GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2017
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TechnicalBarbarity
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Vektor has some great songs but the way they construct melodies within a riff is often extremely pedestrian, almost Chuck Schuldiner-level bland.
CiG
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Vegard Pompey
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The shit vocals comment was in reference to Warbringer. Not sure which band has Tardy as the vocalist.
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90s Death has some of the most boring melodies around. If I were to create a program which was to convincingly procedurally generate riffs from a band labeled "progressive", I would pick 90s Death for the ease of doing so. He recycles the same few ideas a hundred times on those albums.
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idk i think malokarpatan seems fairly out-crowd approved and power trip seems fairly in-crowd approved, although they both lean the opposite way obvs
TechnicalBarbarity
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Yeah, your court jester voted for them ... so its not like they're all out-crowd votes.
Master_Yoda77
Juggalo
CiG
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That was an insta-like album to me. I'm surprised you thought 2017's Procession, The Obsessed and Dread Sovereign were as strong as you do.
Master_Yoda77
Juggalo
I'm an Obsessed fanboy so of course it made my list. I really dig what Dread Sovereign did with that new one and love the ambient parts to it. Much more honed. And honestly I probably would take out that Procession album after giving it a few more listens. Good shit, but that Goatmoon album deserves a spot.
While I find the Malokarpatan album pretty engaging due to all of the great riffs and unique song ideas, I found the Havrukuunu album to be a solid but pretty typical example of pagan black metal and I think that a lot of the songs drag. I haven't heard the White Death album.
Krow
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Man, that Dread Sovereign album sucked. Massive disappointment for me.
CiG
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CiG
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=9) Woe to the Vanquished by Warbringer*
Waters that once gave life run red...
"The new Warbringer album is great but not as good as Worlds Torn As Under or Waking Into Nightmares." - @Azerzakos
"Fucking hell!
New Warbringer absolutely blows away the new Havok" - @Krigloch the Furious
"The new Havok is good too, but yeah the new Warbringer destroys. Pretty impressive considering half the band left and they were considering calling it quits 1-2 years ago." - @Baroque
"easy one of the best modern thrash bands." - @TechnicalBarbarity
Chosen by:
TechnicalBarbarity (#1)*
Dak (#2)
Baroque (#3)
zerostatic (#3)
TOTAL POINTS: 25
Buying this asap and giving it a chance. I really need to start reminding myself to make note of people's lists rather than just focusing on my own tbh. Again, this is why these games rule.
The out-crowd influence strikes again.
@Master_Yoda77 actually in hindsight man I'm kinda surprised you weren't all over Ice War's debut.
The Ozzman
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I need to buy that Warbringer album too but I'm waiting for the price to drop on Amazon. That's a band I haven't really checked out tbh.
rms
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listened to Silhouettes on youtube and not sure the last time i've been instantly put off an album like that. rough.
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