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

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.

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (466 Points, 6 Votes One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/iFSbwLG.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ntG8GB5e2RuOYkSmBo1ij
https://youtu.be/eaMbKZPBruU

#26

wait, slayer have two more to come?

ffs

will you guys hang around if I take it down to #21? at 10 mins between posts its only an hour

We most certainly will

haha lj and pantera and what remains of the top 4 and i assume a certain brazillian band

i only have the results down to #21 fwiw

for all i know slipknot could be #1

Yeah definitely! (xposts)

lj you dont like slayer at all?

also where are the dopethrone fans (apart from me)

also not having seen he top 20 which Anthrax album is likely to place? I only ever liked Sound Of White Noise

Love Dopethrone. I want to shout too low but I didnt vote so feels unfair. Would have been in my top 3 for sure. Album still crushes me. Its perfect from start to finish.

I'd have voted for Dopethrone. Likely at least 2 other Wizards as well. This is probably going to be the highest though I'd imagine.

25. Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon (467 Points, 7 Votes, One #1)
http://i.imgur.com/2TGfhii.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1DoUTU7FcKT5sy8w4PjsUs
https://youtu.be/Teb8KoyxQdc

This is where I admit that I've never listened to a Death album before. I'm liking Individual Thought Patterns. Nice lead playing.

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.
― we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, February 20, 2016 6:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't get this. Seasons was one of its own beasts and while it had sonic similarities to previous albums I don't think RIB was one of them.

One of my favorite Slayer albs

wait, slayer have two more to come?
ffs
― odysseus (imago), Saturday, February 20, 2016 6:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

FP

Funeral Moon just scraped onto my ballot - mainly for 'Unholy Black Metal'.

i wonder how imago would cope if 3 Pantera albums placed..

I wouldn't be too happy either to be fair but that's democracy for you

I like the next album, but i am shaking my head at it even placing nevermind this high. I cant believe this beat their best album by nearly 70 places either

24. Mastodon - Crack the Skye (469 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/6ec0Ptf.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2W2nqEKXWBorbq5yvm3jZg
https://youtu.be/fcvdkw6v3fE

Huh, didn't expect this. Leviathan still to come I guess?