Albums currently kicking your ass

[Bitencourt29]

Gospel of the Horns - Sinners / Monuments of Impurity

 

[Tonka Time]

I really thought i was going to hate this since Assassins was shit, but its actually pretty good.

This has seen multiple plays with me lately.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

 

[TheInsane]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

 

[The Ozzman]

That album is awesome

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Listening to this for the first time in years and I'm starting to think I prefer it to the Di'Anno-era albums. Not one single flaw throughout.

 

[The Ozzman]

Powerslave is indeed a monster album. I still like Somewhere in Time over it though, but not by much

 

[Bitencourt29]

Powerslave is my favourite Maiden album.

 

[Cythraul]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Listening to this for the first time in years and I'm starting to think I prefer it to the Di'Anno-era albums. Not one single flaw throughout.

It's probably their most consistent album but I wouldn't call it flawless. They began a trend towards rehashery with it that would develop into wholesale depletion of inspiration within a few albums.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

...and that has something to do with the album itself how?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

...and that has something to do with the album itself how?

I mean that it started the trend, as in, there are signs of uninspiration that became more apparent on later albums. The Duelists is blatantly imitative of Where Eagles Dare, the same song shares an identical melody with Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 2 Minutes to Midnight relies almost entirely on the most overused riff of metaldom, Aces High borrows a riff from Raven's Faster Than the Speed of Light, etc. The album is mostly original and brilliant, but the idea well was shallowing rapidly at that point.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Well I don't engage in superficial nitpicking and find it to easily be some of the best material Maiden has put out.

 

[Doomguy]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Well I don't engage in superficial nitpicking and find it to easily be some of the best material Maiden has put out.

It's probably my favorite Bruce-fronted album as well, but only so much rehashery can be dismissed before it becomes a problem. Iron Maiden is guilty of using other band's ideas or reusing their own more than the other major bands.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

So does every metal band in existence. Iron Maiden have more than enough originality in (at least) their first seven albums to be a recognizable band on their own.

 

[Cythraul]

 

[ArneZ]

So much better then their newest shit.

 

[Smokestack Lightnin']

Retro-metal at its finest.

The unexpected return to grandeur from one of thrash's legendary acts.

Klone grooves like a bastard but has much more to offer. A classy modern metal act.

Of course! Much better than A Twist in the Myth.

Progressive death metal from Italy that's really progressive and full of great ideas.