GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2001

[Allfader]

Thrash had its run, just accept it.

I used to listen a lot of thrash until early 90's. Even if my preferences went in other directions, I still was updated with what was released and man, thrash went to the toilet. Around mid 00's there were serious efforts to resurrect it, but thrash never reached the levels that it had on the 80's until very early 90's. Not even close and you know it.

From my perspective, death and black metal have been the most consistently good metal styles since early 90's. Every year there are a decent amount of great death and/or black metal albums. Thrashers can't say the same.

 

[Slammed]

And from my perspective that is a stupid and naive comment that makes you look like a dumb cunt. But each to their own I suppose.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

EDIT: @Slammed i think i might've outdone him with my original comment here lol, so im going to have to go back and leave it at what i should've in the first place.... LOL, that is all.

 

[Krow]

Pretty good year for extreme metal tbh.

1. Grand Belial's Key - Judeobeast Assassination
2. Iced Earth - Horror Show
3. Manilla Road - Atlantis Rising
4. Enslaved - Monumension
5. Sodom - M-16
6. Gorgasm - Bleeding Profusely
7. Windir - 1184
8. Absu - Tara
9. Mutiilation - Black Millennium (Grimly Reborn)
10. Gorelord - Forcefed on Human Flesh


HMs:

Thorns - s/t
Nagelfar - Virus West
Pale Divine - Thunder Perfect Mind
Lunar Aurora - Ars Moriendi
Brodequin - Festival of Death
Pyaemia - Cerebral Cereal
Aborted - Engineering the Dead
Murder Squad - Unsane, Insane, and Mentally Deranged
Viral Load - Practitioners of Perversion
Fuck... I'm Dead - Bring on the Dead
Resurrected - Butchered in Excrement
Mirror of Deception - Mirrorsoil
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Melechesh - Djinn
Axis of Advance - Strike
Urn - 666 Megatons
Obsidian Gate - Colossal Christhunt

 

[CiG]

Great year for brutal death, not that any of it will make the final list.

 

[zerostatic]

1) Sodom - M-16
2) Destruction - The Antichrist
3) Bal Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant
4) Iced Earth - Horrorshow
5) Slayer - God Hates Us All
6) Elvenking - Heathenreel
7) God Dethroned - Ravenous
8) Ensiferum - Ensiferum
9) Godflesh - Hymns
10) Bolt Thrower - Honour Valour Pride

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard

Funny, I started listening to this album today not even thinking that it was relevant to the current poll. I think I'm on my fourth or fifth spin now, it fucking owns.

Bal Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant

Finally, I've been waiting for a chance to overrate the shit out of this dumb ass album.

 

[Sirjack]

1 - Pungent Stench - Masters of Mortal - Servants of Sin
2 - Bolt Thrower - Honour- Valour- Pride
3 - Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
4 - Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard
5 - Tony Macalpine - Chromaticity
6 - Ackercocke - The Goat Of Mendes
7 - Ring Of Fire - The Oracle
8 - Racer X - Superheroes
9 - Steve Vai - Alive In An Ultra-World
10 - Godflesh - Hymns

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Epic year. Metal going mainstream brought in a lot of great ideas from the wider world of music. A lot of shitty ideas too, but overall it was a real gift to be able to tap that vast mindshare for a while.

1. Opeth - Blackwater Park
2. Rammstein - Mutter
   
3. Cathedral - Endtyme
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
   
6. Bathory - Destroyer of Worlds
   
7. Benediction - Organised Chaos
   
8. Therion - Secret of the Runes
9. Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
   
10. Sonata Arctica - Silence

 

[CiG]

1. Mordeth - Animicide
2. Bolt Thrower - Honour · Valour · Pride
3. Psycroptic - The Isle of Disenchantment
4. Cause for Effect - PQ-2
5. Vuvr - Pilgrimage
6. Thorns - Thorns
7. Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
8. The Chasm - Reaching the Veil of Death
9. Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods
10. Deteriorot - In Ancient Beliefs

