GMD Votes: Top 20 Traditional/Doom Albums

[Anom@nder Rake]

1. Pagan Altar - Volume 1
2. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
3. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
4. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
5. Solstice - New Dark Age
6. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
7. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
8. Mercyful Fate – Melissa
9. Judas Priest - Stained Class
10. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
11. Satan - Court in the Act
12. Black Sabbath – Paranoid
13. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
14. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
15. Warning - Watching From a Distance
16. Trouble - Psalm 9
17. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
18. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
19. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
20. Dio - Holy Diver

 

[unknown]

Saint Vitus got Drudkhed.

can we make this a thing? I'm actually surprised Black Sabbath isn't higher on the list

 

[End of Glory]

No Maiden in a Top 20 list... Also Painkiller > Stained Class.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

they're not exaggerations at all

To quote John Brenner about Revelation's sound "We are just Rush played wrong."

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

No Maiden but two Fates Warning albums?

Holy Diver will be in my top 5. But his work with Rainbow and Sabbath are much better imo.

 

[rms]

Listening to Revelation now. Waiting to hear some ground breaking stuff. Nothing yet so, thus far, it is an exaggeration.

Well you still listen to Killswitch Engage so not entirely sure you have the appreciation for doom, and you literally listed no doom bands on your top20.

Brenner wrote for 17 Against Nature albums. This in a span of 7 years.

Wrote on 5 Revelation albums, spanning from 1991 to 2012.

Played/wrote for thrash band Have Mercy.














Doesn't that just give you a boner as to how skilled and driven Brenner is? Look at the variance, the output. What American band can say their band has even released 5 good+ albums let alone 3+ essential ones?

 

[no country for old wainds]

revelation are generally a huge deal in doom communities and completely unknown elsewhere. i am still yet to dive in myself (i only know RELEASE and one of against nature's allegedly weaker albums) but soooo many tasteful people put these guys on a pedestal that it'd be wise to sit up and take notice methinks.

 

[Baroque]

Pretty disappointed with this list. Manilla Road, Angel Witch, Fates Warning don't deserve to be in the top 20. Jag Panzer is pretty clearly power metal (although I do enjoy the band some). Same with Adramelch. The lack of Rainbow - Rising is just mind boggling. Yeah, the two Sabbath albums are easily 2 of their best. But to be honest after the top 5 here I don't really listen to any of these albums.



1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
3. Dio - Holy Diver
4. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
5. Trouble - Psalm 9

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6. Judas Priest - Stained Class
7. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
8. Solstice - New Dark Age
9. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
10. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
11. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
12. Warning - Watching From A Distance
13. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
14. Satan - Court in the Act
15. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
16. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
17. Pagan Altar - Volume 1
18. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
19. Angel Witch - Angel Witch
20. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic

A lot of my favorites barely missed the top 20. If we were ranking the top 50 of these instead, my top 20 would look entirely different.

 

[rms]

I can't think of a better doom album than release. A lot of people give it to Warning, and while Release is definitely influenced by it, it's just amazing. Everything except Inner Harbor is essential, and the last 6 or so Against Nature albums are heavy rock. I love those, but I haven't played the first 10 or so enough to get a real opinion on them. I own all those albums, it makes me feel good about myself.

Brenner has basically taken himself out of the scene, I think, due to this lack of exposure. I saw him play a set in Rochester NY and more kids were there for the openers than Revelation, and by more I mean ~20 people to ~5-10.

 

[The Ozzman]

Well you still listen to Killswitch Engage so not entirely sure you have the appreciation for doom, and you literally listed no doom bands on your top20.

Brenner wrote for 17 Against Nature albums. This in a span of 7 years.

Wrote on 5 Revelation albums, spanning from 1991 to 2012.

Played/wrote for thrash band Have Mercy.














Doesn't that just give you a boner as to how skilled and driven Brenner is? Look at the variance, the output. What American band can say their band has even released 5 good+ albums let alone 3+ essential ones?

Yes, liking metalcore bands immediately signals that I don't have enough appreciation for other bands. Maybe I just don't get the hype and it sounds like generic shit to me? Who knows.

For what it's worth I don't remember the last time I listened to Killswitch.

 

[rms]

I'm not saying im superior or you are, but I can't think of someone who goes to Hatebreed and Killswitch Engage shows and then goes out and listens to Manilla Road or Revelation. It's two different worlds musically

 

[Mort Divine]

I have no clue how anyone could find Revelation (especially the last three albums) to be generic

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm not saying im superior or you are, but I can't think of someone who goes to Hatebreed and Killswitch Engage shows and then goes out and listens to Manilla Road or Revelation. It's two different worlds musically

Maybe it's because I'm more open minded than you ;-)

I have no clue how anyone could find Revelation (especially the last three albums) to be generic

I find it generic and you don't. End of discussion. Really not hard to understand unless you're close minded

 

[rms]

Finding an album generic has nothing to do with close mindedness or open mindedness.

 

[Mort Divine]

Finding an album generic has nothing to do with close mindedness or open mindedness.

Seriously. Quality may or may not, but whether something is generic is kind of cut and dry.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

Pretty disappointed with this list. Manilla Road, Angel Witch, Fates Warning don't deserve to be in the top 20. Jag Panzer is pretty clearly power metal (although I do enjoy the band some). Same with Adramelch. The lack of Rainbow - Rising is just mind boggling. Yeah, the two Sabbath albums are easily 2 of their best. But to be honest after the top 5 here I don't really listen to any of these albums.

cool but what are your top 50 thrash albums of 2015?

 

[The Ozzman]

Well I don't hear anything special in what I sampled of Revelation's stuff. My mind may change later but probably not.

I admittedly have little to no doom in my collection and it interests me very little.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I'm with Baroque here, not a good looking top 20. Worst list so far out of all the one's we've done. If it was up to me i'd just rank the first 6 or 7 of my upcoming list.

 

[Mort Divine]

great top 20 imo, only really irked by lack of saint vitus really

despite mine and rms's thoughts on revelation I know they're not as popular as plenty of others so I get it,

be hard to justify removing anything but maybe Angel witch idk

 

[Slayed Necros]

cool but what are your top 50 thrash albums of 2015?

lol