Release Lists
My Top 100 Death Metal Albums. Comments on the list are appreciated.
My newly created Top Ten Metal Releases of 1989 list:
01. Morbid Angel - "Altars of Madness"
02. Sepultura - "Beneath The Remains"
03. Faith No More - "The Real Thing"
04. Godflesh - "Streetcleaner"
05. Ministry - "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste:
06. Kreator - "Extreme Aggression"
07. Dream Theater - "When Dream & Day Unite"
08. Annihilator - "Alice In Hell"
09. Sodom - "Agent Orange"
10. Coroner - "No More Color"
Here's my top 10 of 1989:
1. Voivod - Nothingface
2. Watchtower - Control and Resistance
3. Annihilator - Alice in Hell
4. Godflesh - Streetcleaner
5. Sabbat - Dreamweaver
6. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
7. Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
8. Dark Angel - Leave Scars
9. Helstar - Nosferatu
10. Coroner - No More Color
My Top Ten Metal Release of the 1980's list:
01. Slayer - "Reign In Blood" (1986)
02. Metallica - "...And Justice For All" (1988)
03. Morbid Angel - "Altars of Madness" (1989)
04. Slayer - "South of Heaven" (1988)
05. Metallica - "Master of Puppets" (1986)
06. Sepultura - "Beneath the Remains" (1989)
07. Exodus - "Bonded by Blood" (1985)
08. Faith No More - "The Real Thing" (1989)
09. Iron Maiden - "Somewhere in Time" (1986)
10. Godflesh - "Streetcleaner" (1989)
Lotsa thrash there. Hard to avoid it in that decade. Out of curiosity, what sets And Justice for All above Master of Poppets and Ride the Lightning IYO?
It’s the added complexity in the arrangements & song-structures as well as the cold, angry atmosphere. It also helps that it’s a thrash riff masterclass with all four band members at the absolute peak of their powers from a performance & musicianship perspective.
A few lists I decided to make. Here's my top 10 of the 1980s:
1. Voivod - Dimension Hatröss (1988)
2. Voivod - Killing Technology (1987)
3. Voivod - Nothingface (1989)
4. Godflesh - Godflesh (1988)
5. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends (1986)
6. Watchtower - Control and Resistance (1989)
7. Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly (1985)
8. Annihilator - Alice in Hell (1989)
9. Sadus - Illusions (1988)
10. Godflesh - Streetcleaner (1989)
My top release for each year of the 80s:
1980: Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
1981: Riot - Fire Down Under
1982: Scorpions - Blackout
1983: Metallica - Kill 'Em All
1984: Voivod - War and Pain
1985: Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
1986: Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
1987: Voivod - Killing Technology
1988: Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
1989: Voivod - Nothingface
And my top 10 of the 1970s:
1. Scorpions - Taken by Force (1978)
2. Riot - Rock City (1977)
3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (1970)
4. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (1978)
5. Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock (1970)
6. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)
7. Riot - Narita (1979)
8. Scorpions - In Trance (1975)
9. Scorpions - Virgin Killer (1976)
10. Scorpions - Lovedrive (1979)
The next time I update my metal releases per year list, I'll extend it to around 1975/1976.
It’s the added complexity in the arrangements & song-structures as well as the cold, angry atmosphere. It also helps that it’s a thrash riff masterclass with all four band members at the absolute peak of their powers from a performance & musicianship perspective.
Gonna have to give it a replay today.
After I'm done with Draconian, I guess I'll put together private doom and goth lists and see where they're going. Unfortunately, I'm still in a position to where I'm safe with the way I want my log if I listen to one metal album a day, assuming I listen to enough albums in that day to make up for it. Today I finished the Poppy catalog and heard the new Duran Duran as well as their debut. But I'm definitely not into them as much as I'd like to be considering their status in the new wave scene.
Here's my newly developed Top Ten Metal Releases of 1990 list. I've included Ministry's "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (Live)" at number ten in the actual list as the Cathedral demo isn't available on Metal Academy.
01. Deicide - "Deicide"
02. Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
03. Judas Priest - "Painkiller"
04. Winter - "Into Darkness"
05. Obituary - "Cause of Death"
06. Cathedral - "In Memoriam" demo
07. Bathory - "Hammerheart"
08. Kreator - "Coma of Souls"
09. Anthrax - "Persistence of Time"
10. Megadeth - "Rust in Peace"
Here's my top 10 of 1990:
1. Rorschach - Remain Sedate
2. Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
3. Helmet - Strap It On
4. Winter - Into Darkness
5. Atheist - Piece of Time
6. Annihilator - Never, Neverland
7. Sadus - Swallowed in Black
8. Dark Angel - Live Scars
9. Nocturnus - The Key
10. Atrocity - Hallucinations
Just added Septicflesh to my top 100 alltime and top 100 death lists.
This week's revisit to Pestilence's "Testimony of the Ancients" album has seen me needing to find space for it in my Top Ten Metal Releases of All Time list which has seen it slotting in at number 86 & forcing Meshuggah's "I" E.P. out of the list.
This week's investigation of Melvins' 1991 third album "Bullhead" has seen me needing to find space for it in my Top Ten Metal Releases of All Time list with it taking up the number 91 position at the expense of Deathspell Omega's "Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon" E.P. which has dropped out of the list.
Just created my Top Ten Metal Releases of 1991 list & it really does show what an amazing year it was for metal & especially for a 15 year old me. In fact, I could almost have created a top 20 releases without running out of records that I regard as genuine classics.
