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I've heard Phanerozoic II in its entirety once exactly. Felt that the first one is so much more catchy and interesting. So we'll see if I just didn't give it enough time, but right now it's a Dance of Death situation, where you have a mostly unimpressive album, and the band just casually throws...

Opeth fun fact: the reason he sings "we enter winter once again" in The Leper Affinity, is because it's a song about fucked up shit, and winter is a fucked up season that shouldn't exist.

IE3 has some fantastic songs. Already Won, Eagle Spirit... It's easily one of his weakest albums, but I can't believe I'm the only voter who doesn't think it deserves dead last here :/ The Wake was a pretty great discovery from this year.

5 The Number of the Beast +3 3 Virtual XI +1 2 "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" +2 1 "Virus" [alt. 2] 0 Live at the Rainbow 0 Nights of the Dead, Legacy of the Beast: Live in Mexico City Difficult round, I really wanted to vote for Virus. Nights of the Dead is cool and slick but it's not...

18 "Stratego" +1 16 "Be Quick or Be Dead" +3 15 No Prayer for the Dying [remaster] +2 5 "Speed of Light" 0 "Wildest Dreams" [DVD] 0 "Rainmaker" [DVD] Wildest Dreams is sublime

5 "The Clairvoyant" +2 5 "Women in Uniform" +3 4 A Matter of Life and Death 4 Powerslave +1 0 Behind the Iron Curtain 0 Ed Hunter What a mess, in 5 minutes I went from "surely I'm giving 3 to AMOLAD" to this. I think Powerslave is kind of overrated (guess we'll see), but it does look pretty...

25 "The Evil That Men Do" +3 16 En Vivo! +2 8 "Out of the Silent Planet" [alt.] 5 Beast over Hammersmith 5 "Lord of the Flies" +1 1 Video Pieces

21 Live at Donington [remaster] +3 15 Virus +2 6 BBC Archives +1 5 Iron Maiden [remaster] 1 The History of Iron Maiden - Part 1: The Early Days 0 Visions of the Beast :puke: of a round

20 Live After Death +1 18 Fear of the Dark +3 13 Brave New World +2 3 "The Wicker Man" [alt. picture disc] 0 Best of the Beast 0 "Different World" [digital] I so feel that, it's like this for me too. I always thought having this kind of connection with the music is in a way the aspiration of...

It was between Prologue and Firepower for me back when we made lists (obviously you pick the one that isn't guaranteed to get in), but since then I discovered Phanerozoic I in the summer. What a killer album, especially but not only the three long tracks. It has nasty, beautiful, and epic in...

Ball Noir and Enslaved are pretty neat, I wouldn't have them so low. I thought for some reason Enslaved were Djent lol. Nice to see The Source doing so well, it's for sure one of the "really good" Ayreon albums, though its last third or so is remarkably weak... Apex would also be a worthy...

If only you people knew to judge a book by its cover. :down: Well-deserved jump for Anthrax, and Metallica winning is completely fine here. Hardwired has some bangers. Borknagar could've done better too.

I'm very happy that Underworld shot up, but I'm not sure it's worth The Price of Leprous going even Lower. I understand that someone must bow for that to happen, but why Leprous? Just because a weaker Nightwish album had a Flood of votes earlier, it's Leprous that goes Down? I'm getting Red just...

A lot of good familiar names this time and there are even more that didn't make it. Good first impressions too. We already got the correct top 3 but it will still be fun to sort the rest :).

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