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

hello! I'll be posting up #50 soon here, my internet isn't playing nice. It's being really slow again.

your noblest 9 minutes is over, time to face the shame...

50. Deafheaven - Sunbather (382, 5 votes)

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0015/2602/products/DHCDLP1_grande.jpg

https://youtu.be/GfbLWHT7vUU
https://open.spotify.com/album/6zEacAdWHLaclKB2C39mag

where's that popcorn gif

no this is fine get it out of the way early

it's certainly the 50th best extreme metal album ever. this poll is true and well-merited. lol

I do really like Sunbather actually, its a great album. I just think its placement so prominent here is hilarious.

49. Death - Human (389, 7 votes)

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

https://youtu.be/WSwIDKmCzeE?list=PLlpsJiGuS_nOn6Qvl35ik4X1AN7b7WlhM
https://open.spotify.com/album/6AvvqTkgRqq3L4bD9qYfjD

Best to gloss over Sunbather. It's fine, but way too high.

Human would have been my no.10! (if I'd got my shit together and voted.)

if the vote had been reheld i dread to think how many more 2014/2015 albums would have made it. Its far too soon to call anything that recent all-time imo

who was saying that Death didn't really click with them? I think they were a witch we should burn, iirc.

imo if you don't like Carcass and Death ur extreme metal credentials are v. weak.

Death are not my favorite. Would probably be okay if they had a decent guitar player though.

And I only like Carcass from Symphonies on.

Or you're just a young dude.

[flees]

I am a young dude!

but really i was just trying to stir up conversation. stick around contendo, plz!

48. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... (405, 6 votes)

http://www.pinpointmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/comemyfanatics.jpg

https://youtu.be/-eUVubC7ojM
https://open.spotify.com/album/2TKQp9xceBz52EbCrKs4g4

if the vote had been reheld i dread to think how many more 2014/2015 albums would have made it. Its far too soon to call anything that recent all-time imo

I know a lot of people will agree with you but as someone who voted for a fair few recent albums, I put together my ballot based on what I like and what records mean the most to me here and now. If I hear something new that I like more than the older records, I'm not going to hold off voting for it - yes, I might not feel the same about it in five years' time but I'll worry about that then. I might just as easily end up revising my opinion on something from 2001 or 1997 or 1986 in five years' time too.

sorry guys I gotta step away for a bit! I'll be back not too long from now!

Probably wouldn't have included any recent stuff if I'd voted. Except Babymetal oc.

ok folks ive to step in til he comes ack. watch this space for the usual cock ups

gavin in leeds, im not having a go at you personally

oh and i voted for that electric wizard album

47. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (406 Points, 5 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/iUT04W9.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3hD00slYcY3K5lrDGFcGb8

https://youtu.be/3czQT52d16s

Everybody knows Fanatics is best E-Wiz tho Dopethrone is gonna come in higher for reasons.

I bought this album (xpost, Gojira) on eMusic years and years ago, partly because of the band name, partly because of the whale on the cover. I didn't really think of it as extreme. Maybe I'll go back and listen to it again sometime today.

new wave of french space whale

Ha yeah what Frobisher said upthread about the Angel Hair album cover not being indicative of the music definitely applies to this one.

Just realised we've not had any Gorguts albums yet. Maybe they're all in the top ten?

46. High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings (406 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/ephxcqu.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Fez8YmdKDD9732QTBeJzt
https://youtu.be/euALIidJYsA?list=PL36ST_7h9Q6baMPIguN7_kSniCby35ERj

every gorguts album is better than a high on fire, gojira, electric wizard, or deafheaven record.

so maybe they will all come later.

Just wanna say as an outsider, but def metalcurious, this thread has been a boon. Been sampling almost everything; good reading too. Thx dudes.

I voted for Gorguts! We haven't seen Cryptopsy or Incantation either -- really, what brutal DM has placed?

45. Venom - Welcome To Hell (412 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/AGhT9De.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/416frNecRqcMLBExg4Yimj
https://youtu.be/Y09aF6z5UKY

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I know the identity of the next 2 albums coming up but frobisher is back and will post them. I just want to say the next album is way too low and shame on you all!!!!!

the fact he never gave me #42 suggests its an album shockingly low and was expected to be top 10. Hoping its slayer haha

Gavin OTM +

if the vote had been reheld i dread to think how many more 2014/2015 albums would have made it. Its far too soon to call anything that recent all-time imo

I have a hard time taking this attitude very seriously when we're talking about a message board poll about a style that has only been around for about 30 years, tbh, especially, when there have been so many developments and offshoots in that time, and especially when you were so insistent on getting people to participate. I'll freely admit to not being as deeply knowledgeable about early extreme metal as many people, and I'm up for learning more, but I was able to list 40 albums that I genuinely enjoy and that mean something to me. If I were going to teach a course or write a book on the subject, I'd definitely put more work into studying the history, and the results of a poll give me something to work with, but I wasn't going to treat making my ballot like a job.

Sunbather (my #9) does a lot more for me than Filosofem or that shitty Venom record fwiw.

haha i wasnt insistent on anyone taking part. i had nothing to do with this poll at all

but you did insist on talking about it on facebook all day ;)

I'm having fun with it! I just think it's kind of goofy to be all 'kids these days' about the venerable aged tradition of extreme metal.

I thought the point of Venom was that they were shitty?

For me, this poll has been fun, and good timing considering I dove headfirst into extreme metal only in the last few years. My entryway happened to be old (like early 90s) records, so it's been a slow, gradual, and basically organic journey branching out (forwards and backwards) from there. I simply don't know that much about new extreme metal, so if we re-poll in 5 years, my ballot is almost certainly bound to look different.

I mean, it's all in fun right? Who treats this like a job (except for our valiant poll-runners)?

xpost

ha yeah about Venom. I actually didn't really get them when I heard Black Metal, but Welcome to Hell made a lot more sense, as far as the general sloppiness and scummy atomsphere

I'm pretty sure i wasnt to post the next one but maybe im meant to? frobisher?

Teacher caught me masturbatin

Underneath the desk

Xpost

I guess i was meant to. Because it was the album that got me into black metal finally