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Cosmic_Equilibrium
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:45 pm 
 

Hmm, I'm the other way round on Megadeth. I prefer the debut and SFSGSW to the albums after each. Mind you I also think their finest hour is Youthanasia.

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Pitiless Wanderer wrote:
Lots here, so I'll name a few:

In Flames - The Jester Race, Whoracle, Colony
Nevermore - Politics of Ecstacy - This Godless Endeavor (5 album run unsurpassed in the history of music)


Came to say these two, and would add Clayman to the IF lineup. Plus:

Megadeth: Peace Sells... -> Countdown to Extinction. So Far is a little weaker but not enough to derail
Nightwish: Wishmaster, Century Child, Once
Children of Bodom: Hatebreeder -> Are You Dead Yet?
Soilwork: A Predator's Portrait -> Stabbing the Drama

Hard rock, not metal:
Shinedown: Us and Them, Leave a Whisper, The Sounds of Madness.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2019 5:15 pm 
 

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Tad Morose - Undead/Matters of the Dark/Modus Vivendi - They really came into their own style and with urban breed's unmistakable vocals and cool lyrics, they became a great sort of alternative power metal act for people who didn't like the usual melodic Euro-stuff. Heavy, monolithic riffs that invoked being in a tomb and breed's ultra-charismatic vocals made these a treat.

This x1000. This trio of albums gets criminally overlooked. Killer trio with Undead being the best of the three.
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Cool idea! Let me think...

Rotting Christ: Thy Mighty Contract - Non Serviam - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers

This one has been mentioned already, but hell, it's the strongest black metal output ever.

Black Sabbath: Headless Cross - Tyr - Dehumanizer

Yes, I prefer these records over their classic ones, I'm simply a sucker for 80s hymns and aggressive Dio.

As for non-metal:

The Cure: Seventeen Seconds - Faith - Pornography

You can FEEL and digest the downward spiral that they were going through. Pornography is probably the darkest, most genuinely depressing thing I've ever heard.
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I thought about including Samael, ELP, or Genesis, but I wanted to stick to bands where 3 consecutive albums is really what you want to hear from them. Maybe they had another good album down the road, but this is the stretch that made the band.

Atheist first three are/ought to be mandatory for prog or death metal fans. Piece of Time, Unquestionable Presence, and Elements are all classics to some extent or another.

Pestilence from Consuming Impulse to Spheres, but the gap between the first and second in that trio is pretty vast, so it almost seems like cheating. Still, the first two are widely revered, and I will defend Spheres as a quality album.

Deep Purple from In Rock through Machine Head is classic. Some people don't like Fireball, but I've always enjoyed the catchiness and humor of Strange Kind of Woman and Farmer's Daughter.

Outside of metal, Yes was actually one of the first bands that occurred to me. Tales has its moments and Relayer is ok, but realistically, The Yes Album, Fragile, and Close to the Edge are the works that made Yes.

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Tad Morose - Undead, Matter of the Dark, Modus Vivendi
Angra - Rebirth, Temple of Shadows, Aurora Consurgens
Queensrÿche - The Warning, Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime (Yes, RfO is that good! It's about the songs, not the clothes.)

For me, Siége Perilous, Karma, The Fourth Legacy are the winning trio from Kamelot. After that they started getting weird.
Manowar, duh! Battle hymns to Sign of the Hammer.
And since I'm a fanboy: Morgana Lefay, Knowing just as I - Grand Materia, including the Lefay albums.
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Opus wrote:
Queensrÿche - The Warning, Rage for Order, Operation: Mindcrime (Yes, RfO is that good! It's about the songs, not the clothes.)

I still don't like Rage for Order much at all. If it didn't exist, then you'd have the s/t EP, The Warning, and Operation: Mindcrime as their holy trinity, and it would be a powerful one indeed.
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For this making non-metal contributions, it was actually The Rolling Stones' triumvirate of Let It Bleed/Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. that inspired this thread.

