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

Metallica's self-titled album has some classics, but I like only half of the album, while Screaming For Vengeance has only one filler. Top album of Priest... and better as a whole piece imo.

Easy win for Painkiller in the second matchup.
 
Tough first round, but I’m voting Metallica...

...simply because I’m voting Priest in the match. Hope this makes @Forostar happy to some degree, wherever he may roam at this time.
 
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First match is a no-brainer — Metallica is often catchy and sounds great, but it’s also simplistic and uneven, and doesn’t really match the caliber of records it’s starting to be put up against. Screaming For Vengeance is, for my money, Judas Priest’s best album. Almost all of it kicks ass, and by the time it reaches the end I just want to hit “play” again. Sorry, @MrKnickerbocker, but mcKornfed Joshie’s FTBman’s nominee is made of metal, while yours is the plod that failed. Winner: Judas Priest

The second match is a lot tougher. Both of these are great albums that scratch very different itches. Images And Words has a lot of variety, with consistently great musicianship and very strong songwriting. “Pull Me Under”, “Metropolis Pt. 1”, and “Learning To Live” are all awesome, “Take The Time” has a cool funky groove, and “Another Day”, “Surrounded”, and “Wait For Sleep” let LaBrie loose in his true element, cheesy-ass ballads that you can’t help but love. Painkiller is an entirely different animal, an album where everything’s either a shreddy high-octane rocker or a heavy-but-catchy single. The title track is an all-time metal classic that comes out of the gate at 11 and basically never lets up, “Night Crawler” and “A Touch Of Evil” are great, and “All Guns Blazing”, “Between The Hammer And The Anvil”, and “One Shot At Glory” are all really strong too. “Hell Patrol” is also pretty good, but “Leather Rebel” and “Metal Meltdown” are definitely a lot weaker than the rest. I could probably go either way here, and I’m tempted to go with Dream Theater because I’m sure there’s going to be major Priest bias at work here; but if I’m honest with myself, I’d probably rather listen to Painkiller if given the choice. So, sorry MrKidInTheCollinbocker Travvie’s The Drashident Yaxman999, your album was worthy, but I’m going with The Flityn DJ Karljamckinata CollooshmaaxidInTheMoshednight Protowlerbocker’s choice here. Winner: Judas Priest
 
Priest x2

Painkiller is one of those albums I can see going all the way. And it deserves it. I mean it's one of those cases, maybe the first case, of this old guard band looking around the metal landscape and going, "we started all this, we gotta remind everyone how it's done". And that's exactly what happened.

The Black Album continued the Metallica traditional loading up their albums with wayyyy too much content. I can't really stomach to listen to the whole thing. After awhile all the songs start to sound the same. That being said there's some awesome stuff on there like Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam.

Screamin is a great album. I don't like the yellow of the cover art too much. I don't know why but it's always bothered me. The ballad-y songs on here are simply a delight to my ears. Fever and Take These Chains are just killer. Take These Chains was a blast live in 2019.

Images and Words is an ok album. I like Pull Me Under. Dream Theater isn't a bad band but I'm never really inclined to listen to prog metal.
 
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