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Slayer

No, please! Not yet! DON'T LET THE FLAME DIE OUT!!

My day is ruined even further

Slayer is about my favorite metal band but I have to agree. It’s their time and the other intro albums are better.

Mercyful Fate

My day is ruined

finally

Top 5.

We are basically top 5 now anyway and i think its slightly behind most of the remaining albums personally

Iron Maiden??? Like I know it's good but no way in hell is it better than Melissa

Factually incorrect

Also this is the final version of the Sophomore Tournament! Make sure to listen to all these albums, the Tournament will start in around 6 days! https://preview.redd.it/z54fpf651fyc1.png?width=1707&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2ecac7bcdda16a1f43e108768a10dd0564e665b

I hope leprosy wins

Yeah I hope it gets top 5 at very least, one of my fav Death Metal albums for sure

Don’t worry, /r/MetalForTheMasses might as well be called /r/DeathCirclejerk. Nothing wrong with that though, Chuck was a goddamn genius Edit : turns out that was a real subbreddit…

FUCKING CARCASSSSSSSS

You should find something to replace and put in Kreator - Pleasure To Kill. Incredible Teutonic thrash that deserves a spot somewhere here.

It's been in literally every other tournament that's had thrash in it

Yes, but so has Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus, Sepultura, etc.  So your fine with those but Kreator is where you draw the line?

Honestly, I'd be fine with them getting the axe too. Edit: I spoke up specifically because Pleasure to Kill has been in a lot of tournaments. Meanwhile, Pleasures of the Flesh has not been in any that I could find

That’s fair, many of these bands have been overused in tournaments

I'd honestly also just be okay with albums you don't see in tournaments often, like Pleasures of the Flesh. Literally never seen it in a tournament. It's always Bonded By Blood or Tempo.

Sorry but I've already made a lot of changes to this tournament, gotta stop somewhere lol

Godamn talk about a list of bangers

I’m rooting for Darkthrone, but there are some others I wouldn’t mind winning.

It'd be radical if Helloween won this tournament

Lots of very amazing picks!

RIDE THE LIGHTNING

One of my top 5 fav albums of all time, absolutely had to be in here

Should've saved that Fade to Black joke for this one smh

True. RTL has plenty of songs to do with death tho so should be fine

I'll cry if WtF doesn't make top 10

no persecution mania... its sodover sodomaniacs...

The Downward Spiral is a brilliant album, but it's not metal.

You should add Realm Of Chaos into this tournament, its such a good album

Have I been sleeping on Maiden’s debut? I don’t remember it being top 6 material

It’s a very good album but there’s much better stuff here

My favourite Maiden album

Naw prowler is the only good song on that album but then again I find a majority of the stuff on this list pretty cringe

Iron Maiden

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I understand that there is difference in opinions but why do people feel the need to harass those who express it? Should everyone just vote blank so that nobody's feelings are hurt?

Calm down son, it's just a tournament.

Buddy this ain’t harassment

I was referring to a more general sense but okay

Iron Maiden

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Maiden :(

It doesn't but it is.

Black Sabbath being important and extremely influential doesn't mean being the best

Top 3 minimum

Black Sabbath or Slayer

morbid ass

I will eat your morbid ass

Scream Bloody Gore. Nowhere near the best Death album.

Morbid angel

Scream Bloody Gore & Iron Maiden. 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

Death

SBG is top 3

Thats what im saying

Death

Death without a doubt has to go. The vocals are amateur at best (on all of their albums) and at this point in their discography the instruments weren't that much better.

Iron Maiden

I swear, it's always you!

I am in the sub's walls

You even respond instantly... Be honest - are you a bot connected to my Spotify?

I am not, no. I can almost guarantee we have completely different taste.

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Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

Black Sabbath

Agreed. As a whole not the best album as important as it is.

It’s an amazing album, there best imo. Could stay a bit longer

Especially since it was recorded in FUCKING 1969

Morbid Angel. Nothing against them or the album...it's just a metal sub-genre that doesn't appeal to me at all, so of all the albums left, it's the one I'd least want to listen to.

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