The Top 5 List Thread

[CiG]

Top 5 Italian metal albums:

1. Nefas - Transfiguration to the Ancient's Form
2. Nefas - Seven Times Seven
   
3. Wotan - Carmina Barbarica
4. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
5. Doomsword - Resound the Horn

Top 5 Greek metal albums:

1. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
   
2. Zemial - Face of the Conqueror
3. Macabre Omen - Gods of War - At War
4. Sacral Rage - Beyond Celestial Echoes
5. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn

Top 5 Finnish metal albums:

1. Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers
2. Reverend Bizarre - In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
3. Demilich - Nespithe
4. Oksennus - Sokea Idiootti
5. Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger of Metal

Top 5 Swedish metal albums:

1. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
2. Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
   
3. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
4. Theory in Practice - Third Eye Function
5. Spawn of Possession - Cabinet

Top 5 Norwegian metal albums:

1. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
   
2. Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
3. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
4. Black Viper - Hellions of Fire
   
5. Lobotomized - Norwegian Trash

Top 5 Australian metal albums:

1. Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients
2. Shackles - Traitors' Gate
   
3. Psycroptic - The Isle of Disenchantment
4. StarGazer - The Scream That Tore the Sky
5. Sacriphyx - The Western Front

Top 5 Japanese metal albums:

1. X Japan - Art of Life
2. Sabbat - Satanasword
   
3. Coffins - Buried Death
4. Defiled - Defeat of Sanity
   
5. Viscera Infest - Verrucous Carcinoma

Top 5 German metal albums:

1. Ferocity - Puzzled Into Various Spaces
2. Sodom - Agent Orange
   
3. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
4. Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)
   
5. Whetstone - Ancient Metal

Top 5 Canadian metal albums:

1. Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
2. Gorguts - Obscura
   
3. Voivod - Killing Technology
4. Voivod - Nothingface
5. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh

Top 5 Brazilian metal albums:

1. Mordeth - Animicide
2. Sepultura - Schizophrenia
3. Mythological Cold Towers - Remoti Meridiani Hymni - Towards the Magnificent Realm of the Sun
   
4. Mordeth - Cybergods
5. Rebaelliun - Annihilation

Top 5 Polish metal albums:

1. Vader - Morbid Reich
2. Vader - De Profundis
3. Graveland - Thousand Swords
4. Decapitated - Winds of Creation
   
5. Deivos - Emanation From Below

 

[Vegard Pompey]

How would you rank the Doomsword albums? Just curious, I love Resound the Horn and My Name Will Live On but I haven't been able to get into the others.

 

[CiG]

How would you rank the Doomsword albums? Just curious, I love Resound the Horn and My Name Will Live On but I haven't been able to get into the others.

Something like this:

Resound the Horn
My Name Will Live On
Let Battle Commence
Doomsword
The Eternal Battle

Personally I think they're all great, they don't really stray from the formula so I'm wondering why you can't get into the rest.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Well the s/t is pretty unrefined and has some parts that don't work at all, like the spoken voice part on Helm's Deep really takes me out of the music. And Let Battle Commence I've listened to several times but nothing really grabs me like the best tracks on Resound the Horn and My Name Will Live On. The most recent one I haven't listened to much at all.

 

[CiG]

Fair criticism about the debut, definitely unrefined and some ideas don't quite stick the landing, but for me they're forgivable.

 

[no country for old wainds]

'the eternal battle' is my favourite probs, i haven't spent enough time with that band to really be sure of that though.

 

[Phylactery]

Top 5 German metal albums:

1. Ferocity - Puzzled Into Various Spaces
2. Sodom - Agent Orange
   
3. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
4. Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)
   
5. Whetstone - Ancient Metal

Christ, can't order mine. But these are the my top 5.

Atrocity - Longing for Death
Destruction - Eternal Devastation
Moonblood - Taste Our German Steel!
Nox Intempesta - Damnanus Dominum
Poison - Into the Abyss


HMs for the likes of Gates to Purgatory, In the Sign of Evil, Descend into the Absurd, Infernal Overkill, Celts, ...En Their Medh Riki Fara, Blut und Krieg.

I have a feeling there's something I'm missing!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Resound the Horn is a top 5 21st century metal album for me, I return to it a lot. I hope they put out a new one soon, I feel like they have the potential to make a serious AOTY contender.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Top 5 metal songs that bring back good memories of my college years:

1. Opeth - "Deliverance" (driving home from the riverside park on a summer night)
2. Iron Maiden - "Prowler" (wandering around campus right after buying my first portable music player, and being like "wow, it's like my life's a movie and Maiden's the soundtrack!")
3. Sonic Mayhem - "Rage" (back home, driving to a park with my next door neighbor on summer break)
4. Metallica - "Fight Fire with Fire" (riding in my dorm mate's Jeep on a fast food run)
5. Ministry - "Deity" (getting high and writing poetry)

 

[Slayed Necros]

Top 5 metal albums by country

I'm keen. I'll limit it to one album per band though.

