Ranking your fave Deliverance Albums

As of 2021 , these are mine :

1 - Stay of Execution
2 - Weapons
3 - Deliverance
4 - What a Joke 
5 - Live in Studio
6 - As Above So Below
7 - Assimilation

The others I either didn´t hear enough to form an opinion OR I don´t like (I never really liked the pink floidish pair : River Disturbance / Camelot in Smithereens) .

My favorites are the mid era:


Learn
Stay of Execution
River Disturbance


I never really liked the speed metal albums and don't own them.

Not a fan of thrash/speed metal much myself.  I didn't like a few songs here and their from River Disturbance and Camelot in Smithereens.  But not really enough to keep the albums.  I guess I'm just not enough of a fan.

alldatndensum wrote:

My favorites are the mid era:


Learn
Stay of Execution
River Disturbance


I never really liked the speed metal albums and don't own them.

Well , "Learn" is an album I should give some more spins , but it's basically a goth metal album , something like "The Deliverance Black Album" ...

Love Deliverance up till and including Camelot. After that, they lost me and have never gotten me back.

I love the aggression and melody on the first three albums, the heavy tones and different vocal style of Stay of Execution, and the pivot to the more modern sound on Learn, River Disturbance and Camelot. What order I would rank them all depends on the day and my mood. The self titled it’s definitely a top 2. Stay of Execution is right up there too. Ironically, Weapons is not in my top 5. I like it OK, but frankly it’s probably my least favorite of those first seven albums. 

Throughout all those albums, Jimmy never lost the melody. There are good hooks on the early thrash albums, and there are good hooks on the more modern albums in the early to mid-1990s. As a sucker for a big hook, that makes me smile.

Boy, I don't think of Learn as goth at all.
My list:
Stay
Weapons
Self Titled
Learn
Hear What I Say
As Above'
River Disturbance