GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1991

[Krow]

I guess I need to listen to 1916 a couple more times.

By my count I own 17 Motörhead albums, including that one and I had it very low toward the bottom.

 

[CF87]

1. Massacre `From Beyond.
2. Cannibal Corpse `Butchered at Birth.
3. Grave `Into The Grave
4. Unleashed `Where no life Dwells.
5. Cancer `Death Shall Rise.
6. Convulse `World Without God.
7. Funebre `Children of the Scorn.
8. Entombed `Clandestine.
9. Pestilence `Testimony of the Ancients.
10. Asphyx `The Rack.

 

[The Ozzman]

Forgot about Corpse and also Viogression. Those may make the list..

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1916 is one of the few Motorhead albums i dont own. Same goes for a few other albums i left off like Open Hostility, Not Dead Yet, Awakening etc ... albums that im not too familiar with.

 

[Baroque]

1916 is the least favorite Motorhead album I own, and haven't really been able to pin down why. It's still better than their "bad" albums, it's sort of the worst of their best material.

 

[Sirjack]

1 - Carcass - Necroticism Descanting The Insalubrious
2 - Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
3 - Bolt Thrower - War Master
4 - Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
5 - Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
6 - Suffocation - Human Waste EP
7 - Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
8 - Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
9 - Immolation - Dawn of Possession
10 - Autopsy - Mental Funeral

....

 

[The Ozzman]

1 - Carcass - Necroticism Descanting The Insalubrious
2 - Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
3 - Bolt Thrower - War Master
4 - Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
5 - Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
6 - Suffocation - Human Waste EP
7 - Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
8 - Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
9 - Immolation - Dawn of Possession
10 - Autopsy - Mental Funeral

....

DEATH METAL OR BUST

 

[Sirjack]

yeah, there's probably a couple of these that wouldn't make the cut for me now, but l had to go with what ruled my world back then...
and those were it.
But my god that was a brilliant year. Sooo many awesome albums - l can't be bothered doing a Hon M thing there's just too many

 

[Atomic Tide]

1916 has some quality songs on it, including one of my all-time faves, No Voice In The Sky. I can't decide if March Or Die or Snake Bite Love is my least fave Motorhead album.

 

[EspaDa]

Yeah, Snake Bite Love is perhaps the worst Motorhead album tbh.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

yeah, there's probably a couple of these that wouldn't make the cut for me now, but l had to go with what ruled my world back then...
and those were it.

Kind of the same mindset here. I remember I had Idolatry on cassette, and I remember the first time I heard it.......I wanted to peel back my scalp and let my brains explode on the ceiling, it was that good. Still feel the same about the album and the memories that surround it. Its hard not to start pacing when I listen to it.

 

[EspaDa]

1. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
2. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
3. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
4. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
5. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
6. Master's Hammer - Ritual
7. Massacre - From Beyond
8. Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
9. Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
10. Coroner - Mental Vortex

 

[Sirjack]

@RadicalThrasher ah thats cool man, and so true! l hadn't actually heard Devastation back then until maybe 2 or so years later and to be honest it was a few more years later until l really loved that album.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

this was a monster year for death metal. some of my all time favorites from the genre were released this year. i will need to re-listen to some albums so i might change my list but the top 5 are set.

1. Master's Hammer - Ritual
2. Asphyx - The Rack
3. Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
4. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
5. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
6. Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
7. Goatlord - Reflections of the Solstice
8. Bolt Thrower - War Master
9.Convulse - World Without God
10. Sentenced - Shadows of Past

Honorable Mentions:
Massacra - Enjoy the Violence
Therion - Of Darkness
Root - Hell Symphony
Sororicide - The Entity
Cancer - Death Shall Rise
Nuclear Death - Carrion for Worm
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Sorcery - Bloodchilling Tales
Sadistik Exekution - The Magus
Overkill - Horrorscope
Sabbat - Envenom

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1. Coroner - Mental Vortex
2. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
3. Overkill - Horrorscope
4. Zions Abyss - T.A.L.E.S.
5. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
6. Solitude Aeturnus - In the Depths of Sorrow
7. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
8. Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
9. Gorguts - Considered Dead
10. Master's Hammer - Ritual

The Honorable Mentions
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Heavens Gate - Livin' in Hysteria
Fates Warning - Parallels
Secrecy - Raging Romance
Death - Human
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Voivod - Angel Rat
Confessor - Condemned
Hexenhaus - Awakening


This was hard to make. A genuinely fantastic year. I may make some revisions but this is pretty satisfactory for me as is.

 

[Bloopy]

1. Overkill - Horrorscope
2. Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction
3. Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
4. Grave - Into the Grave
5. Demon - Hold On to the Dream
6. Entombed - Clandestine
7. Motörhead - 1916
8. Sepultura - Arise
9. Heathen - Vicitims of Deception
10. Strappado - Not Dead Yet

 

[CiG]

I completely forgot about this album so I went and edited my list and took out Mental Funeral (my least favourite classic era Autopsy record anyway) so heads up @no country for old wainds. I hope it's not too late or some shit.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I hope it's not too late or some shit.

I think he gives updates before the cutoff, so it should be fine.

 

[alex76]

Heavy metal, as was known, would shatter this year, and people had to make a choice. With Nirvana's Nevermind album breaking this year, and basically throwing Grunge into the mainstream the year after, people could choose to throw on some flannel and become addicted to Prozac, or they could just fully devote their souls to Satan and side with the underground scenes of death/black metal. For those who took the latter, a real treat was in store, for it saw some of the very greatest works metal has ever achieved. Either way, the fun-filled 80s were over!

1. Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious
2. Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
3. Sepultura - Arise
4. Entombed - Clandestine
5. Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
6. Death - Human
7. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
8. Immolation - Dawn of Possession
9. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
10. Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering

 

[The Ozzman]

This should really be a Top 15, but alas:

1) Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
2) Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
3) Heathen - Victims of Deception
4) Entombed - Clandestine
5) Invocator - Excursion Demise
6) Metallica - Metallica
7) Bolt Thrower - War Master
8) Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
9) Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
10) Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

Honorable Mentions:

Viogression - Expound and Exhort
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream (better than I remember)
Grave - Into the Grave
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick