GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 2003

[rms]

Previous Registration: Prev. reg. 1983,

sounds like a technicality fucked it up?

finding that link is mindblowing though

 

[Phylactery]

@no country for old wainds

What's your ruling in this The Chasm album? In or out?

 

[no country for old wainds]

i guess out, since we excluded queensryche for the exact same thing, whereas the manilla road situation was more ambiguous.

 

[Phylactery]

That was going to be my number one!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Previous Registration: Prev. reg. 1983,

sounds like a technicality fucked it up?

finding that link is mindblowing though

The previous registration was the master tape for the album; if you check my link, the actual date of publication for the original imprint was Jan 2nd 1984. Because it was the band's own label and so close to 1983 it doesn't really matter, but it sounds like The Chasm's album was released significantly earlier than 2003. Unfortunately the WayBack Machine doesn't work for The Chasm's old website.

EDIT: Found an interview that doesn't state the original release date directly, but implies that the gap is due to conflicts with the original label that printed it, which would further validate a 2002 date as proper to me.

http://psychopathological.over-blog.com/page/129

They were also on a Metal-Rules best of 2002 user list:

http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/?id=5

 

[no country for old wainds]

broke this one out for the first time in a while. check out some of their catchy lyrics below.

The life of a race, of a people, is not a philosophically logical developement nor even a process which unfolds in terms of natural law. It is the formation of a mystical synthesis, of an activity of the soul which cannot be explained by rational deduction nor made intelligible through analysis of cause and effect. Comprehending the essence, the inner heart of a culture, consists therefore in elucidating its highest religious, moral, scientific, and aesthetic values. These determine its total rhythm and simultaneously qualify the reciprocal relationship and arrangements of human powers.

The nordic essence has been plunged into its greatest hour of peril. Forces eating away at the inside of every land, together with the raw sewage of the lower depths obligate everyone concerned about the total culture of Europe to create a solid front of nordic destiny which shall cut across the artificial confrontation of victors and vanquished of the Great War.

To the extent that the invading ethos succeeds in weakening the original races and peoples and their ideas – even physically undermining and subjugating them – it signifies the death of a culture soul and its disappearance even in its external manifestations, from the face of the earth. After such catastrophes, it is possible for the spiritual forces to regroup around the old foci and to generate a new form of being. Under a new myth the blood which died may live again. In its mystical sign, the cells of the germanic folkish soul renew themselves. Today that new faith is awakening – the mythos of the blood; The belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divinity in man. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that nordic blood respresents that mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

So, should I remove the Chasm submission from my list?

 

[no country for old wainds]

yeah, let's just go with it being 2002. i always thought of it as '02 anyway, that never really clicked til someone mentioned it tho

 

[Vilden]

broke this one out for the first time in a while. check out some of their catchy lyrics below.

The life of a race, of a people, is not a philosophically logical developement nor even a process which unfolds in terms of natural law. It is the formation of a mystical synthesis, of an activity of the soul which cannot be explained by rational deduction nor made intelligible through analysis of cause and effect. Comprehending the essence, the inner heart of a culture, consists therefore in elucidating its highest religious, moral, scientific, and aesthetic values. These determine its total rhythm and simultaneously qualify the reciprocal relationship and arrangements of human powers.

The nordic essence has been plunged into its greatest hour of peril. Forces eating away at the inside of every land, together with the raw sewage of the lower depths obligate everyone concerned about the total culture of Europe to create a solid front of nordic destiny which shall cut across the artificial confrontation of victors and vanquished of the Great War.

To the extent that the invading ethos succeeds in weakening the original races and peoples and their ideas – even physically undermining and subjugating them – it signifies the death of a culture soul and its disappearance even in its external manifestations, from the face of the earth. After such catastrophes, it is possible for the spiritual forces to regroup around the old foci and to generate a new form of being. Under a new myth the blood which died may live again. In its mystical sign, the cells of the germanic folkish soul renew themselves. Today that new faith is awakening – the mythos of the blood; The belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divinity in man. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that nordic blood respresents that mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.

Lol forgot this one too, I clearly have no idea what was released 2003. Guess I have to edit again....

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Relistening to some albums I haven't listened to in years. I now remember why I loved Pantheist's O Solitude so much back in the day. Great funeral doom metal.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i used to like that one too.

 

[Vilden]

Farmakon is so much better than Pantheist. Farmakon is actually the second best Skepticism album, majestic.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Farmakon is so much better than Pantheist. Farmakon is actually the second best Skepticism album, majestic.

It's on my 03 revisit list as well. Haven't listened to it in maybe a decade, but loved it back in the day. I remember playing it on a second date when a girl asked what funeral doom was. Somehow I didn't get get laid that night

 

[Talos of Atmora]

It's on my 03 revisit list as well. Haven't listened to it in maybe a decade, but loved it back in the day. I remember playing it on a second date when a girl asked what funeral doom was. Somehow I didn't get get laid that night

WHAT?! How could a woman not fall for the lusty rhythms of funeral doom metal?

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

It's on my 03 revisit list as well. Haven't listened to it in maybe a decade, but loved it back in the day. I remember playing it on a second date when a girl asked what funeral doom was. Somehow I didn't get get laid that night

Man, and she missed out on the post sex oratory on the life Gary Gygax followed by a full match of D and D.

 

[Bloopy]

Lots of good drone doom from this year. As well as St. Anger, which is similarly overlong and punishing, but I dig some of the songs.

Also the EP from guitarless band Skuldom. Apparently the bassist inspected his turds over the course of a week to get the perfect specimen to represent Jesus on the cover.

 

[Mort Divine]

well since the chasm isn't eligible for this year (lots of nostalgia picks this year that still somehow hold up for me)

1. slough feg - traveller
2. reverend bizarre - harbinger of metal
3. hail - inheritance of evilness
4. the devin townsend band - accelerated evolution
5. mithras - worlds beyond the veil
6. katharsis - kruzifixxion
7. intestine baalism - banquet in the darkness
8. boris - akuma no uta
9. pelican - australasia
10. the hidden hand - divine propagnda

HMs:
orodruin - epicurean mass
mi'gauss - open season
nocternity - onyx
morrigan - celts
penumbra - seclusion
wayd - decadance
sleep - dopesmoker
kronos - colossal titan strife
hammers of misfortune - the august engine
grave digger - rheingold
ogre - dawn of the proto-man
portal - seepia

i think this was one of the biggest years for me getting into metal... so much stands out now that i go and look back at it

not even really 100% on my ordering, outside of traveller being #1

fuck i want to go back to then and experience this shit for the first time again

 

[rms]

oh shit the Ogre album. don't get how you can be a doom fan and list Harbringer as #2 but HM Epicurean Mass

 

[Phylactery]

fuck i want to go back to then and experience this shit for the first time again

I feel this way all the time, but I especially wish I could experience discovering black and death metal again. When it felt so otherworldly, threatening and unlike anything I'd heard before. The horror at the putrid sounds coming out of the vocalists' mouths. It was a time of wonder and awe for me and I doubt I'll ever feel the same way when discovering new music again.

Now I'm so accustomed and desensitised to it all that I often forget just how violent some of this music is.

 

[Mort Divine]

oh shit the Ogre album. don't get how you can be a doom fan and list Harbringer as #2 but HM Epicurean Mass

I'm probably going to do some reordering, Epicurean Mass is something I need to revisit.