GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1995

[CiG]

Bruh, why you gotta hate? Them 3 made some damn fine records that year.

I'm just saying, if we're ranking lists from best to worst, I think personally lists with those included belong at the bottom. But of course opinions are like assholes...

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I'm just saying, if we're ranking lists from best to worst, I think personally lists with those included belong at the bottom. But of course opinions are like assholes...

Arg likes to lick opinions?

 

[CiG]

Only if they're neatly trimmed and Slavic.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Only if they're neatly trimmed and Slavic.

Espada better run while he can.

 

[alex76]

The previous guard in metal had pretty much yielded to the new acts, solos were still an integral part of metal (and should always be), and the first generation of extreme metal acts had come into its own. Good times, but trouble awaits for metal from here on out. My knowledge of metal starts to become more sketchy at this point.

1. Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
2. Death - Symbolic
3. Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
4. Down - NOLA
5. Kataklysm - Sorcery
6. Morbid Angel - Domination
7. Immortal - Battles in the North
8. Sinister - Hate
9. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
10. Varathron - Walpurgisnacht

Honorable mentions to:
Blind Guardian
Saint Vitus
Unanimated
Necromantia
Ulver
Gamma Ray

 

[Mort Divine]

i knew mandylion would be nitpicked by some washed up old fuck like TB

fuck that, shit is good and he's probably never even listened to it. just knows its considered 'goth' metal and therefore has to be for 'faggots.'

 

[no country for old wainds]

i won't be listing alkahest or carnival bizarre but i'm a lee dorrian apologist tbh.

 

[Krow]

Someone should recommend me something from The Gathering. I see their albums for sale all the time but I've never grabbed anything. Doesn't have to be the gothic death doom album I see mentioned on MA.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'm not really a fan but mandylion is generally regarded as their best.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

How the fuck could anyone put that shitty Down record ahead of SoTLB??

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

i'm not really a fan but mandylion is generally regarded as their best.

The opening track is great, the title track is somewhat interesting...pretty boring otherwise...

 

[The Ozzman]

Down is gay. Super glad Pepper went back to CoC

 

[Burkhard]

Someone should recommend me something from The Gathering. I see their albums for sale all the time but I've never grabbed anything. Doesn't have to be the gothic death doom album I see mentioned on MA.

"Mandylion" was their first album I bought when it came out and it was my favourite until the release of "How to measure a planet?". The latter was my favourite The Gathering album for several years in spite of the fact that I found (and still find) the title track very hard to stomach, which is the reason why the first disc (it's a double album) got far more spins from me. "HTMAP" is a lot softer than "Mandylion" with "Liberty Bell" probably being the "heaviest" song on it. "Nighttime Birds" is more in the vein of "Mandylion", but I like it less. The albums after "HTMAP" mostly didn't do much for me. Well, I still liked "If_then_else" and I also find their live album "Sleepy Buildings - A Semi Acoustic Evening" quite enjoyable, though as far as live recordings are concerned, their DVD "A Sound Relieve" is my favourite. I haven't listened much to their music for at least a decade now, though I sort of re-discovered "Mandylion" about two years ago. I never cared about their early albums, because the "Beauty and the Beast"-stuff simply isn't my cup of tea.

Since I can't predict what you might like or if you might like any of their releases at all, first check out some songs of the albums mentioned (or even the entire albums) on youtube. (But you would have done this anyway, wouldn't you?)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Down is gay. Super glad Pepper went back to CoC

NOLA >>> Everything CoC has done.

 

[CiG]

Nah.

 

[The Ozzman]

NOLA >>> Everything CoC has done.

That's a false

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That's a false

incorrect.

You no likey De Profundis?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

A:
1. Dissection- Storm of the Light’s Bane
2. Mutiilation-Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
3. Blind Guardian- Imaginations From the Other Side
4. My Dying Bride- The Angel and the Dark River
5. Opeth- Orchid
6. Ulver- Bergtatt

A-:
7. Vlad Tepes/Belketre- March to the Black Holocaust
8. In the Woods- HEart of the Ages
9. Darkthrone- Panzerfaust
10. Suffocation- Pierced From Within (90%)

Honorable Mentions:
The Gathering- Mandylion
Skepticism- Stormcrowfleet
Theatre of Tragedy- Theatre of Tragedy
Death- Symbolic
Vital Remains- Into Cold Darkness
At the Gates- Slaughter of the Soul

 

[The Ozzman]

incorrect.

You no likey De Profundis?

I've honestly only heard that Vader album once. You must understand that there's so much shit I want to buy that I don't have the money for it all or the time to preview everything in a timely manner heh.

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) ved buens ende - written in waters
2) skepticism - stormcrowfleet
3) graveland - thousand swords
4) saint vitus - die healing
5) ras algethi - oneiricon: the white hypnotic
6) blut aus nord - ultima thulee
7) darkthrone - panzerfaust
8) ulver - bergtatt
9) deceased - the blueprints for madness
10) kataklysm - sorcery

number 1 was a clear winner with 2-4 making up the chasing pack. after that it's pretty close. never been sure how to place PANZERFAUST as it kinda feels like a collection of b-sides which happen to be better than nearly everything else they ever wrote.

if aeternus' DARK SORCERY was a full length it might've sneaked in there, couldn't really justify it at that length. nastrond's TOTESLAUT was next in line aside from that.

think we're just waiting on @Phylactery. not sure if @RadicalThrasher is playing, think @Elric of Omniboné has left again.