GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[CiG]

Fuck off idiot.

 

[Baroque]

lols

 

[CiG]

Manowar rules.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Top 7 prediction:

7. Satan - Court in the Act
6. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
5. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
4. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
3. Slayer - Show no Mercy
2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
1. Rat Attack - Rat Attack

 

[The Ozzman]

I hope Dio makes the Top 10 :-/

 

[CiG]

I put Holy Diver in third on mine, so fingers crossed.

 

[The Ozzman]

If I counted correctly, Dio got an 84 and Sortilege got a 35 so Dio should make the Top 10

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Lol obviously it's gonna be up there. The Rat Attack listing was clearly a joke.

 

[no country for old wainds]

dio finished 74th with a total of -8 points.

 

[no country for old wainds]

7) Holy Diver by Dio
There's no sign of the morning coming...

"Holy Diver is everything that epitomizes what the metal genre is. It's the greatest heavy metal record ever made. If someone ever asked me 'Hey Mike, what album explains what heavy metal is?', I would hand them this album." - @The Ozzman

Chosen by:
The Ozzman (#1)
crimsonfloyd (#1)
Baroque (#=1)
Atomic Tide (#2)
-CyanideChrist- (#2)
CASSETTEISGOD (#3)
Master_Yoda77 (#4)
Krow (#5)
Vilden (#5)
zerostatic (#6)
HamburgerBoy (#7)
alex76 (#9)
Talos of Atmora (#10)
Sirjack (n/a)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

6) Court in the Act by Satan
Feel the flames begin to burn...

"Court in the Act was an instant click for me. It sounded like if Slayer wrote an album before Show No Mercy. I could listen to "Break Free" all day." - @Zephyrus

Chosen by:
Master_Yoda77 (#2)
-CyanideChrist- (#3)
no country for old wainds (#3)
Mort Divine (#3)
Phylactery (#3)
HamburgerBoy (#4)
Slayed Necros (#4)
Krow (#4)
Vegard Pompey (#4)
EspaDa (#5)
Talos of Atmora (#5)
rms (#5)
Baroque (#6)
Bloopy (#6)
RadicalThrasher (#7)
crimsonfloyd (#8)
zerostatic (#10)

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Damn, #6 and still packed with high votes. The top 3 are going to have an absurd number.

 

[no country for old wainds]

our previous highest scorer, candlemass' EPICUS, would only have scraped third on this list. guess that doesn't really mean anything aside from there being a smaller pool of albums to choose from here, just sayin'

i might put as many as four songs from COURT IN THE ACT in my NWOBHM top 10, such is its excellence. there isn't a weak song on it either.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'm getting a bit worried that my number 1 pick didn't even crack the top 10 because of all the haters.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

@no country for old wainds Are you posting the rest tomorrow?

 

[Baroque]

3 #1s and 7th?? That album could be written today and still be a classic.

 

[rms]

satan as a slayer album? hell was zeph smokin'

 

[no country for old wainds]

5) Kill 'Em All by Metallica
Our brains are on fire with the feeling to kill!

"Kill Em All hits me right in my cheesy metalhead sweet spot. It's the perfect celebration of metal, with the exuberance and love of fun that is at the core of the vast majority of metal. It's not about politics over music like so much punk; even if a metal album has political lyrics, it's first and foremost about banging your head and getting that jolt of adrenaline, about screaming just for the joy of screaming. And Kill Em All is the perfect distillation of that essence, so it's the quintessential metal album as far as I'm concerned. " - @The Batlord

Chosen by:
alex76 (#1)
-CyanideChrist- (#1)
Bloopy (#1)
Baroque (#=1)
The Ozzman (#2)
TechnicalBarbarity (#2)
zerostatic (#3)
rms (#3)
EspaDa (#4)
Atomic Tide (#5)
RadicalThrasher (#6)
HamburgerBoy (#6)
CASSETTEISGOD (#8)
no country for old wainds (#8)
Mort Divine (#8)
Sirjack (n/a)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)

 

[Krow]

inb4tears

 

[The Ozzman]

I'll cry if Vanilla Load is #1