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Going to add some way back Canadian proto-metal to LC's collection:

Oh man, I bought that album when it was new. It still must be tucked away in my collection somewhere. Forgot it existed.

T This is pure awesomeness.

Awful round. The first matchup is like my first love versus my late-life soulmate. A good argument could be made that these are my two favourite albums of all time. AMOLAD for the sheer depth and scope. Today at least. Priest because an ordinary weekend with someone you love is always better...

I dislike Ozzy, but Diary is an amazing record. Too bad about the competition. Mob Rules is the second best record in the round.

I will save my thoughts on the overrated, monotone, sloppy, yelling and flailing of Slayer for a round when they are threatening an album I care about more :D

What Holland was asked to do was significantly different than what other Priest drummers were asked to do. To me, it is no coincidence that he is the bedrock of a majority of Priest’s most popular songs. Maybe not the right thread, but it reminds me of AC/DC’s Phil Rudd or Charlie Watts of the...

How are you defining hooks? I'm looking at it as memorable rhythms and melodies that grab people's attention and stick. Everything in music is very much taste-based, but you can partially quantify hooks by gauging a band's popularity, just like you can partially measure technique by degree of...

True. The former have never crafted anything anything close to the hooks present in the most obscure track off back in black, nor the grooves, nor the passion. Saying too many AC/DC songs sound the same is fair. Implying Hells Bells is a rejig of Rock’n’Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution or Touch Too...

Yeah, but those guys can't spell.

Gamma Ray and Symphony X are good, but they are in over their heads here.

I've been on this forum for a decade. If you guys haven't converted me on Dream Theatre yet, I'm not sure you ever will. I hear it, but I just don't feel it.

To me, Flamethrower is the only track there that isn't at least good. The Spectre/Gate/Surrender run might be the best three-song- run on the album.

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This game has taught me that Death is one of those bands I respect but don't like. They've clearly got more chops than a lot of their rivals and there are musical passages in the posted video that grab me. The melodies are seriously wanting, and the singing pushes me away. By definition of being...

The Beatles were remarkable talent with remarkable focus and range, married to remarkable ambition. Glad to see you’re finding an appreciation @Forostar

Twisted Sister is simple and dumb, but it believes what it selling and is loaded with hooks. Just a little too cringey for me. Iced Earth is also flawed, but just as sincere, deeper, and much more to my taste, although I generally think I prefer the Purgatory versions.

If the third match was close between two excellent albums. I would have voted for Book of Souls if it was behind, but it’s not so I threw Pyromania a bone because it is certainly more deserving of upsetting the masters than some of the other albums that have. Like Knick I think it falls partway...

A Matter of Life and Death ticks every box for me commercially and artistically. No contest there. Emperor might be a textbook slice of black metal, but I am too much of an outsider to make that call.

I quite like Hell Bent, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Empire. The former is the work of a great band trying a new direction and delivering some hits and misses. It ranks at least halfway down the list of Priest albums and I’d call it well worth owning, but it’s nowhere near great. The...