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77hjrttfred
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 4:33 am 
 

MikeyC wrote:
One band I don't see at all is Vader. No votes for any of their 90's albums by any person!


I did see some people post a couple of albums on lists. I'm sure I saw The Ultimate Incantation and I think also De Profundis but maybe they didn't pm them Bastardhead???? Or maybe it was an honourable mention?

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 4:56 am 
 

Thank for the work

My idea don’t change,too many album for made a poll of this type

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Cheers BH, once again you're a good bastard for doing these polls, they're bloody good fun...even when we don't get enough votes.
I couldn't even narrow down a death metal list to 10 picks from the 90's, let alone all the other great stuff from that decade, so I pretty much threw the towel in and went down a different path with my votes. I figured all of my favourite death/thrash/black/doom/trad shit would get votes, so I picked stuff that I knew would have a slim chance of getting in, but what I felt deserved to be in a best of the 90's list. I didn't even give any thought to their ranking, it's just random. I wish I had put Godflesh "Pure" in there tho... I can't believe nobody voted for fuckin Godflesh!

1. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun '92 [Rando]
2. White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One '92 [187]
3. Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ '92 [189]
4. Helmet - Meantime '92 [210]
5. Melvins - Houdini '93 [279]
6. Merauder - Master Killer '95 [Rando]
7. Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves '91 [Rando]
8. Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs In E Minor '91 [Rando]
9. Prong - Cleansing '94 [304]
10. Dead Horse - Peaceful Death And Pretty Flowers '91 [Rando]

I think I may have the most randos...

Below is a list of favourites from the 90's and it pretty much sums up why I couldn't narrow it down to bloody 10 votes. Alphabetical and one album per band:

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Absu - Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L '93
Accept - Objection Overruled '93
The Accused - Grinning like an Undertaker '90
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops '94
Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy '99
Alice In Chains - Dirt '92
Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers '93
Angelcorpse - Hammer Of Gods '96
Annihilator - Never, Neverland '90
Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise '93
Arch Enemy - Black Earth '96
Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation '91
Artillery - By Inheritance '90
Asphyx - The Rack '91
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul '95
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence '91
Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack '96
Autopsy - Mental Funeral '91
Bathory - Hammerheart '90
Benediction - The Grand Leveller '91
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer '92
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side '95
Bolt Thrower - War Master '91
Broken Bones - Stitched Up '91
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding '98
Brujeria - Matando Güeros '93
Brutal Truth - Need To Control '94
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss '94
Cancer - Death Shall Rise '91
Candlemass - Chapter VI '92
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth '91
Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious '91
Carnage - Dark Recollections '90
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror '93
Cauldron Born - Born Of The Cauldron '97
Celtic Frost - Vanity / Nemesis '90
The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph '98
Confessor - Condemned '91
Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence '99
Coroner - Mental Vortex '91
Corrosion Of Conformity - Blind '91
Cro-Mags - Alpha Omega '92
Crowbar - Crowbar '93
D.R.I. - Full Speed Ahead '95
Danzig - II - Lucifuge '90
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal '91
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky '92
Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy) '98
Dead Horse - Peaceful Death And Pretty Flowers '91
Death - Human '91
Death Angel - Act III '90
Deceased - Fearless Undead Machines '97
Deicide - Deicide '90
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence '92
Desaster - A Touch Of Medieval Darkness '96
Destroyer 666 - Unchain The Wolves '97
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech '97
Dio - Strange Highways '93
diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into The Peripheral '93
Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind '93
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream '91
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane '95
Doctor Butcher - Doctor Butcher '94
Domine - Dragonlord (Tales of the Noble Steel) '99
Doomsword - Doomsword '99
Down - NOLA '95
Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow '94
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics… '97
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse '94
Enslaved - Frost '94
Entombed - Left Hand Path '90
Epidemic - Decameron '92
Exciter - The Dark Command '97
Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican '90
Exodus - Impact Is Imminent '90
The Exploited - Beat The Bastards '96
Extreme Noise Terror - Damage 381 '97
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain '93
Faith No More - Angel Dust '92
Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine '92
Fear Of God - Within The Veil '91
Fight - War Of Words '93
Floodgate - Penalty '96
Flotsam And Jetsam - Cuatro '92
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form '90
Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs In E Minor '91
Gack - Fix '93
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free '96
Goatsnake - I '99
Godflesh - Pure '92
Gorefest - False '92
Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity '93
Grave - Into The Grave '91
Grip Inc. - Power of Inner Strength '95
GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe '90
Heathen - Victims Of Deception '91
Helloween - Better Than Raw '98
Helmet - Meantime '92
Hypocrisy - Abducted '96
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings '95
Immolation - Dawn Of Possession '91
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter '99
Incantation - Onward To Golgotha '92
Incubus (aka Opprobrium) - Beyond The Unknown '90
Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... '91
Insanity - Death After Death '93
Integrity - Seasons In The Size Of Days '97
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying '90
Jag Panzer - The Fourth Judgement '97
Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot '98
Judas Priest - Painkiller '90
King Diamond - The Eye '90
Kreator - Coma Of Souls '90
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun '92
Laaz Rockit - Nothings Sacred '91
Leeway - Desperate Measures '91
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Twilight of the Idols '99
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes '94
Malevolent Creation - Retribution '92
Manilla Road - The Courts of Chaos '90
Manowar - The Triumph Of Steel '92
Massacra - Enjoy The Violence '91
Massacre - From Beyond '91
Master - Master '90
Mathias Steele - Haunting Tales Of A Warrior's Past '91
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas '94
Meathook Seed - Embedded '93
Megadeth - Rust In Peace '90
Melvins - Houdini '93
Merauder - Master Killer '95
Merciless - The Awakening '90
Mercyful Fate - In The Shadows '93
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve '95
Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance '93
Metallica - Metallica '91
Mind Over Four - The Goddess '90
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ '92
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick '91
Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death '90
Mordred - In This Life '91
Morgana Lefay - Maleficium '96
Morgoth - Odium '93
Motley Crue - Motley Crue '94
Motorhead - 1916 '91
Nailbomb - Point Blank '94
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption '90
Nasum - Inhale/Exhale '98
Necrophagia - Holocausto de la Morte '98
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence '93
Nefilim - Zoon '96
Neurosis - Souls At Zero '92
Nevermore - The Politics Of Ecstasy '96
Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka '98
Nocturnus - The Key '90
Obituary - Cause Of Death '90
The Obsessed - The Obsessed '90
Order From Chaos - Stillbirth Machine '92
Overkill - Horrorscope '91
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears '91
Pagan Altar - Volume 1 '98
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power '92
Paradise Lost - Gothic '91
Paul Chain - Alkahest '95
Pentagram - Be Forewarned '94
Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients '91
Pitchshifter - Desensitized '93
Primordial - A Journey's End '98
Prong - Cleansing '94
Pungent Stench - Been Caught Buttering '91
Queensryche - Empire '90
Razor - Shotgun Justice '90
Reverend - World Won't Miss You '90
Riot - The Privilege Of Power '90
Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With The Dead '91
Ritual - Valley Of The Kings '93
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract '93
Sabbat - Charisma '99
Sacred Reich - The American Way '90
Sacrifice -Soldiers Of Misfortune '90
Sadistic Intent - Resurrection EP '94
Sadus - A Vision Of Misery '92
Saint Vitus - Die Healing '95
Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites '94
Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black '90
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina '96
Savatage - Edge Of Thorns '93
Saxon - Unleash The Beast '97
Scald - Will Of The Gods Is Great Power '97
Scatterbrain - Here Comes Trouble '90
Seasons Of The Wolf - Lost In Hell '99
Sentenced - North From Here '93
Septic Flesh - Mystic Places Of Dawn '94
Sepultura - Arise '91
Shihad - Churn '93
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind '91
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss '90
Sodom - Better Off Dead '90
Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow '91
Solstice - New Dark Age '98
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger '91
Spirit Caravan - Jug Fulla Sun '99
Strapping Young Lad - City '97
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten '91
Suicidal Tendencies - Lights... Camera... Revolution! '90
Tad Morose - A Mended Rhyme '97
Testament - Low
Thou Art Lord - Eosforos '94
Trouble - Trouble '90
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses '93
Ulver - Bergtatt '95
Uncle Slam - Will Work For Food '93
Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote '99
Vader - The Ultimate Incantation '92
Varathron - His Majesty at the Swamp '93
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter '96
Vio-Lence - Oppressing The Masses '90
Virgin Steele - Invictus '98
Vital Remains - Let Us Pray '92
Voivod - The Outer Limits '93
W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol '92
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One '92
Wolfsbane - Massive Noise Injection (Live) '93


Non-metal albums that rocked my world through the 90's:

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AC/DC - The Razors Edge '90
Agnostic Front - One Voice '91
Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation '94
Amen - Amen '99
The Angels - Beyond Salvation '90
Anti Cimex - Absolut Country Of Sweden '90
Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle '92
Bad Religion - Against The Grain '90
Body Count - Body Count '92
Cancerslug - Whore '99
Cinderella - Heartbreak Station '90
Cop Shoot Cop - Ask Questions Later '93
Coverdale/Page - Coverdale/Page '93
The Cramps - Flamejob '94
The Cult - Ceremony '91
Dead Moon - Nervous Sooner Changes '95
Demolition 23. - Demolition 23. '94
Dwarves - Blood Guts & Pussy '90
Faster Pussycat - Whipped! '92
Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium '90
The Four Horseman - Nobody Said It Was Easy '91
Fugazi - Repeater '90
Glenn Hughes - Addiction '96
GBH - Church Of The Truly Warped '92
Guns 'N Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II '91
Hole - Pretty On The Inside '91
Janes Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual '90
Jello Biafra With Nomeansno - The Sky Is Falling and I Want My Mommy '91
The Jesus Lizard - Liar '92
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - Walking Into Clarksdale '98
The Joykiller - The Joykiller '95
Killing Joke - Pandemonium '94
Kings X - Dogman '94
KMFDM - Nihil '95
L7 - Bricks Are Heavy '92
L.A. Guns - Hollywood Vampires '91
Lard - The Last Temptation Of Reid '90
Love/Hate - Blackout In The Red Room '90
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar '96
MDC - Hey Cop!!! If I Had A Face Like Yours… '91
Misfits ‎– American Psycho '97
Monster Magnet - Superjudge '93
Mother Love Bone - Apple '90
Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge '91
New Model Army - The Love Of Hopeless Causes '93
Nirvana - Nevermind '91
Pearl Jam - Ten '91
Pixies - Bossanova '90
Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness '90
Primus - Frizzle Fry '90
Quicksand - Slip '93
Ramones - Mondo Bizzaro '92
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People '92
Robert Plant - Fate Of Nations '93
Rollins Band - The End Of Silence '92
The Scream - Let It Scream '91
Screaming Trees - Dust '96
Sheer Terror - Thanks Fer Nuthin' '92
The Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing '91
Skin Yard - 1000 Smiling Knuckles '91
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness '95
Social Distortion - White Light White Heat White Trash '96
Strife - In This Defiance '97
Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda '94
Tad - 8 -Way Santa '91
Tesla - Bust A Nut '94
Tool - Undertow '93
Treponem Pal - Aggravation '91
Turbonegro - Ass Cobra '96
Turmoil - The Process Of '99
Uriah Heep - Sea Of Light '95
Warrior Soul - Drugs, God and the New Republic '91
The White Stripes - S/T '99
The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts '93
Wool - Box Set '94
The Young Gods - T.V. Sky '92
Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction - Hoodlum Thunder '92

