GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I've never listened to Cryptopsy but i think they suck

lmao, why am i not surprised?

 

[Phylactery]

I thought this was going to be open until the end of the weekend, but if you're planning on doing the results on Friday I will try and get my votes on tomorrow.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I like Cryptopsy but None So Vile wouldn't be in my top 10 for 1996. It's definitely in my top 20 though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I thought this was going to be open until the end of the weekend, but if you're planning on doing the results on Friday I will try and get my votes on tomorrow.

i'll wait for you but i definitely want to do it this weekend at some point

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I have no real proof of anything, but I imagine this was around the time I started moving away from technical death metal in general. There is a lot of it I used to like that I can't be bothered with anymore.

Yeah, and it appears you moved away from tech-death not long after joining this forum. Pure coincidence, surely.

 

[Mort Divine]

Yeah, and it appears you moved away from tech-death not long after joining this forum. Pure coincidence, surely.

For the entire first year I was on UM, my top artists were Pain of Salvation, Agalloch, Grave Digger, Kamelot, dredg, Diabolical Masquerade, Elvenking, Belenos, Acid Bath, and AFI.

Total in crowd darlings those lot are.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah and I remember giving you shit about Pain of Salvation, along with others probably. You've outgrown that stuff. Now you're a mature adult with mature adult tastes. I'm so proud of you.

 

[CiG]

Early Cryptopsy rules and anybody writing them off without at least checking that stuff out is a fucking retard, but my God never has a good band fallen off so hard as they did.

 

[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

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Yeah sorry haha...should've said newest

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

 

[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