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

I voted for this too. I remember in about 1991 just after i got into nirvana/grunge a mate loaning me this, a slayer and the 1st metallica lp. This was the one i liked the most.

it just sounded so much more advanced and going somewhere

I was born in 1987, under the sign of the black mark

18. Gorguts - Obscura (517 Points, 7 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/87CJxu3.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/6Qlf7T4Xs7lV2KTzGHpTJL
https://youtu.be/X1X0Bejwnko

Imago please post a recent pic so I can have an effigy ready

http://i.imgur.com/zzC172f.jpg

That is me, wishing I'd made Gorguts my #2 rather than my #22. Also, that photo is taken inside 'the witch's coven' at Highgate...

But yeah, listened to the Gorguts yesterday/today in preparation for this and hell. I straight up forgot just how amazing it is

Shoppping list: scarf, brown wig. Done!

Yeah, love Obscura. It's one of those records that was/is almost a genre unto itself.

+ two pairs of binoculars

tech-death isn't really my thing, but agreed on Obscura (along with earlier Demilich entry, which surely must have been an influence for these guys) as thing-unto-itself. I guess I should check out the other Gorguts records?

yeah tt asked me what genre the song Clouded was when I played it to her this morning as she prepared for work (best way to start the day!) and I said I genuinely thought it was in a genre of its own

btw I'm really enjoying the Bathory! especially the big track, enter the eternal fire. that was well good.

xxxp binoculars are expensive dude!

Dom, definitely check out The Erosion of Sanity - it's the beginning of Gorguts going batshit. Maybe a coincidence but the song "Condemned to Obscurity" feels like the beginning of the thread that got more and more progressively tangled and became Obscura. From Wisdom to Hate is good, but it feels like they made Obscura and were like "whoa, what the fuck was that?!" and backed off a bit.

"Considered Dead," their first one, is good but very straightforward Roadrunner death metal.

and then they made colored sands which i find difficult to describe but is amazing

That's an ace picture. What were you spotting in there? THE DEAD or migratory birds?

sweet will check it

Condemned To Obscurity is an amazing song, yeah!

At a junk shop I bought two pairs of binoculars for £25 recently, that's $40? What do you call junk shops over there, thrift stores?

(I was ostensibly spotting English winter birds but I think I glimpsed a malign spirit at one point, or maybe it was just a squirrel)

17. Entombed - Left Hand Path (532 Points, 8 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/SGpwnGb.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5nrZejD99ZmAXrmrouIJcU
https://youtu.be/tsdWLtPAVqM

If I'd voted in this, Obscura would've been my #1.

(My cemetery of choice was always West Brompton. I saw a dirty great flock of siskins and bramblings in there a couple of winters ago. This isn't very metal. Maybe the Botanist might approve.)

I haven't listened to Left Hand Path in years. Clandestine was always my go to. Will dig it out.

you should

LHP one of the first death metal albums I liked, but it was more about following the course of Nihilist, who I'd stumbled into first. Swedish death initially appealed to me a lot more than American death, simply for the fact it didn't seem as wanky. Nowadays, I think it's just because it was more indebted to Autopsy, but still, this is a great album, if not as good as the demos/band that preceded it.

Bramblings!! I've never identified one successfully. There were some chaffinches in those Highgate woods but that's as exciting as it got. I saw my first siskin last winter in Watford's own Cassiobury Park, though, which is pretty metal of me

This Bathory album was *excellent*. Really really great. Maybe the best thrash record ever? ;)

black thrash death, like celtic frost/hellhammer it all started there

Voivod sounds like funk metal so far!

you got something else opened in youtube again?

this has got swing. that bass

This is not what I expected Voivod to sound like. I'm confused, but not in a bad way.

xp Blackie was a pretty monstrous bassist.

I also was into Nihilist before Entombed (I had their second demo) and I love Left Hand Path; being a texture freak I always found those early Scandinavian bands' demos more exciting than their albums because the guitar sounds were fucking filthy, guttural noise like a truck engine eating another truck engine. Clandestine brought back just the right amount of filth, though.

(My cemetery of choice was always West Brompton. I saw a dirty great flock of siskins and bramblings in there a couple of winters ago. This isn't very metal. Maybe the Botanist might approve.)

This sounds metal as fuck to me, man. Cemeteries, isolation, nature...

...birds that are probably evil.

today's music has been str8 amazing so far, just need entombed to be gr8 and it's 4/4

i went to an esoteric bookshop recently and asked for volumes on occult birdwatching, which stumped the guy behind the counter. still found a couple of things mind...

16. Gorguts - Colored Sands (541 Points, 8 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/qy9v66K.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0MbEcbEOCXgCSoJELQO5NS
https://youtu.be/2DgPGkk4HNA

Oh fuck! Did not expect this vote of mine to make it!

whoa

WOW. awesome

HIGHER than Obscura. crazy

I saw Entombed a couple of times around the time of Left Hand Path and Clandestine*, but they could never seem to replicate that guitar sound live. As I recall the sound was shite for the whole of the Gods of Grind gig (Entombed / Carcass / Cathedral / Confessor - damn what a line up).

As for cemeteries, I need a couple more to complete the 'Magnificent Seven': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_Seven_cemeteries

And I'm blank on occult birdwatching, though I'm guessing the links must be there with the alchemists.

xpost.

that is a superb link, thank you! we'll stick it on the weekend roster :)

Voivod sounds like they are signed to Dischord. They remind me somehow of Rites of Spring. The vocals are quite...emo. I love this so much.

Xpost

Oh wow! Definitely visiting all of those as a matter of urgency.

xp They weren't signed to Dischord but the emo-ish band Dahlia Seed actually covered Voivod - "Missing Sequences (Voivod Rules)"

now we know why sund4r loves them so much

Cool, I'll check both out. :)

Both Obscura and Colored Sands rule. That 'Nostalgia" riff might be my all time favorite. Incredible band, the newest lineup is killer.

Count me in the chorus of those surprised and pleased that Colored Sands showed up when it did. I keep expecting to listen to it and decide I've been overreacting about its greatness, but no -- it's been the most unpredictably great experience for me since Mayhem's Ordo ad Chao and before that I don't even remember. Pretty rare that a band is able to make me relive that initial obsessive excitement that comes with a new discovery, especially without going the retro route.

Huh. I just realized: no Behemoth in this whole thing.

Colored Sands is just astonishing, obviously. So many bands make their far-out masterpiece and fail to follow it up. Colored Sands sounds like where you go from Obscura.

Um...Entombed is...really good? What's going on!? All the albums today have been amazing!

Never heard Gorguts. this is consistently punishing stuff. feel like I've been holding my breath for the last 30 minutes listening to this