EXTREME METAL Albums Poll - Nominations Round

Extreme Metal, what is the best?
What is extreme metal?

Is it harsher than what would play on an alternative rock station? Does the band's logo look like a weird bat-knot? Lots of distortion, low fidelity, inflammatory lyrical content are some hallmarks, but not necessarily present in extreme metal.

Some microgenres of extreme metal include:
- back metal
- death metal
- funeral doom metal
- drone metal
- gore metal
- thrashcore/grind/grindcore/goregrind
- death doom
- industrial metal

I'm not going to exclude popular well known "false" bands like Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir, that's just elitist. Also, if its crossover and/or metalcore or post-hardcore or whatever, I dunno -- use your best judgement. Stuff like noise and power electronics and whatever is extreme but it's not metal so it doesn't count. However, the Boris/Merzbow split does... I hope you can see why that would be and refrain from concern trolling me.

I am allowing EPs because in several genres they are the same thing as a full album, and also I see no reason to exclude them in general. You probably don't want to nominate an 'accessible' album of an extreme artist, but I won't disallow it (a famous case being Carcass - Swansong). I mean, things are really loose here. There are a lot of edge cases with this kind of thing and I'll err on the side of allowing a nomination. No limit to your nominations. I'll devise voting rules with the help of people who are interested in this poll.

The nominations list is:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKuG4E8u5i4xOPvs6wq9ZPgGxkAmv1w8YEXVG9HANfI/edit?usp=sharing

I suppose one week is enough time for nominating, unless someone makes a case for more time... Right now it is 1:15 AM Sunday, September 27, 2015 UTC,
so your noms are valid up to oh lets say 2 AM Sunday, October 4th, 2015 UTC. (UTC is also the same as GMT, in case you're wondering)

Uh hopefully this is a good starting post, I'll be around to deal with issues...

You can also vote for something that hasn't been nominated, but we'll deal with things like that on the voting thread.

Venom - Welcome To Hell
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids

got them added, thanks!

Immolation-Close to a World Below
Sarcofago-The Temples of Scourge
Death-Human
Macabre-Gloom
Incantation-Onward to Golgotha
Dismember-LIke an Everflowing Stream

Entombed- Left Hand Path
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Burzum - Filosofem
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Death - Scream Bloody Gore & Leprosy
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Winter - Into Darkness

xp got those added, thanks!

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

i hope people wont be shy and add the obvious big thrash albums by Metallica , Slayer etc

yay for early Death getting nommed. Leprosy is one of my fav albums.

got your noms added too, HAWKZ

Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

don't want to bias the poll, but this one of my favorites!

Absu - Tara
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse; Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
Thorns - Thorns

I'm stumped on Enslaved. I could see Frost, Eld, Mardraum, Beneath the Lights, and the Hordanes Land split all going into any list of essentials, because they all present various facets of the band. I'll give it more thought.

agree with all of yrs Devilock except Thorns and that's only cos I ain't heard it.

that fuckin' Mayhem album.....and that Pestilence especially

nominate them all

ok I nominate every metal album ever recorded

I gotta attend to something for like an hour so I will not be around to respond but I will add the noms! I'm so glad we already have some coming in!

Shall add the imago metal to tempt him

Darkspace - II
Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Khanate - Khanate

and its silly not having these already
Metallica - Kill Em All
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Satyricon gets dumped on for reasons beyond my comprehension. Every time I listen to Nemesis Divina I'm like god damn this is a perfect album. The earlier two are definitely works in progress, though.

So uh

Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

I could probably nominate everything that came out of Norway in the first half of the 90s, honestly.

Let's see. I admit to not really getting into the German thrash thing; I'll leave that to others.

Anata - Under a Stone with No Inscription; The Conductor's Departure
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God; Memoria Vetusta 2: Dialogue with the Stars
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious; Heartwork
Coroner - No More Colour; Mental Vortex
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick; Covenant

Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

co-sign Nemesis..."Mother North" is gorgeous

oh you better do it
Artist - Album otherwise frobisher wont pick those up as its confusing the way you did it

Haha what is going on with that google doc. Can anyone edit it?

as a poll runner i know its murder to collate the noms if not done in the proper way

Oh, no, I guess I can't edit it. Which is good because it's all wacky.

Let me re-post without troublesome semicolons:

Anata - Under a Stone with No Inscription
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta 2: Dialogue with the Stars
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass - Heartwork
Coroner - No More Colour
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Morbid Angel - Covenant

Nocturnus - The Key
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering
Stormtroopers of Death - Speak English or Die
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Repulsion - Horrified
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Mayhem - Wolf's Lair Abyss
Sarcofago-I.N.R.I.

Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
Malevolent Creation - Retribution

Carpathian Forest - Black Shining Leather
Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising
Lunar Aurora - Andacht
Nagelfar - Hunengrab im Herbst
Nagelfar - Virus West
Sargeist - Let the Devil In
Voivod - Killing Technology
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Voivod - Nothingface

I'm already veering from "obvious staples" to "screw you I really love this album" so I'll let the spaces get filled in before I add more.

Lord how did I forget Nocturnus.

Convulse - World Without God

I need to think tomorrow and nominate all the funeral doom only I will vote for

Worship - Dooom
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
Gorguts - Coloured Sands
Nails - Abandon All Life
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Brutal Truth - End Times
Wormed - Exodromos
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Mgla - With Hearts Towards None

oh damn, i fucked the spreadsheet up pretty badly. I'm gonna be fixing that, so ya its gonna look fucked up for awhile... sorry bout that this is my first rodeo.

But all of your nominations will be on it!

OK everything should be correct now, and all noms up to now added! I think I'm headed to bed. Thanks a bunch everybody this is already a bunch of fun!

Autopsy - Severed Survival
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Possessed - Seven Churches
Sadus - Illusions
Sodom - In the Sign of Evil
Sodom - Obsessed By Cruelty
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters

Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites
Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell
Behemoth - ...And The Forests Dream Eternally
Asphyx - Last One On Earth
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Bolt Thrower - For Victory
Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral
Winter - Into Darkness
Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun
Paradise Lost - Gothic
Nocturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel
Cynic - Focus
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
Obituary - Slowly We Rot

Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Anathema - The Silent Enigma
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Death Anfel - The Ultra-Violence
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Destruction - Infernal Overkill

couple of dupes already, and it should read Death Angel not Anfel.

And here I was thinking Death Anfel were some super-obscure death/doom band from Belgium or something...

agree with all of yrs Devilock except Thorns and that's only cos I ain't heard it.

You gotta hear the Thorns record if you like black metal; it's outstanding and does a great job of integrating industrial elements without it becoming a lame distortion fest. Guitar sound oddly reminds me of Massacre's From Beyond.

Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
Cradle Of Filth - Midian
Venom - Black Metal
Root - Zjevení
Decapitated - Winds Of Creation

xp oh and the Thorns stuff from the Thorns Vs. Emperor EP is amazing if you don't mind demented use of synths, programming and ProTools - they really make Emperor look bad and unimaginative on that EP.

Oh and let's add

Ulver - Bergtatt and Nattens Madrigal
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions and Need to Control
Napalm Death - Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration

What do you guys think about other Napalm stuff? I feel like Harmony Corruption, for all of it's bloated song lengths and terrible, terrible production was pretty influential in the long run (I think it was the first ND album distributed domestically in the US).

XP oh shit Root!!! Such a great band.

Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
Setherian - Nord
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi

some Summoning obviously but hard to pick one.

Setherial - Nord
stupid typos

Gorement - The Ending Quest
Graveland - The Celtic Winter
Master's Hammer - Ritual
Strid - Strid
Impaled Nazarene - Ugra-Karma
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

Oh yeah some folky stuff:

Borknagar - The Olden Domain
Horn - Die Kraft der Szenarien
Horn - Naturkraft
Myrkgrav - Trollskau, skromt og kolabrenning
Vintersorg - Odemarkens Son
Vintersorg - Visions from the Spiral Generator

I admit I've never much listened to Windir or Falkenbach. They should probably be here but I have no idea which albums.

USBM:

December Wolves - Completely Dehumanized
Demoncy - Joined in Darkness
Epoch of Unlight - Caught in the Unlight
Fog - Through the Eyes of Night...Winged They Come
Grand Belial's Key - Judeobeast Assassination
Nachtmystium - Instinct:Decay
Unholy Trinity - Omnimalevolence

Oh and:

Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
Zyklon - World ov Worms which I feel is one of the most underrated albums ever

Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst (I vastly prefer the Corpsegrinder era)
Chasm, the - Deathcult for Eternity: The Triumph
Chasm, the - Procession to the Infraworld
Chasm, the - The Spell of Retribution
Deicide - Deicide
Deicide - Legion
Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
Infester - To the Depths in Degradation

Satyricon gets dumped on for reasons beyond my comprehension.

*sigh* can't not nominate this, even though it's totally obscure and didn't influence anyone

Protected Illusion - Festering Fairytales

I found it looking for death/thrash like Sadus, and in all honesty, it outdoes that. It's like you took a crust/grind band from 2015 and transported them back to 1990 and said "make a thrash record, but don't let anyone onto the fact you're from the future." Incredibly precise, proggy and brutal, and I can't believe they weren't huge.

Monstrosity - Spiritual Awakening

Err...SPIRITUAL APOCALYPSE

inspired by seeing them last night and they were great!

I meant to nominate

Liturgy - Aesthetica

instead of Renihilation but why not both.

In fact I'm going to dump some last minute noms because even though nobody will vote for them probably, perhaps some madman will weed through the entire list at some point. I might do that myself, since I've never got round to actually listening to most of the canonical important stuff...

