GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1993

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

Shit, I clicked like on this post before I read the last line.
 
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1. Demilich - Nespithe
2. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
3. Mystifier - Göetia
4. Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
5. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
6. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
7. Dissection - The Somberlain
8. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
9. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
10. Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral

This is a hard year. Picking just 10 was tough.
 
01. Carcass - Heartwork
02. Morbid Angel - Covenant
03. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
04. Aspid - Extravasation
05. Entombed - Wolverine Blues
06. Dissection - The Somberlain
07. Desultory - Into Eternity
08. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
09. Demilich - Nespithe
10. Brutality - Screams of Anguish


As far as I am concerned, bad vocal styles ruined a lot of potential out of this year. Still a good year though. I have never heard Göetia, so I probably should before this poll closes.
 
1. Demilich - Nespithe
2. Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
3. Impaled Nazarene - Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz...
4. Necromantia - Crossing the Fiery Path
5. Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn
6. Riot - Nightbreaker
7. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
8. Sabbat - Disembody
9. Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows
10. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp

Idk, order feels scrambled. In crowd powers activate.

Also, I apparently sold Ozz my copy of Nespithe years ago, regretted it and bought another copy.
 
1. Demilich - Nespithe
2. Disembowelment - Transcendence Into the Peripheral
3. Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
4. Unholy - From the Shadows
5. Dissection - The Somberlain
6. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
7. Mystifier - Goetia
8. Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
9. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
10. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence

this year is of my all-time favorites. honorable mentions

My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Sabbat - Disembody
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Marduk - Those of the Unlight
Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia
Sentenced - North From Here
Dismember - Indecent and Obscene
Torchure - The Essence
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Purtenance - Member of Immortal Damnation
God Macabre - The Winterlong
Electrocution - Inside the Unreal
Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Necromantia - Crossing the Fiery Path
Blasphemy - Gods of War
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Brutality - Screams of Anguish
Rottrevore - Iniquitous
Excruciate - Passage of Life
Unanimated - In The Forest of the Dreaming Dead
Supuration - The Cube
Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
 
1. Carcass - Heartwork
2. Morbid Angel - Covenant
3. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
4. Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
5. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
6. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
7. Demilich - Nespithe
8. Coroner - Grin
9. Benediction - Transcend the Rubicon
10. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
 
I need a few more days as well. I’ll tentatively say next Friday.

I may not be able even rank this year! There’s just way too much good shit.
 
1. Coroner - Grin
2. Melvins- Houdini
3. Entombed - Wolverine Blues
4. Morbid Angel - Covenant
5. Thought Industry - Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh
6. Fishbone- Give a Monkey a Brain and He’ll Swear He’s the Centre of the Universe
7. Cynic - Focus
8. Aspid - Extravasation
9. Damaged - Do Not Spit
10. Atheist - Elements
 
1. Sigh - Scorn Defeat
2. Catacomb - In the Maze of Kadath
3. At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
4. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
5. Horrified - In the Garden of Unearthly Delights
6. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
7. Voivod - The Outer Limits
8. Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
9. Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
 
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