EXTREME METAL Albums Poll - Nominations Round

Solstafir - Svartir Sandar
Solstafir - Otta

Aren't they a post-rock band?

Everything is extreme

post black metal if you really must use such terms

you dont need to vote for anything you dont consider extreme

infact will you even vote?

course I'm going to vote :)

and the second person to make the joke award goes to..

― Cosmic Slop, Monday, September 28, 2015 2:56 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ooooh wow, I wasn't prepared for this...wow...sorry let me look at my notes. Well, first off I've got to thank Frobisher for starting this thread -- I couldn't have made it without you! Thanks for giving me a shot, I know there were a lot of established metalheads who wanted to be the second person to make this joke, so your faith in me is something I'll always remember...

wow...I'm sorry, there are just so many people to thank...I need to thank Cosmic Slop, you've always been my rock, my inspiration though the years....and most importantly my wife and daughter...this joke and all my jokes wouldn't be possible without your love and support.

Thanks everyone!

I'm not a metal expert by any stretch but I'm interpreting the poll as "the best albums that come under the umbrella term of 'extreme metal'" rather than "the most extreme albums that are metal". I mean I'm sure everyone's ballot will have some stuff on it that's not extreme as some of the other stuff they're voting for. Also there are many ways metal can be extreme!

imago's just butthurt frobisher vetoed a hip-hop album

has anyone done a spotify playlist?

Only one Bolt Thrower nominated?

two right?

So is extreme metal quite literally everything except for proto metal/hard rock, NWOBHM, hair metal and nu-metal?

for this poll its whatever frobisher decides it is

That's not meant to be judgmental just sort of wondering if in context of metal idea of extremity has lost all meaning. At one time extreme metal was an antidote to something (or at least outside of some mainstream). Looking at this list and it seems like this is just metal's last two decades....

well, its not like there isnt lots of non-extreme metal. The fact some of us don't listen to it doesnt mean it doesnt exist. the biggest 'metal' of the last 20 years has probably been alternative metal or nu-metal.

But obviously extreme metal is a very wide vague term now and frobisher's rules acknowledge that.

I'm not sure but when he signed up 2 years ago to do this poll on the Ballot Poll Order Thread I think it was in response to grady saying he wanted to do a hard rock/hair metal thread

*poll

I didn't even veto the Dalek album. I am a benevolent dictator!

Alex if you have a good working definition of extreme metal you are free to enlighten us.
(xp no Grady's was in response to mine)

was it? I thought he was ahead of you in the queue but just unable to run it just now

Ok, I'm not sure now... who knows... its somewhere on that huge thread two years ago. They were thought up basically at the same time though.

I'll be working on adding the nominations from today so far, thanks for all the interest everybody! I think its going really well.

Alex if you have a good working definition of extreme metal you are free to enlighten us.
--Frobisher

I don't at all! I'm actually wondering if the term is even relevant now!

It probably isn't since metal has split into thousands of microgenres but its a good umbrella term for the purposes of frobisher's poll.

It's definitely more catchy than metal 1981-2015 that does not include X, Y and Z I'll give you that.

Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets
Burnt by the Sun - Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Nasum - Helvete
Rotten Sound - Exit
Scorn - Vae Solis
Noothgrush - Erode the Person
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
Ion Dissonance - Solace
Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia

Awesome. I forgot about a lot of that Relapse stuff. One of many things I miss about regularly shopping at music stores is being able to see Relapse titles at a glace thanks to that little card over the top of the CD -- and in those days there was a good chance it would be something cool.

For all I know the label is still kicking ass; I never think to check the "bigger" label sites anymore, esp for news. I think I should do that right now!

xps Sorry Alex, I didn't mean to be testy. I'm just trying to be very unbiased and that means I am letting people include things that may not be completely extreme or completely metal. Although I think you might be right that the 'extreme' sub-genres have pretty much become the main focus of metal in general.
OTOH Limp Bizkit released a new album this year.

Alright so I have the sheet up to date! We currently have 424 nominated albums! Thank you so much for your participation!

List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKuG4E8u5i4xOPvs6wq9ZPgGxkAmv1w8YEXVG9HANfI/edit?usp=sharing

Relapse is still a very good label.

Possibly not an extreme one though hah.

Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Blut aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI
Neurosis - Times of Grace
Portal - Vexovoid

Although I think you might be right that the 'extreme' sub-genres have pretty much become the main focus of metal in general.

Dissection - The Somberlain
Destroyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves
Old Man's Child - The Pagan Prosperity
Windir - Arntor
Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines
Amesouers - Amesouers
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Cobalt - Gin
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

I thought half of prog metal was some form of extreme metal?

the 'extreme' sub-genres have pretty much become the main focus of metal in general on social media and metal websites

Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

Kerrang doesnt cover extreme metal and whatever they cover sells shitloads

Hey guys! It looks like nominations are dying down, although there's things I can think of that haven't gotten nommed yet... Anyway, I am suddeenly dealing with a thing that will take a lot of my time over the next few days. So you are free to keep nominating, I believe Cosmic Slop volunteered to help update the list, so you're free to do that if you want CS. Thanks everybody I think we're gonna end up with a great poll! Especially if everyone who's been nominating also votes!

I did?

lol

OK, I'll keep an eye on it by adding stuff/keeping up to date but im not deciding what counts as extreme metal!

just to help the Bathory album count compete with the Krallice album count:
Bathory - s/t
Bathory - The Return

also:
Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
Darkspace - III
Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil
Hellwitch - Syzygial Miscreancy
Isengard - Vinterskugge
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness
Nirvana 2002 - Recordings 89-91
Thanatos - Emerging from the Netherworlds

O damn, I forgot about Darkspace III as well!

wtf is Nirvana 2002, I assume its not regular Nirvana?

Ok here's some noms from me:

Agalloch - From Which of This Oak
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope
Catacombs - In the Depths of R'lyeh
ColdWorld - Melancholie²
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...
Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain
I Shalt Become - Wanderings
Lifelover - Konkurs
Life is Pain - Bloody Melancholy
Monster Magnet - 25... Tab (their only album I'd qualify as extreme)
Macabre - Sinister Slaughter
Totalselfhatred - Totalselfhatred

add your own!

The formatting you have is weird.
I usually just use 1 column with Artist - Album
so I can copy & paste from here directly.
Cant do that the way its set up.

Nirvana 2002 was a great Swedish death metal band, contemporaries of Entombed, Dismember, etc. They never released a proper record, but fans of that style love them (and their singer Orvar Säfström was briefly in Entombed).

and yeah, they were forced to change their name once another, lesser band came along

xp I know I messed up at the start, I realized too late that I should have just had one column. Don't know if its worth fixing at this point. But don't worry about it, I'll add the nominations myself in a little bit here.

Thanks Dom, surprised I've never heard of them!

If you work out a way to fix it then im happy to add ppls noms!

and i couldnt figure out to to get them in the a-z order either as you have the headings.

its not easy running polls is it? :)