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

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

Oh, !T.O.O.H! was on near the bottom too! Iirc, ultros was pushing it and I listened and dug it.
xp

xp I don't think so Siegbran. We still need to spread awareness about the TRUE Shining.

also its funny to think of shining as "experimental" when compared to the album up next.

160. Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters (179, 2 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/QVOASknimeA

highly unusual.

good band

what are you taking it down to?

150.

and if that last album wasn't weird enough...

159. Naked City - Torture Garden (180, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/j3HFIS.jpg

https://youtu.be/Ow_bB6nIiyE

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phil will be chuffed

Oh wow, I really like Ved Buens Ende so far. You're right: this is pretty singular.

158. Cleric - Regressions (180, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/P6K2aP.jpg

https://youtu.be/nsYk6CQdn8Q
https://open.spotify.com/album/3FAQOCEap58fkflB3dUftG

157. Angel Hair - Pregnant with the Senior Class (181, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/mP8D52.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3MNozlzSgs0C0YTfBkQxZp

^ one of those albums where the cover does not indicate at all what the band sound likes.

dunno either of those

its dinnertime US and past-bedtime for the UK... should I stop?

maybe take it 155?

nobody has an opinion?

I do

post away i can catch up in morning

ok I'll take it down to 150 as planned. 155 is a tie.

Regressions was my #2.

Please, if you have any interest in the extent to which extremity can be sought, give it a listen.

It is above and beyond.

155. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream (182, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/nsrA1J.jpg

https://youtu.be/SKKEBuACcVI
https://open.spotify.com/album/4i9cuK7MNbTVvezlFujln7

155. Meshuggah - obZen (182, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/ty2qyD.jpg

https://youtu.be/qIuX-8g5hMs?list=PLFF509642A82FFDEA
https://open.spotify.com/album/1E72ED2DF9qg7Dr08yCkHx

Regressions is pretty solid, I was listening to it.

This Dismember album is giving me warm feelings though. Early 90s feelings.

Written In Waters was my number 20. Amazing work too.

Didn't vote for Vast Chains, weirdly. It is still amazing.

Think Obzen reached the bottom of my ballot

I'm amazed that Written In Waters only got 2 votes in an ILX extreme metal poll. Yall need to get extremer. Regressions...yeah, probably too extreme ;)

Oh wait I did vote for Vast Chains. My #24, even, lol

I've voted for like half of what's placed today

And it's my birthday now so I reserve the right to be indulgent

xxp I either didn't know this poll was happening or was in my "I ain't votin' in no poll!" phase, totally would've voted for that one.

Also, sund4r, if you haven't already check out Virus and Fleurety!

I still need to get that Dismember album. I know I'm totally slack but them sounding so much like Entombed really bugged me at the time. Which seems hilarious in an era where like a third of the metal I buy is d-beat/HM-2 death metal but, you know, things change.

Huh, that Cleric does in fact sound like SYL's City (per the YT comment). Gonna have to give this one a full listen.

I hope that this rollout introduces people to some stuff they've never heard of.

or didn't care to listen to at the time, as well...

Its a shame Nocturnus - The Key placed so abysmally low, it's been my #1 new listen so far.

Cosmic Slop is gonna miss out on one of his favorites placing...

154. Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens (183, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/V35Ltu.jpg

https://youtu.be/tRJAkNSCn_Y
https://open.spotify.com/album/3CTRpruFgLKDVPHWLe2XET

Its a real beast, a foundational funeral doom album for sure.
I love this a lot, but I'm personally not really into the sound of the vocals.

the best album ever