GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[Vegard Pompey]

2) Will of the Gods is Great Power by Scald

WILL OF THE IN-CROWD IS GREAT POWER

(should've been #1 but w/e)

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Pretty strong list, though I'm bummed Neurosis didn't make the top 10. Vinterland is clearly overhyped around here. Not even a top 10 black metal release from 1996, let alone top 10 overall.

I sampled Scald and felt average about it, but will need to check it out in depth.

 

[Vilden]

If you mean average as the best doom album ever released I guess...

 

[Baroque]

wtb the double digits results too?

 

[no country for old wainds]

@no country for old wainds are you going to post the comprehensive list for this one like the others?

yes

wtb the double digits results too?

yes

 

[MetalAges]

"Great band, Bleeding was my fav by far." - @MetalAges

Where the heck was that dug up from (still a great album!)?

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's the scary thing about the internet: one's dark past is NEVER buried.

 

[CiG]

Great year for metal, not sure what the feck you guys are on about. For a bunch of people that complain about UM being a traditional metal/black metal circle jerk, you sure do seem to only like 2 genres of music yourselves.

Anyways:

1. Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
2. Bathory - Blood on Ice
3. Abscess - Seminal Vampires and Maggot Men
4. Gravedigger - Tunes of War
   
5. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
6. Solitude Aeturnus - Downfall
7. Gothic Knights - Gothic Knights
8. Slough Feg - Slough Feg
9. Immolation - Here in After
10. Vomitory - Raped in Their Own Blood

Chilling, listening to some Orphaned Land and playing Breath of the Wild and I just realised, I fucking can't believe I forgot El Norra Alila!!!

It should be somewhere in the middle of my list with Vomitory being bumped out. Not that it matters it never had a chance to win, but gah I hate it when that happens. What a brutal mistake.

 

[Slayed Necros]

All that drama about Scald, and then Scald taking the number two spot... and it actually came out in 1997. Good times GMD.

10. Cryptopsy - None So Vile



9. Immolation - Here in After



8. Nefandus - The Nightwinds Carried Our Names



7. Setherial - Nord...



6. The Chasm - From the Lost Years...



5. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter



4. Adramelech - Psychostasia



3. Thy Serpent - Forests of Witchery



2. Iniquity - Serenadium



1. Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun



Demo/EP list:

Spoiler

1. Dawn - Sorgh på Svarte Vingar Fløgh
2. Cardinal Sin - Spiteful Intents
3. Bekhira - Demo 1996
4. Sorhin - Skogsgriftens rike
5. Zemial - For the Glory of UR
6. Ildjarn-Nidhogg - Svartfråd
7. Mortuary Drape - Mourn Path
8. Grand Belial's Key - A Witness to the Regicide
9. Regurgitation - Conceived Through Vomit
10. Sinister - Bastard Saints

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Spoiler

10. Masacre - Sacro

9. The Exploited - Beat the Bastards

8. Gates of Ishtar - A Bloodred Path

7. Cruentus - In Myself

6. Midevil.- Thee Almighty

5. Motorhead - Overnight Sensation

4. Apophis - Down in the Valley

3. Monstrosity - Millennium

2. Asgard - To a Golden Age

1. Adramelech - Psychotasia

 

[Cronopio]

01. Helloween - The Time of the Oath
Favorite song: "Mission Motherland"

02. Stratovarius - Episode
Favorite song: "Father Time"

03. Angra - Holy Land
Favorite song: "Carolina IV"

04. Dungeon - Demolition
Favorite song: "Time to Die"

05. Stormwind - Straight from Your Heart
Favorite song: "Wings of Tomorrow"

06. Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstasy
Favorite song: "The Seven Tongues of God"

07. Manowar - Louder than Hell
Favorite song: "Courage"

08. Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Favorite song:

09. Motörhead - Overnight Sensation
Favorite song:

10. Seventh Avenue - Tales of Tales
Favorite song:

 

[CiG]

1. Abscess - Seminal Vampires and Maggot Men
2. The Chasm - From the Lost Years...
3. Count Raven - Messiah of Confusion
4. Negative Reaction - Endofyorerror
5. 3D House of Beef - 3D House of Beef
6. Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
7. Eyehategod - Dopesick
8. Asphyx - Embrace the Death
9. Grief - Miserably Ever After
10. Darkthrone - Total Death