GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[HamburgerBoy]

Doom metal is the sub-genre that does disproportionately well in the mixtape thread.

 

[Krow]

The bias against black metal in the mixtape game is literally Baroque and HBB. They're also the reason decent thrash songs have an edge over other things popular here, they don't downrate them.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yea but those decent thrash songs are truly better than 99.9% of the garbage that gets posted in those threads.

 

[Phylactery]

The bias against black metal in the mixtape game is literally Baroque and HBB. They're also the reason decent thrash songs have an edge over other things popular here, they don't downrate them.

Arg, Satanstoenail? And RadicalThrasher has said he doesn't like black metal either.

 

[-CC-]

With the exception of 2003, the lists have been interesting and fair IMO. I like the fact that there is a wide range of opinions. It wouldn't be fun if the whole list was 10 black metal albums. I will say I'm surprised None So Vile didn't land in the top 3, but #4 is still good.

 

[EternalMetal]

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

Im starting to tire of your incessant opposition to other people's taste. Everyone here (aside from maybe one or two people I wont bother naming) is pretty damn legitimate in taste, stop making it seem as though everyone is a conformist poseur because their lists dont mirror yours or they happen to like another genre more than you. Your taste in music is good, and I still respect your opinion on DM, but you are taking this shit too seriously. You were going to complain the second NSV wasnt #1, am I right?

Btw, NSV was my #2 right behind Psychostasia, because of nostalgic reasons. The UM forum has a slightly different opinion (both are in the top 10), but who really cares? DM is less loved on UM than it used to be, but calling everyone posers because of it is horseshit.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The bias against black metal in the mixtape game is literally Baroque and HBB. They're also the reason decent thrash songs have an edge over other things popular here, they don't downrate them.

I've given many black metal songs ratings around 6 or higher. I've downrated plenty of thrash as well, e.g. that Ratos song in the most recent playlist, or stuff like Magnus. Cry more.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'm going to need a second-by-second breakdown of each track in the next Mixtape game in order for me to believe you.

 

[Phylactery]

Here in After has made the top 3 and it crushes both Psychostasia and NSV, so who cares anyway.

 

[no country for old wainds]

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

this definitely applies to the 2003 list to a ridiculous extent lol, but 5 of the top 7 in the '86 list were thrash, a thrash album won '83, 5 of the top 6 in the '92 list were DM, '16 list had more thrash than anything else.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Immolation definitely deserves its spot, and considering this forum's proclivities towards doom, Scald makes sense too. Shame that garbage entry-level meloblack like Sacramentum will make it in though.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

this definitely applies to the 2003 list to a ridiculous extent lol, but 5 of the top 7 in the '86 list were thrash, a thrash album won '83, 5 of the top 6 in the '92 list were DM, '16 list had more thrash than anything else.

Holy shit, thrash won in 1986? Next you're going to tell me that black metal will win 1994.

 

[no country for old wainds]

3) Far Away From the Sun by Sacramentum
I will forever belong to the night...

"saccharine to talk about what i want played at my funeral; all i have to say is that, when i die, i hope dying feels like this album. the sun setting at the end of a great adventure, with nothing left but the resigned, tranquil passage into the dark." - @Guardian of Darkness

Chosen by:
spikes77 (#1)
Slayed Necros (#1)
Talos of Atmora (#1)
Mort Divine (#1)
Phylactery (#1)
no country for old wainds (#1)
rms (#2)
Atomic Tide (#4)
Master_Yoda77 (#5)
Anom@nder Rake (#6)
EternalMetal (#7)
Vegard Pompey (#7)
EspaDa (#9)
-CyanideChrist- (#10)
H.P. Lovecraft (n/a)

 

[no country for old wainds]

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

you were saying lol

 

[no country for old wainds]

Holy shit, thrash won in 1986? Next you're going to tell me that black metal will win 1994.

i can say the same about every year except '03 though, that's not a very big sample size. i mean, black metal marginally had the most in the 95 and 96 lists? holy shit indeed

 

[HamburgerBoy]

i can say the same about every year except '03 though, that's not a very big sample size. i mean, black metal marginally won 95 and 96? holy shit indeed

The point is that these threads are not a good way of judging the forum's preferences since most years will be dominated by canonical picks. The mixtape thread shows preferences much better because it requires people to judge relatively lower-tier releases from a sub-genre they may either love or hate.

 

[no country for old wainds]

has non-canonical doom done that well in the mixtape games though? i mostly just recall stuff like vitus and rev biz owning. there's obviously something of an old-school bias on this forum, i'm just not sure there's as much of a specific genre bias as people make out.

death metal or thrash metal tunes have won 9 of the last 11 mixtape games for what that's worth (and the other two were venom which isn't exactly far off thrash either), maybe they're making a comeback?!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

You were going to complain the second NSV wasnt #1, am I right?

Actually it was more in line with what krow said, all those #1 votes and it still didnt make the top three? And it gets beaten out by and in crowd favorite like Scald? an absolute joke. Only in the UMF fantasy land can such cringeworthy things happen.

Im starting to tire of your incessant opposition to other people's taste ...

And what in the world would make you think i even give the slightest bit of a fuck?

edit: And what the fuck is all this nonsense you're spewing out? I just said NSV should have been the winner for this year. What mirror lists and genres and all this other bullshit are you even going on about? And for what reason did your asshole just erupt all of a sudden? And you say im taking it too seriously?

oh and btw friend-o, you're now on my ever-growing UM shitlist.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

has non-canonical doom done that well in the mixtape games though? i mostly just recall stuff like vitus and rev biz owning. there's obviously something of an old-school bias on this forum, i'm just not sure there's as much of a specific genre bias as people make out.

death metal or thrash metal tunes have won 9 of the last 11 mixtape games for what that's worth (and the other two were venom which isn't exactly far off thrash either), maybe they're making a comeback?!

Fair point, I guess the thing with doom metal is that even the fans don't seem to go very deep and just obsess over the same several bands. Still, outside of Rev Biz, those bands are usually only downrated for reasons of over-repetition.

Yeah I don't disagree that death and thrash metal do reasonably well overall, especially lately. We will claw at the in-crowd bourgeois until nothing remains but dust, and in that dust we will sow the fertile seeds of revolution, until one day it births an immaculate Lamb of God to rule over the mixtape game.

 

[Satanstoenail]

oh and btw friend-o, you're now on my ever-growing UM shitlist.

Oooohh look out