GMD Poll: Top 10 Metal Albums of the 1990s

[Bloopy]

This poll will be open until mid-June at least. I wanna see you pull some teeth.

RULES:
– Post up to 10 releases (5 minimum) and number your list. Your 1st pick gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9 etc. etc., 10th gets 1 point. Feel free to list more albums, but they won't count as picks.

– Metal releases only.

– EPs, demos etc. are eligible too. Anything released 1990-99.

– If the grunge kids upset you so much you can't rank your list, then each of your picks gets 5.5 points coz math.

Results for other decades (no shame in adding lists to these threads if you missed out):
– 1980s (sup @-CC-)
– 1970s

 

[Slayed Necros]

Narrowing an entire decade down to ten albums is going to be maddening... let's fucking go!

 

[SonOfNun]

I am in no way equipped to do this. But I will.

 

[CiG]

None of us are.

 

[Slammed]

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
2. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
3. Judas Priest – Painkiller
4. Motörhead – 1916
5. Anthrax – Sound Of White Noise
6. Testament - The Gathering
7. Overkill – Horrorscope
8. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
9. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
10. Exodus - Impact Is Imminent

 

[SonOfNun]

None of us are.

At least you have lists for each year of the 90s to go off of. I think I'm gonna have to get together 20 or so albums by gut instinct and then give them close listens and see what happens. Maybe if I have time I can go into more detail. I'm working on 1991 right now.

 

[Slayed Necros]

At least you have lists for each year of the 90s to go off of. I think I'm gonna have to get together 20 or so albums by gut instinct and then give them close listens and see what happens. Maybe if I have time I can go into more detail. I'm working on 1991 right now.

Cataloguing sites like RYM/discogs are invaluable for these list threads.

 

[SonOfNun]

Yeah, I've been using RYM to do track by track ratings and then calculating an overall rating. But, I've only recently discovered this and done a few DM albums. I have a long way to go.

 

[CiG]

At least you have lists for each year of the 90s to go off of. I think I'm gonna have to get together 20 or so albums by gut instinct and then give them close listens and see what happens. Maybe if I have time I can go into more detail. I'm working on 1991 right now.

My moods change way too much for my 90's lists to have any value anymore lmao. What's your RYM btw?

 

[SonOfNun]

https://rateyourmusic.com/~SonOfNun

 

[Bloopy]

I thought about whether narrowing it down to 10 turned out to be a bit harsh in the 1980s poll, but nothing's stopping anyone from loosely ranking 15 or 20 and not worrying too much about where the cutoff is. I usually rank my honourable mentions in order as well. The overall results are more just a passing amusement involving other people's shit taste.

 

[CiG]

https://rateyourmusic.com/~SonOfNun

Followed my nigga.

The overall results are more just a passing amusement involving other people's shit taste.

Yeah my list is gonna be a real shit pile that will probably cause unnecessary ties.

 

[SonOfNun]

This profile is a lot.

 

[CiG]

This profile is a lot.

 

[Baroque]

The forum's yearly lists:
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1990.1436189/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1991.1164257/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-10-metal-albums-of-1992.1113277/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1993.1341292/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1994.1233935/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-10-metal-albums-of-1995.1117488/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1996.1133835/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1997.1414251/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1998.1201461/
https://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/threads/gmd-poll-top-ten-albums-of-1999.1294226/

Albums from my yearly lists that have a chance to make my decade list:

1990
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Obliveon - From This Day Forward
Artillery - By Inheritance
Believer - Sanity Obscure
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Dio - Lock Up the Wolves
Atheist - Piece of Time
Trouble - s/t
Kreator - Coma of Souls
Acid Reign - Obnoxious
Death - Spiritual Healing
Xentrix - For Whose Advantage?

1991
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Death - Human
Metallica - Black Album
Devastation - Idolatry
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

1992
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Antidote - The Truth
Typhoon - Take Good Care
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

1993
Aspid - Extravasation
Pestilence - Spheres
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Atheist - Elements

1994
Dream Theater - Awake
Megadeth - Youthanasia

1995
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Death - Symbolic
End Zone - First Bequest
Motorhead - Sacrifice
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis

1996
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
End Zone - Thalatta Et Thanatos

1997
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings

1998
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Liquid Tension Experiment - s/t
Metallica - Garage Inc.

1999
this year was garbo.

Paring it down to the absolute best top 20 in 1 list:

Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Obliveon - From This Day Forward
Artillery - By Inheritance
Dio - Lock Up the Wolves
Trouble - s/t
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Metallica - Black Album
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Antidote - The Truth
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Aspid - Extravasation
Pestilence - Spheres
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Death - Symbolic
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Death - The Sound of Perseverance

...How do I eliminate 10 of those?

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah this was absurd, way harder than I anticipated. 11 - 20 was an ordeal in itself.

1. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
2. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
3. Bathory - Hammerheart
4. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
5. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
6. Demilich - Nespithe
7. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
8. Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Part One
9. Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power
10. Root - The Temple in the Underworld

11. Mystifier - Göetia
12. Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
13. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
14. Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
15. Obliveon - From This Day Forward
16. Nåstrond - Toteslaut
17. Grand Belial's Key - Mocking the Philanthropist
18. Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity
19. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
20. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

EPs

Spoiler

1. Sadistic Intent - Ancient Black Earth
2. Rotting Christ - Passage to Arcturo
3. Mortuary Drape - Into the Drape
4. Armoured Angel - Stigmartyr
5. Dawn - Sorgh på Svarte Vingar Fløgh
6. Warloghe - Unlighted
7. Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
8. At the Gates - Gardens of Grief
9. The Ancient's Rebirth - Damnated Hell's Arrival
10. Abigor - Orkblut - The Retaliation

 

[Baroque]

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
2. Dream Theater - Images and Words
3. Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
4. Metallica - Black Album
5. Symphony X - Divine Wings of Tragedy
6. Antidote - The Truth
7. Death - Symbolic
8. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
9. Aspid - Extravasation
10. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics

brutal

 

[CiG]

"Black Album" would be so much better if human Propofol wasn't behind the kit. Every other member fucking kills it though.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

This'll be a weird-ass list because I don't care that much for the BM/DM canon, but here goes:

1. The Chasm - From the Lost Years...
2. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity
3. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
4. Nocturnal Winds - Everlasting Fall
5. A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
6. Sigh - Infidel Art
7. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
8. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
9. Summoning - Stronghold
10. Barathrum - Legions of Perkele

 

[zerostatic]

1. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
2. Judas Priest - Painkiller
3. Immolation - Here in After
4. Coroner - Mental Vortex
5. Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
6. Carcass - Heartwork
7. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
8. Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
9. Entombed - Clandestine
10. Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder