polls bloody polls: sepultura albums poll (1985-1996)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Really surprised by these results. I was expecting either Arise > Chaos > Beneath > Roots or Arise > Chaos > Roots > Beneath.

As good as Arise is it just doesn't quite reach the height of BTR for me. Tremendously exciting record at the time and within a year of BTR coming out it seemed like there were dozens of new death/thrash bands in the SoCal scene (where I grew up), it really set a fire there.

aka Oppobrium?

Yup!

I'm surprised by the results too, I always thought Arise was the favourite of thrash metal fans, while the others championed Chaos A.D. and/or Roots. Maybe it's partially an age thing? I was too young for Arise but a teenager when Chaos A.D. and Roots were released and I loved them both. Everyone who complained about groove/nu metal were just old. and still are tbh.

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BENEATH THE REMAAAAINS

completely forgot i made this poll, wow i'm so cool

Wish I'd seen it sooner!
I didn't get a chance to write about them 'til '06, the line-up that made (and most of them toured behind) Dante XXI, which really impressed me---also squeezed a bare minimum of older albums into the word count of my Charlotte Creative Loafing show preview-feature, archived here: https://myloaf.blogspot.com/2017/02/symptoms-of-life-sepultura-still-digs.html

Really surprised by these results. I was expecting either Arise > Chaos > Beneath > Roots or Arise > Chaos > Roots > Beneath

I think it would be more surprising if BTR wasn’t in the top 2 of either configuration

yeah Arise was basically BTR with the more extreme edges sanded off, essentially

I expect most people who have BTR or Chaos AD as their #1 have Arise as their #2 album?

I could never get into Arise. Always preferred BTR by far.

Walking these dirty streets
With hate in my mind
Feeling the scorn of the world
I won't follow rules

new Soulfly album is solid.

^it is! kind of hilarious to me how they started out as the second-wave of nu-metal and are now just basically traditional metal with elements of thrash and other stuff, with little to no nu-metal left.

listening to Chaos now. "Territory" fuckin rules.

lots of economical riffs all over this thing. one thing that I think makes me like this better than other purveyors of this style is that other groove/post-thrash act didn't create atmospheres, they just kinda stuck staccato riffs together and hoped for the best.

still not better than Beneath though, by a long shot, but i enjoy it.

It's crazy that they have almost twice as many albums with Derrick Green (10) as with Max (6), and some of them are even kinda good, but nobody's favorite Sepultura album is a Derrick album.

at least 3 or 4 of them are really quite good.

i'm sure there's someone out there who thinks Against is the best, but they probably aren't into thrash.