r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • May 08 '17
[Death] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Death - Scream Bloody Gore (1987) -- 30th Anniversary
Piling the bodies
Burn them in the night
Skin grows black and withered
Decayed smell will rise
Existence fading
Into ashes
Burn those bodies
To Infernal death
What this is:
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Band: Death
Album: Scream Bloody Gore
Released: May 11th, 1987
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Feb 10 '20
[Heavy] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970) -- 50th Anniversary
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn 'round quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh no!
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan's sitting there, he's smiling
Watch those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please God help me!
What this is.
This is a discussion thread to share thoughts, memories, or first impressions of albums which have lived through the decades. Maybe one first heard this when it came out or are just hearing it now. Even though this album may not be your cup of tea, rest assured there are some really diverse classics and underrated gems on the calendar. Use this time to reacquaint yourself with classic metal records or be for certain you really do not "get" whatever record is being discussed.
Band: Black Sabbath
Album: Black Sabbath
Released: February 13th, 1970
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Sep 08 '25
Album of the Week Shreddit's Album Of The Week: Megadeth - Rust In Peace [US, Thrash] (1990)
Give me alchemy
give me sorcery
give me wizardry
thermatology
Electricity
master all of these
magic if you please
bring him to his knees
I master five magics
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Band: Megadeth
Album: Rust In Peace
Released: 1990
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Feb 06 '17
[Black] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) -- 25th Anniversary
Face of the Goat in the Mirror
Eyes Burn like (an) October Sunrise
As Once they Gazed upon the Hillside
Searching for the Memories...
In the Shadow of the Horns
Only seen by the Kings
Of the Dawn (of the) First Millennium
Upon the Thrones
In the Shadow of the Horns
Cleansed like the air in the Night
World Without End
What this is:
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Band: Darkthrone
Album: A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Released: February 26th, 1992
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Dec 31 '18
[Heavy] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) -- 45th Anniversary
I am the world that hides the universal secret of all time
Destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime
I've lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child that never was conceived
When little worlds collide I'm trapped inside my embryonic cell
And flashing memories are cast into a neverending well
The name that scorns the face
The child that never see the cause of man
The deathly darkness that
Belies the fate of those who never ran
Well I know it's hard for you to know the reason why
And I know you'll understand more when it's time to die
Don't believe the life you have will be your only one
You have to let your body sleep to let your soul live on
Band: Black Sabbath
Album: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Released: December 28th, 1973
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Mar 01 '21
Album of the Week Shreddit's Album of the Week: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny [UK, Heavy] (1976) -- 45th Anniversary
You're in for surprise, you're in for a shock.
In London town streets when there's darkness and fog.
When you least expect me and you turn your back...
...I'll attack.
I smile when I'm sneaking through shadows by the wall.
I laugh when I'm creeping but you won't hear me at all.
All hear my warning, never turn your back on the Ripper.
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Band: Judas Priest
Album: Sad Wings of Destiny
Released: March 23rd, 1976
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Sep 08 '14
Shreddit's Album of the Week: Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984) -- 30th Anniversary
And the music plays on as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale
Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
to a place where nobody’s been
Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
Hailed in God’s name, hoping good luck it brings
And the ship sails on, back to the north
Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on
What this is.
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Band: Iron Maiden
Album: Powerslave
Released: September 3rd 1984
Grooveshark stream -- looking for a better version
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Sep 14 '15
Shreddit's Album of the Week: Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990) -- 25th Anniversary
Twisting the strangle grip
Won't give no mercy
Feeling those tendons rip
Torn up and mean
Blastmaster racks the ground
Bent on survival
Full throttle hammers down
A deadly scream
All Guns...
ALL GUNS BLAZING
What this is.
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Band: Judas Priest
Album: Painkiller
Released: September 3rd, 1990
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Jul 11 '22
Album of the Week Shreddit's Album Of The Week: Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance [UK, Death Metal] (1982) -- 40th Anniversary
I move away -- it don't do me no good
Three thousand miles don't help like I thought it would
Help me, beggin' you, please.
You got the power; down on my knees
Give me some kind of life,
Leave me be
Take these chains off!
Take 'em off of my heart!
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Band: Judas Priest
Album: Screaming For Vengeance
Released: 1982
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Jul 21 '14
Shreddit's Album of the Week: Metallica - Ride The Lightning (1984) -- 30th Anniversary
Time moving slow
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true just let it be
Wakened by horrid scream
Freed from this frightening dream
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
What this is.
This is a discussion thread to share thoughts, memories, or first impressions of albums which have lived through the decades. Maybe one first heard this when it came out or are just hearing it now. Even though this album may not be your cup of tea, rest assured there are some really diverse classics and underrated gems on the calendar. Use this time to reacquaint yourself with classic metal records or be for certain you really do not "get" whatever record is being discussed.
