GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of 2003

[Vilden]

I have no idea how anyone could rank Celts over Nordland II, oh well (I think Celts is great btw).

My favorite Morrigan song is actually Dead Forever from the split with Nocternity.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Nordland is cool and all but mostly it just makes me want to listen to Scald.

 

[CiG]

Scald always make me want to listen to Bathory.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Doesn't really matter which album they released, it'd still be #1.

 

[Mort Divine]

Scald always make me want to listen to Bathory.

Outside of Hammerheart, I'd probably take Scald over any "Viking metal" Bathory any day.

 

[Phylactery]

To quote old wainds about a Scald song from Will of the Gods is Great Power - "Hammerheart wishes it was this good."

I'd agree with him for 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2009. But then I am an unashamed The Chasm fanboy.

3. Galneryus - The Flag of Punishment

What's this? I've never heard of them.

Didn't expect you to be a fan of Colossal Titan Strife.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

What's this? I've never heard of them.

Japanese power metal. Wouldn't expect it to be your thing but I loves 'em.

Didn't expect you to be a fan of Colossal Titan Strife.

Right? I'm not normally into brutal death metal but that album is just so damn badass. Maybe superficial but so much fun to listen to.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

6. Fairyland - Of Wars in Osyrhia

Love that album. Really struggling with whether or not it's in my top 10 though.

 

[-CC-]

FINALLY someone puts Blut Aus Nord...not even an honorable mention until now. Jesus christ UM.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

FINALLY someone puts Blut Aus Nord...not even an honorable mention until now. Jesus christ UM.

I wanted to revisit it today. I remember liking it but I haven't done my honorable mentions yet.

 

[Vilden]

Outside of Hammerheart, I'd probably take Scald over any "Viking metal" Bathory any day.

Outside of Hammerheart I'd take Scald over any album by any band any genre...

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I had tried Angel of Salvation a few times and so far it hasn't registered as more than pretty good, but I just listened to The Flag of Punishment for the first time last week and liked it a lot, much riffier and more aggressive. What would be the next Galneryus album to go for with that in mind?

 

[Vegard Pompey]

idk, the only other album with Yama-B I've listened to is Advance to the Fall which is alright, it opens with probably the best song they ever recorded but kinda flags after that.

 

[CiG]

Outside of Hammerheart, I'd probably take Scald over any "Viking metal" Bathory any day.

That's a tough choice, Scald are easily one of my all-timers without a doubt, but Bathory are closer to my heart. Also, Scald have doom metal elements which change the situation in terms of my mood dictating what I feel like hearing at any given time.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

FINALLY someone puts Blut Aus Nord...not even an honorable mention until now. Jesus christ UM.

It'll be pretty high on my list.

 

[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?