I would also place Bad Religion's run of Suffer/No Control/Against the Grain alongside any of the combinations nominated so far.

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Darkthrone - Soulside Journey through Transilvanian Hunger (yes more than three but honestly all of them are hugely influential)
Burzum - Det Som Engang Var, Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Filosofem
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi, Frost, Eld
Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Summoning, Battles in the North, Pure Holocaust
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, IX Equilibrium
Morbid Angel - Altars, Blessed, Covenant
Immolation - Dawn of Possession, Here In After, Failures for Gods

Lots more I could think of but Ima stop there.
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Darkthrone- A Blaze In the Northern Sky, Under a Funeral Moon and Transylvanian Hunger. (I know this was mentioned but it really is a great trinity.)
Immolation- Here In After, Failures For Gods, Close To a World Below (This is such a strong output. It's amazing how closely Failures and Close To a World were released just a year apart.)
Incantation- Onward To Golgotha, Mortal Throne of Nazarene, Diabolical Conquest
Drawn and Quartered- Extermination Revelry, Return of the Black Death, Hail Infernal Darkness (DandQ were very productive during this time, with each of these albums being released one after the other. "Hail Infernal Darkness" is probably one of their best albums.)

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 3:49 am 
 

traxan wrote:
Nightwish: Wishmaster, Century Child, Once


I was thinking about them, and I'd move it back one - Oceanborn, Wishmaster, Century Child - you get all of the good songwriting that way, and the best guitar work.

I'll add Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica, Silence, Winterheart's Guild

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Rodman wrote:
For this making non-metal contributions, it was actually The Rolling Stones' triumvirate of Let It Bleed/Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. that inspired this thread.

I would also place Bad Religion's run of Suffer/No Control/Against the Grain alongside any of the combinations nominated so far.


Honestly, Against the Grain is a little weaker than the others, I think Generator was much better. I might be alone there, however.

Cradle of Filth-wise, I'd take the debut over Midian. Midian's certainly not bad, but it lacks the flowing melodies that Stuart Anstis brought to the band (I think it's safe to say that he is massively underrated in terms of his contributions). The debut, while still lacking Anstis, makes up for it with some savage stuff and largely excellent atmospherics (honestly, some of it sounds like Death SS).


Opus, Battle Hymns to Sign of the Hammer is a weird trilogy. :P
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Bathory - S/T through Twilight of the Gods. Could be broken into two trilogies. Would like to add Blood on Ice as it was essentially done before BFD.

Slayer's trio of Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss is their three clearly best.

All three Dissection albums. Yes, Reinkaos is awesome.

Watain - Casus Luciferi, Sworn to the Dark, Lawless Darkness. The debut is also great but not as great.

Ulver's first three. Three distinctively different atmospheres, all great.

Darkthrone - A Blaze through Panzerfaust. Don't forget the fourth sibling!

Burzum - Det som engang var through Filosofem. Dsev isn't as good as Hlto or F but still his best run, by far.

Morbid Angel - A through D. All equally good in my book.

Entombed - Left Hand Path, Clandestine, Wolverine Blues. Only classics!

Dismember - LaES through Death Metal. MKC is my favourite. Fight me.

Metallica first five. If I'f had to choose three, it'd probably be the first three.

Children of Bodom first four. Highly entertaining albums.
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Obviously Fates Warning with Spectre through No Exit, all top shelf albums. Recently got acquainted with these, and they've all immediately jumped to some of my favorite albums of all time.

Another super obvious one is Judas Priests legendary S trilogy. Amazing pioneering shit on those records.

First three My Dying Bride albums are the shit, and some amazing masterpieces of death-doom

Sticking in the death-doom realm, early Septic Flesh fucking rules, first three records are classics, and that's not even mentioning Temple of the lost race, which is one of those pinnacle albums in the death metal genre.

I love the early portion of Cradle of Filth's discography as well.

