Recommend Me An Album

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OK, so this thread is for recommending an album to other boarders. An album that you have either recently discovered, rediscovered or whatever and just posting it here:


Danger Danger - Revolve

I want to start off by recommending this album. For some reason, and the reason I seem surprised is because the band have neither promoted nor toured this album, it has managed to both catch my attention and stay with me. What I can say is that if you are a fan of Def Leppard you will love this album - even if you are not - you will find a lot of great Rock on this record. Y&T, Journey, Queen, Mr Big...the list is endless...this album encompasses them all

You can find samples on the band's MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/dangerdanger

Useful.Idiot

Great idea!

Mastodon - Crack The Skye

This is the only one of my top albums that I would recommend to ANYONE, regardless if they like rock, metal, alternative or what have you. Mastodon's roots may be in sludgy heavy metal but this album is completely different. The album is a slab of 70's prog rock mixed in with the usual Mastodon madness. There is not a single bad song to be found on this record and IMO it is sure to become a classic in the future. Brilliantly composed and produced I would recommend this album to any rock/metal fans really.

Nailz

Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain

Malice

Let's try and not have this descend into a random posting of album pics. Please put some text down to explain why you would recommend the album.

Nea

Suicidal Tendencies - The Art of Rebellion
Truly terrific and underrated album from ST. It was a change in direction to their usual thrash/ hardcore style which was appreciated by fans at the time. Great guitar from Rocky George, who is not a guitarist that gets highly rated.Monopoly on Sorrow is their best song ever imo.

Jelle1880

For me this album was what brought thrash back to the forefront of metal.
Together with bands like Gamma Bomb, Warbringer, Municipal Waste,... they really brought a a new face to thrash.

madheaded

Daath - The Concealers
A friend of mine asked me to get him this album never heard of daath before then when it arrived i stuck it on and was blown away. Amazing guitar playing, amazing drums evrything you could want in a metal band

ride-the-spiral

Yet again...

Between The Buried and Me - Colors



Perhaps the 5th time or so that I've recommended this band in some way on this forum... But really, I think this album is that good.

It took a while to hit me, but when it did, it hit hard. Now I consider this my favourite album of all time, and in my opinion, one of the most well crafted works of art released. The band mainly play a very heavy type of progressive metalcore, but there are influences from a very wide range of genres on this album; metal, prog, death, acoustic, and even that countrylike section.

Insane technicality, brilliant songwriting and riffs, just amazing really.

gingelion

Cynic - Traced In Air

First heard of these guys in late 90's but was told they were death metal and that wasn't what i was into so never checked them out. This was released in 2008 after a long hiatus. Was working in a music shop so i stuck it on when i saw the artwork. Blown away. Not death metal at all, really melodic progressive metal would be closer description. Not really all that heavy but a really fantastic album.

Max Power1

+1 to the Evile reccomendation above btw. Cant say enough about them!

My reccomendation (to anyone that will listen) is GOATREIGN. Im not even sure if they have more than one album. I bought the one pictured below for €4 in tower records randomly because it was reduced. By god when I gave it a spin I was blown away. Catchy, heavy, METAL riffs and mid range guitar solos coupled with a gravelly clean vocal line (a la pantera/evile). I cant reccomend these guys enough.

Lol there isnt even any youtube footage I can find! WTF is that about? Heres a jpeg of the album cover.

Jelle1880

Hehe, the name would make you think about some obscure black metal band that kills goats on stage and violates women (Or the other way around)

Sounds nice, I'll check them out.

Mushy

Porcupine Tree - I Absentia

While I imagine quite a few here know of this already, there are (probably) too many who don't. While this is a lot more accesible than many other albums, it covers nearly all aspects that make this band so brilliant (IMO). From all-out rock assault (Blackest Eyes), to ambiance-induced tracks like Strip the Soul. Poppier tunes such as Trains to classicaly-based Collapse the Light Into Earth, this is certainly an album to introduce the masses to this trule exceptional band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7ngK8_bMpY (Strip the Soul with Dot 3 too)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmjaV7UBKZ0&feature=related (Collapse)

Chris1966

Loudness - Thunder In The East, had it on vinyl in the 80s got it again on disc last week, a good solid metal album from Japan!

pdbhp

Useful.Idiot wrote: »

Great idea!

