Albums that you enjoy in every way

[Transcend]

Well i was walking today and listening to Battering Ram by Iron Savior

and released that this is the only album that i have bought that has been released in the last decade or so that i enjoy every single aspect of.

Does anyone else have an album like this?

[Nephilim]

For me it was Trivium's Ascendency :) Bullet for My Valentine's 'The Poison' is somewhere in my top 10

[Sancho]

The first Boston album. Perfect in every way.

First two Badlands albums.

Iron Maiden's Killers.

Metal Church's debut.

Riot's Thundersteel.

Fifth Angel's debut.

Crimson Glory's debut.

Manilla Road's Open The Gates, The Deluge an Mystification.

The list goes on...

[Transcend]

The first Boston album. Perfect in every way.

First two Badlands albums.

Iron Maiden's Killers.

Metal Church's debut.

Riot's Thundersteel.

Fifth Angel's debut.

Crimson Glory's debut.

Manilla Road's Open The Gates, The Deluge an Mystification.

The list goes on...

i could knock up a list like this but i meant within the last decade as there has been a very obvious decline in musical quality.

you have some very good choices there though

[FELINEGUITARS]

The first Boston album. Perfect in every way.

First two Badlands albums.

Fifth Angel's debut.

Crimson Glory's debut. (and Transcendence)

The list goes on...

Queensryche - Rage for Order, Mindcrime, Empire, Promised Land

Dokken- Under lock and Key

Accept - Balls to the wall, Russian Roulette and Blood of Nations

Europe - Last Look at Eden

Steel Panther - Feel the Steel

Kiss - Sonic Boom

[Frank]

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

except for the drum solo

[darkbluemurder]

The first Boston album. Perfect in every way.

First two Badlands albums.

Iron Maiden's Killers.

Love the first three, loved the last one when it came out.

Cheers Stephan

[darkbluemurder]

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

except for the drum solo

+1, even if I did like the drum solo at one time.

Speaking of Deep Purple I think the Made in Europe - that was with the Mk III line up - is a killer album as well.

Cheers Stephan

[Andrew W]

The Sword - Age of Winters
Airbourne - Running' Wild
Bert Jansch - Black Swan


Are the very guitar centric ones that immediately spring to mind.

EDIT to make it albums of the last ten years

[gwEm]

it would be cheap to say the first 6 Black Sabbath albums - we all know about those.

But how about:

UFO - Strangers In The Night
Scorpions - Crazy World
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Accept - Balls To The Wall (except Jonathan already picked that one!)
Rainbow - Rising
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Diamond Head - The White Album

I would not wish to change a track on any of these classics

(edit: just realised theres Flying Vs on all but one of those choices!)

[bucketshred]

Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mastodon - Leviathan

[Sancho]

i could knock up a list like this but i meant within the last decade as there has been a very obvious decline in musical quality.

you have some very good choices there though

Ooops... Didn't notice the "last decade" bit :?
So, since 2000 or thereabouts... Hmmm... Let me get back to you...

Firebird. Bill Steer's band. The debut and Grand Union are amazing. The other albums aren't half bad but those two stick out for me.

Halford's Resurrection. Killer slab of metal.

Dee Snider - Never Let The B*st*rds Wear You Down.

Rose Tattoo - 25 To Life.

That's just 2000.
More recent releases include Steel Panther's debut, Overkill's Ironbound and Motörhead's The World Is Yours.

It is quite obvious that none of these bands are spring chickens... Once the big metal bands start calling it quits, the future's looking dire.

[Sancho]

Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Mastodon - Leviathan

I agree. Haven't heard The Hunter yet. Mastodon is one of the rare relatively young bands I really dig.

[Philly Q]

Robin Trower - Live!
Circle of Soul - Hands of Faith and One Man's Poison
Trouble - Manic Frustration
Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
Wishbone Ash - Just Testing
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Saigon Kick - Saigon Kick and The Lizard
King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
Warrior Soul - Last Decade Dead Century
Living Colour - Vivid
Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance
Masters Of Reality - The Blue Garden
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
Kansas - Leftoverture and Point of Know Return
Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow
AC/DC - Powerage
Stone Gossard - Bayleaf
Rush - Permanent Waves
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride
Headpins - Turn It Loud
Coney Hatch - Coney Hatch
Galactic Cowboys - Galactic Cowboys
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
Raging Slab - Raging Slab
Anthrax - Stomp 442
Y&T - Earthshaker, Black Tiger and Meanstreak

Oh blimey, that was like turning on a tap.  Sorry.  :oops:

I like most of those bands anyway, but those particular albums are all killer, no filler.

Sorry I've ignored the bit about the last decade - but everyone else did too.  I do like Mastodon.  And Evanescence.

[Philly Q]

First two Badlands albums.

Fifth Angel's debut.

Crimson Glory's debut.

Love those albums!  :D

(I'd include the third Badlands album too)