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 6:20 am 
 

Great job! it's always fun to check out the rankings and there is always plenty of quality stuff! :)

Elegy's placement is a pleasant surprise. That album is a weird mishmash of styles that somehow manages to be far better than the sum of it's own parts, it's great to see it so appreciated!

I'll have to come back to Acid Bath's first album. It has two of my all time favorite songs (Scream of the Butterfly and What Color is Death) but i've listened it far less than Paegan

finally i shed a tear for October Tide's debut, Samael's Passage and some extra ones for Lake of Tears's Headstones: those albums are really overlooked. Dystopia too are nowhere to be seen sadly!

the biggest surprise is seeing Nocturnus so low!

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 6:43 am 
 

Thrash bands relegated to the top 10 parking lot I see...

At least Epidemic of Violence scored way higher than I had anticipated! I guess my biggest surprise is Incantation not getting more votes, but seems like the abundance of death metal albums in the 90s spread the votes kinda thin even for a lot of bigger DM acts, like Cannibal Corpse. Thanks for this BH, really enjoyed the poll and results! <3
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 6:50 am 
 

So fun to look through these results. I kinda expected everything from my list to end up where they did, except maybe Persistence of Time which I expected to be quite a bit higher. Looking forward to the next one.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 7:23 am 
 

Ravenlord266 wrote:
Persistence of Time which I expected to be quite a bit higher. Looking forward to the next one.


Yeah, initially I missed it but noticed it was down at position 307. That is criminally low for such a fantastic album.

On the flip side, I was glad to see 'By Inheritance' at number 29. Another fantastic album that I thought might get overlooked but did well in the end.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 7:26 am 
 

You guys are a bunch of (lovable, but still) numbskulls :-P

Seriously, I know I've always been the Hellenic fanboy here, but how the hell can you throw freakin' Walpurgisnacht INTO THE RANDO CORNER? I saw it mentioned a few times in the first thread and was expecting SOME love at least...but I seem to be the only one who voted for it.

Also, Danzig had his winning streak era in the 90s and most of you people seem to have forgotten the fact ^^

ALSO - THE FOURTH DIMENSION? Another rando?

I know, I'm the weirdo here.
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CannibalCorpse wrote:
You guys are a bunch of (lovable, but still) numbskulls :-P

Seriously, I know I've always been the Hellenic fanboy here, but how the hell can you throw freakin' Walpurgisnacht INTO THE RANDO CORNER? I saw it mentioned a few times in the first thread and was expecting SOME love at least...but I seem to be the only one who voted for it.

I know, I'm the weirdo here.


If it's a consolation, I now regret having included Rust in Peace and Hvis lyset tar oss when I could have voted for Walpurgisnacht and Crossing the Fiery Path.
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1. Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
2. Savatage - Edge of Thorns
3. Virgin Steele - The Marriage of Heaven & Hell Pt 1
4. Slough Feg - Twilight of the Idols
5. Deep Purple - Purpendicular
6. Morbid Angel - Covenant
7. Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
8. Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
9. Running Wild - The Black Hand Inn
10. Demilich - Nespithe

Most of mine seemed to do decently enough all things considered, which is all I can hope for from these.

Lot of the top 10 I haven't heard in over a decade.

Not surprised Painkiller and Rust in Peace won - both very good but broad-appealing works. Pretty set in stone.

I should've put Obscura on mine.
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As always, thanks to BH for all of the insane amount of work this must take to compile.

Like every one of these, it's a rankling exercise in frustration that nevertheless always proves to be productive and enjoyable, to get a better grasp of what music I like and why, and to reminisce on many formative albums and times of music listening in yesterdays. I predicted a year ago that my list would be slightly more conventional than usual, since I usually have over half randos. This has proven somewhat true. Only one rando this time, a totally understandable one for this crowd. One in the top 10, 6 in the top 100.

Here is the official ballot I submitted, with placements:

1: In Flames - Colony (1999) - #76
2: Type O Negative - October Rust (1996) - #10
3: Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) - #41
4: Katatonia - Tonight's Decision (1999) - #256
5: Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera) (1998) - rando
6: Alice In Chains - Dirt (1992) - #54
7: Dark Tranquillity - Projector (1999) - #159
8: Dan Swano - Moontower (1998) - #267
9: Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black (1999) - #90
10: The Gathering - Mandylion (1995) - #98

Narrowly missing the cut:

Amorphis - Tuonela
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

Strong honorable mentions:

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Arch Enemy - Stigmata
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Carcass - Heartwork
Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence
Cynic - Focus
Death - Symbolic
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Dream Theater - Awake
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Explorer's Club - Age of Impact
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
Mercenary - First Breath
The Sins of Thy Beloved - Lake of Sorrow
Soilwork - Steelbath Suicide
Testament - The Gathering
The Third and the Mortal - Tears Laid in Earth
Within Temptation - Enter


