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

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.

ready for the big tie?

89. Converge - Jane Doe (260, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/6VUtnG.jpg

https://youtu.be/zLRYREmJqho
https://open.spotify.com/album/2gtM4m6sglJDrX3toJWZO6

29 yesterday. Bring me more cake

wow that is low. expected that to be top 20

All the noodly brickwalled tech stuff in fact sounds "lighter" to me than the OSDM of the 80s/90s. I think the real flow of extremity went through Suffocation, Cryptopsy, then all those gurgle death bands like Disgorge and the ones with a dozen or so syllables in the name.

xpost and age check: also 43

and i agree fuck Anthrax

89. Earth - Earth 2 (260, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/sA9050.jpg

https://youtu.be/Ls1OYn_xGzM
https://open.spotify.com/album/6C3T9IKxCt15bKldHKTXR7

ya fuck anthrax

awwww great album. In some ways that was the most extreme album of its time it certainly felt like it. There was nothing like it around back then. Nice to see it place in the top 100 and I didnt think it would make it since earths clothing was stolen by Sunn o)))

Almost makes up for the lack of Skepticism

89. Mastodon - Blood Mountain (260, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/xg3GcJ.jpg

https://youtu.be/5EifvJhu7Bk
https://open.spotify.com/album/1n8QZFcwx5aQ2LIIlj0iYe

hahahhaa oh wtf. very good album, i love it BUT HOW THE FUCK is it beating out Remission?

is the next one crack the skye?

89. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods (260, 4 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/_w7lkQoJmqY

hah. great album, but is it extreme?

is earth or harvey milk or converge metal? i mean people just voted for stuff they liked. no biggie. angelic process album not so extreme either as far as i remember.