GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[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.

 

[-CC-]

@no country for old wainds when are you closing the poll?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Well, in fairness not a single in-crowd representative included it in their top 10 here, but I don't really remember anyone hating on it. Looks like I might be wrong. Apparently Mort Divine liked Cryptopsy until Dodens told him not to in 2006, then a year later he finds Cryptopsy totally boring apparently. Manic Ferocity made a couple posts calling them extremely boring in 2010. Omni never mentioned them. no wainds was shitting all over them in 2003 before Dodens even got on board, hot damn.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Production is dissonant and shrill, it's also replete with earsplitting treble spikes. There's an annoying amount of bass slapping. Vocals are decent, talent is displayed at times but the performance is generic overall. They'd be acceptable if the music was better. Songs are devoid of structure and direction. Tempo changes are inexplicable, they exist merely for the sake of it. Drumming is the standard blast-fill, sure it's done capably but who really cares? The release is energetic, but it grates on the listener's nerves over an extended period of time.

 

[CiG]

I'm definitely unlike any of them, so I'd appreciate it if you stopped lumping me in with them.
Ungentle Exhumation was one of the first metal CDs I ever purchased, Cryptopsy fucking rule.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'm definitely unlike any of them, so I'd appreciate it if you stopped lumping me in with them.
Ungentle Exhumation was one of the first metal CDs I ever purchased, Cryptopsy fucking rule.

Where did I lump you in with them?

 

[no country for old wainds]

that sounds like something demiurge would write so that probably means i wrote it

this btw

i'll announce results friday. i know most of these probably won't bother but final call for: @Funerary_Doom @Serjeant Grumbles @Phylactery @I-TEND-TO-DIE @RadicalThrasher @Dazed and Brutal

 

[RadicalThrasher]

I'm out on this one

 

[HamburgerBoy]

this btw

stupid but lol