GMD Poll: Best song on Immolation - Close to a World Below

[Vegard Pompey]

I suspect this one might be a no-brainer for some, but at least it ought to get more votes than the Adramelech poll did. As chosen by RNG, the album we're voting on today is...

Immolation - Close to a World Below
In a perfect world your perfect god is a coward just like you!

Ranked #2 for the year 2000 with 94 points from 14 votes

1. Higher Coward
2. Father, You're Not a Father
3. Furthest From the Truth
4. Fall From a High Place
5. Unpardonable Sin
6. Lost Passion
7. Put My Hand in the Fire
8. Close to a World Below

Vote for your favorite track! The poll will stay open for two weeks.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

My official autism ranking is as follows:

"Higher Coward - 4/5 (beauty-contrasting-ugliness shimmering)
Fall From A High Place - 4/5 (romantic)
Lost Passion - 4/5
Father, You're Not A Father - 3.5/5 (trends towards heavy grooving with pinch harmonics, insane solo)
Close to a World Below - 3.5/5
Put My Hand In The Fire - 3.5/5
Unpardonable Sin - 3.5/5
Furthest From The Truth - 3.5/5 (also more pinch-harmonic grooving but a little more repetitious)"

But I can never remember any of their songs from memory so I'll give it a listen before voting.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Title track.

 

[EspaDa]

Either the title track or Father, You're Not a Father. I'm more inclined to go with the title track tho.

 

[Phylactery]

If it wasn’t for the title track, I’d agree with HBB and have Higher Coward as my number 1. Absolutely devastating.

But the title track is one of their best songs. A monolithic, labyrinthine epic and the equivalent of an apocalypse in fire. It perfectly evokes the cover art for me.

 

[EspaDa]

The other tracks are just not that memorable as the three tracks I mentioned in my previous post.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

This is a fucking great album from start to finish. I will probably vote for Father You’re not a Father, but I’m gonna want to relisten to the album first. I could certainly make the case for Higher Coward and the title track.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Well, this is slightly one-sided.

 

[Phylactery]

Were you really expecting any other outcome?

 

[EspaDa]

I thought Father, You're Not a Father would get more love here.

 

[Sirjack]

Close to a World Below

 

[Funerary_Doom]

Father You're Not a Father.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Gonna join the title track-pile but I want to say for the record that the outro on "Fall From a High Place" might be my favorite moment on the album.