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

So, sorry this poll kind of got shelved for a bit, I needed help with the tabulating and finally got that help (thank you based seandalai, you are a golden god!). This is a top 200 because there is just too much rad stuff that didn't make it into the top 100 and I couldn't bare not to post it. So, hopefully I can get through 20 a day and at that rate we'll be done sometime next week!

Yes, this is real, sorry for the wait, but it's happening!

wooooo!!!

whooooa

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/jobstran/drumroll.gif

Sorry, I lied, I'm starting at #205...

#205. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness (145, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/xoc1FB.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0hZQj8vgT0AEU4DYKBo9Ir

Great Start!!!

Got the LP reissue of this on my 21st birthday. It is pretty great!

What century was that?

21st, the oughts.

204. !T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest (145, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/110CtI.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4tbbeUCGLd2I10q9EjY7Kw

I am assuming that 'Order and Punishment' is just the English title of this album, since this is what shows up in every search. Am I wrong?

never heard of this

When I saw the thread title I thought "Oh, time to work on my ballot".

you didn't vote?

Iirc, it came up in one of the year-end metal polls. I remember liking it.

Yes, 'Rad A Trest' is Czech for 'Order and Punishment'. Great album, I think I was the one who nominated it. The fact that this poll is finally happening is a nice surprise

Results, I mean

203. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale (145, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/2Th293.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2dtJZ9B01mRi1n9HHNa0uT
https://youtu.be/B5eoiEM0g9U

A funeral doom metal classic, featuring two 20+ minute long songs!

Ohhh TOO LOW!

Imago you better have voted

201. Liturgy - Renihilation (147, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/dgqZxy.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/3x2YgwoS74uzufShUsITgK
https://youtu.be/WzcuEFn9zrQ

There was no 202. I swear!

oh cause there was a tie...

201. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide (147, 2 Votes)

https://i.sli.mg/5gDXO8.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/1qDuowqmVHQEeE6ibniC4a
https://youtu.be/_IteznHojuA

yeah voted for both the Xasthur and the Esoteric

neither in my top 25 but still, they're gr8

glad you voted imago, we always need more people to rep. atmospheric black metal and other such things!

200. Virus - The Black Flux (148, 2 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/M5ybBs.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/2BKpOyxLYGmf1kStnkiQli
https://youtu.be/UM4t-Jxq5_o

this is a very imago stretch

yeah, the next five albums are all Jute Gyte. :P

TOO LOW seriously The Black Flux is every bit as classic as Written in Waters

199. Yob - The Unreal Never Lived (148, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/Tp7anI.jpg

https://youtu.be/Y5eadgIsY1U?list=PLiljzJ427GidAxZjm0ObrVFduKpYOQOSU

Here's some CS metal... This is also too low, imo. (see why I'm doing a top 200?)

Quantum Mystic is one of the top psych. doom tracks ever.

oh yes too low! But it must mean some amazing albums are in the 200 and really good ones missing out!

Oh, it's the big poll. I'd forgotten about it. Consider me tuned in.

Thrash and death metal gonna dominate, right? All the doom and avant garde stuff low down?

all the metallica albums make up the top 5 split by immortal at #2, right?

imago did your gf vote?

198. Nocturnus - The Key (148, 4 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/gl9Kbm.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5TICPm12epHwIbZsQfw04O
https://youtu.be/uGg11znHPA8

Haven't listened to this one, but it seems like something I definitely need to check out.

TOO LOW

lol i didn't vote in this though

the key one of the best metal records eveer ever ever probably in my top five

xxxpost My ballot leaned more toward black, and had an overall bias for 90s/00s stuff.

And even though the unavoidables like Slayer, Metallica, and Megadeth made their appearances, Voivod and Coroner came in way ahead of them.

edit: Nocturnus, yes, with an amazing album; I even loved their soft and fuzzy melodic comeback, Ethereal Tomb.

xxxxp I think its safe to assume that a lot of the Big 4 will place.

also, welcome to the thread Devilock & Brad!

imago did your gf vote?

― Cosmic Slop, Monday, February 15, 2016 6:28 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

think so

I just heard this album for the first time last week. It's awesome.

another tie coming up.

196. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury (149, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/J16CSo.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4ctGQ5IIOwmA2FmzM0c22A
https://youtu.be/XEMpI2PjNQ0

196. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (149, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/rD0nvk.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/4XBX3lqk23GoJWLdrMjCm3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0o7Vx0bmno

oh damnit I screwed up with that one. :(

195. Meshuggah - Chaosphere (149, 3 votes)

https://i.sli.mg/MbRDoF.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/0jPjMd67rdCndvpKggWLi0
https://youtu.be/oK0tjSvA17g?list=PLefbjj3zlINurltVM3zKbFXX7L12DQvzl

I'm gonna take a bit of a lunch break, be back soon... I have invited Cosmic Slop to post results when I have to go AFK, but I think he's eating dinner now.

194. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina (150 Points, 2 Votes)
http://i.imgur.com/rdkram3.jpg

https://youtu.be/oavJolV8OjQ

xp CS I would participate in that poll. Perhaps you should set it at 2000 to present tho, make it a "best metal of the 21st century so far" poll?

yeah I'd also be interested in that, it would bring up some interesting results. Apart from Ghost winning again, of course

xps lol you already said 2000. somehow I misread 2005-2015. nm

1. Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (1300 Points, 16 votes)
http://pantera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/vdop800.jpg

https://youtu.be/Nx08MK_O_TQ

guys

a'ight everyone, here it is, the real #1, to no one's big surprise:

1. Slayer - Reign In Blood (1199, 15 votes, 3 #1s)

https://i.sli.mg/7K4lLq.jpg

https://youtu.be/s-5qMHaA5_0
https://open.spotify.com/album/2DumvqHl78bNXuvU9kQfPN

ok i'll start nominations tonight BUT it will go on for a long time as will voting until someone can help out with the tabulation

but people love to study for these things anyway

awesome poll frobisher. well done to you and seandalai!

called it! anyway *clap clap clap* this has been thoroughly enjoyable and educational, thanks for running an EXTREMELY good poll Frobisher

Great thanks for the admin/rollout!

