Maidenfans Best Albums of the Millennium: 2003 FINAL ROUND

[Mosh]

1. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death =
2. Dream Theater - Train of Thought =
3. Evanescence - Fallen =
4. Gojira - The Link =
5. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll =
6. Anthrax - We've Come For You All =
7. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen =
8. Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came =
9. Human Fortress - Defenders of the Crown -1
10. Nevermore - Enemies of Reality -1
11. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution -1
12. Moonspell - The Antidote =
13. Live - Birds of Pray =
14. Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild =
15. Queensryche - Tribe =

Swallow the Sun is this round's biggest mover, jumping up three places to sit comfortably beneath A7X. Everything else remains static, Iron Maiden and DT are tied for vote share and it seems to me that a lot of these albums have hit a ceiling of support. Normally I would say two more rounds but if nothing changes we might wrap this one up early.

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Come on people, don't kid yourselves. Train of Thought is miiiiiles better than DoD. Easily verifiable by comparing the sixth track on each album.

 

[Shmoolikipod]

Enemies of Reality is in good company here with DoD, The Link and Tribe. Most fans probably have it in the bottom 3 of Nevermore albums. It was in mine too, but out of all of their albums, it's the one that grew on me most. I love its manic sound, with the weird vocal harmonies. Seed Awakening is probably their most intense song, and Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday is my favourite "ballad" of theirs, and that's a very high bar. My second pick would have been Accelerated Evolution (Suicide FTW (do not take this out of context)) so I'm even happier I went with Enemies.

 

[Detective Beauregard]

Come on people, don't kid yourselves. Train of Thought is miiiiiles better than DoD. Easily verifiable by comparing the sixth track on each album.

I’d give the 5th and 8th tracks to DoD, though.

 

[Mosh]

UPDATED POWER RANKINGS

1. Iron Maiden - Dance of Death =
2. Dream Theater - Train of Thought =
3. Evanescence - Fallen =
4. Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll +1
5. Gojira - The Link -1
6. Anthrax - We've Come For You All =
7. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen =
8. Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came =
9. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution +2
10. Human Fortress - Defenders of the Crown -1
11. Nevermore - Enemies of Reality -1
12. Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild +2
13. Moonspell - The Antidote -1
14. Live - Birds of Pray -1
15. Queensryche - Tribe =

This will be the final round for 2003! Moderate movement here, Sonata Arctica and Devin Townsend both jumped up a couple spaces and Children of Bodom went up a space.