EXTREME METAL Albums Poll - Nominations Round

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? :)

unfortunately, no it is not.

Ok I found an easy way to do it, and now we have a one-column list! This should be much easier to deal with.

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

when do we starting voting on who's allowed to vote in the poll

you want to ban l0u1s jagg3r?

lol

NO BRONIES ALLOWED

i just thought we need to vet everybody's Tr00 Quotient

Kvist - For kunsten maa vi evig vike

(I was just reading a thread on one-album wonders and I have no idea how I forgot this one)

I feel like there are some holes in these nominations but I'm not at all qualified to fill em. Like some of the black metal of the non-Scandinavian variety, say Master's Hammer, Mortuary Drape, the S American stuff. And bdm like Defeated Sanity or Katalepsy, which I hear a lot about but never actually listen to. We need ... emissaries or something.

Oh

Melechesh - Sphynx (I can't decide between the following three albums; they're all great though)

that's you out HSB then!

Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

I thought this had been nommed already. Not so, it turns out.

yeah the problem I have = I feel like I've been cramming metal into all of my orifices for over half of my adult life and then I see people posting enthusiastically on these threads about some other classic albums that I not only haven't heard but haven't heard OF and I'm like how do I catch up to the metal. how.

with your ears!

...and eyes. I have read a shitload about metal in the past 3 years, via the internet, but also the Slayer Mag anthology, D. Ekeroth's Swedish death metal book, D. Patterson's black metal book, Fenriz's band of the week. Hell, I found 3 amazing bands today just from reading a death/thrash list at RYM.

Oh I mean I get that, I subscribe to Decibel, and often fish for obscure acts on metal-archives.com. Just find I have less and less time to devote to giving it all meaningful listens!

How did you get on with
YOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)

Did Josh Homme take the thread out for drinks prior to that vote?

Also, re: the current poll, poor Gothenburg. No At the Gates, no Dark Tranquillity, no In Flames.

add them then! Frobisher said there's no limits to how much you can nominate

I'm looking at this poll more as a list of personal favorites than a document of historical significance. Even of the best works by the bands I mentioned, I rarely make it through an entire album. Slaughter of the Soul just kind of wears me out by the time I'm like 6 songs into it. Unfortunate because a lot of those riffs rule; that recurring humppa beat drags everything down.

At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Obituary - Cause of Death
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Kronos - Colossal Titan Strife
Sacrifice - Forward to Termination
Razor - Shotgun Justice

thing with the gothenburg stuff, sacramentum and dissection are clearly the best in that style, i don't see much need to nominate a bunch of 2nd tier stuff that i will never vote for anyway.

Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)
Abigor - Channeling the Quintessence of Satan
Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane
Gorgoroth - Incipit Satan
Overkill - The Years of Decay
Septicflesh - Sumerian Demons
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Vesania - God the Lux

Tempted to already put the new Mgla on there; it's just as amazing as the last one.

Forgot one of my favourites from last year:

Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus

Don't the later Judas Priest albums qualify?

Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea

Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Eyehategod - Dopesick
Eyehategod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives
Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Watchtower - Control and Resistance

mostly that's filling out a few discographies but i was sorta surprised watchtower hadn't been nominated

sorry I was away, was taking my dog to the vet. I'm getting these noms added now.

Don't the later Judas Priest albums qualify?

No.

This is due to following the genre family tree more than anything? Painkiller is definitely extreme and Jedi is not if we're going by the sound alone.

Jesu not Jedi.