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The Ever-Present "It"
My first nomination is in it! It's Babymetal's self-titled debut album. I'll do a writeup soon.I agree, but not because of those albums.
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KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
3 of my nominations will be appearing. Good albums by Ozzy, DT, Anthrax and Amaranthe as well.
karljant
Ancient Mariner
I also
Yup... I also like Systematic Chaos. Now there isn't such thing as a good Amaranthe album.
Yup... I also like Systematic Chaos. Now there isn't such thing as a good Amaranthe album.
Was it necessary? You vandal!
Magnus
Pica Serdica
The Motörhead album being 104 years old is no reason to ignore it, you know.
Saapanael
Ancient Mariner
JudasMyGuide
Ancient Mariner
Voted for the two Amorphis' (Amorphes?), Kiss and of course Opeth. Watershed is a hidden gem of an album, one of my favourites by an already beloved band.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
This Amorphis album has great music and a surprising amount of clean vocals — maybe even 50/50 with the death growls, and a couple of tracks are completely growl-free. The clean vocals are a bit accented, but I’ll take whatever I can get. Maybe they could do a Cynic-style remix in the future and erase the growly stuff entirely. I hope this becomes a hot new trend — revisionist melo-no-longer-death. Meanwhile, the In Flames album has great music but consistently awful vocals. Sorry, @Black Wizard, but @Night Prowler ’s nominee has less shit in the creme brulee. Winner: Amorphis
This Wardruna album is kind of cool, atmospheric world music, but I have no idea why it’s in a metal album contest. I’m not familiar with the band, but based on some quick searches it doesn’t look like the band itself has anything to do with metal, unlike with Alcest or some other examples where maybe it could be explained as a stylistic detour. Sorry, @Spambot, but without even a dubious claim to metal adjacency through the artist or the music itself, there’s no way I can vote for this. @Forostar ’s nominee wins by default. Winner: Amorphis
Hadn’t listened to this Nightwish album all the way through before, and it’s definitely way better than Wishmaster, with more of that Oceanborn spark present. There are some stronger and weaker songs, but the overall quality is very good. I’ll definitely need to spend more time with this one to let it sink in. Meanwhile there’s this Opeth album with some really great songs on it, plus some glass gargling nonsense. Sorry, @The Flash, but no matter how good the parts in between the garbage may have been, I have to go with the album where I don’t want to cover my ears or skip anything. @MrKnickerbocker ’s nominee takes this match. Winner: Nightwish
I never liked Kiss, really. Most of their songs are trite and simplistic, and the debut is no exception. Honestly, after listening to this again the only song worth my time was “Strutter”, and only barely. While I’m not a fan of Gutter Ballet, it’s still miles ahead of this train wreck. Sorry, @Kalata. Winner: Savatage
This Wardruna album is kind of cool, atmospheric world music, but I have no idea why it’s in a metal album contest. I’m not familiar with the band, but based on some quick searches it doesn’t look like the band itself has anything to do with metal, unlike with Alcest or some other examples where maybe it could be explained as a stylistic detour. Sorry, @Spambot, but without even a dubious claim to metal adjacency through the artist or the music itself, there’s no way I can vote for this. @Forostar ’s nominee wins by default. Winner: Amorphis
Hadn’t listened to this Nightwish album all the way through before, and it’s definitely way better than Wishmaster, with more of that Oceanborn spark present. There are some stronger and weaker songs, but the overall quality is very good. I’ll definitely need to spend more time with this one to let it sink in. Meanwhile there’s this Opeth album with some really great songs on it, plus some glass gargling nonsense. Sorry, @The Flash, but no matter how good the parts in between the garbage may have been, I have to go with the album where I don’t want to cover my ears or skip anything. @MrKnickerbocker ’s nominee takes this match. Winner: Nightwish
I never liked Kiss, really. Most of their songs are trite and simplistic, and the debut is no exception. Honestly, after listening to this again the only song worth my time was “Strutter”, and only barely. While I’m not a fan of Gutter Ballet, it’s still miles ahead of this train wreck. Sorry, @Kalata. Winner: Savatage
MrKnickerbocker
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Amorphis x2!
Nightwish - This album is amazing and Dead To The World might be my favorite Tarja (re: Marko) song save Ghost Love Score.
Savatage
Nightwish - This album is amazing and Dead To The World might be my favorite Tarja (re: Marko) song save Ghost Love Score.
Savatage
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
Well, we found it. The single worst track in the game so far. I evidently am not a fan of Nightwish. Nor Andrew Lloyd Webber.
KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
The Phantom of the Opera is a top 15 Nightwish song, I'd say.
Cornfed Hick
Ancient Mariner
And there lies the problem.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
It’s a fantastic song. Might be Marco’s best Nightwish performance??? But man the whole album and the whole discography is just so good IMO that I don’t even know if Dead To The World would Crack my Top 30 from them, and that’s solely a testament to how great they are.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Worse than anything on that Pig Destroyer album? Really...?
DJ James
A coma stole my name.
4 albums I nominated! I nominated The Ultimate Sin, Relentless, 1916, and Those Once Loyal.
srfc
Ancient Mariner
Amorphis - like the production of the older album much more, this sounds very generic in comparison, literally could be any of those eurometal bands
In Flames - case in point, other than the lack of keyboards, is this really any way much different from the Amorphis track?
In Flames with the win
Wardruna - video won't play so I picked a random track, the shortest one, and it sounds like Hare Krishna chanting so I picked something else the first track and it sounds like dwarves beating a drum in a mine, so I picked another track and it sounds like Enya, is there any metal on this at all?
Amorphis - opinion given before
Amorphis with the win
Nightwish - another one that won't play, wiki says Ever Dream was the lead single so I've picked that, the problem for these as far as I'm concerned with is that their big selling point is the synth/keys stuff and the female vocals but they do nothing for me, the metal stuff isn't bad at all but not good enough to compensate for me not being interested in the one bit of originality they have. The gear change chorus at the end is eye wateringly bad.
Opeth - opinion given before
Opeth with the win
KISS - I like KISS in a "classic live albums and hits albums" only manner. Don't have this album but obviously know Strutter from the much better version on Alive, looking at wiki theres only about 3 songs from this album not on Alive, and all the ones that are on Alive are great on it, so it's getting my vote.
Savatage - opinion given before
KISS with the win
In Flames - case in point, other than the lack of keyboards, is this really any way much different from the Amorphis track?
In Flames with the win
Wardruna - video won't play so I picked a random track, the shortest one, and it sounds like Hare Krishna chanting so I picked something else the first track and it sounds like dwarves beating a drum in a mine, so I picked another track and it sounds like Enya, is there any metal on this at all?
Amorphis - opinion given before
Amorphis with the win
Nightwish - another one that won't play, wiki says Ever Dream was the lead single so I've picked that, the problem for these as far as I'm concerned with is that their big selling point is the synth/keys stuff and the female vocals but they do nothing for me, the metal stuff isn't bad at all but not good enough to compensate for me not being interested in the one bit of originality they have. The gear change chorus at the end is eye wateringly bad.
Opeth - opinion given before
Opeth with the win
KISS - I like KISS in a "classic live albums and hits albums" only manner. Don't have this album but obviously know Strutter from the much better version on Alive, looking at wiki theres only about 3 songs from this album not on Alive, and all the ones that are on Alive are great on it, so it's getting my vote.
Savatage - opinion given before
KISS with the win
karljant
Ancient Mariner
Great! 1916 is also cool although it's not one of my Lemmy favs. The Ultimate Sin is IMO the best solo Ozzy record ever (even better than the first two!) and I myself also had to nominate some Bolt Thrower. It was a neck to neck race between Those Once Loyal and Realm Of Chaos but the latter ended up getting the nomination. Hey! Better this way! We have at least two BT albums on the game.
Saapanael
Ancient Mariner
Amorphis
Wardruna, because I appreciate ambient stuff.
Opeth, no question. I respect Tarja Turunen, though.
Kiss. My opinion of Kiss rose when we covered one of their songs with the band. Not enough to call myself a fan, and even though Savatage has more going on musically, I’ve become really tired of Gutter Ballet.
Wardruna, because I appreciate ambient stuff.
Opeth, no question. I respect Tarja Turunen, though.
Kiss. My opinion of Kiss rose when we covered one of their songs with the band. Not enough to call myself a fan, and even though Savatage has more going on musically, I’ve become really tired of Gutter Ballet.
Amorphis, Amorphis, Nightwish (a classic Tarja-Nightwish album), Savatage because I can only listen to so much Kiss
Yeah, I would agree that Pig Destroyer and Amputated are the worst in the game.
I'm not entirely sold on this particular Nightwish track, either. I don't think it's a top 15 song by them. Or top 50.
I'm not entirely sold on this particular Nightwish track, either. I don't think it's a top 15 song by them. Or top 50.
Worse than Sunn O)))?