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Shmupguy
01/18/20 7:47:08 PM
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  1. Death - Spiritual Healing
  2. Sepultura - Arise
  3. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
  4. Sodom - Agent Orange
  5. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
  6. Entombed - Left Hand Path
  7. Overkill - Years of Decay
  8. King Diamond - Abigail
  9. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
  10. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
  11. In Flames - Jester Race
  12. Wintersun - Wintersun
  13. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
  14. Crowbar - Broken Glass
  15. Testament - The New Order
  16. Deicide - Deicide
  17. Kreator - Endless Pain
  18. Burzum - Filosofem
  19. Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
  20. Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated
  21. Judas Priest - Painkiller
  22. Massacre - From Beyond
  23. Megadeth - Peace Sells
  24. Slayer - Reign In Blood
  25. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
  26. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
  27. Dokken - Back For the Attack
  28. Sleep - Dopesmoker
  29. Dream Theater - Images & Words
  30. Mastodon - Crack in the Skye
  31. Venom - Welcome to Hell
  32. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
  33. Opeth - Blackwater Park
  34. Dissection - Storm of Lights Bane
  35. Anthrax - Among the Living
  36. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
  37. Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
  38. Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
  39. Agollach - The Mantle
  40. Metallica - Killem All
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Irony
01/18/20 7:48:27 PM
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No Annihilator is disappointing

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trappedunderice
01/18/20 7:50:26 PM
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Lamb of God - Ashes From Our Wake
Lol wow

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Shmupguy
01/18/20 7:50:38 PM
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Irony posted...
No Annihilator is disappointing
Alice in hell is great, I cant fit might switch it with To Mega Therion, hard to choose
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pauIie
01/18/20 7:52:51 PM
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Shmupguy
01/18/20 8:54:11 PM
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Post yours if desired

honorable mention

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Zelda_Aran
01/18/20 8:59:46 PM
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27, 31, and 40...

Good choices, TC!!

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Rikiaz
01/18/20 9:00:31 PM
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This has a few good picks but overall a pretty mediocre list tbh.

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Metal_Bomberman
01/18/20 9:02:13 PM
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maybe i'll make one

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CelestialVoices
01/18/20 10:21:52 PM
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pauIie
01/18/20 11:58:35 PM
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I had my list almost done and hit a link and it's gone lol

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Shmupguy
01/19/20 12:52:59 AM
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pauIie posted...
I had my list almost done and hit a link and it's gone lol
Sry bout that :(
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Metal_Bomberman
01/19/20 3:18:28 AM
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not gonna do 1 album per band

Sigh-Imaginary Sonicscape
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Boris-Pink
Samael-Ceremony of Opposites
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Agalloch - The Mantle
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
Isis - Oceanic
maudlin of the Well - My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible
maudlin of the Well - Bath
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites
Antichrist - Sacrament of Blood
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Bathory - The Return
Bestial Warlust - Vengeance War 'Till Death
Boris - flood
Demilich - Nespithe
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Gorguts - Obscura
Immolation - Unholy Cult
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Massacra - Final Holocaust
Master's Hammer - Ritual
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black
Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage d'Hiver
Ritual Carnage - Every Nerve Alive
Sabbat - Envenom
Sabbat - Envoke
Strapping Young Lad - City
Teitanblood - Death
Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler



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Shmupguy
01/19/20 3:38:53 AM
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@Metal_Bomberman

Awesome list, I need to visit & revisit some of those.

nice inclusion of Mental Funeral, Streetcleaner, Unquestionable Presence, Unholy Cult, Oceanic, & Through Silver in Blood
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Panthera
01/19/20 5:28:39 AM
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My first thought is that your entire top 4 is stuff where I'd prefer a different album from the same band <_< Leprosy for Death, Schizophrenia for Sepultura, Altars of Madness for Morbid Angel and Obsessed by Cruelty for Sodom (especially if I cheat and add In the Sign of Evil since they've been re-released together anyway). You're one of the few people that agrees with me on Iron Maiden and Metallica's best albums though.

