GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums Of 1988

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5) Punishment for Decadence by Coroner
In many years from now, someone will find my ship...
Someone will see my body in it, and see the smile on my face...

"tbh the first two Coroner albums are overrated. Some great songs, but it mostly blends together, especially Vetterli's solos which were mostly mediocre at that point. His creative growth the following year(s) was amazing. Still my favorite thrash band, though." - @HamburgerBoy

"You're so annoying and this is why I rarely even read your posts. Also so many of your opinions suck." - @skeptik

Chosen by:
Talos of Atmora (#2)
Satanstoenail (#2)
alex76 (#3)
I-TEND-TO-DIE (#3)
TechnicalBarbarity (#4)
zerostatic (#4)
Elric of Melniboné (#4)
Slayed Necros (#5)
Sirjack (#6)
Mort Divine (#7)
CASSETTEISGOD (#7)
RedinTheSky (#7)
Vilden (#9)
Burkhard (#10)
Manic Ferocity (N/A)
Phylactery (N/A)

TOTAL: 92 POINTS

 

[Baroque]

"tbh the first two Coroner albums are overrated. Some great songs, but it mostly blends together, especially Vetterli's solos which were mostly mediocre at that point. His creative growth the following year(s) was amazing." - @HamburgerBoy

Gotta agree with HBB on this one. They're an important tech thrash band, but I only go back and listen to these albums when someone starts overhyping them again.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

nothing overhyped about one of the greatest thrash albums of all time.

 

[no country for old wainds]

4) Irae Melanox by Adramelch
These are not odes to the prince of material, just remembrances of ages swayed by the fear...

"Crusades-obsessed bleak and lo-fi Italian power metal, reminiscent of Awaken the Guardian sans the occasional mid-tempo plod." - @HamburgerBoy

"Best album ever. Wish I could like Fates Warning this much." - @Vegard Pompey

Chosen by:
HamburgerBoy (#1)
Vegard Pompey (#1)
no country for old wainds (#1)
EspaDa (#2)
rms (#3)
Slayed Necros (#3)
Vilden (#3)
zabu of nΩd (#4)
Funerary_Doom (#5)
Talos of Atmora (#5)
crimsonfloyd (#6)
RedinTheSky (#10)
Phylactery (N/A)

TOTAL: 93.5 POINTS

 

[no country for old wainds]

hbb sure is getting a lot of airtime this round

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Well that placed much higher than I expected.

 

[no country for old wainds]

if zabu hadn't made that last minute edit, it would've finished 8th. that's how close this was.

 

[Baroque]

So AJFA and Leprosy in the top 3? Sweet.

 

[no country for old wainds]

You should've used the opening line of the title track as the quote though. That line sums up everything that album is about imo.

but i did use that??

 

[Vegard Pompey]

but i did use that??

Who are you talking to?

 

[no country for old wainds]

i edited in your preferred lyric as the quote and was pretending it was there all along, which only works if you actually notice.

 

[no country for old wainds]

3) Blood Fire Death by Bathory
The elder among the men looked deep into the fire and spoke loud with pride: "Tomorrow is a fine day to die!"

"i just love that stirring, deliberate, earthy sound quorthon started to peddle in with this album's bookends and subsequent releases, even at times when the songwriting is dubious. it bridges mid-'80s epic trad and '90s BM, embodying the best qualities of both." - @no country for old wainds

"better than any Norwegian black metal album." - @MrTagoMago

Chosen by:
Vilden (#1)
Anom@nder Rake (#2)
Serjeant Grumbles (#2)
Funerary_Doom (#2)
zabu of nΩd (#3)
Mort Divine (#4)
CASSETTEISGOD (#4)
ClichéUserName (#5)
Vegard Pompey (#5)
Slayed Necros (#6)
-CyanideChrist- (#8)
crimsonfloyd (#8)
Atomic Tide (#9)
H.P. Lovecraft (N/A)
Manic Ferocity (N/A)
Phylactery (N/A)

TOTAL: 100.5 POINTS

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Only one album that I've voted for has so far made the list, and if it remains that way I still can't complain at all, this year is fucking stacked with great stuff. The more I think about it I have to wonder if 1984 really is better.

