GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2009

[Vegard Pompey]

May as well start with the title track then! Never fails to send me into a headbanging frenzy. The only issue is when it gets really fast, the drums tend to overpower the mix.

I don't know what's not to love about it. Sounds like it came right out of the late 80s. A disgusting rifffest with the songwriting to match. Shame they split up before this album was even released iirc. No bullshit, no frills, just pure old school death metal delivered with concviction and passion.

Okay, this is basically everything I want out of OSDM. I regret not hearing this album in time to rank it now, might've made my list.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

yeah, killer album

 

[no country for old wainds]

5) Engram by Beherit
NYT YLISTÄÄ SAATANAA!

"It's the potency of the album's fusion of the classic Beherit sound and riff work with new structural ideas that it seems Holocausto perfected during his non-metal stint. Subtle things like the samples in "Axiom Heroine", "All in Satan", and particularly the second movement of "Demon Advance" are effective in the sense that the experimental components of the music combine forces with the old school sensibilities to make something new yet familiar. Too much modern metal has the experimentation clashing with the genre's framework and creating a cluttered mess, but Engram is the exact opposite. Engram is just, fresh." - @Addo_Of_Nex

"Engram" is probably the single greatest thing in black metal since Burzum released Hvis Lyset Tar Oss back in 1994." - @Master_Yoda77

"Engram is better than Drawing Down the Moon. I've always liked some songs on DDtM but others come across as a bit silly and not so well thought out. Engram has a more singular vision and is better for it imo." - @Phylactery

"Engram isn't average. It's below average. And senior citizens fucking in a nursing home is more visceral than DDtM." - @crimsonfloyd

Chosen by:
Master_Yoda77 (#1)
Mort Divine (#2)
Slayed Necros (#3)
Onder (#4)
Vilden (#5)
Sirjack (#6)
Phylactery (#6)

TOTAL: 50 POINTS

 

[Phylactery]

There's a newish bar opened near where I live that has a huge selection of beers and ciders. Anyway, the dukebox has fucking tracks from Engram on it. I'll have to put one on next time I'm there and watch as everyone leaves haha.

 

[no country for old wainds]

4) Vast Oceans Lachrymose by While Heaven Wept
Once a king, now nameless, forgotten, swallowed by the seas of sand...

"The new While Heaven Wept album totally slays. It's heavy, epic, and at times a bit doomy (although far more power metal-influenced). Definitely a must though for fans of the genre, and probably one of the best albums of last year (in my opinion)." - @Einherjar86

"While Heaven wept is really good, especially Vast Oceans Lachrymose, exactly the stuff I'm looking for." - @Vilden

"VAST OCEANS is more about the emotional depths of each individual passage rather than how those passages fit and flow together, for me anyways. even when i love them i find them a little shallow and can see how they'd have the potential to put out some dross." - @no country for old wainds

Chosen by:
CASSETTEISGOD (#2)
Vilden (#2)
Krow (#3)
zabu of nΩd (#3)
no country for old wainds (#3)
Master_Yoda77 (#5)
Talos of Atmora (#9)
Vegard Pompey (#9)

TOTAL: 52 POINTS

 

[no country for old wainds]

3) Voice of Steel by Nokturnal Mortum
There are so few strange things in the world…

VOS is so killer. Full of a barbaric ferocity that I find unmatched by most albums. Can't wait for their new one." - @Pitiless Wanderer

"The Voice of Steel is such an audacious album. I know it's well-regarded, but I'm surprised it's not even more popular." - @MasterOLightning

"I might be the only one who didn't like Voice of Steel, especially compared to Weltanschauung." - @Mort Divine

"Regarding Nokturnal Mortum, they are such an up and down band. Lunar Poetry is strong, Goat Horns is excellent, and then there is a series of mediocre records followed by the phenomenal Voice of Steel." - @crimsonfloyd

Chosen by:
Vilden (#1)
Krow (#2)
no country for old wainds (#2)
Talos of Atmora (#2)
crimsonfloyd (#2)
RedinTheSky (#3)
Phylactery (#5)
Serjeant Grumbles (#10)

TOTAL: 61 POINTS

 

[Phylactery]

What is everyone's favourite track on The Voice of Steel? It's the title track for me. The other tracks have high points as well, but none are as consistently great as the title track imo.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

so you think me

me think so

 

[Master_Yoda77]

So far, like 90% of my top 10 has made the list so far. This list is definitely the most surprising list. Yet, i'm deeply unnerved that something as fucking terrible as Endgame made the cut.

