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Oh yeah. That's another knock on The X Factor. One or two "epics" (i.e., long tracks) per album: great, go for it. Five or more: excessive, overindulgent and lazy. My biggest complaint about latter-day Maiden is the overreliance on songs longer than 6 minutes. If The X Factor started that...

Hmm. I totally missed this round. Shaking my head about the first matchup, as Let There Be Rock is fucking awesome. Not surprised Zeppelin fell, given the Zep Hate on this forum. Very curious whether there will be political votes against Iced Earth. I predict yes.

The first and fourth pairings are total garbage. Having to choose between KISS and Dream Theater is like having to choose between Trump and Hilary. (Ha! See what I did there?) There is no good choice. I'll vote for KISS just because of The Replacements' cover of "Black Diamond." I know...

I predict he runs for some political office in Indiana. Once he gets out of jail, of course.

Evidently we've run out of ways to call Jon Schaffer a turd and are straying off topic. As a fan of (at least Alive in Athens-era) Iced Earth, this is disappointing, and I don't love the "cancel culture" reaction of the label dropping Iced Earth and Demons & Wizards from its website, but it's...

Which one? Black Sabbath or N.I.B.? Because both of them are dire and heavy metal, by any definition of the word. (So are others, like The Wizard, IMO, but those two seem pretty obvious and indisputable.) Also, as a public service announcement, in case a few forum members have been...

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first round I have voted against Maiden. Horror Show is simply a better record than NPFTD.

And it's not even what he's best known for.

Clockwork Angels is fine, and I mostly treat Hemispheres as an EP, because I almost always skip Cygnus and go straight to the tracks on Side 2. But each track on Side 2 is better than anything on Clockwork Angels, and Hemispheres gets my vote in part because the sound quality of the Clockwork...

I guess I gotta own that.

It’s shameful really. “Cemetery Gates” is a good track, admittedly, but Lovedrive should win based on “Coast To Coast” alone. Arguably Michael Schenker’s finest moment. It’s OK though. There is a record of who voted for Pantera, so those of us with good taste can all discount their opinions...

Night Prowler channeling thousand_suns? :p

Is there a “nods vigorously” emoji on this site? (Distinguished from the headbanger emojis.) If there were, I would use it here.

Three of these matchups are one-sided: Maiden, Purple and Queensryche with easy and obvious wins, IMO. The first matchup is closer, only because it's hard for me to figure out which vocal style I hate more. I don't know why anyone would want to listen to King Diamond sing. It's not even...

@LooseCannon : You inadvertently posted an Altantean Kodex video for the Dissection album. Probably did us a favor, but still...

First matchup is tough. I figured I would probably vote for Apex, but the Paradise Lost track is really really good—goth and doomy, with a nice melody. Apex has more energy but perhaps tries to do too much. Going with Paradise Lost this Round. The rest are easy. All due respect to...

Very appropriate.

Only if you think relentlessly kicking ass is "boring.":bigsmile:

I recently discovered The Murderbot Diaries novellas. They are hilarious. Imagine if Douglas Adams' Marvin the Paranoid Android were designed to be a ruthless killing machine but prefers to chill and watch TV reruns instead. Each novella will take you a couple hours or so to read. Highly...

I have been remiss in doing this thread this year. But it's not too late! Post a list, post a single release, metal/non-metal, rank/don't rank, whatever. No real rules. The point is just to share with the Forum your favorite new releases of 2020. I'll kick things off. Here are a few of...