Wow, big jump in points there. Nothing else came close.

Dont think we can really complain about it winning. its pretty much everyones entry point and it still holds up. RTL is still my fave thrash album tho

Thanks so much guys, it's been a lot of fun. Lots of things I still need to dig into/spend more time with.

Can't argue with that. Great work Frobisher!

Thanks for the poll! It has helped me to clarify what metal I really like. Turns out I like some of the old stuff more than I thought I would!

Good news folks seandalai can do the tabulating for the poll so later tonight i'll set up a nominations thread that will last about a month so plenty of time for everything to be nominated. and time for people to start listening to the albums in prep for voting(which I'll allow a month for too)

but first we must all discuss this EXTREMEly great poll and post our ballots after frobisher posts the FULL RESULTS

Thanks everyone for participating and hanging in there! I hope you all had fun, and found some new albums to listen to... that's the whole point, imo.
Thanks for the co-running CS, and thanks to Seandalai for the tabulation.

Huh, Filosofem is sounding good now. That's annoying.

a total of 559 albums got votes, the big list will be posted soon.

i would love to nominate stuff that nobody would ever vote for in a 2000-2015 poll. just for fun. like Virus West. cuz i listen to that album a lot. lack of Nagelfar in THIS poll shameful.

eh, i didnt co-run. i just posted a few times because the emperor penguin was ill

scott i can promise you there is a virus album i'll be voting for!

i do wish you and others would nominate and make lists though. yours and others knowledge is invaluable and would make for a great even poll imo.

This has been amazing - thank you so much Frobisher and CS! My metal knowledge is hugely lacking in parts, so it's been pretty revelatory.

should I start a new thread for that? where people can post their ballots?

lack of Nagelfar in THIS poll shameful.
Nagelfar or Naglfar?

both!

new thread so its easy to find the results in the first post in the future

this was a lot of fun and introduced me to records I hadn't heard! which is why polls exist I guess

imago liking some mid period metal after all is good. now we just need to get him to listen to 70s metal

Fantastic poll and can't argue with the number one.

What's the name of that game where you have to say the most glaringly canonical thing you've not read/seen/heard etc? Anyway, I've never knowingly listened to Ulver.

anthony jr. for the win.

https://altiord.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/skjermbilde-2010-09-19-kl-21-07-11.png

ok, here's the thread for all the after-poll fun:

Best of Extreme Metal Poll After-Party Thread (full results, ballots, challops, etc.)

A great and enjoyable thread, well done guys.

Pity he had graduated to Mudvayne by S5

no primordial

NO PRIMORDIAL

gutted

(fun rollout and plenty of stuff to check out tho, thanks frobisher and cosmic slop!)

nothing to do with me thanks frobisher and seandalai

will open nominations for the lifetime of ilm metal poll in a min

15 Years Of ILM POll (Metal & Heavy Rock Edition) NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD (Nominations Close Friday April 1 2016)

Speaking as a relative newbie, what do I have to do to get involved with this?

nominate, listen to things nominated, vote!

theres a collaborative playlist for people to add to
https://open.spotify.com/user/pfunkboy/playlist/4S8akTlAsZqRGc0eSPnoqy

Nominate on the thread, like?

yup

Sweet. It's ON.

Monoliths and Dimensions, innit. Or Garten de Unbewhatsit. Or Cold of Ages. Or Dead as Dreams. Or Ascension.

I'll get to the thread.

Did I vote in this?

yes, you did

My ballot:

Voivod – Nothingface
Jute Gyte – Vast Chains
Krallice – Years Past Matter
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, pt 1
Blut Aus Nord - 777 – Cosmosophy
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Alcest – Le Secret (EP)
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory and Injury
Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger
Obliveon – Nemesis
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Botanist - VI: Flora
Naked City - Torture Garden
Angel Hair - Pregnant with the Senior Class
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Gorguts - Obscura
Ambergris - Ambergris (EP)
Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Blut Aus Nord – Mort
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Meshuggah - I
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Krallice - Ygg Huur
Jute Gyte - Discontinuities
Yob - The Great Cessation
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
Gorguts - Coloured Sands
Painkiller - Guts of a Virgin
Botanist – IV: Mandragora
!T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest
Kayo Dot – Hubardo
Cobalt - Gin
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Petrychor - Makrokosmos

Ballots go here
Best of Extreme Metal Poll After-Party Thread (full results, ballots, challops, etc.)

Oh, whoops. I thought I was on the other thread.

I made a spotify playlist for this
https://play.spotify.com/user/moans%2Bfeedback/playlist/3jlg6QIvRHREob3SmdnH4F

(for readability reasons only one track added for each, you can easily click on the album's name to go and hear it in full)

great job, although maybe add the title track instead of the acoustic intro for Nokturnal Mortum.

It's not really intended as an actual playlist to listen to, more as an easy list to pick an album and hear it in one click. So the songs don't really matter. That being said I've just changed that particular song just in case people do use this as an playlist

(also just found out that, unlike the Web interface, Spotify's actual application won't show you the album from which the track has been taken, so maybe my idea was stupid to begin with. You can still click the "..." thing for the track and select Show Album though)