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The Lord Weird Slough Feg · Traveller (2003) (351 Points, 9 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/9/5/3/19538.jpg

Okay, I've never heard this band before, but I'm listening to a youtube right now and it's pretty nice: gallopping classic metal with intelligible vocals. What the fuck at that album cover though? Is this some furry shit or what?

Obvs with a name like the Lord Weird Slough Feg, it's gonna be kinda weird, I guess.

I love that album cover. Great album but not one of my votes. All my votes seem to be in the bottom half of this poll, heh.

It's fun stuff!

118
Van Halen · Van Halen (1978) (1978) (351 Points, 9 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f401/f40175zr6cw.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3B0f4S4PI2Z9bBcOFS4gNZ

YAY!!!!

(but far too low!)

Kix was in my top 10 but i've given up hope of seeing them in the poll, if they were gonna show up they would've by now

*YAAAAAAAAAAAWN*

how low can you go?

the tlwsf cover reminds me of Dalgoda so that's cool.

unless you love more than 300 metal albums i don't see any point in stating that the results aren't exciting you all the time

well the point is that people know your vital opinion that a specific album is boring to you, and then they can coo at your cool demeanor and you can go braid each other's hair

Just catching up with the list now. Nice to see Superunknown placing, I love it but I didn't vote for it. This thing was an either/or proposition for me so I went with metal over heavy rock - Superunknown isn't metal, but Badmotorfinger is, so that got my vote.

Other things I should have nominated/voted for but missed in my haste to cast a ballot: Deicide 'Legion'; Earth 2; Melvins 'Houdini'. I'm sure there's more.

117
Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin (1969) (351 Points, 10 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd600/d660/d66066h3a55.jpg

No reaction? too high?

...o the humanity

(-.-)zzZZ

eh, there what, at least 5 Zep albums that are a lock for the top 100? i'm OK with that where it is, although it is a killer album.

116
High on Fire · Surrounded by Thieves (2002) (351 Points, 10 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/7/3/4/2/7342.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1RE8Ijr77cjGqXxV3GTRvd

Now we're talking.

Dude, where is markers, doesn't he like High on Fire?

He's maybe checking Pitchfork to find out?

8.8 ~ 7.3 ~ 8.2 ~ 8.0

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3863-surrounded-by-thieves
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3864-blessed-black-wings
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11021-death-is-this-communion
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13966-snakes-for-the-divine

http://solarpowerrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/approved1.jpg

yikes. fightin' words. but yeah Surrounded By Thieves is awesome. Great goddamn band.

The Pitchfork Markers Of Approval™

If Blessed Black Wings has the lowest rating, it's not for lack of trying -- that one has the best production, after all.

Thraft of Canann on Surrounded by Thieves may be the best thing they've ever done.

I misread that as "Thrust of Canann" -- yikes.

I think the 1st album is better and Blessed Black Wings/Death Is This Communion is better too, but Surrounded By Thieves is a lot of peoples fave. They're all GREAT though.

The 1st 2 are more doom-y/stoner i guess.

Last weekend I listened to Manilla Road - Open The Gates and Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease for the first time. Both are more fun than bouncy tiggers, and will seek out more. I'm reminded that I need to hear more YOB, but at that moment it's feeling like more an obligation than compulsion. I slogged through the first three Manic Street Preachers albums, and while one in four tunes are decent, it still felt mostly like a chore and left me unmoved. I'll shelve for another try later. I'll also wait 'til I'm in the mood for YOB.

Monster Magnet were a little hokey, but also pretty awesome for their first few albums. I listened to them a ton back in the day, and were definitely a gateway to Hawkind. Seemingly unrelated, but I also listened to a lot of Mule in the 90s, and feel like they've been unfairly forgotten. Their live shows were such a satisfying balance of a thick groove and a bludgeoning, like a southern rockin (via Michigan) version of Jesus Lizard.

― Fastnbulbous,

great post btw.

115
Earth · Pentastar: In the Style of Demons (1996) (352 Points, 9 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/2/8/2/22824.jpg

Oh nice!!

Surprised this placed above Earth 2 but hey, I listen to it more, so...

Earth has been pretty well represented here.

It's a LOT of peoples favourite Earth album. (inc mine, but i didn't vote for it)

Earth has been pretty well represented here.

They have, but if I had gone with just the top 100 that some wanted originally, none of these albums would have gotten the spotlight they deserve. Inc the ones johnny loves!

So glad I did a longer run out? (i am, and with many albums getting 5-10 votes I felt that deserved a roll out)

Should've been a top 500, clearly.

Led Zeppelin - I like it and I voted for it, but it feels reactive to me where all their other stuff they seized by the throat and made it their own. Most of it - GTBT, black mountain side, the blues things, even communication breakdown - could've been done by a number other bands (drums apart probably) which you can't say about their other records, even where the genre mix is similar.

There are some great TV performances of these tunes kicking around - 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You' from Danish TV and a colour 'Dazed & Confused', from I'm not sure where, are sensational.

xp. No doubt. Counting both heavy rock and metal, I like at least a thousand albums.

Regarding the Slough Feg Traveller cover, it refers to a obscure sci-fi role playing game created by Game Designers Workshop in 1977. I never played it (I swear!) but it seems like it was similar to D&D. Geektastic. My friend Glenn who thinks Slough Feg is the best metal band of all time, inspired me to go to the Alehorn of Power Fest two years ago, which is the first time I saw them. I was converted. Dual lead guitarists (one of whom looks like a miniature J. Mascis), with the energy of what I imagine early Iron Maiden shows had, what's not to love? This album just missed making my ballot.

The band's name, Slough Feg, or more formally, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, is taken from the main villain in a British comic book series title Slaine which setting was in places named in Celtic Myth. Those myths, as recounted in the historical tome known as the Ta'in Bo Cuailgne (thawn bo quel'gny), provide the fodder for many of Mike's lyrical topics, although subjects such as mental evolution, moral mastery, and your basic misery and madness also tend to crop up, even when not related to mythology.

Former member John Cobbett is also in Ludicra and Hammers OF Misfortune.
I think Traveller was his last album.

114
Drudkh · Autumn Aurora (2004) (356 Points, 9 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/4/4/9/34494.jpg

I knew there was plenty of Drudkh fans on the rolling metal thread, but didn't expect them to have such a high entry.

I love that album cover.

EZ Snappin or Johnny Fever, do you like Drudkh?

Maybe even their folk stuff?

113
Kyuss · ...And the Circus Leaves Town (1995) (357 Points, 10 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd300/d354/d35436mm30n.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5W2gHsO6K8g5X5TMwVs1t5