GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2002

[jimmy101]

1 Decapitated - Nihility
2 Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
3 Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip
4 Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
5 R.D.P. - Onisciente Coletivo
6 Down - Down II
7 Mastodon - Remission
8 Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is a Dead Scene
9 Ron Jarzombek - Solitarily Speaking of Theoretical Confinement
10 Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace

 

[The Ozzman]

3 Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip

So this counts then? If so I may have to rerank..

 

[spikes77]

1. Empyrium – Weiland
2. Agalloch – The Mantle
3. Isis – Oceanic
4. Negura Bunget – ‘n crugu bradului [great album--used to be more discussed on UM]
5. Novembre – Dreams d’Azur [underrated gem—that bass]
6. Opeth – Deliverience
7. Taake – Over Bjoergvin graater himmerik
8. Mourning Beloveth – the Sullen Sulcus
9. Belenos - Spicilege
10. Inquisition – Invoking the majestic throne of satan

 

[Burkhard]

Had to check out several albums until I found another two to make it at least a top 5, thus as far as quantity is concerned, 2002 isn't much different from (nearly) any other year of the last two decades for me. But quality-wise, this is my favourite year, because both my now overall most-played album and my fourth overall most-played album were released in 2002.

1. Atrox - Terrestrials
2. Madder Mortem - Deadlands
(insert huge gap here)
3. Nightwish - Century Child
4. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
5. Krux - Krux

 

[challenge_everything]

4. Negura Bunget – ‘n crugu bradului [great album--used to be more discussed on UM

Hear hear. Astounded this hasn't made more lists.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
2. Agatus - The Weaving Fates
3. Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... for an Iron Age
4. Manilla Road - Spiral Castle
5. Cauldron Born - ...And Rome Shall Fall

 

[Sirjack]

1. Planet X - Moonbabies
2. Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
3. The Kill - The Soundtrack To Your Violence
4. Tunnels - Progressivity
5. Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down
6. Ron Jarzombek - Solitary Speaking Of Theoretical Confinement
7. Deranged - Plainfield Cemetery
8 Scarve - Luminiferous
9. Mark Boals - Edge of the World
10. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

 

[Sirjack]

fuck..l forgot Vaginal Carnage with Dildo Detention

 

[Baroque]

So far:

1. Symphony X - The Odyssey
2. Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
3. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
4. After All - Mercury Rising
5. Eidolon - Coma Nation
6. Dio - Killing the Dragon
7. Star One - Space Metal
8. Motörhead - Hammered

Need to rank:
Psycho Symphony - Schizoid
Bywar - Invincible War
Mortifer - Blind Faith
Rammer - Incinerator and Krusher
Orange Goblin - Coup de grace
Toxic Holocaust - Critical Mass

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Empyrium – Weiland

Beautiful album, but it's not metal.

 

[Krow]

Beautiful album, but it's not metal.

Yeah this and Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays are fantastic but definitely not metal.

 

[Allfader]

Empyrium is a metal band, so it might still count?

 

[Krow]

Empyrium is a metal band, so it might still count?

They were for half their career maybe. And anyway this is for metal albums, it’s not going to count, I can almost assure you of that.

 

[CiG]

It won't count. Feel free to keep it in your list, but when I tally the results it won't be included. It's blatantly a non-metal neofolk album.

 

[The Ozzman]

It won't count. Feel free to keep it in your list, but when I tally the results it won't be included. It's blatantly a non-metal neofolk album.

What about the Jerry Cantrell album Jimmy listed?

 

[CiG]

That one I've never heard so either I'll have to listen to a few songs, or you guys can argue amongst yourselves.

 

[zerostatic]

1) Immolation - Unholy Cult
2) Vader - Revelations
3) Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
4) Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus
5) Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
6) Meshuggah - Nothing
7) Amon Amarth - Versus the World
8) Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
9) Doomsword - Resound the Horn
10) Mastodon - Remission

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Was checking my RYM wishlist for 2002 and Apotheosis' Farthest from the Sun was on it for some reason. While it's definitely not making my top 10 for the year, I'd take it over most/all other symphoblack I can think of that I've heard. The pseudo-classical synth wank was actually pretty good, even.

 

[Phylactery]

1. The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
2. Stutthof - Towards Thy Astral Path
3. Arghoslent - Incorrigible Bigotry
4. Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel... for an Iron Age
5. Belenos - Spicilege
6. Agatus - The Weaving Fates
7. Primordial - Storm Before the Calm
8. Wolfnacht - Heidentum
9. Peste Noire - Macabre Transcendence
10. Immolation - Unholy Cult

Honourable Mentions:

Dub Buk - Iду на Ви!
Ungod/Baxaxaxa - Magicus Tallis Damnatio/Hellfire
Manilla Road - Spiral Castle
Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
Desaster- Divine Blasphemies
Inquisition - Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan
Bilskirnir - In Flames of Purification
Deathspell Omega - Inquisitors of Satan
Astrofaes - Ancestors’ Shadows

Not convinced on the order. But I’m away on a school trip all next week and so I wanted to get this done before then.

I originally thought this year wasn’t that great, but actually it’s pretty good.

Anyone got any death metal recommendations for this year?

 

[CiG]

Anyone got any death metal recommendations for this year?

You'd hate most things I'd recommend, except maybe Internecine: