Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

[Mosh]

I prefer Sabbath with Dio and I absolutely love his work with Rainbow. But for some reason his solo work never truly clicked with me.

I'd have to say that this is exactly the same for me. I'd take any Dio fronted Rainbow album over all of his solo material any day.

 

[mckindog]

Rules are here:
http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/best-album-ever-survivor.25528/

Eliminated last round: South of Heaven, So Far So Good, The Legacy, Kings of Metal, Keeper of the Seven Keys (I and II), Hysteria, Hall of the Mountain King, Dream Evil, Among the Living

1995/96 enters the game
Nominations open for 1973/74

Spoiler

IN:
Black Sabbath — Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin — House of the Holy
Blue Oyster Cult — Tyranny and Mutation
Kiss — Kiss
Rush — Rush
Genesis — Selling England By the Pound
Alice Cooper — Billion Dollar Babies
Montrose — Montrose
Queen — Sheer Heart Attack
Blue OysterCult — Secret Treaties
Genesis — Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Thin Lizzy — Fighting
Deep Purple — Burn
NOMINATED:
King Crimson — Larks' Tongues in Aspic 1973 (The Flash, Mosh, Vap

Hawkwind — Hall of the Mountain Grill 1974 (_____no5, Forostar)
Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells (The Flash, Mosh)
Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Kill Devil Hill, SixesAllTheWay)
Frank Zappa — Overnite Sensation (Vap, Mosh)
Bruce Springsteen — The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (The Flash, Kill Devil Hill)
Brian Eno — Here Come the Warm Jets (The Flash)
Eric Clapton— 461 Ocean Boulevard (SixesAllTheWay)
The Stooges — Raw Power ( _____no5)

 

[The Flash]

All newly added albums except for Symbolic.

 

[mckindog]

Wow, people want all of these albums gone.

 

[Forostar]

 

[Vap]

Symbolic is awesome damnit.

 

[Forostar]

Aha Crystal Mountain! I have seen Epica covering that one several times in concert.

 

[The Flash]

Symbolic should stay in the game.

 

[Mosh]

Yea this is definitely the worst group we've seen. Some of these albums are just downright terrible and have no business in a Best Album Ever poll. The two Iced Earth albums deserve to be promoted, and even those aren't the best IE albums (Although Burnt Offerings is very underrated and one of their better albums).

Mob Rules
Defenders
Holy Diver
Angel
Astro Creep (Absolute crap)
Dogs Of War
Evil Empire
Imaginations
Land Of The Free (I find this to be a bit overrated by GR fans. I love Rebellion in Dreamland as well as a few others, but the rest is just meh)
Load
Mellon Collie
Roots (Although maybe the most "important" album of the new group)
Symbolic

 

[Forostar]

I don't think half of these are albums are terrible, not even bad. Maybe it's my broad taste *cough, cough*, but I guess I only dislike White Zombie.

(Although Burnt Offerings is very underrated and one of their better best albums).

Fixed.

Burnt Offerings shows a darker (even doomy at times), more angry and evil side of the band, culminating into an intensity never achieved afterwards. Behold a very atmospheric record with Iced Earth's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Dante's Inferno.

Interesting development at this time of posting: Iced Earth and Psycho Motel in the lead!
Last round, 6 votes were enough for elimination but now it's a good score.

 

[Ariana]

I'm watching you.

 

[Forostar]

I saw somebody just voting for a certain album.

*directs gaze at Southeast of Europe*

 

[Ariana]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Did I say how much I love Sepultura? One of my all-time favourite bands, although Roots is not the best thing they've done.

 

[Forostar]

I have banged my head to the title track quite regularly when going out in the nineties (in some alternative club where they also played some metal). The previous album I liked a lot but I haven't ventured into their earlier and later work. What are you favs?

 

[Ariana]

Chaos A.D. is my absolute favourite, but I also love all their earlier work, especially Arise and Beneath the Remains. Never really managed to overcome the disappointment of seeing Max Cavalera leaving the band, so they lost their appeal to me after Roots.

 

[Forostar]

I never gave the post-Cavalera era a chance. I read some good reviews though.

 

[Ariana]

I even saw them live with Derrick, but... it wasn't the same.
I've seen Soulfly twice, though!

 

[Cornfed Hick]

Wow, people want all of these albums gone.

Do what you want, but I think we'd all continue breathing if each of these got eliminated and none advanced.

 

[Forostar]

I've seen Soulfly twice, though!

I once, opening for Judas Priest and Iced Earth(!)

 

[Mosh]

Burnt Offerings shows a darker (even doomy at times), more angry and evil side of the band, culminating into an intensity never achieved afterwards. Behold a very atmospheric record with Iced Earth's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Dante's Inferno.

Agreed, but even still there are 3 IE records that I prefer, plus Barlow's voice is only OK here. Miles better than Dark Saga though.