GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[no country for old wainds]

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[no country for old wainds]

4) Crystal Logic by Manilla Road
I will never put my sword down...

"Only a fool would think anything other than Crystal Logic is the best Manilla Road album." - @Master_Yoda77

Chosen by:
Vegard Pompey (#1)
CASSETTEISGOD (#1)
rms (#1)
Master_Yoda77 (#1)
Vilden (#2)
crimsonfloyd (#2)
EspaDa (#3)
Krow (#3)
Talos of Atmora (#3)
Mort Divine (#4)
RadicalThrasher (#5)
Phylactery (#5)
no country for old wainds (#5)
Slayed Necros (#5)
zerostatic (#5)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)

 

[Master_Yoda77]

What a fucking amazing album. Nothing else on the list really peaks quite as high as that album and then have songs like Feeling Free Again and The Ram. There is just something magical about CL that really sets it above and beyond nearly everything. It's weird, wickedly catchy, and something to behold. It also has one of the coolest album arts ever.

 

[no country for old wainds]

3) Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden
See the madman in his gaze...

"Piece Of Mind is an unequivocal masterpiece". @CASSETTEISGOD

Chosen by:
HamburgerBoy (#1)
EspaDa (#1)
no country for old wainds (#1)
Talos of Atmora (#1)
Atomic Tide (#1)
Vilden (#1)
CASSETTEISGOD (#2)
Vegard Pompey (#3)
crimsonfloyd (#3)
RadicalThrasher (#4)
Phylactery (#4)
alex76 (#4)
zerostatic (#4)
Krow (#6)
Dazed and Brutal (#6)
Mort Divine (#6)
The Ozzman (#7)
Master_Yoda77 (#8)
-CyanideChrist- (#9)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)
Sirjack (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

sry about the boring quotes but the search engine on this site is pretty bad + don't have the energy this week + you guys never say anything interesting

 

[CiG]

Don't know why so many idiots in here are complaining like a bunch of faggots, this list would have been good no matter what because 1983 was both a very strong year and a year with not that many releases.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Maiden beat Manilla Road, I'm happy.

 

[Baroque]

3 and 4

 

[CiG]

I can deal with your pathetic distaste for Manilla Road but Piece of Mind? You're shit.

 

[Baroque]

I can deal with your pathetic distaste for Manilla Road but Piece of Mind? You're shit.

You need to work on your insults sir, I feel entirely unhurt!

I actually own that maiden album and tried more than once to get into it. The more I listened to it the less I liked it if I'm being honest. Bought it for Where eagles dare, flight of Icarus and the trooper. But they became as stale cheese and began growing mold, and now have an odor..

 

[CiG]

Disgraceful.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Bought it for Where eagles dare, flight of Icarus and the trooper.

What about Revelations? To Tame a Land? Sun and Steel? Come on, man.

 

[CiG]

"To Tame a Land" is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written to me, so I second that sentiment.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yeah I pretty much think that Priest does everything 10 times better than Iron Maiden and even I think that Maiden album is wonderful.

 

[CiG]

Judas Priest don't really write epic heavy metal songs like Iron Maiden do. Show me something similar to "To Tame a Land," "Alexander the Great," "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Where eagles Dare," "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and so on.

I love Judas Priest, but the only albums by them in my opinion that can compete with Iron Maiden's best are Sad Wings of Destiny and Sin After Sin.

When Iron Maiden released the masterpiece Powerslave, the same year Judas Priest released Defenders of the Faith. Need I say more?

Actually, I'm really not sure why the two get compared here so often.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

wainds I would've used your own description of Crystal Logic as its quote, "metal by candlelight". Sums up the appeal of that album perfectly for me.

Anyway Piece of Mind should've been #1 you stupid fucks.

 

[Vilden]

Judas Priest don't really write epic heavy metal songs like Iron Maiden do. Show me something similar to "To Tame a Land," "Alexander the Great," "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Where eagles Dare," "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and so on.

I love Judas Priest, but the only albums by them in my opinion that can compete with Iron Maiden's best are Sad Wings of Destiny and Sin After Sin.

When Iron Maiden released the masterpiece Powerslave, the same year Judas Priest released Defenders of the Faith. Need I say more?

Actually, I'm really not sure why the two get compared here so often.

100% agree, Priest, while great is mostly rockin'. Maiden is mystical and magical, big difference!

 

[crimsonfloyd]

"To Tame a Land" is one of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written to me, so I second that sentiment.

Second weakest song on the album, after the new earth dinosaur song. The other seven tracks are great.

 

[CiG]

Second weakest song on the album, after the new earth dinosaur song. The other seven tracks are great.

Fair enough, I disagree, but at least you actually like the album.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Fair enough, I disagree, but at least you actually like the album.

Yeah it's a great album. Not my favorite by them, but still great. And even the two weaker songs are still 7/10 or 8/10.