Slayer against Iron Maiden. Both heavy metal, released two years apart. Reign in Blood won with 60% of 5 votes.
Reign in Blood won with 60% of 5 votes.
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Reign in Blood is Slayer's third studio album, released on 7 October 1986 through Def Jam Recordings. It followed Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits, and it was the first Slayer record to be produced by Rick Rubin, whose input helped the band's sound develop. Its opener, "Angel of Death", deals with Josef Mengele and his experiments at Auschwitz.
The full story, tracklist and credits →Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is Iron Maiden's seventh studio album, released on 11 April 1988 through EMI in the UK. It is a concept album inspired by Orson Scott Card's novel Seventh Son, and it leans into progressive rock, most clearly in the length and tangled structure of its title track.
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Every day at midnight UTC the vault draws two well-known studio albums, close in popularity, era and style, and puts them head to head. Everyone sees the same battle. You get one vote, and the result is shown once you've voted. Voting closes at midnight UTC, when the next battle starts and the result goes into the record books for good.
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