The Batlord

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Rainbow - Rising
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On a Friend

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EPOCH6

Been jamming Budgie for a few days hoping to save them from an early death but the rest is still better.

8. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
6. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On a Friend
5. Judas Priest - Stained Class
3. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

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Chula Vista

8. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
7. Rainbow - Rising
6. Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On a Friend
3. Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

William_the_Bloody

AC/DC gone in the first fu(kin round!!! Go spin a Maiden album and wank off to your D&D manuals u internet geeks!!!

Anyways.

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On a Friend
Judas Priest - Stained Class

BTW: No K.I.S.S.???

The Batlord

If it had occurred to me, I probably would have use Destroyer instead of UFO or something. But it did not. I'm only human.

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Wpnfire

I think you can vote off 4.

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Chula Vista

KISS is a pop band.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

William_the_Bloody

Well I guess that makes Blue Oyster Cult and half the other bands on this list pop bands as well.

I don't like K.I.S.S. or Ted Nugent, but they are two of the biggest names in 70's hard rock, who contributed to the development of metal.

The Batlord

Alright, I think we're gonna do metalcore after this battle. This has probably been the hardest list to finish, just because it's such an ignored genre, without the kind of easy consensus as thrash as to what are the quintessential albums. So I had to make more judgement calls. I'm reasonably satisfied with this list, but I'll make one last request for comments...

Metal/Mathcore

1. Converge - Jane Doe
2. Poison the Well - The Opposite of December
3. Protest the Hero - Fortress
4. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
5. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
6. Ringworm - The Promise
7. Integrity - Humanity Is the Devil
8. Botch - We Are the Romans
9. Snapcase - Progression Through Unlearning
10. Unbroken - Life. Love. Regret


Obviously there's a focus on early stuff (Integrity, Unbroken, and Ringworm) and late nineties metalcore/mathcore (Converge, Poison the Well, Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, Snapcase), which leaves out a lot of melodic metalcore that people generally think of first when they think metalcore, but I just doubt this site has much interest in the post ninetiess stuff, so I only gave it two spots (Unearth and Protest the Hero).

Some bands have been left out just because of lack of space. Earth Crisis is probably the most obvious, but I just can't think of a spot to give them. I'm not really willing to make more room for more melodic metalcore -- for reasons already stated -- so Killswitch Engage has likewise been booted. I figure they sound enough like Unearth that it would be a redundant addition anyway.

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Janszoon

Let me know when we get back to appealing music again.

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