GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[Master_Yoda77]

its okay, that just means you're wrong. Look, im not saying which of the two is a better album or what not ... and clearly some of you(yoda) dont understand this as evident from the responses. But saying it's darker or has more atmosphere is just wrong on every possible level. It's not something that should even be up for debate quite honestly.

Atmospheric is not even a word i would use to describe Slumber, and that's not a knock at all really. Its just a so by-the-books dm album that it would be impossible to refer to it as a such. Psychostatsia on the other is an album that is just dripping atmosphere, more in line with Demelich and Rippikoulu rather than the more streamlined sound of Demigod. Those three bands share much more in common than any of them do with Demigod, which sounds more like a hybrid of floridian death metal and swedish dm.


me: saying which album is darker and more atmospheric(pointing out the facts)
you guys: "But i like Slumber more."

ok.

You do see the irony there, right?

I understand what you are saying and I think you are wrong in thinking that way. Why does everything have to be an argument with you?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

understanding is clearly not one of your strong points bro. You're just an imbecile ... and i say that in the warmest, friendliest possible way

 

[CiG]

This is the least I think I've ever cared about a debate on UM.

 

[The Ozzman]

I go back to Mordicus more than I do Demigod or Adramelech

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Thats because that Mordicus album is weird as fuck.

 

[alex76]

The big black metal bands had moved on to more experimental stuff, with the other black metal bands in tow. Nu-metal was making its debut. Some alt-metal was in fashion. Your more standard metal bands didn't know what the fuck to do at this point.

1. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
2. Carcass - Swansong
3. Immolation - Here in After
4. Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
5. Brutality - In Mourning
6. Bathory - Blood on Ice
7. Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
8. In Flames - The Jester Race
9. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
10. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
James Murphy - Convergence
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Adramelech - Psychostasia

 

[Mort Divine]

and i thought ozzmans list was bad

 

[The Ozzman]

Too much death metal for your dungeonsynth sensibilities? Let me go put some 2deep4u black metal in my list brb.

Alex's list is better than most tbh

 

[HamburgerBoy]

and i thought ozzmans list was bad

That isn't a great Iced Earth album topping his list, but it's still better than the Ares Kingdom discography.

 

[The Ozzman]

it's still better than the Ares Kingdom discography.

Lol'd

 

[EspaDa]

Swansong at second is some kind of a mistake

 

[alex76]

While The Dark Saga is one of the weakest albums during Iced Earth's prime era, it still has lots of good stuff in it. As for Carcass, Steer's lead guitar work here still blows almost everyone/everything else away.

 

[Mort Divine]

That isn't a great Iced Earth album topping his list, but it's still better than the Ares Kingdom discography.

ares kingdom at least has more than one riff

 

[HamburgerBoy]

ares kingdom at least has more than one riff

It's not my fault you can't appreciate the subtle differences between 'dut dutalut dutdutalut dutdutalut' and 'dut dutalut dutalut dut dutalut'.

 

[Krow]

That isn't a great Iced Earth album topping his list, but it's still better than the Ares Kingdom discography.

I like parts of that Iced Earth album but your comment really isn't saying much.

 

[CiG]

Immolation - Here in After
Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
Bathory - Blood on Ice
Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
Cryptopsy - None So Vile

I dunno, pretty good list if you ask me.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I dunno, pretty good list if you ask me.

It's a good demonstration of how the in-crowd is more anti-out-crowd than they are pro-in-crowd. Like, Swansong? Ewwwwww, guh-roooss.

 

[CiG]

Cryptopsy is a well known in-crowd staple.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Cryptopsy is a well known in-crowd staple.

None So Vile is generally respected by most afaik.

 

[CiG]

None So Vile is generally respected by most afaik.

Is it? I don't know, I rarely keep tabs on which imagined group likes what compared with other imagined groups.