Round 1 Results (RC March Metal Madness)

[General Zod]

Bracket 1
Warning - Watching From a Distance (11) vs. Klabautamann - Der Ort (8)
Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet (13) vs. Drudkh - Blood in our Wells (19)
Lost Horizon - Awakening the World (6) vs. Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets (14)
Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion (10) vs. Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure (14)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars (16) vs. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (13)
Vreid - Pitch Black Brigade (15) vs. Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden (6)
Thyrfing - Urkraft (12) vs. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (16)
The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire (12) vs. Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness (16)

Bracket 2
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor (10) vs. Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising (23)
Isis - Panopticon (22) vs. Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls (8)
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice (9) vs. Orphaned Land - Mabool (13)
Woods of Ypres - Against the Seasons (15) vs. Repugnant - Epitome Of Darkness (5)
Angra - Temple of Shadows (4) vs. Amon Amarth - Versus the World (26)
Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend (16) vs. Sólstafir - Masterpiece of Bitterness (9)
Meshuggah - Catch 33 (7) vs. Maudlin of The Well - Leaving Your Body Map (13)
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (8) vs. Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine (23)

Bracket 3
Negura Bunget - N' Crugu Bradului (26) vs. Melechesh - Sphynx (5)
Vital Remains - Dechristianize (18) vs. Satyricon - Now, Diabolical (7)
Empyrium - Weiland (16) vs. Opeth - Blackwater Park (14)
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines (17) vs. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (10)
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor (15) vs. Secrets of the Moon - Antihesis (4)
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done (10) vs. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite (11)
Enslaved - Below the Lights (26) vs. Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express (5)
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung (14) vs. Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy (10)

Bracket 4
Colour Haze - Colour Haze (12) vs. Mastodon - Leviathan (11)
Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast (7) vs. Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra (10)
October Falls - Tuoni (11) vs. Tool - Lateralus (12)
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (19) vs. Slough Feg - Traveller (10)
Graveland - Dawn Of Iron Blades (8) vs. Summoning - Oath Bound (17)
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (17) vs. The Crown - Deathrace King (10)
Agalloch - The Mantle (28) vs. Ayreon - Human Equation (4)
Manegarm - Vredins Tid (11) vs. Celtic Frost - Monotheist (10)

Round 2 coming shortly...

Zod

 

[Dark One]

Whoa, surprised at the shellacking Satyricon took at the hands of Vital Remains.

I was also surprised at how big a fight Into Eternity gave Novembers Doom. Wow.

 

[swizzlenuts]

Overall not too bad, but Immortal better than The Chasm?

 

[Demonspell]

Damn, Towers of Avarice got that many votes? Don't get me wrong, I love the album to death and was thinking of voting for it believing Mabool would slaughter it, but I couldn't vote against OL in good conscience. Another surprise is seeing Gojira lose early, guess they're more of a band with a few rabid supporters than a true RC cult band, or they lost standing for touring with the likes of Trivium and COB...

 

[EricT]

Negura Bunget fucking killed Melechud.

 

[spikes77]

aww M we were so close

 

[Dark One]

Also, not that I mind because it's a great album, but Symphony X's V.... wouldn't have got past too many other albums on that list.

 

[Demilich]

I'm fucking happy to see Warning (which has been out maybe 4 months) making it past the first round!


Not so much to see Slough Feg out so early.

 

[General Zod]

Damn, Towers of Avarice got that many votes?

I was surprised as well. Good for ZH.

Also, not that I mind because it's a great album, but Symphony X's V.... wouldn't have got past too many other albums on that list.

True... which is an indictment of the forum's poor tastes.

Zod

 

[EricT]

Not so much to see Slough Feg out so early.

I agree. I voted Traveller since The Gathering Wilderness is my least favorite Primordial album, and Traveller is my favorite Slough Feg album.

Edit: That is not me saying TGW is a bad album, I still enjoy it a lot. Just not as much as other Primordial albums.

 

[IOfTheStorm]

Good good. Better than the other time when Motorhead lost to Anathema and Iron Maiden to Ulver.

 

[General Zod]

By the way, there were 273 "NO VOTES" in Round 1.

Zod

 

[Dark One]

By the way, there were 273 "NO VOTES" in Round 1.

And there will be even more in the second round!

 

[EricT]

I think with this list that it is at now, I won't be No Voting anymore. Granted, it's a very solid list of albums for round 2.

 

[Lies and Perfidy]

Man, Nevermore totally got shafted. Great album and all, but Phoenix Rising? No.

 

[Dark One]

/\ That one was a real toss up for me, I love both almost equally.

 

[Demilich]

That is the weakest Nevermore album imo

no surprise it lost to a classic like Phoenix Rising

 

[Reign in Acai]

TGE is light years above DHIADW, EoR, and the S/T. It's right up there with PoE and DINB in my book, if not better.

I'm sad to see Pyramaze and Gojira fall, but ye can't win em all.

 

[unknown]

wow. Amon Amarth and Agalloch just took a shit on their competition

 

[JayKeeley]

very close match ups, separated by just a single vote:

Dark Tranquility v Symphony X
Color Haze v Mastodon
October Falls vs Tool
Manegarm vs Celtic Frost