Fav Albums From My Top 50 Artists

Over the years I've liked, loved, and disliked many artists.  I've even disliked particular workings of some of the artists that I really respect.  Case in point being Korn's last few albums, Rob Zombie's last one, and Marilyn Manson's last few releases as well.  Even though I may not have liked their newer stuff there will always be those albums that I remember, and still respect as some of my favorite albums of all time no matter what their career is doing these days.  So what I wanted to do was put together a list of my all time favorite album from my top 50 favorite bands.  Some of these albums were really hard to narrow down as my favorite.  The main struggle was of course Opeth, and a few others so here we go.  This is a list of my favorite album from my top 50 favorite artists.

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Soilwork - Figure Number Five

Cold - 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage

In Flames - Come Clarity

Ozzy Ozbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

Between the Buried & Me - Alaska

Rainbow - Rising

Agalloch - The Mantle

Stone Temple Pilots - Core

Trivium - Ascendancy

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Seether - Disclaimer 2

White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000

Behemoth - Evangelion

A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

Soundgarden - Superunknown

Metallica - Master of Puppets

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon collie and the Infinite Sadness

Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Tool - Aenima

Meshuggah - Catch 33

Clutch - Clutch

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake

Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf

Sepultura - Chaos AD

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengance

Bush - Sixteen Stone

Mastodon - Blood Mountain

Pearl Jam - Ten

Korn - Issues

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

Slayer - Reign In Blood

H.I.M. - Love Metal

Danzig - Danzig

Foo Fighters - The Color and the Shape

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

Fear Factory - Obsolete

Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli

Staind - Break the Cycle

The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal

   So there they are.  There are a lot from the 90's, and 80's for obvious reasons.  Some are classics that I will never be able to get rid of.  Like Slayer, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and Rainbow which are all amazing in their own way.  Some are from the 90's grunge movement like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and THe Smashing Pumpkins which I grew up listening to as a teenager.  I will never stop listening to albums like Aenima, or Dirt from Alice In Chains.  Some were a little harder to narrow down because the artist has released so many good albums like Opeth, Alice In Chains, and Mastodon.  Some were easier like Slayer's Reign In Blood.  That will forever be my favorite Slayer record although all Slayer records have a certain sound that defines Slayer, I just think that Reign In Blood was their best work and will live on as one of the defining albums in the thrash metal movement that started in the 80's.  So if there is single record on here that you haven't listened to I highly recommend checking them out for sure.  They are all great and each have great things about them all.  So until next time stay hard, stay heavy.