GMD Votes: Top Traditional/Doom Album Prelims

[divine_torture]

The Axeman is a fucking cool song. And yeah, Be My Wench would be the one I enjoyed least.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

but it's one great traditional heavy metal song after the next.

fixed that for you.

 

[Burkhard]

1. Avatarium - Avatarium
2. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
3. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
4. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
5. Sacred Blade - Of the Sun and Moon
6. Candlemass - Candlemass
7. Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
8. Chastain - The 7th of Never
9. Vicious Rumors - Soldiers of the Night
10. Helstar - Remnants of War
11. Helstar - A Distant Thunder
12. Saint Vitus - Die Healing
13. Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
14. Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
15. Chastain - Ruler of the Wasteland
16. Trouble - The Skull
17. Metal Church - Metal Church
18. Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
19. Trouble - Psalm 9
20. Armoured Saint - Delirious Nomad

 

[divine_torture]

20. Armoured Saint - Delirious Nomad

Oooh....fancy spellin's!

 

[Slayed Necros]

We're allowing Scorpions? Going to have to edit mine again...

 

[Slayed Necros]

there's still no 10/10 perfect highlight on the album

RIDE AGAINST THE WIND SHAMELESS KILLER IN THE NIGHT, RAPE ANOTHER VILLAGE BEFORE THE BREAK OF LIGHT. TRAMPLE DOWN THE ASHES, GRIND THEM WITH YOUR HATE. TAKE ANOTHER HELPLESS LIFE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. 10/10.

 

[The Ozzman]

YAY SOMEONE PUT ARMORED SAINT IN THEIR LIST YAYYYYYY!

 

[divine_torture]

My list will have them too. There's less Helstar and Slough Feg votes than I expected. Down Among The Deadmen motherfuckers!

 

[Werckmeister Harmonies]

1.Solstice - New Dark Age
2.Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
3.Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
4.Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
5.Manilla Road - Open the Gates
6.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
7.Solstice - Lamentations
8.Scald - Will of Gods Is a Great Power
9.Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
10.Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
11.Saint Vitus - Die Healing
12.Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell
13.Mercyful Fate - Melissa
14.Brocas Helm - Black Death
15.Manilla Road - The Deluge
16.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
17.Iron Maiden - Powerslave
18.Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
19.Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
20.Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
21.Jag Panzer Ample Destruction
22.Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
23.Manowar - Hail to England
24.Dio - The Last in Line
25.Judas Priest - Killing Machine

 

[HamburgerBoy]

fixed that for you.

USPM is a type of trad metal bro.

RIDE AGAINST THE WIND SHAMELESS KILLER IN THE NIGHT, RAPE ANOTHER VILLAGE BEFORE THE BREAK OF LIGHT. TRAMPLE DOWN THE ASHES, GRIND THEM WITH YOUR HATE. TAKE ANOTHER HELPLESS LIFE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. 10/10.

10/10 vocal delivery, I'll give it that.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yes but that album is not USPM, that's why i fixed it for you. But yea, i'd rather not go through this again.

 

[Slayed Necros]

It's definitive USPM.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

TB, what do you consider to be USPM?

 

[SwarmOvRats]

Trouble - Psalm 9
Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
Candlemass - Nightfall
Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Pagan Altar - The Lords of Hypocrisy
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metalicus
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Manowar - Into Glory Ride
Solstice - New Dark Age
Doomsword - Resound the Horn
Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
Trouble - The Skull
Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
Altar of Oblivion - Sinews of Anguish
Funeral Circle - S/T
The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
Lord Vicar - Signs of Osiris
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
Valkyrie - Man of Two Visions

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

TB, what do you consider to be USPM?

Jag Panzer is the definitive USPM band in my opinion. Iced Earth, Savatage, some of Manilla Road and Riot's stuff. Omen are power metal, just not that album.

Also, i don't consider a bunch of the older speed and heavy metal bands/albums like Helstar and Brocas Helm as power metal.

 

[J.]