I actually had a dream this morning where Sean Killian was singing solo over piped-in instrumental Vio-lence tracks to a crowd of headbanging pirates in the storage area of a ship, oddly lit with flashing pink disco-worthy lights, with freight and stuff flying everywhere and crushing people.

 

[Bloopy]

FYI, the Slayer cover image isn't showing up because deathmetal.org doesn't allow hotlinking. If you can see it it's because it's cached in your browser.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I miss the good old days where hotlinking ANUS resulted in coprophiliac porn in the intended image's place.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

'member the asian chick with the pink bunny?

 

[Baroque]

2 AJFA
1 Leprosy



Cool what is the next year?

 

[no country for old wainds]

2) Leprosy by Death
There is no hope or cure...

"Leprosy is still may favorite Death release, even though I listen to Human a lot as well. Why? I'm not sure, I think it's just because it's a good slab of raw old school death metal that stays consistent the whole way through with no weak spots, and the guitar work is great as well." - @Half_Can

"Their best album." - @TechnicalBarbarity & @Phylactery & @MrTagoMago & @HamburgerBoy etc sry i struggled to find many interesting quotes for this except variations on that

Chosen by:
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)
Baroque (#2)
Slammed (#2)
Burkhard (#4)
-CyanideChrist- (#4)
crimsonfloyd (#4)
Anom@nder Rake (#5)
RadicalThrasher (#6)
RedinTheSky (#6)
no country for old wainds (#6)
Satanstoenail (#7)
EspaDa (#7)
Talos of Atmora (#8)
Sirjack (#8)
zerostatic (#8)
The Ozzman (#9)
Serjeant Grumbles (#9)
H.P. Lovecraft (N/A)
Manic Ferocity (N/A)
Phylactery (N/A)

TOTAL: 107.5 POINTS

1) ...And Justice For All by Metallica
All is said and done, never is the sun... Never!

"If you think anything off of Metallica's first four albums, especially And Justice for All... is "mediocre shit music of this world" you are clueless." @matt schrauben in a thread about deftones

"AJFA has this raw, bleak, monotonal quality to it, like all the hope has been sucked out of it leaving nothing but menacing shadows. there was a time when i'd claim the messy song structures lined the overall sound like a cobweb, but no, often they truly have no internal logic to speak of. but either way, it's metallica's most atmospheric, difficult album, and for all its faults it's still quite a mean collection of songs. i think master of puppets is metallica's most 'perfect' album, the one in which the songwriting is most polished. apart from the odd misstep the whole thing's practically faultless for what it is. AJFA on the other hand has a different kind of charm in its sloppiness, looseness, its wild and ambitious digressions and, above all, its unique atmosphere. it's a weaker album than either MOP or my personal favourite RTL, but it deserves its status as classic, and doesn't even remotely warrant the scorn it's receiving here." - @no country for old wainds

"Re: Metallica:I actually like AJFA more than the rest simply because it has no bass( I don't really like overstated bass). It's totally the most fluent and rhythmically arresting of all Metallica records, in my opinion." - @DarkBliss

"AJFA is actually my favorite Metallica album. All Metallica albums have their flaws, and the flaw of AJFA is the glossy guitar solos that don't fit in with the rough, bleak music. I also find some of the major chords on One to be off-putting and to not really fit in with the overall aesthetic of the record or the theme of that song. However, most of the record is just killer." - @crimsonfloyd

Chosen by:
Bloopy (#1)
alex76 (#1)
The Ozzman (#2)
zabu of nΩd (#2)
crimsonfloyd (#2)
zerostatic (#3)
EspaDa (#3)
Baroque (#4)
Vegard Pompey (#4)
Satanstoenail (#4)
RedinTheSky (#5)
no country for old wainds (#5)
Sirjack (#7)
rms (#9)
Elric of Melniboné (#9)
TechnicalBarbarity (#10)
H.P. Lovecraft (N/A)
Manic Ferocity (N/A)

TOTAL: 116 POINTS

 

[no country for old wainds]

2 AJFA
1 Leprosy

nice incorrect spoiler bro

although i gotta say i'm pretty surprised metallica even beat bathory let alone death.

 

[CiG]

Personally a little shocked that Fates Warning didn't make it.