Big 4 poll part II

[PrincessHades]

I'm going to say Peace Sells. The album is full of underrated songs, namely The Conjuring and Bad Omen. I like Ride the Lightning, though I feel that Metallica released all their albums prematurely and thus was set on a premature timescale (but that was what made them so influential. Hell Awaits and Spreading the Disease are great albums as well, but they don't make a name for themselves as well as the aforementioned two albums.

As a sidenote, I placed this poll in GMD as I am doing from here on out. Old School Metal Discussion doesn't really reap very much activity. The clear winner of the first one was Show No Mercy, though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

hell awaits is the best thrash album and a top 5 metal album.
ride the lightning is arguably the best metallica album and a top 10 thrash album.
peace sells is ok, i only really like the title track and closer.
spreading the disease is ok, probably their best album but that's not a high bar.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

The correct answer is Rust in Peace or Reign in Blood, but given these options, Hell Awaits.

*edit, nevermind, just got the format.

Hell Awaits. Round one I would have gone for Kill Em All.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Ride the Lightning > Peace Sells = Hell Awaits >>>>>>>>>>>spreading the lulz

edit: StD does not even deserve to be mentioned with the other albums on here.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

peace sells is ok, i only really like the title track and closer.

 

[PrincessHades]

Ride the Lightning > Peace Sells = Hell Awaits >>>>>>>>>>>spreading the lulz

edit: StD does not even deserve to be mentioned with the other albums on here.

STD...holy shit, I never got that.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

indeed, that album is AIDS.

 

[EspaDa]

Yeah, Peace Sells and Spreading the Disease are waaaay weaker than the two remaining albums. I take Ride the Lightning.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

have we done a poll for their debut albums here?

 

[EspaDa]

have we done a poll for their debut albums here?

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/big-four-poll-part-i.1156559/

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@Iron Wizard why didnt you post that thread here man?

 

[PrincessHades]

Yeah, Peace Sells and Spreading the Disease are waaaay weaker than the two remaining albums. I take Ride the Lightning.

Fuck off, meant in the kindest of manners.

 

[PrincessHades]

@Iron Wizard why didnt you post that thread here man?

I didn't realize that there was so much of a disparity in activity...I just put it where I saw fit.

 

[Sirjack]

Posting it in the old school section just meant l re-discovered that introduction thread, and l forced myself to sit through it until about page 9, when l blew my brains out

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Ride the Lightning is one of the albums most deserving the title of all-time greatest metal album. Extreme consistency, extreme quality, both iconic and experimental for its time. 10/10.

Peace Sells on a riff-by-riff basis is an even better album, and also manages to have many aspects similar to RTL that solidify it as an all-time classic, but it fails on consistency. Devil's Island is a boring galloping speed metal song, and the cover song is stupid, which leaves a ~29 minute, 6-song, 10/10 EP.

Hell Awaits is among the most important and influential metal albums, anyone that considers Pleasure to Kill or especially Epidemic of Violence to be death/thrash but not Hell Awaits is both deaf and retarded. The riffing and songwriting were far ahead of most of the curve, and it's Slayer at their most elaborate and ambitious. It still falls short of the two above for me largely due to personal preferences in style, but there are issues of mediocre drumming and a slight sense of rehashed ideas. I think Journey Into Mystery and None Shall Defy did the style better than the old masters. 7.5-8/10.

Spreading the Disease is a damn good album and easily Anthrax's best, lots of catchy, quality melodies and hooks. I generally prefer its trad/power songs to the thrashier ones, but I can't dislike the album at all. 7/10.

The concept of a sophomore slump isn't as common as many believe.

 

[CiG]

>>>>>>>>>>>spreading the lulz

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If you hate songs like The Enemy or Medusa you should stop listening to metal.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

.... but you think Coroners RIP isnt thrash. So anything you say here is automatically void.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

.... but you think Coroners RIP isnt thrash. So anything you say here is automatically void.

Correct, it's an album with approximately two thrash metal songs. Spreading the Disease is thrashier than it.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]