EXTREME METAL Albums Poll - Nominations Round

Slayer - South of Heaven

Mastodon - Remission

Godflesh - Streetcleaner

Negură Bunget - OM

Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

One of my favorite albums ever but I was debating whether or not it belonged on an 'Extreme' metal list. Now that it's been nominated I'm definitely going to vote for it though.

if it wasnt then pretty much all thrash wouldnt and that'd be silly

i don't see any napalm death. why do you guys hate napalm death?

I've actually seen death metal fans online saying thrash isnt extreme metal .
Reminds me of those (funnily enough some are thrash metal fans) who say the original heavy metal bands of the 70s arent metal.

nominate it scott we cant remember everything!

Napalm Death - Scum
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration

better?

Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Carpathian Forest - Defending the Throne of Evil
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Entombed - Clandestine
Fen - Epoch
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Galdr - Galdr
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Meshuggah - obZen
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Satyricon - Dark Medievan Times
Walknut - Graveforests and Their Shadows
Winterfylleth - The Threnody of Triumph
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters

Er, that should be:

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times

Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Suffocation - Pinnacle of Bedlam
Wormrot - Abuse

Ooh WormRot

Gridlink - Amber Grey
Gridlink - Orphan
Gridlink - Longhena

Vader - De Profundity
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Deicide - Deicide
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Yob - The Great Cessation
Angelcorpse - Exterminate
Gorefest - Mind loss
Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
Hypocrisy - Obsculum Obscenum
Entombed -Clandestine

Shining - Blackjazz
Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is a Dead Scene
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Vattnet Viskar - Sky Swallower
Wolvserpent - Perigea Antahkarana
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Converge - You Fail Me
Disfear - Live the Storm
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Panopticon - Kentucky

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Green Day - Dookie
Elastica - Elastica
Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

wow, lots of nominations! I'll be adding these asap... I def. think Agalloch counts, and very heavy doom def. counts (eg. Sleep, Electric Wizard, Yob, Cough) as well as sludgy stuff. Candlemass and Pentagram and other trad. doom doesn't fit.

So far everyone seems to know what fits, I haven't noticed any egregious nominations so far.

you didn't read the previous post did you

hopefully imago will get 51 flag posts

lol, I see it. very funny imago... obv. those aren't going on the list.

i cant see what point imago is trying to make there. just looking for attention as per

waiting for the "its just banter" post

Extreme Bantz

Enslaved - Frost
Enslaved - Eld
Enslaved - Mardraum: Beyond the Within
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Marduk - Opus Nocturne
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao
Opeth - Morningrise
Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
Opeth - Still Life
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead

i think its pretty fair to say anything by Boris from Pink onwards doesnt count?

pink & smile definitely shouldn't count imo

Yet Isis - Oceanic probably does.

How you gonna decide on this frobisher? Glad its not me running the poll, lol

I don't know enough about Boris! Did they turn into an indie band or something?

I think Isis counts -- if its long and experimental and complex that's extreme, but then that kind of definition would open the door to Tool, which certainly doesn't count. This is tough, I'll probably add anything that seems legit as there are already tons of stuff I've never heard being nominated, I guess this is based on the honor system. If I see obvious not-extreme stuff like Helloween or Iced Earth or Manowar, etc, those will not make it on the list. :)

This has me thinking about my early extreme metal experiences. This is probably way out there but does anyone remember the name of a notoriously bad goremetal/dm band with real obvious tacky drum machine drums? I think they're name started with a C, and one of their albums has like a zombie with a chainsaw on the cover... sorry that's really vague but maybe someone knows what I'm talking about.

Oh yeah and the early albums from the big 4 thrash bands count, but like for Metallica for example, I'm not going to add the Black Album or anything after.

they made albums after???

Frobisher you aren't thinking of Mortician are you

Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit

Wow, not excluding dupes there are already 309 albums nominated!

YES its Mortician! Thank you HSB!!!!

Deafheaven was just banter as well, right?

What even is 'extreme' metal, this just seems like a metal poll, which is fine, just don't call it 'extreme' i'm sure you've all been over this already though blah blah

a lot of metal isnt extreme

A lot of the metal nominated already here doesn't seem particularly 'extreme' by metal standards! But ah well, all subjective I guess. You'd best watch out for my real nominations though. They'll be super-duper extreme

Deafheaven is extreme, I don't know why they wouldn't be? I know people can't stand the idea that they're black metal but whatever. This is not about elitism or nitpicking. I mean, we're letting Agalloch & Drudkh in, Deafheaven is certainly as extreme as them.

I doubt your expertise on what constitutes extreme metal, imago. I'm gonna trust peeps like HAWKZ & Devilock & HSB as they are actual metal fans who listen to metal...

I'm probably being an elitist dick tbf so I'll shut up and nominate xp until you said that! oh em gee you've done it now pal

huh? what did I do? look, you're free to nominate non-trolling albums I'm not excluding anyone.

But yes, the definition of extreme is very loose in this poll but it certainly isn't a general metal poll (that's already been done).

Welllll I'm going less by the "extreme" tag and more by the subgenres listed. In my personal life I don't see much difference in composition or execution between Emperor's Anthems and something like Fates Warning's Awaken the Guardian. It's mostly a question of ... decibels? BPM? Production? I dunno. In fact I was thinking of the difference between, say, Strapping Young Lad's City and Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine or Physicist. I assume only City is considered "extreme" and now we're already in fuzzy land.

Anyway

Strapping Young Lad - City

But Fates Warning's Awaken the Guardian is the best metal album ever. Obv.

Right, Devilock I think you've got the right idea here. TBH I realized how thorny this poll might be after I proposed it, and thought about changing it to a single genre poll (like Black Metal), but oh well.

Another good rule of thumb -- If its in Kerrang! it most likely does not belong here.

I usually just go by if terrorizer covered them then its in

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/terroris.htm

all decisions are frobishers though

what was extreme 10, 20, 30 years ago might not sound extreme now so you have to balance up the era it came out. Sure , thrash metal isnt very extreme now but it sure was when the albums were made.
Obviously retro revival thrash bands might not seem extreme but would it really matter if they got in? its just a poll.

if it got in kerrang until the late 90s frobisher it might be extreme metal, frobisher. It did used to cover it.

good point about early kerrang

xpost to myself

Of course Venom was the first band nominated, and if Venom is in, everything is in: Mercyful Fate, Maiden, Priest. Or you could make the argument that Venom is noisier and more aggressive than the others.

So I'm just gonna pretend like I haven't noticed anything.