GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2004

[CiG]

striborg is an unexpected pick for you!

Back in my old days I got into Striborg because his CD's with bushland cover photos stood out to me. Super fucking Aussie. Then over the years I just lost touch with black metal, but I was in the mood last couple days and surprisingly it held up. Even jammed it a couple times since. Very nostalgic. Probably considered a piece of shit to most seasoned black metallers.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i used to like his shit back in the '00s, don't think i've heard any of it since then. may have to change that.

 

[SonOfNun]

This was my list when I was writing for UM back in 2004:

Opeth17:
1. Anata - Under a Stone With No Inscription
2. Behemoth - Demigod
3. Borknagar - Epic
4. Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
5. Vintersorg - The Focusing Blur
6. Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol. VI
7. Bergthron - Faust Für Faust
8. Cruachan - Pagan
9. Insision - Revealed and Worshipped
10. Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror
11. Ensiferum - Iron
12. Vomitory - Primal Massacre
13. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution
14. Hate Forest - Battlefields
15. Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
16. Vader - The Beast
17. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
18. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
19. Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath
20. Malevolent Creation - Warkult
21. Fission - Crater
22. Suffocation - Souls to Deny
23. Demonoid - Riders of the Apocalypse
24. Decapitated - The Negation
25. Vehemence - Helping the World to See

Honorable Mentions: Azrael - Into Shadows Act II: Through Horned Shadows Glimpse, Nattefrost - Blood and Vomit, Lamented Souls - The Origins of Misery, Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time

Staff Picks of 2004

Bleakest Harvest: 1. Mastodon Leviathan 2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus 3. Pig Destroyer Terrifyer 4. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons 5. Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire 6. Meshuggah I 7. Fantomas - Delirium Cordia 8. Anaal Nathrakh...

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[Slayed Necros]

10. Dismember - Where Iron Crosses Grow



9. Masacre - Total Death



8. Nephasth - Conceived by Inhuman Blood



7. Face of Evil - Face of Evil



6. Nehëmah – Requiem Tenebrae



5. Deathspell Omega – Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice



4. Drawn and Quartered - Return of the Black Death



3. Melektaus - Transcendence Through Ethereal Scourge



2. Pest - Dauðafærð



1. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution

 

[CiG]

10. Aura Noir - The Merciless


9. Isen Torr - Mighty & Superior


8. Pungent Stench - Ampeauty


7. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution


6. Suffocation - Souls to Deny


5. Drawn and Quartered - Return of the Black Death


4. Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn


3. Church of Misery - The Second Coming


2. Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy


1. Abscess - Damned and Mummified