Save ten albums!

Perun

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Picture the following scenario: A video surfaced showing Donald Trump grabbing Kim Jong Un by the pussy. Kim is enraged, Trump screams fake news and to distract the world, both start launching nukes at each other. Putin sees the golden opportunity and attacks Europe. In short, shit just hit the fan and the Russians are coming.

But fear not! Because Maidenfans.com set up a refugee camp for all you poor souls seeking to evade the apocalypse. @LooseCannon is welcoming everyone because he's a friendly Canadian, @Diesel 11 entertains everyone with brain-melting riddles, and @Perun is paying for the whole thing because that's what Germans do.

However, there is a catch. Because Maidenfans.com is not just charity - we are on a mission to save the cultural heritage of the world through the coming dark ages. Thus, we will only let people in who bring with them ten unique metal albums which they consider worth saving. Don't bother with Maiden, Bruce, Blaze and the other Maiden-related stuff, we already took care of it.

So, consider which ten albums you would take. You cannot name an album someone else already named. It's first come first serve.

And for some reason, our rules state that you can only pick one album per artist for your own list. Picking an artist who appeared on someone else's list is fine, of course.

Also, you can already hear the grenades outside, so hurry up and don't overthink it!

In essence, this is "your top ten non-Maiden albums" with a little spin to it. Tactical voting is encouraged. Yes, it has to be metal, no, I won't be anal about the definition. Try to be spontaneous, take the first ones that come to mind.

My picks, in no particular order:

Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory
Exodus - Bonded by Blood
Grand Magus - Triumph and Power
Manowar - Into Glory Ride
Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
Nocte Obducta - Nektar I Zwölf Monde, eine Hand voll Träume
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Vreid - Milorg
 
Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Opeth - Still Life
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
Amon Amarth - Versus The World
Wintersun - Wintersun
Satyricon - Live At The Opera
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty & All The Devils Are Here
Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

First ones that came to my mind.
 
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin (1977)
Rush - Moving Pictures (1981)
Helloween - Walls of Jericho (he 1987 CD or later editions, since they include the Helloween EP/mini LP)
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross (1989)
Running Wild - Death or Glory (1989)
Iced Earth – Night of the Stormrider (1991)
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus (1992)
Fight - War of Words (1993)
Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - pt II (1995)

Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine (2000)
 
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Alestorm - Sunset on the Golden Age
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
System of a Down - Toxicity
Tool - Lateralus
 
Primordial - Spirit The Earth Aflame
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Bathory - Hammerheart
Nuclear Assault - Game Over
Sodom - Agent Orange
Slayer - Decade Of Aggression [cheating I know]
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

And I can only hope someone will throw in Candlemass's debut and Venom's 80-86 singles, damn you Per, what kind of a number is 10 ffs

Edit: I can't believe I forgot - AGAIN! - Negură Bunget's OM :facepalm:
Edit: And Dordeduh's Dar De Duh!!! :facepalm::oops::eek:
Purchasing Ginkgo biloba extract.
 
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Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Buckethead - Bermuda Triangle (IDK if this counts, but Buckethead's in the Metal Archives so fuck it)
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
Amputated - Wading Through Rancid Oppal
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea (Fucked With An Anchor must be saved at all costs!!)

You sure ABBA: Gold doesn't count? :(
 
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
:ok:

Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Definitely not an album I expected to be at our refugee camp!:eek:

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side
Testament - Days of Darkness
Vuur - In This Moment We Are Free: Cities
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Kreator - Enemy of God
Anthrax - For All Kings
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
In Flames - Jester Race
Savatage - Still the Orchestra Plays
 
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I'll just go and make a fake account for those, ok
Sentenced - North From Here
Dark Millennium - Diana Read Peace
Sabbat - Dreamweaver
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
Isengard - Høstmørke
Skyforger - Kauja Pie Saules
Thorns - Thorns
Tiamat - Wildhoney
King Diamond - The Eye
Motörhead - 1916

And I still have to rely on some kind soul for Candlemass and Venom

Edit: I'm putting this in spoilers to avoid misleading people any of these albums is picked.
 
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Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part I
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Nightwish - End of an Era
Epica - The Holographic Principle
Mastodon - Leviathan
Sabaton - Heroes on Tour
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
Ghost - Meliora
 
Not the Russians! :ahhh:

Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Sabaton - The Art of War
Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork
Liquid Tension Experiment - Live in L.A.
Death - Symbolic
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Joe Satriani - Is There Love in Space (one of his more metal-sounding albums, I believe it passes)

It was really difficult to come up with 10 metal albums, all from different artists. I had to resort to albums that I have liked a lot in the past but can barely remember anymore.
 
I hope someone will pick
Sabbath's Vol. 4 and/or Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes and/or Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings ! ;-)

@Perun
Great topic!

All 10 I picked are unique now, and a maximum of 1 per band.
 
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Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Amorphis - Skyforger
Be'Lakor - Of Breath and Bone
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Dark Avenger - Tales of Avalon: The Lament (Probably not one of the best albums ever, but I've been earwormed by it for the best part of a year now)
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Sabaton - Attero Dominatus (Only because someone already picked Carolus Rex)
 
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Dio - Holy Diver
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Nightwish - Century Child
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
 
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