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

97. Alcest - Le Secret (EP) (255, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/s28r0H.jpg

https://youtu.be/xVzLJqZY3lo
https://open.spotify.com/album/0MdqkprQf1ogZ7HKn46LNQ

It took me longer than some people to realise that "blackgaze" is mostly saccharine shite but I do love me some Alcest.

their best "black metal" release. It was soo good there was little point in trying to repeat it

96. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta 2: Dialogue with the Stars (257, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/W6pKHQ.jpg

https://youtu.be/PB0nvFgSKqc
https://open.spotify.com/album/1uQxb4GXHy1YWQxWOorBms

BAN sure are good with ridic. long album titles.

Memories of Blut Aus Nord: An Exploration of Title Length and its Correlation to Pretentious Wankery - A Summerative Metastudy

I forget which one of theirs I voted for

seems like I didnt vote for them

frobisher what # you going down to today?

don't know yet. not too far down.

unfortunately I am busy again today.

95. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (259, 3 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/3bUle4zMYqE
https://open.spotify.com/album/7pUKQz7v0gwTS77c5Bnl0y

3 votes!

wtf this is a landmark in modern metal

Le Secret is still my favourite Alcest by far, from when they were making music that combined the strengths of BM and shoegaze, before they started turning into some kind of 90s-night alt-pop hokum.

I gave a decent number of points to Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum. How do these other Deathspell Omega albums compare?

I did the same

It turns out that, in 2016, it is easy to find out for oneself. Listening. xp

i didn't really play deathspell CDs after that initial burst of "wow wtf man that is some sound". i mean it definitely hit me at the time. but i would have to be in a really weird mood to play them now.

it would be funny if the same 4 people voted in this poll.

i still have never heard the stuff that came out BEFORE the momentum/kenose stuff. i always forget to check it out.

94. Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men (259, 4 points)

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

https://youtu.be/461wHc4YzsM?list=PL8a8cutYP7foIy9A-iLrlrQWBoEbWPbjb
https://open.spotify.com/album/04Y32vHqc7nRtk244d3OWC

as far as that era goes, mid-2000's, i listen to a LOT of negura bunget. like, the last couple of years i have. it helped that i bought CDs from an ilxor and he had every album. i kept them all and i've been playing them ever since. timeless i tellya.

xxxxp yeah only 3 votes is nuts

ohhh a classic right there

That's the only Harvey Milk album I really like. Probably the most emotional doom/sludge I've ever heard (don't like the Cohen cover though)

it would be funny if the same 4 people voted in this poll.

― scott seward,

Lj and 3 lady friends?

haha i think frobisher said there was 26 ballots

misposted up there -- 4 points meant 4 votes

special wishes will always be my fave HM. no matter what they put out.

special wishes will always be my fave HM. no matter what they put out.

i agree but courtesy is such a monolith

the first time i heard it i thought i was going to have a nervous breakdown

93. Metallica - Kill Em All (260, 4 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/XM0ZpIEc5JA
https://open.spotify.com/album/6FMPDVTm8l5IrEQla46VQl

lol

https://tyrannyoftradition.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/kill_em_all.jpg

I'm not doing so hot today.

and up next is a 4-way tie!

haha hope its all the metallica and slayer albums left to get them out of the way so to get the metallica/slayer/thrash albums arent extreme, eh imago?

to get that convo done and dusted, obviously

I don't think anyone would win an argument that Slayer isn't extreme.

to a 16 year old growing up with death and black metal they probably aren't though.

xp Mad extreme, like Oakley Blades

CAN I SAY re: black metal

95% of the American black metal stuff in that vein is neglible/nonessential

Pretty much right; we're way better at the crude Profanatica/Havohej/Lord Foul sound, the stuff that sounds like a brain-damaged version of early Incantation. Have you guys heard Lord Foul?! Fucking crazy.

to kids the early DM and BM dont sound extreme either. we oldies just got to face it

KEA is in that category of Albums I Feel I Should Like But Don't. Yet I always feel weirdly excited when I start listening to it. That excitement just doesn't last long, and I don't know why.

RTL and AJFA OTOH

yeah I guess its true.

xxxp not sure if I'm a "kid" though younger than some of you I think, but as someone who's only recently started to listen to early death metal it still sounds WAY more extreme than most noodly brickwalled hyper tech stuff

to me at least

what age are you? im 43 and there's a lot of ilxors on the metal thread older than I am

xp I agree! But it seems to be the minority position. A lot of the OG-DM really evoke a sense of evil and malice that techdeathspeeeeed really doesn't. And to me that is more extreme.

I'm 28

as long as this poll is anthrax-free i'm good. even if people voted for stupid pantera.