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

I just hope you all voted for a Celtic Frost-Bathory 1-2

Nah it's gonna be all Lividity albums

@ Tom Violence, UAFM was also high on my ballot, and imo the best guitar tone on any Darkthrone album. Not to mention, it fucking rocks.

and still thinking RIB will take #1. And I could at least get behind that in principle. Would love to see To Mega Therion or Under the Sign of the Black Mark take this, but doubt it will.

from my ballot, was hoping to see, but haven't: any Gorgoroth, Carnage, Nihilist

one of those 2 should but its slayer or metallica im sure

The countdown so far

205 Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
204 !T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest
203 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
201 Liturgy - Renihilation
201 Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
200 Virus - The Black Flux
199 Yob - The Unreal Never Lived
198 Nocturnus - The Key
196 Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
196 Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
195 Meshuggah - Chaosphere
194 Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
193 Darkspace - II
192 Watchtower - Control and Resistance
191 Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
190 Prong - Beg To Differ
189 Kayo Dot - Hubardo
188 Setherial - Nord
187 Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
186 Strapping Young Lad - City
185 Atheist - Piece of Time
184 Panopticon - Roads to the North
183 Sodom - Persecution Mania
182 Painkiller - Guts of a Virgin
181 Liturgy - Aesthetica
180 Bathory - The Return
179 Krallice - Diotima
178 Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
177 Vlad Tepes/Belketre - March to the Black Holocaust
176 Portal - vexovoid
175 Obituary - Slowly We Rot
174 Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
173 Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis
172 Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
170 Dodheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
170 Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
169 Shining - Blackjazz
168 Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
167 Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
166 Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
165 Bolt Thrower - For Victory
164 Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
163 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
162 Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
161 Bathory - Bathory
160 Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters
159 Naked City - Torture Garden
158 Cleric - Regressions
157 Angel Hair - Pregnant with the Senior Class
155 Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
155 Meshuggah - obZen
154 Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
153 Morbid Angel - Covenant
152 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
151 Tiamat - Wildhoney
150 Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
149 Meshuggah - Catch 33
148 Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
146 Immolation - Close to a World Below
146 Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
145 Mare - Mare
144 Death - Leprosy
142 Ambergris - Ambergris (EP)
142 Melvins - Lysol
141 Eyehategod - Dopesick
140 Cynic - Focus
137 Carcass - Surgical Steel
137 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities
137 Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
136 Isis - Celestial
135 Coroner - Mental Vortex
134 Demilich - Nespithe
133 Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
132 Absu - Absu
131 Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
130 Negură Bunget - OM
129 Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
128 Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye
126 Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
126 Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
125 Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
124 Sepultura - Arise
123 Corrupted - Llenandose de gusanos
122 Mayhem - Ordo ad Chao
121 Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
120 Entombed - Clandestine
119 Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
118 Death - Scream Bloody Gore
117 Melvins - Houdini
116 Orthrelm - OV
115 diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into the Peripheral
114 Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
113 Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
112 Spectral Lore - III
111 Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, pt 1
110 Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
109 Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
108 Yob - Catharsis
107 Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
106 Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
105 Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
104 Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
103 Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
102 Voivod - Killing Technology
101 Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
100 Mastodon - Remission
99 Angelic Process, The - Weighing Souls With Sand
98 Thou - Heathen
97 Alcest - Le Secret (EP)
96 Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta 2: Dialogue with the Stars
95 Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
94 Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
93 Metallica - Kill Em All
89 Converge - Jane Doe
89 Earth - Earth 2
89 Mastodon - Blood Mountain
89 Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods
88 Darkspace - III
87 Autopsy - Severed Survival
86 Terrorizer - World Downfall
85 Krallice - Krallice
84 Warning - Watching From A Distance
83 Gris - À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée...
82 Winter - Into Darkness
81 Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
80 Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
79 Coroner - No More Color
78 Opeth - Still Life
77 Bathory - Blood Fire Death
76 Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
75 Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
74 Krallice - Years Past Matter
73 Immortal - Battles in the North
72 Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
71 Repulsion - Horrified
70 Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
69 Celtic Frost - Monotheist
68 Corrupted - El mundo frio
67 Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
66 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
65 Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
64 Summoning - Stronghold
63 Napalm Death - Scum
62 Yob - The Great Cessation
61 Deafheaven - New Bermuda
60 Boris - at Last -Feedbacker-
59 Absu - Tara
58 Meshuggah - I
57 Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
56 Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
53 Deathspell Omega - Fas Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
53 Jesu - Jesu
53 Sunn O))) - Black One
52 Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
51 Agalloch - The Mantle
50 Deafheaven - Sunbather
49 Death - Human
48 Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
47 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
46 High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
45 Venom - Welcome To Hell
44 Weakling - Dead As Dreams
43 Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
42 Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
41 Cryptopsy - None So Vile
40 Gridlink - Longhena
39 Megadeth - Rust In Peace
38 Botanist - VI: Flora
37 Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
36 Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
35 Possessed - Seven Churches
34 Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
33 Autopsy - Mental Funeral
32 Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
31 Enslaved - Below the Lights
30 Death - Individual Thought Patterns
29 Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
28 Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
27 Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
26 Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
25 Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
24 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
23 Voivod - Dimension Hatross
22 Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
21 Sleep - Dopesmoker

safe to say ILM prefers death metal the least of all the extreme sub-genres?

this is why I should have voted. the DM would be flowing through the poll's veins

tho tbf these are largely good choices

Only three of my votes yet to place, I reckon: Bergtatt, Obscura, Streetcleaner

did you do a full ballot of 100?

did anyone (apart from me)?

