GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1984

[RedinTheSky]

That Cirith Ungol album is at the top of 'Albums i'd kill someone to get an instrumental version of' or 'Albums with singers that I cant get used to, or even listen past to the glory thier bandmates are purveying'.

 

[no country for old wainds]

give it more chances and you'll probably love him, seems to happen with most people eventually.

 

[no country for old wainds]

a song survivor for either of the first two mercyful fates would be fun btw, i can imagine quite a bit of disagreement.

 

[no country for old wainds]

2) Powerslave by Iron Maiden
I’m a slave to the power of death...

"More than any other Maiden album up to that point (and probably past), Powerslave had a wonderful ethereal / unearthly progressiveness about it. It is easy to get lost in that album." - @alex76

Chosen by:
Vilden (#1)
Atomic Tide (#1)
Talos of Atmora (#1)
alex76 (#2)
zabu of nΩd (#2)
Satanstoenail (#2)
RedinTheSky (#2)
The Ozzman (#3)
Anom@nder Rake (#3)
HamburgerBoy (#3)
Phylactery (#3)
Krow (#4)
Serjeant Grumbles (#4)
Sirjack (#5)
Vegard Pompey (#5)
EspaDa (#6)
crimsonfloyd (#6)
-CyanideChrist- (#7)
CASSETTEISGOD (#8)

1) Ride the Lightning by Metallica
Flash before my eyes, now it’s time to die...

"Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets are both practically beyond criticism and amazingly creative and influential albums that destroy most other discographies." - @HamburgerBoy

"Ride The Lightning is one of the metal GOATs in my opinion." - @CASSETTEISGOD

Chosen by:
Baroque (#1)
HamburgerBoy (#1)
Bloopy (#1)
Burkhard (#1)
zabu of nΩd (#1)
Satanstoenail (#1)
alex76 (#1)
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)
-CyanideChrist- (#1)
RedinTheSky (#1)
Sirjack (#1)
Atomic Tide (#2)
Anom@nder Rake (#2)
crimsonfloyd (#2)
CASSETTEISGOD (#3)
Talos of Atmora (#3)
gand1234 (#3)
EspaDa (#4)
rms (#5)
no country for old wainds (#5)
Serjeant Grumbles (#5)
The Ozzman (#5)
Phylactery (#7)
Vilden (#8)
Vegard Pompey (#9)

 

[CiG]

Surprised at how well DBtO has done. I don't find it to be anywhere near the level of Melissa. And this is probably a stronger than 1983.

The fuck? Even if you don't think it's better than Melissa (I do) you don't think it's even close?

 

[no country for old wainds]

i don't think it's very close either, 'cept i have them the other way around.

 

[no country for old wainds]

RIDE THE LIGHTNING smashed SHOW NO MERCY's points record by 43, although it couldn't quite beat the largest winning margin, still held by TRAVELLER. DON'T BREAK THE OATH is in the top ten highest points totals so far and was still 80 behind metallica lol

 

[CiG]

i don't think it's very close either, 'cept i have them the other way around.

 

[no country for old wainds]

great gif but you should be high fiving me for being your DBtO bro

 

[CiG]

No you're a radical element on my side of the debate. Get the Akbar outta here.

 

[no country for old wainds]

you're even worse than phylactery. i mean, say what you will about the tenets of radical melissaism, at least it's an ethos.

 

[The Ozzman]

DBtO bro

DBTbrO

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Hoping for another '90s list. Maybe 1997 since there are some awesome albums from that year.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Such as Ophidian Wheel.

 

[Phylactery]

I'm hoping for 1993, 1994 or 1998!

 

[crimsonfloyd]

I'm hoping for a 00-10s year, so we don't wipe out all the most interesting years too early on.

 

[CiG]

I suppose I'm just interested in the years that throw me off-guard or surprise me by what came out in that year.

 

[The Ozzman]

There's quite a bit of that Manowar sound on the first couple Immortal albums, isn't there? I forget the particular songs off the top of my head.

In what universe do you reside? I listened to Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism and now listening to Pure Holocaust and you are full of shit.

 

[The Ozzman]

bad metal opinions.

I have bad metal opinions, but that one is just egregious.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

So it turns out that Ozz and I have a more similar taste in music than I expected.