00:00What's up, guys? This is Blue from Fit for an Autopsy, and I am going to give you four of
00:04my favorite metal albums.
00:08We'll go in chronological order, and we'll start with two classics.
00:11Number one will be Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, probably my favorite album of all time.
00:16It's the perfect mix of traditional classic heavy metal, killer ballads, just soaring emotional power behind it.
00:24It just really carries the whole gamut. In a decade where heavy metal hadn't been sculpted yet, Priest kind of
00:30wrote the whole book before it was even written.
00:33Next up, I'm going to have to go for Iron Maiden Killers.
00:36While I'm a huge Bruce Dickinson guy, I really feel like Iron Maiden Killers was an album that solidified the
00:43true Maiden sound in its essence,
00:45with the dueling guitars really locked in fully, the rhythm guitars just fully galloping in that full Maiden style.
00:52And Paul D'Anno, rest in peace, was just really firing on full cylinders, delivering like a gruff, punk-inspired,
00:59but still traditional heavy metal vocal.
01:01For number three, I'm going to have to go with Carcass Heartwork, whereas they were kind of leaning out of
01:06their gore grind or earlier stuff.
01:09They had kind of melded it into this heavy metal, extreme metal hybrid that really hit a nerve with me
01:17because the lead guitar work between Mike and Bill just killed it on another level on that album.
01:24The brutality is still there, but it still has these great melodic hooks that just deliver it.
01:29And the last album for me would be Suffocation Pierce From Within, which is my favorite death metal album of
01:35all time.
01:35It's just the perfect blend of technicality, great extreme metal songwriting.
01:42The production is just top tier.
01:45And for me, to this day, it still sets the standard for technical, brutal death metal.
01:50And for me, to this day, it still sets the standard for technical, brutal death metal.
