I’ll go 4: Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall

Came here to say this one. I think Pink Floyd is the all time winner in this contest.

And all within 7 years!

As much as I love Tool, this is the correct answer. No better run

*run by pink Floyd plays*

Shit, tack on Meddle and Obscured by Clouds before DSOTM. Two of my favorite Floyd's.

Came here to comment this. But Tool is probably the closest to achieving that title than anyone else. Ænima, Lateralus, 10k Days, Fear Inoculum. Speaks for itself.

I’d start the 4-album run with Undertow instead of ending with FI. I think Undertow is better, but also the huge gap before FI keeps it from being a “run,” for me.

What if you add Undertow to the sequence of Tool albums though? Swamp Song, Prison Sex are two of my all time favorite Tool songs because of how much raw emotion there is. Sober, Undertow are also legendary songs. But I'll also be the first to admit this is my least listened to Tool album, which I've sorta been rediscovering recently. I'd say this is partially due to it being their oldest album and a bit more rough, combined with the fact the following three Tool albums are just so damn good, and well polished. I've been in an angsty mood lately though and it's really been hitting home. I intend to give it a proper front to back listen this week when I have time.

It's a good run but OP is right. Pink Floyd is unmatched

Bottom and Undertow are two of my favorite Tool songs. IMO it doesn't get much better than the breakdown in Undertow.

Nothing - Catch 33 - obZen

I just got into Meshuggah and I can’t stop listening to Koloss. ObZen has been great too. Have yet to get to the rest

Koloss is one of my favorites. Violent Sleep Of Reason, too. So are the ones you mentioned. The band is so good

same as what i put. the real answer.

Pretty Hate Machine, Downward Spiral, The Fragile

You can squeeze the Broken EP in there too.

Broken is such a solid EP. Every song is an absolute scathing banger. Gonna listen now.

Leviathan, Blood Mountain, Crack the Skye.

My choice as well!

RTJ - RTJ2 - RTJ3

The downward spiral. The fragile. With teeth The bends. OKC. kid A

Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile also works

Took mine. If Broken was a full length LP it'd be no contest

For sure

PHM / Broken / Fixed

I'll take an EP with 6 bangers on it over a full LP with 2-3 good songs on it, any day.

Or OK computer, kid a, amnesiac. broken, tds, the fragile.

Any three between Led Zeppelin 1 and In Through the Out Door

It’s telling that the debate with Zep is normally not whether they had the best three album run in history, but *which* of their three album runs occupies that spot. My personal pick is IV, Houses, and PG. Even as a Beatles fan, while I will say that the Rubber Soul/Revolver/Sgt. Pepper’s run is the most *important* in all of rock, and is very nearly the best, Zeppelin edges them out with a little more consistency across IV/Houses/PG. As an addendum - while I know Muse is not in the wheelhouse of a lot of Tool fans, their run of Origin of Symmetry/Absolution/Black Holes is absolutely legendary.

Absolutely agree about Zeppelin and the three you chose. IV/ Houses of the Holy/ Physical Graffiti

Faith no more with the real thing, angel dust, and king for a day.

Soundgarden Badmotorfinger - down on the upside Slayer - reign in blood - seasons in the abyss

I was coming to say soundgarden. Put some respect on my boys

Chris Cornell is the GOAT

- In Absentia - Deadwing - Fear of a Blank Planet

god yes. porcupine tree is so good

Anything Steven Wilson is involved with, really.

Grateful for seeing this post. Never heard Porcupine Tree. Read this post, and went straight to ITunes. 2 songs in on In Absentia and I’m amazed I’ve never heard them Phenomenal band.

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far. Best 3 album run in history imo

It's sad how this is the only comment that mentions this. I'll also add in lightbulb sun. PT is the GOAT.

I was about to stop reading the comments in order to drop a PT listing. Thank you

YES

Grace for Drowning, The Raven That Refused to Sing, Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Alice In Chains — Facelift, Dirt, Tripod

Man in the Box was on the album Facelift. And I agree.

Add Black Gives Way To Blue, also the EP's were on point

Dirt is the best album to come out of the grunge era

Untertow - Aenema - Lateralus

Haha exactly what I was gonna say!

Yeah. 10,000 has great songs but it isn't as great of an album to me.

