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

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

any megadeth left?

haha its been staring me in my face from my shelf.... jute gyte - Ressentiment!

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium is gonna place surely

imago did you vote Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ?

wonder if Cannibal Corpse's issue is vote splitting, since there's a lot of variance on which the favorite is with that band...

damn. no Deicide. I hope at least the s/t makes it, but idk

Although I love Transilvanian Hunger despite some horrible racist lyrics, I'd never delved too deeply into Darkthrone otherwise. I've been listening to Under a Funeral Moon but I'm not sure that streaming it through my speakers does it justice. Probably needs to be heard on 32-bit FLACs through Linns to be appreciated.

i love Funeral Moon, though Blaze is my outright favorite.

think darkthrone need to be listened to on a broken cassette player in a hailstorm tbh

sund4r imo high quality audio is not going to help you appreciate Darkthrone. Under A Funeral Moon in particular is so shrill, it might actually help to hear it coming out of crappy laptop speakers. It's deliberately poorly produced, to evoke the same kind of lo-fi shrill-ness on the early Bathory recordings.

That said, what I liked about them initially, and what continues to draw me to them is that out of all the 2nd wave black metal bands, they retain the closest ties to traditional heavy metal. ie, their riffs (when you can make them out through the haze of terrible production) are from the school of Celtic Frost, Black Sabbath, King Diamond, Motorhead, etc etc. Above all, they're just a great *metal* band, regardless of how kvlt they were during their 90s heyday. So, if you're into that kind of thing -- boozy, adrenaline-provoking aggression/misanthropy/blasphemy -- you stand a good chance of being a Darkthrone fan.

Actually, I was being totally sarcastic. It's pretty obviously lo-fi.

I wonder what they make of it on the Steve Hoffman forums.

trolled!

sund4r could definitely have stood to conceal this unforeseen evil sarcasm ace for longer imo

Under a Funeral Moon is a must-have record for testing out high-end stereo equipment in shops. Sales clerks will respect you immediately and maybe give you deals.

I'm resigned to the fact that Filosofem will place probably - apart from any extraneous factors it's incredibly boring and responible for a million bedroom bm projects that mistake low fidelity and shit screaming for "atmsophere" and that's why I fucking hate it