 

[Phylactery]

Cosmogenesis is definitely my least favourite of the albums that have made the list. Still, pretty happy with this top 10.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

@ yoderp, your incrowd wanker buddies are the only reason a few of those albums even made it.

Cosmogenesis >>> every album on that list so far, by far.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

What is everyone's favourite track on The Voice of Steel? It's the title track for me. The other tracks have high points as well, but none are as consistently great as the title track imo.

The title track, though the bridge and solo on Valkyrie make the most godly moment on the record.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

There's a newish bar opened near where I live that has a huge selection of beers and ciders. Anyway, the dukebox has fucking tracks from Engram on it. I'll have to put one on next time I'm there and watch as everyone leaves haha.

Can't say I'd blame them.

 

[Phylactery]

Probably not as fast as they'd leave if I put a track from Sunbather or Genevieve on. The latter would probably just send them all to sleep actually .

In all seriousness, I don't know what you have against Beherit. I'm not the biggest fan of the band myself, and I don't consider DDtM to be a classic. Engram is legitimately good though.

 

[Mort Divine]

cosmogenesis is only marginally more enjoyable than stepping on a fish hook

 

[no country for old wainds]

2) Black Future by Vektor
An undead galactic master sleeps within a subspatial realm...

"If Vektor - Black Future is not at the top of your list (or on it at all) you should be questioning yourself as a metalhead." - @Baroque

"Black Future's "originality" and songwriting skills are being questioned? That album can pound for pound stand up to some of the best thrash albums of the 80's and early 90's. ... no album has got more rotation in my cd players in the last couple years." - @TechnicalBarbarity

"yeah dude. Black Future is insanely good, and pretty damn unique for a thrash album." - @VelociBrad

"Shit was AIDS" - @Master_Yoda77

Chosen by:
Baroque (#1)
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)
RedinTheSky (#1)
zerostatic (#1)
rms (#1)
Talos of Atmora (#1)
HamburgerBoy (#2)
EspaDa (#3)
Vegard Pompey (#4)
Sirjack (#7)
crimsonfloyd (#8)
-CyanideChrist- (#9)
Atomic Tide (n/a)

TOTAL: 98.5 POINTS

1) Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm by The Chasm
So far from home, but this is the place...

"I used to be ambivalent towards Farseeing and I still kinda am but lately I've been feeling that the closer is one of the best songs they ever wrote. First couple minutes after the intro are absolutely spine-chilling, the most mournful, defeatist thing in a discography of mournful, defeatist things. TIMELESS... MONOLITHS OF HATE!!" - @Vegard Pompey

"This forum turned me on to the Chasm when I first joined. At the time I had never heard anything form them outside of a few tracks here and there. So I went and downloaded a few of their albums and thought "meh they're alright" ... but it wasn't until I bought Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm that they just fucking clicked with me ... then I went back and masturbated to most of their older stuff." - @TechnicalBarbarity

"I tried to fuck the girl after having my dick sucked for most of the duration of Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm, but that's when I went soft. It was like "nope, done". I didn't even get to fuck her. I was disappointed." - @The Butt

"Sounds similar to my experiences with sex." - @Master_Yoda77

Chosen by:
Phylactery (#1)
no country for old wainds (#1)
Slayed Necros (#1)
Vegard Pompey (#1)
Mort Divine (#1)
Krow (#1)
The Ozzman (#3)
Master_Yoda77 (#3)
TechnicalBarbarity (#4)
Anom@nder Rake (#4)
Onder (#5)
Talos of Atmora (#5)
EspaDa (#6)
RedinTheSky (#6)
tagradh (#8)

TOTAL: 115 POINTS

 

[no country for old wainds]

nice formatting there. weird shit always happens with multi-entry posts.

 

[Einherjar86]

What is everyone's favourite track on The Voice of Steel? It's the title track for me. The other tracks have high points as well, but none are as consistently great as the title track imo.

Title track is great, but I love "My Dream Islands"; that one has a killer Pink Floyd vibe.

"The new While Heaven Wept album totally slays. It's heavy, epic, and at times a bit doomy (although far more power metal-influenced). Definitely a must though for fans of the genre, and probably one of the best albums of last year (in my opinion)." - @Einherjar86

Every time I read this quote, it sounds like a fucking parody of something I'd say.

 

[no country for old wainds]

btw i know i still haven't even posted the full list from the previous round. i totally forgot that shit tbh. i'll get the master thread up to date soon.

 

[Phylactery]

Fuck the master thread, we want the next year!