Some thoughts and reflections on each of my selections:

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1: In Flames - Colony

Easily one of the most singularly important albums to my taste. Along with Fear Factory, and shortly after, Opeth, this album was proof of concept that music with predominantly harsh vocals could appeal to me, since prior to this point I hadn't ventured much out beyond prog and power metal. I still remember in my first semester of college finding a Metal Maniacs magazine, and reading an article about them. For some reason I had the idea that they had this really awesome guitar tone. And wow was I right. Nearly two decades later, and the tone and overall production on this album is still virtually unequaled. From the opening pick scrape of "Embody the Invisible" to the crushing downtuned rhythm guitars of the title track to the soaring harmonized leads of "Resin", they have a searing tone that is perfection. Another favorite sound is the mildly overdriven crackle of the break in "Zombie Inc.", absolutely stellar. Not to mention the warm acoustics of "Man Made God" and "Pallar Anders Visa". One of the few flaws is that the remake of "Behind Space" omits the original acoustic outro, rerecording that would have been even more superb. I could keep going for quite some time about this album, which is why it sits on top of my list, but I must mention Svensson's drumming. Prior to this Gelotte was merely an adequate time-keeper, and with Anders even in his "prime" being unremarkable, the raison d'etre of the band was almost solely about the guitars. But with Daniel joining, this added more flair and a propulsive rhythmic component to counterbalance their sound. His toms in particular in fills and grooves are still incredible-sounding, in evidence by a tune such as the title cut.

2: Type O Negative - October Rust

I'm a little surprised that this album made it up so high on my list, but in retrospect I probably shouldn't be. It's easily the album here that has been in my life the longest. I was obsessed with the Descent video game series in my younger years, and an instrumental version of the Per remix of "Haunted" was one of the tracks on the Descent II Redbook soundtrack. Consequently, amongst all of the other industrial rock/metal, electro-industrial, and orchestral tracks on that soundtrack, before I even realized what was happening, I was being primed for doom and gothic metal. It was an interest that took some time to fully blossom, but which has arguably increasingly dominated my taste in the past decade. I could write at length about all of the cool things on this album. Steele's powerful bass delivery, particularly the plangent sustained sonorities in the middle of "Haunted". The chromatic sliding riffs in the same song, which seem like they should be more common in doom, but I almost never hear anyone else play anything like them. Hickey's rich, effects-drenched lead/solo lines in "Love You To Death" and "Be My Druidess". Peter's punchy, fuzzy bass tone such as in the latter song. Silver's icy keyboard textures throughout, such as in "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)". Val Ium's backing vocals on "In Praise of Bacchus". I don't even want to dare admit how many years it took me to realize that the drums are programmed. It's obvious in listening back to it since I discovered that a number of years ago, but for however many countless numbers of listens to this before I had that realization, they were never distracting.

3: Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

This was the auspicious beginning of the classic Opeth quartet, adding the Martins to the fold. It's possibly their widest-ranging album, with the black metallish intro of "April Ethereal", the exquisite folkiness of "Credence", the Pink Floydy "Epilogue" with Nordstrom on organ foreshadowing the increased presence of keyboards for the band later on, and the masterful death metal trappings of "Demon of the Fall". Akerfelt's vocals on the latter track in particular are monstrous, with the layering, and that shriek after the acoustic break. But even with it being one of Opeth's more aggressive songs, it is still replete with beautiful melodies, and the lush mellower guitar work at the end. It's a chore having to leave off their other three excellent albums in the decade, and in various periods I might have selected a different one, but these days I'm resonating with it the most. Orchid is just a bit too raw, Still Life is too close to proto-Blackwater Park without being quite as good, so this album squeaks by Morningrise for now, though I do really miss de Farfalla's fretless lines.

4: Katatonia - Tonight's Decision

This album occupies such a curious headspace for me. I prefer their later material to it, and as I suspected and the poll bears out, this forum prefers their earlier albums (though only a single vote for Discouraged Ones is really uh...discouraging). But for me, this is where it all started. I've never been able to figure out the exact circumstances of how I heard about them, but I came to start gradually acquiring a few MP3s of them back in the file-sharing days, and some of the first tracks were "For My Demons" and "Right Into the Bliss". For the first year I was aware of them I kept finding myself drawn to give them another listen every few weeks, something about them really piqued my interest. Jonas' vocals here are still fairly frail and in his period of trying to sound more like Robert Smith, but the vulnerable humanity is so alluring. Anders has always been an underrated master of creating moods with relatively simple guitar lines, such as on "No Good Can Come of This". His forte is electric guitars, but his acoustic work on tracks like "A Darkness Coming" is equally poignant. Dan Swano also contributes a solid performance on drums here.

