GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[Mort Divine]

'someone thinks a band that was instrumental during my early years with the genre isn't as great as i do...but don't they realize my nostalgia for them? they must be wrong!'

 

[CiG]

Honestly right about now is when we need an obligatory "opinions aren't facts" comment from @The Ozzman.

 

[The Ozzman]

Honestly right about now is when we need an obligatory "opinions aren't facts" comment from @The Ozzman.

I should just put it in my signature now to annoy you

 

[CiG]

That wouldn't annoy me, right now it's actually very appropriate.

 

[Phylactery]

See...

I agreed with only one of your statements.

 

[alex76]

Fuck, I swear it seems like you people have autism, seriously. This is like posting on Reddit!

 

[CiG]

You seem pretty autistic right now yourself.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

No, MoP is mediocre at best.

Yes.

No. But early 90s black metal is amongst the pinnacle of the metal genre.

put. down. that. crack pipe.

'someone thinks a band that was instrumental during my early years with the genre isn't as great as i do...but don't they realize my nostalgia for them? they must be wrong!'

So his "early years with metal" consist of masterpieces of the genre and yours consist of what? Ares kingdom, At the Gates and The Chasm? nothing from any of those bands comes close to touching the first four Metallica albums, regardless of what you "edgelord" circle jerkers around here want to spew out.

 

[CiG]

I'd definitely take the first four Metallica albums over The Chasm, Ares Kingdom, At the Gates and basically 90% of black metal.

Master of Puppets is still a wanky, masturbatory record though, even if I do like it quite a lot.

 

[no country for old wainds]

implying that anyone whose opinions differ from the consensus is trying to be edgy is lame as fuck, especially when it comes from metalheads - anyone who actually lived by that notion would be listening to bruno mars and/or the beatles, not metal.

that said, metallica > most beloved bands around here (leave at the gates out of this though!)

 

[CiG]

At the Gates, a band with one good album and the rest ranging from okay to pure shit?

 

[alex76]

implying that anyone whose opinions differ from the consensus is trying to be edgy is lame as fuck, especially when it comes from metalheads - anyone who actually lived by that notion would be listening to bruno mars and/or the beatles, not metal.

that said, metallica > most beloved bands around here (leave at the gates out of this though!)

C'mon, do you really think that is what I implied? You didn't get any sarcastic reading from post 132 at all (i.e. err... opinion)? The fact that some people in here didn't is where the autism reference kicks in. My listing of stereotypical edgelord statements holds though.

 

[rms]

At the Gates, a band with one good album and the rest ranging from okay to pure shit?

ya...never got the SOTS fandom let alone the band entirely. But never was a huge melodeath guy anyways

 

[CiG]

But never was a huge melodeath guy anyways

Same here. I do rate The Red in the Sky is Ours as well as their pre-debut material rather high and I enjoy Massive Killing Capacity, Lunar Strain, Skydancer and some early Amon Amarth among a few other things but even so.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Shut up alex.

On a less retarded note, gotta thank @HamburgerBoy and @Vilden for including the Europe s/t in their lists. I checked out the album thanks to you guys and it's goddamn great, especially "Seven Doors Hotel".

 

[no country for old wainds]

At the Gates, a band with one good album and the rest ranging from okay to pure shit?

at the gates' second album is my most listened to metal album of all time so i can't quite agree with all of that, not to mention metallica obviously have ATG beat in the descending into pure shit stakes. metallica have more classic albums and were more influential etc ofc. it isn't at all outrageous to prefer ATG to metallica though.

C'mon, do you really think that is what I implied? You didn't get any sarcastic reading from post 132 at all (i.e. err... opinion)? The fact that some people in here didn't is where the autism reference kicks in. My listing of stereotypical edgelord statements holds though.

it's an established fact that literally everyone on this board has autism, and i'll thank you not to mock our condition.

 

[no country for old wainds]

ya...never got the SOTS fandom let alone the band entirely. But never was a huge melodeath guy anyways

nobody on this board is talking about melodeath-era at the gates when they talk about their greatness tho? not that i'd expect the early stuff to be your thing either i guess

 

[Phylactery]

Does RMS not like death metal? I noticed he didn't vote on the 1992 thread which was a death metal year. And I've only seen him really mention trad, doom, thrash and black metal.

The Red in the Sky is Ours is obviously easily better than any Metallica album as are 3-4 The Chasm albums.

at the gates' second album is my most listened to metal album of all time so i can't quite agree with all of that,

It is? More than Deathcult, TRitSiO, FaftS?

With Fear... is just a really frustrating album to me, due to the way it drops off. The first song is decent death/thrash (but I still usually skip it), the next 4 are amazing with The Break of Autumn and Primal Breath being genre highlights, and then I rapidly lose interest.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Chasm is such a mess. I'd probably take Load over any of their albums that I'm familiar with. Certainly the Black album.

 

[Slayed Necros]

With Fear... is definitely front-loaded and the album peaks right in the middle with Primal Breath, but I think the drop off in quality is massively overstated. The Architects completely rules and 2:27 - 3:05 of Stardrowned is one of my favourite moments on the whole album.