I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.

It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.

I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.

  • toomanypancakesEnglish
    7•2 months ago

    I tend to listen to a lot of symphonic metal. I know some folks are turned off if the vocals aren’t harsh enough, so some of these are probably a total miss, but some of my favorite albums are:

    1. Delain - The Human Contradiction
    2. The Agonist - Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
    3. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
    4. Opeth - Blackwater Park
    5. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
    6. Frantic Amber - Burning Insight
    7. Infected Rain - 86
    8. Dream Theater - Train of Thought
    9. Iron Maiden - Killers
    10. Epica - The Holographic Principle
    • PhenomephreneOP
      4•2 months ago

      I find a lot of times I’m more skirting around the edges of symphonic metal without landing dead center. I like female vocals a lot, so I get into stuff like Tristania and The Gathering pretty hard. And I like some stuff that’s more in the neoclassical darkwave spectrum like Autumn Tears, Rain Fell Within, Dargaard, etc. Elis is probably the most on the nose symphonic group that I enjoy a lot.

    • @MetjuEnglish
      3•2 months ago

      Hoo boy, The Agonist… It’s unfortunate they disbanded, but yeah, Lullabies for the Dormant Mind is one of their better albums. Great pick 👍