Metal Reviews

guess.

Opeth - Damnation
Aborym - Generator
...and Oceans - The Symmetry of I - The Circle of O
Ulver - Perdition City

And as far as live albums go, Mayhem - Live in Leipzig.

Death-Symbolic
Death-Individual Thought Patterns
Death-The Sound of Perserverance

only 3 albums i would rate 100.

Not really, I barely know the songs on The Postman Syndrome's Terraforming by name and it's one of my 5 favourite albums of all time. I almost never skip to a song I really want to hear on an album because I feel like I'm not getting the full experience when I'm doing that. I listen to albums start-to-finish pretty much as often as possible, probably because I'm disillusioned and think bands put far more effort into an albums track list than they actually do :\


I can understand liking De-Loused more, and Televators + Take The Veil Cerpin Text are probably the best things that Mars Volta will ever record, but I think Frances feels like a more complete and well thought out album to me.

i like how the two halves of my post kinda contradict each other o.O

Death - Symbolic
In Flames - Whoracle
In Flames - The Jester Race
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

a few that would nearly make 100 would be:

Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance
In Flames - Colony
Death - The Sound Of perseverence
In Flames - Clayman
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs Of Nephran- Ka

I rest my case

I love Agent Orange. Everything about it to me is perfect. I can listen to it from beginning to end without skipping anything, and I loev Exhibition Bout. When Sodom goes fast, I love it. Sodom has easily become one of my favourite bands. And it's not some over-night thing. I have been consistently listening and loving for years now. But who cares if we disagree? From some of the things I have read, you love PTK a lot more than me.

Live In Leipzig is not 100/100 for me but it is prolly the best live release ive ever heard.

Generator? Thats a big call, its only a recent album. Thoug it is goooooood

I know some people look at it as a letdown but I think Control Denied - Fragile Art of Existence is pretty close to perfect.

Really? I am a huge Death fan, but i don't know the album to me is just mediocre.

Its not supposed to be a Death Album. Its supposed to be Chuck trying to meld Death with Power metal. It just really clicked with me at a perfect time because of what i was listening to at the time. I found it while I was searching for aggressive power metal. I think it comes off better when viewed like this. Your expecting Death style power metal and that is what it gives you.
Plus I listen to a lot of music in the car and it is great driving music.

I don't know, it doesn't really work for me. I mean the guitar work is fantastic that's for sure but the vocals are very bad. The idea was good but not developed in the right way, IMO.

I like the vocals actually. I listened to Control Denied before I ever got into Death though. That might have something to do with it.

There's been many an album I've consider perfect (Faith No More - The Real Thing, Slayer - Reign In Blood, Metallica - Master of Puppets, Machine Head - Burn My Eyes and plenty of others), but none of the ones I've mentioned have really stand the test of time, so it turns out that they're not as perfect as I first thought.

I'm currently burning such albums onto my newly acquired 2gb mp3 player which, sad as I am, I'm putting only albums that I think are classics. As I'm listening to Tool - Aenima, Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium, Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder whilst I'm creating this classic 'jukebox', there is so much I hear now that sounds so dated and even annoying! I remember when I first listened to the said albums, I thought such things (i.e eons of Aenima) were pretty cool and fresh. I liked QOTSA Songs for the Deaf, but the crappy all around 'radio show' spoils the album for me so much, I can't stand to listen to it anymore.

In other words (as I've been known to go on a bit), no album is perfect until there is one universally agreed that sounds as fresh as the day you first listened to it, every time you hear the album, forever!

i don't think it's the "freshness" that makes a good album, for me the issue is if it simply remains as good as i heard it the first time.

what Jürgen said

My list of 100s or near 100s in no particular order would be

1) Death - Symbolic

2) Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Live After Death (If live albums count)

3) Sodom - Tapping The Vein

4) Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

5) Helloween - The Dark Ride

6) Megadeth - RIP, Youthanasia

7) Anacrusis - Reason

8) Judas Priest - Painkiller

9) Atheist - Elements

10) Europe - The Final Countdown

11) Immolation - Close To A World Below

12) Alice In Chains - Facelift

13) Fate's Warning - Perfect Symmetry

I don't do it very often!!!

Haven't found an album that is 100/100 for me yet. Don't think I've even have an album which is 99/100. For me, an album which is 100/100 has to contain songs which all are among the very best I've ever heard, and that's something hard to find.

The albums that comes closest to that are:

W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
(what can I say, I'm a sucker for albums with good stories)
Metallica - Master of Puppets

And a few others, but mainly those above.