Mastodon - Crack The Skye

This is the only one of my top albums that I would recommend to ANYONE, regardless if they like rock, metal, alternative or what have you. Mastodon's roots may be in sludgy heavy metal but this album is completely different. The album is a slab of 70's prog rock mixed in with the usual Mastodon madness. There is not a single bad song to be found on this record and IMO it is sure to become a classic in the future. Brilliantly composed and produced I would recommend this album to any rock/metal fans really.

This handsome devil speaks the truth,
Crack the Skye is one of the best metal albums to come out in years each song is a masterpiece of metal.

Karl Hungus

On the more rock side of things, I would highly recommend Lite - Phantasia. Instrumental rock from Japan (I'd have to recommend something Japanese, wouldn't I?), if you like Rush, Porcupine Tree and so forth, these guys are extremely good. Here's Ghost Dance from the album Phantasia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1yD9H7Rb8

GLaDOS

Karl Hungus wrote: »

On the more rock side of things, I would highly recommend Lite - Phantasia. Instrumental rock from Japan (I'd have to recommend something Japanese, wouldn't I?), if you like Rush, Porcupine Tree and so forth, these guys are extremely good. Here's Ghost Dance from the album Phantasia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1yD9H7Rb8

Gonna check these out actually, meant to awhile ago

Max Power1

pdbhp wrote: »

This handsome devil speaks the truth,
Crack the Skye is one of the best metal albums to come out in years each song is a masterpiece of metal.

i wouldnt go that far.
However its a solid prog rock album. no filler tracks and its by far and away mastodon's best album.

Angron

One of my favorite albums out so far this year, I absolutely adore this album. Songs such as The Carrion Call, Heirs to Thievery and The Spectator are amazing (I feel). One of the best deathgrind bands out now, and the themes of the songs appeal to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAkJ_OUWPk

Dord

Pain - Dancing With The Dead

Pain is the brainchild of Peter Tägtgren (founder of the band Hypocrisy). Their albums range from straight up industrial metal to poppy-er stuff. The latest album has yer wan from Nightwish guesting on a few songs. My pick above is a great example of Peters work and a good place to start. It falls somewhere in the middle.

bnt

I bought Melissa Auf Der Maur's Out Of Our Minds (OOOM) a couple of weeks ago. Freaky tuneful heavy stuff, replete with Vikings crashing cars in a Canadian forest. Favourite track so far: Isis Speaks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpG58eAMQLc

candy-gal1

Not really an album, yet, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYeGw-bo430

Fishyfreak

I'll steer away from "metal" and say:

Rhammstein, Mutter.
AC/DC, Powerage.
Rory Gallagher, Calling Card.

Max Power1

Well, whatever about rammstein - you cant go wrong with ACDC or Rory Gallagher imho!

Kess73

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Not really an album, yet, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYeGw-bo430

She is only 16?!?!?!?! Would never have put her as quite that young.

sentient_6

Here's what my really digging at the moment:



Absolutely brilliant melodic metal album. The singer Patrik Johsnsson has a class Dio tinged voice. Pounding guitar riffs and steady rhythms that i love. Check it for yourselfs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vx4KEti9vU

Jako8

Liars - Sisterworld

This album was released recently enough and it is fantastic. Liars have been constantly changing their sound across each album. This album is like a build-up of all that change. An eclectic mess of brilliant songs tied together with conceptual lyrics about the spaces we inhabit.

Very good album, possibly one of the best this year.

Here's the opening tracK...

Even if you're not a fan of this track I still recommend you check it out because they are all very different.

GLaDOS

Karl Hungus wrote: »

On the more rock side of things, I would highly recommend Lite - Phantasia. Instrumental rock from Japan (I'd have to recommend something Japanese, wouldn't I?), if you like Rush, Porcupine Tree and so forth, these guys are extremely good. Here's Ghost Dance from the album Phantasia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1yD9H7Rb8

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Gonna check these out actually, meant to awhile ago

Fantastic album Karl

Karl Hungus

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Fantastic album Karl

Glad you like it.