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Missed the finale. My vote would have tied it. Thanks for the massive effort @LooseCannon thoroughly enjoyed it. Found some new bands (Unleash the Archers ) gained a greater appreciation of others, and discovered how fractured and compartmentalized the genre has become. And how dated I have...

Is 7th Son actually a metal album?

Thanks for trying. I see Slayer as the equivalent of a cathartic angry yell and I can see the appeal on that level. I struggle with the idea of a 30-minute angry yell as being something you want to go back to repeatedly. Or the repeated re-crafting of the same emotional beat again and again —...

Have we seen an analysis yet of why either Slayer is "great?"

Poll doesn't ask me which albums are more important, it asks for my favourites. No disrepect to the competition, but Chemical Wedding and Heaven and Hell, easily. For the "but metal!" crowd, I'd argue both my picks out-metal their opponent, particularly the tank rolling downhill that is...

How is that even possible with a drum machine?

Three top 10 albums here for me and Metallica's very best as well.

You coulda just said 'yes.' :D

Is it just me, or are a majority of your votes have more to do with the trappings around the music, or your perception of the fans of that music, than how the music itself speaks to you? (Please don't take that as a shot, but my (mis?)perception of your posts is that you vote against things far...

Holy Diver is certainly a candidate for my favourite album ever. Strong and varied songwriting, great sound and album sequencing, deep, well-performed (Campbell is on fire) and the best singer in the history of the genre. Not sure how you could have improved it.

Blackout is like being behind the wheel a sports car twisting through a mountain road with the top down in the summer sun. Reign in Blood is like revving your 2006 Mazda 3 up in the parking lot of your townhouse complex and driving it straight into a wall. If you prefer the latter, hey...

Ozzy is that crazy homeless guy spilling his guts on the corner while Labrie is the tedious professor who makes history sound like drying paint. No contest in the emotionally engaging category. 10: Beast, Hallowed, Brave 9 Damned, Prisoner, Wicker, Ghost, Blood 8 Hills, Invaders, Acacia, Dream...

The eliteness of Hallowed and Beast + Martin Birch elevates Number of the Beast over a very good Brave New World that is a tad flabby in the mid-section. Only tough match here. Heaven and Hell and Chemical Wedding are absolute monsters. Paranoid is overrated but only in the sense of “all-time...

AJFA... has all the power and ambition of AMOLAD. It does not have the execution Enjoying the Mindcrime love in the thread above. Well-said, well-deserved. Legitimate contender, this one. Hell Bent has some fine moments, but is uneven and doesn't belong in this part of the game. Ride the...

I prefer Priest to Sabbath, but I don't understand how Stained Class is winning. At all. At the top tier, Beyond the Realms and Southern Cross are magnificent, all-time metal tracks, but Mob Rules also has Falling Off The Edge of the World. On tier two, Priest gives us Exciter and Stained...

Society has proven unwilling to pay for the quality control you want.

You nailed exactly why it's so good: Catchy riffs, crunchy rhythm guitars, melodic leads, and great energy. And as far as atmosphere goes, this has to be one of the all-time best metal ballads:

7th Son is a really ambitious heavy prog album, that is really good despite been a tad pompous. It's also Maiden's most overrated album, but that's not really what we are discussing here. Back in Black is more badass, more honest, more irreverent, more energetic and more fun. One of 4 easy...

@LooseCannon you're doing Dio's work and whatever you decide is fine by me. I was hoping to spend more time with each album as the crunch came and some extra time would help, but I think external (life) factors will have more influence regardless.

This forum has a lot of posters who regard very little pre-NWOBHM music as "metal" even including much of that which was universally regarded as "metal" in 1980. The most prominent examples of that are Led Zeppelin and Rush, who are very much contemporaries of Triumph. I picked "proto-metal" to...