GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums Of 1988

[Burkhard]

After recently listening to Coroner's "Punishment for Decacdence" fully concentrated with my headphones, I realized how great Ron's bass-playing is and therefore this album went up another three places in my list to no. 6.

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) adramelch - irae melanox
2) anacrusis - suffering hour
3) holy terror - mind wars
4) rigor mortis - rigor mortis
5) metallica - ...and justice for all
6) death - leprosy
7) lust - we'll never die
8) voivod - dimension hatross
9) pestilence - malleus maleficarum
10) vio-lence - eternal nightmare

that was tough. there's really good stuff that wouldn't even make my top 20 for this year.

did we decide 'thundersteel' is a different year or something? surprised it ain't there otherwise. i also definitely should've listed 'perfect man' given how much i've always listened to it lol

 

[CiG]

This year was really difficult, for some reason I didn't think it would be.

1. Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries
2. Voïvod - Dimension Hatröss
3. Fates Warning - No Exit
4. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
5. Running Wild - Port Royal
6. Death SS - In Death of Steve Sylvester
7. Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
8. Sieges Even - Life Cycle
9. Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
10. O.L.D. - Old Lady Drivers

The 1988 Do-Over:


1. Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Favourite song: "Macrosolutions to Megaproblems"

2. Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Favourite song: "Lucid Fairytale"

3. Death - Leprosy
Favourite song: "Pull the Plug"


4. Sadus - Illusions
Favourite song: "Torture"


5. Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries
Favourite song: "The Troll"


6. Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Favourite song: "Suppuration"


7. Slayer - South of Heaven
Favourite song: "Ghosts of War"


8. Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law!
Favourite song: "Psychological Warfare"


9. Manilla Road - Out of the Abyss
Favourite song: "Helicon"


10. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Favourite song: "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"