GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 2003

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1. Enslaved - Below the Lights
2. Týr - Eric the Red
3. Einherjer - Blot
4. How Like a Winter - Beyond My Grey Wake
5. While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
6. Root - Madness of the Graves
7. Windir - Likferd
8. Pantheist - O Solitude
9. Doomsword - Let Battle Commence
10. Xasthur - The Funeral of Being

Honourable Mention

Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Gravedigger - Rheingold
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
Dark Lunacy - Forget-Me-Not
Virgin Black - Elegant... and Dying
Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn
Yearning - Evershade
Bathory - Nordland II
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Krisiun - Works of Carnage
Mystic Forest - Waltz in the Midst of Trees

I never listened to the Slough Feg album before this year was pulled out of the RNG hat.

 

[Mort Divine]

i haven't listened to mystic forest in years, should revisit them

 

[crimsonfloyd]

A:
1. Ohtar- When I Cut the Throat
2. Drudkh- Forgotton Legends
3. Leviathan- The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
4. Blut Aus Nord- The Work Which Transforms God

A-
5. Lost Horizon- A Flame to the Ground Beneath
6. S.V.E.S.T.- Urfaust
7. Panthiest- O Solitude

B+
8. Stratovarius- Elements Part I
9. Enslaved- Below the Lights
10. Kamelot- Epica

Honorable Mentions:
Forest Stream- Tears of a Mortal Solitude
Skepticism- Farmoken
Satanic Warmaster- Optferblut
Sargeist- Satanic Black Devotion
Xasthur- The Funeral of Being
Neurosis & Jarboe- S/T

 

[no country for old wainds]

lists in by the end of sunday plsthx

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) the lord weird slough feg - traveller
2) hammers of misfortune - the august engine
3) fairyland - of wars in osyrhia
4) fanisk - noontide
5) hail - inheritance of evilness
6) sigrblot - blodsband (blood religion manifest)
7) mi'gauss - open season
8) nocternity - onyx
9) lost horizon - a flame to the ground beneath
10) dub buk - pусь понад усе!

think we're just waiting on phil AKA terry now?

 

[Phylactery]

I haven't had time to do this properly! So I'll throw together a list with no order.

Hail - Inhertiance of Evilness
Nocternity - Onyx
Slough Feg - Traveller
Fanisk - Noontide
Epheles - Le Dernier Pardon
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
Faustcoven - The Halo of Burning Wings
Morrigan - Celts
Orordruin - Epicurean Mass
Darkspace - Darkspace I

 

[no country for old wainds]

cool, i'll start compiling le results.

not to be a tease or anything but i just drew the next year out of the proverbial hat and it's one of the very best IMO, though some folks may disagree... *strokes beard ambiguously*

 

[HamburgerBoy]

cool, i'll start compiling le results.

not to be a tease or anything but i just drew the next year out of the proverbial hat and it's one of the very best IMO, though some folks may disagree... *strokes beard ambiguously*

I'm going to guess 1994.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

94 is my guess as well. If it is, we should just do a top 20.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1994 will be tough, 1993 even tougher. I'm hoping for the latter.

 

[CiG]

1989.

 

[no country for old wainds]

GMD's Top Ten Metal Albums of 2003
10) A Flame to the Ground Beneath by Lost Horizon
There is a beauty that I long for...

"This music has utmost sincerity about what it is and what it wants to do. Like most power metal, its sound is positive and triumphant. But unlike most of the genre's luminaries, who make what is ultimately escapist music, Lost Horizon leverage their formidable skills towards uplifting and inspiring the audience. And they truly do. There is no deception - this is the most sincerely positive music I have ever heard, with no hint of irony in it. It positively glories in existence. I don't know how it's possible to listen to this band and not be joyful." - RNG on RYM

Chosen by:
Vegard Pompey (#1)
Talos of Atmora (#3)
crimsonfloyd (#5)
HamburgerBoy (#8)
no country for old wainds (#9)

 

[ClichéUserName]

87-89

 

[CiG]

87-89

Wasn't 1987 the first year we did?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

We did 86.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

YESSS Lost Horizon made it in. That's all I wanted.

 

[no country for old wainds]

9) Nordland II by Bathory
Behold the flash of the silver hammer!

"I wrote a so-so review of Nordland I and Quorthon sent me hatemail. he was upset I said he could not sing. I hope Nordland II is better" - erik@digitalmetal

"Nordland I and II are my favorite Bathory albums.

Long live the king." - @Funerary_Doom

Chosen by:
Vilden (#1)
CASSETTEISGOD (#3)
Talos of Atmora (#6)
-CyanideChrist- (#7)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

8) The August Engine by Hammers of Misfortune
This place where only memories can breathe...

"The August Engine, Part 2 gives me full-body orgasms now." - @HamburgerBoy

Chosen by:
no country for old wainds (#2)
HamburgerBoy (#3)
Baroque (#5)
Vegard Pompey (#7)
CASSETTEISGOD (#8)
Talos of Atmora (#8)

 

[no country for old wainds]

7) Let Battle Commence by Doomsword
We shall fill the air with spears to turn black this christian sun...

"Doomsword has a rolling tidal march going on in there music,Epic True Metal that always seems to remind me of marauding viking sea vessels for some reason,especially 'Resound The Horn' and 'Let Battle Commence'" - @JontRevolting

Chosen by:
CASSETTEISGOD (#4)
Talos of Atmora (#4)
rms (#6)
Anom@nder Rake (#6)
Bloopy (#6)
Master_Yoda77 (#7)
alex76 (#8)
Serjeant Grumbles (#9)

 

[no country for old wainds]

6) Onyx by Nocternity
The false will wear the burning crown...

"Like MalignParadigm said, very dense, keyboard-driven (but not in a gay or sappy way). Very dark stuff. I'd say it would probably appeal to fans of albums like In the Nightside Eclipse and Vikingligr Veldi." - @Cythraul

Chosen by:
rms (#3)
Anom@nder Rake (#3)
Slayed Necros (#5)
Master_Yoda77 (#5)
Funerary_Doom (#5)
no country for old wainds (#8)
Krow (#9)
Phylactery (n/a)