Oh, and Pestilences first four are completely amazing, and almost as essential to the genre as Metallica or Slayers first four.
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Agalloch - Pale Folklore, The Mantle, Ashes Against the Grain

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Taake - Nattestid ser porten vid, Over Bjoergvin graater himmerik, and Hordalands doedskvad.


Essentially, the best trio of black metal releases I've ever heard.

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Hmm, nobody has mentioned Destroyer 666. Unchain the Wolves - Phoenix Rising - Cold Steel.

I am not sure it is the greatest three album run in metal history, but it is a fantastic run. From the much more black metal style of the first album, to more of a thrash metal sound on the last. I still maintain that Cold Steel is a damn near perfect album. And the other two are damn close.
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A couple more just for fun -

Iced Earth - s/t, Night of the Stormrider, Burnt Offerings.
This band was at its best when the music was darker. I do like some of the stuff they did after this, but their first three are their best three.

Paradise Lost - Shades of God, Icon, Draconian Times.
These three albums are damn near perfect. The latter two make me think of what would happen if Metallica went goth and I dig it.

Rhapsody - Legendary Tales, Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Dawn of Victory.
Fun, gloriously over the top power metal at its absolute best.

Running Wild - Under Jolly Roger, Port Royal, Death or Glory.
Their early speed metal stuff's quite good, don't get me wrong, but I think they really hit their stride here.

Theocracy - Mirror of Souls, As the World Bleeds, Ghost Ship.
Some of the best prog-power to come out of the USA.

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But because someone has to say it, I'm putting down Nightwish's run of Oceanborn, Wishmaster, and Century Child. Absolutely unbeatable symphonic power metal, and still the crowning champion albums of the subgenre to this very day. It's too bad Once was plagued with some terrible filler, or else we'd have a streak of four on our hands here.

I honestly don't know why I didn't include these three earlier in this thread, they're all fantastic albums, especially "Oceanborn". Great atmosphere and riffs on that one. I actually enjoy all their albums, but hey, they were my gateway band! Got a major soft spot for them for that reason.

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Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory / Crush the Insects / So Long Suckers
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium / Ethereal Mirror / Carnival Bizarre
Coroner - R.I.P./Punishment For Decadence / No More Color / Mental Vortex
Living Death - Protected from Reality / Worlds Neurosis / Killing in Action (more of a personal selection, just wanted to give them some credit)
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Surprised nobody has mentioned Amon Amarth. They have four in a row, from Versus the World to Twilight of the Thunder God. Those are the albums that people think of when they think of Amon Amarth, and they most represent the band's sound. Almost all of their most popular and rousing viking themed anthems is on them.

And Anorexia Nervosa. Nobody remember them I guess. They released a trio of albums in the early 21st that still stand up as tremendous examples of extreme symphonic metal. I daresay that they isnprired the genre, with Drudenhaus, New Obscurantis Order, and Redemption Process.

The pal up there ^ beat me to Coroner. I would cut off R.I.P. though, and just go with the other three. Shitty production on Punishment aside, those three are absolute masterpieces.

The first three albums from a whole bunch of 2nd wave thrash should count. Exodus, Testament, Overkill...
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Taake's first three form a trilogy, both in the concept and the execution of the style. 'Nattestid...' is pure 2nd wave black metal, '...Bjoergvin...' adds some more variation of the riffs and starts flirting with the thrash riffing that was completely integrated on '...Doedskvad'. Each album builds on the previous one, and there is a significant drop in quality after it, so the trilogy is well-defined and some of the best Norwegian black metal has to offer.

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GTog wrote:
The pal up there ^ beat me to Coroner. I would cut off R.I.P. though, and just go with the other three. Shitty production on Punishment aside, those three are absolute masterpieces.



Mental Vortex over R.I.P., interesting. I tend to see MV as their fourth best, but the weirdness of it has its charms.

