The Top 5 List Thread

[The Ozzman]

Revised Top 5 Dio albums at this time since we are getting close to that poll:

1) Holy Diver
2) The Last in Line
3) Killing the Dragon
4) Dream Evil
5) Master of the Moon

...

6) Lock Up the Wolves
7) Strange Highways
8) Sacred Heart
9) Magica


After #2, it gets really hard to rank them. The only one easy to put dead last is Sacred Heart. Everything from 3-7 could be interchanged depending on the day. This list could change by the time we get to the actual poll. Lock Up the Wolves and Strange Highways are about even but LUtW is probably my favorite of the two if I had to pick one.

Man, I forget Magica exists so I guess by default that is under Sacred Heart. I only remember one track on that album.

 

[Phylactery]

Not autistic enough to try that but I'd put your #5 moment at #1.

Well you could post your top 5 songs list! Although I already know "Possessed by Past Tragedies" is your number 1.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

A fuck I don't know, they're all perfect. But don't worry, Portal is top 3.

 

[Phylactery]

I've always thought, given your general taste that you'd rank "In Superior Torment" really highly. I'm actually not huge on the first minute or so of that song even now, but everything that comes after is amazing. I think that romantic waltz-y section fits a lot better when they return to it towards the end. "A land so fucking disgusting!"

 

[The Ozzman]

Top 5 Iced Earth albums

1) Burnt Offerings
2) Horror Show
3) Night of the Stormrider
4) The Glorious Burden
5) The Dark Saga

 

[jimmy101]

I'm not a big King Crimson fan so much as I'm a big "In the Court of the Crimson King" and "Red" fan.

Not a fan of In the Wake of Poseidon?

 

[zerostatic]

Top 5 Iced Earth Albums

1) Night of the Storm Rider
2) The Dark Saga
3) Burnt Offerings
4) Horror Show
5) The Glorious Burden

Top 5 Iced Earth Songs
1) Dantes Inferno
2) Travel in Stygian
3) A Question of Heaven
4) Dracula
5) Gettysburg

 

[The Ozzman]

1) Night of the Storm Rider
2) The Dark Saga
3) Burnt Offerings
4) Horror Show
5) The Glorious Burden

My nigga

Gettysburg trilogy is probably one of the best things IE ever did

 

[CiG]

5 best trio of albums from a metal band:

1. Voïvod from Killing Technology to Nothingface
2. Immolation from Here in After to Close to a World Below
3. Slough Feg from Twilight of the Idols to Traveller
4. Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind to Somewhere in Time
5. Fates Warning from No Exit to Parallels

 

[CiG]

Top 5 black metal releases:

1. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
2. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
3. Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
4. Macabre Omen - Gods of War - At War
5. Zemial - Face of the Conqueror

I think A Blaze... is destined to remain my utmost favourite at this point. More listens of SDG's North and it might bump Zemial out, that album slayed me.

Got plans to try and focus more on black metal this year, my new year's resolution if you will.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

5 best trio of albums from a metal band:

1. Voïvod from Killing Technology to Nothingface
2. Immolation from Here in After to Close to a World Below
3. Slough Feg from Twilight of the Idols to Traveller
4. Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind to Somewhere in Time
5. Fates Warning from No Exit to Parallels

the holy trinity of OG's
Black Sabbath - Paranoid to Vol 4.
Deep Purple - In Rock to Machine Head
Motorhead - Ace of Spades to Another Perfect Day

THRASH
Sepultura - Morbid Visions to Arise (4 here)
Slayer - Show No Mercy to Reign in Blood
Metallica - Kill Em All to Master of Puppets
Coroner - RIP to No More Color
Sadus - Illusions to A Vision of Misery

DEATH METAL
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity to From Wisdom to Hate
Suffocation - Effigy to Pierced
Atheist - Piece of Time to Elements
Gorod - Neurotrisicks to Process of a New Decline
Spawn of Possession - Cabinet to Incurso

 

[EspaDa]

Top 5 tracks off Grave Pleasure's Moonblood

1. Joy Through Death
2. Infatuation Overkill
3. Be My Hiroshima
4. Atomic Christ
5. Deadenders

 

[Vegard Pompey]

5 best trio of albums from a metal band:

1. Voïvod from Killing Technology to Nothingface
2. Immolation from Here in After to Close to a World Below
3. Slough Feg from Twilight of the Idols to Traveller
4. Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind to Somewhere in Time
5. Fates Warning from No Exit to Parallels

1. The Chasm from From the Lost Years to Procession to the Infraworld
2. The Chasm from Conjuration of the Spectral Empire to Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
3. Iron Maiden from Piece of Mind to Somewhere in Time
4. Voïvod from Killing Technology to Nothingface
5. Manilla Road from Spiral Castle to Voyager

 

[Phylactery]

Missing Darkthrone!

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky to Transilvanian Hunger

If Det Som Engang Var wasn’t a full length then, Burzum - Burzum to Filosofem would be towards the top.

Also Morbid Angel - Altars to Covenant. Or Abominations to Blessed if you’d prefer.

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny to Stained Class

 

[CiG]

I'd go with Darkthrone if I liked Under a Funeral Moon more, but I'd start the trio of albums with their debut.

 

[Phylactery]

I’m not as big on Soulside Journey as a lot of death metal heads. Good album, but not one of my favourites. I definitely prefer Goatlord. And if the vocals were different I think that would be a more common opinion.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Yeah, Goatlord is a stronger album overall and kinda shows exactly where they would've gone if they had stuck with death metal. Like Left Hand Path, Soulside Journey's biggest problem is that it starts with the best song.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Maiden - Killers, Number, Piece
2. Queensryche - Warning, Rage, Operation
3. Destruction - Eternal, Release, Cracked
4. Priest - Sad, Sin, Stained
5. Anacrusis - Reason, Manic, Screams

 

[CiG]

I’m not as big on Soulside Journey as a lot of death metal heads. Good album, but not one of my favourites. I definitely prefer Goatlord. And if the vocals were different I think that would be a more common opinion.

Yeah, Goatlord is a stronger album overall and kinda shows exactly where they would've gone if they had stuck with death metal. Like Left Hand Path, Soulside Journey's biggest problem is that it starts with the best song.

You guys are lunatics!

Don't get me wrong I like Goatlord a lot, but no way it touches the greatness of Soulside Journey.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Goatlord is their best album by a good margin.