Best US Epic Metal Album EvAr??!

[Krigloch the Furious]

You only need 3 Manowar albums IMO:

Into Glory Ride, Hail to England, and Sign of the Hammer.

I'll have to get on it then.

 

[JayKeeley]

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Shit, forgot about Savatage. Feel free to pick "other" and then nominate an album. Yes, "Gutter Ballet" or "Hall of the Mountain King" are the only acceptable answers.

 

[JayKeeley]

I'll have to get on it then.

Whatever you do, save the best 'till last and get "Hail to England", er, last.

 

[lurch70]

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Shit, forgot about Savatage. Feel free to pick "other" and then nominate an album. Yes, "Gutter Ballet" or "Hall of the Mountain King" are the only acceptable answers.

already picked Sanctuary ... so much better than Nevermore

both those Savatage discs are ace though ...

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Haha, two people will vote here: Doomcifer and IoftheStorm.

heh i have never heard any of these bands

maybe i heard iced earth or manowar before, i can't recall. if i did i wasn't impressed. now that i think about it i probably have at some point.

 

[lizard]

It may not have loincloths or bloody blades, but Savatage's Dead Winter Dead qualifies as epic due to a serious concept CD about the balkans bullshit

It's work like this, from serious, knowledable musicians, that give me just a shred of hope that the "concept" album deserves to live.

And I'll continue to bleat that the "Ghost in the Ruins" track "Hounds" is fucking epic proof that chris and jon and caffery were always the peak

 

[lizard]

Fuck I'm drunk and chris oliva even as a dead man is kicking my ass!

Of Rage and War live in NYC

This is classic metal. If you can't love this, you might as well be a eunich, you fucking pussies!

 

[Demilich]

well, I haven't heard the Jag Panzer or Omen, but I'm sticking with Crystal Logic for now!

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Had to go with Manowar myself, honorable mentions to Sanctuary, Manilla Road, and Virgin Steele. I've heard all of those except Omen and Helstar.

 

[Demonspell]

By the way, Nevermore must not be epic. You'll have to convince Zod, or feel the wrath of his buring eyesocket laserfire.

LOL...voted for Sanctuary largely out of my own fanboyness, and because it kicks enough ass that I can almost understand why some weirdos could consider it superior to Nevermore...