Maidenfans Best Albums of the Millennium: 2008 FINAL ROUND

[Sth2112]

Late in the game this time. Voted Opeth, King's X and Sabaton

 

[Mosh]

1. Sabaton - The Art of War =
2. Opeth - Watershed
3. Metallica - Death Magnetic +1
4. Judas Priest - Nostradamus -1
5. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God =
6. Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die +1
7. Testament - The Formation of Damnation -1
8. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh =
9. Trivium - Shogun =
10. Moonspell - Night Eternal =
11. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge =
12. Kings X - XV =
13. Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man =

Sabaton and Opeth are neck and neck with a tie for vote share - Sabaton will retain the top spot unless Opeth gains more voters. Nostradamus continues its drop down to #4 as Death Magnetic creeps up to the top three. Blaze gets another small bump as well. Everything below #7 feels more or less settled with no albums gaining any real support.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Skipping Watershed this time. It’s well enough rated here and there at least 3 better Opeth albums in the game.

 

[Mosh]

1. Sabaton - The Art of War =
2. Opeth - Watershed =
3. Metallica - Death Magnetic =
4. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God +1
5. Judas Priest - Nostradamus -1
6. Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die =
7. Trivium - Shogun +2
8. Testament - The Formation of Damnation -1
9. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh -1
10. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge +1
11. Moonspell - Night Eternal -1
12. Kings X - XV =
13. Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man =

There's enough movement here that I'm going to leave this open for one more round since I took the weekend off (2009 will start up today as well). Art of War seems to be solid in first place for now while Watershed and Death Magnetic are virtually tied. Amon Amarth and Blaze continue to creep up, while Priest continues a steady tumble. We also saw a little boost for Trivium and Alestorm as well. Still a lot of room for some interesting results here!

 

[Shmoolikipod]

The Day That Never Comes/All Nightmare Long/Cyanide is the best 3 song stretch Metallica has post black album. Cyanide in particular is very underrated I believe. DM ends kinda weakly with the last 2 tracks, but I'm happy if it ends in the top 3.

Also voting Watershed, TMMWND, Shogun, and I guess Gojira, it's not remotely close to From Mars to Sirius but still has some great songs. And Alestorm!