Top 50 Extreme Metal Albums

[JayKeeley]

OK so Metal Rules have done it again! Another "Best of" list, this time concentrating on 'extreme metal':

http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/top50extreme/top50extreme.htm

Note that there is some repetition now between this list and their top 100 heavy metal list (Death, Mercyful Fate etc).

Discuss.

 

[NAD]

Uhhh... Death - Symbolic? Ugh, that album is a pain to listen to all the way through.

Slayer - Hell Awaits is balls, why is that even on any list other than "shittiest CDs done by great bands?"

 

[Lutz]

Too little Bathory, Mayhem, Darkthrone, etc..
Too much Death, Arch Enemy, Immortal, In Flames, etc..

Some really stupid placing too..
Arch Enemy, In Flames, Immortal etc.. better than Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids? ...Okaaaay!!

Sucky list.

 

[JayKeeley]

The first top 100 list has now just confused this one.

I have no problem with Mercyful Fate, but why would they be #1 in the 'extreme' list specifically? Especially since they were at #58 in the 'heavy metal' list where Metallica was #1?

And Slayer and Kreator make both lists, but not Sepultura? Kreator even comes in at #99 and Sepultura at #60, and then on the new list, the same Kreator album is in the top 10 and Sepultura has gone altogether!

No Suffocation? No Pestilence? etc ad nauseum.

Damn those genre definitions.

 

[Black Winter Day]

metal-rules sucks, go to www.maddox.xmission.com instead

 

[Nate The Great]

Death - Symbolic is excellent!

I can't believe that list doesn't have Morbid Angel! Did I miss it or something? That website needs to stop what they are doing right now.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

It does have Morbid Angel.

 

[Demonspell]

This was undoubtedly intended as a concession to all the hatemail that site received over the initial list and its absence of extreme metal...and once again they prove themselves to be just as clueless.

 

[Hell Mike]

I hate that list. Example: Immortal - Damned in Black. As if it was even the best Immortal-album.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

I hate that list. Example: Immortal - Damned in Black. As if it was even the best Immortal-album.

Exactly. Especially as high on the list as number 12. I could understand if pure holocaust was there, but Damned in Black was probably the worst Immortal album. And theres no emperor or mayhem either. If i had to add a couple (off the top of my head)- Emperor- ITNE and Anthems. Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger, Mayhem- Live in Leipzig, Graveland-Immortal Pride, etc.....

 

[Erik]

And theres no emperor or mayhem either

Actually, ITNE is there.

 

[Erik]

Anyway, there's three (the three latest = the three worst) Immortal albums there and no Mayhem, Burzum or Darkthrone. What the fuck is Arch Enemy doing there?

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Actually, ITNE is there.

Your right, i missed that one. But 4 Arch Enemy CD's?¿
Thats obscene.