Albums currently kicking your ass

[CiG]

 

[CiG]

 

[crimsonfloyd]

 

[no country for old wainds]

^anyone who doesn't list that in the '81 thread is neither a hero nor a saint.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[Dak]

Best Power Metal band ever.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

 

[CiG]

 

[Krow]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

^anyone who doesn't list that in the '81 thread is neither a hero nor a saint.

It's pretty good but inconsistent. The AOR stuff hurts it.

 

[no country for old wainds]

everything on there's at least decent aside from i guess 'no more lonely nights' (still catchy) and it peaks super high, the epic centerpiece is 5 star godly shit in a year that had virtually nothing else on that level. not to mention there are hardly any consistent albums from 1981; the NWOBHM is to metal what the late '60s is to rock, everyone fills with commercial shit.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Dolphin Ride is hokey as fuck. Commercial can be fine, but their brand of it was not.

 

[CiG]

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's just a pretty short goofy interlude though, doesn't really harm it much.

w/e i don't really care as long as 'horsemen of the apocalypse' gets credit 'cause it's sexual

 

[Draehl]

Good quality Folk/Black.

 

[CiG]

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I love how this thing goes from a funeral crawl to blastbeat inferno.

 

[Draehl]

Love that intro track especially!

 

[Talos of Atmora]

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Algaion. Really sick straight up Swedish black metal from 1995.