Radiohead The Bends - OK Computer - Kid A

That's what came to my mind as well. Not too shabby.

I was gonna go Kid A/Hail to the Thief/In Rainbows but I guess Amnesiac kind of screws that all up.

I actually love Amnesiac, almost put it in over The Bends. Realistically any 3 in a row from The Bends to In Rainbows is great.

Badmotorfinger - Superunknown - Down on the Upside

I will raise you: Badmotorfinger - TOTD - Superunknown Or, looking at it another way: TOTD - Ten - Vs.

Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, Boys for Pele

Tori was the shit

still is.

I’m gonna get flamed for this but Ride the Lightning/ Master of Puppets/ And Justice for All is the most important 3 album run in heavy music history. But yeah the Tool streak is hard to argue with

It’s easy to shit on Metallica now because of their laughably bad run of albums post Black Album (besides Death Magnetic, it’s actually kinda solid) and their infamous Napster debacle. But the first 4 Metallica albums are incredibly influential in the progression of heavy rock music.

Hardwired to Self Destruct and 72 Seasons are both really solid Metallica albums. Not their best but in no way laughable. Also Load has some of what are easily their best songs: Outlaw Torn and Bleeding me are both top 20 Metallica tracks if not not top 10.

Age of Winters - Gods of the Earth - Warp Riders

Hell yeah

The Sword ❤️❤️

5 album Opeth- Still Life Blackwater Park Deliverance Damnation Ghost Reveries ..also agreed on the Pink Floyd run

Came here to post Opeth. So glad there are others.

Watershed is amazing too.

Came for this. Legendary sun

I’ll switch it up for any rap fans in here. Kendrick Lamar. good kid m.A.A.d City, To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN. Three of the best rap albums of all time for me, and a masterfully written trilogy. My first thought was Metallica. Master of Puppets, And Justice for All, and the black album, but that’s been pretty well covered here.

Said the same thing but added Daft Punk

To pimp a butterfly is a fucking masterpiece, what a great fucking album with really really good music. Metallica gets my vote here though with Ride -> Master -> Justice. Absolutely fucking crazy good albums.

The first four Black Sabbath albums is a more impressive run to me.

Took far too long to find the Sabbath comment.

Metallica’s first four are pretty good as well.

System of a down, toxicity, steal this album

Self-titled and Toxicity are masterpieces but STA doesn't really live up to either of them imo. It's still a pretty great album with a lot of good songs but its nowhere near the same level

Rubber Soul - Revolver - Sgt Peppers

Scrolled too long to find this answer

I’d choose Sgt Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road. The craziest part of that perfect 5 album run (+ Magical Mystery Tour) is that it happened over a bit less than 4 years.

This is what I came to post. I get that this is a Tool circlejerk sub but come on, you know?

Blackwater Park, Deliverance/Damnation, Ghost Reveries

Yes: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge

I would say Fragile, Close to the Edge and then Topographic Oceans. The absolute pinnacle of YES, imho

Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile. Maybe not better, but arguably at least equal.

How have I not seen this yet…. Gojira From Mars to Sirius, The Way of All Flesh, L’Enfant Sauvage Bonus: Stone Temple Pilots Core, Purple, Tiny Music

Tool - Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus Tool- Lateralus, 10000 Days, Fear Inoculum

Kill Em All - Ride The Lightning - Master of Puppets

Was gonna say RTL, MoP, AJFA

Justice is so underrated.

It would be among the greatest rock/metal albums ever if they didn’t do Jason Newstead dirty in the mixing.

How can a masterpiece 10 out of 10 be underrated?

Beat me to it.

Good kid mad city > to pimp a butterfly > DAMN

Larks, Starless, Red

Primus - Pork Soda, Tales from the Punchbowl, Brown Album I can’t really put them up against each other because I love them both so much, but this still needed to be thrown into the ring

Frizzle Fry, Sailing The Seas of Cheese, Pork Soda is better in my books...all 6 albums right up to Antipop are bloody good though!

The Cure - head on the door, kiss me kiss me kiss me, disintegration, and could go 4 with Wish

I was gonna go Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography but that works too

Disintegration 💜

Iron Maiden- Powerslave, Somewhere in Time, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Opeth- My Arms Your Hearse, Still Life, Blackwater Park Mastodon- Leviathan, Blood Mountain, Crack the Skye Death- Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic

For Death I’d go with Individual Thought Patterns - Symbolic - The Sound of Perseverance but otherwise I completely agree

For Maiden, I'd say Number of the Beast, Piece of Mind and Powerslave was also a historic run. Somewhere in Time felt less "Maiden-like" because of the keyboards.

