I'm working on a series of posts called "100 Albums I'm Glad I Heard Before I Died." This isn't my argument for the 100 greatest albums of all time: There's no Reign in Blood, no Master of Puppets, no Paranoid, no Number of the Beast. It's not even a good representation of my favourite bands. Mostly it's a celebration of albums that were of significant importance at a particular time and place in my life; albums that led me down a certain path, musical or otherwise; or obscure releases that I grew to love and could have easily missed out on.
Some of the releases will be grouped together; some of them will be looked at on their own. A lot of the albums will be things that I heard between that magical time from 1995-2002 when it seemed to my young mind like there was no limit to what metal could accomplish; a few of them are genre classics that I grew to love for my own reasons. There is no significance to the order things appear, or even a unifying theme to the posts; all I know is that when it's all over there will be 100 of them.
The list as it looks like today (list subject to change and all that disclaimer jazz):
1. Catharsis - Samsara
2. Logical Nonsense - Expand the Hive
3. Kreator - Outcast
4. Face Down - The Twisted Rule the Wicked
5. Opeth - Morningrise
6. Sodom - Persecution Mania
7. Vader - Future of the Past
8. Old - Formula
9. Nasum - Inhale/Exhale
10. Blackened: The Black Metal Compilation
11. Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty You Slay
12. Eucharist - Mirrorworlds
13. Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil
14. A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
15. Breach - Friction
16. Northcore: The Polar Scene Compilation
17. Dolores Records Compilation
18. Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
19. The Red Chord - Fused Together In The Revolving Doors
20. Anathema - Eternity
21. Morgion - Solinari
22. Samael - Ceremony of Opposites
23. Meatjack - Trust
24. In the Woods... - Omnio
25. Will Haven - El Diablo
26. Cream Abdul Babar - The Catalyst to Ruins
27. Cult of Luna - Salvation
28. Red Harvest - Hybreed
29. Rotting Christ - Genesis
30. Repulsion - Horrified
31. Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
32. Dimension Zero - Silent Night Fever
33. Ebony Tears - A Handful of Nothing
34. Sick of it All - Scratch the Surface
35. Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
36. Behemoth - Satanica
37. Carnage - Dark Recollections
38. John Coltrane - Ascension
39. Strapping Young Lad - City
40. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
41. Gwynbleidd - Amaranthine/Nostalgia
42. Hellchild - Bareskin
43. Naglfar - Vittra
44. Dawn - Slaughtersun
45. Lord Belial - The Black Curse
46. Eyes of Fire - Ashes to Embers
47. Earth Crisis - Firestorm
48. Snapcase - Progression Through Unlearning
49. All Out War - For Those Who Were Crucified
50. Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennae to the Sky
51. Glissando - With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards The Burning Sea
52. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
53. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
54. In The Woods - Omnio
55. The Gathering - How to Measure a Planet
56. Daemon - Seven Deadly Sins
57. No Fun At All - The Big Knockover
58. Samiam - You Are Freaking Me Out
59. Fall From Grace - Fall From Grace
60. Paradise Lost - Host
61. Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
62. Vader - Black to the Blind
63. Krisiun - Black Force Domain
64. Disfear - A Brutal Sight of War
65. Hypocrisy - Final Chapter
66. Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
67. Dan Swanö - Moontower
68. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
69. Eden A.D. - Cycles of Relevance
70. Nailbomb - Point Blank
71. Turmoil - The Process Of
72. Buzzov•en - Sore
73. Antonio Pinto - Lord of War
74. Lost Soul - Scream of the Mourning Star
75. The Haunted - The Haunted
76. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
77. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
78. Godflesh - Selfless
79. Head of David - Dustbowl
80. Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
81. Judas Priest - British Steel
82. Halford - Resurrection
83. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
84. Depeche Mode - Violator
85. Merciless - Unbound
86. Henry Rollins - Eric the Pilot
87. Deicide - Once Upon The Cross
88. Ministry - Filth Pig
89. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
90. Death Is Just The Beginning III
91. Bill Hicks - Dangerous
92. Kyuss - Sky Valley
93. Origin - Antithesis
94. Entombed - Clandestine
95. The Crown - Deathrace King
96. Carcass - Heartwork
97. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
98. Napalm Death - Fear Emptiness Despair
99. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
100. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
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