GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[Talos of Atmora]

We got Sirens in, gentlemen!

 

[no country for old wainds]

8) Into Glory Ride by Manowar
Hear my sword sing as I ride across the sky...

"Into Glory Ride will forever be my favorite. LEATHER. METAL. SPIKES AND CHAINS!" - @Master_Yoda77

Chosen by:
Dazed and Brutal (#4)
Vilden (#4)
CASSETTEISGOD (#4)
Master_Yoda77 (#5)
Slayed Necros (#9)
no country for old wainds (#9)
Krow (#10)
Phylactery (#10)
H.P. Lovecraft (N/A)

 

[no country for old wainds]

there's a huge gulf between the top seven and the three i've just posted. you could add together the points of these three and you'd still only have 4.5 more points than #7 got, and less than #6.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Does not bode well for some of my top picks....

 

[CiG]

I'm very okay with these results so far.

 

[Baroque]

Manowar is appropriately in the shit tier, Savatage should have been higher, at least it made it tho

 

[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.