GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2009

[Phylactery]

I consider Engram to be Beherit's best work, but definitely not the best black metal of the century. I was surprised to see it on Sirjack's list as he's typically not much of a black metal fan from what I've seen in the Mixtape game.

i'd prefer to treat the bottom 9 as unordered if your ordering is just completely arbitrary, but 'sup to you.

The top two are sealed. It'd be the next 8 that would be unordered.

 

[no country for old wainds]

noted. you should check out the goreaphobia album (MORTAL REPULSION) if you haven't btw. better than a lot of the more hyped DM from this year IMO

 

[CiG]

Maybe if @Mort Divine made a list, Griftegård might get more love.

 

[Krow]

I've tried that Griftegard album several times. It just doesnt grab me at all.

 

[-CC-]

I like it a lot, not sure if it's gonna make my top 10 yet, but Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless released the same year is superior.

 

[Mort Divine]

Maybe if @Mort Divine made a list, Griftegård might get more love.

it'll make my list for sure

whenever i get around to making one

 

[Master_Yoda77]

It's definitely and easily among the top 5 greatest doom metal albums since 2000.

 

[-CC-]

1) Slugathor - Echoes From Beneath (perhaps my favorite album of the decade)
2) Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless
3) Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
4) Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
5) Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm
6) Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
7) Evile - Infected Nations
8) Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
9) Vektor - Black Future
10) Cobalt - Gin

HM: Blut Aus Nord / Immortal / Kreator / Animals As Leaders / Griftegård / Beherit / Archgoat

Very good year, tough one to rate. I'm excited to see the top 10. Sad to see no love for Slugathor, but after so many of these polls I've come to accept that my taste is probably shit.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That Funebrarum album is pretty sick. Definitely deserves to be on my HM list if its not already there.

 

[The Ozzman]

Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі (Voice of Steel)

I'm listening to this now and really like this...too bad the full length is $$$

 

[Phylactery]

1) Slugathor - Echoes From Beneath (perhaps my favorite album of the decade)
2) Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless
3) Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
4) Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
5) Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm
6) Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
7) Evile - Infected Nations
8) Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
9) Vektor - Black Future
10) Cobalt - Gin

HM: Blut Aus Nord / Immortal / Kreator / Animals As Leaders / Griftegård / Beherit / Archgoat

Very good year, tough one to rate. I'm excited to see the top 10. Sad to see no love for Slugathor, but after so many of these polls I've come to accept that my taste is probably shit.

Slugathor made my honourable mentions. I think I prefer Circle of Death to that one. I've never listened to that Weapon album, but I really like the title track from their following release.

The Chasm didn't even make your honourable mentions

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Slugathor definitely made my list. Brilliant album. It's been a while since I blasted it.

 

[The Ozzman]

lol someone on the 'Everything Thrash Metal' Facebook page's response when asked about Vektor. He said that all thrash post 1992 sucks ass:

"Vektor is Voivod for hipsters"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's hilarious!

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

lol, what an idiot.

edit: i bet it was burgerboy

 

[HamburgerBoy]

lol, what an idiot.

edit: i bet it was burgerboy

No, "Voivod for hipsters" is Virus.

"Voivod for juveniles that consider Chuck Schuldiner a compositional genius and struggle to enjoy anything with more than three kinds of riffs per discography" is Vektor

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Chuck schuldiner? One of the pioneers of death metal and influence on countless number of bands and musicians outside of the subgenre? him a musical genius? pffffft, of course not.

so when did Gretchen Go to Nebraska, babe?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Chuck Schuldiner had his moments; the first two albums deserve their classic status, and there's no denying he not only pioneered death metal but even had his own identifiable/distinctive style irrespective of the genre he happened to be playing. That doesn't change the fact that he tended to repeat very mild variations on the same couple riffs and scales over and over again. He was basically a sort of death metal Steve Harris, a reliable workhorse that needed other creative input to really flesh out his sound, but with the ego/stubbornness of a Mustaine or Schaefer which meant the talent he had in his band was largely wasted.

King's X was a far more dynamic band on a song-by-song basis than Chuck & Friends, at least for their first six albums, even despite a lot of their material being rooted in blues rock.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... agreed with a few parts, disagreed with others. And then this .....

the talent he had in his band was largely wasted.

 

[The Ozzman]

King's X was a far more dynamic band on a song-by-song basis than Chuck & Friends, at least for their first six albums, even despite a lot of their material being rooted in blues rock.

Those harmonies tho

 

[Satanstoenail]

I had a listen to that Vektor album. Sounded more like Destruction/Coroner love than Voivod