List and discuss the impact of 'gamechanging' Heavy Metal albums and their influence

inspired by a post on Hey, make me listen to Doom Metal and make me a better person
list metal albums that changed the face of the genre.

How about starting with

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin - II
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Van Halen - Van Halen
Motörhead - Overkill
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Killing Joke - Killing Joke (alexinnyc bait)
Venom - Black Metal
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Bathory - Bathory
Trouble - Psalm 9
Candlemass - Epicus Doomus Metallicus
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Burzum - Burzum
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
At The Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Korn - Korn (you may not like it but it started the biggest 90s genre)

Winter - Into Darkness
Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

and may as well get Nirvana - Nevermind out of the way. You can argue til the cows come home whether it was metal or not but it did change the genre

if only there was somewhere on the internet to discuss the importance of Slayer and Burzum

Napalm Death - Scum

well it would be a bit daft to leave them out
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what was the first djent album?

it would have been the second post if i had

something by Meshuggah
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Attack! Attack! - "Stick Stickly" (YouTube video)

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Whiney and latebloomer are right this is a stupid pointless thread on a stupid pointless genre. Lock thread kthanksbye

wow i don't know who BlindWillyPuller is but he sure sounds butthurt

Earth - Earth 2
Big Black - Atomizer
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing

blindwillypuller helpful as ever

Mastodon - Leviathan
Sunn0)))) - Black One
Slipknot - Iowa

This is actually a tricky exercise, disassociating "records I like" from "records I think are influential".

Cradle Of Filth - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse (synth-led BM)
Entombed - Left Hand Path (Sunlight studio sound)
Dissection - The Somberlain (Gothenburg sound)

Faith No More - The Real Thing
Sepultura - Chaos AD

FNM aren't metal per se but so influential for all the rap metal stuff they influenced.

Sepultura - Chaos AD

Hmmm okay, possibly I put that in as a result of "when I was listening to metal", but it seemed to me that Chaos AD was a blueprint for a lot of stuff around at that time, e.g. Machine Head and um others?

"when I was FIRST listening to metal" above

Chaos AD was probably an influence on nu-metal

and siegbran, to mega therion was where celtic frost started adding the avant/classical stuff

"Dissection - The Somberlain (Gothenburg sound)"

Wouldn't the Gothenburg sound be a Death Metal album (In Flames, At The Gates, etc)?

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Bathory - Hammerheart

Def Leppard - Pyromania
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Why would I be butthurt, noodle vag? List threads are the bane of ilm. Surely you agree?

sorry, i meant sockhurt

dont feed the trolls

i guess dream theater must have changed the game for prog metal, but is anyone going to admit to knowing any albums?

I will. Images And Words is a really important album in prog-metal-spheres, and when I was sixteen and a teenage metalprog-guitarnerd they were a very big influence on me.

Haven't listened to that album in years by the way.

haha thanks for your honesty!

btw did i pick the right DM albums?

Regarding Djent: I think Meshuggah's Nothing-album was the first proper Djent-album. Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere don't have that bouncy quality to their riffs (I also prefer these two albums over Nothing and Catch 33, though I really enjoy ObZen).

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Some Morbid Angel maybe?

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Venom - Black Metal -- gave a genre its name, cemented satanism as a metal trope for all time.

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance -- made it okay to do sound engineering and stereo effects in metal and use STUDIO MAGIC to its fullest. All the NWOHBM bands followed suit. You could also blame this album for glam metal later on.

Burzum - Burzum

^^ tho its relevance it's undeniable, i think of 'filosofem' as the "gamechanging" burzum album (maybe 'hvis lyset tar oss).

couldn't 'morningrise' or 'my arms, your hearse' by opeth be considered, also..? tho they might be put in the whole gothenburg sound, i guess.

Amebix - Arise!
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Bathory - Bathory
Ministry - Land Of Rape And Honey
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Fantomas - Director's Cut
Khanate - Things Viral
Sleep - Jerusalem
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Mercyful Fayte - Don't Break The Oath

Although, three of these are just albums that blew me away when I heard them I think.

Burzum - Burzum

^^ tho its relevance it's undeniable, i think of 'filosofem' as the "gamechanging" burzum album (maybe 'hvis lyset tar oss).

ok possibly both should be listed then, reason i didn't include it was because it came out long after the 1st album and was trying to stick to 1 per artist so others could list albums by that band if they wanted to.

I feel morbid angel should be listed here but which album?
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Entombed - Left Hand Path

Bathory - Bathory
Ministry - Land Of Rape And Honey
Sleep - Jerusalem
Mercyful Fayte - Don't Break The Oath

― Conan The Asshander (Doran),

I agree on these ones for sure.

carcass - reek of putrefaction
at the gates - slaughter of the soul (for refining the gothenburg sound, as bland as the record is)
mayhem - deathcrush

you could even point to carcass' heartwork as doing massive things for the whole melodic death phenomenon.

motley crue - too fast for love

'altars of madness' for morbid angel, surely?

amorphis - 'tales from the thousand lakes'

cryptopsy - 'none so vile'

gorguts - obscura

maybe the new morbid angel album will change metal

I feel morbid angel should be listed here but which album?

^^ 'blessed are the sick', maybe? tho this choice is based on the fact that it's my favourite. hence, a biased opinion (dunno the impact 'altars of madness' might've had, tbh. and 'covenant' is still one of the best selling dm albums ever).

Does Dopethrone count? Surely responsible for kicking off/boosting the stoner metal styles..?

I guess Repulsion - Horrified although that was more retrospectively since no-one heard it til 3 years after it came out?

i reckon 'horrified' counts; i get the impression it was really influential in tape-trading circles before it got a 'proper' release.

plus, it's awesome!

dopethrone boiled down stoner rock to a fine resin, some influential precursors were

monster magnet - spine of god
kyuss - blues for the red sun
melvins - lysol

I always rep priest's sad wings of destiny as a watershed moment for chug-a-lug metal

would add to that list of stoner records Boris - Akuma no Uta

kyuss - blues for the red sun

im amazed i forgot to include that

Both 'Master Of Puppets' and '...And Justice For All' must have influenced a few prog-metal acts, surely.

The new Korn, ushering in a new era in pubstep.

Both 'Master Of Puppets' and '...And Justice For All' must have influenced a few prog-metal acts, surely.

Dream Theater said that they were influenced by them

Great albums all (well, a lot of them) but "game changing" is another level, methinks.