GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1994

[no country for old wainds]

RYM album chart
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please submit your lists by 11pm UTC on FEBRUARY 3rd.

(reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, i'll work out the mathS. basically there's no way you can sabotage this so fuck you!)

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Queensrÿche - Promised Land
2. Fates Warning - Inside Out
3. King's X - Dogman
4. Dream Theater - Awake
5. Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic
6. Mayhem - De mysteriis dom Sathanas
7. Testament - Low
8. Helmet - Betty
9. Savatage - Handful of Rain
10. Chemical Breath - Values

 

[Krow]

All the Witches gon dance at the top of my list.

 

[CiG]

Fates Warning - Inside Out

I think this is the only Fates Warning album I have yet to hear. This year is already hyping me.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Cool. Looking forward to seeing the results for this one.

5. Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic

Great pick.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If they managed more than 30-something minutes it'd be at least #2 on my list. Shame they self-destructed and turned into a Depeche Mode thing.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Damn. What a fucking year.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Best year in the history of metal.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Best year in the history of metal.

the mid to late 80's would like to have a word with you

 

[The Ozzman]

Best year in the history of metal.

1990 would like a word with you

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1990 would like a word with you

Pretty much this. The sheer volume of utterly superlative albums that came out in that year is staggering.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

the mid to late 80's would like to have a word with you

1990 would like a word with you

They can get on the waitlist.

 

[The Ozzman]

This year did yield the best Obituary album though so it has that going for it

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Pretty much this. The sheer volume of utterly superlative albums that came out in that year is staggering.

Yeah plenty of classics from 1990. My all time favorite album is from that year

 

[CiG]

After we've done all the 80's and 90's years we should hold a vote on which year is the best.

This year did yield the best Obituary album though so it has that going for it

Also the best Incantation album.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Burzum, Darkthrone, and Incantation are three perfect albums. Easy top 3. Then I came up with about 20 more very good to great albums, and then about 7 or 8 more albums I'd still like to hear.

 

[The Ozzman]

What I have listened to from this year. King's-X will be in the Top 3 along with Obituary and Machine Head and I have an excuse to check out that Infester album again. Burzum will be the default #1 so we should just do 2 through 10 tbh:

Megadeth - Youthanasia
Dream Theater - Awake
Testament - Low
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Obituary - World Demise
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Bethlehem - Dark Metal
Enslaved - Frost
Mayhem - De mysteriis dom Sathanas
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
Dio - Strange Highways
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
King's X - Dogman
Aftermath - Eyes of Tomorrow
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Infectious Grooves - Groove Family Cyco
Infester - To the Depths, in Degradation
Pride & Glory - Pride & Glory
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Part 1
Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh

 

[CiG]

As soon as I saw "1994" I knew my numero uno album.

 

[-CC-]

@no country for old wainds can we do a top 20 for this year?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

As soon as I saw "1994" I knew my numero uno album.

Youthanasia?