GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[HamburgerBoy]

The discussion inspired me to listen to their S/T again last night, still an OK album. Queensryche shat the bed much more furiously; I'd probably take The Unspoken King over Operation: Mindcrime II or the shit that came after (with Tate still in the band).

 

[CiG]

Good fucking point.

Edit: Lets fucking end this one.

 

[The Ozzman]

The latest Cryptopsy EP is actually pretty good

 

[CiG]

I'll have to check it out then.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm not even sure if I've ever listened to Cryptopsy, just assumed they suck. Still do.

If I posted this about some third tier black metal band everyone circle jerks over, you would have my head chopped off.

 

[CiG]

Oh you meant the 2015 EP, I got excited and thought they had new shit out.

 

[The Ozzman]

Oh you meant the 2015 EP, I got excited and thought they had new shit out.

Yeah sorry haha...should've said newest

 

[The Ozzman]

Ozzman has done it. Successfully catfished over brutal death metal.

I'm not following probably because I'm tired.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

The discussion inspired me to listen to their S/T again last night, still an OK album.

their S/T is actually a pretty fuckin solid release.

 

[Phylactery]

1. Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun (not many years where this wouldn't be my number one to be honest).
2. Burzum - Filosofem
3. Summoning - Dol Guldur
4. Immolation - Here in After
5. Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
6. Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign
7. Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
8. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers of the Icy Age
9. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
10. Argentum - Ad Interitum Funebrarum


Honourable mentions:

Nefandus - The Nightwinds Carried Our Names
The Chasm - From the Lost Years
Adramelech - Psychostasia
Opeth - Morningrise
Dawn - Sorgh på svarte vingar fløgh
Setherial - Nord
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry

Black metal owned the shit out of this year. Hardest one for me so far, the ordering was tough and I'm still not convinced I have it correct but whatever. I really want to get Vinterland into my top 10 but I'm struggling.

Edit: Took out Moonblood as apparently it wasn't released in 1996 and added Vinterland into the top 10.

 

[Mort Divine]

i am kind of surprised not to see sorhin appear at all - Skogsgriftens Rike is really good

 

[Phylactery]

Well it's only two songs which both appeared on their first album, which I'm a big fan of.

 

[Sirjack]

l remember when ...And then You'll Beg came out and being blown away by the riffs from Jon Levasseur. It was Different. Those kind of riffs sounded new. The guy was fucking brilliant. Apart from the fucking didgeridoo shite.
None So Vile remains my favourite Cryptopsy but when he left that was the end of Cryptopsy for me.
Whisper Supremacy is killer. And then it all went to shit.

 

[Phylactery]

The lack of the Burzum album on a lot of lists is quite shocking. Burzum doesn't seem to be all that popular here, which is kinda strange.

 

[Mort Divine]

Well it's only two songs which both appeared on their first album, which I'm a big fan of.

the ep is 4 songs i thought

idk either way good stuff, but fair enough either way

 

[Slayed Necros]

I love Sorhin, but I decided against including EPs/demos for this year. Skogsgriftens rike does deserve a mention, though.

 

[CiG]

I'm probably looking like an impatient asshole but damn, lets end this already.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yeah, even I got my reviews in like 2 weeks ago.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Any black metal fans that aren't familiar, check this out:

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1. Angra - Holy Land
2. Opeth - Morningrise
3. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
4. Type O Negative - October Rust
   
5. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
6. Bathory - Blood on Ice
7. Stratovarius - Episode
8. Therion - Theli
9. Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
10. Ministry - Filth Pig

Hard choice for me. Only the first three I really love. Theli's a transition album, Stormblast is Dimmu before their signature sound, Filth Pig's a kinda tired release by an aging Ministry. Had to relisten to Brave Murder Day after years. Need to relisten to Filosofem too, but Burzum never really did much for me tbh

Holy Land really blew my mind when I first heard it about 4 years ago. I'd heard a song or two by Angra years before, and written them off as another over-the-top power metal band, but this album is so much more. Great ballads for one thing, which I find extremely rare in metal. I swear it out-progs Dream Theater too in terms of dynamic breadth and stylistic diversity.