GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[CiG]

Is that a death metal or goregrind song title or band name? It should be.

It's Ozz's mother's nickname.

 

[rms]

So Slayer wins then, cool. What year is next?

99

 

[The Ozzman]

It's Ozz's mother's nickname.

Tryhard

 

[CiG]

99

That would be interesting! There's so much of every single genre and subgenre and subsubgenre...

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) Show No Mercy by Slayer
Blasting our way through the boundaries of Hell, no-one can stop us tonight!

"last summer I really started to enjoy Hell Awaits, but Show No Mercy is so fucking rifftastic that it cannot be beat. Black Magic is still the best thrash song i've ever heard. So fucking good." - @rms

Chosen by:
zerostatic (#1)
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)
RadicalThrasher (#2)
Krow (#2)
alex76 (#2)
rms (#2)
no country for old wainds (#2)
Mort Divine (#2)
Phylactery (#2)
Slayed Necros (#3)
Dazed and Brutal (#3)
Baroque (#3)
CASSETTEISGOD (#5)
EspaDa (#6)
The Ozzman (#6)
Talos of Atmora (#6)
-CyanideChrist- (#6)
Master_Yoda77 (#6)
Vegard Pompey (#7)
Atomic Tide (#8)
HamburgerBoy (#9)
Sirjack (n/a)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

think in the future i'll post #2 and #1 in the same post. will post a full list soon.

99 will be fun, but the RNG has spoken.... incidentally the same year cyanide christ's RNG picked lol

 

[CiG]

Which is?

 

[The Ozzman]

Which is?

We'll find out soon

 

[rms]

oh cool i made it to a review. probably my most rare contribution to GMD haha

 

[CiG]

We'll find out soon

U MAD BRO?

 

[The Ozzman]

U MAD BRO?

No I just wanted to post that video

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) Slayer - Show No Mercy | 158 from 23 votes
2) Mercyful Fate - Melissa | 150.5 from 20 votes
3) Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind | 148 from 21 votes
4) Manilla Road - Crystal Logic | 124.5 from 16 votes
5) Metallica - Kill 'Em All | 116.5 from 17 votes
6) Satan - Court in the Act | 105 from 17 votes
7) Dio - Holy Diver | 97.5 from 15 votes
8) Manowar - Into Glory Ride | 38.5 from 9 votes
9) Sortilege - Sortilege | 35 from 10 votes
10) Savatage - Sirens | 29 from 5 votes
11) Motorhead - Another Perfect Day | 26.5 from 8 votes
12) Black Sabbath - Born Again | 26 from 5 votes
=13) Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell | 25 from 5 votes
=13) Hellhammer - Satanic Rites | 25 from 5 votes
15) Heavy Load - Stronger Than Evil | 23 from 7 votes
16) Warlord - Deliver Us | 21 from 3 votes
17) Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon | 19 from 6 votes
18) Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac | 17.5 from 4 votes
19) Europe - Europe | 15 from 4 votes
20) Jaguar - Power Games | 14 from 2 votes
21) Rat Attack - Rat Attack | 13 from 2 votes
22) Loudness - The Law of Devil's Land | 11.5 from 3 votes
23) Oz - Fire in the Brain | 11 from 4 votes
24) H-Bomb - Coup De Metal | 10 from 1 vote

 

[rms]

20) Jaguar - Power Games

listen to this album peeps! and Opening the Enclosure from, I think, High Roller records is even better

 

[The Ozzman]

That means the album sucks

 

[no country for old wainds]

i like power games, not enough to include it tho

i guess hellhammer would've made the top 10 pretty comfortably if everyone was counting demos?

 

[rms]

idk, think its a pretty good 8-10 range for this year. thought it dropped in quality pretty hard around the 6-7 mark

 

[-CC-]

99 will be fun, but the RNG has spoken.... incidentally the same year cyanide christ's RNG picked lol

The Gods favor me.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Incidentally @no country for old wainds, I'm very surprised you would rank Piece of Mind above your beloved Show No Mercy. What happened to the Maiden-hater who once said;

i have always maintained that [dickinson-era maiden] are the original 'fakes', instilling sacharrine emotional pointers into fundamentally light-hearted anthems; emotional heavy metal for people who'd be upset by the real thing.

Did you have a change of heart or have you always liked Piece of Mind especially?

 

[Phylactery]

Excuse me. I'm so drunk right now that I feel like AIDS. I take offence.

I don't even remember posting this. I'm so fucking hungover! Did a round of pub golf last night and now I feel absolutely disgusting.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Incidentally @no country for old wainds, I'm very surprised you would rank Piece of Mind above your beloved Show No Mercy. What happened to the Maiden-hater who once said;


Did you have a change of heart or have you always liked Piece of Mind especially?

the former mostly haha. i posted in another thread (maybe on RYM actually) that i was a dumbass about bruce-era maiden for like ten years but they sound so much better to me now, almost sounds like a different band. part of it is that i first had a lot of exposure to maiden at a time when i wasn't very receptive to trad i guess, i needed to get past my superficial negative perception of them or something. i'm glad i have done!