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BROCAS HELM - Defender of the Crown 8x
PAGAN ALTAR - Mythical & Magical 7x
PORTRAIT - same 6x
DOOMSWORD - Resound the horn 5x
ADRAMELCH - Broken history 5x
ATLANTEAN KODEX - The Pnakotic Demos 3x
PRIMORDIAL - To the nameless dead 4x
WARNING - Watching From a Distance 4x
SLOUGH FEG - Down among the deadmen 4x
SLOUGH FEG - Hardworlder 3x
PAGAN ALTAR - The Lords of Hypocrisy 3x
CANDLEMASS - King of the grey islands 3x
MANILLA ROAD - Gates of fire 3x
RAGING STORM - same 3x
FALCONER - same 3x

Ha! Great speedcounting, all. No surprises there at all I guess...

I'm surprised Adramelch's Broken History is so well-liked. I didn't think it was very good at all.

DMR wrote:I'm surprised Adramelch's Broken History is so well-liked. I didn't think it was very good at all.

Yeah, I've only listened to it twice, I didn't find it anything special either. Maybe it needs more listens to get into it, but comparing it to the allmighty Irae Melanox is out of the question for me.

My Toplist is completely different ! No particular Order.

MILES BEYOND -Same
NIHILIST - Call Down the Thunder
KING LEORIC - Thunderforce
MEDIEVAL STEEL - The Dungeon Tapes
MANIGANCE - Ange ou Démon
MALEDICTION - Condamnés
ILIUM - Permian Dusk
TWISTED TOWER DIRE - The Isle of Hydra
JOHN OLIVAS PAIN - Tage Mahal
ASTRAL DOORS - Of the Sun and the Father
RATA BLANCA - El Camino del Fuego
WEINHOLD - From Heavan to Hell
FALCONER - Same
MENIKETTI - Meniketti

ION BRITTON wrote:

DMR wrote:I'm surprised Adramelch's Broken History is so well-liked. I didn't think it was very good at all.

Yeah, I've only listened to it twice, I didn't find it anything special either. Maybe it needs more listens to get into it, but comparing it to the allmighty Irae Melanox is out of the question for me.

It's certainly a lot more straightforward than 'Irae Melanox' but it's so majestically done and performed. Still very original arragenements, harmonies, progressions and those vocals are staggering! Ballerio sounds so incredibly sorrowful. I've adored the whole thing from the first listen to now. 2:47 'Dethroned in Shame' is the one.

not that anyone cares but here are my top 25 of the decade, in no particular order

Repugnant-Epitome of Darkness
Wizzard-Songs of Sin and Decadence
Dawnbringer-Catharsis Instinct
Dawnbringer-In sickness and In Dreams
Zemial-face of the Conqueror
Voivod-S/T
Razor of Occam-Pillars of Creation
Pagan Altar-all
Portrait-S/T
Corpse Vomit-Raping The Ears of Those Above
Sabbat-Antarctic Harmageddon
Vomitor-Bleeding The Priest
Aura Noir-Hades Rise
The Devil's Blood-The Time of No Time Evermore
Enslaved-Mardraum
Absu-Tara
Ares Kingdom-Return To Dust
Deceased-Supernatural Addiction
Desaster-Tyrants of the Netherworld
Destroyer 666-Cold Steel For An iron Age
Gospel of the Horns-Eve of the Conqueror
High Spirits demo lp
Immolation-Close To A World Below
Nifelheim-Servants of Darkness
Katatonia-Last Fair Deal Gone Down

ION BRITTON wrote:

Keir wrote: Crashdïet - Rest In Sleaze

Not heavy metal in the strict sense. But if can actually talk about the first LA GUNS or the first two MOTLEY CRUE albums without being outrageously off-topic in this forum, then we can talk about CRASH DIET as well.

I fucking worship that album. I remember listening to 'Out of Line' 70-80 times the first couple of days. The album is perfect. Catchy, melodic and powerful. Perfect. Just perfect.

Cool. I was expecting some slightly different replies about that. I know what you mean about it not being strictly metal, but I honestly think it is more metallic than a lot of the stuff that passes as metal these days (suppose that's no different than in the past). On the other hand, I was a bit surprised to see that metal-archives allowed it on their site.

Sgt. Kuntz (in the other Noughties thread) wrote:

sagrotan wrote:Mythical & Magical, To The Nameless Dead would come close among those.

would have a few different ones personally (apart from first place), but was too lazy until now to post them in the other thread (and feared the flaming ) so I won't start a discussion here!

My flame-thrower is already heated up, so just bring'em on!

many faves of mine among those mentioned: Pagan Altar, Slough Feg, Portrait, Primordial, .. few additions without expecting much appreciation at least for 2/3 of them here but so what

SATYRICON - Volcano. seems not to be highly regarded anywhere because of sell-out etc. - whatever, for me biographically this is of high importance because it was the album that brought me back on the metal track in the beginning of the decade. maybe it's my non-metal years before that I like this particular album so much, no idea. still think though that the part from 3'55" of "Repined Bastard Nation" is one of the all-time-greatest moments in metal, at all

POWERWOLF - Lupus Dei. saw them live before Candlemass and was not too impressed at first because of their cheesiness and the constant posing.. nevertheless bought their first two CDs a little bit later and haven't got tired of esp. their 2nd for years now, which is, for me, the perfect album of a certain kind of metal - it has everything: the riffs, melodies, hooks and a bloody stupid image - it's hellish great fun!
the whole band seems to be fake btw., love them anyway..

NECROS CHRISTOS - Triune Impurity Rites. discovery of the last year maybe - fantastic live act and a interesting approach to current Death/ Black Metal.

I don't know if I've heard anything I would call a classic that came out this decade. The newer albums I keep coming back to are all of the Machetazo albums (most of them recorded in the last decade) and Funerot's LP. I should think a bit more about this but I think those are my favorites. Abscess' "Through The Cracks Of Death" is an amazing Death Metal album as well.

nabel wrote:It seems that Resound The Horn is the Doomsword LP? Thats the only one I don't have by them so I guess I need to pick it up...

same problem here, it's been hard to find for years, it was easier for me to find the first one actually

Reverend Bizarre -In the Rectory...
Warning - watching from a distance
Nifelheim- servants from darkness
Portrait -s/t
Goat Molestor -realm of evoked doom ep
Demon's Gate -demo 2006-
Hour of 13 - s/t
Helvetets Port- Exodus to Hell
Terrorama -horrid efface
Griftegard - psalmbok mlp

Best album of the decade is by far:

APOLLO RA - RA PARIAH

apollo.ra wrote:Best album of the decade is by far:

APOLLO RA - RA PARIAH

Actually, it was released as an LP tape 21 years ago.

but only a handful new them before 2000

Also the most songs from the brocas helm CD was written yeeears ago...
Childern Of The Nova Dawn i think is their very first one

apollo.ra wrote:but only a handful new them before 2000

Also the most songs from the brocas helm CD was written yeeears ago...
Childern Of The Nova Dawn i think is their very first one

Well then 80% of the demos that are being rereleased today count as new releases. That doesn't seem very right to me.

If a song was written 20 years ago it doesn't mean that it was also released at that time. That's not the case with Apollo Ra though.