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

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None So Vile transcends everything. It's a fucking monster. It's classical music.

My theory is in pieces now

imago's #2 I bet

That Cryptopsy album was one of my first fav brutal DM albums.

"Graves of the Fathers" still makes me flip out

what about rust in peace?

I regret selling my picture disk of that album 20 years ago.

Rust for years I called overrated but in recent years it has become my favorite Megadeth.

"Five Magics" fuckin rules

I don't even like Megadeth that much but Rust in Peace forced its way onto my ballot. Near the bottom, but still. I have to admit it's a thing of beauty.

Megadeths first four albums impeccable altho I ain't superstitious isn't great.

Killing is My Business is a classic of sloppy cocaine thrash

38. Botanist - VI: Flora (429 Points, 6)
http://i.imgur.com/tAMSvEK.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2alalNFu3Ah449CIyPqiWp

Mustaine occasionally sings like satanic thrash drug addict Cyndi Lauper on Rust which is the only drawback

That Cryptopsy album was one of my first fav brutal DM albums.

me too

blimey at the next 2 being so low

I love Rust in Peace unashamedly. And I still have my signed picture disc copy! (And a signed picture disc of No More Mr Nice Guy. The old Record Shop in Kingston. Those were the days.)

Apparently, I didn't even vote for VI. I must not have seen it on the noms list since I voted for IV and I prefer VI.

What, no complaints that it's too soon for a Botanist album from 2014 to make an all-time list? How...unsurprising.

it is a bit soon but we flogged that horse a while ago

i didnt vote for it btw if its aimed at me

37. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (430 Points, 6 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/2NktGfB.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5bGvjGywEebDcYOZwkCYvK
https://youtu.be/BmA6PDutNDE

That Cryptopsy album was one of my first fav brutal DM albums.

Post I had second thoughts abt:

Weird that the results are so evenly split between actual extreme metal and variously flavored Wire shit

lol, ^ was meant to respond to:

What, no complaints that it's too soon for a Botanist album from 2014 to make an all-time list? How...unsurprising.

Botanist is great, that Cryptopsy album greater, everyone shut up, the vanity is of useless differences

Doom in Bloom is great. It deserves to come in somewhere around 834 on this list.

But I've always been vain.

I love that Botanist album! That it captures so resolutely the atmosphere of actual plants is wonderful. The vocals are just this faintly perceptible hiss on the underneath of a lotus... It's just this swarming mass of ambient, summery beauty.

In the meantime, Weakling is fantastic so far.

Botanist was my #40, which was probably a bit too high tbh, but w/e. ^^^that description nails it

and yeah Weakling is fucking mighty. think we might settle down to some shove ha'penny while it thunders by

how can a band named Weakling sound this enormous?

36. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales (431 Points, 7 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/qGs5tLP.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1PAHTFExKX69ftvv1s14bg
https://youtu.be/6FgfzDJPp3w

Happily share in Weakling/Celtic Frost hug pool.

shockingly low eh?

well yeah, but s'okay cuz now i'm listening to it

technically speaking this one is befire the celtic frost as the frost had a #1
so frost is #35

this is #36

36. Possessed - Seven Churches (431 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/u9SBmfO.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Odnpp1zUsv6Ab2R8iOqnd

https://youtu.be/MdXBJL6rMxY

more surprised at blaze way down here for some reason. thought they got all the kisses.

Curious if Under a Funeral Moon will even make the cut. Others seem to like it much more than I do. Blaze and Transilvanian Hunger on the other hand are both in my top 10.

mmm Seven Churches. I neglected that one for too long.

I only have down to #21 so do you want me to go down to it tonight so the poll should def finish tomorrow assuming frobisher can do it or do i finish at 31 or 26?

No idea whats in the top 20

Dunno what the others think but I'm fine with stopping sooner rather than later. Either way I'll be catching up tomorrow.

i want to make things easier for him but i dont want to overstep the mark. he did seem to want me to go to 26 if i could so i should honour that and see if he pm's me again on fb

34. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (433 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/7ocWasw.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2vWHACnDiSnFM52octEvY0
https://youtu.be/6mfvSSl9L9M

mmm Seven Churches. I neglected that one for too long.

yeah, such an awesome gargling mess. in my top 20, but i'm fuck old so no surprise.

ok now we're getting somewhere. I was the Blaze #1, Morbid Tales in my top 10, and def voted for Seven Churches. Blaze was the album that got me really got me into extreme metal. I still listen to it all the time, and though at any particular moment I might prefer a different Darkthrone album to jam as my fave, I can't deny it's most important to me personally.

adam youre too old for the ilx 43 club

Possessed in general took me a while to appreciate, but now, I rank them even higher than I did when we submitted ballots for this. I like pretty much everything they did, including 1991 and 1993 demos which crank up the death metal quotient much higher, and suggest they could have been real contenders for much longer than they were.

I actually considered voting for Thy Kingdom Come, Morbid Angel's '87 demo, as I find it has some of that old school black charm (a la Possessed, German Thrash, Celtic Frost), but as I recall, I did end up opting for Altars

oh and I am 42, can I join the club??

are you 43 this year? i just turned 43 last month

I will be in December

good enough

33. Autopsy - Mental Funeral (434 Points, 6 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/iDvGQtY.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1NDJEFME22cIMF21DPE8PG
https://youtu.be/7lc1lx5v4co