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

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

44. Weakling - Dead As Dreams 413 Points, 5 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/aZFKsxl.jpg

https://youtu.be/mnjH-ZYe59c

too LOW

TOO low

TOO LOW

Aye, as I said. Finally a non nazi tainted scene that allowed me to check out BM without worrying about whether they were church burning nazi's or not

MuchMusic's Power Hour used to play this when I was a kid in the late 80s. It seemed like interminable garbage at the time. The extended feedback at the end does seem more appealing now, if not exactly great.

I've never heard this Weakling record! Will add it to The List.

weakling record was one of my top ten records of all time circa sophomore year of college

still love it obv

It sounds good so far.

Listening as well -- considering I don't usually like this style, it's good so far. Pretty epic too, so I can imagine this would work well in a lot of situations where I'm not glued to my chair listening intently. There are some surprisingly headbanging moments on this (wonder how much Josh Smith later of Fucking Champs had to do w/these lines), and doomy parts too. The only thing I can't really get behind are the Burzum-y vocals.

xxxxxxp Sometimes I think ILX is just secretly a hive of Gojira fans. Maybe the only one, I've never heard anyone mention them IRL.

They're good but I forget about them

Sometimes I think ILX is just secretly a hive of Gojira fans. Maybe the only one, I've never heard anyone mention them IRL.

And yet they sell out large clubs and theaters and are a major festival draw! Crazy, right?

frobisher is having to deal with stuff so wants me to post for a while

and my suspicions were confirmed. fucking hell at #42 indeed

but first here is #43

I like Gojira a lot, was just listening to them yesterday actually, and then watched a pretty cool live vid of them performing in Spain in 2014. However they didn't make my list.

And yet they sell out large clubs and theaters and are a major festival draw! Crazy, right?

I had no idea. Good for them! Whoever they are.

Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration (417 Points, 6 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/KJ67203.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6re8f0t2NnxYGfOVRTDs8C
https://youtu.be/ljhlmi1flVE

#43

Decibel mag always pretty big on Gojira.

One of these days I want to just order some of those "full dynamic range" albums from Earache, see what they're all about. I know they did FETO. (And Nocturnus' Thresholds!)

Great album. I remember playing it for my thrashy friends in high school and they were NOT into it.

xxp

no idea how the word "just" got into my previous post, also xpost

This thread is the xpostiest