GMD Votes: Top Traditional/Doom Album Prelims

[Master_Yoda77]

This is some seriously neckbeard shit...

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Still a neophyte compared to some of you but here's 15:

1. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
2. Warning - Watching From a Distance
3. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
4. Gehenna - En busca del valle de Gehenna
5. Satan's Host - Metal From Hell
6. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
7. Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
8. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
9. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
10. Argus - Boldly Stride the Doomed
11. Manilla Road - Out of the Abyss
12. Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer
13. Legend - Fröm the Fjörds
14. Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
15. Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'm not sure OUT OF THE ABYSS is even in my top 10 manilla road albums tbh. two great songs toward the back end but the rest i could mostly take or leave. you should check out MYSTIFICATION which is basically the better version of that record (and clearly the second best of their '80s material imo).

kinda regretting not including DARK QUARTERER atm

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Don't like Return of the Old Ones? That's one of very few Manilla Road songs I would call great.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's one of the better ones but i don't like it that much, 'war in heaven' and 'helicon' are the ones i would call great. i'm pretty picky with manilla road though (sounds like you are too).

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I like pretty much every song on that album. Mystification would be my third or fourth favorite MR, with Gates of Fire being its contender for third place.

 

[no country for old wainds]

the more thrashy parts are kinda dumb tho

yeah, GATES OF FIRE is possibly my second favourite overall. have you heard MARK OF THE BEAST?

 

[Vegard Pompey]

No, not yet. I suspect it's good.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it's pretty ace. there's some fat here and there but it's such an atmospheric and emotionally charged slow burn, leaps and bounds from the hawkwind-derived noodling of what was essentially the previous record (although the closer of that is great too). could be shelton's best vocal performance as well. i get why folks who prefer manilla road's more uptempo stuff might find it boring though.

 

[rms]

Past the 80s it's all about Spiral Castle!

 

[mutantllama]

1.Black Sabbath - Sabotage
2.Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
3.Judas Priest - Stained Class
4.Manilla Road - The Deluge
5.Saint Vitus - Die Healing
6.Candlemass - Epicus
7.Angel Witch - Angel Witch
8.Pentagram - Day of Reckoning
9.Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead/Volume 1
10.Adramelch - Irae Melanox
11.Blood Farmers - s/t
12.Black Hole - Land of Mystery
13.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
14.Manilla Road - Metal
15.Reverend Bizzare - In the rectory
16.Satan - Court in the Act
17.Riot - Thundersteel
18.Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
19.Manowar - Hail to England
20.Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
21.Trouble - Psalm 9
22.Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
23.Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead
24.Iron Maiden - s/t
25.Candlemass - Nightfall

 

[rms]

Where can a dude hear the full length Irae? YouTube clips sound like da bomb

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2) Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
3) Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock
4) Deep Purple - Machine Head
5) Rainbow - Rising
6) Motorhead - Ace of Spades
7) Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
8) Rainbow - Long Live Rock n Roll
9) Omen - Battle Cry
10) Megadeth - Youthanasia
11) Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades
12) Scorpions - Lovedrive
13) Slough Feg - Traveller
14) Manilla Road - Crystal Logic
15) Saxon - Angelwitch
16) UFO - Phenomenon
17) Trouble - Psalm 9
18) Satan - Court in the Act
19) Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
20) Brocas Helm - Black Death
21) Helstar - Nosferatu
22) Mercyful Fate - Melissa
23) Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
24) Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
25) Holocaust - The Nightcomers
26) Dio - Holy Diver
27) Venom - At War With Satan
28) Iron Maiden - Killers
29) Riot - Thundersteel
30) Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction

 

[no country for old wainds]

Where can a dude hear the full length Irae? YouTube clips sound like da bomb

full album is here. i think it's available to buy all over the place, alternatively.

 

[The Ozzman]

1) Dio - Holy Diver
2) Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
3) Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
4) Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
5) Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
6) Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Pt 1
7) Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
8) Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
9) Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
10) Mercyful Fate - Melissa
11) Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
12) Riot - Thundersteel
13) Armored Saint - Delirious Nomad
14) Armored Saint - Raising Fear
15) Manowar - Hail to England
16) Dokken - Tooth and Nail
17) Riot - Fire Down Under
18) Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
19) Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
20) Scorpions - Blackout

 

[Krow]

Combining traditional metal and doom then not listing a single doom metal album is pretty shitty of you. I get that you dont like doom metal and whatever and the thread wouldnt have meant much to you but a lot of motherfuckers here do and youre taking it away from them.

 

[The Ozzman]

Combining traditional metal and doom then not listing a single doom metal album is pretty shitty of you. I get that you dont like doom metal and whatever and the thread wouldnt have meant much to you but a lot of motherfuckers here do and youre taking it away from them.

Too bad.

EDIT: Okay, I fixed it. Is that better?


I'd still like an explanation on how not listing a doom metal album takes away from others who have 80% of their listing as doom

 

[Baroque]

10) Megadeth - Youthanasia

I should've thought of doing this. Also nice list aside from the obvious

 

[Baroque]

Basically, after I take a break once Trad is done, I will do the following:

-Redux of the death metal thread. I don't feel I did that one correctly and was a trial run. Now that I have a decent system I'm gonna try it again and probably get different results
-'Other' list, which will essentially cover anything not covered in the first 4 sets (so folk, power, etc)

Can we do the 'other' list first? That sounds like it might end up being the most fun/interesting mix of these. How are we going to compare symphonic power metal bands to death/doom bands and etc. Sounds fun. While death metal redux has a chance to end up being the exact same results.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I should've thought of doing this. Also nice list aside from the obvious

You can edit it in, no?