GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2000

[no country for old wainds]

RYM album chart
RYM EP chart

please submit at least 5 releases. please submit your lists by 11pm UTC on OCTOBER 1st.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Nightwish - Wishmaster is deffo gonna win this round.

 

[Baroque]

The year of prog/tech, stoner, nu metal, and bad album covers. Some decent prog and tech tho.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
2. Immolation - Close to a World Below
3. Mortuary Drape - Tolling 13 Knell
4. Sorhin - Apokalypsens ängel
5. Mortem - Decomposed by Possession
6. Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness
7. The Crown - Deathrace King
8. Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
9. Necromantia - IV: Malice
10. Moonblood - Taste Our German Steel!

Loads of good shit from this year. That was tougher than I expected.

 

[Baroque]

1) Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
2) Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
3) Jag Panzer - Thane to the Throne
4) Abstract - Concrete Visions
5) Martyr - Warp Zone
6) Extol - Undeceived
7) Symbyosis - Crisis
8) Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
9) Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2
10) Quo Vadis - Day Into Night

Alchemist - Organasm
Opprobrium - Discerning Forces
Orange Goblin - The Big Black
Paradox - Collision Course
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
Armistice - Not On The Trail
Ufomammut - Godlike Snake
Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
Eternal Elysium - Spiritualized D

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

The year of prog/tech, stoner, nu metal, and bad album covers. Some decent prog and tech tho.

Some good album covers as well. These are but a few:
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[Vegard Pompey]

Finally, an excuse to check out that Symphony X album Omni keeps raving about.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Preliminary list

1. Fates Warning - Disconnected
2. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
3. Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War
4. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
5. Corum - Not Myself
6. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
7. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
8. Armored Saint - Revelation
9. Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
10. Mortuary Drape - Tolling 13 Knell

 

[Talos of Atmora]

5. Corum - Not Myself

Great album. It's a shame that they pretty much disappeared after that though.

Finally, an excuse to check out that Symphony X album Omni keeps raving about.

 

[CiG]

OH YEAH GOOD YEAR.

 

[Satanstoenail]

I was either out of my mind at an acid techno club or at a bush rave for about 90% of this year.

 

[CiG]

1. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
2. Mythological Cold Towers - Remoti Meridiani Hymni - Towards the Magnificent Realm of the Sun
3. Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
4. Atrox - Contentum
5. HammerFall - Renegade
6. Quicksand Dream - Aelin: A Story About Destiny
7. Oversoul - Seven Days in November
8. Memory Garden - Mirage
9. Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus: Act II
10. Sabbat - Satanasword

FYI; Classica by Novembre is actually from 1999 even though RYM has it in that 2000 list.

Fucking amazing year, I had to remove so much good stuff.
Atrox deserve to make it into at least one final results list, they're so weird and brilliant.

 

[Phylactery]

3. Mortuary Drape - Tolling 13 Knell
4. Sorhin - Apokalypsens ängel
5. Mortem - Decomposed by Possession
7. Moonblood - Taste Our German Steel!

From memory I was thinking this year had a great 1-5 and then loads of mediocre shit filling out the rest. That's definitely not true now that you've reminded me those were released in 2000.

I've never heard the Moonblood/DSO split either so I'll get on that.

 

[The Ozzman]

Thought I only had less than 10 releases from this year but I have 25+

Should be a good list too. I already have 4 out of 10 chosen off the bat.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Atrox deserve to make it into at least one final results list, they're so weird and brilliant.

I will be sure to listen to that album for the sake of the poll, then.

 

[Slammed]

1. Orange Goblin - The Big Black
2. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
3. Skyclad - Folkémon
4. Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
5. Ayreon - Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer
6. Halford - Resurrection
7. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
8. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
9. Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
10. Overkill - Bloodletting


HM
Running Wild - Victory
Devin Townsend - Physicist
Tankard - Kings of Beer

 

[Slayed Necros]

From memory I was thinking this year had a great 1-5 and then loads of mediocre shit filling out the rest. That's definitely not true now that you've reminded me those were released in 2000.

I've never heard the Moonblood/DSO split either so I'll get on that.

That split arguably contains my favourite material from both bands. It badly needs a proper reissue.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Subject to change as of yet:

1. Symphony X - The New Mythology Suite
2. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
3. Fates Warning - Disconnected
4. Dark Moor - The Hall of Olden Dreams
5. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element Pt. I
6. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
7. Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
8. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
9. Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Pt. II
10. Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

The Honorable Mentions
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory
Martyr - Warp Zone
Armored Saint - Revelation
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus Pt. II
Corum - Not Myself

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Can already tell this is a great damn year.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeeeea, waaaayyyy better than 1991 amirite?