01. Death - "Human"
02. Carcass - "Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious"
03. Morbid Angel - "Blessed Are The Sick"
04. Slayer - "Decade of Aggression: Live"
05. Sepultura - "Arise"
06. Earth - "Extra-Capsular Extraction" E.P.
07. Soundgarden - "Badmotorfinger"
08. Pestilence - "Testimony of the Ancients"
09. Suffocation - "Effigy of the Forgotten"
10. Suffocation - "Human Waste" E.P.
Here's my top 10 of 1991:
1. Coroner - Mental Vortex
2. Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
3. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
4. Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
5. OLD - Lo Flux Tube
6. Voivod - Angel Rat
7. Godflesh - Slavestate
8. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
9. Sabbat - Mourning Has Broken
10. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Just completed my Top Ten Metal Release of 1992 list which has ended up surprising me a little bit. Who would have thought that I'd have three industrial metal releases in there & only two death metal!? And it'd be topped by an alternative metal record too!!
01. Alice in Chains - "Dirt"
02. Neurosis - "Souls at Zero"
03. Ministry - "Psalm 69"
04. diSEMBOWELMENT - "Dusk" E.P.
05. My Dying Bride - "As The Flower Withers"
06. Nine Inch Nails - "Broken" E.P.
07. Godflesh - "Pure"
08. Darkthrone - "A Blaze In The Northern Sky"
09. Bolt Thrower - "The IVth Crusade"
10. Seance - "Fornever Laid To Rest"
Here's my top 10 of 1992:
1. Sadus - A Vision of Misery
2. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
3. Ministry - Psalm 69
4. Waltari - Torcha!
5. Samael - Blood Ritual
6. Red Harvest - Nomindsland
7. Godflesh - Pure
8. Neurosis - Souls at Zero
9. Dark Angel - Decade of Chaos: The Best of Dark Angel
10. Voivod - The Best of Voivod
All genres:
1. Vengelis - 1492 (Neoclassical New Age, Electronic)
2. Eric Claption - Unplugged (Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Rock)
3. Current 93 - Thunder Perfecr Mind (Neofolk)
4. The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (West Coast Hip Hop, Jazzy Hip Hop)
5. Änglagård - Hybris (Symphonic Prog Rock)
6. Alice in Chains - Dirt (Grunge, Alt-Metal)
7. Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain (Stoner Doom Metal)
8. Dream Theater - Images and Words (Prog Metal)
9. David Zinman / Dawn Upshaw - Symphony No. 3 (Modern Classical, Symphony)
10. Fluffy - Go, Fluffy, Go! (Grunge, Noise Rock)
Metal:
1. Alice in Chains - Dirt (Grunge, Alt-Metal)
2. Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain (Stoner Doom Metal)
3. Dream Theater - Images and Words (Prog Metal)
4. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond (Power Metal)
5. Neurosis - Souls at Zero (Sludge Metal)
6. Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses (Deathgrind)
7. Type O Negative - The Origin of the Feces: Not Live at Brighton Beach (Goth Doom Metal)
8. Nine Inch Nails - Broken (Industrial Rock, Industrial Metal)
9. Ministry - Psalm 69 (Industrial Metal)
10. Melvins - Lysol (Sludge Metal, Drone Metal)
OK, I'll play along:
1. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
2. Burzum - Burzum
3. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
4. Fleshcrawl - Descend Into the Absurd
5. Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
6. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
7. Baphomet - The Dead Shall Inherit
8. Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant
9. Epidemic - Decameron
10. Melvins - Lysol
Good news concerning my log of every album I've ever heard. I'm trying to keep the number of metal albums there to under 20% so I can focus on other genres. I just did all the math: I have currently heard 13,825 albums and have 2,560 metal albums in it. I immediately know that 2,560 x 5 = 12,800, so I am 1,025 albums ahead of 20%. But this also means that the amount of metal is 18.5%, so I'm not as ahead as I'd like to be...
If someone listened to 2 albums a day, that would be 730 albums a year. At that rate it would take 19 years to listen to 13,825 albums, and that's without ever listening to an album twice.
If someone listened to 2 albums a day, that would be 730 albums a year. At that rate it would take 19 years to listen to 13,825 albums, and that's without ever listening to an album twice.
I generally listen to at least four a day, and on free days where I have no plans I play albums when I'm doing housework and writing, so I can easily wolf down 2,000 albums a year and still make time for movies. On top of that, I've listen to a lot of punk and EDM, so EP's also play into that. I've been doing that for 11.5 years now.
Impressive, Rex! I've also been listening to metal for 11.5 years now, and the amount of metal albums I've heard is in the thousands, though it's literally 99% of all music that I've chosen to listen to during that time period. Yeah, I'm more focused on metal than any other music genre.
Impressive, Rex! I've also been listening to metal for 11.5 years now, and the amount of metal albums I've heard is in the thousands, though it's literally 99% of all music that I've chosen to listen to during that time period. Yeah, I'm more focused on metal than any other music genre.
You're likely higher than me at this point. I'm only at 2560. I oftentimes force myself to go through binges on specific genres and bands to make sure I properly educate myself on them. Right now it's outsider and lo-fi house, and thankfully since lo-fi house is a very EP-oriented genre I can get through about three of those a day and still have time for a couple other albums from other genres I want to explore. But I need to wait until I can go on another serious metal binge.