I decided to make this poll because I recently started on something I've been telling myself to do for some time, which is properly explore their discography, which is actually quite extensive and include more than one change in sound. I have owned A Blaze in the Northern Sky for many years but never felt inclined to buy anything else from them. I can't say whether than will ever change or not but I will say I've already found some more appreciation for both Soulside Journey and the early black metal albums. 

Please vote for the three best according to you. 

Albums are listed from the lowest rated up (RYM rating in brackets).

For Iced Earth I elected to excluded 'A Narrative Soundscape' from the Poll as I don't think that should really count as a main studio album, although the cover album Tribute to the Gods was fair game. 

I'm giving my own vote to The Glorious Burden. While by RYM standards the rating of 3.1/5 isn't unrespectable, I consider this one to be among the band's best. They got a lot of negativity for the vocalist change but I think Tim Owens fit better in Iced Earth than he ever did in Judas Priest. Framing Armageddon is pretty good too - much better than the second part of that album duo which I think is rightly ranked last. 

Albums are listed from the lowest rated up (RYM rating in brackets).

For Judas Priest I've going to have to give the shout out to Rocka Rolla. While the band hadn't really found their sound on their debut I find that a special album. Honourable mention to Point of Entry which I think also cops some unfair flak and contains one of my favourite JP songs - Desert Plains. 

edit: damn it, I misstyped 'favorite'...can someone fix that for me?

Albums are listed from the lowest rated up (RYM rating in brackets).

For Paradise Lost - a rare case for a band with this many studio albums not to have any sub-3.0's on RYM - I'd actually say that all of this are fairly rated, although maybe you feel different, so I'm not letting my view stop me from including a poll on them. If Medusa were in the bottom five I would have gone for that but it just misses it. 

Albums are listed from the lowest rated up (RYM rating in brackets).

My vote for Iron Maiden goes to The Final Frontier. While I don't think any Iron Maiden album should really be under 3.0, I do at least understand why the other ones on this bottom five aren't as well liked. The Final Frontier though I consider to be bloody fantastic. 

Albums were selected based on being made by quite famous, well respected artists on a one album per artist basis (Metallica appears twice as Lulu is counted on behalf of Lou Reed). 

Included the Black Flag album as an honorary mention as they are on MMA.

Vote Other if you think there's something worse that wasn't included, but only if it's genuinely widely hated and not by an art that is widely hated in general.

Death Magnetic had good bits here and there but horrible production, and Hardwired suffered from some sub-par songs in the second half.

You have three choices of vocalist:

R.I.P David and Mike!

I'm giving my personal vote to David Wayne on this one. 

Asking only about the female singers of Nightwish in this poll and your options are:

For me, as much as I would love to give my vote to the incredibly versatile Floor Jansen, Nightwish has been underusing her full range and potential, so I have to vote classic and say Tarja. 

Your choices are:

This one is slightly tricky for me as my top two albums from them are both those with Hansen, but voting solely based on the vocalist I think I have to instead give it to Fevre. When he took over for their self-titled having been bassist and occasional lead vocalist previously, it felt like something just came right with the band. 

You have five choices from across Black Sabbath's many studio albums. 

In my mind the most influential artists came from the US, the UK, and from Sweden, but there were other important scenes too, which are worth a mention. I´d for example say the Dutch scene was very important too.

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I fucking love both these covers, I don't know if I can pick one.

Only two to pick from this time:

Which Big 4 thrash band made the best among their most recent albums (final in the case of Slayer unless they reform). 

Anyway, your choices are:

The subject of this one is USPM act Iced Earth. You have five options:

I'm posting two today as catch up. This one is for thrash metallers Annihilator. You have six vocalists to pick from this time:

Week One: Arch Enemy. Three vocalists to choose from:

Johan Liiva (1995-2000)

Angela Gossow (2000-2014)

Alissa White-Gluz (2014-present)

Thanks so much for your participation and time. 

Personally I think Sweden has a greater number of quality acts, however, when the Finns hit, they hit hard! Omnium Gatherum and Insomnium > most Swedish acts imo. So I'm wondering who you would vote for?

Personally I have to give it to Finland! I just love Omnium Gatherum and Insomnium so much more than most of the Swedish acts(and I think Kalmah are growing on me too). Children of Bodom are great too, of course as is the first album by Wintersun and Whispered are pretty underrated imo.

Joe Lynn TURNER Classics Examination

Although somehow overlooked lately, these albums marked the eighties-generation.

There will be five rounds for each of the albums and a Final.

We will determine the classic tunes of this notable time period.

This thread is to find out the number of people for the poll.

If there are enough, Round 1 will be started.

I won't be voting on here myself (yet) because the only two albums that I have any recollection of are the two I streamed today, RIITIIR and Isa. Of those I lean toward Isa and I think it sucks that it doesn't seem readily available for UK purchase. 

I've previously heard Below the Lights, Axioma Ethica Odini and the first three. Not sure what the next step to exploring them should be. I'm sure everything will have a different suggestion on that!

15 debut albums, choose the one you like the most and leave a comment.

If you like this poll, I'll make a second one. 

So i'm gonna try and listen to all of them in the next couple of days. Nostalgia listen more or less. 

So choose your favorite and tell us why, or just leave a comment. 

Haven't heard many of these, but out of what I have heard I'll go with Enjoy Incubus, peak funk metal. Broken, War is My Shepard, Fuck You, and It's More Than Rock and Roll are all awesome too though.

Some context, I bought the Gold Edition many years ago as that was the best value version, though I was always a bit put out that it completely lacks the original artworks. I came into the originals as well when I bought someone's whole collection off of ebay a few years ago. 

Until now I have just kept both versions. That becomes less of an option every time I buy a new album, with ever decreasing space for storage, which has already resulted in my collection being split into a main and secondary collection shoved in the spare room recently. And frankly selling one version could finance something I don't own two of. 

There's not much resale vale difference on ebay between the two originals sold together or the one Gold Edition, so that doesn't really swing it over which ones to keep. 

So if you were me, which would you keep?

The originals have all the original artwork, which I like. The Gold Edition is done up like a hardback book. There are bonus tracks on the discs of the Gold, but they aren't great added value to the album's standard versions. The whole idea of a Gold Edition is that it is a bit more special, but I never felt this set was as special as it should have been. I did pay much more money for the Gold originally, more than I could probably get back out of it, but the originals work out as having paid less than 20p each for given the price paid for the job lot, most of which I've long made back by selling the doubles. 

I'm really torn on this and would like people's opinions. I'm selling one or the other, so don't say 'both'. You won't be being helpful. 

I tried to make it a bit diverse... 

No cheating 

This first poll will only take into account the base genre, Black Metal, again using RYM as a data source. There may still be releases in these polls of sub-genres if the case if that are tagged as both. Other hybrids with non-black genres can also be featured. 

Personally I don't care overly much for folk metal. I think the only one I've even heard here is Negură Bunget - Vîrstele pămîntului, which I see as black metal.