GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2017

Contrarian edgelord alert.

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.
 
Almost no overlap between people who voted for Power Trip and Malokarpatan. So it's another out-crowd/in-crowd divide as with Vektor/The Chasm in 2009.

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
 
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.
 
I thought that Malokarpatan was highly overrated. Kinda surprised that White Death or Havrukuunu isn't on this list, as those albums are spectacular.

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.
 
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Yeah, that's okay. If the rest of the album isn't way better, it would never wind up anywhere near my top 10.
 
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2. Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished
3) Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished
3) Warbringer - Woe to the Vanquished
1 - Warbrigner - Woe to the Vanquished
=9) Woe to the Vanquished by Warbringer*
Waters that once gave life run red...

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"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.
 
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.

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.
 
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