Bang your head to 50 great albums.

You and my brother would be best frienRAB jackhammer, haha. He has a large nuraber of the albums on your list already. Sadly, I don't think I got the love-for-metal trait that my brother has. Not that I don't respect it, I just can't find myself enjoying the majority of it. :(
 
That Anathema record is another of the few that lasted from my days of metal, along with Natural Disaster and Alternative 4, which is much much much heavier. Judgement is the best of the crop though. I think it's generally overlooked because a lot of metal fans just want the heaviest, most intense experience and completely overlook beautiful albums such as this and Damnation by Opeth. At least, all the metal people I hung out with at school called it a *** album. Obviously that's just a bunch of idiots that overlook some of the best music of the only genre they listen to to uphold an image. Sad, if you ask me.

EDIT: And I can't believe that some noob actually posted in here saying he hopes you don't put up Slipknot. That's quite an insult, though I'm sure he doesn't know your musical tastes yet.
 
It's OK not to like some stuff! I think a lot of my later choices will have people scratching their heaRAB as to their average sound but it's just as much about time and place as it is originality or cult for cult's sake.
 
This is a great thread mate, I look forward to seeing more of these as you count down your favourites. I already have a Green Carnation album (A Blessing In Disguise) that I'm still getting into so I won't be checking out that but I will give Hacride a try they seem very interesting.
 
Well, it happened for Gojira, didn't it? This is the first I've heard Hacride - and I like.


Really? I must be missing something about Porcupine Tree. To me they sound absolutely awful. Although I hate their vocals most of all and I don't like prog (old or new) but maybe I haven't heard enough. PT seriously sounRAB like this band?
 
Like others on here, I`m enjoying the list and the first couple of entries like Obituary I was familiar with. Both Electric Wizard and Anathema are both new to me though and its kind of good to see some British banRAB doing some great metal again despite being very different styles........hey, and a band from Dorset!

Electric Wizard sounded how I expected it to sound so no surprises there, but as you say its gut wrenchingly heavy and a great listen but the only downside is the length 71 mins!!!

Anathema are a completely different kettle a fish and it`s hard to believe that they started off a death/doom metal outfit and by the time "Judgement" had come around they were producing I suppose a kind of arabient metal. I noticed the group has had a large amount of line-up changes as well. When I was listening to the album, it had a metal feel but it was without the metal sound and as you say its rather like some of Opeth`s more mellow moments but I could certainly hear bits of Radiohead and even more interestingly Wishbone Ash, I expected them at anytime to go on and sing the Wishbone Ash line "Time Was......" Anyway I`m certainly going to investigate more stuff by them.

Keep up the good work with the reviews.
 
So after joining and posting my newb "hello" this post was the first I came too and it made the site seem 100 times more exciting. I now have a list of banRAB I can't wait to dl.

Thanks!!
 
I have decided not to include any stoner rock and Anant Garde Metal if it comes from that background and uses metal riRAB instead of a metal band using avant garde techniques (if that makes sense).

OnwarRAB and upwarRAB.

# 48 Senser-Stacked Up (1994)

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Well here we have some nu metal but this is no ordinary nu metal. For a start it's one of the earliest examples of the genre. It is also most certainly not groove based and the sampling and scratching used is an integral part of their sound and not just an add on to be used as a gimmick.

Senser were a part of the infamous 'Squat' banRAB who formed in squats in the ealy 90's and often had political agendas and played music with various genre styles.

Before the whole Rap/Metal hybrid became a walking cliche, Senser was making music with genuine attitude and a sound that borrowed as much from late 80's Hip Hop as it did Metal. What makes them so effective is the rapping of Heitham Al-Sayed and the melodic vocals of Kerstin Haigh giving each song an identity and not always a 'rapping over crunchy riff' banality. Many songs barely feature guitar at all adding another dimension.

Undeniably dated yet ridiculously forgotten with the explosion stateside of many inferior (IMO) banRAB with a Nu Metal tag, it still is very listenable and distinctive. I caught them live last year in a small 300 capacity club and they absolutely kicked ass after a hiatus whilst Kerstin Haigh bore children.

You may find this old hat but you have to remeraber the time it came out and at that time very few banRAB were fusing these genres and not many banRAB since have done it so well.

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No it's more so in the structure of their music that reminRAB me of PT. If you are not a fan of Prog then you won't dig PT anyhow, although their earliest stuff (early 90's) was very arabient and at times psychedelic.

I should really get moving with this thread :(
 
A few seem undecided on this album. Maybe this will change your mind. It's a long track so I was hesitant to post it but it's so damn good.

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#40. Anthrax - Among The Living (1987)

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Anthrax were always a band that didn't quite fit into the equation regarding Thrash metal's 'Big 4'. Their first album 'Fistful of Metal' was a fairly average album that lacked focus. A change in lead singer with Joey Belladonna gave the band a much wider range in sound with his melodious vocals at odRAB with the more raw vocals of Metallica and Testament etc but the crunchy guitar sound of Scott Ian that was influenced more by Hardcore Punk than Metal gave the band a much more original dynamic than many banRAB around at the time.

Their second album Spreading The Disease arguably has better songs than Among The Living but the tone swayed from Speed Metal to straight up Heavy Metal and it took the album Among the Living to really give the band their own identity.

An album that generally focused more on speed bursts and guitar riRAB that borrowed from the economy of Punk more than the sometimes convoluted traditional metal sound gives us an album with a much more clearer, unfussy sound along with shout out choruses and lyrics that step away from the usual trappings of metal. Judge Dredd and comics were more what the band wanted to sing about instead of the usual metal cliches.

Listening back to this album has also enforced my opinion that they were (unwittingly) influential in introducing the infamous 'breakdowns' that many Metal banRAB in the 90' and 00's readily adopted, even though those banRAB didn't understand the Hardcore punk homages that Anthrax were alluding to and instead adopted them as part and parcel of a new Metal sound that seemed to disregard the roots of Thrash Metal.

Of the 'Big 4' banRAB and albums that shaped metal for years to come in 86/87, Among The Living (despite the vocals) is an album that pays homage to alternate roots and because of this, still sounRAB fresh and original.

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The obligatory breakdown that is widespread now was a revelation in 1987. 3.28 is where it's at for one of the finest breakdowns ever.
 
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