Finally... The Top 200 Extreme Metal Albums of ALL TIME!(results)

I wondered how the early extreme bands would do

ok, my hands are cramped. That was a good start, imo. Here's the countdown so far:

205. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
204. !T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest
203. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
201. Liturgy - Renihilation
201. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
200. Virus - The Black Flux
199. Yob - The Unreal Never Lived
198. Nocturnus - The Key
196. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
196. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
195. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
194. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
193. Darkspace - II
192. Watchtower - Control and Resistance
191. Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
190. Prong - Beg To Differ
189. Kayo Dot - Hubardo
188. Setherial - Nord
187. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
186. Strapping Young Lad - City
185. Atheist - Piece of Time
184. Panopticon - Roads to the North
183. Sodom - Persecution Mania
182. Painkiller - Guts of a Virgin
181. Liturgy - Aesthetica
180. Bathory - The Return

Did I vote in this? I feel like I completely missed out on it happening. Because I would've voted Symphonies of Sickness into the top 10 through sheer force of will.

no one remembers pretty sure we did our ballots about 5 years ago

I was one of the votes for Subliminal Genocide. It was low on my ballot but I wanted to vote for something by Xasthur, because for a year or so all I listened to was suicidal black metal.

I also voted for Nemesis Divina, which I heard for the first time during voting and went out and bought less than a week later. Excellent album, more polished than a lot of the other Norwegian black metal I voted for but great in its own right. I'm glad I didn't hear this when I was 20, I would have dismissed it.

xp Well it'll be uh interesting.

xxp Like SoS was a crucial record at the time, had to be heavily influential on the newly brutalized death metal scene at the time.

Maybe it would have stopped you listening to dashboard confessional if you had heard it at age 20, Tom?

my sources say you did not vote Hawkz. I am a shitty poll runner and was not good at whipping up the votes.

naw, I don't know. the tabulation magic seems to sometimes make things with the same score not be ties. Probably has to do with weighted/unweighted, positions in the ballot, etc.

― Frobisher, Monday, February 15, 2016 10:07 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Some people asked to have their ballots counted as mixed weighted/unweighted and the way I had scoring set up meant that this led to fractional scores - Painkiller actually got 161.9444444444 points fwiw.

frobisher or seandalai any chance you could PM me my ballot?

What time are you starting today frobisher?

Yow, was off work yesterday so missed most of the internet -- happy to see this going (and also happy to see only one of my votes show up so far)!

Cool poll. So sorry I didn't vote. The Sham Mirrors was one of my favourite albums of all time for a very long time. I'll def be checking out more ITL.

you never vote youre a bad dog

tbh i didn't know it was on! not sure how i missed it though.

pretty sure you say that every poll!

wow I really slept in! Ok well. here we go!

179. Krallice - Diotima (164, 2 Votes)

https://i.sli.mg/VJ6NTy.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZG0S8HIzNXjAUuthy47yc
https://youtu.be/5-E4ZRZg2bY

I really can't get a grasp on which Krallice album to start with, are they one of those bands where every album is so different that you can't really start anywhere? Should I just listen to all of them?

I'm not sure because I can't remember listening to them. I'm sure I have but IDK!

178. Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients (164, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/k5WnZ2.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7rt3SoTjpXpqCajf2p9CRU
https://youtu.be/_zSs8-LBDL8

ccpost: Their albums aren't that different from each other, the s/t's the most straightforward, they've managed to get more complex but more cohesive as they gelled as a unit, Ygg Huur from last year is the only one that had a significant change in sound being a bit more tech-deathy. I'd go with the first one and continue from there.

that should be xxpost obvs.

177. Vlad Tepes/Belketre - March to the Black Holocaust (164, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/0NU56X.jpg

https://youtu.be/B9Sxs-njCjs

^ classic shit

176. Portal - Vexovoid (165, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/fSWp3n.jpg

https://youtu.be/TRijNXNHT-0
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PtGwwqM6zFvawkY3JHtfq

The next one up is surprising. I think people will be surprised how low it placed.

oohh

reign in blood?

something I'd have thought equally important, but for early US death metal.

death?

well, not that important!

175. Obituary - Slowly We Rot (166, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/V3S1Ol.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/7H5MWoD8M6dEQoSj3SMHP7
https://youtu.be/GXu0HmseAKs

I thought people liked this album...
I like it.

I like it but I don't even know if it'd make my top 50 death metal albums. It's great. But they never excited me.

hmmmm

OK I'm listening to Vlad Tepes/Belketre for the first time, for some reason I never got round to hearing any LLN, pretty good. That intro bit was strangely jaunty

I thought that Obituary album would be top 20

that 1996 Belketre demo with the name I will never remember is amazing

it's like Ambre Solaire Vuohdvordenakhre or something idk

i was closer than i had any right to be

XXXP yeah its great! there's some serious riffage later on, too.

Well, this is supposed to be the BEST, not most important or influential or whatever.

xxxpost argh

I think most Obituary fans rank Cause of Death way higher. Personally I prefer SWR for its less refined approach. I remember a time when that title track was the heaviest, scariest thing I'd ever heard. (Of course I was like 14.)

i prefer cause of death to slowly we rot

oic

also xxxpost there were some recent Vlad Tepes reissues with "better" sound quality than the originals. I keep forgetting that I bought two of them and have yet to actually play them.

174. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue (170, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/0JUydf.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4msn6ehXrGUkun2SiUl7X2

TOO LOW

haha this was my only kayo dot vote. it's fucking extraordinary. my #19

:D

oh I'm lying, there was another KD way down. but this is IMO their crowning glory