I'm a 33 year old life long metal lover. I am always on the look-out for new (definately not NU) metal that will also sound good on my axioms. I do like other music (Absentia sounds like heaven now on the Axioms) but my first and only true love is metal.
On another post I explained that I found out I had a problem with my Yamaha receiver which made all my music sound harsh and thin. Long story short, I now have a panasonic receiver and even "poor" recordings such as And Justice for All now sound damn good, and good recordings...well they are keeping me up way to late at night.
Now that I have a system that makes me smile everytime I turn it on, I am back on the prowl for new music.
My absolute lifelong favorite albums are Metallica's 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums. Others come and go, but these are the gold standard. Orion may be my favorite piece of music ever...
Other favorite albums include:
Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater
Morningrise - Opeth
Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
Burnt Offerings - Iced Earth
Light of Day Day of Darkness - Green Carnation
Prison of Desire - After Forever
The Sound of Perserverance - Death
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Tool - 10,000 Days
Rust in Peace - only great Megadeth album
The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson - sound quality sounds dead on this one, even on the new receiver
The metal albums I have that have very good sound quality:
Ghost Reveries/Blackwater Park - Opeth
Most of Dream Theater, especially Awake
With Oden on our Side - Amon Amarth
Christ Illusion - Slayer
Load and Reload - Metallica (too bad the music itself isn't as good)
Glorious Burden - Iced Earth
10,000 days - Tool
DCC Gold version of Ride the Lightning
I am looking for 2 things. Metal that is recorded well, and metal that fits my taste that I may not know about. I have around 300 albums, and now that music sounds so damn good I need to greatly increase this number.
thanks!
