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

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)

time to freak out about all the great albums that haven't showed up yet

but they have to show up

they have to

but what if they don't

gaaah

"Individual Thought Patterns" is a strangely un-metal album title

29. Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (454 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/0nLW4WV.jpg
https://youtu.be/qdeqvhxu7iI?list=PLE6C71F8B7BB2F548

Discordance Axis are great—absolutely one of the best grindcore bands ever—but I think I prefer Jouhou to The Inalienable Dreamless.

Below the Lights is when I started liking Enslaved. I still wish they'd abandon the black metal parts (vocals in particular) and go full-on prog, but I wish that about a lot of bands. Black metal sucks, is my point.

Sunn O))) album is good, didn't vote for tho

also realizing I saw Dave Witte play w/Melt Banana, just didn't know who he was at the time

So so late but

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.

As Enslaved was my favorite band in the world until Isa (and everything after), I can easily recommend moving backward through their discography. The first song on Mardraum destroys pretty much everything -- and the rest of that album isn't that much of a dip. And Eld and Frost are two more peaks in the Norwegian scene. Isa ushered in a softer Enslaved, and while I can appreciate that others like the melo-prog style, I vastly prefer all things prior.

edit: ha in light of the Enslaved post that just now arrived ahead of mine

xxp I have the opposite problem, I find stuff like Vertebrae isn't heavy enough and just ends up being really dull like Steven Wilson tried to make folk metal album of something.

So I think I'll do what you suggested Devilock

OK so now listening to Altars of Madness for the first time

SO MANY RIFFS

28. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (455 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/uycAuV1.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2AC5PyQwCrVYa6i3x4vexI
https://youtu.be/TTI0MgVzuxQ

Yeah I think Enslaved are better at prog than they are at BM but Below the Lights splits the difference nicely. 'Queen of Night' always throws me when it comes on though!

Siegbran is the opposite of you guys

I can't help thinking Lynx missed out by not having a 'Vastness and Sorrow' range.

Love Two Hunters but too high, probably. 'I Will Lay Down My Bones...' might justify it's placing though

27. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss (458 Points, 6 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/M3XgAgs.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0T7EJcGab7NjykxKZthGTW
https://youtu.be/PEHzU3iRl9Y

they had more than one album huh

Seasons is pretty much the sound of Slayer realizing they could just recycle Reign In Blood and South of Heaven forever, without much thought or effort.