I did 50 (24 yet to place so far, but expecting a few soon)

I managed something in the range of 55-60 I think

I went for 75 in the end.

This finishes today, right?

Would have loved to see The Chasm make the list and I'm sort of surprised Destroyer 666's Phoenix Rising didn't.

Just realized we haven't seen Drawing Down the Moon. Yet? Or any Cannibal Corpse, which I guess I understand. Only Bloodthirst made mine.

I did a ballot of 100 so there was ample room for stuff I knew I'd never see. Ripping Corpse, Furia, Vesania, Spite Extreme Wing, Demoncy. On the other hand I'm sure I left out tons of essentials, both intentionally and not.

safe to say ILM prefers death metal the least of all the extreme sub-genres?

Probably mostly true for me, if you throw thrash in there too. I'm enjoying some of the classic stuff that I'm checking out from this poll, though.

finishes today when frobisher wakes up

make your own wishful thinking top 20's while he snores

20. Megadeth - Risk
19. Deathkids - Born in Hell
18. Pantera - Projects in the Jungle
17. Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
16. Heene Boyz - American Chilly
15. Manowar - Battle Hymns MMXI
14. Anal Blast - Vaginal Vempire
13. Waco Jesus - Filth
12. Lust Control - Condom Nation
11. Burzum - Daudi Bauldrs
10. Savatage - Fight for the Rock
9. Gorefest - Soul Survivor
8. Morbid Angel - Ilud Divinum Insanus
7. Mortiis - Perfectly Defect
6. Danzig - Blackacidevil
5. Satyricon - Volcano
4. Emperor - IX Equilibrium
3. Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
2. Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
1. Deicide - Insineratehymn

glad to see the best Pantera album in there

Hey guys, I didn't get to sleep last night, and now I feel terrible and exauhsted. I'm going to finish the poll up on Monday. More people are generally around on weekdays anyway... so. Hope that doesn't cramp your plans or anything. Thanks for hanging in there everyone and participating in this crazy thing.

no worries, baby, get some sleep

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO TONIGHT

the same thing we do every night

Defile the Nazarene

you can argue about the 205-21 albums and talk about albums you wish would make it but wont?

What huge albums are missing so far?

Obscura
Pure Holocaust
South of Heaven
Reign in Blood
The Sound of Perserverence
Symbolic
Filosofem
Heartwork
In the Nightside Eclipse
Bergtatt
Transilvanian Hunger
De Mysteriis dom Sathanas
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Nightfall
Streetcleaner
To Mega Therion
Forest of Equilibrium
Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
In Their Darkened Shrines
Leviathan

Was hoping 1or2 maudlin of the well albums would place but really not sure now

Unquestionable Presence, mayne

Left Hand Path?

Genuinely excited to see what happens. Been pretty unpredictable thus far. Bunch of stuff I've never heard. Loving The Inalienable Dreamless. Had no idea it existed.

Think gman's list has to be at least 80% accurate. Would maybe sub a couple:

Obscura
Colored Sands (if anything recent's got a shot)
South of Heaven
Reign in Blood
Symbolic
Spiritual Healing
Filosofem
Heartwork
In the Nightside Eclipse
Bergtatt
Transilvanian Hunger
De Mysteriis dom Sathanas
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Streetcleaner
To Mega Therion
Forest of Equilibrium
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
Leviathan
Left Hand Path

something needs to miss out

some things, even

plus there could be surprise entries because voting threshold is so low

i'm still pissed the best Carcass album is sitting at 205.

but I didnt vote so

plus i cant believe there will be no anthrax on a board that contains dajp and jjj.

and why is everyone forgetting Chaos AD? surefire top 10 album there. as big an entry to extreme metal for some people as Heartwork is for others.

xpost yeah tho of the thrash bands they were decidedly the least extreme

Among The Living is the Anthrax album thats gonna place innit?

Times Of Grace is still to show up a lot of peoples fave Neurosis

has any At The Gates placed?

if it did, tho I think SOD is more appropriate for *this* poll

Nile!

Gorgoroth?

christ i have about 40 albums i think will make it going into 20. some good shit is gonna miss out.

2 godflesh albums are certs, 2 slayer, 2 metallica, darkthrone,burzum, triptykon,frost, what else?

Liturgy

oh yeah immortal pure holocaust, mayhem - de mysteris, among the living, vulgar display of power, chaos ad. none of those could miss out

haha last years liturgy and krallice might sneak in with 7 high votes.

god this is impossible to work out but i cant see any of these missing out