GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1992

[Baroque]

What evidence do you have that people aren't just voting for what they want? If they have a reason that's better than not having a reason? Idk what someone would gain by not voting how they really feel. Why are you quitting again?

 

[Baroque]

In some ways it kind of is their black album, but so is cryptic writings so idk. I think Megadeth has multiple black album equivalents

 

[Vilden]

i love how i need to break stuff like this down for some of you kids. By giving less points or leaving off albums that would have otherwise been rated higher on your lists because of ...(insert reason). That wasnt so hard now, was it?

Can you name one of those reasons why people do this?

 

[-CC-]

Idk what someone would gain by not voting how they really feel.

This. Why would someone consciously put an album they like out of the competition or lower than they want?

Anyway, relax aper jan, just have fun with this

 

[no country for old wainds]

i guess i can see why you'd take issue with that entry in the context of the last two but to be fair i'd prefer to put something jokey or funny (or at least a post from this board) on every entry, it's just been slim pickings so far. believe what you will but i genuinely looked at UM, MA and RYM for some kind of definitive srs paragraph, but with the mainstream stuff there's a lot more poorly written crap to wade through and i didn't come across anything that worked, just tons of black album comparisons so i settled on that. i might've put in a little more effort if it wasn't my bedtime tho.

(for the record i kinda like the black album and CtE is the only album in the top 30 or so of this list that i've never heard)

 

[Baroque]

Whaat he's never heard countdown to extinction, this changes everything, summon the hounds (jk)

But yeah you should probably go listen to that

 

[Talos of Atmora]

i love how i need to break stuff like this down for some of you kids. By giving less points or leaving off albums that would have otherwise been rated higher on your lists because of ...(insert reason). That wasnt so hard now, was it?

Yeah, you're bitching because people aren't ranking your favorite albums as high as you'd like so, in an infantile fit of rage, you simply refuse to participate. It really isn't that hard to understand.

You know, people should be rejoicing.

 

[Mort Divine]

but you know its us that instigate everything

Anyways, fucking love that SA album, but never listen to it for some reason. heavy as just about anything else

 

[no country for old wainds]

=6) Onward to Golgotha by Incantation
Enter the maze, the realms of darkness...

"I'd NEVER listened to them, and now can safely put "Onward to Golgotha" on my top albums list. I gotta go pick up my asshole, it got blown across the room." - @SomeGuyDude

Chosen by:
Krow (#2)
zerostatic (#2)
EspaDa (#3)
TechnicalBarbarity (#4)
crimsonfloyd (#4)
Dazed and Brutal (#7)
-CyanideChrist- (#10)
Phylactery (#10)

=6) Images and Words by Dream Theater
Find all you need in your mind...

"I don't like Dream Theater as much as I used to and consider them more of a guilty pleasure than anything, but I still think Images & Words is absolutely brilliant. Most of the criticisms people love throwing at Dream Theater don't apply to that album or at least not to as large an extent as to the others. It's not prog for prog's sake, it's what prog should be, it's inspired, mindblowing, brain-tickling music that could only exist in time signatures no sane man would touch. The only problem I have with that album is that while all the individual songs are great, the album as a whole is very incoherent. Were they going for intentional contrast when they placed Another Day after Pull Me Under? Whatever the case, it doesn't work and it's jarring as hell. The rest of the album isn't much better in that regard." - @Vegard Pompey

Chosen by:
Baroque (#1)
crimsonfloyd (#3)
Talos of Atmora (#4)
The Ozzman (#5)
Burkhard (#5)
HamburgerBoy (#6)
EspaDa (#7)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yeah, you're bitching because people aren't ranking your favorite albums as high as you'd like so, in an infantile fit of rage, you simply refuse to participate. It really isn't that hard to understand.

You know, people should be rejoicing.

Dude, are you okay? You dont think i realized or knew that album wasn't going to be at the top of most people's lists here? Or better yet, do you think yesterday was the first time i looked through everyone's lists or something? The simplistic way that your mind works sometimes amazes me. Learn to comprehend what you read.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Haha, didn't expect to be quoted in one of these. How far back did you have to go to find that statement? Not sure I can wholeheartedly stand behind it anymore, though I do still like the album. (Controversial opinion: Octavarium is better)

 

[no country for old wainds]

i actually found one even further back when you basically said it's the best album ever lol

 

[Vegard Pompey]

oh god

 

[no country for old wainds]

5) Epidemic of Violence by Demolition Hammer
Barbaric cannibals reveling in flesh...

"Usually I lean more towards Tortured Existence and its slightly more varied song writing, but right now Epidemic of Violence is winning for me. Their ability to mesh Exodus/Overkill-style groove with Slayer/Dark Angel tempos is amazing." - @HamburgerBoy

Chosen by:
Elric of Melniboné (#1)
RadicalThrasher (#1)
The Ozzman (#2)
TechnicalBarbarity (#3)
Krow (#5)
I-TEND-TO-DIE (#6)

 

[Baroque]

^great album and very close to making my top 10. I realize my top 10 is unpopular and recognize that DH album's strength and influence though, so I'm happy to see it make the list. Though yeahhh Images and Words is totally better and more influential

 

[The Ozzman]

Why the fuck is shit degenerating again after like 3 days? Jesus..

 

[no country for old wainds]

4) The IVth Crusade by Bolt Thrower
An endless spiral of depravity...

"Trying to decide which Bolt Thrower is best is like trying to decide which Italian dish is best. You think of a good one and then you remember 4 other good ones and then you just go "............" and shut down and explode." - @CASSETTEISGOD

Chosen by:
Atomic Tide (#1)
Elric of Melniboné (#2)
-CyanideChrist- (#4)
EspaDa (#4)
CASSETTEISGOD (#5)
alex76 (#7)
Talos of Atmora (#8)
The Ozzman (#10)
Sirjack (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

^great album and very close to making my top 10. I realize my top 10 is unpopular and recognize that DH album's strength and influence though, so I'm happy to see it make the list. Though yeahhh Images and Words is totally better and more influential

infinitely more influential, no doubt. i'm dubious about demolition hammer being particularly influential. i'm not denying they had a following before then, before someone jumps in about how they were huge where they grew up or whatever, but online at least they seemed an almost unknown band before 2008ish when they just blew up overnight. it seemed like a very short time between me not having even heard of them and their being a staple of the thrash canon. this is supported by only 35 of the 1007 ratings on RYM for this album being before 2008, only 3 of the 26 MA reviews, etc. i wonder what triggered the sudden surge.

edit: i guess century media reissued their stuff in 2008? that may be it

 

[Baroque]

And like Italian food, it's pretty much the same formula, but it works once in awhile

 

[no country for old wainds]

no offense to bolt thrower but they can't even begin to compete with italian food.