GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1995

[crimsonfloyd]

It's definitely not though. Tales, Follow the Blind, and Somewhere Far Beyond are all better than it.

Not even close. Imaginations and Nightfall are clearly their best, in that order.

 

[no country for old wainds]

dude you're arguing with a guy who thinks die healing is bad

 

[Phylactery]

i was referring to 'may the rotten bones...' but that one's also great ya.

idk about all of them we'll see

Maybe I misread you. Were you saying the song was the best in that round of the game or the best on the album?

I thought it was the latter and I was saying "Lord of the Woods" is the best song on Toteslaut.

Also, Crimsonfloyd has much weirder opinions. Like thinking Wolves in the Throne Room, Deafheaven, Leviathan and a million DSO releases belong in a top 100 black metal album list.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Also, Crimsonfloyd has much weirder opinions. Like thinking Wolves in the Throne Room, Deafheaven, Leviathan and a million DSO releases belong in a top 100 black metal album list.

He also put Two Hunters above The Somberlain which is amusing, to say the least. Not to mention putting Sunbather above Shining Swords of Hate, Live in Leipzig, Carpathian Wolves, In the Nightside Eclipse, Dol Guldur, Pentagram, Under the Sign of the Black Mark, The Somberlain, etc.

 

[Phylactery]

Having Storm of the Light's Bane nearly a hundred places higher than The Somberlain is the biggest travesty concerning Dissection. Should have been the other way round. "Black Horizons" and the title track alone destroy the follow up.

Sacramentum and Dawn at their peak should be higher than any Dissection release anyway.

 

[Mort Divine]

Not even close. Imaginations and Nightfall are clearly their best, in that order.

imaginations is great, but nightfall is pure fucking trash

 

[Talos of Atmora]

nightfall is pure fucking trash

Are you serious?

 

[Mort Divine]

Are you serious?

it marked the band becoming unlistenable

overdone, overproduced (not quite to the 1000 Hansi's level of a night at the opera), and just boring

 

[Talos of Atmora]

overdone, overproduced (not quite to the 1000 Hansi's level of a night at the opera), and just boring

It also has some of the best tracks of their entire career but OK...

 

[Mort Divine]

mirror mirror is good and curse of feanor is solid, but meh

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I like Nightfall because it's ambitious but I think it fails. It has good songs, but I never want to listen to it.

And where in the holy hell did I ever say that Die Healing was bad?

 

[Phylactery]

You didn't. Crimsonfloyd did. That's what he was saying.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Oh, I totally thought NoCountry was talking to Floyd about me.

 

[CiG]

Dumbass.

It's definitely not though. Tales, Follow the Blind, and Somewhere Far Beyond are all better than it.

Yes but none of those albums were released in 1995, obviously.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Also, Crimsonfloyd has much weirder opinions. Like thinking Wolves in the Throne Room, Deafheaven, Leviathan and a million DSO releases belong in a top 100 black metal album list.

When I rank or grade albums, I listen to them as pure works of art, abstracted from factors such as influence, popularity, or underground backlash. As a result, I tend to have more unique perspectives than most people. I guess that's weird.

He also put Two Hunters above Storm of the Light's Bane which is amusing, to say the least. Not to mention putting Sunbather above Shining Swords of Hate, Live in Leipzig, Carpathian Wolves, In the Nightside Eclipse, Dol Guldur, etc.

SotLB is 8 while Two Hunters is 85.

Having Storm of the Light's Bane nearly a hundred places higher than The Somberlain is the biggest travesty concerning Dissection. Should have been the other way round. "Black Horizons" and the title track alone destroy the follow up.

Sacramentum and Dawn at their peak should be higher than any Dissection release anyway.

SotLB is massively superior to Somberlain. Somberlain has its moments where it peaks, but SotLB is at the peak from start to finish. It also has a purer and more complete vision.

Sacramentum and Dawn have never resonated with me. I'm sure I'll give them another shot when we do 96 and 98, but even if I have a paradigm shift, there's no way they're passing SotLB.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

SotLB is 8 while Two Hunters is 85.

I meant to say The Somberlain, sorry.

 

[CiG]

nightfall is pure fucking trash

Dude...

 

[Talos of Atmora]

@crimsonfloyd Honestly, for me, Sunbather has always been one of those albums that gained acclaim based entirely upon the circumstances surrounding it rather than its actual merits. You know, the constant bickering regarding what genre it is, the attempts of many critics to look cool by opposing the so-called "elitists" , etc.

 

[CiG]

All the non-metal fartsniffers raved about that album at the time, I remember it well.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

@crimsonfloyd Honestly, Sunbather has always been one of those albums that gained acclaim based entirely upon the circumstances surrounding it rather than its actual merits. You know, the constant bickering regarding what genre it is, the attempts of many critics to look cool by opposing the so-called "elitists" , etc.

Did you not read my post? I ignore all that shit when I evaluate albums. I don't give a fuck about whether hipsters or writers from mainstream websites love the album. I'm not gonna pretend to think a record isn't great just because other people who are in "the wrong crowd" also love the album. That's stupid as fuck.

There's a certain balance of despair and hope in that record that I have experienced but never been able to put to words and have rarely heard put to music. Sunbather captures that sound. That's the cliffnotes version of why I hold it in such high esteem.