Metal Band With The 4 Best Consecutive Albums?

[Ozone Baby]

I'm going with Iron Maiden:

-Piece Of Mind
-Powerslave
-Somewhere In Time
-Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

 

[beckerman]

Back up at least one year, two IMO. Number of the Beast is one of the best albums made, not a dud on it

 

[244300]

It’s a tie between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. The original heavy metal bands.

 

[Lution]

AIC

Facelift
Sap
Dirt
Jar of Flies

 

[E2942]

The thread is about Heavy Metal, not Grunge adjacent!

Iron Maiden's 4 best are:
Killers
Piece of Mind
Number of the Beast
Powerslave

the ones after that are crap!, Pure Crap!

The original Heavy Metal band had the four best albums right out of the gate, Black Sabbath.

Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. The original heavy metal bands.

Yeah, that Fool in the Rain is such a heavy classic!
At least 55% of each of their first 4 albums would not fit into the Heavy Metal category.

 

[244300]

Yeah, that Fool in the Rain is such a heavy classic!
At least 55% of each of their first 4 albums would not fit into the Heavy Metal category.

Fool In The Rain isn’t a track on the first four Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath albums.

 

[Jason Calieri]

Metallica. 2nd place Black Sabbath.

 

[E2942]

Fool In The Rain isn’t a track on the first four

The rest of my statement still stands, most of their songs on those albums are not Heavy.

In fact, on all of their albums, at least 55% is not Heavy Metal.

 

[244300]

The rest of my statement still stands, most of their songs on those albums are not Heavy.

Yes…compared to albums that came years or decades later. At the time is a different matter.

 

[magdream]

Is VH metal? If so, 1-4.

 

[E2942]

If Van Halen were Heavy, they certainly stopped by the 3rd album.

compared to albums that came years or decades later

not then, not now, not ever
It was mostly Bluesy, a lot more so than Black Sabbath.

I mean, gimme a break, you think the Lemon Song is Heavy?

 

[Cody]

Is Poison considered metal?

 

[E2942]

Unskinny Bop disqualified them.

 

[Stef456]

Voivod :
- Killing Technology
- Dimension Hatröss
- Nothingface(peak for them, incredible album)
- Angel Rat(weakest of the 4 but still good)

Opeth
- Still Life
- Blackwater Park
- Deliverance
- Damnation(not heavy at all but my favorite)

Of course, the obvious answer is Metallica.

 

[MERCYFULFATE]

I can’t do this.
Too many great Metal bands to list a consecutive 4 for me.

I saw the Powerslave tour. That’s also the shows they recorded Live after Death which is one of the all time best live albums from anyone.

 

[Eddie-Applegate]

In the running i reckon:

Death
YOB
Electric Wizard (if you count Supercoven)
Darkthrone
Krallice

 

[Ozone Baby]

Is Poison considered metal?

Only if Shotgun Messiah is too

 

[E2942]

Overkill: debut to Years of Decay

Testament: debut until Souls of Black

Exodus: debut until Impact is Imminent

 

[Jdsev]

Metallica’s first 4:

Kill em All
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
And Justice for All

If their career had ended there they’d still be held among the top of Metal royalty

 

[Guitarworks]

Dream Theater
-Images and Words
-Awake
-Falling Into Infinity
-Metropolis Part II Scenes From a Memory

A Change of Seasons was not a full length album, and one side was covers. It doesn't count.