GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1996

[HamburgerBoy]

Cool to see that Crisis album on top, almost made my list.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

as much of a Megadave fan i am, there's just no way was that MD.45 album was going to make my list. Maybe top 15.

 

[Bloopy]

It's a rather unremarkable year for me. Discovered Crisis thanks to @HamburgerBoy posting them on here a few years ago but didn't necessarily expect them to come out on top. MD.45 is all about Lee Ving and his harmonica. I tend to be drawn to unusual stuff.

Then again, Metallica's effort seems pretty unusual when I try to compare it to anything else. It could almost make my list on the strength of 'The Outlaw Torn' alone if the rest of the album wasn't quite so... different.

 

[The Ozzman]

AND IF I CLOSE MY MIND IN FEAR
PLEASE PRY IT OPEN!

 

[zerostatic]

1. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2. Immolation - Here in After
3. Adramelech - Psychostasia
4. Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
5. King Diamond - The Graveyard
6. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
7. Gravedigger - Tunes of War
8. Type O Negative - October Rust
9. Monstrosity - Millennium
10. Asphyx - Embrace the Death

 

[Atomic Tide]

1) Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2) Immolation - Here In After
3) Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
4) Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
5) Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn...
6) Darkthrone - Total Death
7) Monstrosity - Millennium
8) Cannibal Corpse - Vile
9) The Exploited - Beat The Bastards
10) M.O.D. - Dictated Aggression

 

[Burkhard]

And now for something completely different.

1. Soul Cages - Moments
2. Dreams of Sanity - Promo '96
3. Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
4. The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass
5. Left Hand Solution - Fevered

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2. Immolation - Here in After

1) Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2) Immolation - Here In After

Fuck yes! These guys know what's up.

 

[Phylactery]

After looking up The Chasm's From the Lost Years... im realizing that it isnt what I originally thought (a compilation of old stuff), so I never really gave it a shot. Im guessing I should change that line of thinking?

Well obviously you should, it's not one of their best but it still rules. It's probably their most inaccessible actually and it's really long at well over an hour, but it's worth investing some time with it.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

reading the first couple pages of this thread is a reminder why i hardly even bother to come by here anymore.

1. Adramelech - Psychostasia
2.Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
3. Summoning - Dol Guldur
4. Immolation - Here In After
5. Scald - Will of the Gods Is a Great Power
6. Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
7. Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign
8. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
9. Kvist - For Kunsten Maa VI Evig Vike
10. Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack

honorable mention:
Agatus - Dawn of Martyrdom
Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
Mythological Cold Towers - Sphere of Nebaddon (The Dawn of a Dying Tyffereth)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[Phylactery]

reading the first couple pages of this thread is a reminder why i hardly even bother to come by here anymore.

1. Adramelech - Psychostasia
2.Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
3. Summoning - Dol Guldur
4. Immolation - Here In After
5. Scald - Will of the Gods Is a Great Power
6. Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
7. Crimson Relic - Purgatory's Reign
8. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
9. Kvist - For Kunsten Maa VI Evig Vike
10. Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack

honorable mention:
Agatus - Dawn of Martyrdom
Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum
Mystifier - The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here
Mythological Cold Towers - Sphere of Nebaddon (The Dawn of a Dying Tyffereth)

Great list! You should definitely post more often as you have good taste. Never heard Mythological Cold Towers, anything you can compare it to?

 

[Krow]

So I've been putting this off but here we go.

1. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
2. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
3. Mercyful Fate - Into the Unknown
4. Kvist - For kunsten maa vi evig vike
5. Scald - Will of Gods is Great Power
6. Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
7. Count Raven - Messiah of Confusion
8. Setherial - Nord...
9. Sabbat - The Dwelling
10. Dying Fetus - Purification Through Violence

There should really be some sludge metal albums in my list but theres so little interest in the genre here I'd be wasting my votes.

Cryptopsy reigns supreme.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

Great list! You should definitely post more often as you have good taste. Never heard Mythological Cold Towers, anything you can compare it to?

their first album is doomy death metal with lots of melodic leads. i suppose it's a more death metal version of October Tide's first album

this track is the best from the album

 

[Talos of Atmora]

1. Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
2. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
3. Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
4. Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
5. Opeth - Morningrise
6. Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
7. Adramelech - Psychostasia
8. Stratovarius - Episode
9. Angra - Holy Land
10. Kvist - For Kuunsten Maa Vi Evig Vika

Honorable Mentions
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Grave Digger - Tunes of War

I don't know what was up with all the objections to this year being picked before. It was pretty awesome. Hell, the difference between this list and my honorable mentions (which I will post soon as well) is really thin.

 

[CiG]

10. Asphyx - Embrace the Death

Almost added this to mine, ridiculously underrated Asphyx record in my opinion. 1990 was a great year for evil death metal.

And now for something completely different.

1. Soul Cages - Moments
2. Dreams of Sanity - Promo '96
3. Psychotic Waltz - Bleeding
4. The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass
5. Left Hand Solution - Fevered

Needs 5 more though.

Mythological Cold Towers

I love this band! I've raved about them a few times here, I'm surprised more people on UM don't know them, especially their first 2 albums which are total gems of atmospheric/epic death metal.

 

[Mort Divine]

mythological cold towers is a band i haven't heard of in years damn

brings me back to like 2003/2004 or so

 

[CiG]

Their second album is unfairly maligned probably because they added some goofy fantasy/folk/viking metal elements but I actually prefer it.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

1) Burzum - Filosofem
2) Scald - Will of the Gods is Great Power
3) Summoning - Dol Guldur
4) Immolation - Here in After
5) Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
6) Graveland - The Celtic Winter
7) Bathory - Blood on Ice
8) Ildjarn - Forest Poetry
9) Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
10) Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Drill

Honorable Mentions:
Gehennah - King of the Sidewalk
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers

 

[Phylactery]

I don't think The Celtic Winter counts as it was originally released in 1994.