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Title: Album of the Decade!
Post by: BlackWizard on December 26, 2019, 11:36:00 PM
Not only another year has passed however another decade.
What albums have been th3 standout over the past 10 years!

For me the following are the ones that stand fore most in my mind.

Bolzer - Hero - What more need to be said about this beast of a record. From the production to the musicians.

Mgla - Exercise in Futility - This was a more difficult one to choose between this or With Hearts, i picked this one as I feel it had more melody and Darkside definitely stepped up his drumming for this.

Tribulation - Formulas of Death - Something fresh and original in the death metal scene. Love the melody and catchy hooks throughout the album. Amd that closing track..... I could (and have) listened to it over and over!

Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins - After 3 very same-ish style albums amazing to hear something so fresh by these guys. Definitely their most creative album since The Gathering Wilderness.

Wardruna - Runaljod - Yggdrasil - My absolute favourite of the Runaljod trilogy and the one with the most passion and emotion.

(The above are not in any particular order)

However my number one by a mile:

Mourning Beloveth - Formless - Nothing I have heard in the past 10 years has even come close to topping this record. Every aspect of this record is flawless with the closing two tracks of Dead Channel and Nothing has a Centre being my favourite!

Anyway always interested to hear what others have been obsessed with for the last 10 years!
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 27, 2019, 01:10:36 AM
Obscura - Diluvium - it's like Focus, Unquestionable Presence and Symbolic had a kid and Allan Holdsworth came 'round to babysit/lay down some lead, fuck me.

Err, lots more, but I'm pissed :laugh:
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Carnage on December 27, 2019, 02:24:39 AM
I'll have a think this time next year when it's the end of the decade.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Kurt Cocaine on December 27, 2019, 06:47:07 AM
Quote from: Carnage on December 27, 2019, 02:24:39 AM
I'll have a think this time next year when it's the end of the decade.
This.....
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Melmoth on December 27, 2019, 12:37:56 PM
2010-2019 is the decade lads..
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Grim Reality on December 27, 2019, 01:41:58 PM
BlackWizard I would agree with most of your list. The releases by Bolzer and Tribulation were totally eye opening and fresh sounding. I love most of Mourning Beloveth but Formless was on another level of special altogether. I wonder are they working on new stuff??

Primordial sadly no. They've lost it since the vocalist changed his style to this kind of epic 80s thing. Even on Names less Dead there was still a bit of fire and grit in the vocals eg closing track No Nation.

I would suggest VEMOD - venter pa stormene.
Aural magic.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Paul keohane on December 27, 2019, 02:44:17 PM
Dead Congregation- Promulgation of the fall
Blood incantation-Starspawn
Tribulation-The Formulas of Dearh
Pestilence- Hadeon
Necrophobic-Mark of Necrogram
Destroyer 666 -Wildfire
Vektor-both albums in the decade
Immolation- Atonement
Ghost-a number of albums.
SepticFlesh-The Great Mass
Behemoth-The Satanist
Cruciamentum- Charnel Passages

Irish releases,Zealot Cult and Sacrilegia were the stand outs for me.


It was good decade for death metal,loads of quality releases


Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Juggz on December 27, 2019, 02:47:36 PM
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Sepultura - Machine Messiah
Vallenfyre - Splinters
KXM - Scatterbrain
Rival Schools - Pedals
Killing Joke - Pylon
Goatwhore - Blood for the Master
Europe - Bag of Bones
The Contortionist - Language
Atheist - Jupiter
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Pestilence - Hadeon
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: ldj on December 27, 2019, 03:16:25 PM
Elder - Lore/Reflections of a Floating World
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction/Foundations of Burden
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Napalm Death - Apex Predator
High on Fire - Luminiferous
Bolzer - Hero
Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness

There's loads more but these come to mind.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Pip on December 27, 2019, 07:17:55 PM
High Spirits - Another Night
Gama Bomb - Speed between the lines
Dark Throne - Circle the wagons
Immolation- Atonement
Wytch Hazel - Prelude
Night Demon. - Darkness Remains
Ghost - Meliora
Morbus Chron- Sweven
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Trev on December 27, 2019, 07:18:53 PM
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Devin Townsend - Empath
Sabaton - Carolus Rex
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Atheist - Jupiter
Goatwhore - Blood for the Master
Gloryhammer - Space 1992
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Obscura - Omnivium
Forbidden - Omega Wave
Iced Earth - Dystopia
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Beyond Creation - The Aura

There's so many more, pretty great decade for metal I'd say
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Don Gately on December 27, 2019, 07:30:37 PM
Formless by Mourning Beloveth.  Perfect.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: BlackWizard on December 27, 2019, 09:11:08 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 27, 2019, 06:47:07 AM
Quote from: Carnage on December 27, 2019, 02:24:39 AM
I'll have a think this time next year when it's the end of the decade.
This.....

