listening to once you have started.

 

 

2. Rishloo � Eidolon: I think it may be both a perfect album and their best album as well, although Feathergun is still amazing too. The songs are so well written, memorable and the performance is just great, same goes for the lyrics and production. This album has no flaws.

 

 

3. Anthrax � Among The Living : One of the band�s more popular releases and for good reason, though I may slightly prefer �Disease or �Time for their highlights, they aren�t perfect albums like this is. No filler, classic songs, great musicianship.

 

 

4. Chimaira � The Infection: The best album in there career, and yet everyone seemed to either dislike it or allow it to pass them by unnoticed. Dispite this bizarre case of mass fan exodus; The Infection is a flawless album from start to finish, consisting of all the best bits of Chimaira�s sound for a full album� so many memorable moments, so many great riffs, so little filler.

 

 

5. Arctic Monekys � Whatever People Say I Am That�s What I�m Not: What single second of this album isn�t good ? None !

 

 

6. Five Finger Death Punch � Their Heaviest album, the one with the best/least worst lyrics, the least cheesy choruses and the only one not over polished in the studio. All three of their albums are good, but this one is the only one that is perfect. Another album that is difficult not to just listen to all of, once you�ve started.

 

 

7. Hatebreed � Hatebreed : Like The Infection, the perfect encapsulation of everything the band do, distilled perfectly into a creative and engaging album on which every track is great, the sequence is perfect, the production is flawless and it still brings something new to the band�s sound even with all that going on.

 

 

8. Mastodon � Blood Mountain and Crack The Skye: Leviathan just missed out because I sometimes go through moods of Disliking �Island,� but it is very close to inclusion too. I don�t really need to describe the following two releases at all to anyone reading this blog.

 

 

9. Pearl Jam � Backspacer : I can�t think of a single problem with this album right now, it is such a great piece of work and possibly their best to date.

 

 

10. Green Day � Insomniac : Doesn�t have the biggest hit singles or the most ideas, but it doesn�t have any flaws or any filler either, just a succinct and enjoyable collection of good songs.

 

 

11. Lamb Of God � Wrath, Sacrament and Ashes� : Lamb Of God are one of the very few bands to ever make more than one perfect album in my eyes. Listening to all three of these records there just isn�t anything wrong with them.

 

 

12. Judas Priest � This isn�t actually my favourite Judas Priest album, despite it principally being one of the main reasons that I tried the band out. I like other albums better based on the highlights sure, but no other Priest album is so focused, precise and �perfect.

 

 

13. Down � Over The Under: There just isn�t anything wrong with this record at all, I can�t really go into it any further than that without repeating myself.

 

 

14. Pantera � Reinventing The Steel: See my review for further information.

 

 

15. Jetplane Landing � Once Like A Spark: There was one year, back when I was still at school when I listened to this at least once every day for a whole term.

 

 

There were a few records that came close to inclusion, but may have been a bit overlong, a bit too short, had weak production or even one really stupid lyric that spoiled the inclusion, one album (GG-TPATG) even lost out due to it running order, which had it been the same songs in a different sequence would be a perfect album. The biggest problem I had was not including Kyuss�s Welcome To Sky Valley, which I felt like it�d be hypocritical to allow in with the exception that I hate the hidden album closer �Lick Do.�

Runner�s up included Architect�s The Here And Now, Dio�s Holy Diver, Led Zeppelin 4, Gentle Giant�s The Power And The Glory, Fear Factory�s Demanufacture, Kiss�s Sonic Boom, Marilyn Manson�s Holywood and Napalm Death�s Harmony Corruption.

One observation I have made when compiling this, is that not a lot of albums from the 1970s ever managed to come out free from either filler or at least one song that I dislike. Some really great classic rock and prog albums always have one flaw or another that denies them perfect status.
Pink Floyd�s Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals all seem like they should be on here too, but for some unknowable reason I can�t seem to add them, so they must have some flaw somewhere I perceive� even though I can�t seem to perceive it� as stupid as that sounds.

Comments, Observations and your own lists are welcome.



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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 7:15pm
Choirs of the Eye.


Posted By: Diogenes
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 7:31pm
This list was originally twice as long, but these are the only albums I wouldn't change a single thing about:

Death - Symbolic.  Revolutionary and the pinnacle of extreme metal.  Probably won't be topped any time soon, or ever.
Amorphis - Skyforger.  Gets better every time I listen to it, and that's a lot!
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech.  The best thing he's ever done, which is saying something.  It flows unlike any album I've ever heard.
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways.  Out-Floyding Floyd.  I think I'm the only person out there who likes this era of PT more than their current.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here.  Not much to say except that it's aged like fine wine.  Still sounds fresh somehow.
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place.  There aren't enough adjectives in the English language to describe how much I love this album.  Best post-rock album by far.



Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 7:56pm
Pain Of Salvation The Perfect Element Part 1 album cover

Probably the only absolutely 100% perfect album I've ever heard. Try as I might, I can't find a single flaw here. Bowdown


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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 10:05pm
Originally posted by Diogenes Diogenes wrote:


Death - Symbolic.  Revolutionary and the pinnacle of extreme metal.  Probably won't be topped any time soon, or ever.



I think I agree with this statement


Posted By: arcane-beautiful
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 12:38am
Rust In Peace and Pain Of Salvations Be are one of the only 2 that come in to my mind. If I think of any more I'll reply back


Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 2:15am
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Choirs of the Eye.

And that's basically it for 'perfect' albums, although other things come deathly close.


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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 3:12am
I can make long explanations to why the below albums are perfect from by point of view, but I�ll keep it short. These albums are not only among my favorite metal albums but they are perfect beyond being just favorites. They are all albums with no filler whatsoever and they all greatly move me.
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:05am
I can think of a few

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Animals
Opeth - Still Life
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Agalloch - The Mantle

There are heaps of others that come close, but those five are my god-tier.


Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:40am
Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood were both close for me, but both lost out by a nose hair.

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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:49am
I'll try to keep this list as small as possible.


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Posted By: Colt
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:56am
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 By: Tupan
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 8:04am
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


Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 10:32am
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 Big smile)

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 By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 5:11pm
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)


Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 7:03pm

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.


Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2011 at 7:05pm
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

-  Cat Stevens:  Tea for the Tillerman.
 

Yes!! There's another one for me. Smile


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Posted By: Time Signature
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2011 at 3:30am
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.


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Posted By: Woutjinho
Date Posted: 09 Nov 2011 at 3:45pm
@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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Posted By: Doomster
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2012 at 2:55pm
Hmmm let's see...the Dwelling by Sabbat comes to mind the most. 


Posted By: Xaxaar
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2012 at 3:05pm
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 By: Zargus
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2012 at 11:44am


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Posted By: SKwid
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2012 at 2:31pm
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Diogenes Diogenes wrote:


Death - Symbolic.  Revolutionary and the pinnacle of extreme metal.  Probably won't be topped any time soon, or ever.



I think I agree with this statement

parsha - june kids : while not metal, it is a perfect album in my eyes. Shame that he took down his bandcamp Cry


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Posted By: IMPF2112
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 8:48pm
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.


Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 11:30pm
Originally posted by J-Man J-Man wrote:

Pain Of Salvation The Perfect Element Part 1 album cover

Probably the only absolutely 100% perfect album I've ever heard. Try as I might, I can't find a single flaw here. Bowdown

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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Posted By: Nick Dilley
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2012 at 11:42am
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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Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2012 at 12:14pm
Black sabbath - Paranoid. probobly the most perfect heavy metal album ever.

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Posted By: Vobiscum
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2012 at 10:21pm
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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Posted By: Wilytank
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2012 at 10:22pm
Originally posted by Doomster Doomster wrote:

Hmmm let's see...the Dwelling by Sabbat comes to mind the most. 

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Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 5:01am
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



Posted By: Earendil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 5:05am
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

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)

Interesting that you chose the Loft.  Care to share why?

And props for Jean Louis.


Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 7:36am
Because it's incredibly beautiful and powerful


Posted By: vmoore
Date Posted: 28 May 2013 at 11:40am
shinedown the sound of madness deluxe edition

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Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2013 at 10:13am
Boston - Boston
Rush - Moving Pictures
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Kansas - Leftoverture

I'm sure there's more, just cant think of any at the moment....


Posted By: Jbird
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2013 at 8:42am
I thought of another one:

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14 songs on that, and each one could've been a huge hit if this album had come out in 1985 instead of 2005.

How many classic albums do you know of that you can hear every song from the album on the radio? Boston - Boston, AC/DC - Back In Black, Michael Jackson - Thriller, Def Leppard - Hysteria to name a few. Gotthard - Lipservice is that good, too bad it was released by a relatively unknown band from Switzerland.


Posted By: The Angry Scotsman
Date Posted: 29 Oct 2013 at 10:14am
Agalloch - The Mantle
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Atheist - Elements
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Slayer - Reign in Blood (NOT one of my top albums personally, but it doesn't waste a moment)
Isis - In the Absence of Truth, Panopticon (I need to update my review, with even more time passing it has reached perfection status to me)  
 
 
Non metal:
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
King Crimson - Red
Boston - Boston
 
 
Lateralus is of course brilliant, but considering the album has filler...that alone means it can't reach the "6 star" level in my book.
 


