Volume 1
by Pagan Altar
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Volume 1 is ranked as the best album by Pagan Altar.
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Volume 1 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Volume 1 rankings
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Volume 1 ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 01/12/2026 21:46 |  Norman Bates | 10,130 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/11/2025 09:43 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,463 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2025 17:32 | Elauqsapid | 2,720 | 64/100 |
| ! | 06/04/2024 18:44 | saltysurprise | 2,958 | 83/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2023 17:26 |  Graeme2 | 4,907 | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.5/100, a mean average of 71.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.8.
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Repo 03/26/2020 11:06 | #249110
DOOM II: Invoke The Sweet Leaf
Now we are talking Doom incarnate with virtually no NWOBHM influence to speak of at all. Which cost them a record contract at the time! At the time their slow, doomy Sabbathian riffs sounded hopelessly out of date in 1982. So this demo tape from 1982 was floated around the metal tape trading community for over a decade before eventually it just became too big, too heavy, and ironically too fashionable to be ignored as slow became the new fast with bands like Sleep mining similar territory. Easily one of the best Doom albums of the 80s, and Pagan Altar should be mentioned right alongside Pentagram, St. Vitus and Trouble as the forefathers of Doom.
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