:laugh: :laugh: back to school people! Decade are classed as a year beginning with 0 and ending in 9! As in 1990-1999, 2000-2009, 2010-2019! Sorry if i ruined your big end of decade party you've been planning for 11 years!
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: BlackWizard on December 27, 2019, 09:14:21 PM
Quote from: ldj on December 27, 2019, 03:16:25 PM
Elder - Lore/Reflections of a Floating World
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction/Foundations of Burdenueens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
Napalm Death - Apex Predator
High on Fire - Luminiferous
Bolzer - Hero
Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness

There's loads more but these come to mind.


I would definitely add these two to my list!

YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Carnage on December 28, 2019, 01:59:09 AM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 27, 2019, 06:47:07 AM
Quote from: Carnage on December 27, 2019, 02:24:39 AM
I'll have a think this time next year when it's the end of the decade.
This.....

It's really not, but have your fun this year guys.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Yung Led Zeppelin on December 28, 2019, 11:19:16 AM
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury

Continues to floor me every time I revisit it.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 28, 2019, 12:44:47 PM
Quote from: Carnage on December 28, 2019, 01:59:09 AM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 27, 2019, 06:47:07 AM
Quote from: Carnage on December 27, 2019, 02:24:39 AM
I'll have a think this time next year when it's the end of the decade.
This.....

It's really not, but have your fun this year guys.  :laugh:

Except it is. Would you say an album released in 1990 came out in the 80s?

A decade is a period of ten years, the 0 year is a full year itself, therefore 0 to 9 is a period of ten years.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Emphyrio on December 28, 2019, 01:13:40 PM
How is it confusing people?
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Don Gately on December 28, 2019, 04:25:22 PM
Crazy talk
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Corrupted on December 28, 2019, 08:43:20 PM
Clutch Earth Rocker
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Pip on December 28, 2019, 08:59:15 PM
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Acid Reign - Age Of Entitlement
Gentlemans Pistols - Hustler's Row
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Beyond Creation - The Aura
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Inquiring Blood - Born In a Grave
Entheos - Dark Future
Lord Dying - Mysterium Tremendum
Mastodon - The Hunter


Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Kurt Cocaine on December 28, 2019, 09:40:08 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 28, 2019, 01:13:40 PM
How is it confusing people?
There was no year zero. There was 1BC and then 1 AD which is the first year of the first decade of the calendar we have used for the last two millennia.
Because there was no Year Zero, the first decade of the common era (CE or AD) was years 1 to 10, the second decade was years 11 to 20, and the next decade will be years 2021 to 2030.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Kurt Cocaine on December 28, 2019, 09:41:38 PM
At least this thread will be still going for another 12 months at least.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Juggz on December 28, 2019, 09:52:15 PM
Jesus H fucking Christ, lads.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Kurt Cocaine on December 28, 2019, 10:18:39 PM
Quote from: Juggz on December 28, 2019, 09:52:15 PM
Jesus H fucking Christ, lads.
What Juggz? Should be able to pack another 50 or so titles into this thread over the next year. This is great news.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Emphyrio on December 28, 2019, 10:39:22 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 28, 2019, 09:40:08 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 28, 2019, 01:13:40 PM
How is it confusing people?
There was no year zero. There was 1BC and then 1 AD which is the first year of the first decade of the calendar we have used for the last two millennia.
Because there was no Year Zero, the first decade of the common era (CE or AD) was years 1 to 10, the second decade was years 11 to 20, and the next decade will be years 2021 to 2030.

So Rust in Peace was the best album of the 80s, released in 1990?  :-\
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Trev on December 28, 2019, 10:46:10 PM
Sake lads, its accepted that a decade is the 0-9

Anyway a few more that sprang to mind

Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations. Could be a bit of recency bias, but I've had this on nearly non stop for the last while

Ihsahn - Arktis. Could probably pick any of the stuff he put out, just really like the artwork on this

Sepultura - Machine Messiah. Absolutely baffling people still want Max back, there's no chance he could ever do something this good these days
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 29, 2019, 01:20:34 AM
Love Machine Messiah and Arktis. Celestial Violence is a stomper of a song.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 29, 2019, 01:30:09 AM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 28, 2019, 09:40:08 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 28, 2019, 01:13:40 PM
How is it confusing people?
There was no year zero. There was 1BC and then 1 AD which is the first year of the first decade of the calendar we have used for the last two millennia.
Because there was no Year Zero, the first decade of the common era (CE or AD) was years 1 to 10, the second decade was years 11 to 20, and the next decade will be years 2021 to 2030.

Wasn't our calender system only adopted in something like the 5th century? So it's ultimately arbitrary and man made anyway (like most things), but common practice since long before any of us were born is to count from 0 to 9, inclusive.

But a valid point raised by myself and another poster above - so ye consider albums released in 1990 part of the 80s?
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Snare on December 29, 2019, 02:40:57 AM
So I'm taking from this is a lot of people are retarded as regards decades, and i need to check out Obscura, newer Immolation and Beyond Creation.

In turn I give back Gallowbaird, Caladan Brood, Vastum, Disma, Corpsessed, Vreid, Auroch, Wormrot, Gatecreeper, and aye, Dead Congregation.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: TurnTheAirBlue on December 29, 2019, 10:05:48 AM
Couldn't pick a favourite, it's been a great decade!!!

In no particular order,

Immolation - Atonement
Necros Christos - Domedon Doxomedon
Apocalypse Command - Damnation Scythes of Invincible Abomination
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Perdition Temple - The Tempter's Victorious
Suffocation - Of The Dark Light
Bolzer - Hero
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Grave Miasma - Endless Pilgrimage
Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
Ghost - Meloria

Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Carnage on December 29, 2019, 03:17:10 PM
A decade is any arbitrary run of ten years, regardless of start and end date, so the eighties does indeed cover 1980-89. 2005-2015 is a decade. A 'calendar' decade is from the ---1 date to the ---0 date, so this 'decade ends at the end of 2020.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Emphyrio on December 29, 2019, 03:24:07 PM
That's incorrect. 2010 to end of 2019 is the calendar decade. By your reckoning an album released in 1990 should be considered an 80s album. That simply doesn't make sense.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Carnage on December 29, 2019, 03:35:20 PM
There's nothing I can say to that that wouldn't be repeating myself, suffice it to say you haven't read the previous post properly.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 29, 2019, 09:28:44 PM
Quote from: Carnage on December 29, 2019, 03:17:10 PM
A decade is any arbitrary run of ten years, regardless of start and end date, so the eighties does indeed cover 1980-89. 2005-2015 is a decade. A 'calendar' decade is from the ---1 date to the ---0 date, so this 'decade ends at the end of 2020.

Thread isn't called "Album of the CALENDAR Decade", so yeah  :abbath:
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 29, 2019, 10:23:20 PM
Since the thread title was best album, not best albums (this would indeed need a long list), I'll say that I find it very difficult to choose between...

Bölzer - Hero
YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Gospel of the Witches - Salem's Wounds
(and probably others I can't recall right now)

...for second place.

But, all things considered, Tribulation's Formulas of Death was the album behind the greatest amount of sheer musical wonder and bliss over the last decade. I don't know what classic would get booted for it, but I know it deserves and would justly get a place in my top 5 metal albums of all time.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 29, 2019, 11:17:52 PM
Forgot about Foundations of Burden, gonna stick that on to finish the evening.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 12:04:58 AM
As for the other parallel discussion:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/decade.html
"Depends on language [...] in essence, both are correct."
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Carnage on December 30, 2019, 02:49:59 AM
Quote from: Ducky on December 29, 2019, 09:28:44 PM
Quote from: Carnage on December 29, 2019, 03:17:10 PM
A decade is any arbitrary run of ten years, regardless of start and end date, so the eighties does indeed cover 1980-89. 2005-2015 is a decade. A 'calendar' decade is from the ---1 date to the ---0 date, so this 'decade ends at the end of 2020.

