The best instrumental metal

Share your favorite instrumental metal albums. Can be any type/genre.

One is my favorites is Koyaanisqatsy - From the Yearning to Burst the Perpetual Circle. They are a band from Germany that only released this one album. You can find the audio on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL61701FEDAD69FCA6

I don’t go much for instrumental metal, but I do toss on TQT’s Antiseptic Bloodbath Voiceless from time to time.

If only the first two Vengeance Rising albums were instrumental…

Mastery has a full EP of instrumental thrash. It’s kinda like old school Deliverance meets modern Exodus!

I'll do a song or two but never an album.

Black Rider wrote:I'll do a song or two but never an album.

I can enjoy (or at least tolerate) an EP of instrumentals. As long as there’s plenty of catchy riffs and some speed to move it along, (opposed to a slow batch of doom songs that go nowhere). 

My idea of doom is Psalm 9 by Trouble. And it does have one instrumental “Endtime”. But that song is full of great riffing!

Deliverance - Thistles has great riffs

Can't think of any full instrumental metal albums. But I do love Metallica's Instrumentals from Lighting, Puppets and Justice, and Seventh Angels Instrumentals fro Lament. They'd be my favorite Metal Instrumentals.

Dustofyears wrote:Can't think of any full instrumental metal albums. But I do love Metallica's Instrumentals from Lighting, Puppets and Justice, and Seventh Angels Instrumentals fro Lament. They'd be my favorite Metal Instrumentals.

Recollections of a Life Once Lived is probably the best of the SA ones. And yeah, all three of those Metallica ones are great.

I'm the same as most of you - I don't listen to instrumental albums very much. I will listen to them when I'm working as a bit of background music.

My favourites:
John Petrucci - Suspended Animation
Liquid Tension Experiment - both albums

StevenCressler wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:Can't think of any full instrumental metal albums. But I do love Metallica's Instrumentals from Lighting, Puppets and Justice, and Seventh Angels Instrumentals fro Lament. They'd be my favorite Metal Instrumentals.

Recollections of a Life Once Lived is probably the best of the SA ones. And yeah, all three of those Metallica ones are great.

Honestly believe had they become a house name like Slayer and Metallica etc, that drum fill to start Recollections off would've been Iconic. Yeah I love that Instrumental what a great why to began a great album. Also, like Jayson, Tank has a sound of his own on the those there skins.

All of the hard rock/metal guitar virtuoso's have great songs. Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Doug Doppler (isn't he a Christian as well?)

The problem I think that we all would run into is that none of them have one album that is engaging all the way through. I end up creating custom playlists of my favourite songs from a variety of artists. If anyone wants me to post some of my favourites from them, just ask. If not, I'm too lazy to do it of my own initiative...

I used to listen to a lot of Shrapnel Records instrumental shred albums but they don't hold my attention like they used to.  
But there were some good ones by Vinnie Moore, Jason Becker, Greg Howe, Marty Friedman, Tony MacAlpine, Joey Tafolla, Michael Lee Firkins, and others.

Also the last Angelica album was really good, the instrumental one called "without Words."  
I don't think too many people gave it a chance but it's quite good for what it is because Dennis Cameron's playing is sensitive and engaging, not just balls-to-the-wall like many shredders.

Never cared too much for instrumental metal, but my favorite instrumental by a metal band is Signum Regis’s Amorenada. Such a beautiful song, i’d even say it’s my favorite from SR

I love most of Metallica’s instrumentals: The Call of Ktulu, Orion, To Live Is to Die, Suicide & Redemption.

I also love some of TQT’s, particularly Whitewashed Tomb and Immunity Vector.

Sevenoneself wrote:Liquid Tension Experiment - both albums

The third one is my favorite

Marty Friedman:
Specimen
Dragon Mistress
Viper
Catfight
Elixir
Black Orchid
Stigmata Addiction
Exorcism Parade

Paul Gilbert:
The Gargoyle
My Teeth Are a Drum Set
Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar
The Curse of Castle Dragon
Let the Computer Decide
Get Outta My Yard
Technical Difficulties (Racer X)
Fuzz Universe
Jackhammer
Scit Scat Wah (Racer X)
Scarified (Racer X)

Angelica:
Bumble Bee Groove
Psalm 91
Telestai


David T. Chastain:
Thunder and Lightning
Wild and Truly Diminished
Blitzkrieg
Spontaneous Combustion
The 8th Degree
Now Or Never
Trapped In the Void
Project 107: 3x

Yngwie J. Malmsteen:
Trilogy
Far Beyond the Sun
Krakatau
Little Savage
Evil Eye
Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4
Black Star

Vinnie Moore:
In Control
Day Dream
Meltdown
Premonition (Vicious Rumours)
Panic Attack
Fly
Cinema

Jason Becker:
Altitudes
Perpetual Burn
Go Off! (Cacophony)

Reb Beach:
Cuts It Loose
Black Magic
just discovered he has a whole fusion album never released, but demos are on youtube.

Michael Angelo Batio:
No Boundaries
Science Fiction
Stop Complaining
Rain Forest


Dream Theater:
Erotomania
Hell's Kitchen
Overture 1928
Fatal Tragedy

Of course the greatest instrumetal still belongs to George Lynch:

"Mr. Scary" by Dokken

Others:

Sane No More by Circus Maximus, Anarchy X by Queensryche, Black Knight by Leatherwolf, Reality Dream trilogy by Riverside, Minus by Stavesacre, Dialectic Chaos by Megadeth, Black Watch by Jacob's Dream, Onward Warriors by Sacred Warrior, Paralysis by Extol, Exploration by Circle of Dust, <insert Animals for Leaders tune here>

Good call on Mr. Scary. Great tune. Another favorite is Scorpion’s Coast to Coast.

Exivious - Liminal (Prog/Metal/Death)
Both Nahtram albums (Prog/Metal/Death)
Syzygy 90% of the albums are instrumental (Prog)
Salt of the Chief Cornerstone - Intelligent Design (Prog Metal)
Omnilarity - all 3 (Prog/Death)
Narrow Gate - Passage from the Land of Noah (Prog Metal)
Fire Lineage - Zion (Speed/Metal/Shred)
El Altar Del Holocausto discog (Doom)

Those are some of my favs and I listen to instrumental metal quite often

And if you want something completely different try:

Flametal they blend speed metal and Flamenco guitar and they are VERY good at it.



Also has a Judas Priest and Metallica Covers albums on Priest and Metallica

KaramKaram wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:Liquid Tension Experiment - both albums

The third one is my favorite

And that might be one I haven't listened to! Shoot, I've got one more album to listen to!!

Could Moanjam by King's X be called a metal Instrumental... it's kind of a black church soul stomping blues motorhead-hoedown...

If so that's on my list too.


DAH!!! It's got lyrics in it! How'd I forget that!


And if we're talking guitar virtuosos then a bunch of those too. Guess Vinnie Moore is Neoclassical metal, more so his early work. Don't think Malmsteen has ever produced a record that is fully instrumental, aside from with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra, but not a studio album that I can think of.

mothy wrote:And if you want something completely different try:

Flametal they blend speed metal and Flamenco guitar and they are VERY good at it.



Also has a Judas Priest and Metallica Covers albums on Priest and Metallica

Very early Darkmoor-ish vibe fro the little I listened to anyway.

As said already, Mastery Lethal Legacy has been my FAV, by far, since 2005.

This one recently jumped up on me and is riding my back, can't shake it!!....

Blotted science forgot about that.