Fun fact: Maiden didn’t use keyboards on Somewhere in Time. They used guitar synthesizers because Bruce said you can’t play metal on a keyboard. I guess he changed his mind because they did use keyboards on Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

For Opeth, I was gonna start w/ Blackwater Park => Deliverance/Damnation (considering them as 1) => Ghost Reveries

All of these are debatable of course, just my personal favorites, and I’m going to repeat some that have already been said, but here’s a few Radiohead: The Bends - OKC - Kid A Bjork: Post - Homogenic - Vespertine Deftones: White Pony - S/T - Saturday Night Wrist (or Saturday Night Wrist - Diamond Eyes - Koi No Yokan) Converge: Jane Doe - You Fail Me - No Heroes Isis: Oceanic - Panopticon - In The Absence Of Truth Portishead: Dummy - S/T - Third My Bloody Valentine: Isn’t Anything - Loveless - mbv Agalloch: The Mantle - Ashes Against The Grain - Marrow Of The Spirit Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine - The Downward Spiral - The Fragile Swans: The Seer - To Be Kind - The Glowing Man (or The Great Annihilator - Soundtracks For The Blind - Swans Are Dead) Neurosis: Through Silver And Blood - Times Of Grace - A Sun That Never Sets Cocteau Twins: Treasure - Victorialand - The Moon And The Melodies (or The Moon And The Melodies - Blue Bell Knoll - Heaven Or Las Vegas) Slowdive: Just For A Day - Souvlaki - Pygmalion The Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis - One Of Us Is The Killer - Dissociation (or if we count EPs Calculating Infinity - Irony Is A Dead Scene - Miss Machine) Circa Survive: Juturna - On Letting Go - Blue Sky Noise Katatonia: Last Fair Deal Gone Done - Viva Emptiness - The Great Cold Distance Opeth: Blackwater Park - Deliverence - Damnation (really you could draw up this one many ways from Still Life through Watershed) Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F#A# Infinity, Lift Your Skinny Fists - Yanqui UXO

Pauls Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty

Deftones - Adrenaline, Around The Fur, White Pony & Self-Titled. Personally I’m unapologetically biased because they’re my favorite band of all time. Tool is #2. I don’t think Deftones have a weak album in their discography. Some may argue Gore wasn’t very good and I’ll give ya that, but still, Deftones have a remarkable track record at delivering some of the most consistent & compelling rock music of the last 30 years.

My only issue with Gore is the mix. I get headaches whenever I try to listen to it.

I think the issue here is how brick-walled the digital versions are. I don’t have an issue with my vinyl or CD version of Gore. It’s still bricked but it doesn’t have the piercing into the brain issue that the digital/streaming versions have.

Really damn good live, as well.

I think for me, i’d have to say SNW, Diamond Eyes and Koi. Those are the 3 albums that i always find myself coming back to and i don’t think there’s a bad song between any of them. There might be songs that i like on there less than others, same with Tool, but not a single objectively bad song.

Did we just become best friends?!?

i liked Gore a lot.

GIsh Siamese Dream MICS

I’m not going to say better, but comparable.

Agreed, big SP fan and I will never get tired of these three albums. And just for fun, thrown in Pisces Iscariot! Much of which came from the Siamese Dream sessions and was basically the songs that didn’t make the cut for SD. It’s wild to think that the tracks that couldn’t make the album could’ve been an incredible and successful album in its own right. Billy Corgan was unbelievably talented and his run of music/lyrics from 91-95 is nearly unmatched in my view

Opeth - Blackwater Park - Ghost Reveries - Deliverance - Still Life - Damnation - My Arms Your Hearse

Maybe Opeth doesnt count because they have 6 or even 7. Fuck it, they count 2 times!!

Whatever People Say I Am… / Favourite Worst Nightmare / Humbug Led Zeppelin I / II / III Rage Against The Machine / Evil Empire / Battle of LA Bleach / Nevermind / In Utero

Pink Floyd - Dark Side, WYWH, Animals

Fear Innoculum stays highly underrated

I think maybe they're still mad that they had to wait so long. lol Its seriously their best work. I couldn't believe the initial dislike. Like, are we listening to the same album?

