GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2014

[TechnicalBarbarity]

At first, I thought about skipping this round, but after seeing some people nominating Kenn Nardi and Mekong Delta and after eventually finding a fifth album (Exmortus) to include in my list, I changed my mind:

 

[CiG]

Slough Feg's album is quite strong, surprised I'm not seeing it in the lists of people I'm pretty sure like the band. Did it go under a lot of radars or does nobody like it?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i personally didn't like it much and think its one of their weaker albums.

 

[Slammed]

I didn't hate it but there was obviously albums that meant more to me that year. (although I say that not remembering what I listed and not caring enough to go back and look)

 

[no country for old wainds]

unordered (5 points each, to make it easy):
dead congregation – promulgation of the fall
force of darkness – absolute verb of chaos and darkness
question – doomed passages
slough feg – digital resistance
sorcier des glaces – ritual of the end
stargazer – a merging to the boundless
suhnopfer – offertoire
svolder – desecration of the five holy pillars
vanhelgd – relics of sulphur salvation
volahn – aq’ab’al
vehemence – assiege

HM:

Spoiler

air raid – point of impact
autopsy – tourniquets, hacksaws and graves
black magic – wizard’s spell
doombringer – the grand sabbath
hyborian steel – barbaric mysticism
morbus chron - sweven
portrait – crossroads
rigor mortis - slaves to the grave
ripper – raising the corpse
vampire – s/t

and yeah i'll rank the next one, i usually do anyway.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

unordered (5 points each, to make it easy):
dead congregation – promulgation of the fall
force of darkness – absolute verb of chaos and darkness
question – doomed passages
slough feg – digital resistance
sorcier des glaces – ritual of the end
stargazer – a merging to the boundless
suhnopfer – offertoire
svolder – desecration of the five holy pillars
vanhelgd – relics of sulphur salvation
vehemence – assiege
volahn – aq’ab’al

HM:

Spoiler

air raid – point of impact
autopsy – tourniquets, hacksaws and graves
black magic – wizard’s spell
doombringer – the grand sabbath
hyborian steel – barbaric mysticism
morbus chron - sweven
portrait – crossroads
rigor mortis - slaves to the grave
ripper – raising the corpse
vampire – s/t

and yeah i'll rank the next one, i usually do anyway.

there's 11. First 10 will get 5.5 points each ... as stated in the first post on the first page.

 

[no country for old wainds]

fair enough, was only trying to make it easier to count fag0t. edited.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

nothing about adding up these scores is hard f@ggot. The real question is why are some of you guys having a hard time following basic rules?

is this not a rule that you yourself came up with?
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that applied only to ranked picks, my rules also said:

- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, i'll work out the mathS. basically there's no way you can sabotage this so fuck you!

i never read your rule changes til now tbh

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Now go back and capitalize your list or i'm not counting it

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Slough Feg's album is quite strong, surprised I'm not seeing it in the lists of people I'm pretty sure like the band. Did it go under a lot of radars or does nobody like it?

Slough Feg post-Atavism does little for me. I don't remember Digital Resistance being anything more than ok.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

5. Incantation- Dirges of Elysium

Shit I still need to listen to more to develop an opinion on:
Dead Congregation- Promulgation of the Fall

have you given this another listen? They do Incantation 100 times better than Incantation did on Dirges.

Btw i'm extending the deadline to tomorrow night.

 

[Krow]

Since my phone is making this a bastard I had to retype it all but here we go. #1 is undisputed. 2-8 are cool albums that are a little interchangeable, 9-10 are fun stuff.


1. Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
2. Satanic Warmaster - Fimbulwinter
3. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
4. Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
5. Gorgasm - Destined to Violate
6. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
7. Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
8. Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
9. Rude - Soul Recall
10. Cormorant - Earth Diver

 

[crimsonfloyd]

have you given this another listen? They do Incantation 100 times better than Incantation did on Dirges.

Btw i'm extending the deadline to tomorrow night.

I’m out today and tomorrow, but I’ll try and give it a listen at some point. I did like Graves of the Archangels.

 

[Phylactery]

Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
Drowned - Idola Specus
Force of Darkness - Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness
Innsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
Mortuary Drape - Spiritual Independence
Oraculum - Sorcery of the Damned
Sammath - Godless Arrogance
Sorcier des Glaces - Ritual of the End
Svolder - Desecration of the Five Holy Pillars

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Prelim

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

This was super painful... so many killer releases to sort through. Oh well, with the deadline being this evening, this is how the list must appear:

1. Howls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd Eye
2. Innsmouth - Consumed By Elder Sign
3. Temple of Void - Of Terror and the Supernatural
4. Nasheim - Solens Vemod
5. Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
6. Sorcier Des Glaces - Ritual of the End
7. Infestus - The Reflecting Void
8. Ripper - Raising the Corpse
9. Swallowed - Lunarterial
10. Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus

 

[no country for old wainds]

@Erik will be pleased his bedroom BM made a couple lists

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'll go with...

1. Mekong Delta - In a Mirror Darkly
2. Kenn Nardi - Dancing With the Past
3. Johnny Touch - Inner City Wolves
4. Chronosphere - Embracing Oblivion
5. Exodus - Blood in Blood Out
6. Synaptik - The Mechanisms of Consequence
7. Dimesland - Psychogenic Atrophy
8. Expain - Just the Tip
9. Mytra - Beta
10. Khthoniik Cerviiks - Heptaëdrone

 

[SweptbackFlame]

1. At the Gates - At War With Reality
2. Within the Ruins - Phenomena
3. Arch Enemy - War Eternal
4. Crimson Shadows - Kings Among Men
5. Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
6. Insomnium - Shadows of a Dying Sun
7. Primal Fear - Delivering the Black