GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1998

[The Ozzman]

Q1: When someone posts that an album or band is 'in crowd', do you feel compelled to post about 'in crowd' being a misnomer or that the 'in crowd' doesn't exist?

Y: You're part of the in crowd
N: Go to Question 2

Q2: When someone doesn't like an album that others hail as 'classic', how do you respond?

1. Lambast the person and tell them they have bad taste
2. Scroll past

If 1, you're part of the in crowd
If 2, not in the in crowd

fr though @Dak 's description of the in crowd isn't wrong:

In contrast to prior attempts, maybe we should formulate a DSM like way to type the in-crowd.

How to diagnose someone suffering from symptoms consistent with Incrowditis:

Critera:

A. Likes Black Metal without other subgenre qualifiers
B. Mostly prefers first releases and/or S/Ts
C. Mostly dislikes bands with tshirts in Hot-Topic
- specify if US band specific
- or not US band specific
D. Likes a band only liked by persons who meet criteria A-C.
- specify if such bands liked include Manilla Road

Am I forgetting any other very notable qualifiers. Want to try to mostly avoid band specific mentions unless one is egregiously obvious.

sickening that trendhopping incrowd shit like TOOH and trendhopping mainstream shit like nile somehow beat a classic band like manilla road last round

Because Gates of Fire was released after 1987 and Nile actually has good riffs ldo

 

[no country for old wainds]

one of their most beloved albums even so

should i point out that the chasm have five albums in the rym DM top 100 (more than anyone else?) or will that spoil the narrative of their 'niche popularity'

 

[The Ozzman]

one of their most beloved albums even so

should i point out that the chasm have five albums in the rym DM top 100 (more than anyone else?) or will that spoil the narrative of their 'niche popularity'

Because death metal isn't a niche in and of itself amirite?!

 

[Draehl]

1. Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...
2. Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
3. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
4. Dawn - Slaughtersun
5. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
6. Covenant - Nexus Polaris
7. Aeternus - ...And So the Night Became
8. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
9. Primordial - A Journey's End
10. Enslaved - Blodhemn

Heavier on death metal than most years I'm sure, but Nile & The Chasm are too good to pass up. Listen to that fucking Falkenbach album if you haven't before doing your list! Masterpiece!

HM:
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe (This, Rammstein, & Static-X still catch some spins!)
Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III
System of a Down - System of a Down (Everything since is shit, but a solid debut)
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

 

[The Ozzman]

Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

Glad I won't be the only one voting for this masterpiece

 

[Vegard Pompey]

should i point out that the chasm have five albums in the rym DM top 100 (more than anyone else?)

?

Death have 7, Bolt Thrower have 5. Or did you not include subgenres?

Doesn't disprove your point or anything just nitpicking

 

[The Ozzman]

Death have 7

That makes them better than The Chasm overall tbh

 

[Krow]

?

Death have 7, Bolt Thrower have 5. Or did you not include subgenres?

Doesn't disprove your point or anything just nitpicking

Amorphis - Elegy being in the top 100 kinda invalidates it for me. (Gorguts - Colored Sands too wtf) People on RYM are a special bunch anyway.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Colored Sands is one of the best comeback albums of all time and deserves all the praise it gets.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Glad I won't be the only one voting for this masterpiece

It's definitely making my list seeing as how it's one of those transitionary albums that still manages to be excellent.

 

[The Ozzman]

It's definitely making my list seeing as how it's one of those transitory albums that still manages to be excellent.

It's the best album the band ever did tbh.

 

[no country for old wainds]

easily yeah.

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Death have 7, Bolt Thrower have 5. Or did you not include subgenres?

Doesn't disprove your point or anything just nitpicking

yar i put the question mark 'cause i was just guessing

 

[HamburgerBoy]

sickening that trendhopping incrowd shit like TOOH and trendhopping mainstream shit like nile somehow beat a classic band like manilla road last round, but that's typical of this forum, sheep everywhere

TOOH is in-crowd but that was by far their most acclaimed release. Gates of Fire is a shitty "come back" which ranks, what, maybe #5 at best in the Manilla Road discography?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

It's definitely making my list seeing as how it's one of those transitory albums that still manages to be excellent.

If it has such staying power, isn't that the opposite of transitory?

 

[Sirjack]

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1 dehumanized - prophecies foretold
2 bolt thrower - mercenary
3 nasum - inhale/exhale
4 cryptopsy - whisper supremacy
5 nile - amongst the catacombs of nephren-ka
6 exhumed - gore metal
7 arch enemy - stigmata
8 cephalic carnage - conforming to abnormality
9 ritual carnage - the highest law
10 dying fetus - killing on adreniline

mortician - zombie apocalypse
benediction - grind bastard
flesh parade - kill whitey
gorguts - obscura
discordance axis - jouhou
suffocation - despise the sun

 

[Draehl]

It's the best album the band ever did tbh.

Eh, I prefer Still Life & BWP, but it's still up there!

 

[CiG]

 

[CiG]

Q1: When someone posts that an album or band is 'in crowd', do you feel compelled to post about 'in crowd' being a misnomer or that the 'in crowd' doesn't exist?

Nice SJW logic you have there. If you feel the need to question the validity of the wage gap or rape culture when it's brought up, you're a sexist. Couldn't possibly be any other reason to do so amirite?

Q2: When someone doesn't like an album that others hail as 'classic', how do you respond?

Or simply take your own advice and keep your "muh in-crowd" lamentations to yourself until you get home and write them down in your diary, and simply scroll past.

 

[Sirjack]

l have that and that was in my top 25..

 

[The Ozzman]

Nice SJW logic you have there. If you feel the need to question the validity of the wage gap or rape culture when it's brought up, you're a sexist. Couldn't possibly be any other reason to do so amirite?



Or simply take your own advice and keep your "muh in-crowd" lamentations to yourself until you get home and write them down in your diary, and simply scroll past.

I'll take those responses as 'Yes'