GREATEST METAL ALBUM CUP - Winner: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son!

[karljant]

Losfer Words is too long

The Prophecy destroys the flow of the previous four songs

A Matter Of Life And Death (okay, this one is quite possibly their best album

...

Somewhere In Time (ATG feels a little out of place) (...) To Tame A Land is best enjoyed outside the context of the album.

Now this one I can relate to a certain point: I always thought To Tame A Land was the perfect closer for SIT while Alexander The Great would be way more in context if it was part of a more traditional sounding Maiden album (even taking in account it has synths).

 

[LooseCannon]

So, yes, it's a highly personal thing, and most of you probably have better attention spans than I do.

Wait until you grow up a little bit. This isn't a "you are too young thing" this is a "my attention span was not very good when I was a teen either thing".

 

[LooseCannon]

Amorphis wins in extra time. The Swedes are back in League 7.
Opeth barely holds on for the extra time win. The Finns are back in League 4.

 

[LooseCannon]

Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare (2010) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @KidInTheDark666
League 9 - Match 1	vs.
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic (2017) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @Whooten Previous Rounds: League 13: Defeated Katatonia - Brave Murder Day 13-8. League 12: Defeated Amputated - Wading Through Rancid Offal 23-3. League 11: Defeated Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar 22-4. League 10: Defeated Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow 12-10.

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Satyricon - Nemesis Divina (1996) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @Saapanael
League 9 - Match 2	vs.
Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire (2019) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @Perun Previous Rounds: League 12: Defeated Death - The Sound of Perseverance 16-10. League 11: Defeated Therapy? - Troublegum 16-10. League 10: Defeated Dream Theater - Distance Over Time 14-8.

 

[LooseCannon]

AC/DC - For Those About to Rock (1981) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @mckindog
League 9 - Match 3	vs.
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985) How it got here List entries: Metal Rules 85 Previous Rounds: League 17: Defeated Evanescence - Fallen 22-6. League 16: Defeated Helmet - Meantime 22-2. League 15: Defeated Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn 20-5. League 14: Defeated Fear Factory - Demanufacture 19-3. League 13: Defeated Grand Magus - Triumph and Power 12-10. League 12: Defeated Between the Buried and Me - Colors 21-5. League 11: Defeated Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant 17-9. League 10: Defeated Dark Millenium - Diana Read Peace 15-8.

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Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient (2007) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @Shmoolikipod
League 9 - Match 4	vs.
Buckethead - Crime Slunk Scene (2006) How it got here List entries: n/a Maidenfans Nominators: @Diesel 11 Previous Rounds: League 12: Defeated Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 15-10. League 11: Defeated Hypocrisy - Abducted 19-7. League 10: Defeated Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying 15-8.

 

[Jer]

Wait until you grow up a little bit.

1. Make reasonable comment about age and wisdom
2. Await inevitable “Ok, boomer” response
3. Watch the Gen Z clique all press “like”
4. Shake your head and move on

 

[KidInTheDark666]

So, yes, it's a highly personal thing, and most of you probably have better attention spans than I do.

I thought that prog fans were supposed to have the best attention spans.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

I thought that prog fans were supposed to have the best attention spans.

Or worst, depending on how you look at it.

 

[Shmoolikipod]

2. Await inevitable “Ok, boomer” response

I can do this one.

Wait until you grow up a little bit. This isn't a "you are too young thing" this is a "my attention span was not very good when I was a teen either thing".

Ok, boomer

 

[LooseCannon]

Ok, boomer

The funny thing is that I said this to my parents over the weekend and they flipped out at me, even though they are by definition barely boomers.

 

[Magnus]

By now I'm left wondering how many more Primordial albums have you elected . I've already noticed To The Nameless Fallen is entering the game in the near future and something tells me it does so thanks to you.

Only those two just gone, To The Nameless Dead and Where Greater Men Have Fallen are Perun's nominations.

 

[LooseCannon]

I think there's one more to come.

 

[srfc]

Avenged Sevenfold - Drum intro rips off Ozzy's Over the Mountain, verse isn't great, pre-chorus is okay and catchy as is the chorus. Breakdown part is shite, solo pretty good, nice chord sequence after the solo. It doesn't click with me for similar reasons as their last album in the game didn't, some parts are decent and other parts aren't and the dissimilar parts don't really gel together

Power Trip - opinion given before

Power Trip with the win, the longer the game has gone on the more this has grown on me, I'll probably pick it up.

Satyricon - Drums sound like they are accidental overspill from the band in the studio beside them who are playing a much faster song, vocal bad, guitar, bass and choir noises aren't bad though. Sounds a bit better when the drummer get's into the same groove as the rest of the band. There's a verse that sounds like Lemmy on March or Die which isn't bad.

Atlantean Kodex - opinion given before

Atlantean Kodex with the win

AC/DC - The first AC/DC album that is the blueprint for most of their following albums, a huge big hit with the rest of the tracks average at best. In fairness, the other tracks are more solid than what's on a lot of later albums. The title track is fantastic though, one of Heavy Metal's great live experiences.

Megadeth - opinion given before.

I reckon these are a fairly similar standard album in terms of quality in the respective discographies of both bands, I'm going with AC/DC as For Those About to Rock is much more iconic than anything on KIMB.

Devin Townsend - sounds like foo fighters, too overproduced to hold my interest, why is their 3 minutes of silence at the end? Is that a youtube fuck up or is the real album like that?

Buckethead - opinion given before

Devin Townsend with the win

 

[Magnus]

I think there's one more to come.

In response to @karljant 's question, I only nominated two Primordial albums, both of which were just eliminated. The other two, To The Nameless Dead (coming) and Where Greater Men Have Fallen (eliminated) are Perun's nominations.

 

[KidInTheDark666]

I reckon I should've picked one of the more unorthodox songs on Nightmare instead of a radio single. Well, maybe next time...

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Is that a youtube fuck up or is the real album like that?

That's just the video

 

[Whooten]

Power Trip with the win, the longer the game has gone on the more this has grown on me, I'll probably pick it up.

It will do that to you.

I was pretty dismissive of it the first time I first heard Nightmare Logic. A few months later I found myself coming back to it. Then I saw them live a couple times. Then I nominated it for this game.

 

[Cornfed Hick]

I gotta vote for Devin just for the sheer absurdity of the album title and cover. And when your “sheer absurdity” quotient is higher than a guy who wears a fried chicken container on his head, that’s sayin’ something.

Also, Power Trip still rulz.

 

[LooseCannon]

Voting early as I will be away this weekend.

Avenged Sevenfold is more my speed than Power Trip.
Codex is one of my top bands, easy pick.
This is one of my favourite AC/DC albums + Megadave exhaustion.
Devin Townsend has an interesting if often quirky record that I find more interesting and quirky than the Buckethead offering.

 

[Cornfed Hick]

AC/DC - The first AC/DC album that is the blueprint for most of their following albums, a huge big hit with the rest of the tracks average at best.

I respectfully disagree—not that later albums follow this blueprint, they often do, but that “For Those” does too. Evil Walks and Night of the Long Knives are standouts.