GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1998

[no country for old wainds]

RYM album chart
RYM EP chart

would've posted this ages ago if the site wasn't down for some reason. please submit your lists by 11pm UTC on DECEMBER 8th.

sorry, still no 1990 yet! all praise the RNG gods even when they get it wRoNG. this year fuckin' owns though tbf

after this year i'm going to do 2017 btw.

(reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, i'll work out the mathS. basically there's no way you can sabotage this so fuck you!)

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1 - The Chasm

 

[Satanstoenail]

1. Korn - Follow the Leader

 

[Krow]

Fuck, when did The Devil Speaks in Tongues get so expensive? Monster album.

 

[no country for old wainds]

all mortem is outstanding tbh, including the one from last year.

 

[CiG]

Fyi: for some reason The Turns by Gods Tower is included as a 1998 release but it came out in 1997.

Edit: and it got The Eerie wrong also.

 

[Slammed]

Are live albums accepted or not?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

You're welcome to throw away your vote.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Fucking great year. Finalized list:

1. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
2. Runemagick - The Supreme Force of Eternity
3. Aeternus - ...And So the Night Became
4. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
5. Mortem - The Devil Speaks in Tongues
6. Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
7. Nifelheim - Devil's Force
8. Arghoslent - Galloping Through the Battle Ruins
9. Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy)
10. Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult

HM:

Abigor - Supreme Immortal Art
Angelcorpse - Exterminate
Blot Mine - Porphyrogenesis
Cranium - Speed Metal Slaughter
Obtained Enslavement - Soulblight
Desaster - Hellfire's Dominion
Order From Chaos - An Ending in Fire
Ritual Carnage - The Highest Law
Pentacle - ...Rides the Moonstorm

Edited. Turns out the Dominus Xul album is 1999 too otherwise it would've made it.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yeah, Galloping Through the Battle Ruins is definitely making my list.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Runemagick and Aeternus are both on my radar since they both have 1998 songs on the current round of the mixtape. Those are two albums I need to hearken to for this poll.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Slauter Xstroyes - Free the Beast
2. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
3. Seer's Tear - Precious
4. Meshuggah - Chaosphere
5. Unholy Death - Demo 1998
6. Order From Chaos - An Ending in Fire
7. Holy Mother - Toxic Rain
8. Infernäl Mäjesty - Unholier Than Thou
9. Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
10. Ritual Suicide - To Nothing

Better than I thought it would be tbh.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

This year was superb.

 

[no country for old wainds]

there hasn't been a better year since, to my mind.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

there hasn't been a better year since, to my mind.

You're probably right. I haven't seen a year like this afterwards where there were this many truly excellent releases.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

This year is huge. I made a list of everything I need to consider for the top 10 and it's bigger than any such list I've made for a previous year. So much genre diversity too, it's not all death/black like many other 90s years.

can I have an extra month

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I'm going to need a ton of evaluation for this one.

 

[CiG]

If @Dak does this I have a feeling Mercenary will hold the top spot on his list.

So much genre diversity too, it's not all death/black like many other 90s years.

So far I've not had a year where there wasn't good genre diversity, looking back over my 90's year lists now (I keep them listed on my profile for easy reference) and there's a ton of doom, power metal, death metal, some grindcore, some trad/epic.

 

[Baroque]

I can't spend all night on this tonight. Here's a starting point:

1) Death - The Sound of Perseverance
2) Droÿs - And If...
3) Liquid Tension Experiment - s/t
4) Pathos - Uni Versus Universe
Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus
Witchery - Restless & Dead
Pariah - Unity
Extol - Burial
Dark Order - 5000 Years of Violence

Whiplash - Thrashback
Metallica - Garage Inc.

 

[CiG]

When I was making my list I noticed RYM had made a few year mistakes and now I'm seeing some in other people's lists:

Grand Belial's Key - Mocking the Philanthropist

1997 apparently.

Nox Intempesta - Damnanus-Dominum

And this one is from what I can see actually 1999.

Pariah - Unity

Another RYM mistake, this is apparently from 1997.