Written by Guest on 27.09.2012 at 19:29

Written by enumaelis on 27.09.2012 at 02:06

Elvenking - Heathenreel, clearly

The first post I agree with on this thread

It's still their best, but I also loved Wyrd. Then it was all way downhill. The rest were kind of OK.. fun-ish... but nothing remotely special. Just the "name" of the band and that's it.

HOWEVER, the newest album, Era, is really impressing me. It's like they found some of that old awesomeness buried under a rock somewhere and are putting it to use. Fucking finally.

The only band I think that about is French progressive metal band Spheric Universe Experience with their first two releases. Their debut "Mental Torments" is possibly one of the best progressive metal albums I have ever heard personally, and their next album "Anima" is around the same level, if not better. However with their third album "Unreal", the band started losing it for me. This album is not terrible, but they were starting to lose the elements that made the first two albums so good, and it seemed like the band was going downhill from there. Now, their newest album "The New Eve" was just released and I consider it to be pretty awful and disappointing. They seemed less inclined in wanting to release the beautiful symphonic progressive metal they did before, and went into a more commercial, poppy sort of metal. That's just how I feel.

Oooh: The 3rd and the Mortal.

The Sorrow EP followed by their debut full-length Tears Laid In Earth are all I like.

Written by Susan on 30.09.2012 at 07:28

Oooh: The 3rd and the Mortal.

The Sorrow EP followed by their debut full-length Tears Laid In Earth are all I like.

I forgot this one to I agree whit you

@gyt who mentioned Emperor you're wrong all albums is good
Vintersorg EP and 1th yes when theys ing in swedish about nature and so non, I hate when band turned more ptrpg and start write lyrics about stars but now band came beck to roots so its wrong afan say only 1th

Well for me that would be Moon spell 's Wolfheart and Amorphis's Tales of Thousand lakes (although i like Elegy too)....

Metallica

Written by Guest on 14.10.2012 at 00:38

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 09.10.2012 at 15:06

...Amorphis's Tales of Thousand lakes (although i like Elegy too)....

Tales is the second album.

never mind...its like one album out of ...how much? 10? first ...second ...there aint no difference

As far as Pig Destroyer goes...I only really enjoy their first release.

Written by Branzig on 16.10.2012 at 08:28

As far as Pig Destroyer goes...I only really enjoy their first release.

I'm in the extreme opposite side of the spectrum Not only do I love all their releases but I still feel they are the best grind band I've ever heard to the point I think it's unfair for other grind bands I love to be compared with PD since PD is in their own private league.

Definitely Cathedral.... the first album was a masterpiece with those vocals... the others were just ok...

The Haunted

Korn's first album was the only good one IMO, I also prefer Bloodbath's first album.

Dio Holy Diver

"I only like the first album of":
Mayhem (De Mysteriis of course, Deathcrush being an EP). Enslaved (their debut is the only album I still listen to). Autopsy (Mental Funeral lacks DiGiorgio among other things). I guess there are more but I can't think of any right now.

Kataklysm - Sorcery and Bill Withers' Just As I Am. However, I am partial to Withers's Still Bill, which was his second album. Bill looked as sexy as ever on the artwork of Still Bill.

Written by nikarg on 13.07.2017 at 22:01

Mayhem

I'm sorry, but I cannot understand how someone can say they only like Mayhem's debut. Yes it was the most important and influential of their albums, but their later albums such as Grand Declaration Of War, Ordo Ad Chao, and Esoteric Warfare are also excellent. I hope you've checked those albums out.

Machinehead.

Loved their first, second mediocre, third i gave away after one spin.

Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
Abyssic Hate - Suicidal Emotions
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

Written by Maco on 17.07.2017 at 12:13

Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
Abyssic Hate - Suicidal Emotions
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

Yeah, I was gonna post those along with these:
Demilich - Nespithe
Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
Weakling - Dead As Dreams

Written by Guest on 17.07.2017 at 05:01

Written by nikarg on 13.07.2017 at 22:01

Mayhem

I'm sorry, but I cannot understand how someone can say they only like Mayhem's debut. Yes it was the most important and influential of their albums, but their later albums such as Grand Declaration Of War, Ordo Ad Chao, and Esoteric Warfare are also excellent. I hope you've checked those albums out.

I have checked them out. I do find Grand Declaration Of War interesting, even though it was a shock for me back at the time. Still, I certainly don't find it excellent. I haven't paid much attention to the other two you mention tbh. Gave each of them a couple of spins when they came out and they both fell out of rotation for a reason I guess. Generally, I like my black metal tr00 and cvlt, except if it is something extra special and these albums aren't (for me at least).

Metallica..

Kobra And The Lotus, maybe? I didn't think much of their 2nd and 3rd albums. Giving 4 a chance, but hopes aren't high.

I have some of those. Drowning Pool being the best example. Ever since Dave died they have had a revolving door of other vocalists, and they're so nondescript I can't name any.

The Foreshadowing - while other albums are not *bad*, the first album is just a masterpiece.

Because it hasn't been listed: Immolation. I have enjoyed, at least to some degree, all of their material, but Dawn of Possession is the one I keep coming back to the most.

I'll also say Entombed. They never came close to matching Left Hand Path.