So every now and then we (or at least me) bump with albums which were too ahead of its time.
Sometimes it's an album which seems that it could be released today but it was done 20 years ago, for instance Golden Dawn's The Art Of Dreaming


... or sometimes is an album so ahead of its time that even nowadays there's nothing quite like it. Like say, this gem from 1993:


Note that these are not my "most ahead ever" pics, just examples for ilustration, since I want to hear your opinions about it. So, what are the ones that most caused that impression on you guys?
Oh, any genre allowed, not only metal. That's why i used the general music forum

Interesting topic and choices. I can't think of many except these two but I'd love to hear other people's picks.


And maybe Master's Hammer.

Answers to this question are bound to be a little arbitrary and depend on what happened to become popular later. But two late 60s albums that I think sound like something that could have been made today and probably not before the 80s are Silver Apples' Oscillations and Nico's Desertshore (OK it seems to be released in 1970 but whatever). To this day, there's very little that sounds like Silver Apples (Portishead's latest comes to mind), and the kind of gothic drone pop that Nico pioneered has been all the rage over the last ten years.

So many early experimental albums could fit here. Definitely agree with Silver Apples, in that vein I'd say a lot of the psych rock/krautrock bands experimenting with electronics were pretty innovative, like Kraftwerk and Neu! Les Rallizes Denudes' Live 77 album is a massive and dense piece of free form noise rock a la Sonic Youth and the Dead C but before either, it even has Boris-esque moments of heavy drone rock.

King Crimson's debut was pretty well ahead of it's time (as well as many of their later releases, such as Red). Spawned a load of genres such as symphonic, prog, and arguably even heavy metal.