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

There's ton of great stuff on that Whitesnake album. I can't stand really to listen to Here I Go Again, but Bad Boys is a scorching heavy metal track. I love Children of the Night too. Great bluesy heavy metal/hard rock sound on there.
 
Also I know it's a bit early but #JusticeForKrokus

Headhunter is a fine album. The title track is still regular listening for me.
 
This Whitesnake album has 3 indisputable all-time classics on it, and it’s got consistently great riffage and pretty good soloing. Unfortunately, the songwriting on the rest of the album is pretty uneven, and it dips into absolute cheese with dreck like “Straight For The Heart” and “Don’t Turn Away”. Meanwhile, Nostradamus registers far less cheese per hour, has a compelling overarching story, and has a large number of strong tracks, even if it never achieves the heights of its competitor. If this were the Greatest Three Songs On A Metal Album Cup, Whitesnake would win this match hands down — but comparing them full album to full album, the calculation comes out differently. Sorry, @Kalata, but I have to go with @Night Prowler ’s nominee here. Winner: Judas Priest

I don’t think I’ve heard this Krokus album since the year it came out, when my older brother would blast it in the car on a regular basis. I actually remembered “Eat The Rich” and “Screaming In The Night” pretty well, and the rest of the album was surprisingly good too. This comes off like Bon Scott era AC/DC crossed with early 80s Judas Priest. The singer gets a bit grating in places and the production isn’t so hot, but the songwriting and guitar work are generally pretty great here. The Rainbow album is fine, but Krokus consistently has more fire and zing, and is ultimately more to my taste. Plus, fuck Rainbow for eliminating Powerwolf’s Lupus Dei. Congratulations, @Kalata, your nominee takes this one. Winner: Krokus

This Ensiferum album is much like their last one in the GMAC — folk metal, super-cheesy power metal, and black metal vocals slapped together without actually working together. I didn’t get it then, and I still don’t get it now. Plus, that borderline disco interlude in “Two Of Spades” should be disqualifying all on its own. But then you put it up against the only true turd in the Maiden studio catalog, Virtual XI. @Niall Kielt, what’s wrong with you, man? You really couldn’t come up with 25 metal albums that were better than these two?! :p The only solace I can take here is that no matter which album I pick, you will still lose...LOL. It pains me to say it, but Virtual XI is more consistent and less cheesy than this other hot mess. Jesus, Niall... Winner: Iron Maiden

...and I will vote for my own nominee in the last match for reasons previously discussed. Winner: Mekong Delta
 
Whitesnake - These are a band that I'm happy enough with a hits album and don't own any studio albums, and if I was to buy any studio album it would probably be the earlier, unpolished stuff.

Judas Priest - opinion given before

Tough choice, but Whitesnake has hits and classics on it and Nostradamus doesn't

Krokus - I heard of Eat the Rich but nothing else, intro of this track is good, the rest is very Saxon-y, will check out this record

Rainbow - opinion given before

Rainbow with the win

Ensiferum - this is hammerfall with death metal vocals.

Iron Maiden - opinion given before

Iron Maiden with the win

Porcupine Tree - synthy part contributes nothing, then the Skunkworks style riff that kicks in is pretty good, the verses with shit rhymes are awful, bum notes solo at the end isn't great either, some good stuff but overlong

Mekong Delta - riff okay but grooveless drums are pretty bad, bit of an Anthrax vibe off the vocals it's in Bush's range and the structure of the lyrics sound like Anthrax as well

Mekong Delta with the win, wouldn't listen to either by choice
 
Whitesnake over "that album that threw Zeppelin out of the game". Here I Go Again, Is This Love, sure, overplayed, cheesy, but at least fun to listen to.

Rainbow, because it's their best and also Krokus sound the same amount of 80's cheese that it borders on parody like Whitesnake, but - unlike Whitesnake - it somehow feels it demands you to take it seriously, which I just can't do.

Ensiferum, because I really like almost anything folk-metal and I enjoyed this album a lot. Also, as I'm currently playing Assassin's Creed: Valhalla a lot, this is a more fitting soundtrack to that. Of course, so many people around here hate Virtual XI, yet it is now winning. And I complain about this as someone who actually likes that album a lot.

Oh and I like Mekong Delta and voted for it previously, but then after all, it's just a river. A not really pretty river at that. How do you beat a tree that grows porcupines? Also this vote is for my wife who loves Steve.
 
I don't care if they're local, I really can't sit through a Whitesnake album. Almost certainly voting for Priest here. I may be voting against a Maiden album for the first time, too
 
JudasMyGuide said:
Rainbow, because it's their best and also Krokus sound the same amount of 80's cheese that it borders on parody like Whitesnake, but - unlike Whitesnake - it somehow feels it demands you to take it seriously, which I just can't do.
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I can't disagree with you more on your Krokus take. The reason it's better than a lot of what we've seen in this game is that it doesn't take itself seriously at all. It's fun.

Don't dismiss Deadwing without finding 12 minutes to give its signature track your full headphones-wrapped attention. Prog and metal-melding at its apex.

 
Whitesnake's album has some radio hits and for its genre it's really way better than its peers both in composition and performance. Nevertheless I think it's overall boring. Nostradamus is far from being a great album but it is way more my thing. Judas Priest gets my vote.

Headhunter is half baked hard n' heavy (someone gave me this in vinyl when I was a kid). I'll go with Rainbow .

Ensinferum has some cool passages and while Virtual XI is a sub par Iron Maiden album at best some bands would sold their souls to compose a song such as The Clansman. Iron Maiden it is.

Finally the two most interesting albums from the lot . Although IMO none of them being masterpieces, there are some pretty interesting tracks. I think I like Deadwing a tid bit more (perhaps because I already knew it) but then I fucked up and forgot to check the box. Nevertheless this one would've been for Porcupine Tree.
 
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karljant said:
Yeah... I mean it's a virtual tie between those albums to be honest. I'm not marveled by none of them but they are both solid. But if you want to convince @LooseCannon to amend my mistake be my guest :)
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It's all good. The precedent has already been established to not allow any vote changes whatsoever. And I still haven't voted yet, myself.. :innocent:
 
Lampwick 43 said:
The precedent has already been established to not allow any vote changes whatsoever
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However, in this case - that is, after voting for none, which Loosey really doesn't like, to change it for an actual vote for one of the albums - I'd say he might be inclined to at least think about it...
 
He missed the net, it's clear in the rules.

And I have missed votes before and not corrected my own. It is what it is. What's important is that @karljant tried.
 
Priest and Rainbow in easy decisions.

I actually really enjoyed that Ensiferum album, so I'll give them a sympathy vote over Maiden's worst album.

And no surprises, I'm voting for my own nominee here, Porcupine Tree. Although I will say that I very much enjoyed Mekong Delta so I won't be super upset if they end up winning here.
 
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