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Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: 30 Oct 2013 at 11:51pm

The only metal album that I can truly call 100% perfect


Posted By: renkls
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2013 at 7:40am
Originally posted by Eria Tarka Eria Tarka wrote:


The only metal album that I can truly call 100% perfect
+ 1


Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2013 at 11:50pm
Protest The Hero's Kezia


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Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2013 at 3:13pm






I took the liberty of putting an album of symphonic prog rock (Ashes Are Burning - Renaissance).


Posted By: Kingcrimsonprog
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2013 at 4:04pm
I got the following for Xmas:

Testament - Dark Roots Of Thrash Blu

Iced Earth - Live At Ancient Kurion Blu

Iced Earth - Horror Show & The Glorious Burden

Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free 2

Melechesh - Emmisaries

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing



Also books about Toni Iommi, Dave Mustaine, DOA, Jethro Tull, Slipknot, and Heavy Metal's history. 


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Posted By: Joneser
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2014 at 10:56am
Every TOOL album.
Every Rage Against The Machine album
Faith No More - Angle Dust
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Metallica - And Justice for All
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Soundgarden - Bad Motorfinger
Pearl Jam - Ten
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
Dio - Holy Diver
FEAR - The Record
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

These albums are perfect to me.
I enjoy them front to back back with out skipping a track.



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Posted By: Psydye
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2014 at 11:24am
Only album that comes to mind at the moment is 'Fragile' by Yes...there are others, I'm sure!


Posted By: vmoore
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2014 at 11:45am
God damn i like this album a hell of a lot




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Date Posted: 03 Jul 2014 at 10:23am


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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2014 at 1:44am
Originally posted by Time Signature Time Signature wrote:

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.


Wink


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Posted By: Gabimm
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2015 at 7:42am
Dream Theater (Images & Words and Scenes From A Memory)
Metallica (Master of Puppets and ...And Justice For All)
Megadeth (Rust In Peace and Countdown To Extinction)
Annihilator (Alice in Hell)
Exodus (Exhibit B... and Tempo of The Damned)
Iron Maiden (Piece of Mind and Powerslave)
Pink Floyd (Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals)
Yes (Relayer and Closer to The Edge)
Alice Cooper (Killer)
Anglagard (Hybris)
Rush (Test for Echo, Moving Pictures and 70's)
Type O' Negative (Life Is Killing Me)
Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication and Stadium Arcadium - Mars/Jupiter)
Pearl Jam (Ten)
Mad Season (Mad Season)
Renaissance (Ashes are Burning)

*Sorry, I could not resist and I mentioned bands out of metal.


Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2015 at 2:26am
Originally posted by Gabimm Gabimm wrote:

Dream Theater (Images & Words and Scenes From A Memory)
Metallica (Master of Puppets and ...And Justice For All)
Megadeth (Rust In Peace and Countdown To Extinction)
Annihilator (Alice in Hell)
Exodus (Exhibit B... and Tempo of The Damned)
Iron Maiden (Piece of Mind and Powerslave)
Pink Floyd (Dark Side of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals)
Yes (Relayer and Closer to The Edge)
Alice Cooper (Killer)
Anglagard (Hybris)
Rush (Test for Echo, Moving Pictures and 70's)
Type O' Negative (Life Is Killing Me)
Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication and Stadium Arcadium - Mars/Jupiter)
Pearl Jam (Ten)
Mad Season (Mad Season)
Renaissance (Ashes are Burning)

*Sorry, I could not resist and I mentioned bands out of metal.

I love ze prog, Gabi Wink


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Posted By: Valdis
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2015 at 8:51am
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn


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Posted By: StargazerSlave
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2015 at 12:46pm
Originally posted by Valdis Valdis wrote:

Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn


This and Rush- Hemispheres


Posted By: ManDog
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2015 at 1:13pm
So many...just so many.

A few that I have been revisiting recently

Chris Poland - Return to Metalocolips
Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - Kill em All - Ride the Lightning 
Gnr - (metal debatable) - Appetite
Judas - British Steel
Motley - Shout at the Devil
Silent Drive - Love is Worth It





Posted By: Unitron
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 10:17pm
Here's just 10, one album per artist, starting with metal:

Clutch - The Elephant Riders (My all time favorite album)
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Korn - Issues
Powerman 5000 - Mega!! Kung Fu Radio
Anthrax - State of Euphoria
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
Ratt - Invasion of Your Privacy
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance

Another 10, not metal:

The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
deadmau5 - While(1<2)
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
The Crystal Method - Vegas
R.E.M. - Document
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night


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Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 11:22pm
Here are a few I can think of:

Billy Joel - The Stranger
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Rush - Hemispheres 
Death - Symbolic
Bjork - Vespertine
Madonna - Ray of Light 
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory 
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Incubus - Morning View
X Japan - Art of Life
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt


Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2015 at 11:23pm
Btw, The Stranger is my favorite album of all time


Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2015 at 3:30am
Here's an update to my all time favourites.