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Venom - Black Metal
Venom - At War With Satan
Venom - Welcome To Hell

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Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, Train Of Thought
Godflesh - Streetcleaner, Pure, Selfless
Grip Inc - Power Of Inner Strength, Nemesis, Solidify
Evoken - Embrace The Emptiness, Quietus, Antithesis Of Light
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea, The Divinity Of Oceans, The Giant
Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance, In Their Darkened Shrines, Annihilation Of The Wicked
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends, Leave Scars, Time Does Not Heal
Venom - Welcome To Hell, Black Metal, At War With Satan
Bathory - Blood Fire Death, Hammerheart, Twilight Of The Gods
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MetallicaTrueFan wrote:
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory, Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence, Train Of Thought
Godflesh - Streetcleaner, Pure, Selfless
Grip Inc - Power Of Inner Strength, Nemesis, Solidify
Evoken - Embrace The Emptiness, Quietus, Antithesis Of Light
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea, The Divinity Of Oceans, The Giant
Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance, In Their Darkened Shrines, Annihilation Of The Wicked
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends, Leave Scars, Time Does Not Heal
Venom - Welcome To Hell, Black Metal, At War With Satan
Bathory - Blood Fire Death, Hammerheart, Twilight Of The Gods


I consider Bathory to be Bathory, The Return, and Under The Sign Of The Black Mark.

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Might be in the minority here but the four album run of:

Alternative 4 - Judgement - A Fine Day To Exit - A Natural Disaster is very impressive to me. And Weather Systems is my absolutely favourite Anathema record, but the streak was broken with what I consider to be one of their weakest releases (We're Here Because We're Here).

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Heathen - Breaking the Silence, Victims of Deception, The Evolution of Chaos

Yes, I know this excludes Recovered, which is more like a compilation than a proper studio release, as it has some demos.

Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains, Arise

Enough said.

Slayer - Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss

Glad to see someone mentioned this one as well.

Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken, The Spectre Within, Awaken the Guardian

John Arch is one of metal's finest vocalists.
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Hypocrisy: Abducted - The Final Chapter - Hypocrisy.

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Theatre of Tragedy's self titled debut onto Velvet Darkness They Fear onto Aegis. Incredible albums that pretty much invented the "beauty and the beast" vocal dynamic as we know it today.
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Sentenced - North from Here (1993), Amok (1995), Down (1996)
This is such a fun run of albums because the band pretty much reinvented themselves for each release. From the furious death metal riffs of 'My Sky Is Darker than Thine' to the depressed, goth-tinged yet glorious anthem that is 'Crumbling Down' in three years. Quite the evolution.

Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress (2001), Illusion's Play (2004), Monotony Fields (2015)
Many people prefer the band's debut album but personally, I never really enjoyed it as much as the releases that came after. Consistently great art, even if it did take eleven years between between the last two albums. It was well worth the wait and hey, it's funeral doom, after all.
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Helstar- Remnants of War- A Distant Thunder- Nosferatu

I'll second the Manilla Road one but add that they did it twice with Spiral Castle- Gates of Fire- Voyager

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StainedClass95 wrote:
Atheist first three are/ought to be mandatory for prog or death metal fans. Piece of Time, Unquestionable Presence, and Elements are all classics to some extent or another.

Good choice. I have a personal liking to Piece of Time over the others, but all 3 are good in their own way.

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And Anorexia Nervosa. Nobody remember them I guess. They released a trio of albums in the early 21st that still stand up as tremendous examples of extreme symphonic metal. I daresay that they isnprired the genre, with Drudenhaus, New Obscurantis Order, and Redemption Process.

I remember them. I can't pick 3 because Drudenhaus is their best album by too far of a margin to pick three albums in a row. They're a good band, though.

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Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress (2001), Illusion's Play (2004), Monotony Fields (2015)
Many people prefer the band's debut album but personally, I never really enjoyed it as much as the releases that came after. Consistently great art, even if it did take eleven years between between the last two albums. It was well worth the wait and hey, it's funeral doom, after all.

Yeah dude, definitely agree here. I have to give the first album another listen but I'm currently in the same boat as you. I didn't like that one as much, and Angels of Distress is one of my favourite funeral doom albums of all time. The other two you chose are all really top quality, as well, and I'm excited to see where this band will go in the future.

