GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[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

 

[Krow]

I'll cry if Vanilla Load is #1

No way it beat Melissa or Show No Mercy.

 

[CiG]

I'll cry if Vanilla Load is #1

All you do is cry so what would be new.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Manilla Road beat Metallica! Fuck yeah!

Dio at 7 is a joke.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Dio at 7 is a joke.

it's arguably the album most indebted to rock music on this list so i'm not sure why mr. "metal becomes purer the further it strays from rock music" is batting its corner

personally i like some tunes on HOLY DIVER plenty but i've never taken to it the way i love, say, the title track of HEAVEN AND HELL or my favourite rainbow songs, for whatever reason.

 

[CiG]

"Vanilla Road" is a pretty savage burn though.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

it's arguably the album most indebted to rock music on this list so i'm not sure why mr. "metal becomes purer the further it strays from rock music" is batting its corner.

personally i like some tunes on HOLY DIVER plenty but i've never taken to it the way i love, say, the title track of HEAVEN AND HELL or my favourite rainbow songs, for whatever reason.

How are the two notions incompatible? Just because something becomes purer, it doesn't mean it's de facto better. Holy Diver is phenomenal for what it is: a set of authentic, emotive, and catchy, mainstream metal songs. They are farily simple and direct, but absolutely nail the formula. It just aboub perfects what it aimed to achieve.

 

[The Ozzman]

All you do is cry so what would be new.

You can go to Jolly Pirate Donuts and take a two hour shit for all I care

 

[HamburgerBoy]

what it aimed to achieve.

Inferred opinions, exhibit C.

 

[CiG]

You can go to Jolly Pirate Donuts and take a two hour shit for all I care

 

[-CC-]

Did NOT expect Dio that low on the list...

 

[alex76]

Metallica at fucking five. There's just no Justice!

Well... at least until we get to '88!

 

[Baroque]

If TB had put Dio at #3 would it be higher?

 

[no country for old wainds]

it would've got 6th by half a point. instead, he put europe 3rd and more than doubled its total score, guaranteeing it not only double figures but a spot in the overall top 20.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

If I hadn't dropped Metallica, would it have been higher? I had it ranked 4th.