GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 1995

[no country for old wainds]

2) Storm of the Light's Bane by Dissection
Can't resist the night's sweet blood...

"You know, I've come across many BM fans who believe that Dissection was just generic melodeath posing as black metal (I know, hilarious) but the thing that makes the band so great is the fact that it's not just the sound but also the melodies that make the music sound the way it does. The Somberlain and Storm of the Light's Bane have this artistically-crafted and unique kind of malevolence to them which is why Dissection is considered so influential. I don't even know what the hell they meant with that statement. While being much more melodic compared to other BM bands, they still had that rough production quality that gave it its coldness." - @Talos of Atmora

Chosen by:
crimsonfloyd (#1)
Slayed Necros (#1)
Talos of Atmora (#1)
Vilden (#3)
TechnicalBarbarity (#3)
rms (#3)
Baroque (#5)
Dazed and Brutal (#5)
zerostatic (#5)
Atomic Tide (#7)
Phylactery (#8)
alex76 (#9)
-CyanideChrist- (#10)

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) Die Healing by Saint Vitus
Insanity is contagious, I speak from experience...

"Just listened to Die Healing,a brilliant album but a rotten and unhappy one as well.No other album I know of really has the genuine atmosphere of filth that can come from drugs and the shit.Its a fucking awesome album but I always feel a bit sorry for them when I hear it and knowing a bit about the history of the band." - @JontRevolting

Chosen by:
Krow (#1)
CASSETTEISGOD (#1)
Burkhard (#2)
Mort Divine (#2)
HamburgerBoy (#4)
no country for old wainds (#4)
Vilden (#4)
Bloopy (#5)
Phylactery (#7)
Slayed Necros (#8)
Talos of Atmora (#8)
rms (#8)
Master_Yoda77 (#9)
Atomic Tide (#10)
I-TEND-TO-DIE (N/A)

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Even though I only gave it a 9 it really pleases me that Saint Vitus got number 1 and Dissection didn't. It's a good album but ranking it higher than Graveland is just silly.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Wait, you used one of my quotes for it?! YEEEAAAH.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

@no country for old wainds This list turned out to be pretty amazing.

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) Saint Vitus - Die Healing | 86.5 from 15 votes
2) Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane | 82 from 13 votes
3) Ulver - Bergtatt | 68 from 12 votes
4) Graveland - Thousand Swords | 60 from 8 votes
5) Death - Symbolic | 59.5 from 9 votes
=6) Mutiilation - Scarlet Evil Witching Black | 46 from 8 votes
=6) Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black | 46 from 7 votes
8) Suffocation - Pierced From Within | 42.5 from 7 votes
9) Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side | 39 from 5 votes
10) Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve | 37 from 5 votes
11) Nåstrond - Toteslaut | 34 from 4 votes
12) Darkthrone - Panzerfaust | 33 from 7 votes
13) Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings | 32 from 5 votes
14) Coroner - Coroner | 29.5 from 4 votes
15) Down - NOLA | 29 from 4 votes
16) My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River | 27 from 3 votes
17) Summoning - Minas Morgul | 24 from 4 votes
=18) In the Woods... - Heart of the Ages | 23 from 4 votes
=18) The Gathering - Mandylion | 23 from 3 votes
=20) Vlad Tepes/Belketre - March to the Black Holocaust | 21 from 4 votes
=20) Vader - De Profundis | 21 from 4 votes
22) Abigor - Nachthymnen (...From the Twilight Kingdom) | 20 from 5 votes
=23) Fear Factory - Demanufacture | 19 from 4 votes
=23) Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters | 16 from 3 votes
25) Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet | 18 from 3 votes
=26) Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Pt. 2 | 17 from 3 votes
=26) Revelation - Yet so Far | 17 from 3 votes
28) Voivod - Negatron | 16.5 from 3 votes
29) Order from Chaos - Dawn Bringer | 16 from 2 votes
=30) Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée | 15 from 3 votes
=30) Blood Farmers - Blood Farmers | 15 from 2 votes
32) Paradise Lost - Draconian Times | 14.5 from 3 votes
33) Varathron - Walpurgisnacht | 14 from 5 votes
34) Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons | 13 from 2 votes
35) Motorhead - Sacrifice | 12.5 from 3 votes
36) Opeth - Orchid | 12 from 2 votes
=37) Morbid Angel - Domination | 11 from 3 votes
=37) Malevolent Creation - Eternal | 11 from 2 votes
=39) Sinister - Hate | 10.5 from 3 votes
=39) Yngwie Malmsteen - Magnum Opus | 10.5 from 2 votes
=39) Symphony X - The Damnation Game | 10.5 from 2 votes
=42) Deicide - Once Upon the Cross | 10 from 2 votes
=42) Lugubrum- Winterstones | 10 from 1 votes
=42) King Diamond - The Spider's Lullabye | 10 from 1 votes
=42) Tankard - Tankard | 10 from 1 votes

 

[no country for old wainds]

so darkthrone missed out on the top 10 somewhat surprisingly, ALKAHEST didn't even make double figures and nor did onceuponatime forum darling UNITED ARYAN EVIL, immortal, gamma ray, absu, kataklysm, fleurety or dismember. SLAUGHTER OF THE SOUL got a single point.

 

[CiG]

Hail Saint Vitus, fuck the hating poseurs.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Even though I only gave it a 9 it really pleases me that Saint Vitus got number 1 and Dissection didn't. It's a good album but ranking it higher than Graveland is just silly.

so much wrong is such a little post.

Do you live in Bizzaro World?

 

[CiG]

Hey man do you use RYM? Just curious.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Do you live in Bizzaro World?

No, he lives in a ...DARK WORLD.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i get why people wouldn't consider them the best of the year but not liking vitus at all is kinda strange to me, they're such an intense and deranged and expressive band, not to mention uber consistent. s/t is still their best album to me but this one's close to the top.

 

[Phylactery]

I didn't think Die Healing would win this actually, kinda surprised it beat SotLB. Pretty good list overall.

I'm holding you personally responsible for Meshuggah beating Nastrond for the 10th spot by the way.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You have to have such immensely shit taste to prefer Graveland to Meshuggah.

 

[CiG]

You have to have such immensely shit taste to say you have to have such immensely shit taste to prefer Graveland to Meshuggah.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i get why people wouldn't consider them the best of the year but not liking vitus at all is kinda strange to me, they're such an intense and deranged and expressive band, not to mention uber consistent. s/t is still their best album to me but this one's close to the top.

Not making a list =/= not liking at all. Don't really need to explain that. And i find St. Vitus to be a pretty overrated band anyway, especially amongst a certain type people. Just not my cup of tea

 

[no country for old wainds]

fair enough, i was thinking more of crimsonfloyd when i said that really.

 

[alex76]

Iced Earth at thirteenth place. What a disgrace!

 

[Baroque]

Shit my .5 point move from death to dream theater cost it a spot. I only did it so that dream theater album would show up in the double digits list, but then Ozz helped so I should have given the .5 back to death. Oh well.

 

[Baroque]

If we're being realistic here that Death album deserves the #1 spot for 1995 metal as far as influence and staying power. That Dream Theater album totally deserves more recognition though as it is one of their best, easily #2 by them for me. After that it's Awake at #3 and then things get murky.