GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1992

no country for old wainds said:
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.
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Definitely influential. I was just getting into guitar in 92 and most of the rock guitarists I knew went from wanting to play like EVH to wanting to play like John Petrucci. this album alone converted many people to metal and launched/popularized a whole new wave of prog metal

Yeah I'm not really sure when the DH craze started either, I hadn't really heard of them until a few years ago
 
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Top 3 Demigod, Darkthrone and At the Gates?! Great result if so.

Also, you're probably going to get pretty bored of tallying up all these results soon. Let me know if you want me to do one in future.
 
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3) The Red in the Sky is Ours by At the Gates
I cast you down from your throne of lies, and accuse you of a thousand sins...

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"the red in the sky is ours destroys slaughter of the soul. Alf leaving the band was the worst possible thing for them. and for him too really - Oxiplegatz is kinda fucking strange. It is quite clear that Alf and Anders needed one another to balance their bad aspects out a bit. Alf had his weirdness kept in check, and Anders had his desire for 'simplicity' kept in check." - Mort Divine

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Phylactery (#1)
Mort Divine (#1)
crimsonfloyd (#1)
no country for old wainds (#1)
Dazed and Brutal (#2)
EspaDa (#2)
Slayed Necros (#3)
Vilden (#8)
 
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I can't believe you ranked Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism over that Darkthrone album! Immortal are a weird band for me, though. Had they not recorded Pure Hololcaust, I'm not sure I'd even think they were a good band. I'm also surprised that you were the only person to include that album and Descend into the Absurd (I think anyway).
 
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I'm kind of disappointed that Somewhere Far Beyond didn't get a spot in the top ten but this is still a fantastic list, regardless.
 
Phylactery said:
I can't believe you ranked Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism over that Darkthrone album! Immortal are a weird band for me, though. Had they not recorded Pure Hololcaust, I'm not sure I'd even think they were a good band. I'm also surprised that you were the only person to include that album and Descend into the Absurd (I think anyway).
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mort also picked the fleshcrawl, it's not that well liked in my experience though. people find the song structures overlong and meandering i guess, it's just everything i want out of death metal though, a proper successor to autopsy that isn't just a clone. i don't get how anyone could hear the perfect, crushing opener and not immediately think they were in the presence of one of the genre's platonic ideals, it's about as definitively DEATHLY as music gets. but yeah, i'm more surprised about BEYOND SANCTORUM failing to even hit double figures in points, although i'm not that big of a fan overall.

as for darkthrone, i think they more fully came into their own on the next two records, identity-wise, but there are several amazing moments/passages on the first one - i'm just not that invested in between, relative to my favourites. i flirted with all kind of placements on my list for that one. that's one classic where i feel like i must be missing some kinda magic that's gonna click one of these days - same goes for ONWARD TO GOLGOTHA. i do like it plenty though or i wouldn't have listed it.

i don't think immortal's debut is far from PH level personally.
 
1) Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes | 102 from 14 votes
2) Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky | 71 from 10 votes
3) At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours | 69 from 8 votes
4) Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade | 53 from 9 votes
5) Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence | 48 from 6 votes
=6) Incantation - Onward to Golgotha | 46 from 8 votes
=6) Dream Theater - Images and Words | 46 from 7 votes
8) Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond the Crimson Horizon | 42 from 8 votes
9) Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction | 38 from 6 votes
10) Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow | 36 from 5 votes
11) Impetigo - Horror of the Zombies | 33 from 4 votes
12) Danzig - Danzig III: How the Gods Kill | 28 from 4 votes
13) Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond | 27.5 from 4 votes
14) Alice in Chains - Dirt | 25.5 from 3 votes
=15) Sodom - Tapping the Vein | 24 from 6 votes
=15) Sadus - A Vision of Misery | 24 from 5 votes
=15) Malevolent Creation - Retribution | 24 from 4 votes
18) Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus | 23.5 from 4 votes
19) Deicide - Legion | 19.5 from 5 votes
20) Cartilage - The Fragile Concept of Affection* | 19 from 4 votes
=21) Miasma - Changes | 18 from 4 votes
=21) Order From Chaos - Stillbirth Machine | 18 from 2 votes
23) Necromantia/Varathron - Black Arts Lead to Everlasting Sins | 16 from 3 votes
24) Root - The Temple in the Underworld | 15.5 from 3 votes
25) Mortuary Drape - Into the Drape | 15 from 2 votes
=26) Atrocity - Longing for Death | 14 from 3 votes
=26) Candlemass - Chapter VI | 14 from 2 votes
=28) Dark Millennium - Ashore the Celestial Burden | 13 from 2 votes
=28) Depressive Age - First Depression | 13 from 2 votes
=28) Fleshcrawl - Descend into the Absurd | 13 from 2 votes
31) Vader - The Ultimate Incantation | 12 from 3 votes
32) Burzum - Burzum | 11.5 from 3 votes
=33) Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated | 11 from 3 votes
=33) Thought Industry - Songs for Insects | 11 from 2 votes
=33) Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer | 11 from 2 votes
=36) Asphyx - Last One On Earth | 10 from 3 votes
=36) Stygian - Planetary Destruction | 10 from 2 votes
=36) Solstice - Solstice | 10 from 2 votes
=36) Neurosis - Souls at Zero | 10 from 1 votes
=36) Exhorder - The Law | 10 from 1 votes
=36) Manowar - The Triumph of Steel | 10 from 1 votes

*this is a split with altar's EX OBLIVIONE, but some users specified the cartilage side.

the only other release to get more than 2 votes was samael's BLOOD RITUAL, which nevertheless only managed 4 points.

a much greater spread here, with 41 albums hitting 10 points (only 28 in 1986). the top ten had far less points meanwhile, with darkthrone's second place total here only being enough for fifth on the '86 list.
 
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i'll post in a sec!

at the gates got 8.625 per vote which i believe is the highest on the list for an album with over two votes. so basically the people who like them REALLY like them and nobody else gives a shit. other albums to perform high on this metric are DIRT (8.5) HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES (8.25) and EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE (8). BLOOD RITUAL is obviously miles ahead at the opposite end of the spectrum.
 
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