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Posted By: Hellbender
Date Posted: 13 May 2017 at 6:20am
This one:




Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 7:17am
Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making: The only metal album whose everything is perfect for me. 

BT-Ft-Lo-Aat-M-Cover



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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 11:59am
Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

Here's an update to my all time favourites.







Oh wow, this has got really fucked up after a few years. LOL

Guess I'll make an updated post shortly. 


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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 12:40pm
^ If they were perfect, they would endure the test of time. Tongue

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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 1:02pm
Until albums clean my friggin house, there is no perfection. But there are many that come close! Too many to count though :D


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Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 1:19pm
Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

^ If they were perfect, they would endure the test of time. Tongue

I was referring to the amount of broken images, rather than changes in opinion. 


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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 2:25pm
^ And I made a joke, with a full grasp of your "reference". Smile

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Posted By: Psydye
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 3:43pm
Here's one for me:



Posted By: adg211288
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 4:19pm
Originally posted by Shadowyzard Shadowyzard wrote:

^ And I made a joke, with a full grasp of your "reference". Smile

It really didn't come across that way. 

I'm chuckling a bit now, but this is the trouble with the internet. We don't always read everything in the tone its intended. LOL


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Posted By: BitterJalapeno
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2021 at 4:20pm
For albums featured on MMA, I will say:

Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream


For other genres there are countless but off the top of my head:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Van Morrison - St Dominic's Preview
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Steely Dan - Aja
blink-182 - Dude Ranch
The Beatles - Abbey Road

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Posted By: Iwan Ruby
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2021 at 11:29am
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
this album is very interesting from the various things that are poured in it.. the emotions of each song are very strong, and the personnel's age is still very young which makes the feel of rebellion very strong!

Angra - Temple Of Shadows
this album is the golden era of modern angra formation, all the songs are really in the right composition.. proven by that 'Spread Your Fire' is one of the most covered power metal songs!


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Posted By: LightningRider
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2021 at 10:00am
I give out perfect ratings pretty commonly.  I believe perfection comes in many forms and that each genre is a "form" that can be perfected.  As far as metal goes, I'd pick my avatar, but as far as the greatest album of all time, I've never found anything that beat out Led Zeppelin IV.  BUt believe me, I've been looking.


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Posted By: DeathofMan
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2022 at 11:53pm

This album is SO good, and In The Shadow of Our Pale Companion is one of the greatest songs ever written

A celebration for the death of man…
             …and the great cold death of the Earth


Posted By: LightningRider
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2022 at 11:38am
Currently, I've got 78 metal albums that I consider perfect.  I know that feels like a lot, but I have a firm rule about judging every genre: every genre is its own artform with its own set of rules, and these rules should be taken into account when judging.  Since I listen to every type of metal, I have quite a few examples of perfection, ranging from the melodic and extreme black metal of Thurisaz to the complex and maniacal punk-metal of Converge to even the lighter but still energetic bridge between heavy metal and hair metal of Motley Crue, who put the metal in hair metal in ways most hair bands can't do.

NOTE: I do NOT consider Van Halen hair metal.

Once I get through with Decade of Aggression, I'll check on some of the metal albums I fear I may be overrating, like Stormwarrior's At Foreign Shores and Ensiferum's self-titled.  But here's my top ten:

1. Metallica - Ride the Lightning (thrash and heavy with touches of speed and prog)
2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (early heavy metal with a little doom and psych)
3. Neurosis - Through Silver and Blood (somewhat progressive atmo-sludge)
4. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera (controversial pick, I know, but the least monotonous of the BG classics)
5. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (death doom metal with a strong Gothic touch)
6. Dream Theater - Metropolis, Pt. 2 (prog metal with touches of Queensryche and Pink Floyd)
7. Helloween - Keeper, Pt. 2 (power metal's most anthemic and catchy album)
8. Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (melodic black with some thrash and a hint of prog)
9. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (early heavy metal with strong doom undertones)
10. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (a very diverse metal album, but not the prog album it's made out to be)


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Posted By: DeathofMan
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2022 at 5:03pm

Here's another album I consider perfect. There's very few albums that can match the levels of genuine anger and pain expressed on Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral. Listening to this album is an intense and humbling experience.



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