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

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)?

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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

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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.

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

This thread is the xpostiest

i'm pretty sure most of the decibel writers/editors were younger than me other than john d. so i never really got their love for some stuff.

wait has their been any MDB, Anathema, etc? you guys aren't goth enough i guess.

too LOW

TOO low

TOO LOW

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I was the one who voted it #1 in case anyone was wondering

hey i would've voted for anathema

OK I'm finally gonna listen to Napalm Death after Garten der Unbewusstheit

I freely admit to having a lack of interest in UK doom (except for, you know, Sabbath). I've tried the most acclaimed albums of the unholy trinity and gotten nothing. I do like Cathedral, though, but then I also like Hammer Horror movies.

42. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (421 Points, 6 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/T76WSLW.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/70pc0RiLN8DC7BDq2Ah7Ph
https://youtu.be/WwkG_Len90U

2 BM classics so low down. did the BM crew not turn out?

I've never heard any Emperor.

Top 10's just going to be Gojira live albums and Deafheaven's demo isn't it

dont have it but its gonna be the big four and pantera i assume

I voted for the other Emperor.

Anthems my #1. I don't feel like going on at length about it, though. It's just the best thing I've ever heard in the metal realm. It was my introduction to the whole second wave, and it took like a year for me to get over my obsession with it in order to buy any other albums from that whole movement.

(Nightside was my #3.)

Nightside was also my #3, but I can't say I've heard Anthems. I suppose I should fix that.

41. Cryptopsy - None So Vile (421 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/7PMXagd.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/78mC2Sg8KqA2hhjiq9aJzk
https://youtu.be/q3JeaBoBU-c