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 - Rising (1976)
5. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (1978)
6. Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock (1970)
7. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)
8. Riot - Narita (1979)
9. Scorpions - In Trance (1975)
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
It's been so long since I last created or updated any lists in the public lists feature. Here are two I've just made:
Best of melodic metalcore 2004-2011: https://metal.academy/lists/single/124
Eternal melodeath (best of melodic death metal mixed with more epic genres): https://metal.academy/lists/single/273