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

5 votes are the most so far, eventually we head into the 7-9 vote territory! exciting!

hi thread, i love gojira, bye thread

xp the top 3 spots are all Anthrax

4 people will vote the same albums by the big 4 in the same place so the winner will be 400 points. im calling it now.
Slayer
Metallica
with 2 each in the top 4

master of puppets vs reign in blood for 400 points

Pantera splitting them from whatever else makes it with 4 votes

remember imagos 90s poll when an album with one vote won?

Spottie is gonna have to do better than that if he doesn't want me picturing him tapping F5 every 30 seconds. 1-minute response time!

There's a Jute Gyte thread creeping up the board with someone asking if there are instrumental JG albums. Will someone with Jute Gyte experience pls report to the Jute Gyte thread.

Also I do like Gojira but forgot to include them.

I'm lurking! I have some opinions itt but really i don't know about 50% of these groups cos metal isn't my go to. also today is the nba trade deadline so Im living in ILH threads atm

Yeah, it's seeming like the top 10 is going to be very close, and the #1 is almost sure to be polarizing. This poll is illustrating how "extreme metal" means different things to different people, and how varied a genre it is.

I like From Mars to Sirius by Gojira but for some reason never felt like hearing anything else of theirs. For some reason I don't think of them as an extreme metal band either but i don't know

79. Coroner - No More Color (291, 4 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/vckfZBVxByA
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Gy4xPYDyCo9adUJE53DLD

great album

the top 10 im guessing is going to be by far the most predictable part of the poll

Coroner, one of many current favorite bands that originally would turn my friend and I into Beavis and Butthead while watching Headbangers Ball back in the day.

Even though some thrash metal albums are my all time favourites I kept them out of the top 20 because it doesn't feel good to have them win an "extreme metal" poll...but the sheer number of votes (these are albums *everyone* had heard) will propel them to the top anyway. But at least it's more defensible than stuff like Mastodon/Converge/Stara Rzeka which is can certainly be argued as extreme in a way but not really very metal.

Glad Winter made it to the top 100! All I can ask for, really. I don't think this record will be an eye opener to anyone who hears it anno 2016 (or anywhere in the past 15 years really) but when it came out it was completely singular.

its obvious what big albums on ilm that everyone loves. its just the order that isnt predictable. Pantera might not make the top 10 mind you. not a lot of love for them round here.

Hvis lyset tar oss is bound to be top 10 and that might piss ppl off as much as any pantera

Winter and Earth certainly were out on their own when I first heard them

Even though some thrash metal albums are my all time favourites I kept them out of the top 20 because it doesn't feel good to have them win an "extreme metal" poll...but the sheer number of votes (these are albums *everyone* had heard) will propel them to the top anyway.

metallica with 3 albums and slayer with 2 will be the top 5. fuck knows what order tho. cuz everyone knows and loves those albums. The sabbath & zep of thrash metal.

Darkthrone for highest place BM album no idea what death metal album will be highest.

Siegbran, were people talking about Celtic Frost then? That was the first thing I thought of when I heard it.

for BM, I'm sure Darkthrone will be up there, but wouldn't be surprised to see Mayhem beat them.

next up has 5 votes. You have 5 people to blame for it.

78. Opeth - Still Life (294, 5 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/GHz6L1.jpg

https://youtu.be/0azsKCi3DmM
https://open.spotify.com/album/1qzKwWj7T1VjxoP7IfCQO2

the first Pantera entry?

xp

ahh

dominique - yeah mayhem is a good call.

I have a sinking feeling Heartwork will be the top death metal album.

i would be happy with that

ive given up on alloy by skepticism making it. im guessing no more doom?

P sure the top death metal album will be the one which unceremoniously burst into my top 10 despite me not liking DM so much

Huh but I also expected Still Life to be Opeth's highest ranker.

I think that will go to Blackwater Park

no more doom, everything else is opeth, mastadon, and pantera.

left hand path or heartwork were the only 2 DM albums i loved back in the day so if they were top 10 id be happy

oh shit. Slipknot were nominated werent they?

if it only needs 4 votes to get in the top 100 anythings possible

xp hah no, that would've been vetoed.

Siegbran, were people talking about Celtic Frost then? That was the first thing I thought of when I heard it.

Yeah of course, and technically Winter is basically slowed down Celtic Frost riffs, with a roughly similar guitar sound (that's what its detractors said at the time), but that wasn't really the point, in the same way that Burzum isn't just about slowed down Bathory riffs, it completely changed relatively peppy and headbangable Frost into that suffocating atmosphere of total dread and hopelessness.

theres 3 possible pantera albums. a #1 us album and 2 big albums vulgar and cowboys. a lot here grew up with those albums (not me)

Sepultura are bound to do well too i reckon. are those 80s albums thrash or death?

Siegbran what age are you?

43 like everyone else or old like scott and phil?

no offence mean to scott and phil there btw

77. Bathory - Blood Fire Death (295, 5 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/hs8ZcV.jpg

https://youtu.be/SC6DvbEVHcI
https://open.spotify.com/album/1ZN0dVt3JGTUJZ5TydY1E8

\m/

Listening to Winter. So far so good. I like hearing where it all came from after all! (Unless it came from thrash)

Bathory!!!

imago as long as you like bathory ,celtic frost/hellhammer its ok

It all came from Bathory as well, right? Did it come more from Winter or from Bathory?

One day I hope to understand why I can't get into Bathory, esp because most of my fav bands are direct descendants of them. I don't have this problem with other originators like Incantation or Autopsy.

Winter came out early 90s didnt it? i guess that is old skool now. How time flies. Streetcleaner was 1989 hah