RC March Madness: The Contenders

[General Zod]

OK... so between my thread requesting suggestions and JK's thread, "Any albums released since 2000 in your "top 10 of all time" list?", I've compiled the list. Please review it for the following:

1. CDs released prior to the year 2000
2. CDs that are clearly not the band's best since 2000.
3. Glaring oversights. For instance, "Zod, what are you smoking? How the fuck did you leave out _______!?"

Lastly, do not vote. This is merely the list of contenders. This list will be put into brackets on Monday morning.

The Contenders

Agalloch - The Mantle
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Ayreon - Human Equation
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny of Souls
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Colour Haze - Colour Haze
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor
Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
Empyrium - Weiland
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your...
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Graveland - Dawn Of Iron Blades
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine
Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Into Eternity - Buried in Oblivion
Isis - Panopticon
Jesu - Silver
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Klabautamann - Der Ort
Manegarm - Vredins Tid
Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express
Mastodon - Leviathan
Maudlin of The Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Melechesh - Sphynx
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kuniasta
Negura Bunget - N' Crugu Bradului
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure
October Falls - Tuoni
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy
Pelican - Australasia
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Secrets of the Moon - Antihesis
Slough Feg - Traveller
Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
SunnO)) - Black One
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite
The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
The Crown - Deathrace King
Thyrfing - Urkraft
Tool - Lateralus
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Vreid - Pitch Black Brigade
Warning - Watching From a Distance
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Woods of Ypres - Against the Seasons
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice

Zod

 

[Thanatopsis123]

Below the Lights should be replaced by the clearly superior Monumension. And is nobody else here a fan of Bloodbath or Psycroptic?

Edit: Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning (2002)

 

[EricT]

Below The Lights > All other Enslaved albums. It should stand!

Edit: Also, isn't Deathrace King a late 1999 album? Correct me if I am wrong though.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Below The Lights > All other Enslaved albums. It should stand!

Edit: Also, isn't Deathrace King a late 1999 album? Correct me if I am wrong though.

Hmm...M-A says 2000. Good enough for me?

Anyways, that album fucking smokes. Been a long time. I think Ill pop it in!

 

[EricT]

Yeah, I just looked, April 2000. I fail at remembering an albums release date, which means I fail at life. I must now jump off a moderately sized building.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

I would suggest Autumn Aurora over Blood in Our Wells for Drudkh.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Jump off a chair instead. We care. <3


Anyways, the list looks fine imo. Its missing some/a lot of stellar releases but that all comes down to the collective opinion of RC. Let's get this show on the road.

Edit: yeah, AA or FL for Drudkh...EASILY.

 

[General Zod]

Below The Lights > All other Enslaved albums. It should stand!

I concur.

Enslaved is both prolific and constantly evolving. We could have a poll just on post-2000 Enslaved CDs (there's been 5!).

Unless there's a "Monumension" uprising, I don't see a reason to change it.

Zod

 

[Doom]

Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kuniasta

Kind of surprised this got chosen for Moonsorrow. There's a number of people on this board (myself included) who rate Verisakeet as easily Moonsorrow's best. I think this is a fairly contentious issue though around here though...

Also agree about Autumn Aurora.

 

[General Zod]

I would suggest Autumn Aurora over Blood in Our Wells for Drudkh.

There are a few bands I knew would create controversy on which disc to use; Enslaved, Drudkh, Primordial, Moonsorrow, Agalloch, Negura Bunget and Isis, to name a few. In the two threads I referenced in my original post, there seemed to be more love for "Blood in Our Wells". Either would have been a fair choice, and I suspect either will do equally well in the coming poll. Again, if there's a wave of "Autumn Aurora" love in this thread, I'll be happy to swap it out.

Zod

 

[General Zod]

Kind of surprised this got chosen for Moonsorrow. There's a number of people on this board (myself included) who rate Verisakeet as easily Moonsorrow's best. I think this is a fairly contentious issue though around here though...

Ironic. I was busy typing up the post right below yours, when you posted this. Moonsorrow is definitely a band I expected discent on. And for what it's worth, I agree, "Verisakeet" is the superior disc.

Also agree about Autumn Aurora.

On this, I'm torn.

Zod

 

[Doom]

Actually, despite my previous post, I vote you just go with the original list and save us from all the arguing about what should and should not be included.

 

[Demonspell]

Keep Below The Lights in, make room for Autumn Aurora. Among the bands you listed, the only choice I disagree with is the Moonsorrow one, I'd go with either of the next two.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I think Autumn Aurora would easily be preferred over BiOW here.

That said, Doom brings up another good point on Moonsorrow.

Also, yeah, Isis - Oceanic needs to replace Panopticon imho.

 

[General Zod]

Actually, despite my previous post, I vote you just go with the original list and save us from all the arguing about what should and should not be included.

Ehhh... the arguing will be fun. What else do we have to do, especially with the crappy weather?

Zod

 

[skeptik]

Summoning: Oath Bound over LMHSYF

Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden, Messugah - Catch 33, and Satyricon - Now, Diabolical are definitely not anywhere near the best since 2000.

Hail - Inheritance Of Evilness, Countess - Heilig Vuur, and Repugnant - Epitome Of Darkness need to be there.

Hail - War Must Go On
Hail - Barbaryan (Finland)
Countess - De Wilde Jacht
Countess - Heilig Vuur
Repugnant's myspace with "Premature Burial}

 

[Krilons Resa]

Repugnant - Epitome Of Darkness need to be there.

Youre damn fucking straight. Sadly, I dont think the majority of RC has heard them. Nor the other bands you listed for that matter.

I guess I should check out Hail huh?

 

[skeptik]

That's why I posted mp3s, I think a good majority of RCers should like this shit.

 

[Krilons Resa]

That's why I posted mp3s, I think a good majority of RCers should like this shit.

Hail =

 

[Krilons Resa]

Also, why is "post-rock" included on this list? On the same token, I guess you can also say why is Weiland and Tuoni on there too though, huh? Fuggit.

edit: I just noticed FartO))) :zombie: