GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1993

[challenge_everything]

1. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon. This is easily my #1 for the year. The whole album oozes a sense of Lovecraftian wrongness and unnaturalness that has never been equalled.

2. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans

3. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp

4. At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness

5. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract. Would have liked to get this higher, but it's too inconsistent. 'Agmenth, Thy Gift' is still one of my top 10 BM songs ever though.

6. Eucharist - A Velvet Creation

7. Demilich - Nespithe

8. Emperor/Enslaved - Emperor/Hordanes Land

9. Immortal - Pure Holocaust

10. Dissection - The Somberlain

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Just realized Shah's Escape From Mind is from '94.

 

[-CC-]

Man this was impossible to rank.

1) Demilich - Nespithe
2) Amorphis - Privilege of Evil
3) Rippikoulou - Musta Seremonia
4) Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
5) Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon
6) Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
7) Edge of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows
8) Crowbar - Crowbar
9) Paradise Lost - Icon
10) Depravity - Silence of the Centuries

But that bottom 5 could be swapped out with any of these depending on the day:

Sentenced - North from Here
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Acrostichon - Engraved in Black
Utumno - Across the Horizon
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral
Cynic - Focus
Dissection - The Somberlain
Coroner - Grin
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments

Also thanks to this thread, I discovered Aspid - Extravasation. Great album.

 

[CiG]

1) Demilich - Nespithe

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Burzum- Det Som Engang En Var
2. Demilich- Nesphite
3. My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans
4. Immortal- Pure Holocaust
5. Darkthrone- Under a Funeral Moon
6. At the Gates- With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
7. Neurosis- Enemy of the Sun
8. Impaled Nazarene- Urga Karma
9. Satyricon- Dark Medieval Times
10. Dissection- The Somberlain

Honorable Mentions:
Death- Individual Thought Patterns
Gorguts- The Erosion of Sanity
Dismember- Indecent and Obscene
Rotting Christ- Thy Mighty Contract
Varathon- His Majesty at the Swamp
Katatonia- Dance of December Souls

Venom Award (Most Overrated Album of the Year):
Behirit- Drawing Down the Moon

 

[CiG]

Behirit

Big-brained black metal elitist can't seem to get the spelling of a pretty famous black metal band's name correct.

Also, can we just give Burzum the lifetime Venom award?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Big-brained black metal elitist can't seem to get the spelling of a pretty famous black metal band's name correct.

It’s not important enough to look up.

Also, can we just give Burzum the lifetime Venom award?

No. Obviously that goes to Venom.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Det Som Engang En Var is definitely an objectively weak album. Half of the tracks are like sketches or interludes, the other half range from poor to merely good. One of the most conceptually sloppy metal albums I know of.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Fuck, i forgot to mention The Shadowthrone in my HM's. Easily one of the best black metal albums from this year and definitely in my top 15

 

[CiG]

It’s not important enough to look up.

No need to look it up, anybody who has been into black metal for any decent period of time should just know how to spell it regardless of views about the band. Step it up player.

Obviously that goes to Venom.

Venom are way more interesting than Burzum, and actually earned their praise unlike Burzum who got infamous and hipsters over the whole globe to wear his shirts all because he murdered some faggot and inspired some autists to burn churches down.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

No need to look it up, anybody who has been into black metal for any decent period of time should just know how to spell it regardless of views about the band. Step it up player.

I've never valued spelling. It's not something I care about, especially on message boards.

 

[CiG]

I've never valued spelling. It's not something I care about, especially on message boards.

It's not really about grammar, it's about getting band names right. Somewhat different.

Anyway let's get back to talking about how overrated Berzim are.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

It's not really about grammar, it's about getting band names right. Somewhat different.

Anyway let's get back to talking about how overrated Berzim are.

Spelling has next to nothing do with grammar anyways. And I don't see why you all make such a scene about it when you obviously know who I'm talking about. It's petty as fuck.

 

[CiG]

It's petty as fuck.

It's funny as fuck, if you think it's petty it's because you're taking it personally.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Behirit fucking suck.

And they're not going to suck any less if Crimmy spells their name correctly.

 

[CiG]

speels

 

[CiG]

Ninja Edit = 0
Ninja Quote = 1

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Lol, i have to respect the speed at which you respond. It's like some sort of superpower. I literally edited that 1 second after posting.

 

[CiG]

Actually as soon as I saw the comment I quoted the mistake because I knew if I refreshed or kept eating breakfast it would be gone. I'm a massive douche.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I've caught you quite a few times too so it's all good.