I'll choose Hour of Penance with The Vile Conception, Paradogma, and Sedition. Definitely the best three-peat of their career, and since then they haven't quite reached those heights. Hideous Divinity are the new masters in this style, personally, and their three albums so far could even qualify as a top quality 3-album run.

For a less obvious choice, Antigama has a great three-album sequence of Resonance, Warning, and Meteor. All three of those albums have huge replay value for me. They're all different in the way they're approached (Warning is probably the most unhinged of the three), but I really like them all. I like everything this band has done, anyway.

Sadus has some of the best thrash with Illusions, Swallowed in Black, and A Vision of Misery. Too bad they turned pretty terrible after that.
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Forgot about the three Finnr’s Cane albums, making up a trilogy of atmosblack perfection. A Portrait Painted by the Sun is probably still their best yet but Elegy still rocks.

Also forgot the first four Burzum albums. Yeah it breaks the trilogy rule but all four really are in a league of their own.

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Shame on us for forgetting Motorhead

Motorhead, Overkill, Bomber
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Cradle of Filth:

Dusk...And her Embrace
Cruelty and the Beast
Midian

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Prong - Beg to Differ/Prove You Wrong/Cleansing

Entombed - Left Hand Path/Clandestine/Woverine Blues

Kreator - Terrible Certainty/Extreme Aggression/Coma of Souls

Metal Church - Metal Church/The Dark/Blessing in Disguise

Paradise Lost - Gothic/Shades/Icon



Danzig don't work for me, because I think IV is much better than III.

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My personal Danzig trilogy is Lucifuge, How the Gods Kill, and 4p. Their debut is great and rightly loved for its hits, but 4p is far more tonally similar to II and III.

I'd also put a Dream Theater trilogy down as When Dream and Day Unite, Images and Words, and Awake. The Kevin Moore era has a unique aura that they could never regain when he left the band.

Pentagram's Relentless, Day of Reckoning, and Be Forewarned also makes for a great trilogy despite the long gap between DOR and BF.

Savatage's Gutter Ballet, Streets, and Edge of Thorns also sticks out as a trilogy, especially with the recurring lyrical motifs between them. I suppose Handful of Rain could be grouped into it, but Criss Oliva's absence makes it feel more like an epilogue than anything.
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Twisted_Psychology wrote:
I'd also put a Dream Theater trilogy down as When Dream and Day Unite, Images and Words, and Awake. The Kevin Moore era has a unique aura that they could never regain when he left the band.


Hmmm. I was gonna make a case for DT, but mine was gonna hinge on Falling Into Infinity-an album I love, but I understand that many don't, so I left them out. For me, When Dream And Day Unite does not make the cut, at all. Dominici's vocals kill this album for me and I personally cannot get past the extremely dated production style. But hey, that's me-fair play to you if you enjoy this record.

My DT suggestion was either going to be Images to Awake to FII OR Awake to FII to Scenes. But again, I get why people won't get behind FII as a top album.

And that's about it for DT for me because there are later albums that breakup three album streaks IMO, those being Train Of Thought and Systematic Chaos. Both are merely decent at best.

And funnily enough, the post-Portnoy era represents something of the inverse of the thread: you have three album streaks of unappealing records. The very best of the post-Portnoy era-A Dramatic Turn Of Events-can only be called mediocre, and the other two (and quite frankly, what I expect out of Distance Over Time) are utterly terrible.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:32 pm 
 

Virgin Steele,
The Marriage of Heaven Hell Pt 1 , Part 2 and Invictus

Of course you could add the two House albums and that makes an incredible 5 album run in itself. I would add Visions of Eden myself to make it 6 but I'm a bit of an fan boy I'll admit.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:52 pm 
 

Nobody mentioned Saxon?
Wheels of Steel / Strong Arm of the Law / Denim & Leather - classics all the way!
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