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

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.

love the album but surprised it beat out what it has

this has been very surprising the whole time.

the Earth debut EP was my introduction to metal, I think - either that or Streetcleaner, lol

but yeah, Extra-Capsular Extraction is something I might have voted for had it been nominated, or had I been thinking straight

streetcleaner should have beat out every mastodon album now that you mention it.

I voted for it, so it might...

88. Darkspace - III (260, 5 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/lwrDx8.jpg

https://youtu.be/yp5bWy-a5Jo

Aaaaaah! My #6! Behold the vastness of the Universe!

ahh yes, great album. I think III I might be the best of the 4 albums but that wasnt nominated

you reckon? I liked it but found III to be an absolute monster, a focused demonstration of Space Black Metal beyond compare...

Earth 2 was my #10
Streetcleaner #9 so Im guessing that will show up soon

they are all amazing imago tbh.

III is a great record -- hard to top really

Ok I think I'm going to 75 today. Is that alright?

Never could get into Darkspace.

Hey, I'm 43 too. Are we all 43? Are we clones?

no, we can't be clones cause some of us hate Dissection.

87. Autopsy - Severed Survival (263, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/h81Sq1.jpg

https://youtu.be/1on9_JYgTLU
https://open.spotify.com/album/5YhpdaMo6iQJ1EhQUZ34HR

xp Maybe we're part of some metallic nature vs. nurture experiment

oh shit, yes, Autopsy! One of my all time favorite death metal albums. As much as I enjoy a Suffocation/Cryptopsy, yeah, I love the evil, doomy early death metal sound. I actually recorded a (terrible) one man death metal demo once and covered "Critical Madness."

Just ate some cake

Now listening to Autopsy after eating cake

You are living the life, dude

yeah Autopsy is one my favs, and this album is amazing. This is the kind of DM I like.

86. Terrorizer - World Downfall (264, 6 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/B3Fdbg.jpg

https://youtu.be/gd3HTU2a2mA
https://open.spotify.com/album/1OAUXcUtKiPdDtftxbjGV2

Another great one. I actually got the Terrorizer demo comp recently and it's kind of amazing the jump in quality from their demos to that album. Also one of the few albums Scott Burns did a decent job on.