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

LJ should love Corrupted

The band's sound is characterized by down-tuned guitars and bass playing slow, monotonous riffs under deep layers of feedback. The vocals are harsh, guttural growls, and the music alternates between long instrumental sections and sections with vocals which go for long periods of time without rest. They have been described by one writer as "some of the heaviest, gloomiest doom/sludge around, distinctly cacophonous, layering feedback pulverizing progressions into a distinctly cacophonous rumble."[3] However, some songs feature long acoustic sections, spoken-word interludes, and unconventional instruments. An example of the latter can be found on their 2005 album El mundo frio, which is a 72-minute song with extensive sections of harp. As another writer notes, "Right when you think you can peg Corrupted as an all Doom band they release a lush acoustic set within their bleak musical landscape."[1] To this effect, they recently added a keyboardist, Takehito Miyagi, to their lineup, which had previously consisted only of guitar, bass, drums and vocals.

Corrupted has a few idiosyncrasies. Though they are from Japan and their members (including lyricist/drummer Chew Hasegawa) on most releases are all Japanese, they sing almost exclusively in Spanish, though some songs contain sections in Japanese or English. In addition, the band has never taken promotional pictures nor do any of the albums contain group photos. The only known existing photographs are taken by fans at concerts. The band also never does interviews. Corrupted's albums typically contain extensive liner notes in the form of bleak black-and-white photographs, often real-life scenes of war-torn areas or other depictions of human suffering.

Much of Corrupted's discography appears on split albums, which they share with other doom metal bands or often with grindcore bands. The band is known for its ability to produce songs of virtually any length; their longest album El mundo frio consists of a single song substantially longer than an hour, while their shortest song, "Reset", recorded for a homeless benefit compilation, lasts less than two minutes.

Hellhammer!!!! yes!!!

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Oh hell yes

my #4

Def in my top 10. Satanic Rites is just as classic as any Celtic Frost record imo -- if there were 10 more records just like this in those bands' discographies, it would be fine by me.

Awesome, never would've guessed Hellhammer would turn up on this. Excepting Apocalyptic Raids.

oh wait, yes Apocalyptic Raids was my #4! so thats bound to place too!

speaking of
http://i.imgur.com/KcAGRQx.png

frobisher how about taking it down to 61 :) its only 11pm here and everyones excited and posting.
Everyone will hang around another hour or 2, right?

been a great stretch today

lol, no, just to 70.

its only 3pm frobisher time, right?

71. Repulsion - Horrified (310, 4 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/KiHl-Px8fig
https://open.spotify.com/album/2nknlmZyMtKyHDstDWVQVV

its a bit later and I also have things to do in my life, believe it or not.

haha

After not being hugely impressed with Apocalyptic Raids 1990 AD, I initially wrote off Hellhammer as a bit overhyped but then I heard Satanic Rites a couple years later and was amazed how much better it sounded than their 'official' debut.

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The first time I heard Repulsion was on the (UK) Grindcrusher (MOSH 12 MC BRO!) comp; they were an unknown quantity to me at the time but I bought the album as soon as I found it. They just sounded so diseased and that goddamn guitar sound...

I think I wore out the A side of that tape listening to Morbid Angel, Carcass, Godflesh and Repulsion (and, you know, Heresy because it was there).

ok final one for tonight...

70. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick (314, 6 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/NdHJ0u5cLB0
https://open.spotify.com/album/4y34C9YeavvuMTdMQzrPGG

My #2. As good as Morbid Angel is when they go more straightforward like on Altars and Covenant, Blessed is just ... like classical music turned death metal. Flows perfectly from start to finish.

Production is kind of lacking and I've heard the remaster actually improves the sound. I need to grab it one of these days.

I kinda miss the more musical element Brunelle brought to the band; there's something to be said for letting Azagthoth off the chain but I listen to Altars and Blessed way more than any of the later albums.

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Love Repulsion -- somehow, that record never gets old for me.

Oh yeah, gotta recommend the Master "Unreleased 1985 Album" aka "Funeral Bitch" for Repulsion fans. Similar vibe, production sounds a little more like it was recorded in a dumpster.

Relevant video alert: Repulsion live 1987, and around 43:30 they cover Hellhammer!

https://youtu.be/i-fW-OBahkY

squee!

"Corrupted are the best band no-ones ever heard of"

they have a really big non-metal hepcat audience. maybe that was partly the doing of people like aquarius records who would write long love-letter reviews of their stuff alongside all the avant/indie stuff they sold. aquarius definitely instrumental in getting a lot of u.s. people into more fucked up/lo-fi BM via their old catalogs as well.

Quite possibly but not sure about "big"

xp I actually got into bm through Aquarius records! Dead as Dreams was the first black metal album I ever bought, but it took me a while to get into other harsher/more fucked up bm since I was more enamoured with WitTR and other post-/cascadian sorts of bands.

You learn pretty quickly with aquarius to take their reviews with a pinch of salt though since according to them almost every slightly weird bm album is the most bizarre, in the red thing ever

also sorry CS I have and like El Mundo Frio but apparently I didn't vote for it. I haven't heard any other Corrupted albums so I will remedy that tonight maybe

El mundo frio is the Corrupted album I voted for.

as long as 4 people voted for it then it should make it

Corrupted were big amongst the stoner doom crowd when I was getting into that kind of stuff in the early 00s. StonerRock dot forum peoples. Awesome sound, but not much memorable material imo.

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.

― Siegbran,

So how will you (or anyone reading) feel if one of master of puppets or reign in blood or ride the lightning or vulgar display of power win?

good

would be a bit boring and predictable though

I guess. I'd be more annoyed if some dishwasher epic or "confusional black metal" curiosity took it. I mean, what should come out on top? Spiritual Healing? Nazi Fuckhead Sings?

Calling it for Monoliths & Dimensions

lol at confusional black metal

if only 8 or 9 votes is needed id be more worried that Anthrax could be top 10.
Total big four domination because its the best known stuff outside of metal thread. Remember its not metal thread regulars only voting (well ok atm 4 regulars are voting haha) so the rest of ilx may decide.

My money's on Reign in Blood

which would be so, so dull imo

honestly, and they may revoke my metal credentials because of this, I'd agree -- however, I'd still be able to get behind it in favor of Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeath, etc. My only real issue with it (and Slayer in general), is that I heard it after I'd already been into stuff like Kreator, Possessed, Sadus, Morbid Saint, not to mention tons of black and death metal. Compared to that stuff, it seems a little tame, and the vocals are (ha) too clean. But I haven't met a metal-head yet who actually agrees with me, and I'm quite sure my position is based on a retrospective appreciation of metal -- if I was a kid in 1986, it probably would have blown my mind.

Nightside Eclipse or Anthems I reckon.

#1 will be The Eagles - Greatest Hits.

hearing Reign in Blood was a game-changer for me, the first time I had heard music that felt genuinely scary

i had the same thing with 'Reign In Blood'. All my life I'd been told about this absolutely insane, face-melting metal album to rule them all. When I finally heard it, I was like 'sounds like Metallica but slightly faster'

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there's loads of young ones out there who think anything before slayer isnt metal and that it all started from them.

Ive actually argued online with some who insist sabbath,maiden, priest are heavy rock. They also tend to hate black metal for some reason.
I suppose they only like the Slayer - death metal lineage?

for people our age hearing slayer in the 80s was definitely "extreme" but quite obviously post death metal et al its not extreme at all. But it would be silly to say slayer arent extreme. It would just be deadly dull if they or any of the big four won this poll.
otoh I cant honestly say there's anything I think should win.

can we just not ever reveal the top 4? :D

1. YOUR HARD DRIVE