1. Gods Tower - The Turns
2. Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
3. Solstice - New Dark Age
4. Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus: Act I
5. Pagan Altar - Volume 1
6. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
7. Gods Tower - The Eerie
8. Manowar - Hail to England
9. Warning - Watching From a Distance
10. Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven & Hell Part I
11. Black Sabbath - Volume 4
12. Pentagram - Be Forewarned
12. Manowar - Into Glory Ride
13. Mirror of Deception - Mirrorsoil
14. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
15. Solstice - Lamentations
16. Blood Farmers - Blood Farmers
17. Ogre - Seven Hells
18. While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
19. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Atavism
20. Slow Horse - Slow Horse II
21. Manilla Road - Gates of Fire
22. Northwinds - Chimeres
23. Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects
24. Against Nature - Accumulus
25. Ereb Altor - By Honour

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Jag Panzer is the definitive USPM band in my opinion. Iced Earth, Savatage, some of Manilla Road and Riot's stuff. Omen are power metal, just not that album.

Also, i don't consider a bunch of the older speed and heavy metal bands/albums like Helstar and Brocas Helm as power metal.

Battle Cry is easily their most power metal album bro. I don't know what qualities Savatage has that Omen doesn't. If anything Savatage focuses less on guitar melodies and more on groove, and they also don't have the fantasy thing down to the same extent.

 

[Nephilim96]

If you change your votes because of this, please follow up via PM or in this thread.

Edited my list.

 

[Nephilim96]

I'm listening to Omen's Battle Cry for the first time since I saw their name itt. Holy god damn fuck Christ! Yes! This was 1984? How the fuck have I not heard this before?

Yeah, my knowledge of semi-obscure Traditional, Doom, and Power Metal is definitely lacking. Before this list I hadn't heard Jag Panzer, Omen, Warning, Scald, etc.

 

[no country for old wainds]

@Ozzman I make the lists in Word because I like to change the order around a bit. I'll change it next time.



Secrecy's Art in Motion is kinda more progressive metal, but every time I recommend them on other forums I get comments like "More traditional than I expected", so I'm counting them. Very melodic stuff (three guitarists) with great hooks. Maybe the biggest appeal for me (that could be a turn-off for others) is that they have a completely unique, kind of introspective theme that really works with the feminine vocals. Basically trad/prog twee metal.

Othyrworld's is basically a re-recording of the Sacred Blade album. If you don't know it, it's basically like 70s Priest with a little more psych/prog influence (Captain Beyond being one of the more notable influences). Just great songwriting with a nice relaxed vibe. If you do know the Sacred Blade, there are a few new (from the later 80s/early 90s) songs on the Othyrworld as well.

Zions Abyss' is pretty much straight-up USPM stuff, but from a Canadian band. I wrote a review for it on RYM, but briefly summed up it's slightly flashy stuff in the Vicious Rumors vein, but just of a much much higher quality/consistency. When I was first going through my download-every-obscure-trad-album-ever phase, there was a lot of stuff that got only one or two listens and then sat around for a long time. The thing with the Zions Abyss album is that when I dusted that one off, many of the hooks had stayed with me as if it were a Priest or Dio album engrained in my head from childhood by my father.

Taramis' is in the Arch-era Fates Warning style, progressive trad/power. The production is rough and the singer gets a bit of flak (I see him described as an out-of-tune Messiah), but the songs are very non-repetitious for the style and it's very atmospheric to me. Maybe a more serious Slauter Xstroyes would also work. Also, the drumming on the album might be my very favorite trad metal performance, very swing-y/groovy in a way rare for 80s metal, kinda like Clive Burr going more prog.

awesome, thanks a lot for this. i remember hearing about that sacred blade rerecording - i'm very familiar with OF THE SUN + MOON, big cap beyond fan over here. the others i must check out immediately!

edit: i'm listening to taramis right now and so far it's reminding me more of IRAE MELANOX than anything. and now it's doing a satan's host thing. needless to say, it's extremely weird and extremely awesome.