GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[Slayed Necros]

I'll probably end up editing this a bunch of times. Top 5 set in stone.

1. Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
2. Immolation - Here in After
3. Scald - Will of the Gods Is Great Power
4. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
5. Adramelech - Psychostasia
6. The Chasm - From the Lost Years...
7. Setherial - Nord...
8. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
9. Argentum - Ad Interitum Funebrarum
10. Gorgoroth - Antichrist

HM:

Bloodstone - Hour of the Gate
Absurd - Facta Loquuntur
Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Moonblood - Blut & Krieg
Ancient Rites - Blasfemia Eternal
Zemial - For the Glory of UR
Monstrosity - Millenium
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
A Canorous Quintet - Silence of the World Beyond
Iniquity - Serenadium
Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign

Anyone complaining about the quality of this year should find a new hobby.

 

[Baroque]

1) End Zone - Thalatta Et Thanatos
2) Disciples of Power - Mechanikill
3) Polluted Inheritance - Betrayed
4) Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
5) Annon Vin - A New Gate
6) Brainstorm - Brainstorm
7) Virtual - Language of Machines
8) Antidote - Mind Alive
9) In Flames - The Jester Race
10) Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack

HM:
Soul Cages - Moments
Num Skull - When Suffering Comes
Hypocrisy - Abducted
Blasdead - Another Dimension
Absurd - Shadows
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Depressive Age - Electric Scum

 

[ClichéUserName]

1. Kvist - For kunsten maa vi evig vike
2. Immolation - Here in After
3. Excruciating Terror - Expression of Pain
4. Adramelech - Psychostasia
5. Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno
6. Lunar Aurora - Weltengänger
7. Darkthrone - Total Death
8. Eyehategod - Dopesick
9. Tulus - Pure Black Energy
10. Mortician - Hacked Up for Barbecue

HM:
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Nahash - Wellone Aeternitas
Grief - Miserably Ever After
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Mule Skinner - Abuse
Angelcorpse - Hammer of Gods
Nåstrond - Age of Fire
Dødheimsgard - Monumental Possession
Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
Darkthrone - Goatlord
Negative Reaction - Endofyorerror
Desaster - A touch of Medieval Darkness
Monstrosity - Millennium

 

[no country for old wainds]

^i always enjoy getting your weird ass lists, you should post more.

 

[EternalMetal]

All you black metal fans better not forget about Strength and Anger.

Honestly im still wondering whether I should give this album the 10th spot on my list. It would probably have squeaked in if it werent for the fadeouts, but otherwise the album would be too samey. Love this album, but tbh I think it is a bit overhyped among BM types (probably because of all the hate everyone else gives it).

 

[no country for old wainds]

the power of omni compels you. the power of omni compels you.

 

[Vilden]

God I've never gotten Kvist, maybe I should revisit.

Tulus rules though, and what a striking album cover that album has!

 

[Phylactery]

blut aus nord? fuck that

don't know of the Kvist or Vinterland off the top of my head

Have you heard the BAN album in question? It sounds nothing like The Work Which Transforms God if that's what you're worried about.

 

[Slayed Necros]

5. Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno
Nåstrond - Age of Fire

Nice to see these mentioned. Good albums.

 

[CiG]

Great year for metal, not sure what the feck you guys are on about. For a bunch of people that complain about UM being a traditional metal/black metal circle jerk, you sure do seem to only like 2 genres of music yourselves.

Anyways:

1. Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
2. Bathory - Blood on Ice
3. Abscess - Seminal Vampires and Maggot Men
4. Gravedigger - Tunes of War
   
5. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
6. Solitude Aeturnus - Downfall
7. Gothic Knights - Gothic Knights
8. Slough Feg - Slough Feg
9. Immolation - Here in After
10. Vomitory - Raped in Their Own Blood

 

[Vilden]

Nice with some Blood on Ice-appreciation!

The lack of Bathory-worship (beyond the bm-releases) on this board is disturbing.

 

[Slayed Necros]

The black metal era is the best era to worship.

More people should be aware of this:

 

[The Ozzman]

you sure do seem to only like 2 genres of music yourselves.

Then why do I own more trad metal than thrash?

 

[The Ozzman]

So stop fucking whining then, if that's the case.

I'll get right on that

Not numbered yet, but I will do it before this is closed:

Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
James Murphy - Convergence
Type O Negative - October Rust
Deeds of Flesh - Trading Pieces
Opeth - Morningrise
Monstrosity - Millenium
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Sepultura - Roots/Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
In Flames - The Jester Race

Leaving Burzum off because that's an automatic lock for the Top 3

edit: forgot about:

Carcass - Swansong
Adramelech - Psychostasia
Cannibal Corpse - Vile
The Chasm - From the Lost Years...
Incubus - Serpent Temptation
Amorphis - Elegy
Dying Fetus - Purification Through Violence
Frank Klepacki - Command and Conquer: Red Alert soundtrack
Cenotaph - Epic Rites: 9 Epic Tales & Death Rites
Immolation - Here in After

Lots of listening to do

My favorite from 1996 can't be included though :-(

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Honestly im still wondering whether I should give this album the 10th spot on my list. It would probably have squeaked in if it werent for the fadeouts, but otherwise the album would be too samey. Love this album, but tbh I think it is a bit overhyped among BM types (probably because of all the hate everyone else gives it).

I would agree if you were talking about the rest of his discography, but that album is fucking excellent. There's a similarity to the tracks, but i would argue it's a strength; it creates a "hall of mirrors" effect that exemplifies the hate the album centers upon.

 

[no country for old wainds]

God I've never gotten Kvist, maybe I should revisit.

maybe you should stop being so stupet.

 

[The Ozzman]

Surprised more people here aren't talking about Cenotaph since that's a Daniel Corchado project

 

[Vilden]

maybe you should stop being so stupet.

...

 

[Krow]

Surprised more people here aren't talking about Cenotaph since that's a Daniel Corchado project

Corchado was only on the superior The Gloomy Reflections of Our Hidden Sorrows.

 

[no country for old wainds]

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there's a kvist song called stupet ok, that's my level of humour