The Hall of Judgement: Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Rexorcist has requested that this release be submitted into the Hall of Judgement. If you agree with the below change request, vote YES. If you don't, vote NO.

Request: Guns 'n' Roses "Appetite For Destruction" album should be added to The Guardians.

This change will see the Heavy Metal genre added to the release.

Member comment: "Now we've got some 70's metal albums properly tagged, and even though there isn't much of that I'd like to raise an easy one to compare to Appetite for Destruction in terms of heaviness: Taken By Force. On the whole, Taken By Force is heavy enough to consider. Not every Scorps album is heavy metal, but a few of them fit the bill, but this is probably one of their lighter "metal" albums due to having come out at that time, but because metal was a little lighter on a regular basis at the time, this does count. I don't see any reason an 80's album shouldn't count. If we can include that, as well as some of the 80's Priest catalogue, then I know for certain that the debut album of GNR counts. About every other song is loud, heavy and builds itself on metal spirit and aggression. And no, I'm not talking about "hair metal," which isn't even real metal.

The comparisons are simple. Welcome to the Jungle, It's So Easy, My Michelle and You're Crazy (practically a Motorhead song in a few ways), are very metal in both composition and spirit, Paradise City and Anything Goes kinda switch between hard rock and heavy metal, and even lesser metal and more hard rock like Out Ta Get Me, Think About You and Nighttrain are heavier than bands like AC/DC and shouldn't even be considered for the same league of heaviness. Basically, the album is built on metal spirit, and it does get difficult to really draw a line where the difference between hard rock and heavy metal truly lies. But I've heard plenty of albums that carefully bridge that line, like many of us here must have as well, and can we really say that Appetite for Destruction doesn't have an edge on those other albums due to pure metal spirit and production?"

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