Italy:

1. Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
2. Adramelch - Irae Melanox
3. Dark Quarterer - s/t
4. Necromass - Abyss Calls Life
5. Death SS - Evil Metal

Greece:

1. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
2. Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp
3. Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
4. Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels
5. Necromantia - Crossing the Fiery Path

Finland:

1. Demilich - Nespithe
2. Sentenced - North From Here
3. Demigod - Slumber of Sullen Eyes
4. Oz - Fire in the Brain
5. Adramelech - Psychostasia

Sweden:

1. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
2. Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
3. Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
4. Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
5. Sorhin - Apokalypsens Ängel

Norway:

1. Gorgoroth - Pentagram
2. Aeternus - ...and So the Night Became
3. Molested - Blod-Draum
4. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
5. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky

Australia:

1. Armoured Angel - Stigmartyr
2. Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... For an Iron Age
3. Disembowelment - Transcendence into the Peripheral
4. Hobbs' Angel of Death - s/t
5. Sadistik Exekution - The Magus

Japan:

1. Sabbat - Envenom
2. Intestine Baalism - An Anatomy of the Beast
3. Sigh - Scorn Defeat
4. Abigail - Intercourse & Lust
5. Ritual Carnage - The Highest Law

(My knowledge of Japanese metal is majorly lacking)

Germany:

1. Scorpions - Taken by Force
2. Destruction - Infernal Overkill
3. Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
4. Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd
5. Protector - A Shedding of Skin

Canada:

1. Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy
2. Obliveon - From This Day Forward
3. Voivod - Nothingface
4. Razor - Evil Invaders
5. Blasphemy - Gods of War

Brazil:

1. Sarcófago - I.N.R.I
2. Mystifier - Göetia
3. Sextrash - Sexual Carnage
4. Sepultura - Morbid Visions
5. Dorsal Atlântica - Dorsal Atlântica

Poland:

1. Graveland - Thousand Swords
2. Turbo - Last Warrior
3. Kat - Oddech Wymarłych Światów
4. Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
5. Holy Death - Triumph of Evil

Chile:

1. Force of Darkness - Absolute Verb of Chaos and Darkness
2. Invincible Force - Satan Rebellion Metal
3. Communion - At the Announcement
4. Dominus Xul - The Primigeni Xul (I Condemned My Enemies)
5. Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages

Belgium

1. Ancient Rites - The Diabolic Serenades
2. Ostrogoth - Ecstasy and Danger
3. Chemical Breath - Fatal Exposure
4. Target - Master Project Genesis
5. Paragon Impure - To Gauis! (For the Delivery of Agrippina)

Austria:

1. Miasma - Changes
2. Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)
3. Summoning - Nightshade Forests
4. Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies in Red
5. Belphegor - Blutsabbath

Switzerland:

1. Coroner - Punishment For Decadence
2. Messiah - Hymn to Abramelin
3. Samael - Blood Ritual
4. Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
5. Celtic Frost - Emperor's Return

France:

1. Sortilège - s/t
2. Massacra - Final Holocaust
3. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers of the Icy Age
4. Supuration - The Cube
5. Agressor - Satan's Sodomy

Netherlands:

1. Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
2. Sinister - Diabolical Summoning
3. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
4. Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense
5. Thanatos - Realm of Ecstasy

Czech Republic:

1. Root - The Temple in the Underworld
2. Master's Hammer - Ritual
3. Avenger - Fall of Devotion, Wrath, and Blasphemy
4. Dark - Sex 'n' Death
5. Krabathor - Only Our Death is Welcome...

USA:

1. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
2. Slayer - Reign in Blood
3. Autopsy - Mental Funeral
4. Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
5. Rigor Mortis - s/t

Mexico:

1. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
2. Argentum - Ad Interitum Funebrarum
3. Question - Doomed Passages
4. Cenotaph - Riding Our Black Oceans
5. Xibalba - Ah dzam poop ek

All right, I'm done. That took way too long.

 

[CiG]

Epic, you added more countries. I was saving them for a part 2 actually which I was slowly working on. Going to include New Zealand with mine though, would be interested to see yours specifically for your homeland.

Kinda surprised I know as many of your choices as I do. Need to check these ones out:

Necromass - Abyss Calls Life
Sorhin - Apokalypsens Ängel
Ritual Carnage - The Highest Law
Turbo - Last Warrior
Holy Death - Triumph of Evil
Dominus Xul - The Primigeni Xul (I Condemned My Enemies)
Paragon Impure - To Gauis! (For the Delivery of Agrippina)
Supuration - The Cube
Agressor - Satan's Sodomy
Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow
Dark - Sex 'n' Death
Argentum - Ad Interitum Funebrarum
Question - Doomed Passages (you have shared a song by these guys before and it slayed)
Xibalba - Ah dzam poop ek

 

[Sophii]

Top 5 Adventure Games?

1.) Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild
2.) Banjo & Kazooie
3.) Super Mario Sunshine
4.) Rayman Origins
5.) Spyro

 

[Phylactery]

Epic list! Except Candlemass aren’t Norwegian!

 

[Slayed Necros]

Just noticed that.

 

[Phylactery]

Was going to say you should replace it with DMDS! But ABitNS works as well.

