GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1993

[no country for old wainds]

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. Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
7. Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

ever heard demilich, supuration or necrophobic out of interest? and varathron, since you have the other greeks in there? also crush's KINGDOM OF THE KINGS (greek trad).

trying to help you get to ten lol, what are you some kind of burkhard?

edit: also did you forget voivod or have you gone off that one

 

[Slayed Necros]

I was going to suggest Supuration and Necrophobic. Also, North From Here.

 

[Krow]

Supuration is good shit. I probably would have included it if I owned a copy. Tbh I need to get all their full lengths on my discogs want list so I remember to pick them up.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I suggest he listens to The Erosion of Sanity and comes to terms that it's better than not only everything else on his list, but most other albums from this year

 

[HamburgerBoy]

That Supuration album is one of the greatest examples of why unique is not to be confused with good.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Thankfully we have you to set us straight!

Seriously though, I'm a little surprised you don't like this:

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Thankfully we have you to set us straight!

Seriously though, I'm a little surprised you don't like this:

that was kind of enjoyable, might have to look into them.

 

[CiG]

Deathgrunge.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's riffless. Those beat-counting riffs are basically my number one enemy in metal, and there's this general gothiness to it that presaged all the Swedish/Finnish crap later in the decade.

 

[CiG]

Thankfully we have you to set us straight!

Bad choice of words.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

ever heard demilich, supuration or necrophobic out of interest? and varathron, since you have the other greeks in there? also crush's KINGDOM OF THE KINGS (greek trad).

trying to help you get to ten lol, what are you some kind of burkhard?

edit: also did you forget voivod or have you gone off that one

Couldn't be arsed to do a full top 10 for such a death/black year. I'm sure there are some more albums I could've checked out that I might like but I've been busy with 2018 releases. I listened to Varathron but it's just vastly inferior to the Rotting Christ, doesn't have enough SNARE. I've heard one or two songs from the Crush album but it seems janky even by my standards. Maybe I'd like it though.

Oh I do like the Voivod, I thought it was the one I didn't like but I was thinking of Angel Rat. Should add that in.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Thankfully we have you to set us straight!

Seriously though, I'm a little surprised you don't like this:

Pretty boring tbh.

 

[CiG]

I picked Vegard for a Rippikoulu fan for some reason.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I picked Vegard for a Rippikoulu fan for some reason.

that's the one album i forgot to mention in my post. Easily one of my favorite Finnish death metal albums

 

[Slayed Necros]

Yeah that Rippikoulu demo is top notch. I always found Moondark's demo from the same year to have a fairly similar sound. Doesn't quite reach the same heights though.



Going through my RYM and I must've skimmed past this - it probably should've made my top 25 somewhere. Extra points for using the word "badness" in the title.

 

[jimmy101]

Looking back through all the lists, this should be a really close contest. Hard to pick out a standout favourite amongst the forum users.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Top Ten

1. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
2. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
3. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
4. Morbid Angel - Covenant
5. Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
6. Horrified - In the Garden of the Unearthly Delights
7. Burzum - Det som engang var
8. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
9. Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows
10. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon

Honourable Mention

• Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
• Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
• Cemetary - Godless Beauty
• Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
• Sigh - Scorn Defeat
• Mordor - Prayer To...
• Edge of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows
• Dissection - The Somberlain
• Unholy - From the Shadows
• Amorphis - Privilege of Evil
• Emperor - Emperor
• Burzum - Aske
• Katatonia - Jhva Elohim Meth... the Revival

 

[CiG]

Almost a month old, when are you planning to end this @Phylactery?

 

[Phylactery]

This weekend hopefully. My list should be done soon, and Old Wainds said he was posting one.

Anyone else planning on submitting a list?

 

[Phylactery]

Couldn't be arsed to do a full top 10 for such a death/black year. I'm sure there are some more albums I could've checked out that I might like but I've been busy with 2018 releases. I listened to Varathron but it's just vastly inferior to the Rotting Christ, doesn't have enough SNARE. I've heard one or two songs from the Crush album but it seems janky even by my standards. Maybe I'd like it though.

Oh I do like the Voivod, I thought it was the one I didn't like but I was thinking of Angel Rat. Should add that in.

And here I was thinking you were expanding your horrizons in death/black metal!

I agree on Varathron vs Rotting Christ. I’ve owned His Majesty for years and while I do like it a lot, it’s never matched up to Rotting Christ or Necromantia for me. I prefer their sophomore actually and I recommend you check that one out if you haven’t.