GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1984

[Manic Ferocity]

Haunting the Chapel is arguably Slayer's best material.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Too bad it's only 3 songs.

 

[CiG]

Manowar rules.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

They've got SOME amazing songs, but taken as a whole they're wildly overrated.

 

[CiG]

Overrated I don't agree with as I feel they're mocked about as much as they're praised, but I agree that they're pretty fucking inconsistent.

 

[no country for old wainds]

HAIL TO ENGLAND is one of the more consistent albums from this year though, deserves its place.

 

[The Ozzman]

I would say Hail to England is the best Manowar album that I've heard so far. The most consistent and most memorable out of the first four. I checked out The Triumph of Steel based on what CIG was saying about it and that's pretty solid but I need to spin it some more to figure out if that's the second best Manowar album or not. I've listened to that one once and listened to the first 4 several times through.

 

[Krow]

They've got SOME amazing songs, but taken as a whole they're wildly overrated.

It's alright, we know you don't play on ten.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Overrated I don't agree with as I feel they're mocked about as much as they're praised, but I agree that they're pretty fucking inconsistent.

That's a fair point. They do seem to polarize people. I dislike their fans and their perpetual "you're not a real man if you don't jack off to the cover of Into the Glory Ride at least three times a week" nonesense much more than I feel disdain for their music. The vocalist is obviously very gifted and the musicians are skilled. The stuff I've heard is mostly good but not great with a few legit classics peppered in. I do think the more rock they are the less metal they are, the more they descend toward mediocity.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Their imagery and album covers are fucking' cringeworthy and i have to question anyone that considers that shit "metal". More like pretentious goofball posers to me. Nothing metal about dressing up in leather thongs and posing for pictures. And to top it off the band members are top notch douches who think way too highly off themselves. I can proudly say i am not a fan of them.

And like i said, average at best. There is nothing they do that countless other bands dont do better ... except play dress up.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Manowar did black/Viking metal better than second-rate copycat talentless hacks like Quorthon and the Immortal guys ever did.

 

[no country for old wainds]

7) Trouble (Psalm 9) by Trouble
It's too late to cry to the Lord...

"What are the Sabbath rip-off moments on Psalm 9? To me, Trouble is by far one of the most distinctive and individual of all the early trad doom bands. I mean, if we're going to discuss rip-offs, Candlemass nicked a bunch of Trouble riffs/ideas early on. Psalm 9 got rid of all the relaxed/"stoner" vibe of Black Sabbath (and Pentagram) and replaced it with tight and aggressive thrashy riffage. The musicianship was also way ahead of most of their contemporaries; listening to the instrumental Endtime you don't even need Watchtower to hear where Confessor got their inspiration." - @HamburgerBoy

Chosen by:
CASSETTEISGOD (#4)
TechnicalBarbarity (#5)
Phylactery (#5)
-CyanideChrist- (#5)
Anom@nder Rake (#5)
Master_Yoda77 (#5)
HamburgerBoy (#6)
Burkhard (#6)
Baroque (#=8)
Bloopy (#8)
RedinTheSky (#8)
no country for old wainds (#9)
rms (#10)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i thought Psalm 9 would have been higher on most lists here.

 

[CiG]

Their imagery and album covers are fucking' cringeworthy and i have to question anyone that considers that shit "metal". More like pretentious goofball posers to me. Nothing metal about dressing up in leather thongs and posing for pictures. And to top it off the band members are top notch douches who think way too highly off themselves. I can proudly say i am not a fan of them.

And like i said, average at best. There is nothing they do that countless other bands dont do better ... except play dress up.

It's really funny when massive try-hard faggots hate bands for doing the exact same thing as them.

 

[no country for old wainds]

6) Saint Vitus by Saint Vitus
Your sanity is thin now, just takes a little push...

"vitus were an even more cynical, burnt out, tortured, despairing black sabbath with a gutter punk ethos, which was unfashionable in a number of ways in the '80s. in the beginning, with reagers on the mic, they were also deranged, delusional and heroin-fucked, an addict's nightmares distilled into sound." - @no country for old wainds

"Reagers sounds like a fucking mental patient." - @mutantllama

Chosen by:
CASSETTEISGOD (#1)
Vegard Pompey (#1)
no country for old wainds (#2)
Krow (#3)
Master_Yoda77 (#3)
-CyanideChrist- (#4)
Bloopy (#5)
rms (#6)
Slayed Necros (#9)
alex76 (#9)
EspaDa (#9)

 

[CiG]

Your quote is fucking spot on man.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Unless Defenders of the Faith pops up somewhere it seems impossible for this list to not be completely awesome.

 

[no country for old wainds]

5) Ample Destruction by Jag Panzer
Nothing will escape the Panzer stronghold!

"Ample Destruction is the most heterosexual metal album of all time." - @Elric of Melniboné

"Between the slashing riffs and wild solos, Conklin's unrestrained screams and absurd, poseur-killing lyrics, a generally hostile attitude, and a barely containable level of masculinity, Ample Destruction is the absolute embodiment of power metal. The unassailable spirit of heavy metal lives eternally on this record, regaling the listener with tales of steel and leather and black clad gangs terrorizing women and children. It's 100% over-the-top brain melting heavy metal mayhem and it's as essential as it gets." - @Slayed Necros

Chosen by:
Slayed Necros (#1)
rms (#1)
crimsonfloyd (#1)
no country for old wainds (#3)
Burkhard (#4)
RedinTheSky (#4)
Anom@nder Rake (#6)
-CyanideChrist- (#6)
Phylactery (#6
Master_Yoda77 (#7)
Krow (#9)
Serjeant Grumbles (#10)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

It's really funny when massive try-hard faggots hate bands for doing the exact same thing as them.

Whoa there, did i disrespect one of you family members or something? Try getting demaios balls out of your mouth before responding to my opinion on them.

And you calling someone else a try-hard is mind-boggling. You are the essence of poserism bruh. I think we've made that clear already. And on top of all that your a little tattle-telling bitch. How do you even look at yourself in the mirror?

 

[Satanstoenail]

Try getting demaios balls out of your mouth before responding to my opinion on them.

You have an opinion on Demaio's balls?