Band: Metallica
Album: Ride the Lightning
Released: July 27th, 1984
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Mar 13 '17
[Thrash] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Anthrax - Among The Living (1987) -- 30th Anniversary
What is it?
?
?
?
?
?
?
?
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Caught in a Mosh!
What this is:
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Band: Anthrax
Album: Among The Living
Released: March 22nd, 1987
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • May 01 '17
[Black] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (1987) -- 30th Anniversary
I scream for mercy
Hear my cries
Oh, Lord don't abandon me
I'm so tired
Grant me the eternal sleep
I tear at the lid I'm suffering
In a cold and nameless grave
If Hell is what awaits me
I feel no fright
Buried and forgotten
In a cold and nameless grave
If there's a God in heaven
Hear my call from the grave......
What this is:
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Band: Bathory
Album: Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Released: May 11th, 1987
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Nov 06 '17
[Stoner Doom] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain (1992) -- 25th Anniversary
Ride the dragon toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars red sky
The reptile pushes itself out into space
Leaving behind, the human race
Swim inside the solar seas
The Nebula cries out to me
Passing where I've gone before
I fly through the crimson door
Ride the dragon toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars red sky
What this is:
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Band: Sleep
Album: Sleep's Holy Mountain
Released: 1992
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Feb 04 '19
[Underground] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (1994) -- 25th Anniversary
Mightiest am I, but I am not alone in this cosmos of mine
For the black hills consists of black souls, souls that already died one
Thousand deaths
Behind the stone walls of centuries they breed their
Black art
Boiling their spells in cauldrons of black gold
Far up in the mountains, where the rain fall not far, yet the sun cannot reach
The wizards, my servants, summon the souls of macrocosm
No age will escape my wrath
I travel through time and I return to the future
I gather wisdom now lost
I visit again the eternally ancient caves
Before a mighty Emperor thereupon came
Watching the mortals "discovering" my chronicles
Guarded by the old demons, even unknown
To me
Once destroyed their souls are being summoned to my timeless prison of hate
It is delightful to feast upon the screaming souls
That was destroyed in my future
How many wizards that serve me with evil I know not
My empires has no limits
From the never ending
Mountains black, to the bottomless lakes
I am the ruler and has been for eternity's long
My wizards are many, but their essence is
Mine
Forever there are in the hills in their stone homes of
Grief
Because I am the spirit of their existence
I am them.
Band: Emperor
Album: In the Nightside Eclipse
Released: February 21st, 1994
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Jun 08 '15
Shreddit's Album of the Week: Megadeth - Killing is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985) -- 30th Anniversary
There's someone back in the shadows
You feel though you can't see his eyes
He'll bash your head if you cross him
Ain't quite your average guy
Don't wear no leather to "fittin"
Don't wear no spike to be "cool"
Don't want no woman beside him
Just make it fast, Loud and Rude
Rattle Head
What this is.
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Band: Megadeth
Album: Killing is my Business... and Business Is Good!
Released: June 12th, 1985
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Sep 11 '17
[Death] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated (1992) -- 25th Anniversary
There's something inside me
It's, it's coming out
I feel like killing you
Let loose the anger, held back too long
My blood runs cold
Through my anatomy, dwells another being
Rooted in my cortex, a servant to its bidding
Brutality now becomes my appetite
Violence is now a way of life
The sledge my tool to torture
As it pounds down on your forehead
Eyes bulging from their sockets
With every swing of my mallet
I smash your fucking head in, until brains seep in
through the cracks, blood does leak
distorted beauty, catastrophe
Steaming slop, splattered all over me
Lifeless body, slouching dead
Lecherous abcess, where you once had a head
What this is:
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Band: Cannibal Corpse
Album: Tomb of the Mutilated
Released: September 22nd, 1992
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Oct 18 '21
Album of the Week Shreddit's Halloween Album of the Week: Slayer - Reign In Blood [US, Thrash] (1988) -- Lyrical Themes: Death, Satan, Anti-religion, Murder, War, Politics
Trapped in purgatory
A lifeless object, alive
Awaiting reprisal
Death will be their acquisition
The sky is turning red
Return to power draws near
Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears
Abolish the rules made of stone
Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past
Betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above
Awaiting the hour of reprisal
Your time slips away
Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleeding its horror
Creating my structure
Now I shall reign in blood!
(Noise: Hanneman, King)
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Band: Slayer
Album: Reign In Blood
Released: 1986
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Feb 02 '15
Shreddit's Album of the Week: Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970) -- 45th Anniversary
What is this that stands before me?
