Ultimate Metal Album Timeline Draft Thing

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Okay inspired by a thing I heard on a podcast.

You have to pick your favourite metal album in each subgenre. Feel free to bend the definitions a little. But the catch is the album you pick eliminates any album from that year, and 2 years on either side.

IE, if you pick Powerslave for classic metal, you can't pick Master of Puppets for thrash. Here's the genres:

Hard rock
Classic metal
Thrash metal
Progressive metal
Power metal
Death metal
Black metal
Wildcard

And here's mine (no Iron Maiden challenge):


Hard Rock: Deep Purple - Machine Head (1972)
Classic Metal: Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell (1980)
Thrash Metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1990)
Progressive Metal: Symphony X - The Odyssey (2002)
Power Metal: Blind Guardian - Nightfall Over Middle Earth (1998)
Death Metal: Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (2008)
Black Metal: Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark (1987)
Wildcard: Rainbow - Rising (1976)
 
Here's the thing, I might do this list but it'll be severely hampered by my liking of Black/Death metal being from mid to late 90s. Also Power Metal is totally problematic because I don't listen to it at all. I can shoot myself in a foot and not put Death but something from the 2000s, there's a number of death metal albums that I like and could pick from there, however Black metal, if I'm honest to my taste, is just some Burzum stuff from the mid 90s. And then I would have to invent some choice for power metal.

So if we could choose to throw one genre away arbitrarily, that would be nice.
 
Sure, feel free to replace one with wildcard. But the point of the dates is to force you to make hard choices.
 
Hard rock - Boston ~ Boston (1976)
Classic metal - Lovedrive ~ Scorpions (1979)
Thrash metal - Ride The Lightning ~ Metallica (1984)
Progressive metal - Images And Words ~ Dream Theater (1992)
Power metal - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II ~ Helloween (1988)
Death metal - Blackwater Park ~ Opeth (2001)
Symphonic Metal - Once ~ Nightwish (2004)
Wildcard - Winter Ethereal ~ Arch/Matheos (2019)


Would have put "Rising" for Hard rock but I felt it would be too much of a stretch
 
Hard rock - Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Classic metal - Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Thrash metal - Slayer Show no Mercy
Progressive metal - no comment
Power metal - Hammerfall Glory to the Brave
Death metal - no comment
Black metal - no comment
Wildcard - The Devil's Blood The Time of No Time Evermore

I threw in a kind of wtf genre is this album for the wildcard, female vocals, retro sound and evil lyrics.

SSOASS kind of takes out the entire Thrash genre's heyday. And I don't really like 4 of the genres here so not sure I'm contributing too much here :lol:
 
My picks...

Hard Rock: Rainbow - Rising (1976)
Classic Metal: Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell (1980)
Thrash Metal: Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
Progressive Metal: Dream Theater - Images & Words (1992)
Death Metal: Opeth - Still Life (1999)
Symphonic Metal: Symphony X - The Odyssey (2002)
Power Metal: Kamelot - The Black Halo (2005)

I have no opinion on black metal, so I used my Wild Card pick for Symphonic.
 
Hard Rock: Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune (1976)

Classic Metal: Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (1982)

Thrash Metal: Anthrax - Among the Living (1987)

Progressive Metal: Dream Theater - Awake (1994)

Death Metal: Opeth - Ghost Reveries (2005)

Power Metal: Blind Guardian - Nightfall On Middle Earth (1998)

Black Metal: Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1991)

Wild Card: Nightwish - Century Child (2002)
 
Hard Rock: Kiss - KISS (1974)
Classic Metal: Iron Maiden - Brave New World (2000)
Thrash Metal: Metallica - Ride The Lightning (1984)
Power Metal: Helloween - Helloween (2021)
Wildcard: Nightwish - Once (2004)
 
Hard rock: Metallica - Reload (1997)
Classic metal: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time (1986)
Thrash metal: Megadeth - Endgame (2009)
Progressive metal: Dream Theater - Images and Words (1992)
Power metal: Stratovarius - Eternal (2015)
Death metal: In Flames - Clayman (2000)
Black metal: -
Wildcard - nu metal: Linkin Park - Meteora (2003)
 
Being a bit loose with some of these, but they were the closest examples I could think of.