Spoiler

11. Absu - Tara
12. Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard: A Tale Told in Three Acts
13. Darkthrone - Plaguewielder
14. Manilla Road - Atlantis Rising
15. Repugnant - Draped in Cerecloth
16. Deeds of Flesh - Mark of the Legion
17. Suicidal Winds - Victims in Blood
18. Apokalyptic Raids - Only Death Is Real...
19. Ingrowing - Suicide Binary Reflections
20. Abigail - Welcome All Hell Fuckers

Animicide was actually supposed to come out around 1997/98 but the band split up in 1997 right after recording it was finished and its release was delayed until 2001. Voïvod-influenced progressive death metal band from Brazil that somehow manages to be alien and technical but also primitive. I've only heard two tracks from the new Blood Incantation album but I definitely see a connection between the 2 bands, likely unintentional though. Criminally underrated IMO and defying the stereotype of what Brazilian underground metal is/should be still to this day.



They even wrote a song inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'll need to hear that Mordeth album. I've heard all their demos which I more or less enjoy but never went past those.

 

[Burkhard]

9. Nightwish - Wishmaster

I don't know which clown is responsible for tagging this album as a 2001-release. It was definitely released in 2000. I bought my copy in June 2000 and saw Nightwish on tour promoting this album 4 months later.

Looks like I'll have to skip this round. I've got one single album from 2001, which is Madder Mortem's "All Flesh Is Grass".

 

[Somethingface]

I don't know which clown is responsible for tagging this album as a 2001-release. It was definitely released in 2000. I bought my copy in June 2000 and saw Nightwish on tour promoting this album 4 months later.

Yeah it was released in May 2000, and this issue does appear on RateYourMusic. Unfortunately whoever added it to the site initially used the 2001 re-issue as the "primary" issue so it shows as being released in 2001. They cannot fix it on the current version of the website. But if you look at the corrections queue it is flagged to be fixed in RYM 2.0 / Sonemic.

 

[CiG]

I'll need to hear that Mordeth album. I've heard all their demos which I more or less enjoy but never went past those.

I'd be interested to see what you think about it.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I don't know which clown is responsible for tagging this album as a 2001-release. It was definitely released in 2000. I bought my copy in June 2000 and saw Nightwish on tour promoting this album 4 months later.

Looks like I'll have to skip this round. I've got one single album from 2001, which is Madder Mortem's "All Flesh Is Grass".

Oops. Fixed my list.

 

[CiG]

After re-listening to the Thorns album I decided it was mandatory to include it in my list.

@Einherjar86 any chance you have a list for 2001? Some great power metal albums from Lost Horizon, Domine, Twisted Tower Dire, Freedom Call, Rhapsody, Adagio, Dark Moor etc.

 

[Einherjar86]

Oh shit, thanks for tagging me! There's actually a lot I dig from this year, although a lot of the power metal comes second to black/folk metal releases. Subject to change, but for now this is my order:

1. Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa (I fucking love this album, never been a huge fan of their others)
2. Windir - 1184
3. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
4. Hollenthon - With Vilest of Worms to Dwell
5. Borknagar - Empiricism
6. Kamelot - Karma
7. Falconer - s/t
8. Freedom Call - Crystal Empire
9. Human Fortress - Lord of Earth and Heaven's Heir
10. Therion - Secret of the Runes

Still looking through the lists, so I might switch a few; but if not, I think this stands.

 

[Bloopy]

1. Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
2. Northwinds - Masters of Magic
3. 3D House of Beef - Low Cycle
4. Cathedral - Endtyme
5. Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
6. Fantômas - The Director's Cut
7. Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
8. Pentagram - Sub-Basement
9. Testament - First Strike Still Deadly
10. Ozzy Osbourne - Down to Earth

 

[CiG]

3. 3D House of Beef - Low Cycle

Hey cool, I don't think I knew you were a fan of 3DHoB, that's awesome.

 

[Bloopy]

Hey cool, I don't think I knew you were a fan of 3DHoB, that's awesome.

Last.fm says I started listening to them at the time the GMD Poll for '96 was posted. I browsed RYM for that year and of course their name really stands out.