GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[no country for old wainds]

Pfft, I've listened to FAFtS, Deathcult and TRitSiO like 100 times and they still give me all the feels.

I'm more surprised that BAN didn't make your top 10 or honourable mentions. Especially since you listed the inferior Ultima Thulee in 1995 iirc.

the HMs aren't necessarily my 11-20, i wanted to cite some lesser known stuff - it would probs be in there otherwise. i do prefer UT these days though, plus this is a stronger year for me than '95 was.

my main surprise with yours was not initially including vinterland haha, given the amount you've talked about it around here i thought you'd have it top 5 easily.

 

[Phylactery]

I love the Vinterland album, but not as much as the best from Sacramentum, Dawn or probably even the first Dissection. The album isn't consistently great, with parts of it that just don't resonate with me. Still awesome, though. It wouldn't have made the top 10 if I hadn't edited my list! I caused the 3-way tie haha.

Thought you'd all be shocked that The Chasm didn't make my top 10 since I'm a huge fanboy, as you've all probably realised! Surprised it was number 2 on your list tbh, Great album, but I can't claim it's the best death metal album of 1996.

 

[Baroque]

The best albums are going to be outside of the top 10 this time around. Looking forward to the double digit contenders list

 

[no country for old wainds]

5) Filosofem by Burzum
Suddenly... life has new meaning...

"Are you fucked up or something? How can you deny the greatness and influence of Hvis Lyset Tar Oss or Filosofem?" - @EspaDa

Chosen by:
Master_Yoda77 (#1)
EspaDa (#2)
Phylactery (#2)
-CyanideChrist- (#3)
crimsonfloyd (#3)
TechnicalBarbarity (#4)
no country for old wainds (#4)
Mort Divine (#4)
Vilden (#5)
EternalMetal (#5)
rms (#9)
spikes77 (#9)
Serjeant Grumbles (#10)

 

[The Ozzman]

The best albums are going to be outside of the top 10 this time around. Looking forward to the double digit contenders list

I'm looking forward to the next year actually. Hope the next isn't another dud year

 

[Phylactery]

The best albums are going to be outside of the top 10 this time around. Looking forward to the double digit contenders list

Nah, the best album of 1996 has won by a landslide. And rightfully so.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Thought you'd all be shocked that The Chasm didn't make my top 10 since I'm a huge fanboy, as you've all probably realised! Surprised it was number 2 on your list tbh, Great album, but I can't claim it's the best death metal album of 1996.

no country for old wainds circa 2006 wouldn't have listed it so why would you?

more and more these days i favour flawed but unique/intermittently amazing albums over stuff that's consistently strong in a safer way. 'tis a mess though, this i can't deny.

ugh i'm starting to regret not putting oxiplegatz even higher, not that it would've mattered i suppose.

 

[Phylactery]

Old Wainds circa 2006 sounds like he had superior taste . I mean nearly the entirety of your list for this year and HMs is black metal.

 

[EspaDa]

Oh yeah, my first quotation here. I didn't even remember I had said something like that. That was perhaps directed towards HamburgerBoy.

 

[no country for old wainds]

4) None So Vile by Cryptopsy
I long to feel the dark caress of your cloven hooves...

"That was THE Tech Death album of the 90's. It had the craziest drum performance on a Death Metal album for the time, and the vocals are the craziest I've heard in Death Metal. Lord Worm had a pretty varied vocal style. The gurgle/exhale (or whatever the fuck it is) in the Slit Your Guts slam is unbelievable... The last 32 seconds of Benedictine Convulsions made me question if he is even human. None So Vile, in my opinion, is easily on par with Altars of Madness, and should be on the list of essential albums easily. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know a damn thing about Technical Death Metal or Death Metal in general." - @Spiderchrist

Chosen by:
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)
zerostatic (#1)
Atomic Tide (#1)
Krow (#1)
HamburgerBoy (#2)
EternalMetal (#2)
Sirjack (#3)
EspaDa (#3)
crimsonfloyd (#4)
CASSETTEISGOD (#5)
-CyanideChrist- (#5)
Satanstoenail (#5)
alex76 (#9)

 

[no country for old wainds]

Old Wainds circa 2006 sounds like he had superior taste . I mean nearly the entirety of your list for this year and HMs is black metal.

i don't understand this post lol, you're probably the most obsessed with BM of anyone here and were yourself saying how this is primarily a good year for BM.

anyways, my 92 list had 7 DM albums. the DM from this year doesn't hugely resonate with me for the most part, even in cases where i admire the craft (i.e. the above).

 

[Phylactery]

That's what I'm saying - you've said that 10 years ago you were pretty much exclusively listening to black and death metal. I'm guessing that's when you got into most of the albums that made your list.

But then again, there's very few albums from this year that stand out in other genres.

 

[no country for old wainds]

aside from burzum, sacramentum and summoning i actually got into them all this decade i reckon, aside from maybe vinterland. my list back then would've had BAN, adramelech, golem, sort vokter, arghoslent, decameron, sacrilegium i'd imagine.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

"Morningrise is their best IMO, sure the songwriting is a mess overall, but it has the best individual moments I think. Parts of it remind me of Final Fantasy 7." - @Phylactery

Are you trying to make me listen to Opeth? Because you're succeeding.

Speaking of video games, I don't know if it's just me but there's one recurring riff in Sorrow Flew on Black Wings that reminds me of a theme from some old video game soundtrack... A Link to the Past? Not sure if it's even that similar but the association is instant and consistent.

 

[Phylactery]

You've never heard Morningrise? I'm pretty sure you'd like it. As a Dream Theater fan, you're already accustomed to disjointed songwriting .



I dunno, the part starting at 9:42 has always kinda given me Cosmo Canyon vibes. And there are other parts of the album that remind me of FF7.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i can't say i've ever noticed much of an ff7 vibe myself but yeah you should check out morningrise. has a distinctive sound and some great moments on it at the very least.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

None So Vile is the true winner in this shitty in-crowd influenced thread.

 

[Krow]

None So Vile is the true winner in this shitty in-crowd influenced thread.

8 people had it in their top three (4 top spots) and it didn't even make the top three.

Intense faggotry ITT.

 

[The Ozzman]

8 people had it in their top three (4 top spots) and it didn't even make the top three.

Intense faggotry ITT.

Should rename this section General Black/Trad/Doom discussion and be done with it.

 

[Phylactery]

Stop bitching. Fourth is a really good turn out and it beat one of the definitive Burzum albums. And yet people are still complaining the list is too "in-crowd".

Should rename this section General Black/Trad/Doom discussion and be done with it.

Really? There is an extreme bias against black metal on this forum as evidenced by its consistently poor performance in the themed mixtape game. Death metal seems to be far more popular here.