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

Led Zeppelin - Great record, not quite my favourite Zeppelin album but probably the one I've listened to most, every track is good but most notable are Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, Communication Breakdown and How Many More Times

Conspiracy - enjoyable record, listened to the whole lot of it after the last round and it's on my must pick up list now

Led Zep with the win

Lacrimosa - another band I never heard of from Metal Kingdom, sounds like a german version of Nocturnal Me, not doing a lot for me

Coroner - opening riff alone has convinced me to give them the win, it's just more my tastes, double bass during the vocals is not my thing though, bit of an early Skyclad vibe, pace change with the sweep picking is alright, decent sections but not a great whole

Coroner with the win

Cryptopsy - rubbish

Dark Angel - opinion given a few times now

Dark Angel with the win

Running Wild - I have a few Running Wild albums that I got back in the day from somewhere (a compilation "The First Years of Piracy", The Rivalry, and The Brotherhood), I think they are decent in their own way but not enough for me to become a fan, most is solid enough but great tracks like Bad to the Bone are few and far between, I'll give them their dues in that unlike a lot of gimmicky bands they try and work that gimmick within the confines of normal metal (at least on the stuff I know). The track listed sounds exactly like the stuff I'm familiar with.

Alcest - opinion given a few times

Running Wild with the win
 
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Led Zeppelin might be influential and classic and blah blah blah but still voted for King Diamond because I like that album much more.

I once had a Lacrimosa album in my collection but it wasn't really my thing and the same goes for this album.
Not a big fan of Coroner either but they're the best out of the two.

The vocals of Cryptopsy are horrible. :puke: Dark Angel isn't for me either but at least the vocals are slightly better.

Alcest's last album was really great and my first introduction to this band. This album is also very good. Running Wild is also my cup of tea. Tough choice, I like both. Hmmm... Running Wild has allready 3 votes and Alcest is more original than Running Wild so it's Alcest.
 
Just a suggestion Loose Cannon, and feel free to tell me to fuck off if you don't like it, but what about for the albums nominated by members of this forum how about getting the nominators to pick the video that they feel represents the album best? (if there's more than one nominator of the same album maybe a consensus from them)

You can ignore Maiden albums for this as well, as I'm sure we're all familiar with Maiden and won't even need to hear the video, but for other albums I'd trust the person nominating the album to know best what song represents it.
 
srfc said:
Just a suggestion Loose Cannon, and feel free to tell me to fuck off if you don't like it, but what about for the albums nominated by members of this forum how about getting the nominators to pick the video that they feel represents the album best? (if there's more than one nominator of the same album maybe a consensus from them)

You can ignore Maiden albums for this as well, as I'm sure we're all familiar with Maiden and won't even need to hear the video, but for other albums I'd trust the person nominating the album to know best what song represents it.
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That thought crossed my mind too. It would be good to do if it doesn't cause too much trouble.
 
srfc said:
Just a suggestion Loose Cannon, and feel free to tell me to fuck off if you don't like it, but what about for the albums nominated by members of this forum how about getting the nominators to pick the video that they feel represents the album best? (if there's more than one nominator of the same album maybe a consensus from them)
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If someone wants to take the time to recommend me videos, I'll use them. If not, as I suspect many are busy or don't have the time commitment, no big deal.
 
I have the time but in fact I would prefer if someone less partial, LC in that case, chooses. I'm genuinely interested in what someone who isn't really into a given band picks up as representative.
 
In any case the best scenario, although an impossible one, would obviously be for everyone to listen to all the full albums. As we progress voting based on just one song gets less and less reasonable.
 
KidInTheDark666 said:
In any case the best scenario, although an impossible one, would obviously be for everyone to listen to all the full albums. As we progress voting based on just one song gets less and less reasonable.
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Nah, that was never the intention. If it was, we'd have weeks for these rounds.
 
LooseCannon said:
If someone wants to take the time to recommend me videos, I'll use them.
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I'll keep this and mind and shoot you a PM or something when one of my albums is coming up. I'll only do this for the ones that were only nominated by me alone, though. I don't want to feel like I'm speaking for everyone else.
 
There's this weird thing that happened over the past 20 years or so: Led Zeppelin, at least in the ears of many, stopped being a metal band.

Somewhere along the line speed, technical skill and darkness pushed themselves to the top as the genre's crowning attributes. But there was a time — when Sabbath, Purple and yes, Zep, gave birth to the genre — when a thunderous rhythm section, a guitar god riffing, posing, and delivering the hooks, and a wailing singer, each of them playing loud and over-the-top, defined what metal was.

I don't 'love' Zep, but I think you'd have to be deaf to not acknowledge their impact and it all started here. This album certainly was surpassed over time, but it is important: rough, uninhibited, loaded with hooks and groundbreaking for its time.

This King Diamond album fits much better into my personal concept of metal, which was forged in the '80s. It's got that signature Accept/Priest/Scorps production sound, lots of shifts and melodic soloing. It's also got those piercing vocals. Which, frankly, I find hard to take seriously. They're like some 2nd-rate Rob Halford imitator snorted a bowl full of coke before performing a community theatre version of Sweeney Todd. The songs are pretty good musically, but the melodies get lost.

There's so much more to like here than a lot of what has come before in this game, but Led Zeppelin is on a whole other level.
 
Lacrimosa was a bit of a revelation for me. I've always been a sucker for metal with an orchestra, but this doesn't sound like a metal band adding a classical orchestra to its songs, or a classical orchestra slumming on a metal track. Both sounds are given equal weight and seem to take the other's strengths seriously. As a result, great melodies with interesting music, smooth transitions and lots of comfortable contrasts and musical drama.

Coroner has some solid thrash riffing going on. I just listened to the one song. It's pretty solid (unsurprisingly the music is getting better in this game) but I found Elodia far more interesting.
 
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