Not big on BS but Defenders is the best Priest album by far and SfV is either my second or third favorite after that. Tough choice because I also love Painkiller and Firepower.
I would probably say it's his second most quintessential song after "Bat Out of Hell". When I ranked all of Steinman's songs about four years ago I had it at #6, although I don't think I'd put it quite as high as that nowadays. My two favorites are still "Bat Out of Hell" and "Objects in the...
It does have one positive, which is “Kiss of Death”, a worthy finale to my favorite era of Black Sabbath’s history.
And “Rusty Angels” is alright, but otherwise this album is straight garbage. It’s the sonic equivalent of the results of chainsmoking every day for forty years. The most WTF...
Voting for the same three again. Symphony X would’ve had album of the year if those pesky Brits hadn’t dropped a fucking magnum opus. Mer de Noms is just a great record and there are too many growl haters for me to let Immolation fall.
I think this is the crucial thing. Too often in American elections, voters feel like they’re voting between the better of two evils, neither of whom actually represent them. This needs to change.
Happy to support, as always, a growl squad classic, Close to a World Below.
Also the album I almost nominated, V, and Mer de Noms, a great Tool-lite alt/alt metal banger.
What would you have chosen instead?
Yeah, at a certain point in making these lists *I* have to be the arbiter of "this is metal, this isn't" lol. For me the difference is tightness in the guitar sound, but I could see an argument for "Achilles" being made and if I had chosen a Zep song, it...
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