Sometimes you encounter an album that makes you just sit back and think to yourself..."Now that was an excellent piece of work."

Albums like this renew my faith in people's ability to make excellent music.

What albums are there for you?

I think 'Once' by Nighwish is an excellent example of this.

When I first listened to it I did think to myself, this is a really good album. Although I have loved every album they have made, this one stands out to me and I think it reflects the tonnes of effort which must have gone into it. There is not one single song on there which has left me feeling like it could be better. :icon6:

One that really does it for me is Fear Factory's Demanufacture Album, everytime I listen to that album I can't help but think how great a piece of work it is.

Another is Death's "The Sound of Perseverance"

and a third has to be Metallica's "Ride the Lightning"

Tool's "Lateralus" was definantly a work of art when it came out and still inspires and leaves me captivated.

Godspeed's F# A# really impacted me and was probably one of their greatest records.

I'm sure I could think of tons more but I'm still half a sleep and I gotta go to work.

Lateralus is idd a fine piece of art.
A Perfect Circle's 'Mer Du noms', After Forever's 'Invisible Circles' and Lacuna Coil's 'Unleashed Memories' are also incredible to me.

:vampire: iron-maiden :vampire:

Emperor - Anthems To The Welkins At Dusk.

Emperor - Anthems To The Welkins At Dusk
cradle of filth-dusk
mayhem-deathcrush
afi-sing the sorrow
distillers-coral fang

1. Mechanical Animals (Marilyn Manson)
2. Aenima (Tool)
3. Blackwater Park (Opeth)
4. Whoracle (In Flames)
5. Mer de Noms (A Perfect Circle)
6. El Cielo (Dredg)
7. Ten (Pearl Jam)
8. The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
9. The Pleasure Principle (Gary Numan)
10. System of a Down (Self titled)

All of those are essentially perfect albums that I still listen to years after having purchased them.

mine would have to be (Dont Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult.

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
3. Rush - Power Windows
4. KISS - Double Platinum
5. NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
6. Led Zeppelin - IV (ZOSO)
7. Peter Gabriel - So
8. U2 - War
9. The Replacements - Let It Be
10. Joy Division - Closer
11. New Order - Substance
12. The Cure - Disintegration
13. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
14. The Clash - London Calling
15. Pearl Jam - Ten
16. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
17. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
18. REM - Document
19. Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
20. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
21. Bush - Sixteen Stone
22. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
23. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Leave a Whisper by Shinedown
Chronicles of Life and Death by Good Charlotte

The Lord Weird Slough Feg's self titled album. It's amazing in every aspect of the word.

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

And, to a slightly lesser extent:

Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Ministry - Houses Of The Molé
ohGr - Sunnypsyop
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Lacuna Coil - Unleashed Memories
Korn - Life Is Peachy
Marilyn Manson - Mechnical Animals
White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Two - Voyeurs
Strapping Young Lad - City

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

and this one is for Bahamut
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory LoL!

Great album in the sense of "Great to break in half and slit peoples throats with the broken pieces with" :p

Mental roadkill your list was awesome.

Oh and for you, bahamut,


"Pumpkin Made of Flesh" by Linkin Park

Why did it have to end this way? (this waaaay)
How much will I have to pay? (have to paaaay)
To disregard this feeling of loneliness,
Inside of me, filling me, hollowing me out,
Like a pumpkin made of flesh.

Now you're gone,
And I'm all alone with this pain,
It's got me full of pain,
And I'm going to do it this time (thiiiiiss tiiiiiime)!

NO MORE CRYING! THE TEARS ARE ALL I HAVE!

I gave you all of me,
And you turned me upside down,
You put your evil inside of me,
In this pool of tears I will drown!

Why did it have to end this way? (this waaaay)
How much will I have to pay? (have to paaaay)
To disregard this feeling of loneliness,
Inside of me, filling me, hollowing me out,
Like a pumpkin made of flesh.

I am surrounded by this futility,
I wish I had never been born,
This useless striving and trying,
Has got me crying and worn.
You dig your nails in,
Innnnnn to my brain,
And you turn my brain,
Into a giant ball of pain.

NO MORE CRYING! THE TEARS ARE ALL I HAVE!

THIS TIME THIS TIME THIS TIME IT'S OVERRRRRRRR!

Fucking Linkin Park. Haven't heard the song so I can't comment on it itself, but I don't like the lyrics at all.

Haha sometimes I think Linkin Park writes their lyrics just for people like me to piss all over in message boards.

Now that I think about it, the style in which Linkin Park writes is beautiful because it literally requires no talent at all. In fact:

The Nails They Drive by Linkin Park (See if you can pick up the sarcasm boys and girls)

All the pain inside is pulling me,
Stretching me, I'm changing,
And oh how I hate my angsty teenage life!
If I could I'd stab myself, WITH A KNIFE!

Rapper guy that can only rap in two beats and for the rest of the song just stands there like an idiot:
It's hurting me inside and sometimes I lie,
I can twist the pain inside and the nails they drive,
Drive into me! Make me bleed!
Bleeding away from you!

And I lock my door and I paint my nails black,
Because I hate you!
I HAAATEEE YOOOUUUUUUUUUU!

Confidence is drained and I'm all alone,
Maybe I have no friends cause I listen to linkin park,
Or maybe it's cause I'm so different from you mom and dad!

*Guitarist tries to solo by plucking three notes at an adament pace*

And you're angering me because you can't see,
I'm so different! I'm like an animal! And I listen to Linkin Park!
There's something inside me that eats away at me,
(At this point I realize every Linkin Park verse is written in the first person so that twelve year olds with issues can relate)
And what's eating away at me is your cancer!
OHHHH YOUR CANCER!

Well I just wrote my first Linkin Park song, now where's my fucking million dollar record deal?

I'm gonna ruin any integrity I gained from my list by saying.. I actually like Linkin Park, even though I realise ALL of their obvious flaws....

Understandable and acceptable...I just fuckin hate them :D

Linkin Park is manufactured emotion, to put it simple, that's why I hate them so. There is not a single shred of reality or meaning to anything they say or do.

I'd also like to add

Mindless Self Indulgence- Frankenstein Girls (Forgot the whole name)

thay are also a manufactured band.

No...there not, they just act like it. You want a manufactured band, look at gay ass Puddle of Mudd!

Touch'e.

Porcupine Tree - Sky Moves Sideways (Nem can vouch for this one too)
Strapping Young Lad - City (In my top 5 metal albums ever)
Enslaved - Below The Lights (Probably in the top 5 of metal too)
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Mr Bungle - California
Bjork - Post
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Death - Symbolic
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Opeth - All albums
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk and In The Nightside Eclipse
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimentions and Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Crematorium (fucking brilliant album)
At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command
Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Cradle Of Filth - Midian

I have oodles more, but those are my most recently listened to and freshest in my noggin. That and I cant be fucked typing up all the others.