Anyway I don't have a clear cut list of favourites but I'll make a list anyway. Everything after the top spot is essentially unordered and just listed as it comes to mind. Also doing one album per band for fun, probably not that many bands who would make the list twice anyway though

  1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
  2. Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
  3. Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
  4. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
  5. Satan's Hallow - s/t
  6. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
  7. Chastain - The Voice of the Cult
  8. Samael - Ceremony of Opposites
  9. Judas Priest - Painkiller
  10. Mortem - The Devil Speaks in Tongues
  11. Chapel - Satan's Rock and Roll
  12. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
  13. Deathwish - At the Edge of Damnation
  14. Tribulation - The Horror
  15. Sodom - In the Sign of Evil/Obsessed by Cruelty
  16. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
  17. Pseudogod - Deathwomb Catechesis
  18. Riot - Thundersteel
  19. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
  20. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
  21. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
  22. Immolation - Failures for Gods
  23. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
  24. Exorcist - Nightmare Theatre
  25. Demon - Night of the Demon
  26. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
  27. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
  28. Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages
  29. Cormorant - Dwellings
  30. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
  31. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
  32. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
  33. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
  34. Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
  35. Tyrant - Too Late to Pray
  36. Slayer - Hell Awaits
  37. Artillery - By Inheritance
  38. Demilich - Nespithe
  39. Deiphago - Satanik Eon
  40. Dominus Xul - The Primegeni Xul (I Condemned My Enemies)


Definitely feel like I overlooked some stuff but whatever, any time I make a list like this it ends up being something I could look at a week later and change half the stuff on it and be just as satisfied

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Shmupguy
01/19/20 7:23:25 AM
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Panthera posted...
My first thought is that your entire top 4 is stuff where I'd prefer a different album from the same band <_< Leprosy for Death, Schizophrenia for Sepultura, Altars of Madness for Morbid Angel and Obsessed by Cruelty for Sodom (especially if I cheat and add In the Sign of Evil since they've been re-released together anyway). You're one of the few people that agrees with me on Iron Maiden and Metallica's best albums though.

Anyway I don't have a clear cut list of favourites but I'll make a list anyway. Everything after the top spot is essentially unordered and just listed as it comes to mind. Also doing one album per band for fun, probably not that many bands who would make the list twice anyway though

1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
2. Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
3. Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
4. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
5. Satan's Hallow - s/t
6. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
7. Chastain - The Voice of the Cult
8. Samael - Ceremony of Opposites
9. Judas Priest - Painkiller
10. Mortem - The Devil Speaks in Tongues
11. Chapel - Satan's Rock and Roll
12. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
13. Deathwish - At the Edge of Damnation
14. Tribulation - The Horror
15. Sodom - In the Sign of Evil/Obsessed by Cruelty
16. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
17. Pseudogod - Deathwomb Catechesis
18. Riot - Thundersteel
19. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
20. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
21. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
22. Immolation - Failures for Gods
23. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
24. Exorcist - Nightmare Theatre
25. Demon - Night of the Demon
26. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
27. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
28. Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages
29. Cormorant - Dwellings
30. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
31. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
32. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
33. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
34. Unanimated - Ancient God of Evil
35. Tyrant - Too Late to Pray
36. Slayer - Hell Awaits
37. Artillery - By Inheritance
38. Demilich - Nespithe
39. Deiphago - Satanik Eon
40. Dominus Xul - The Primegeni Xul (I Condemned My Enemies)

Definitely feel like I overlooked some stuff but whatever, any time I make a list like this it ends up being something I could look at a week later and change half the stuff on it and be just as satisfied
+1

nice to see Tribulation & Queensryche
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trappedunderice
01/19/20 9:01:34 AM
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I'm not sorry but Demilich is a fucking terrible band, now I've heard some pretty shitty vocalists in metal but the vocalist in that band takes the cake.

