GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1983

[alex76]

implying that anyone whose opinions differ from the consensus is trying to be edgy is lame as fuck, especially when it comes from metalheads - anyone who actually lived by that notion would be listening to bruno mars and/or the beatles, not metal.

that said, metallica > most beloved bands around here (leave at the gates out of this though!)

C'mon, do you really think that is what I implied? You didn't get any sarcastic reading from post 132 at all (i.e. err... opinion)? The fact that some people in here didn't is where the autism reference kicks in. My listing of stereotypical edgelord statements holds though.

 

[rms]

At the Gates, a band with one good album and the rest ranging from okay to pure shit?

ya...never got the SOTS fandom let alone the band entirely. But never was a huge melodeath guy anyways

 

[CiG]

But never was a huge melodeath guy anyways

Same here. I do rate The Red in the Sky is Ours as well as their pre-debut material rather high and I enjoy Massive Killing Capacity, Lunar Strain, Skydancer and some early Amon Amarth among a few other things but even so.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Shut up alex.

On a less retarded note, gotta thank @HamburgerBoy and @Vilden for including the Europe s/t in their lists. I checked out the album thanks to you guys and it's goddamn great, especially "Seven Doors Hotel".

 

[no country for old wainds]

At the Gates, a band with one good album and the rest ranging from okay to pure shit?

at the gates' second album is my most listened to metal album of all time so i can't quite agree with all of that, not to mention metallica obviously have ATG beat in the descending into pure shit stakes. metallica have more classic albums and were more influential etc ofc. it isn't at all outrageous to prefer ATG to metallica though.

C'mon, do you really think that is what I implied? You didn't get any sarcastic reading from post 132 at all (i.e. err... opinion)? The fact that some people in here didn't is where the autism reference kicks in. My listing of stereotypical edgelord statements holds though.

it's an established fact that literally everyone on this board has autism, and i'll thank you not to mock our condition.

 

[no country for old wainds]

ya...never got the SOTS fandom let alone the band entirely. But never was a huge melodeath guy anyways

nobody on this board is talking about melodeath-era at the gates when they talk about their greatness tho? not that i'd expect the early stuff to be your thing either i guess

 

[Phylactery]

Does RMS not like death metal? I noticed he didn't vote on the 1992 thread which was a death metal year. And I've only seen him really mention trad, doom, thrash and black metal.

The Red in the Sky is Ours is obviously easily better than any Metallica album as are 3-4 The Chasm albums.

at the gates' second album is my most listened to metal album of all time so i can't quite agree with all of that,

It is? More than Deathcult, TRitSiO, FaftS?

With Fear... is just a really frustrating album to me, due to the way it drops off. The first song is decent death/thrash (but I still usually skip it), the next 4 are amazing with The Break of Autumn and Primal Breath being genre highlights, and then I rapidly lose interest.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Chasm is such a mess. I'd probably take Load over any of their albums that I'm familiar with. Certainly the Black album.

 

[Slayed Necros]

With Fear... is definitely front-loaded and the album peaks right in the middle with Primal Breath, but I think the drop off in quality is massively overstated. The Architects completely rules and 2:27 - 3:05 of Stardrowned is one of my favourite moments on the whole album.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

In-crowd people have a tendency to listen to opinions more than music, so it's not surprising when so many of them lack the attention span to sit through a 40-50 minute album and dismiss the second half. I've seen the same thing said about Nosferatu and Nespithe; it's just a way of saying "I desire maximum image with minimal effort when listening to music".

 

[Phylactery]

The Chasm is such a mess. I'd probably take Load over any of their albums that I'm familiar with. Certainly the Black album.

The Chasm are considered to be riff-masters by many, so the fact you think they can't write a riff invalidates your opinion on them. Also, even ANUS, who dislike The Chasm, recognise their compositional prowess.

With Fear... is definitely front-loaded and the album peaks right in the middle with Primal Breath, but I think the drop off in quality is massively overstated. The Architects completely rules and 2:27 - 3:05 of Stardrowned is one of my favourite moments on the whole album.

The drop in quality is perhaps overstated, but the fact is that those songs are very different to the 4 I mentioned. It's like two completely different recordings. Those 4 are full of these grand melodies and have emotional impact. The ones that follow are more thrashy and aggressive. The production totally doesn't fit a death/thrash style.