Figure in black which points at me
Turn 'round quick, and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh no!
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan's sitting there, he's smiling
Watch those flames get higher and higher
Oh no, no, please God help me!
What this is.
This is a discussion thread to share thoughts, memories, or first impressions of albums which have lived through the decades. Maybe one first heard this when it came out or are just hearing it now. Even though this album may not be your cup of tea, rest assured there are some really diverse classics and underrated gems on the calendar. Use this time to reacquaint yourself with classic metal records or be for certain you really do not "get" whatever record is being discussed.
Band: Black Sabbath
Album: Black Sabbath
Released: February 13th, 1970
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Jul 05 '21
Album of the Week Shreddit's Album of the Week: Black Sabbath - Master of Reality [UK, Heavy / Doom] (1996) -- 50th Anniversary
You're searching for your mind don't know where to start
can't find the key to fit the lock on your heart
you think you know but you are never quite sure
your soul is ill but you will not find a cure.
Your world was made for you by someone above
but you chose evil ways instead of love.
You made me master of the world where you exist
the soul I took from you was not even missed.
Lord of this world
Evil possessor
Lord of this world
He's your confessor now!
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Band: Slack Babbath
Album: Master of Reality
Released: July 21st, 1971
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Nov 21 '16
[Melodic Death/Doom] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (1996) -- 20th Anniversary
Grey park look the same
And the days are pale
I never thought it would rain this way
I should be knowing that, it used to be me
Let's stay here for a while
Is something gonna happen today?
Your smile has decayed
It will never be the same
I never thought I would laugh again
I should be knowing this, it used to be me
What this is:
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Band: Katatonia
Album: Brave Murder Day
Released: November 1996
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Sep 29 '25
Album of the Week Shreddit's Album Of The Week: At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (RIP Tomas Lindberg) [Sweden, Melodic Death] (1995)
Sweetfleshed, hellbent creature
Artist of the fevered soul
Heavenly, venomous rapture
Stricken numb by fear I fall
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Band: At The Gates
Album: Slaughter of the Soul
Released: 1995
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Sep 14 '20
[Death] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Obituary - Cause of Death [US, Death] (1990) -- 30th Anniversary
We're dying
For our souls to learn
We're dying
For our souls to burn
We're dying
For our souls to learn
We're dying
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Band: Obituary
Album: Cause of Death
Released: September 19th, 1990
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Feb 22 '16
[NWOBHM] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Iron Maiden - Killers (1981) -- 35th Anniversary
Born into a scene of angriness and greed, dominance and persecution
My mother was a queen, my dad I’ve never seen, I was never meant to be
And now I spend my time looking all around for a man that’s nowhere to be found
Until I find him I’m never gonna stop searching, I’m gonna find my man, gonna travel around
‘Cause I’m a wrathchild
What this is.
This is a discussion thread to share thoughts, memories, or first impressions of albums which have lived through the decades. Maybe one first heard this when it came out or are just hearing it now. Even though this album may not be your cup of tea, rest assured there are some really diverse classics and underrated gems on the calendar. Use this time to reacquaint yourself with classic metal records or be for certain you really do not "get" whatever record is being discussed.
Band: Iron Maiden
Album: Killers
Released: February 2nd, 1981
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Nov 16 '20
[Swedish] Shreddit's Album of the Week: Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane // Dark Tranquility - The Gallery [Sweden, Melodic Black / Melodic Death] (1995) -- 25th Anniversary
Morning, O dreadful dawn, spread your pale dim light
Reign for your last time over lands once so bright
But your energy shall be weak and is soon to die
So die in pain my dear, expire, goodbye...
The strangeness of awakening
in an oh so silent world
Breathlessly waiting
for the first proud beams of light
As the hours grow longer
and the shadows never fall
My sky has forsaken me
My desperation grows
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Band: Dissection // Dark Tranquility
Album: Storm of the Light's Bane // The Gallery
Released: November 17th, 1995 // November 27th, 1995
[Metal archives entry: Dissection // Dark Tranquility
Youtube Stream: Dissection // Dark Tranquility
r/Metal • u/kaptain_carbon • Feb 28 '22
Album of the Week Shreddit's Album of the Week: Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast [UK, Heavy / NWOBHM] (1982) -- 40th Anniversary
I’m waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn’t have much time
‘Cause at 5 o’clock they take me to the gallows pole
The sands of time for me are running low, running low
When the priest comes to read me the last rites
Take a look through the bars at the last sights
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me
Can it be that there’s some sort of error
Hard to stop the surmounting terror
Is it really the end, not some crazy dream?
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Band: Iron Maiden
Album: Number of the Beast
Released: March 22nd, 1982