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pauIie
01/19/20 11:15:21 AM
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No order. Couple of these might be treading the line genre wise, but how much I love them puts them over the edge as far as including them goes. One album per artist.

Opeth - Still Life
Gorguts - Obscura
Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Demilich - Nespithe
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Negura Bunget - Om
Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Testament - Low
Jesu - Jesu
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Boris - Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
G.I.S.M. - SoniCRIME TheRapy
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Symphony X - The Odyssey
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages
Immolation - Close to a World Below
Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
Melvins - The Maggot
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Coroner - No More Color
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Chapel - Satans Rock 'n' Roll
Ensiferum - Iron
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Nails - Abandon All Life
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Schammasch - Triangle
Satan's Satyrs - Wild Beyond Belief!
Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell

trappedunderice posted...
I'm not sorry but Demilich is a fucking terrible band, now I've heard some pretty shitty vocalists in metal but the vocalist in that band takes the cake.
drop a list big fella

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Shmupguy
01/19/20 6:59:11 PM
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pauIie posted...
No order. Couple of these might be treading the line genre wise, but how much I love them puts them over the edge as far as including them goes. One album per artist.

Opeth - Still Life
Gorguts - Obscura
Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Demilich - Nespithe
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Negura Bunget - Om
Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Testament - Low
Jesu - Jesu
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Boris - Boris at Last -Feedbacker-
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
G.I.S.M. - SoniCRIME TheRapy
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Symphony X - The Odyssey
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages
Immolation - Close to a World Below
Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
Melvins - The Maggot
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Coroner - No More Color
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Chapel - Satans Rock 'n' Roll
Ensiferum - Iron
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Nails - Abandon All Life
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Schammasch - Triangle
Satan's Satyrs - Wild Beyond Belief!
Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basements of Hell

drop a list big fella
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Panthera
01/20/20 2:18:26 AM
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trappedunderice posted...
I'm not sorry but Demilich is a fucking terrible band, now I've heard some pretty shitty vocalists in metal but the vocalist in that band takes the cake.

lol

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Shmupguy
01/21/20 3:06:51 AM
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Funcoland
01/21/20 3:35:23 AM
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My top 20, in no particular order.

1.) Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
2.) Iron Maiden - Killers
3.) Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
5.) Sodom - Persecution Mania
6.) Pentagram - Pentagram
7.) Repulsion - Horrified
8.) Entombed - Left Hand Path
9.) Sabbat (Japan) - Sabbatrinity
10.) Bathory - Self-Titled
11.) Venom - Welcome to Hell
12.) Motorhead - Overkill
13.) Speedwolf - Ride with Death
14.) Sepultura - Arise
15.) Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Bulldozer
16.) Acid Witch - Stoned
17.) Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
18.) Angel Witch - Angel Witch
19.) Wastelander - Wastelander
20.) Midnight - Complete and Total Fucking Midnight

I can't do a genuine "top 40" without repeating bands. It would just be Nailbomb's Point Blank, Sigh's Imaginary Soundscape (the original version), and Bolt Thrower, Sabbat, Black Sabbath, and Sodom albums.

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Shmupguy
01/21/20 4:01:13 AM
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Funcoland posted...
My top 20, in no particular order.

1.) Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
2.) Iron Maiden - Killers
3.) Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
5.) Sodom - Persecution Mania
6.) Pentagram - Pentagram
7.) Repulsion - Horrified
8.) Entombed - Left Hand Path
9.) Sabbat (Japan) - Sabbatrinity
10.) Bathory - Self-Titled
11.) Venom - Welcome to Hell
12.) Motorhead - Overkill
13.) Speedwolf - Ride with Death
14.) Sepultura - Arise
15.) Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Bulldozer
16.) Acid Witch - Stoned
17.) Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality
18.) Angel Witch - Angel Witch
19.) Wastelander - Wastelander
20.) Midnight - Complete and Total Fucking Midnight

