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175
Screaming Trees · Sweet Oblivion (1992) (310 Points, 8 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drk400/k481/k48167arnrp.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/07o7r1ms8x2kJMhFaBUSOh

175
Screaming Trees · Sweet Oblivion (1992) (310 Points, 8 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drk400/k481/k48167arnrp.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/07o7r1ms8x2kJMhFaBUSOh

one of my votes!

Essential stuff, though it is obviously not metal.

did 'gluey porch treatments' really come out in '87? wow. i only got this and 'ozma' quite recently and it's really striking how short the songs actually are. at this early point in their career they seem kinda like a metal analogue of webern: deployment of disproportionate resources (webern = orchestra, melvins = massive sludgy, metal riffs and hanging beats) in the creation of exquisite, hypercondensed miniatures.

Indeed it did

174
Sepultura · Beneath the Remains (1989) (310 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c395/c395513bsn1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3BDZvMYxZ6E8IuSQL2ew6Z

destroyer (gorgoroth) deserves higher than #180 imo. that album is goddamn incredible.

173
Cobalt · Gin (2009) (310 Points, 11 votes)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Gp5g_1tmyS8/SfDVaNMn-4I/AAAAAAAAArY/IS1x4jMoRj0/s400/Cobalt+Gin.jpg

Everyone knows who that photo is of, right?

Listening to Cobalt for the first time ever. Nice. I'd like more BM if it sounded like this.

172
Jane's Addiction · Ritual de Lo Habitual (1990) (311 Points, 6 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c624/c62482a0mt1.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2Jkbi83HTSfqEd0CBdYwpU

My #3. Fantastic album, thought it'd be a lot higher. It can't be metal enough for this poll.

Nothing can be metal enough for some metallers.

Absolutely love that Cobalt album. At this rate none of my picks are gonna make the top 100.

haha me too, great album and half my picks I think already placed.

171
Manic Street Preachers · Generation Terrorists (1992) (311 Points, 8 votes - ONE #1 vote)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f662/f66219t69vp.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/58UFtUC4q7mP2Lbn8LyJdU

oh dear Lord. Who voted this as their #1?

great album but I didn't vote for it.

Not me xp. I placed TWO other MSP albums above it.

i am listening to this gorguts album, obscura. it's awesome. cool that it's from nearby.

I was surprised the Gorguts record was so low to be honest. Sacred cow backlash?

168 TIED
Deicide · Deicide (1990) (311 Points, 9 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/2/4/1124.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2gdL5FVb9weq5fVFa7Qw5F

168 TIED
Ministry · Land of Rape & Honey (1988) (311 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c842/c84203lw527.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1ixpEu6UGlOAXY1d3F3rMM

168 TIED
Nachtmystium · Instincts Decay (2006) (311 Points, 9 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/1/0/9/110959.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2SPmEMpxwOPv0NYgBFEovA

Glad to see this ^ place above Assassins

As for more extreme stuff placing lower than you expect, a lot of the extreme metal fans don't vote, possibly because an ilm poll wont vote for them. Also quite a few of the rolling metal thread regulars don't post. So I'm surprised the extreme stuff has placed so well til now.

but a 3-way tie!

167
Sunn O))) · Monoliths and Dimensions (2009) (311 Points, 10 votes)
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/2/5/8/225822.jpg

I expected shouts of "too low" and "thank fuck its not top 100" then LJ

you savages

two outta three ain't bad

an unhappy lj?
hey louis you should answer Paula's post upthread

165 TIED
Megadeth · Peace Sells...But Who's Buyin? (1986) (311 Points, 11 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f574/f57435kz54x.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4hKRbsCbBnyTdXY02qNmwm

165 TIED
Manilla Road - Mystification (1987) (311 Points, 11 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg900/g934/g93410k412t.jpg

Expected Monoliths & Dimensions to be way higher. Not looking forward to the all Sabbath/Maiden top 20 tbh.

not unhappy but M&D is a great album that I'd imagine a few metal folk are reticent to even hear let alone praise because O'Malley/Anderson have SULLIED THE METAL with AVANT SHIT

Not looking forward to the all Sabbath/Maiden/Metallica/Slayer/Led Zep top 20 tbh.

oh christ so so so so so so so so so so so so so much this

or there's just at least 166 better metal records xp

Are you going all the way to the top 20 tonight?

would strongly, strongly doubt that, in my non-kvlt naivety

xpost and not xpost haha

xxpost

Ha just because I am disappointed that the record is so low, doesn't mean I therefore think it should be a lock for no 1. Geez.

pfunkboy couldn't ya just add on 60 points or w/e the maximum is for Through Silver In Blood

dude

cant do that, sorry.

btw has there been too much thrash and death metal for some of you?

just coz Neurosis didn't invent slaying doesn't mean they didn't do it better than anyone else :D

*walks around with BAN ME sign on arse*

not enough death metal

Totally cool with me, my two favourite sub-genres.

xpost

163 TIED
Manic Street Preachers · The Holy Bible (1994) (312 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f597/f59770cy174.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4LFir9jift1iINKWLAblS8

163 TIED
Iron Maiden · Powerslave (1983) (312 Points, 9 votes)
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e672/e67242pbej0.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3CaXWQ1q1os9hvonksXDwN

actually no it has been a really good list tbh

or there's just at least 166 better metal records xp

― underwater, please (bear, bear, bear),

lj hasn't heard 166 metal albums

I'm taking it up to #151 tonight btw

Holy Bible's the only Manics I have much time for.