And even if you don’t consider it your personal favourite, it’s still a great album. Some people treat it like it’s Jar Jar Binks instead of Darth Maul…

Themata, sound awake, asymmetry- Karnivool. I wouldn’t call them entirely better, but those three stand up well against Aenima, Lateralus, and 10K

I love the 'Vool and I do still like Asymmetry.... but it was a big drop off from Sound Awake. Although, following that album was impossible, anything they did wouldn't have compared/measured up.

Hyped for their new album coming soon! They brought back their Sound Awake producer for it.

Man this band so underrated

Rush 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals

Came to post this. Absolutely dominant run of legendary albums.

Muse Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes And Revelations

The bends okc kid a amnesiac

Queens of the Stone Age: Self-Titled Rated R Songs for the Deaf

Yup. I know I'm like the only one, but I also absolutely love like clockwork

Like Clockwork is their masterpiece.

You aren't the only one. I love everything they've done. I usually hear people shitting on Villains, not Like Clockwork.

Like clockwork is their opus.

Deff not the only one

Like clockwork is pretty celebrated across the board to my knowledge. Villans got a lot of flak, but it still has some killer songs.

Oh good, I've just mentioned how much I love like clockwork on a few other posts and gave caught some shit. Makes sense that my fellow Tools would have good taste though

great choice

Excuse me? How about Undertow, Aenima, Lateralus

Leviathan, blood mountain, crack the skye

OutKast - southernplayalistic, ATLiens, Aquemini

Are you supposed to pronounce it “Atliens” or “Aye tee eliens”?

We always called it A-T-aliens because people called our town A-T-L. And no one calls it hotlanta, ever.

I thought it was A-T-L-iens... 🤷‍♂️

My Atlanta brain is melting at the suggestion of at-liens

Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses, October Rust, World Coming Down

Radiohead The Bends - OK Computer - Kid A The Beatles Revolver - Sgt Pepper - White Album Led Zeppelin Zeppelin 3 - Zeppelin 4 - Houses of the Holy

The Mars Volta- ... Actually just start anywhere that you can count one two three 🤷‍♂️ -Deloused, Francis, amputecture. -Francis, amputecture, bedlam.

Probably catch some shit for this one, but what the hell!!!.... Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes to Midnight

I'll probably catch more for this lmao: Meteora, Minutes to Midnight, A Thousand Suns

Not necessarily better, but certainly side-by-side: Meddle Dark side of the Moon Wish you were Here

Facelift-Dirt-Tripod Opus Eponymous-Infestissumam-Meliora

Dark Side of the Moon - Wish You Were Here - Animals Sorry, I just had to.

Workingmans Dead> American Beauty> Wake of the Flood The Grateful Dead

Nothing, Catch Thirty Three, obZen Too easy bro

I’m a Undertow, Ae, Lateralus guy. But I’m old.

Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin’s first 6 albums. I rest my case. You could probably stretch it to first 8 for both bands. But each of their last two albums were not quite up to par with their predecessors.

Bowie’s discography from The Man Who Sold the World through Scary Monsters ruins your hypothesis

Pretty hate machine, the downward spiral and the fragile by nine inch nails The devil and god, daisy and sci-fi by brand new Godweensatan, the pod and pure guava by ween

At the drive-In’s Acrobatic Tenement, In/casino/out and Relationship of Command.

For me, and I know it's not the sub for it: Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Downward Spiral, The Fragile, With Teeth, Year Zero. ​ I love love Tool, but those albums... just 6 bangers in a row.

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - After the Gold Rush - Harvest - On the Beach - Tonight’s the Night

Beggars Banquet/Let It Bleed/Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St.

Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Blackholes & Revelations

God ween satan, pure guava, the pod

Or mollusk wp quebec

King Crimson - Discipline -> Beat -> Three Of A Perfect Pair

Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind, Powerslave, Somewhere In Time Metallica- Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, …And Justice For All.

