Maidenfans Best Albums of the Millenium: 2001

vote for any albums that you want to move up (read the post for details)!

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
Updated Power Rankings
  1. Opeth - Blackwater Park +2
  2. Avantasia - The Metal Opera -1
  3. Kamelot - Karma -1
  4. Tool - Lateralus =
  5. Iced Earth - Horror Show =
  6. Gamma Ray - No World Order +1
  7. System of a Down - Toxicity -1
  8. Devin Townsend - Terria +2
  9. Kreator - Violent Revolution -1
  10. Sonata Arctica - Silence -1
  11. Emperor - Prometheus =
  12. Lost Horizon - Awakening the World =
  13. Converge - Jane Doe +1
  14. Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero -1
This will likely be the final round!
 
I voted for Opeth, which I concur deserves to win this year by a mile, although I have a lot of time for Horror Show. Which has weaknesses, but remains one of my more favourite Iced Earth albums.
 
We have a power ranking!

Final Power Ranking
  1. Opeth - Blackwater Park =
  2. Kamelot - Karma +7
  3. Avantasia - The Metal Opera +4
  4. Iced Earth - Horror Show -2
  5. Tool - Lateralus -2
  6. Gamma Ray - No World Order -2
  7. System of a Down - Toxicity +6
  8. Kreator - Violent Revolution -2
  9. Devin Townsend - Terria +3
  10. Sonata Arctica - Silence =
  11. Emperor - Prometheus -6
  12. Lost Horizon - Awakening the World -4
  13. Converge - Jane Doe +1
  14. Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero -1

It was close, but we have a second year in a row where the top seeded album ends up holding the slot. I am very impressed with Kamelot and Avantasia taking the #2 and #3 slots over far more discussed and well known albums around here. It seems like people were willing to be open minded toward lesser known works! I for one ended up enjoying The Metal Opera a lot more than I thought I would. I've really enjoyed everything I've heard from Tobias Sammet's projects between this game and the GMSC/GMAC, seems like I might need to take a deep dive soon. On the other hand, I just don't get Kamelot. I've tried a lot but I find their music to be quite generic, which makes the #2 slot feel very inappropriate but that's just me. I think Terria and Jane Doe were done a bit dirty, but otherwise it's a decent result to me.

There weren't as many massive jumps compared to 2000, where a couple non-nominated albums ended up jockeying for the top slot. In this realm, the big winner was Toxicity which knocked out a couple user nominated albums but then had a pretty clear ceiling that it struggled to break through. With a couple more rounds I could see it going down a place or two. Of the user nominated albums, Emperor and Lost Horizon were roundly rejected. I'm kinda surprised about Emperor in particular, seems like a pretty big fall from grace for the black metal legends, but again Maidenfans doesn't really do extreme metal outside a few exceptions (namely Opeth, clearly).
 
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