GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1989

[Phylactery]

My dilemma right now also. I know what my 1. is but the rest is a mindfuck.

Realm of Chaos?

My number one will be Altars of Madness, but there’s a huge amount of nostalgia there as it was my first proper death metal album.

 

[CiG]

Nothingface.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
2. Cloven Hoof - A Sultan's Ransom
3. Voivod - Nothingface
4. Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd
5. Rigor Mortis - Freaks
6. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
7. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
8. Coroner - No More Color
9. Helstar - Nosferatu
10. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness

HM:

 

[CiG]

Are we counting Horrified by Repulsion?

 

[Krow]

1. Autopsy - Severed Survival
2. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
3. King Diamond - Conspiracy
4. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
5. Sodom - Agent Orange
6. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
7. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
8. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
9. Running Wild - Death or Glory
10. Voivod - Nothingface

 

[CiG]

1. Voïvod - Nothingface
2. Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
3. Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
4. Autopsy - Severed Survival
5. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
6. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
7. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
8. Sodom - Agent Orange
9. Watchtower - Control and Resistance
10. Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry

Spoiler: HM/11. to 20.

11. Candlemass - Tales of Creation
12. Coroner - No More Color
13. Macabre - Gloom
14. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
15. Sarcófago - Rotting
16. Mekong Delta - The Principle of Doubt
17. Blood - Impulse to Destroy
18. Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
19. Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
20. King Diamond - Conspiracy

 

[The Ozzman]

Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Toxik - Think This
Scanner - Terminal Earth
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Running Wild - Death or Glory
Sodom - Agent Orange
Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Dream Theater - When Day and Dream Unite

Lots of overrated albums released this year

 

[CiG]

Lots of overrated albums released this year

 

[no country for old wainds]

to be fair to oz, whenever he moans about overrated albums in these polls, he always backs up his statement by helpfully listing some of them

 

[The Ozzman]

I only listed one or two I personally find overrated but still worthy of being in a list and omitted the rest. I guess I could just omit those two completely though.

 

[CiG]

to be fair to oz, whenever he moans about overrated albums in these polls, he always backs up his statement by helpfully listing some of them

You always make such good points.

 

[no country for old wainds]

thx man. his list is actually pretty solid this time tbh, maybe i'll retract my savage burn

 

[The Ozzman]

thx man. his list is actually pretty solid this time tbh, maybe i'll retract my savage burn

Thanks. I mean, everyone else's list has at least twice as many overrated albums as mine does this time.

 

[CiG]

It's hard to have a shit list for a year like 1989.

 

[Atomic Tide]

Yikes! Once again, had to leave some stone cold classics off my list, but some of my all-time favorite artists released some killer shit this year.

1 - Voivod - Nothingface
2 - Bad Brains - Quickness
3 - Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
4 - Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
5 - King Diamond - Conspiracy
6 - Terrorizer - World Downfall
7 - Autopsy - Severed Survival
8 - Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
9 - Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
10 - Dark Angel - Leave Scars

 

[Bloopy]

Are we counting Horrified by Repulsion?

I wouldn't count a remixed/renamed release as a new album... except that I did in the '92 thread. But at the time I couldn't confirm if the original was late '91 or early '92.

 

[Baroque]

1. Obituary - Slowly We Rot
2. Disciples of Power - Powertrap
3. Paradox - Heresy
4. Devastation - Signs of Life
5. Acid Reign - The Fear
6. Dark Angel - Leave Scars
7. DRI - Thrash Zone
8. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
9. Voivod - Nothingface
10. Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care

Grinder - Dead End
Nasty Savage - Penetration Point
Mekong Delta - The Principle of Doubt
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Risk - Hell's Animals
Stone - No Anesthesia!
Defiance - Product of Society
Xentrix - Shattered Existence
DBC - Universe
Believer - Extraction From Mortality

[EDIT] Ranked

Prelim ranked, but any of those HM could easily make the top 10 on a relisten

 

[-CC-]

Didn't expect you to rank Obituary as your #1. Nice.

 

[Allfader]

Even if this is a bestial year, the number 1 is surprisingly easy:

1- Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness. This is probably one of the most influential albums in the history of metal and THE definitive death metal masterpiece.

The rest goes like this (In ORDER)

2 Terrorizer - World Downfall

3 Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

4 Pestilence - Consvming Impvlse

5 Godflesh - Streetcleaner

6 Kreator - Extreme Aggression

7 King Diamond - Conspiracy

8 Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness

9 Obituary - Slowly We Rot

10 Coroner - No More Color

11 Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

 

[CiG]

Terrorizer - World Downfall. Not sure if it will accepted

Of course it's accepted, it's a pretty by the books grind album.

The rest goes like this (In ORDER)

Use numbers in the future or I'll keep counting your lists as unranked.