GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1994

[Slayed Necros]

do you lose points when you edit posts though?

Let me check the official manifesto real quick.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Probably my favorite non-Dio/Ozzy Sabbath album

Same here. Its tempting to bump it up a notch to the top 3 but Through the Darkest Hour has it beat by just a hair.

Nice to see Mosquito on some others lists.

 

[Omni]

he lost points when he didn't put malokarpatan number one. in fact, both he and i are now banished from the in-crowd. the new king is @Anom@nder Rake and the high priestess is @Funerary_Doom. the in-crowd is dead; long live the in-crowd.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Let me check the official manifesto real quick.

wait, you have a copy? i thought the only one was locked in dodens' basement next to his holocaust denial manifesto

 

[Krow]

1. Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
2. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
3. Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
4. Solstice - Lamentations
5. Sadistik Exekution - We Are Death Fukk You
6. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
7. Mercyful Fate - Time
8. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
9. Solitude Aeturnus - Through the Darkest Hour
10. Samael - Ceremony of Opposites

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... kind of surprised to not see Mortal Throne on your list.

 

[Krow]

... kind of surprised to not see Mortal Throne on your list.

tbh I may add it at some point. Those last 4 could be subject to changing before the deadline.

 

[Omni]

wait, you have a copy? i thought the only one was locked in dodens' basement next to his holocaust denial manifesto

Don't forget about his atmospheric black metal apologist manifesto. That's what ultimately resulted in him being excommunicated.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

If I could find a copy of Mystic Places of Dawn it would most likely have made my top 10. I know I could just go online but shipping to Australia is lame.

listen to it on youtube or just download it until you can get a copy.

 

[CiG]

I was triggered as fuck for a second there when @no country for old wainds posted a comment with upper case letters.

 

[Slayed Necros]

wait, you have a copy? i thought the only one was locked in dodens' basement next to his holocaust denial manifesto

He was forced to relinquish it when he started listening to Sonata Arctica.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Don't forget Longings Past fwiw I think you might appreciate it.

When you need six syllables to pronounce 'celebration', you know you have a problem with brevity. The bulk of the is dominated by the nearly-40 minute title track, a pseudo-progressive pomp rock thing of indescribable terribleness, and on its existence alone I can't give this anything more than a 0.5. Literally the worst song I know of. The two partly-metal songs are better, but at their best are simplistic 70's-style fantasy proto-metal that you already heard Manilla Road do over a decade earlier, let alone a real USPM band. The riffs are still very basic, and while they understand how to arrange them in a way indicating development of themes on occasion (pretty much just the first half of The Goddess), there's still nothing noteworthy. The production is very soft and admittedly fits the retro thing they were going for, but it would be much better to just imagine this a budget two-song demo oddity, which would warrant maybe a 2.0. If you're a fan of Lordian Guard and other weird-ass "epic metal" bands that pretty much forget the second word in the pseudo-genre, you'll probably love this, however.

 

[CiG]

When you need six syllables to pronounce 'celebration', you know you have a problem with brevity. The bulk of the is dominated by the nearly-40 minute title track, a pseudo-progressive pomp rock thing of indescribable terribleness, and on its existence alone I can't give this anything more than a 0.5. Literally the worst song I know of. The two partly-metal songs are better, but at their best are simplistic 70's-style fantasy proto-metal that you already heard Manilla Road do over a decade earlier, let alone a real USPM band. The riffs are still very basic, and while they understand how to arrange them in a way indicating development of themes on occasion (pretty much just the first half of The Goddess), there's still nothing noteworthy. The production is very soft and admittedly fits the retro thing they were going for, but it would be much better to just imagine this a budget two-song demo oddity, which would warrant maybe a 2.0. If you're a fan of Lordian Guard and other weird-ass "epic metal" bands that pretty much forget the second word in the pseudo-genre, you'll probably love this, however.

Yeah but you gave Death's The Sound of Perseverance 1/5 on RYM so eat my ass.

 

[The Ozzman]

He has to be copy pasta-ing

 

[CiG]

Oh. Well still, 1/5 dude what the fuck?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

He's copy-pastaing my 1994 reviews. There was a lot of garbage released that year.

I'm glad you're doing it for me, I was going to shit-talk Longings Past myself when they were mentioned earlier but realized I've been posting negative things about various albums/bands more than usual so I didn't want to.

EDIT: I just realized that like 20% of my RYM reviews concern 1994 releases, and almost all of them are 2.5 stars or lower. Never realized I had such a strong unconscious bias against that year.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

He was forced to relinquish it when he started listening to Sonata Arctica.

ahhh, that makes things much clearer now. Now i know why she likes those shitty flower metal bands.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Oh. Well still, 1/5 dude what the fuck?

you must be aware by now how many people hate that album, including most people on this board

 

[RadicalThrasher]

World Demise needs to be higher tbh

All the death metal in your list and no Morta Skuld? Not a fan or not familiar?

 

[CiG]

you must be aware by now how many people hate that album, including most people on this board

I used to be one of them until like 2 weeks ago.