GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1993

[CiG]

The drumming on Scrolls of the Megilloth are so punishing.



Still remember the first time I saw this clip on TV.

 

[jimmy101]

^ Geez those Christians go hard, don't they? Must be all the sobriety & "high on life" shit. Wonder if there's any quality Muslim metal bands out there.

 

[Krow]

^ Geez those Christians go hard, don't they? Must be all the sobriety & "high on life" shit. Wonder if there's any quality Muslim metal bands out there.

There’s a few anti Muslim bands from Muslim countries but given that in those places the penalty would be death, probably not.

 

[jimmy101]

I’ll add Place of Skull to that list. The Black is Never Far specifically rips.

Smooth number.

 

[jimmy101]

There’s a few anti Muslim bands from Muslim countries but given that in those places the penalty would be death, probably not.

That's pretty bad-ass when you think about it. Even at the risk of capital punishment they're still producing their music.

 

[CiG]

I used to know a guy in Iran (I think) who played in a few metal bands, one time I Skyped with him and his hair was shaved, apparently the authorities do that to you if you're caught engaging in such things. Another time while I was Skyping with him I could hear explosives going off in the background and he had to jump offline.

Fucking crazy. But yeah I'd listen to a Muslim-themed band, The Gates of Slumber wrote that awesome song about a Muslim army going into battle or whatever and it ruled.

 

[challenge_everything]

My partner is from Iran, they actually have a pretty big metal and punk scene but it gives new meaning to the phrase 'underground'. Anyone good enough to make a career of it has to emigrate and plenty have, including the pop stars.

 

[The Ozzman]

I know people find metalcore gay still but August Burns Red is another Christian metal band I like. Mark Shelton wished he could write riffs like that band does.

 

[CiG]

Actually one of the things that bothers me personally about Islam (beyond any of the more insane things) is that they get all autistic and buttrammed over depictions of Muhammad, which makes it almost impossible to make any kind of cool films about the man. He was a fucking warlord and a revolutionary figure, it's a travesty that he doesn't have his own kind of Ben-Hur/El Cid/Spartacus/Jason and the Argonauts/Lawrence of Arabia/The Fall of the Roman Empire-esque epic historical drama film to his name.

There's a few very cool Islamic films though like Khartoum or The Message (1976) but Muhammad's face and voice are not depicted so in that sense it feels redundant.

 

[challenge_everything]

Can't think of any films remotely approaching historical accuracy for Jesus the revolutionary either, mind you.

Methinks we are going a bit off topic!

 

[The Ozzman]

The greatest of lists in terms of lists

1) Carcass - Heartwork
2) Morbid Angel - Covenant
3) Mordicus - Dances From Left
4) Death - Individual Thought Patterns
5) Invocator - Weave the Apocalypse
6) Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
7) Demilich - Nespithe
8) Pyrexia - Sermon of Mockery
9) Malevolent Creation - Stillborn
10) Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind

Somewhat difficult to figure out 6 through 10. Every album in this list is really good.

Honorable Mentions:

Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers
It amazes me how consistent Anacrusis was for their time together. Definitely the most coherent and most prog release they did.

Brutality - Screams of Anguish
This album crushes. It's a shame their last album was complete garbage.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1 - Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
2 - Dissection - The Somberlain
3 - Atheist - Elements
4 - Pestilence - Spheres
5 - Morbid Angel - Covenant
6 - Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn
7 - Believer - Dimensions
8 - Electrocution - Inside the Unreal
9 - Brutality - Screams of Anguish
10- Death - Individual Thought Patterns


Demilich - Nespithe
Aspid -Extravasation
Antagonist - Antagonist
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Cynic - Focus
Shah - Escape From Mind
Sadist - Above the Light
Edge of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows

Dismember - Indecent and Obscene
Amorphis - Privilege of Evil
Invocator - Weave the Apocalypse
Obliveon - Nemesis
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Insanity - Death After Death
Vio-Lence - Nothing to Gain
Voivod - The Outer Limits
Sepulutra - Chaos AD
Marduk - Those of the Unlight
Coroner - Grin
Carcass - Heartwork
Motorhead - Bastards
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Cancer - Sins of Mankind
Wombbath - Internal Caustic Torments
*Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
*Anacrusis - Screams and Whispers

*edit

 

[I-TEND-TO-DIE]

^ solid list! I think i have to check Electrocution once again..

 

[Dak]

The greatest of lists in terms of lists

icwutudidthur

 

[The Ozzman]

icwutudidthur

 

[CiG]

THE ART OF SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS

DEAL WITH IT OR DON'T DEPENDING ON YOUR SUBJECTIVE OPINION

 

[The Ozzman]

THE ART OF SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS

DEAL WITH IT OR DON'T DEPENDING ON YOUR SUBJECTIVE OPINION

 

[CiG]

 

[jimmy101]

Brotherly love

 

[CiG]

In your opinion.