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

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
20 Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
19 Voivod - Nothingface
18 Gorguts - Obscura
17 Entombed - Left Hand Path
16 Gorguts - Colored Sands
15 Venom - Black Metal
14 Carcass - Heartwork
13 Mastodon - Leviathan
12 Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
11 Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Lets all hope Frobisher is well enough to finish today. He said he should be.

What has been everyones fave part of the rundown so far?

the part where imago listened to two albums at the same time and had his mind blown

the part where I a) learned about what other ilxors like, and b) where I listened to stuff I hadn't heard before. As always, these polls are great excuses to purposely check out stuff I had previously, purposely avoided

both previous posters otm

imago liking bathory was my fave part. Hopefully he will check out hellhammer/celtic frost/death ss

Imago please check this out. Its from the era Paul Chain was in the band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJH-V7Th_DM

yeah 20-16 was an amazing run. maybe even 20-11 if i get round to the rest

this death ss song is well cool yeah

reminding me that van der graaf generator came THIS close to inventing extreme metal

that track is from 79 I think.

yeah this rules ty

Pretty sure they were an influence on hellhammer. No way Tom G Warrior hadnt heard them.

Paul Chain left Death SS and became a doom legend. Steve Sylvester (the SS in the name) kept going in a different style. 1st 2 or 3 albums of that era are great though. A band always ahead of their time

ok Terror is apparently from 1977. thats quite incredible

yeah i've put the compilation album on, it seems awesome and important

that album was my #3 I think.

I assume it's not gonna place now sadly

well, it IS a compilation...

really do get a VDGG vibe tho

I dunno what those guys would have been listening to then but I imagine they would have liked the heavy end of prog as well as the metal of its time

This whole rollout has been wonderful. What can I listen to this afternoon that will wake me up more than all the other albums (possibly combined)?

Cleric :P

This death metal classic
https://youtu.be/3PakAiTZWAs

Hahaha omg

How have I not watched this yet? Every time I hear about it, it is immediately repressed. I am too sober to watch this right now. 0_o

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5143-leviathan/

lol completely forgot about the isis dig in that

lol at all of this

This has been fantastic. I don't honestly listen to as much metal as I should these days (I find listening to black metal physically painful: Ash Borer finally did for my ears), but I've been revisiting loads of great sounds, and loads of great memories. And I've had my nine year old screaming 'I hope you make sure we're properly dead before you start!' before breakfast so it's all good.

xp

Will listen to this next. I've heard it before but not since my ears became more robust to metal.

Ash Borer are great.

I think i forgot to nominate Bone Awl

candlemass/saint vitus type doom got vetoed right?

I've loved the sheer variety in the countdown, there's a lot of stuff I don't care for but it's cool seeing how it all has its place. I've made it my goal to listen to everything I haven't already heard - favourite discoveries so far: Virus and Sacramentum.

"This whole rollout has been wonderful. What can I listen to this afternoon that will wake me up more than all the other albums (possibly combined)?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdgUv9Bl3cw

Virus mention made me pull out this album today, and reminds what a crime against nature and man that Carl-Michael Eide can't drum anymore.

I really need to listen to Virus...

Oh my god.

xxp According to a recent promo shot for the next Virus album (out in June!) I think C-M Eide can stand now at least which is great

Anyway I'm really behind so I'm going to actually listen to Bathory now

The Black Flux is awwwwesome, maybe not the best thing here - it's a little restrained, if anything - but so cool and so nicely-judged. I love it

I like how varied this poll has been, as it should, and if nothing else it's given me an excuse to listen to some things that I've avoided for years because I thought I was too clever for them. Most of them have turned out to be pretty good.

I just remembered that the reason I omitted not just SYL but everything Devin-related was the whole "what is extreme?" question that likewise axed most (traditional) doom.

So pretend I voted for City, Ocean Machine, Terria, and probably Accelerated Evolution, scattered thoughtfully throughout my 100.

frobisher said 2 hours ago he hoped to finish today. its not even 1pm where he is i think

tho he said he was still ill which is why he didnt start at his usual time

10. Pantera - Projects In The Jungle (1666 Points, 17 voters, 16 #Ones)

http://i.imgur.com/bACG7yZ.jpg

https://youtu.be/_8cEfAs7160

considered doing an avenged sevenfold one, almost had me here tho

get well soon Frobisher, or we'll have to listen to Pantera

9. Vinnie Vincent Invasion - All Systems Go (p much just Johnny Fever)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Systems_Go_(Vinnie_Vincent_Invasion_album)#/media/File:Vinnie_Vincent_All_Systems_Go.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeSuPB_5wr4

Did I vote in this one? Can't remember...

all the death metal suggests yes you did