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

[srfc]

LOL @ 2020s beaten by the 60's a decade when Metal hadn't even been invented.

 

[Shmoolikipod]

What was the other 60's album?

Edit: Nevermind, it's the Zep debut

 

[Forostar]

Highest ranking bands with highest ranking album by year:

Judas Priest (6) --> A better performance than Maiden's 6, since this happened on an Iron Maiden fans forum.
1977 - Judas Priest - Sin After Sin (#28)
1978 - Judas Priest - Stained Class (#13)
1982 - Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance (#16)
1980 - Judas Priest - British Steel (#14)
1990 - Judas Priest - Painkiller (#5)
2018 - Judas Priest - Firepower (#82)

Iron Maiden (6)
1984 - Iron Maiden - Powerslave (#2)
1988 - Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (#1)
2000 - Iron Maiden - Brave New World (#10)
2006 - Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (#9)
2010 - Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (#111)
2015 - Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls (#56)

Black Sabbath (5) (maybe 6 if we can count their debut as well, if that was the 2nd best from 1970! ;--) )
1970 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid (#23)
1971 - Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (#18)
1973 - Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (#50)
1975 - Black Sabbath - Sabotage (#105)
1981 - Black Sabbath - Mob Rules (#44)

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Judas Priest (6) --> A better performance than Maiden's 6, since this happened on an Iron Maiden fans forum.

You mean, Priest win on away goals?

 

[srfc]

Highest ranking bands with highest ranking album by year:

Judas Priest (6) --> A better performance than Maiden's 6, since this happened on an Iron Maiden fans forum.

I dispute this as Maidenfans deliberately voted off two of Maiden's best ever albums on purpose. If we had voted off British Steel and Painkiller to keep Firepower it would be comparable.

 

[Lampwick 43]

2002 - Symphony X - The Odyssey (#147)
2003 - Dream Theater - Train Of Thought (#79)

Well at least these two albums won their respective years. That's something, I guess.

 

[LooseCannon]

LOL @ 2020s beaten by the 60's a decade when Metal hadn't even been invented.

To be fair, 2020 had less than 6 months to slip in albums...

 

[srfc]

To be fair, 2020 had less than 6 months to slip in albums...

Agreed and also even if there was a large quantity of albums it would still be too soon to call them classics

 

[Kalata]

Agreed and also even if there was a large quantity of albums it would still be too soon to call them classics

Too soon? I don't think 'it's too soon' when some album is fantastic.

for example: The latest album of Grave Digger (released in 2020) is already a classic for the band and Priest's Firepower was a classic right from the start.

 

[srfc]

Too soon? I don't think 'it's too soon' when some album is fantastic.

for example: The latest album of Grave Digger (released in 2020) is already a classic for the band and Priest's Firepower was a classic right from the start.

Such albums are rare though, we all like good albums when they are released but its whether people still listen to them years later that makes them classics