Surprised you chose Riding Our Black Oceans over the debut. I’m a fan of it, but it never seems to get mentioned much. Everyone just talks about the debut when they’re brought up.

 

[Bloopy]

Going to include New Zealand with mine

Maybe after the GMD polls are done I'll come up with lists for a few other countries, but my top 5 NZ metal albums are set:

1. Wall of Silents - Looking Through Cadaver Eyes
2. Creeping - Order of Snakes
3. The House of Capricorn - In the Devil's Days
4. Exordium Mors - The Apotheosis of Death
5. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All

 

[CiG]

I know of Ulcerate but I don't know a single one of those albums, will have to do some Googlin' haha.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 Slovak metal albums:

1. Wayd - Barriers
2. Wayd - The Ultimate Passion
3. Gladiator - Designation
4. Protest - What For Name, When Humanity is Dying
5. Dementor - God Defamer

Top 5 Austrian metal albums:

1. Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
2. Disharmonic Orchestra - Not to Be Undimensional Conscious
3. Disastrous Murmur - Rhapsodies in Red
4. Miasma - Changes
5. Pungent Stench - For God Your Soul... For Me Your Flesh

Top 5 Russian metal albums:

1. Scald - Will of Gods Is a Great Power
2. Hieronymus Bosch - The Human Abstract
   
3. Mortem - Amputator
4. Coprobaptized Cunthunter - Failure Prosthesis
5. Gorged Bile - Origin of Contempt

Top 5 Mexican metal albums:

1. The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld
2. The Chasm - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
3. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution
4. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
5. Hardware - Hardware

Top 5 New Zealand metal albums:

1. Solar Mass - Pseudomorphosis
2. Meth Drinker - Meth Drinker
   
3. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
4. Meth Drinker - OIL
5. Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

Top 5 Spanish metal albums:

1. Wormed - Planisphærium
2. Wormed - Exodromos
   
3. Gruesome Stuff Relish - Teenage Giallo Grind
4. Gruesome Stuff Relish - Cannibalized!
5. Haemorrhage - Emetic Cult

Top 5 Dutch metal albums:

1. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
2. Severe Torture - Misanthropic Carnage
3. Nox - Ixaxaar
4. Valkyrie - Deeds of Prowess
5. Cryptae - Cryptae

Top 5 French metal albums:

1. Catacomb - In the Maze of Kadath
2. Gorod - Process of a New Decline
3. Asgard - To a Golden Age
4. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
5. Skelethal - Of the Depths...

Top 5 Danish metal albums:

1. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
   
3. King Diamond - Fatal Portrait
4. Hyperdontia - Nexus of Teeth
5. Invocator - Excursion Demise

Top 5 Chilean metal albums:

1. Kizin - Abstraction
2. Samot - Across the Abyss
3. Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart
4. Invocation Spells - Spread Cruelty in the Abyss
   
5. Lucifer's Hammer - Time Is Death

Top 5 Belgian metal albums:

1. Agathocles - Black Clouds Determinate
2. In-Quest - Extrusion : Battlehymns
3. Enthroned - Towards the Skullthrone of Satan
4. Moss Upon the Skull - The Scourge of Ages
5. Possession - Exorkizein

Top 5 Swiss metal albums:

1. Coroner - Mental Vortex
2. Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
3. Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
4. Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
5. Coroner - No More Color

Top 5 Czech metal albums:

1. Heaving Earth - Denouncing the Holy Throne
2. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
3. Ingrowing - Cyberspace
4. Ingrowing - Suicide Binary Reflections
5. Appalling Spawn - Freedom, Hope & Fury (The Second Spawn)

Top 5 Portuguese metal albums:

1. Grog - Macabre Requiems
2. Ironsword - Return of the Warrior
3. Cronaxia - Collapsing the Outer Structure
   
4. Grog - Odes to the Carnivorous
5. Holocausto Canibal - Sublime Massacre Corpòreo

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Top 5 Adventure Games?

1.) Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild
2.) Banjo & Kazooie
3.) Super Mario Sunshine
4.) Rayman Origins
5.) Spyro

I realize I'm not clear on the definition of "adventure game". As far as Nintendo-style action-fantasy games, mine is:

1. Banjo-Kazooie
2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3. Super Mario 64
4. Kirby's Adventure
5. Castlevania 64

For action-fantasy games on PC, it's:

1. Thief: The Dark Project
2. Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines
3. Don't Starve
4. Dishonored
5. The Void

Haven't been a hardcore gamer in years, and never owned many consoles, so not many candidates for my list.

 

[Sophii]

I realize I'm not clear on the definition of "adventure game". As far as Nintendo-style action-fantasy games, mine is:

1. Banjo-Kazooie
2. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3. Super Mario 64
4. Kirby's Adventure
5. Castlevania 64

For action-fantasy games on PC, it's:

1. Thief: The Dark Project
2. Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines
3. Don't Starve
4. Dishonored
5. The Void

Haven't been a hardcore gamer in years, and never owned many consoles, so not many candidates for my list.

Still a killer list! Hard to single out Adventure genre since they coincide with other genres too.