GMD Votes: All Other Genres Prelims

[The Ozzman]

You all know the drill at this point:

List your 15-25 greatest albums in order by picking from the genres below. The top 20 scoring albums will advance to the next round.

The choices MUST be full-length albums. No EPs or shit like that. There will be no exceptions to this rule.

Here are the genres:

Sludge
Other doom metal (not trad or death/doom)
Progressive Metal
Euro Power Metal
Metalcore
Groove metal
Industrial metal
Ambient
Folk metal
Goth metal
Post metal/ post black metal, etc.

Please do not put comments next to the albums. Instead, put them below your choices.

Also, please use the following format:

1) Opeth - Morningrise

This makes it easier for me to parse the data. You are not obligated to use it, but I will be less inclined to be a dick if you use this standard. I can also compile the data faster.

Happy voting!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Ambient isn't metal.

EDIT: Was groove included in the thrash list last time? I'd definitely include Cowboys from Hell if it's allowed.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Gonna post it anyways

1) Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
2) Queensrÿche - Rage for Order
3) Atheist - Elements
4) Thought Industry - Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh
5) Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
6) Alice in Chains - Dirt
7) Voivod - Nothingface
8) Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
9) Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
10) Confessor - Condemned
11) Coroner - Grin
12) Dream Theater - Images and Words
13) Fear of God - Within the Veil
14) Helmet - Meantime
15) King's X - Dogman
16) Mekong Delta - Wanderer on the Edge of Time
17) Corrosion of Conformity - Blind
18) Watchtower - Control and Resistance
19) Holocaust - Hypnosis of Birds
20) Course of Empire - Course of Empire
21) Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic
22) Doom - Complicated Mind
23) Faith No More - Angel Dust
24) Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
25) Nevermore - The Politics of Ecstasy

And no, Elements is not a death metal album.

 

[The Ozzman]

Coroner was covered in the thrash list

Nice pick with King's-X. Such an underrated group.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Grin though? It's not really a thrash album.

 

[J.]

nice call on helmet. fantastic run of 4 awesome albums. saw them live twice. they destroyed the melvins and primus

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I still haven't heard anything past Betty, they seem like a band where I'd burn myself out if I tried listening to everything they've done, but I'll check out their fourth is its good.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

And no, Elements is not a death metal album.

So is Obscura "not a death metal album" as well? Elements is one of the earliest examples of true proggy technical death metal.

https://rateyourmusic.com/rgenre/set?album_id=33966

 

[HamburgerBoy]

So is Obscura "not a death metal album" as well? Elements is one of the earliest examples of true proggy technical death metal.

It has maybe two death metal riffs, max, single bass drumming, and no death metal vocals. If that makes it death metal, anything is.

 

[Burkhard]

1) Atrox - Terrestrials
2) Fear of God - Within the Veil
3) Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
4) The 3rd and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth
5) Madder Mortem - Deadlands
6) Nightwish - Oceanborn
7) Voivod - Nothingface
8) Midnattsol - Nordlys
9) Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
10) Atrox - Orgasm
11) Bergtatt - Røtter
12) Coroner - Grin
13) Midnattsol - The Metamorphosis Melody
14) Bergtatt - Lagnadsoger
15) Sieges Even - Steps
16) The Gathering - Mandylion
17) Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow
18) Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
19) Watchtower - Control and Resistance
20) Soul Cages - Moments
21) Dreams of Sanity - Komödia
22) Anacrusis - Reason
23) Hexenhaus - Dejavoodoo
24) Nightwish - Imaginaerum
25) Ava Inferi - Onyx

 

[CF87]

Atheist -Unquestionable Presence is one of the best metal albums, but I never really listened to it like a death metal album. I did not like Elements or the reformed album.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't think that the first two Atheist albums are very deathly either, but at the very least they're somewhere in the death/thrash vicinity. Elements is its own thing pretty far removed from either.

 

[Draehl]

1) Opeth - Blackwater Park
2) Agalloch - The Mantle
3) Wardruna - Yggdrasil
4) Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
5) Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
6) Falkenbach - Ok nefna tysvar Ty
7) Falkenbach - ...magni blandinn ok megintíri...
8) Opeth - Still Life
9) Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
10) Ghost - Infestissumam
11) Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star
12) Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
13) Myrkgrav - Trollskau, skrømt og kølabrenning
14) Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
15) Isis - Oceanic
16) Fyrnask - Bluostar
17) Zaum - Oracles
18) Rammstein - Sensucht
19) Melechesh - Emissaries
20) Wintersun - Time I
21) Red Fang - Murder the Mountains
22) Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
23) Isis - Wavering Radiant
24) Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
25) Oranssi Pazuzu- Muukalainen Puhuu

 

[crimsonfloyd]

It will be interesting to see which records have sufficient appeal to make the top 20.

I'll probably revise this list several times, but this is a start.

1. Agalloch- The Mantle
2. Neurosis- Through Silver in Blood
3. Opeth- Morningrise
4. My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans
5. Opeth- Still Life
6. My Dying Bride- Angel and the Dark River
7. Neurosis- Enemy of the Sun
8. Agalloch- Marrow of the Spirit
9. Lantlos- .neon
10. Theatre of Tragedy- Velvet Darkness they Fear
11. Agalloch- Pale Folklore
12. Opeth- My Arms Your Hearse
13. Tristania- Widows Weeds
14. The Gathering- Mandylon
15. Graveland- Immortal Pride
16. Neurosis- Times of Grace
17. Nightwish- Oceanborn
18. Oranssi Pazuzu- Muukalainen Puhuu
19. Arcturus- The Sham Mirrors
20. Skepticism- Stormcrowfleet
21. Isis- Oceanic
22. Theatre of Tragedy- Aegis
23. Katatonia- Brave Murder Day
24. Empyrium- A Wintersunset
25. Lantlos- Agape

 

[EspaDa]

2. Neurosis- Through Silver in Blood
7. Neurosis- Enemy of the Sun
16. Neurosis- Times of Grace
21. Isis- Oceanic

Great choices man, let's take some sludge to the next round. Pretty surprised you didn't list Souls at Zero, whereas you chose Enemy of the Sun. The same thing with Panopticon.

 

[The Ozzman]

I want to make a list but don't know where to start. Some people's choices here are what I'll probably end up having..

 

[Burkhard]

14. The Gathering- Mandylion

Just corrected the spelling for you.

 

[Krow]

I'll make a list. I'm a little saddened by the first votes though, looks like this is going to be a thrash and black metal leftovers list but c'est la vie.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Great choices man, let's take some sludge to the next round. Pretty surprised you didn't list Souls at Zero, whereas you chose Enemy of the Sun. The same thing with Panopticon.

Hmmm, I don't know why I didn't think of Panopticon. I'd put Kentuky or Roads to the North on the list. Phenomenal records.

As for Souls at Zero, it's a great record, but I'm trying avoid having a list that is only Opeth, Neurosis, Agalloch, and My Dying Bride.

 

[Baroque]

Cool. I'll need a few days to think about this, there are a ton of options.