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Many good songs in this round. Voting: Dan Swanö Alter Bridge Death (Warzone is great and a reminder that I need to listen to more Armored Saint, but I'm going with the tune that I'm the most familiar with) Kamelot Myrath (tough choice though) Manowar

Sure, it definitely makes it stand out from the other albums. I just don't think it's that good a sound.

Toss out "The Illusion of Power", which is the only song here I actively dislike, for "Loser Gets It All" and Forbidden would be a better, though still very much sub-par album. "Kiss of Death" is my favourite and the only true A-tier song here, but I do enjoy "Guilty as Hell" too (the riff is...

Powerslave, Brave New World, Piece of Mind, probably in that order. Surprised that so many dislike PoM; I love how heavy songs like Where Eagles Dare, Revelations and Icarus sounds here. Also a bit baffled at the love for Somewhere in Time. A little reverb is good, but here there's just too much.

Easy choices this time. Purple, Sabbath x2, Dokken, The Who, Metallica.

Headless Cross is a fantastic record. Probably my third favourite album of theirs, only topped by Paranoid and Sabotage. Obviously so, so different from the Ozzy years and with much more in common with the Dio albums - I like to think it takes everything that made Heaven and Hell and The Mob...

I did not like "I Am" as much this time as when it previously was up in this game, though it's still decent enough. But I do think Priest has the better song overall here. "King for A Day" is horrible, but at least it's not Mötley Crüe, and for that reason alone I'm voting Pierce the Veil (not...

"Mr. Brownstone" was never more than an average GN'R tune. "Midnight Sun" is kinda messy, but much more my thing. Helloween. The title track to Rust in Peace is strangely enough one of the weakest tracks on the album, while "Man on the Silver Mountain" is a flawless masterpiece. Rainbow. I...

Absolutely.

I thought it had long been established that the video and album for LAD comes from two different nights.

Listened for the first time last night. Not blown away (yet), but it's definitely much better than Human/Nature. The mixing is a bit weird when it comes to the vocals; they are really muffled. Floor sounds good though. Troy's voice does absolutely nothing for me, and Marko is obviously missed...

I think I had probably only listened to Hardwired and 72 Seasons once each in their entirety since their respective releases, so I went and gave them both a full spin again before making the ranking. I did enjoy 72 Seasons the most, though it isn't saying a lot. Hardwired has higher highs, but...

Yes and yes. Listening to "An Ocean of Strange Islands" for the first time now, and it definitely sounds like it's sitting somewhere between Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum. I'm so far hearing none of the dullness of Human/Nature, thank God! Probably the best of the three teaser tracks, and a...

"Thorn" is not exactly my favourite Blind Guardian song, but it's still superior to most AC/DC songs. Look, even if I will never be a fan of Avenged Sevenfold, I can appreciate them being pretty skilled musicians. But they are really terrible songwriters. "Afterlife" admittedly isn't as bad as...

Any song from Paranoid could win the entire game and I would have no complaints. The same cannot be said for any song that features King Diamond. Black Sabbath. "Papercut" isn't top-tier Linkin Park in my book, but it's still an expertly crafted song. As for "Keeper", I've always considered it...

Getting some votes in right at the end! Priest and Metallica take the first two matches with some of their absolute best tunes, respectively. "The Coffin Ships" is very cool, though, and I would've voted for it had it been in any of the other ties. I find "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here"...

Slayer. Easy, not even a contest. Van Halen. "Gypsy" is cool, but not Uriah Heep's best. The intro to "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" is amazing. Priest. Probably more of a pity vote than anything else; I count neither song amongst my favourites from the respective bands. Megadeth. Easy, once...

I don't disagree, but I can understand the overall reverence for Number of the Beast - it IS overrated, but it still heralded Bruce's arrival in the scene and features some of Maiden's and metal's very best songs. Somewhere in Time is just sandwiched between two much stronger albums and feels...

Funny, I'd argue this rather applies to Somewhere in Time. Bruce sounds quite shouty and borderline out of tune on much of it (as if he tries to hard to make up for how beat up his voice was after the World Slavery Tour). On Powerslave his singing is powerful and absolutely on point.

First of all, I genuinely love every single Maiden album. That said, I'd definitely say Somewhere in Time is the most overrated by the general fandom, closely followed by the debut and The Number of the Beast.