5: Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle (A Space Opera)

People here have different thresholds for how "metal" an album has to be to be included, and there are always examples on my lists that make me reevaluate my criteria. If you want to view this as a prog/hard rock album rather than metal, I can certainly see that, but it's just heavy and aggressive enough in a variety of spots that I ultimately couldn't pass it up, it has had so much significance for me. Arjen Anthony Lucassen's work with this project and Star One have been a springboard for so many other favorite artists of mine, and this is no exception. The concept and narrations of this album might stretch the tolerance of some for cheese and theatrics, and in many other contexts it would be too much for me as well, but the musical performances on this album are absolutely worth it. It's a highlight reel of incredible moments, from the stellar guitar, drum, and Hammond organ tones, Ed Warby's immaculate drum performance, Damian Wilson's resplendent vocal incandescence, the sitar harmonies of "Isis and Osiris", the breathtaking instrumental wizardry in the second half of "Amazing Flight", Anneke van Giersbergen's legendary performance on "Valley of the Queens" and others, the hypnotic synthesizer leads on "The Two Gates", Clive Nolan's Moog solos also on "Amazing Flight", Sharon den Adel's ethereal stylings also on ""Isis and Osiris" and others, and so much more. The Electric Castle Live DVD (with all-star guest substitutions of Marcela Bovio, John Jaycee Cuijpers, Marcel Singor, Simone Simons, Joost van den Broek, John de Lancie and others) and Taycott's lyric/character videos on Youtube also enhance the experience.

6: Alice In Chains - Dirt

This was really quite a surprise for me. They're one of those bands that I sometimes forget is on the archives. And even when I put it in my initial consideration list, while I knew I love this release, I wasn't thinking it would be in my top 10. But it's just one of those albums that when you sit back down with it, it bowls you over with how spectacular it is, and I feel dumb for not even including it on my initial top 10. AIC is at that perfect nexus of elements, where they are heavy enough for metalheads, but not too heavy for rock fans, accomplished enough technically to appeal to musicians, but not intimidating to scare off those who aren't, melodic enough to hook in pop fans, but inventive and singular enough to interest those who prefer less conventional music. Layne kind of has that grunge/post-grunge yarl, but somehow pulls it off in a much more appealing way. Cantrell's guitar tone and writing is magnificent, I especially like how he lets notes ring out. Kinney and Starr make for a formidable rhythm section. Everyone knows the hits, but "Junkhead" and "Sickman" have been especially salient lately.

7: Dark Tranquillity - Projector

Certainly one of the more difficult selections, with The Mind's I, Skydancer, and The Gallery also being exemplary releases from them this decade. Ultimately this just has more of the atmosphere I want from them. Stanne's best clean vocals in the uniqueness of his style, those spacey clean guitars, occasional acoustic guitars, the detailed flourishes of Jivarp's drumming, and the guest vocals from Johanna Andersson. This feels like a very autumnal album to me for some reason, along with some of the folkier tracks from earlier albums. The piano intro to "FreeCard" is gorgeous. "On Your Time" is a killer selection with the thunderous tom intro, the powerful buildup to a little under halfway into the song, exploding into the "I'll never know if there was no time" section. It's so majestic, I've rewound and replayed those sections countless times.

8: Dan Swano - Moontower

Dan was so tremendously productive in this decade, but this still stands to me as one of his finest achievements. Over two decades later it remains a remarkably unparalleled album, sounding somewhat like if Rush tried their hand at death metal. What is truly mindblowing is that this entire album is written, played, recorded, produced, engineered, and mixed by Dan himself. It seems unnecessary that he even left the mastering to someone else. Perhaps he finally ran out of gas briefly. This album ties in his beastly growls from Edge of Sanity with his more progressive rock flavorings of Unicorn and Nightingale. Songs like "Sun of the Night", "Uncreation", "The Big Sleep", and "Encounterparts" have some of the coolest synthesizer lead lines in all of metal. "Add Reality" is an incomparable piece, with a grand and epic feeling, especially in the last couple minutes starting with the delicate piano passage.

9: Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black

At times I feel bad for this album and The Politics of Ecstasy. Their run of albums after this is some of the best music ever recorded, and has dominated my listening much more so historically. But this album continues to age gracefully for me, accomplishing some things that even the later albums don't. In particular, Loomis' clean tone here is so atmospheric and chilling, exemplified by the intro of "Deconstruction". With the guitars being a tad more midrange-driven pre-7-string, Sheppard's bass playing stands out a bit more, particularly with the bass-focused "The Lotus Eaters". Christine Rhoades' guest performance on the title track helps propel it as easily the highlight track of the album. Thank goodness she and Jeff teamed up again for four tracks on his second solo album, they had musical chemistry. But ultimately the core of why Nevermore was so consistently great lie in the Loomis/Dane duo. Jeff's jagged, slashing riffs and fiery solos catapult everything to a height few can reach, and Warrel, while much imitated since this time, has never been equaled, much less surpassed in individuality and passion. I also feel like Williams' drumming too often gets left out of discussions, since it rarely steals the show, but it is consistently excellent.

10: The Gathering - Mandylion

This is really quite a groundbreaking album, and tremendously important for what a lot of what my taste has evolved into in more recent years. Women in metal at this point were much more of a novelty, with the occasional trad band like Warlock, extreme metal like Nuclear Death, and a few scattered others. Even in the nascent gothic/doom scene, female vocals were generally an accent saved for an occasional track, or as a counterpoint in a beauty/beast gruff/clean dynamic. The 3rd and the Mortal demonstrated that an album could focus just on the "beauty" facet, but Anneke's debut with The Gathering showed a far richer panoply of shades of vocal color in a single vocal performance, par excellence. At this point I've read quite a ream of discussion about what the ever-elusive term "gothic metal" means, and I think this album quite perfectly encapsulates what the divide in understanding of it is. Narrowly speaking, some argue that it's only about music that sounds like a riffier, more metallic version of the essential late 70s/early 80s British gothic rock bands. But what this expanded branch instead focuses on is the dark, hazy, melancholic atmospheres of gothic rock offshoots such as ethereal wave/darkwave/neoclassical darkwave. The influence of artists such as Dead Can Dance and the Cocteau Twins is evident on various tracks, for example, in the lavish and shimmering keyboard and guitar textures. I first heard this album close to two decades ago, but it's been a slow roll out, and while I spent much more time listening to bands who in some way derived their sound from this album, I've increasingly come to appreciate the original more and more.


