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

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

my #2

also woohoo!

are we past the point of too low then?

Mental Funeral not at #1 is too low.

xpost

for me sure, but now the complaints revert to "too high".

jmm were you Mental Funeral's #1? Let us come together to drink fermented yeast beverages

everything will be too high now

32. Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless (438 Points, 6
Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/VVyrbSU.jpg

ot on UK Spotify but might be on US spotify
https://youtu.be/mINKK1Hpm3c

yah, might as well start counting back up

I don't think I've even heard of that band before

I haven't heard this record, but I have seen Neon Genesis Evangelion, which it's apparently based on. Also, it's only 24 minutes long, so I have no excuse now.

Heard of, but just barely. Name says it all.

"Rob Marton had to leave the band because he developed seizures from standing too close to the amp during shows."

Yeah, Mental Funeral was my top pick. It's my ideal of how DM should sound.

have heard Dave Wite drum for like 100 other bands tho, fucker's amazing

31. Enslaved - Below the Lights (443 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/sRhuDpT.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3uei5LFX4boIwVER1zdLD8
https://youtu.be/Q8tsBOo3gnA

lol "Dave Wite"

WITTE, same dif

- A. Wite

kinda regret selling my original vinyl discordance axis but i didn't play it much. fun record though!

everyone should just listen to alters of madness all the time. every day.

Yeah, Autopsy is sounding really good so far.

Listening to Enslaved now. Having only heard their more recent albums I always dismissed them as being sort of bland but this ain't bad. A bit like Borknagar with the cheesiness dialled back a great deal.

that would help

30. Death - Individual Thought Patterns (448 Points, 6 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/0T2IbK6.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/56gbykNskCFungP4TSPI2y
https://youtu.be/FnMgUBZ3H9c?list=PLLez-POwbBGMf7lCd9nkOUKCCdrv1XztL

Thus run is great. Individual Thought Patterns was my first Death album! Blew my high school mind.

I think my problem with Death is that I like death dirty. Like holding a ripe toddler to your face and inhaling through its diaper.

ITP was around where I stopped listening to Death. I was like, "so, you're really into, like, playing your guitar now, huh?"

(I did recently buy and enjoy Sound of Perseverance, though)