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5 Metal Albums You'd Take to a Desert Island


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17 minutes ago, Jayblah said:

Metallica - Justice
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Death - Sound of Perseverance
8 Foot Sativa - Season For Assault
Cradle of Filth - Vempire


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There are some cool releases here, that's for sure. Great call on 'V Empire'. 

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1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Good classic album that I’ve greatly admired since the first time I heard it)

2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage (Another great classic Sabbath album which had influences on thrash (ex. Symptom of the Universe) and NWoBHM (ex. Megalomania) )

3. Judas Priest - British Steel (A great classic album with power and heaviness. If you could only listen to 5 metal albums for the rest of your life, who wouldn’t want to listen to the Metal Gods?)

4. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A great album that got me interested in gothic rock and gothic metal. It has quite some heaviness and just a great feeling overall.) 

5. Rage Against The Machine - Renegades (A great album that combines rap with metal. It would pump me up for when I would have to hunt down dangerous animals on the island, or when I would get ready for competitions with the locals.)

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9 hours ago, MetalheadFromBama said:

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Good classic album that I’ve greatly admired since the first time I heard it)

2. Black Sabbath - Sabotage (Another great classic Sabbath album which had influences on thrash (ex. Symptom of the Universe) and NWoBHM (ex. Megalomania) )

3. Judas Priest - British Steel (A great classic album with power and heaviness. If you could only listen to 5 metal albums for the rest of your life, who wouldn’t want to listen to the Metal Gods?)

4. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A great album that got me interested in gothic rock and gothic metal. It has quite some heaviness and just a great feeling overall.) 

5. Rage Against The Machine - Renegades (A great album that combines rap with metal. It would pump me up for when I would have to hunt down dangerous animals on the island, or when I would get ready for competitions with the locals.)

Wow, two Black Sabbath albums!

Wouldn't you want some more variety? 'Sabotage' is such a great album - these days I think it's my second favourite after 'Paranoid'. Actually, your choices here are pretty clever, because there's quite a variety of sounds and styles between the self-titled and 'Sabotage'. 

The Rage Against the Machine seems the odd one out here, but it could be a nice alternative to the classic metal (and Type O's masterpiece) that makes up the rest of this list. 

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32 minutes ago, Requiem said:

Wow, two Black Sabbath albums!

Wouldn't you want some more variety? 'Sabotage' is such a great album - these days I think it's my second favourite after 'Paranoid'. Actually, your choices here are pretty clever, because there's quite a variety of sounds and styles between the self-titled and 'Sabotage'. 

The Rage Against the Machine seems the odd one out here, but it could be a nice alternative to the classic metal (and Type O's masterpiece) that makes up the rest of this list. 

I did think a bit about variety when it came to this list, but if I chose more of a variety, then some of my favorite albums wouldn’t have made the list. I thought about possibly putting Metallica’s “Kill Em’ All” or Mayhem’s “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” on the list to add more variety. I would have added those two albums if I could take 10 metal albums to a desert island instead of just 5.

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On 11/15/2018 at 12:39 AM, Stringfellow_Hawke said:

Ahhh man this is a tough one...

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

Becoming The Archetype - Dichotomy

Mechina - Progenitor

Amon Amarth - Twilight of The Thunder God

Cool list.

Although I'm not familiar with Becoming the Archetype or Mechina , you've got some solid quality with 'Puppets' and 'Vulgar'. And you've picked the best Amon Amarth album too - I love that album. Good stuff. 

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4 hours ago, Requiem said:

Cool list.

Although I'm not familiar with Becoming the Archetype or Mechina , you've got some solid quality with 'Puppets' and 'Vulgar'. And you've picked the best Amon Amarth album too - I love that album. Good stuff. 

 

I highly recommend you check out Mechina and Becoming The Archetype.

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If the desert island has no electricity, there's no point to bring any music with me. In that case I'll take my ex with me to torture her there. Not the kind of torture you think about, though.

If it has electricity, my phone has 128 GB SD card which contains all of my music, so no need to pick just 5 albums. :D

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Well naturally there's a desert island thread here but with only 5 albums allowed this is virtually impossible for someone like me to narrow down to 5. I'd have a serious problem with 25.

And let's face it I'm really not a desert island kind of guy anyway. I don't swim, I don't tan, the sand that gets into every possible space and crevice would drive me nuts and I'm too old to be climbing trees to get coconuts. 

I'm a black metal guy so I would want to be stranded somewhere with a more temporate climate in a boreal location. Alaska or the forests and fjords of the west coast of Norway maybe. In a setting like this I could just take 5 black metal albums and never look back. But on a desert island I'm stumped. Because who wants to listen to black metal while sitting on a beach with a warm breeze and my toes in the sand  every day?

So if I'm off to live on the beach indefinitely I'll probably only need like one black metal album for late in the evenings. I'm still quite infatuated with my 2020 AotY last year's Ordinance record Purge so I suppose that will do. 

4 spots left. I'm thinking I need some doom. Thinking I need Shades of God. An album I've never grown tired of after hundreds of spins. Not many albums that have held up this well for me for nearly 30 years. It's part of my DNA at this point so I'll have it in my head whether I bring it along or not.

3 spots left. Need something different. I'm thinking about what albums do I listen to a lot when I go camping. I'm gonna say All Them Witches Dying Surfer. This is a primo late night campfire chillout album for me. 

Only 2 spots left. Shit I'm never gonna be able to do this, there are just too many absolutely essential things being left behind. I need Dorthia, I need Alice in Chains, I need Ramones I need Celtic Frost I need Sabbath I need Darkthrone I need Dopethrone I need Black Curse I need Dead Congregation I need Necros Christos I need Archgoat I need Skynyrd, I need ZZ Top I need the Chasm I need Utzalu I need Aeternus, I need Inquisition I need Lie in Ruins I need Cosmic Psychos I need Monster Magnet I need Blasphemphagher I need Morrigan I need Motorhead I need the Mud City Manglers i need 500 orher bands,, wtf am I gonna do without all of them?

Nope can't do it. Can't narrow down to just 5.

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....being as I always seem to adjust the rules slightly....here are 5 bands instead of 5 records....I would pick one from each of these....just not sure which one....

 

CARCASS......probably "Swansong"....mainly because everybody else hates this one...and also everybody else is stupid....

GORGONIZED DORKS.....so many to choose from....as everyone knows....

MERCYFUL FATE.....any of the ones with high pitched KING vocals....

DARKTHRONE.....crustiness always wins the day....

NEUROSIS....something for those "sad bastard" days....

 

 

....just make sure I'm on the opposite end of the island....so I don't have to smell WhiteNoise's loincloth....

 

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