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Bishop_Drugsalot wrote:
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One band I don't see at all is Vader. No votes for any of their 90's albums by any person!

I had De Profundis in my top 15 draft, it was one of the last ones to get cut. Vader is more of a steady juggernaut in that sense

Yeah, agreed. Lots love them but just weren't able to crawl to the top.

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I had 6 of them, sadly. Looks like we both had some outside choices.
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I am truly shocked that I was the only person to vote for the Demons & Wizards debut album from 1999.

Also, I never knew White Zombie was on the archives. Learned something new today.

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Re: Left Hand Path - I'm surprised it didn't break the top 10 based on the general appreciation for the album, but I think it's very overrated. I've been listening to it for more than 10 years, which I feel is a long enough period of time to judge it, and it's not as good as Unleashed/Dismember's best work. I will concede that I have a preference for American death metal bands (especially the Floridian ones) because they're thrashier, but LHP doesn't live up to its reputation for me. Gorement's debut is another album that is wildly overrated on the archives, but it was only a rando here so I think there's an even bigger disconnect between its rating on the archives and its quality.

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MetlaNZ wrote:

I think I may have the most randos...



No, the Jar Jar Binks award would be shared between me and maybe others - 10 out of 10 randos here.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:08 am 
 

Stellar albums and choices. A bit disappointed that Necroticism finished in 42nd place and Legion unbelievably in 101. Imo that's why we needed 25 places, because the NINETIES (especially the first half of it) were arguably the most stunning decade of metal. The last great thrash albums, the explosion of death, black and doom metal.

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Spiner202 wrote:
I've been listening to it for more than 10 years, which I feel is a long enough period of time to judge it, and it's not as good as Unleashed/Dismember's best work.

You take that back or dance fight me

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Lord_Of_Diamonds wrote:
God damn, I was expecting Heartwork to do a whole lot better than it did. And... you folks really ranked Necroticism over it? Smfh.


Not for flaming, but honestly. Really. Necroticism is HEAD AND SHOULDER ABOVE the following album.

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raumr wrote:
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1. Nagelfar - Srontgorrth (Die Macht erfasste das Meine wie die Angst das Blut der Anderen) [99]

I think i love you

:beer:
I saw you had it as nr 1 too, and I agree with all your points.
It's possibly my nr 1 favourite album of all time, regardless of genre or decade. The last song drags on slightly too long maybe, but that's just a nitpick.


The Nagelfar albums are all amazing. I noticed you picked this as your #1 and it made me realize I haven’t listened to them in years but I used to quite often. I think I tend to forget about bands that are no longer active since I mostly focus on new releases these days. It was a lot of fun re-listening to all this 90s stuff and now I have more to go back and listen to with the results.
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Reading carefully the whole list, I now understand that you are all musical criminals. Just a single point (blessed be the guy!) for Malevolent Creation "Retribution"?!

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My list:

1. Artillery – By Inheritance (29)
2. Judas Priest – Painkiller (2)
3. Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back to Life (260)
4. Slayer – Seasons in the Abyss (12)
5. Blind Guardian – Somewhere Far Beyond (32)
6. Kreator – Coma of Souls (50)
7. Overkill – Horrorscope (174)
8. Running Wild – Black Hand Inn (96)
9. Suffocation – Effigy of the Forgotten (23)
10. Death – Spiritual Healing (204)

Only one of my picks in the top 10 lol.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:03 pm 
 

Aldrahn333 wrote:
Reading carefully the whole list, I now understand that you are all musical criminals. Just a single point (blessed be the guy!) for Malevolent Creation "Retribution"?!


Not surprising. Just a couple of month ago we’ve had an unofficial DM poll and I was the only one who had it in top 10. So chances are even lower that it”d well in a poll as broad as best of 90’s. But fear not, when we get to an official DM poll, I’ll back you up on this one. Fantastic album!

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Aldrahn333 wrote:
Reading carefully the whole list, I now understand that you are all musical criminals. Just a single point (blessed be the guy!) for Malevolent Creation "Retribution"?!


You were going to get an actual criminal (Burzum) third place so... :oh shit:
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CannibalCorpse wrote:
You guys are a bunch of (lovable, but still) numbskulls :-P

Seriously, I know I've always been the Hellenic fanboy here, but how the hell can you throw freakin' Walpurgisnacht INTO THE RANDO CORNER? I saw it mentioned a few times in the first thread and was expecting SOME love at least...but I seem to be the only one who voted for it.

His Majesty at the Swamp made my first shortlist, but alas, I had to cut it. It's a wonderful album and so is Walpurgisnacht, but 10 is just too little :(

jimbies wrote:
I am truly shocked that I was the only person to vote for the Demons & Wizards debut album from 1999.

See above. I had to cut this and Blind Guardian and so many others.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:25 pm 
 

Morn Of Solace wrote:
finally i shed a tear for October Tide's debut, Samael's Passage and some extra ones for Lake of Tears's Headstones: those albums are really overlooked. Dystopia too are nowhere to be seen sadly!

Yes, it's a bit sad that this melodic doom/death metal classic got so few votes in the poll, there are many reviews for ''Rain Without End'' on MA site and all of them are positive..
But, anyway, I'm glad that someone else voted for this album here - this is the first mid-year poll where #1 (it was always a doom metal-related album) album from my list didn't finish in the rando corner. Thanks for that!

