GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1986

[Vilden]

Lol, so far zero albums I voted for.

Guess Born Too Late would be my #11 tho.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Hey Tomas, so how are we going about the "n/a" votes.

 

[no country for old wainds]

assuming theyve listed ten, which everyone did in this case, each unordered pick gets 5.5, the equivalent of being in between 5th and 6th. in other words, everyone gets the same amount of points to allocate to albums, but for those who don't order their picks those points are distributed evenly across all ten.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

so those NA picks(5-10 spot) are going to get more points than the the albums that we have at 5-10 on our lists?

 

[no country for old wainds]

more than 6-10, less than 1-5. it balances out.

 

[Baroque]

Can we do like top 3 ordered and then bottom 7 unordered to grant more points to what would be our 10th place, at the expense of points for our 4th place etc?

 

[no country for old wainds]

sure, you can do whatever (you awkward cunts haha), just make it clear what's ordered and what isn't. in that scenario the top 3 would get 10, 9, 8, and then the other seven would get 4 each.

 

[Phylactery]

was my number #11 FWIW, almost included it.

You prefer Pleasure to Kill to Eternal Devastation?! Blasphemy.

I find PTK to be quite uneven, but it does have some quality tracks.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i find it a bit uneven too, but with higher peaks. they're pretty close to my mind. most people would consider your preference blasphemy!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

two completely different(as far as thrash goes) beasts.

 

[no country for old wainds]

5) Eternal Devastation by Destruction
I will shorten your balls!

I'd be tempted to say that it has the greatest collection of killer riffs. Sifringer in the 80's was a master.

Chosen by:
HamburgerBoy (#3)
Phylactery (#3)
TechnicalBarbarity (#4)
Baroque (#5)
-CyanideChrist- (#7)
Slayed Necros (#8)
alex76 (#8)
zerostatic (#8)
Elric of Melniboné (#9)
crimsonfloyd (#9)
Sirjack (n/a)
Sword of Kalki (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

speaking of which

 

[no country for old wainds]

4) Awaken the Guardian by Fates Warning
Far beyond the realm of dream...

We all know that either Fates Warning or Manilla Road will win so why even bother with this list?

Chosen by:
Slayed Necros (#1)
Vilden (#1)
no country for old wainds (#1)
Phylactery (#2)
rms (#2)
Burkhard (#3)
crimsonfloyd (#3)
CASSETTEISGOD (#5)
Elric of Melniboné (#5)
Master_Yoda77 (#5)
EspaDa (#7)
Talos of Atmora (#7)
alex76 (#9)

 

[Talos of Atmora]

And the next pick is...Trilogy by Yngwie Malm-oh, who am I kidding?

 

[no country for old wainds]

3) Master of Puppets by Metallica
Hunter of the shadows is rising...

again, i'm not trawling through this thread, but feel free.

Chosen by:
Baroque(#1)
Bloopy (#2)
crimsonfloyd (#2)
EspaDa (#3)
alex76 (#3)
zerostatic (#3)
-CyanideChrist- (#3)
The Ozzman (#4)
no country for old wainds (#4)
HamburgerBoy (#4)
Burkhard (#5)
TechnicalBarbarity (#6)
rms (#10)
Vilden (#10)
Atomic Tide (n/a)

 

[Baroque]

^the true #1

Btw let me just say again the way these results are done is top notch, gg

 

[Baroque]

I think people forget how awesome that album is. Go ahead and throw it on and relive the glory days of Metallica imo. That was the first metal shirt I ever owned and the first full metal album I learned to play on guitar. It pretty much defined what metal should sound like to me for several formative years.

 

[no country for old wainds]

in the '80s they had one of the most distinct identities and diverse range of songs/albums of any band in metal. i have my gripes about their ambition exceeding their reach at times, but it seems like a lot of other bands are given an easier ride over similarly small issues; methinks people are harder on metallica than other bands because of overfamiliarity and the hype. even if it isn't necessarily my favourite, MoP is IMO their definitive album in terms of being distinct from their contemporaries and most complete in its vision. AJFA could've been that but they were getting too big for their boots by then and it's just too meandering and messy to earn that title, whilst RtL is almost that (and perhaps peaks higher) but to my ears the weak points in the second half are those of a band still searching for the ideal version of themselves. so... yeah, fully deserving of a high place on the list to my mind. i'm gonna regret posting this when the thread gets derailed but fuck it.

cheers btw, glad people are enjoying reading! i have a thing for reading poll results and other people's lists etc myself so i'm just trying to do it the way i'd enjoy reading them.

 

[Vilden]

@no country for old wainds : I actually think the opposite, RtL is very consistent imo and the only weaker link is Escape. MoP has the problem that not only some of the songs are weaker but the good songs sometimes are abit inconsistent too, like the title track for example drags on too much.
Still great obv I mean I put it on my list.

 

[no country for old wainds]

2) Reign in Blood by Slayer
COME AND DIE WITH ME FOREVER SHARE INSANITYYY

What a load of pseudo-intellectual claptrap. Firstly, it's a thrash metal album, and referring to it as a "suite" is seventeen shades of the gayest gay and should be ceased henceforth. Secondly, the beauty and appeal of Reign In Blood is that it is a short, sharp blast of pure aggression. It has much in common with a lot of punk and hardcore albums in this regard. The songs have barely any gaps between them and are arranged so that the listener will be slapped around the chops furiously for under half an hour with barely any let up. If you are wanting it to 'take you somewhere' on a musically varied journey then you're most definitely barking up the wrong tree. If you don't like the way it sounds today or find it "severely underdeveloped", then you are probably attempting to read far too much into it. And if you really think that death metal vocals would work better on it, you basically shouldn't bother listening to it again, because you have entirely missed the point of the album in every aspect.

Chosen by:
alex76 (#1)
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)
zerostatic (#1)
crimsonfloyd (#1)
Slayed Necros (#2)
-CyanideChrist- (#2)
ClichéUserName (#2)
no country for old wainds (#2)
Bloopy (#3)
Elric of Melniboné (#3)
The Ozzman (#3)
EspaDa (#4)
Phylactery (#5)
Baroque (#7)
Krow (#7)
Master_Yoda77 (#8)