Going to include some Black Twilight Circle because it would be a shame if they were left out

!T.O.O.H.! - Pod vládou biče
!T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest
Ashdautas - Where The Sun Is Silent...
Averse - The Endesque Chants
Duobetic Homunkulus - Ani já ani ty robit něbudzeme, šedněme do koča, vozit še budzeme
Kuxan Suum - Kinich Ahau
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Muknal - Muknal
Volahn - A'ab'al
Yellow Eyes - Hammer Of Night

That should be "Aq'ab'al" by Volahn

Fantômas - Suspended Anisusmation

anyone got anything left to nominate? Frobisher hasn't said they've closed yet

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

Fantômas - Suspended Anisusmation

― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 3 October 2015 16:29 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What? "Animation" that is

Creepiest autocorrect ever.

I actually have no idea what happened there. Probably more to do with the fact I'm terrible at typing.

OK 1 more

Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmomonument

Krallice - Ygg Huur
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Alcest - Le Secret (EP)
Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Obliveon - Nemesis
Angel Hair - Pregnant with the Senior Class (does this count?)
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, pt 1
Corrupted - Garten der Unbewusstheit
Spektr - Near Death Experience
Ambergris - Ambergris (EP)
Stara Rzeka - Cień chmury nad ukrytym polem

bit early for 2015 albums just out a week to be called a classic surely?

I don't see the word "classic" anywhere in the OP.

That Stara Rzeka album is great. Not sure how metal it is but I'll probably have to vote for it.

Yeah, Frobisher is free to DQ that, or anything. If it had BM or DM vocals anywhere on it, I thought it was fair to throw out there.

i just mean that ppl prob wont vote for it

I was nominating albums that I might consider voting for, not predicting how other people will vote.

Carcass - Surgical Steel
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Tribulation - The Children of the Night
Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs

Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Howls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd Eye
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Meh, 2015 albums are fine! Especially if you think they're really good and will stand the test of time. Sorry I haven't been around much, I have been preoccupied with things at home! I will leave nominations open throughout tonight and finish this thread up tomorrow morning, or whenever I wake up. Sound good? So, last call, everyone! Get em' in now if you have noms left!

a couple more...

Assück - Anticapital
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
Indian - From All Purity
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Skepticism - Aes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_metal

This doesn't sound like a real subgenre at all.

I've been weighing this one up - if it is metal, it's certainly extreme, as it's done with synths and vocoder, but fuck it

O.L.D. - Formula

Having added that I'd be compelled to add Ulver - Blood Inside, another of my favourite extreme albums but unclear of status. Frobisher, clear this up!

That Stara Rzeka album is great. Not sure how metal it is but I'll probably have to vote for it.

Same here.

Bathory - Hammerheart
Master - On the Seventh Day God Created ... Master
Massacre - From Beyond
Nailbomb - Point Blank
Deceased - As the Weird Travel On
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness
The Haunted - s/t

silentist - s/t
silentist - nightingales
silentist - chariot swing
silentist - house on the hill

Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
Nunslaughter - Angelic Dread
Brujeria - Matando Güeros
Mortician - Chainsaw Dismemberment
Bongzilla - Gateway
Various Artists - Gummo OST

OK thank you bill. The noms are a wrap, thank you everyone! Not sure when to begin the voting thread, perhaps tonight? Does anyone care?

oh I think plenty care since plenty nominated!

How long are you setting the voting period for?

25 minutes

Dang, forgot to nominate the Kvelertak debut. Oh well...

So is there going to be voting for this poll?

Amazing user name^

Thanks, I'm new here.

not sure all my noms are on the list yet?

The Somberlain, for one, is conspicuously absent.

DIEBOLD

The poll was a ruse, Frobisher just wanted a laugh at our horrible tastes

frobisher took the poll money and went to rio

lol, sorry guys this has been a particularly busy week for me... also I'm not sure I know how to tabulate results! I'll try to get the voting thread up this weekend and have a google form thing set up to e-mail your ballots. I'll probably have a 50-album ballot max, 5 min, open for two weeks. Hold in there, I promise this isn't the comic strip poll all over again!

motherfuckit I am listening to At the Gates' The Red Sky Is Ours, and realizing that yeah this is definitely classic. Too late to nom?

Also: Slaughter - Strappado!

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Demilich - Nespithe
Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes

I am way more familiar with the first one (which I love and will vote for whenever this poll happens), but listening to the excellent second one today, and love it. So thick, almost doomy, and a rare example of understated (yet outstanding) drumming in a death metal record. Great riffs, great mood, great production.

Ok guys this time I swear I'm getting off my ass and starting the voting thread, ok!

Ok, It's finally up - your chance to vote!

The thread is here: The ILM Extreme Metal Poll Voting, Discussion and Campaigning Thread