GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1992

[Bloopy]

Also who is Bloopy?

Guy that's been here forever but doesn't post very often.

I mostly post in the band LORD's forums on account of them touring here a couple of times. Only really got interested in posting in the other sections as a refugee from other metal forums that went offline. Not much of a banterer...

 

[no country for old wainds]

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.

 

[Baroque]

What year is next?

 

[no country for old wainds]

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.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

One suggestion for the future is that there's a minimum number of albums to be listed (maybe 5). Listing only one album is kind of bullshitty.

 

[Krow]

One suggestion for the future is that there's a minimum number of albums to be listed (maybe 5). Listing only one album is kind of bullshitty.

I 2nd this.

That, or if you don't list enough albums, the albums you do list get the 3 or 3.5 pts or whatever the amount of points the albums get if you don't order them.

 

[no country for old wainds]

yoda only naming one album is a bit faggy so i guess i'll stop accepting less than 5? didn't affect the results though.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Aw damn, none of my picks made it.

 

[CiG]

More of @TechnicalBarbarity's choices made it to the final 10 than mine did and he's complaining?

[flips table and kicks dog]

Fuck you all.

And like Italian food, it's pretty much the same formula, and it always works

Agreed.

 

[Vilden]

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.

Me too! It is mostly thrash-prog-death on this list which is fine, but a defining power metal album would have been nice too. Oh well

 

[Phylactery]

Mine and Mort's top 3 were also the top 3 in the final results (but neither of us got the correct order). We're just too in-crowd.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

yoda only naming one album is a bit faggy so i guess i'll stop accepting less than 5? didn't affect the results though.

That sounds reasonable.

Overall, I'm happy with list, as half of my picks made it, and all were in the top six. A few of the top 10 I've never heard (Psychotic Waltz, Destruction Hammer, and Solitude Aeturnus), so I've got some listening to do too.

 

[Mort Divine]

Oh god, that post about atg from me haha

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

forgot to give this one an HM

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

forgot to give this one an HM

HM? Sarkasm rule by the way. Throat-ripping roars and spidery, dissonant guitar riffage, love those guys. Death metal gem.

 

[no country for old wainds]

maybe you should start actually voting you senile buck-toothed old scallywag.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

maybe you should start actually voting you senile buck-toothed old scallywag.

First, a Tommy insulting another man's dentistry? Second, I treasure a lot of the music discussed here, but I'm too much of an indecisive lunk to properly list and rank a top ten metal records for an entire year, even less a top ten for a year as overflowing with quality releases as this.

 

[no country for old wainds]

you get a like for using a derogatory slang term everyone else stopped using half a century ago

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

you get a like for using a derogatory slang term everyone else stopped using half a century ago

Funnily enough, it was the first word that came to mind to put after "indecisive", can't say why.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lmao i meant tommy but yes it also applies to that

why in the fuck did you delete that post then repost it and force me to delete and repost my post also? lunk.