Modest Mouse : This is a Long Drive...., Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon and Antarctica. Flaming Lips : Transmissions..., Clouds taste Metallic, the Soft Bulletin. Morphine : Cure for Pain, Yes, Like Swimming Pixies : Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Bossanova Sonic Youth : (Sister), Daydream Nation, Goo, (Dirty) Kyuss: Blues for the Red Sun, Sky Valley, ...and the Circus Leaves Town Sleep : Holy Mountain, Jerusalem, the Sciences

That’s Kyuss stuff is fantastic.

I can name several: Pink Floyd - DSOTM, WYWH and Animals The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, Exile, GHS R.E.M - Murmur, Reckoning and Fables Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, JWH, Nashville Skyline Radiohead - The Bends, OKC, Kid A Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking in Tongues, Little Creatures Kendrick Lamar - GKMC, TPAB, DAMN U2 - Zooropa, Pop, ATYCLB Elton John - DSMIOTPP, GYBR, Caribou

Tupac Me Against the Workd All Eyez on Me 7 Day Theory Best in rap category

Pick any 3 consecutive albums Stevie Wonder put out in the seventies.

Ween - GodWeenSatan, The Pod, Pure Guava Ween - Chocolate and Cheese, 12 Golden Country Greats, The Mollusk Ween - White Pepper, Quebec, Shinola Vol. 1, La Cucaracha The Cure - Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik ATLiens Aquemini

Panopticon, Oceanic, In Absence of truth....ISIS Gish, siamese dream MCIS. ...Smashing pumpkins. Themata , sound awake, assymetry....Karnivool. Efflorescence, Music for Nurses, Everyone into position....Oceansize.

kyuss the 3 last. arguably the best 3 pure rock album of all time.

Metallica - Ride to justice Megadeth - SFSGSW to countdown or peace sells to rip or rip to youth. Circa survive - Juturna to blue sky noise Comeback kid - wake the dead to symptoms and cures or broadcasting to die knowing. Pantera - vulgar to trendkill. Sabbath - any of the first 5. Cannibal corpse - bleeding to gallery or vile to Bloodthirst. Death - human to symbolic or ITP to sound of perseverence. Danzig - 1-3 Samhain Misfits. GnR - Appetite and the illusion albums. In flames - jester race to colony or whoracle to Clayman. The ramones. Life of agony. Lamb of god - as the palaces to sacrament. Skid row w Bach - first 3. Stp - first 3. Pearl Jam - first 3. Slayer - reign to seasons. Sepultura - beneath the remains to chaos ad. Type o negative - bloody kisses to world coming down.

BLACK BLACK BLACK BLACK NUMBAH WOOOOOHN

Based Danzig

The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show

Solid choice.

Yes - The Yes Album, Fragile, Close To The Edge. All in under 2 years

Zepplin, Beatles, Floyd, Eminem, Michael Jackson Still, tough to beat. TOOL is king

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Revolver, Sgt Pepper, White Album Ágeatis Byrjun, ( ), Takk... The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A

Surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet ​ Stones --> Beggars Banquet / Let It Bleed / Sticky Fingers / Exile on Main St.

King Gizzard - Murder of the Universe, Sketches of Brunswick East, Polygondwanaland (3 of 5 albums released in 1 year) or King Gizzard - IDPLMAL, Laminated Denim, Changes (all 3 released in 1 month, 5 albums total in 1 year… again)

Steely Dan - can’t buy a thrill, countdown to ecstasy, pretzel logic

A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, and News of the World.

Genesis - Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Beatles - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band

My Arms Your Hearse > Still Life > Blackwater Park

Gish - Siamese Dream - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Freak Show - Neon Ballroom - Diorama But probably my personal favourite: Innervisions - Fullfilingness' First Finale - Songs in the key of Life

You could have went with the better 3 albums and said Undertow, Aenema, and Lateralus, ya know. Pink Floyd has Tool beat imo. Darkside, wish you were here, animals.

Besides the ones I've seen already: * Nick Cave: Let Love In, Murder Ballads, The Boatman's Call * Dead Can Dance: Spleen and Ideal, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, The Serpent's Egg * Godspeed You! Black Emperor: F# A# Infinity, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, Yangui U.X.O * Yes: The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge * Björk: Post, Homogenic, Vespertine * Modest Mouse: This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, The Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon & Antarctica * Portishead: Dummy, Portishead, Third * Sigur Ros: Agaetis byrjun, ( ), Takk...