Guys, the idea for the topic came while listening to ACDC's Thunderstruck yesterday (my first metal song ever!) and was wondering what are the albums you would consider as 'Classics'?

No restrictions on the number of albums.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Deep Purple - Machine head
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Queen - A Night At The Opera

Some Newer Ones

Dream Theater - Images And Words
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Death - Human

Bon, albums recents et moins recents pour moi....merde, y en a tellement !

'The Downward Spiral' de NIN
'Antichrist Superstar' de Marilyn Manson
'Use your illusion 1 et 2' de GnR
'Never mind' de Nirvana
'Grace' de Jeff Buckley
'Draconian Times' de Paradise Lost
'Master of Puppets' et 'Black Album' de Metallica
'Rust in peace' de Megadeth
'Scenes from a memory' de Dream Theater
'The Blackening' de Machine Head
'Seventh son of a seventh son' de Iron Maiden
Hmmm...Led Zeppelin...pas kone ki album....lol
'Dusk and her embrace' de Cradle of Filth
'Demanufacture' de Fear Factory
'Astro Creep 2000' de White Zombie
'Rage against the machine' de RATM
'Ten' de Pearl Jam
'Marbles' de Marillion

Ayo, ena ene tas encore!!!

will need time to think soon...

haha moi aussi, c'est pour sa que j'ai pas encore post les miens :p

Okay. Managed to make up my mind:

- Iron Maiden - Fear of The Dark
- Judaspriest - Painkiller
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
- Burzum - Burzum
- Enslaved - Frost
- Fear Factory - Demanufacture
- Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
- Bathory - Blood Fire Death
- Darkthrone - Goatlord
- Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
- Death - Human
- Cannibal Corpse - The Tomb of The Mutilated
- Slayer - Reign In Blood
- Cradle of Filth - Dusk & Her Embrace
- Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
- Immortal - At The Heart of Winter
- Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
- Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Bon allons-y, mais seulement pour les sixties-début eighties, et là encore il m'est impossible d'être exhaustif...

Deep Purple - Made in Japan (celui qui a tout lancé pour moi), In Rock, Machine head
Rush - Moving pictures
Marillion - Misplaced childhood
Jimi Hendrix - Band of gypsys
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here, The wall
Led Zeppelin - I, IV, Physical graffiti
Status Quo - live
Foghat - Live
Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous
Ted Nugent - Double live gonzo
AC/DC - Back in black, If you want blood you've got it
Whitesnake - Live in the heart of the city/Live at Hammersmith
Rainbow - Rising, On stage
Trust - Répression
Riot - Fire down under
Van Halen - 1st album
UFO - Strangers in the night
Iron Maiden - difficile, mais on va dire le premier album
Frank Marino et Mahogany Rush - Live
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of fire

Beaucoup de live donc

tuff tuff ....

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon, Wish u were here, Division bell
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Master
Def leppards - Hysteria
Maiden - Number of the beast, Somewhere in time
Dio - Holy Diver ( itz been ages i didnt hear that one)
Slayer - South of heaven
Yngwie Malmsteen - The Seventh Sign
Quite a few sabbath tunes
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But a question "what makes an album a classic " ?? is it the period it was released?? or is it the sound it has?? or ... can an album be released now in 2009 and be considered as a classic album .....

an album that helped frame the way metal currently is regardless of the year it was released, that's what I meant by classic.

I always thought that there's a firm distinction between hard-rock and metal ; all the bands I listed above, besides Maiden, are rock or hard rock, they can't define "metal". Judas Priest and Black Sabbath are two major metal bands from that area for me. And as I forgot them :
Judas Priest - Screaming for vengeance (but I love Point of entry too)
Black Sabbath - Heaven and hell (Dio rules)

For me a "classic" album is an album who stand the test of time, and which is still considered as a landmark for the band it's from and for the period it was released. It's not a very personal choice, but a general one. Of course there' s some personal choices in my list (Riot, Ted Nugent, Frank Marino, and for Hendrix, "Axis bold as love would" be the real classic according to consensus between fans), but also real classics (Led Zep, Deep Purple)

Desole. Wrongly expressed myself, par metal je voulais dire rock / metal / hardrock, thing is metal comes easily when I speak d'ou la confusion.

Donc pour reformuler, ce seraient les albums qui sont considere comme inevitable.. Enfin that's what I tried to portray in my list even though I did choose 'Death' (a band I never liked) mais indispensable.

ah dak
Bon faut que je complète ma liste, me suis arrêté à 1982 ou 1983 là... mais pour les albums suivants ça va être plus dur, y'en a tellement !

Sacrilege!!

Wai mo conner.. mais li just like Control Denied, way too technical pou to reussi apprecier li a sa juste valeur

Some other classic albums for me, eighties thrash this time…

Metallica - Master of puppets
Megadeth - Rust in peace
Coroner - No more colors
Sepultura - Beneath the remains, Arise
Mekong Delta - Dances of death (and other walking shadows) <= my absolute fav