And thanks to BastardHead for organizing this poll - as always, it's interesting to see and to discover results of voting here on MA. :)

It was hard to pick only 10 best/most influential/most unique/favorite albums from 1990s, there are so many amazing metal albums from this decade.
For me personally, the hardest was to limit the choices of doom, doom/death and black/doom metal albums, because there were many favorite/influential albums from that period of time in these sub-genres for me.

I have 5 randos on my list and, even though there are many bands from Norway in the overall results, three of my picks that ended up in the rando corner are albums from Norway and only one album from Norway is a non-rando - ''Tears Laid in Earth'' by The Third and the Mortal.
I've found out about these Norwegian bands/albums (which have become my favorites) thanks to discussions/recommendations on the MA forum so I decided to vote for them in this poll instead of voting for a few well-known metal albums by bands from other countries from my pre-internet "gateway" metal list (i.e. for albums by such bands as Opeth and My Dying Bride).

I wasn't familiar with the album that took first place in this poll, but I looked through the lyrics and listened to a few songs, and even if I'm not a fan of this sub-genre of metal music, the music and the lyrics definitely sound more accessible than some other military-inspired/related metal albums that sound like "Panzer Division Marduk"/or something like that, - so maybe I will give ''Rust in Peace'' a try.

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77hjrttfred wrote:
tomcat_ha wrote:
The only band I expected to show up in the top 10 but did not was Bathory when I think about it.


I agree with that. Hammerheart finished at number 34 which is a pretty good showing, but I thought it would be well within the top 20 or even top 10. That is an important and somewhat genre defining album.

It will be interesting when we have the inevitable 80's poll to see how well Bathory's 80's albums will do. They might end up a bit lower than people think.

I almost put Twilight of the Gods in mine but chose Storm of the Light's Bane instead. As for 80's Bathory, Blood Fire Death could potentially make the top 20, but it'll suffer being put alongside 3 other Bathory albums that are all genre-defining for black metal.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 1:58 pm 
 

Glad I'm not the only one who voted for "Fearless Undead Machines". The lack of talk around Deceased in general for this poll has been criminal.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:02 pm 
 

Aldrahn333 wrote:
Reading carefully the whole list, I now understand that you are all musical criminals. Just a single point (blessed be the guy!) for Malevolent Creation "Retribution"?!

Yeah that album's absolutely killer in its own right, but it would still be like #30 on my list overall. If it was just a 90's death metal poll though I'd put it at #10.

Edit: The last guy to post his ranking in the main thread put Retribution at #4 but it was only just past the deadline so it didn't count. Would've bumped up Hvis lyset tar oss above In the Nightside Eclipse as well.
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Metal_Jaw wrote:
Glad I'm not the only one who voted for "Fearless Undead Machines". The lack of talk around Deceased in general for this poll has been criminal.

Another one that made my top 20 or so but I just had to unfortunately cut.

The salt I have with the results this time isn't so much what is low on the list, it's what actually made the list. Burzum and Cryptopsy in the top ten is fucking BARF. De Mysteriis is boring shit (there I said it, don't @ me) and the Emperor album is fine and all but way overrated.

Judas Priest should have won the poll. I am fine with Rust in Peace making the list but I didn't think it would obliterate all competition and tower even above the number 2, this is kind of mind-boggling.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:42 pm 
 

great poll, really enjoyed it
had to give Rust In Peace a spin today in honour, what a blazing album. can't argue with its win
it was actually one of , if not THE first CD i ever owned. it was given to me by my brother iirc
still have it and it plays perfectly. and i don't think it was looked after too well. we were told CDs were indestructible in those days!

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DecemberSoul wrote:
MetlaNZ wrote:

I think I may have the most randos...



No, the Jar Jar Binks award would be shared between me and maybe others - 10 out of 10 randos here.

Oh thank fuck! Well done on getting the Jar Jar Binks award...youzza should share yourza list.

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No randos, and four albums in top 10. Pretty mainstream taste, I guess, at least on this forum...

01. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (8)
02. Burzum - Filosofem (36)
03. Mayhem - De Mysteriis dom Sathanas (6)
04. Neurosis - Souls at Zero (123)
05. Demilich - Nespithe (33)
06. Death - Symbolic (9)
07. Judas Priest - Painkiller (2)
08. Ministry - Filth Pig (295)
09. Strapping Young Lad - City (51)
10. Type O Negative - World Coming Down (16)

Neurosis was also hurt by vote splitting so Enemy of the Sun ended in rando. Other surprise was Soulside Journey in rando. Where are all those fans saying that death metal Darkthrone is the best Darkthrone? And for the best album that didn't get any single vote I would nominate Strange Highways by Dio. Anyway, there's no album in the final top 10 that I dislike, so I'm satisfied at the end. Now I'll try to do some comparison regarding black metal albums between this and BM list trom few years ago...

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King_of_Arnor wrote:
Aldrahn333 wrote:
Reading carefully the whole list, I now understand that you are all musical criminals. Just a single point (blessed be the guy!) for Malevolent Creation "Retribution"?!

Yeah that album's absolutely killer in its own right, but it would still be like #30 on my list overall. If it was just a 90's death metal poll though I'd put it at #10.

Edit: The last guy to post his ranking in the main thread put Retribution at #4 but it was only just past the deadline so it didn't count. Would've bumped up Hvis lyset tar oss above In the Nightside Eclipse as well.


