GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1984

[The Ozzman]

How does one make a top 10 metal albums list of 1984 and not include RtL? It should be on any all genres list worth anything for 1984 also.

Yoda has said before that he doesn't like thrash

 

[HamburgerBoy]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is like Viking-era Bathory tho

 

[CiG]

Yoda prefers black metal Bathory doesn't he?

 

[Vilden]

Yoda only likes Thin Lizzy-era Bathory.

 

[Baroque]

Yoda wasn't the only person to not include RtL

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That Wolf album is better than that Metallica album, just saying.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yoda has said before that he doesn't like thrash

... which should automatically void his opinions on metal indefinitely.

 

[Krow]

Yoda wasn't the only person to not include RtL

I didn't either. I'm just too burnt out on Metallica.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
2. Dark Age - Dark Age
3. Gotham City - The Unknown
4. Brocas Helm - Into Battle
5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
6. Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun
7. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
8. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
9. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
10. Manowar - Hail to England

HMs:

Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
Helstar - Burning Star
Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
Trouble - Psalm 9
Metal Church - Metal Church
HM02 Fly
HM04 Strength

Will check out that Sortilège if I find the time.

 

[EspaDa]

1. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
2. Dark Age - Dark Age
3. Gotham City - The Unknown
4. Brocas Helm - Into Battle
5. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
6. Warlord - And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun
7. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
8. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
9. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
10. Manowar - Hail to England

HMs:

Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
Helstar - Burning Star
Running Wild - Gates to Purgatory
Trouble - Psalm 9
Metal Church - Metal Church
HM02 Fly
HM04 Strength

Will check out that Sortilège if I find the time.

Ahahah laughed so damn hard at this HMs. HM07 Waterfall HM01 Cut H06 Rock Smash .

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yoda prefers black metal Bathory doesn't he?

Not sure about that, but I will say that I find those black metal Bathory albums more interesting and better than early Venom, copycat or not. I pretty much like all of the major eras of Bathory and I'd hail "Under the Sign of the Black Mark" as one of black metal's finest hours. BM Bathory is just really fucking fun to listen to, and I love those transitional albums (Under the Sign and Blood Fire Death) a bunch just as much as I fucking worship Hammerheart and Twilight of the Gods.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I've still never gotten around to hearing the Gotham City EP. Should do that this weekend.

 

[rms]

black writs? is it supposed to be any good?

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
3. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
4. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
5. Trouble - Psalm 9
6. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
7. Bathory - Bathory
8. Sortilege - Metamorphose
9. Manowar - Hail to England
10. Brocas Helm - Into Battle

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1: Metallica - Ride the Lightning
2: Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
3: Destruction - Sentence of Death
4: Bathory - Bathory
5: Trouble - Psalm 9
6: Omen - Battle Cry
7: Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
8: Voivod - War and Pain
9: Metal Church - Metal Church
10: Dio - The Last in Line

11 - Venom - At War With Satan

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I didn't either. I'm just too burnt out on Metallica.

Here's your cognitive bias:

Negativity bias, also known as the negativity effect, refers to the notion that, even when of equal intensity, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than do neutral or positive things. In other words, something very positive will generally have less of an impact on a person's behavior and cognition than something equally emotional but negative. The negativity bias has been investigated within many different domains, including the formation of impressions and general evaluations; attention, learning, and memory; and decision-making and risk considerations.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Jag Panzer- Ample Destruction
2. Metallica- Ride the Lightning
3. Sortilege- Metamorphose
4. Bathory- Bathory
5. Judas Priest- Defenders of Faith
6. Iron Maiden- Powerslave
7. Dio- Last in Line
8. Cirith Ungol- King of the Dead
9. Celtic Frost- Morbid Tales
10. Running Wild- Gates of Purgatory

 

[Vilden]

I really need to check out Running Wild for real. It's a band I've heard lots of times but never really listened to. Not sure why.

 

[CiG]

That's pretty weird.

 

[The Ozzman]

RW is fun. Not like top tier or anything but yeah.