I can't do a genuine "top 40" without repeating bands. It would just be Nailbomb's Point Blank, Sigh's Imaginary Soundscape (the original version), and Bolt Thrower, Sabbat, Black Sabbath, and Sodom albums.
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Panthera
01/21/20 6:16:38 AM
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In hindsight I'm surprised it took until the fourth or fifth list for Bolt Thrower to make an appearance. Kind of slipped my mind when I was making mine I guess (granted, I like them more for being consistently really good than for having specifically great albums)

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Shmupguy
01/21/20 6:42:29 AM
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Panthera posted...
In hindsight I'm surprised it took until the fourth or fifth list for Bolt Thrower to make an appearance. Kind of slipped my mind when I was making mine I guess (granted, I like them more for being consistently really good than for having specifically great albums)
agreed, Immolation slipped my mind too, but almost everyone included them so Im trying not to be ashamed
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Panthera
01/21/20 6:50:29 AM
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Hard not to miss out on something. I didn't include Darkthrone or Black Sabbath...or Megadeth actually now that I check.

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pauIie
01/21/20 10:20:45 AM
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i definitely should listen to more bolt thrower. i think i'll do that at work today.

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TheGoldenEel
01/21/20 10:53:01 AM
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Needs more black metal tbh

a little too heavy on the death for my taste

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Panthera
01/23/20 3:23:16 AM
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NP: Impaled - We Belong Dead

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Bomberhead
01/23/20 10:36:23 AM
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Reminding myself to compile a list when I get off work.
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Rigama
01/23/20 11:12:11 AM
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I'm terrible at makings lists but I just want to say

trappedunderice posted...
I'm not sorry but Demilich is a fucking terrible band, now I've heard some pretty shitty vocalists in metal but the vocalist in that band takes the cake.

it's okay to be wrong
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TheGoldenEel
01/23/20 11:21:28 AM
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to be honest I like some real heavy metal but I dont get the hype around demilich

just cant get over those vocals

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pauIie
01/23/20 11:42:40 AM
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it's not that i think demilich's vocals are like...good. but they contribute to the otherworldly sound of the album. sounds like the monsters on the album cover recorded it.

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Panthera
01/23/20 12:48:13 PM
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I tend to like death/black metal bands with distinctive, unusual vocal styles if they don't sound stupid and they do fit the atmosphere. Demilich definitely falls into that category for me.

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Shmupguy
01/23/20 8:30:01 PM
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pauIie posted...
it's not that i think demilich's vocals are like...good. but they contribute to the otherworldly sound of the album. sounds like the monsters on the album cover recorded it.

Panthera posted...
I tend to like death/black metal bands with distinctive, unusual vocal styles if they don't sound stupid and they do fit the atmosphere. Demilich definitely falls into that category for me.
Agreed
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Panthera
01/25/20 4:29:32 AM
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NP: Iron Maiden - The Clansman

Blaze Bailey era Maiden gets shit on too much imo. Virtual XI is merely decent, but The X Factor is actually pretty good

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Shmupguy
01/25/20 4:52:10 AM
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Panthera posted...
NP: Iron Maiden - The Clansman

Blaze Bailey era Maiden gets shit on too much imo. Virtual XI is merely decent, but The X Factor is actually pretty good
Sign of the cross :)
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Bomberhead
01/25/20 9:12:50 AM
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A few I've been rocking for a while, in no particular order:

Arkaik - Nemethia
Singularity - Place of Chains
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Sunless Rise - Unrevealed
Immanifest - Macrobial
Virvum - Illuminance
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Arsis - Visitant
Vesperian Sorrow - Psychotic Sculpture
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination

NP: Inferi - "Condemned Assailant"
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HashtagTartarus
01/25/20 9:23:30 AM
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Somewhere In Time is maybe the third best Iron Maiden album.

Also, Metropolis Part 2 blows Image & Words out of the water.

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Shmupguy
01/25/20 6:03:25 PM
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