 

[no country for old wainds]

With Fear... is just a really frustrating album to me, due to the way it drops off. The first song is decent death/thrash (but I still usually skip it), the next 4 are amazing with The Break of Autumn and Primal Breath being genre highlights, and then I rapidly lose interest.

i like the second half to varying degrees, but i'd take that four song stretch over all the albums you mention and have listened to it endlessly. easy enough to just treat it as an EP if it bothers you that much.

In-crowd people have a tendency to listen to opinions more than music, so it's not surprising when so many of them lack the attention span to sit through a 40-50 minute album and dismiss the second half. I've seen the same thing said about Nosferatu and Nespithe; it's just a way of saying "I desire maximum image with minimal effort when listening to music".

the in-crowd tends to prefer the second half of FAR AWAY FROM THE SUN, THE SPECTRE WITHIN, SAD WINGS etc which doesn't fit with your retarded theory. not to mention that anyone who can't hear a difference between the two halves of stuff like WFIKTBD or NOSFERATU/A DISTANT THUNDER has too many dicks in their ears.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Sacramentum is a meaningless band so I don't pay attention to opinions on them. Regardless, the RYM track averages would seem to dispute your point, the first song has the highest average and there's not much of an obvious trend after that. I've never heard of a particular bias towards a side on The Spectre Within (The Apparition is obviously considered one of their best, but Kyrie Eleison is usually considered the weakest on the album). Sad Wings is a short album so presumably even in-crowd people can sit through that one.

The Chasm are considered to be riff-masters by many, so the fact you think they can't write a riff invalidates your opinion on them. Also, even ANUS, who dislike The Chasm, recognise their compositional prowess.

Is this the same ANUS that extols the intricate classical composition of Final Holocaust? Opinion invalidated.

 

[Phylactery]

Well RYM doesn't represent the opinions of the in-crowd does it. Fog's Kiss (the first track) had a music video made for it and is therefore their most well known song, which is probably why it has the highest rating. Many also love its outro. 5, 6 and 7 are generally the most highly regarded on FaftS, though. Personally I rate the title track higher than track 5 these days.

Re: Final Holocaust. Well Anus love that band so obviously they're going to talk highly about them. It speaks more when they have positive things to say about a band that they don't like. That rarely happens.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i did song survivors for all these albums back in the day which would back up what i said i think. oh hey, sacramentum are a good example of a band that requires plenty of attention to soak up and would go over the head of peons who only care about riffs and listen to every album once before recording their opinion in notepad to be posted years later as though it were fact!

 

[Phylactery]

1. Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
2. Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War
3. Mortuary Drape – Tolling 13 Knell
4. Tormentor – Anno Domini
5. Sarcofago – I.N.R.I.
6. Dornenreich – Flammentriebe
7. Mefisto – The Truth (demo comp in case it doesn't count)
8. Venom – At War With Satan
9. Burzum – Burzum
10. Mortuary Drape – All the Witches Dance
11. Bewitched – Dragonflight
12. Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism
13. Master’s Hammer – Ritual
14. Necromantia – Scarlet Evil Witching Black
15. Darkthrone – Under a Funeral Moon
16. Sacramentum – Far Away from the Sun
17. Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky

#9Jan 23, 2015

FaftS was featured on HBB's list from the 2015 best black metal albums poll. Now they're apparently worthless. A rather in-crowd list as well, except having Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism over Pure Holocasut and including Grand Declaration of War.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

it's an established fact that literally everyone on this board has autism, and i'll thank you not to mock our condition.

Don't fucking lump me in with the rest of you insane fucks.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't hate Sacramentum, some of their riffs are pretty and the album is inoffensive at worst, but not the kind of stuff I want to waste my precious time on. Kind of like trying really hard to get into a post-PTK Kreator album when I could be relistening to a classic Exodus album instead. And in any case, I don't pretend to be an avid fan of them, unlike the worthless taste-projecting fucks that cite Nosferatu as a favorite yet pretend the B-side is notably weaker than the first.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it's hard not to get that feeling when the first three songs on the b-side are a) the weakest on the album and b) rather divorced conceptually from what preceded them. it ends real strong though. kinda follows the same pattern as its predecessor where tracks 6/7 are the weakest but then it goes out with a bang, ignoring the cover.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I still have no idea what makes people think Baptized in Blood is any less an ordinary thrash-y song than Swirling Madness. My track ranking goes...

B4/B5
A6
A5
B1
B2
A3
A4
B3
A1/A2

Which is about as evenly matched as it can get. If there's a trend, it's more that each side ends stronger than it begins. It's an extremely consistent album both in quality and style, which is why people with ADHD tend to lose focus.