Hard Rock: Aerosmith - Rocks
Classic Metal: Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Thrash Metal: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Prog Metal: Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World
Power Metal: Sabaton - The Last Stand
Death Metal: Death - Symbolic
Black Metal: Uh...
Wildcard(s): Motorhead - Bastards/Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
 
Fuck, hang on, Nevermore and Maiden came out in the same year. Always think DHIADW is a 90s album for some reason. I don't listen to lot of prog so my choices are a bit limited, but I think I'll have to go with some Mastodon.

Updated and hopefully correct:

Hard Rock: Aerosmith - Rocks (1976)
Classic Metal: Iron Maiden - Brave New World (2000)
Thrash Metal: Metallica - Ride the Lightning (1984)
Prog Metal: Mastodon - Crack the Skye (2009)
Power Metal: Sabaton - The Last Stand (2016)
Death Metal: Death - Symbolic (1995)
Black Metal: Still nothing.
Wildcard: Skid Row - Slave to the Grind (1991)

I prefer Bastards to Slave but the former clashes with Death so I'll go with it. Still a cracking album.
 
Also going for no Maiden (or related), makes it easier for me.

Hard rock: Rainbow - Rising (1976)
Classic metal: Dio - Holy Diver (1983)
Thrash metal: Exodus - Bonded By Blood (1985)
Progressive metal: -
Power metal: Blind Guardian - Nightfall on Middle Earth (1998)
Death metal: Deicide - Legion (1992)
Black metal: Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (1994)
Wildcard: Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire (2019)

That wasn't hard, but I think it would have been better had there also been an epic/doom category. Had that been there, I'd have shifted Kodex there, although I wouldn't know what to put in the wildcard. Maybe Primordial - To the Nameless Dead (2007).

EDIT: Noticed that I mixed up Dark Saga and Burnt Offerings, and since the latter isn't eligible I'm going for Blind Guardian instead.
 
Replacing Black Metal with Symphonic Metal as I don't know any of the former, but I wanted the same number of genres to not lower the difficulty. No Iron Maiden still.

Hard Rock: Scorpions - Blackout (1982)
Classic Metal: Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990)
Thrash Metal: Megadeth - Peace Sells (1986)
Progressive Metal: Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 (1999)
Power Metal: Firewind - Forged By Fire (2005)
Death Metal: Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (2008)
Symphonic Metal: Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)
Wildcard: The Night Flight Orchestra - Aeromantic (2020)
 
Hard rock: Rainbow - Rising (1976)
Classic metal: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time (1986)
Thrash metal: Sabbat - Dreamweaver (1989)
Progressive metal: Dream Theater - Images & Words (1992)
Power metal: Symphony X - Paradise Lost (2007)
Death metal: Death - Symbolic (1995)
Black metal: Thorns - Thorns (2001)
Wildcard: Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction (2011)
 
Hard rock: Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love (1967)
Classic metal: Dio - Holy Diver (1983)
Thrash metal: Metallica - Master of Puppets (1986)
Progressive metal: Rush - Clockwork Angels (2012)
Power metal: Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black (1990)
Death metal: Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God (2008)
Black metal: Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi (2020)
Wildcard: Squalus - The Great Fish (2017)
 
That's funny because I do a podcast (link in my signature) and we recently did an episode about drafting songs/bands/albums with Jesus in the name. What makes it funny is that we were talking about hockey (like Puck Soup!) for the first few minutes. I have read those guys for years following hockey (Wysh likes the NJ Devils, as do I), but never knew about their podcast. Thanks for sharing!
 
Whooten said:
That's funny because I do a podcast (link in my signature) and we recently did an episode about drafting songs/bands/albums with Jesus in the name. What makes it funny is that we were talking about hockey (like Puck Soup!) for the first few minutes. I have read those guys for years following hockey (Wysh likes the NJ Devils, as do I), but never knew about their podcast. Thanks for sharing!
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Yeah, I subscribe to their Patreon, and they did a movie draft on the bonus episode. It's a damn good podcast.
 
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