GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2000

[Slayed Necros]

I don't expect to see this listed, even in HM lists, but I'll throw it out there anyway.

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Checked out that Symphony X album today. That band is fucking garbage. Russell Allen needs to just stick with Adrenaline Mob since that's way better.

That is a ridiculous statement.

 

[The Ozzman]

You convinced me to retract it

 

[CiG]

Ozz is getting way better at comebacks these days. That was savage.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

he's a battle-hardened UM vet. Nothing can faze him.

 

[no country for old wainds]

except for the 50% of the time when he seems Mad obvs

 

[no country for old wainds]

wait make that 80%, hes pretty mad

 

[CiG]

@The Ozzman looks like this now. He's reached that next level.

except for the 50% of the time when he seems Mad obvs

wait make that 80%, hes pretty mad

U sound MAD.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm so mad rn @no country for old wainds

 

[zabu of nΩd]

There's about 15 albums I'm familiar with from this year, so I'll just pick from those and not be arsed to listen to more:

1. Therion - Deggial
2. Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
3. Orange Goblin - The Big Black
4. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
5. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
6. Stratovarius - Infinite
7. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
   
8. Nightwish - Wishmaster
9. Isis - Celestial
10. Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

 

[-CC-]

I'm about halfway through re-listening to a playlist of this year and it was a pretty damn good year for technical death metal, or well, death metal in general I suppose. I'm just a little surprised at how highly this forum rates that Immolation album. Close to a World Below is like a bowl of muesli with raisins. You take a spoonful of this soggy and mushy concoction of old wheat grains and oat and try to gulp it down the best you can. However every other spoon or so contains a single raisin which entices your taste buds and makes it bearable. By the end of the bowl, you are now out of raisins, and you realize that you are only eating this muesli because of it.

Not knocking Immolation though, they have better albums, and are cool live. Close to a World Below however, is the type of shit that spawned Portal, which is straight porridge.

 

[The Ozzman]

I'm about halfway through re-listening to a playlist of this year and it was a pretty damn good year for technical death metal, or well, death metal in general I suppose. I'm just a little surprised at how highly this forum rates that Immolation album. Close to a World Below is like a bowl of muesli with raisins. You take a spoonful of this soggy and mushy concoction of old wheat grains and oat and try to gulp it down the best you can. However every other spoon or so contains a single raisin which entices your taste buds and makes it bearable. By the end of the bowl, you are now out of raisins, and you realize that you are only eating this muesli because of it.

Not knocking Immolation though, they have better albums, and are cool live. Close to a World Below however, is the type of shit that spawned Portal, which is straight porridge.

Yep. I don't get the hype.

 

[CiG]

I don't get that whole comment.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

i hate raisins.

 

[-CC-]

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

he's a battle-hardened UM vet. Nothing can faze him.

Nothing except the real world.

 

[Bloopy]

1. Isis - Celestial
2. Craft - Total Soul Rape
3. Vader - Litany
4. Lizzy Borden - Deal With the Devil
5. Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War
6. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
7. Metalium - State of Triumph: Chapter Two
8. DIC - Whos Ya Mutha?
9. Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
10. Immolation - Close to a World Below

Thought about putting One Minute Silence - Buy Now...Saved Later on my list but decided it didn't quite fit. Good album though.

 

[The Ozzman]

Saving the list here for now without numbers since my work is blocking UM for a stupid reason:

Armored Saint - Revelation
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Corrosion of Conformity - America's Volume Dealer
Decapitated - Winds of Creation
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Morbid Angel - Gateways to Annihilation
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Malevolent Creation - Envenomed

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't think Close... is much like Portal tbh, they're both kinda murky/obscure but Close... no more so than their other post-debut 90s albums whereas Portal is a giant worthless mess. That's like blaming Helloween for pop-era Sonata Arctica or something.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... and which moron was it that compared Portal to Immolation? That sounds like something only you would say.