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

170. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend (172, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/QgDvf4.jpg

https://youtu.be/c5FsD3D4o3Y
https://open.spotify.com/album/4qhtwqVc3FMTI3oHgjuaCW

no opinions about Rev. Bizarre?

I've always loved that album cover and I want to know where it comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches'_Sabbath_%28Goya,_1798%29

thank you!!

voted for a Dodheimsgard album I think, but not that one. The Vlad Tepes/Belketre is indeed classic!

169. Shining - Blackjazz (172, 4 votes)

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

https://open.spotify.com/album/1K2yKDVznk1oz356nWRAuf

Oh look, my #3!

Not Shining. That was lucky to be my #47

The Dodheimsgard is like the second coming of peak-era VDGG, but as metal. It's become one of my favourite records by anyone ever. I prefer them to Ulver at this point

I think it sound weird for the sake of weird. but I like it.

168. Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi (173, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/OOB749.jpg

https://youtu.be/coJ_O3YYcNY

reverend bizarre way too low. Punished for not having "extreme" enough vox?

last two albums are all time

i think i'm just going to say the same thing periodically throughout this list

have you heard the reverend bizarre? they might be mid-paced enough for you to like

i was just about to say i wanted to check that record out just based on the cover

which i've seen several times over the years but i've never gotten around to it

xxxxp come on you're talking about a board where a band like Ghost wins polls

one of the all-time doom albums

dinsdale but this is an extreme poll, the others arent

167. Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel (174, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/jo9Lky.jpg

https://youtu.be/QcsVp0A4Vik
https://open.spotify.com/album/1BTpXpvzQeVXmsERKLL9Bb

you have a point (but I bet we'll see some far-from-extreme stuff too)

due to using certain official sources to guide what 'extreme' meant, we had to allow basically all doom metal that wasn't doom-ish NWOBHM.

so yeah, likely a lot of things will place that aren't that "extreme." it was a difficult process.

what do we reckon the first earnest fight will be about

Sunbather

hah if that places it sure will

dont think it was nominated was it?

Didn't think so either but it was.

lol ;P

its ILM so it might win!

I'm listening to this Nokturnal Mortum album for the first time and I really like it. It's like what you'd imagine from the cover but a lot more extreme.

LOTR Black Metal

up next is an album that def. got too little love.

166. Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor (175, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/GP9Kz3.jpg

https://youtu.be/PKsKik48Bpo

I prefer La Sanie

I love that DHG but I didn't vote for it. It's probably better than some of the recent albums I did vote for, now that I've had time to digest it a little more.

Mostly I voted for older albums, I didn't feel comfortable saying something that had only been out for six months was Best Of All Time.

I have Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue. I've only listened to it a couple times, but I liked it, though not nearly enough to vote for it in this poll.

165. Bolt Thrower - For Victory (175, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/8u04av.jpg

https://youtu.be/mud3po9jRWw
https://open.spotify.com/album/4mK9V0fvxcSl4hWNcsdk2C

164. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None (175, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/OScQ9A.jpg

https://youtu.be/4aFGuKwF2ic

ok... here's one that might be more exciting.

163. Jute Gyte - Vast Chains (176, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/5pQaGB.jpg

https://youtu.be/OD0Osv8HfAQ
https://open.spotify.com/album/6d6v23GFBa74XhHD9DgKMu

haha lj and sund4r strike again?

lj's big piss stain is coming later.

162. Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious (177, 3 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/FKf_R2WtkZ4
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Tl1dAwNcRO1W6lMlpx0e3

Thing is, pretty much all of these are such classics, it's hard to actually choose one over the other. I'm scrolling down going like "Vikingligr Veldi"? - too low! Oh wait Nokturnal Mortum, yeah obv that's better but...Bolt Thrower? Hell yeah! CARCASS!!!

There'd better not be any other Enslaved records placing higher though, that'd really damage my faith in ILM's collective judgement.

I could've put like half of Enslaved's discography on my ballot (of 200). A lot of this comes down to mood, to be honest. Before I checked my ballot, I assumed I'd put Frost, Eld, Mardraum, and Below the Lights on there. However only those last two made the cut.

Shameful.

Oh and obligatory TOO FUCKING LOW for Necroticism. That was my #10. On another level than anything else they ever did, right in that sweet spot between shambolic and polished.

So the shit Shining makes it to the lower reaches, but will the true Shining show up at all?

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.

Years Past Matter is the best Krallice imo and was one of my favourites from that year.

Altar of Plagues, Jute Gyte, Painkiller, Kayo Dot, Panopticon all on my ballot.

161. Bathory - Bathory (179, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/IbZQd9.jpg

https://youtu.be/RiAMZlW2SMU
https://open.spotify.com/album/5ViU3AfzAl9BQ0uFXOkR1W