My wife and I are going to throw these responses into a hat and pick one randomly to listen to every weekend.
It doesn’t have to be your favorite album in the genre, but one that you think best represents your favorite genre for a new listener. Feel free to get specific with sub genres!
I’ll go first. Progressive death metal - Blackwater Park by Opeth.
Shoegaze: My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
I’m a huge fan of Meshuggah, and I hear Carbomb compared to them a lot. We will definitely check this one out.
Parcels. Live vol. 1
Richard D. James Album for IDM or Black Messiah for neosoul
Synthwave: Endless Summer by The Midnight
Extreme Metal:
Melodic Black Metal - Storm Of The Light's Bane
Brutal Death Metal - Pierced From Within
Technical Death Metal - The Scepter Of The Ancients
Atmospheric Black Metal - Rain Upon The Impure
Death Metal - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
Blackened Death Metal - The Nocturnal Silence
Progressive Death Metal - Crimson
Black Metal - Nemesis Divina
Raw Black Metal - Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood
Funeral Doom Metal - The Pernicious Enigma
Melodic Death Metal - They Will Return
Death-Thrash - Spectrum Of Death
Symphonic Black Metal - Witchcraft
Off the Wall by Michael Jackson
Genre: Disco/Funk
Symphonic Metal: Imaginaerum by Nightwish
New Wave: Rio by Duran Duran
Shoegaze: Slowdive by Slowdive
Jungle: Goldie - Timeless
Rock: Can't Buy a Thrill (Steely Dan)
Pop Punk - Enema of the State, Blink 182
Rare americans 2 and I would say it represents every song that doesn't have a clear genre
Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive
Come to Grief by Grief (1994)
Grunge: Soundgarden - Superunknown
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Gheist009 t1_j66wqm9 wrote
Math Metal/ Experimental: Carbomb - Centralia.
The follow up album, which took 5 years, was also great. Everything following felt forced.