Yes, that fucking idiot completely forgot about the deadline. Actually, first he rushed to made the post and the pm to BH and then he just saw that the ship had already left.

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Bishop_Drugsalot wrote:
Helheim - Jormundgand (8th place rando)
Extremely saddened but yet again, expected.


I had the other Helheim rando - a criminally overlooked band, but if you know you know! And shout out to the other dude who got Kampfar another rando.

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MetlaNZ wrote:
DecemberSoul wrote:
MetlaNZ wrote:

I think I may have the most randos...



No, the Jar Jar Binks award would be shared between me and maybe others - 10 out of 10 randos here.

Oh thank fuck! Well done on getting the Jar Jar Binks award...youzza should share yourza list.


Here it goes then:

1. Decoryah - Ebonies 1993
2. Let Me Dream - My Dear Succubus 1995
3. Ancient - Svartalvheim 1994
4. As Serenity Fades - Earthborn 1994
5. Carpathian Full Moon - Serenades In Blood Minor 1994
6. The Abyss - The Other Side 1995
7. Sacramentum - Finis Malorum 1994
8. Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead 1993
9. Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid 1994
10. Crown Of Autumn - Ruins 1996
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1) Manticora - Roots of Eternity (rando)
2) Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic (207th)
3) Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy (26th)
4) Demilich - Nespithe (33rd)
5) Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (49th)
6) Judas Priest - Painkiller (2nd)
7) Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1st)
8) Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon the Ice Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule (176th)
9) Gamma Ray - Land of the Free (237th)
10) Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction (128th)

Only 1 rando, that's rare for me! (don't worry Manticora, you'll always be #1 in my heart)
I liked the spotify playlist idea from last year, it was an easy way for me to branch out to bands I probably wouldn't find otherwise.

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quickbeam wrote:
Bishop_Drugsalot wrote:
Helheim - Jormundgand (8th place rando)
Extremely saddened but yet again, expected.


I had the other Helheim rando - a criminally overlooked band, but if you know you know! And shout out to the other dude who got Kampfar another rando.

I like the first two Helheim albums. I think they do the style that Enslaved did on Frost, but much better. It saddens me a bit that whenever they get mentioned it's usually because of the vocals on the first album. I also think their mid-period is a bit underrated, but now we're moving into the 00s.

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MetlaNZ
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 7:22 pm 
 

DecemberSoul wrote:
MetlaNZ wrote:
DecemberSoul wrote:
No, the Jar Jar Binks award would be shared between me and maybe others - 10 out of 10 randos here.

Oh thank fuck! Well done on getting the Jar Jar Binks award...youzza should share yourza list.


Here it goes then:

1. Decoryah - Ebonies 1993
2. Let Me Dream - My Dear Succubus 1995
3. Ancient - Svartalvheim 1994
4. As Serenity Fades - Earthborn 1994
5. Carpathian Full Moon - Serenades In Blood Minor 1994
6. The Abyss - The Other Side 1995
7. Sacramentum - Finis Malorum 1994
8. Unanimated - In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead 1993
9. Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid 1994
10. Crown Of Autumn - Ruins 1996

Yep, that'll do it. Rando city. I haven't even heard of Decoryah, Let Me Dream, As Serenity Fades, Carpathian Full Moon or Crown Of Autumn!

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Ace_Rimmer
Metal freak

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:29 pm 
 

1. Conception (1997) - Flow - (Rando) Like I knew it would be.
2. Blind Guardian (1999) - Nightfall In Middle-Earth (21)
3. Bruce Dickinson (1998) - The Chemical Wedding (27)
4. Megadeth (1990) - Rust in Peace (1)
5. Metallica (1991) - Metallica (66)
6. Amorphis (1994) - Tales from the Thousand Lakes (73)
7. Morbid Angel (1991) - Blessed Are The Sick (38)
8. Mayhem (1994) - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (6)
9. Atheist (1991) - Unquestionable Presence (25)
10. Judas Priest (1990) - Painkiller (2)


I thought Dickinson and Amorphis would have both been higher up. Tales especially.

Priest, Mayhem, and Megadeth were all in the top 10 where I expected them, my only uncertainty was if Painkiller or Rust would be #1.

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Napalm_Satan
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Location: United Kingdom
PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:30 pm 
 

Hello everyone. Life's been killing me, so the stats were simply not an option this time around. I'm glad BH still managed to use the tools left behind to pick up the slack though. As ever, my thanks to him for running these polls every year!

I am very proud of my list; I'd say I put far less time into it by simply looking at my most played - and thus most important to me - '90s metal albums I'd still give a 10. This ensures I didn't have to listen to hundreds of albums for it and agonise over it too much in general. It did make for a rather predictable list but whatever, I'm happy with it:

1. Type O Negative - World Coming Down (16th, 14 VOTES, 171 POINTS) [1999]
2. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (19th, 14 VOTES, 167 POINTS) [1994]
3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace (1st, 59 VOTES, 840 POINTS) [1990]
4. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours (93rd, 4 VOTES, 53 POINTS) [1992]
5. Judas Priest - Painkiller (2nd, 43 VOTES, 549 POINTS) [1990]
6. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (6th, 28 VOTES, 290 POINTS) [1994]
7. Cryptopsy - None So Vile (5th, 22 VOTES, 300 POINTS) [1996]
8. Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains (155th, 5 VOTES, 34 POINTS) [1995]
9. Down - NOLA (143rd, 4 VOTES, 38 POINTS) [1995]
10. Sepultura - Arise (13th, 17 VOTES, 194 POINTS) [1991]

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