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

Easy win for Somewhere In Time

...And Justice For All is my least favorite Metallica album from the 80's, while A Matter Of Life And Death is a masterpiece.

Queensrÿche's album has the better songs (Revolution Calling, The Needle Lies, Breaking The Silence, I Don't Believe In Love, Eyes Of A Stranger), but as a whole album I like Killing Machine a little bit more.

I like more or less every song on Ride The Lightning (without the opener) - the three top classics are Fade To Black, For Whom The Bell Tolls and the best Metallica song for me, Creeping Death. The Book Of Souls is such a strong album filled with great songs (IESF, SOL, TRATB, the title track, DOG, SOTV, EOTC) and again I like it more as a whole album. Impressive work so late in the band's career.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
Listened to Mindcrime again last night. Still don’t get it.

And by “it” I mean the music and melodies and concept are great, but there’s not a single second of singing where I am not overwhelmed by an insatiable thirst for punching Geoff Tate in the throat.
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I got it more the other night than I have previously. Some crackers towards the end. I have yet to gain the thirst you speak of as anytime I have listened to it I have not gave it my full attention. Hence I have no fucking clue what the concept it.
 
Niall Kielt said:
It would have to be very sub genre specific, too. Theres literally no Metal album as bad as the best grindcore album, for example.
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While I agree with you, there's surely forum members who don't. Anyway if someone wants to run it, they can, but I think the GMAC is going to use my game quota for awhile ;)
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
but there’s not a single second of singing where I am not overwhelmed by an insatiable thirst for punching Geoff Tate in the throat.
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He hits the highs with ease but I agree I don’t really like his singing nearly as much as I used to. But Mindcrime is an album where it doesn’t matter to me. He puts his all into executing those songs and I think it’s his best performance — more well-oiled than their early albums but not before he started becoming The Blob.
 
Diesel 11 said:
Actually a serious suggestion for a GMAC follow-up that I’ve been thinking would be cool would be a metal songs competition. I wouldn’t wanna run it myself but I figured I’d throw it out there, it could be pretty fun.
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This would be awesome. I’d be very excited to see what that Top 10 would look like.
Diesel 11 said:
He hits the highs with ease but I agree I don’t really like his singing nearly as much as I used to. But Mindcrime is an album where it doesn’t matter to me. He puts his all into executing those songs and I think it’s his best performance — more well-oiled than their early albums but not before he started becoming The Blob.
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Yeah, he’s just an acquired taste. I completely admire his talent and ability, but the tone and delivery just make me cringe.
 
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