Thread isn't called "Album of the CALENDAR Decade", so yeah  :abbath:

It also doesn't specify which decade, as we're being pedantic.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: The Heretic on December 30, 2019, 11:32:27 AM
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Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Thorn on December 30, 2019, 12:15:24 PM
Agree with the Sheperd's shout for 'Formulas..', ..landmark, iconic, momentous, .. Fits the bill for an album for the decade alright but then again I'm waiting for people to throw up titles I can get behind, can't even fathom trying to unravel the last ten years worth of Metal.

Just looking through everyone's shouts there, can also get with Obscura's  ' Omnivium', Primordial's 'Exile..' ( though it took me a good few listens to get there): and a couple of ferocious Napalm records....
Hmmm.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Paul keohane on December 30, 2019, 01:18:53 PM
I actually ignored Formulas for a while when it came out,i loved the first albim,when i heard they moved on from the more death/thrash  sound i was a bit sceptical.

But yeah Formulas is a modern masterpiece,still havent caught them live either!
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Giggles on December 30, 2019, 01:35:15 PM
Quote from: Carnage
It also doesn't specify which decade, as we're being pedantic.


Quote from: BlackWizard on December 26, 2019, 11:36:00 PM
Not only another year has passed however another decade.
What albums have been th3 standout over the past 10 years!
...
Anyway always interested to hear what others have been obsessed with for the last 10 years!


Quote from: Carnage
You haven't read the previous post properly
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Thorn on December 30, 2019, 01:43:49 PM
First decade without any of the established BIG names getting even a shout, times they are a changing...

But Yeah, let's discuss what the fuck a decade is.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 02:17:53 PM
Quote from: Thorn on December 30, 2019, 01:43:49 PM
First decade without any of the established BIG names getting even a shout, times they are a changing...

Judas Priest's Firepower might be a contender for some...? After that, depends on how established or BIG you mean. Here and elsewhere, I've seen Candlemass and Carcass in some lists, Mastodon in others. But yeah, not really surprising not to see much representation for the big four who started in the mid-80s or the original originals who started even earlier!
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Thorn on December 30, 2019, 02:29:06 PM
Yeah tradional big four and the big three in England I meant, yep not surprising at all given the passage of time but worth highlighting all the same
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 02:44:09 PM
Quote from: Thorn on December 30, 2019, 02:29:06 PM
passage of time

Bleedin' frantic-tic-toc it is!
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Thorn on December 30, 2019, 02:50:16 PM
Ridiculous,  and we all thought they were ol codgers when they said it goes fast..
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 04:42:15 PM
Morbus Chron's Sweven could also tussle for the number two slot.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Carnage on December 30, 2019, 05:07:23 PM
Quote from: Giggles on December 30, 2019, 01:35:15 PM
Quote from: Carnage
It also doesn't specify which decade, as we're being pedantic.


Quote from: BlackWizard on December 26, 2019, 11:36:00 PM
Not only another year has passed however another decade.
What albums have been th3 standout over the past 10 years!
...
Anyway always interested to hear what others have been obsessed with for the last 10 years!


Quote from: Carnage
You haven't read the previous post properly

Touché.

Still a year to go, though.  ;)
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 06:13:29 PM
Oh, Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper another slot 2 contender.

Start a thread called "Contenders for second best album of the decade"?
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 30, 2019, 06:37:45 PM
Quote from: Carnage on December 30, 2019, 02:49:59 AM
Quote from: Ducky on December 29, 2019, 09:28:44 PM
Quote from: Carnage on December 29, 2019, 03:17:10 PM
A decade is any arbitrary run of ten years, regardless of start and end date, so the eighties does indeed cover 1980-89. 2005-2015 is a decade. A 'calendar' decade is from the ---1 date to the ---0 date, so this 'decade ends at the end of 2020.

Thread isn't called "Album of the CALENDAR Decade", so yeah  :abbath:

It also doesn't specify which decade, as we're being pedantic.

It's safe to assume that because one wasn't specified, we're discussing your arch nemesis, namely 2010 to 2019...
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 06:50:28 PM
Jesus lads, I gave you a link explaining it all!

By convention of language, it should be obvious that noone is asking you what the best album of the 202nd decade is! Just like you've never, ever told anyone what you think the best album of the 199th decade is! No, there's a "best album" of the 80s (overlapping but not coinciding with the 199th decade) and now there'll be a best album of the "teens". Get over your "smarts".

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 30, 2019, 12:04:58 AM
As for the other parallel discussion:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/decade.html
"Depends on language [...] in essence, both are correct."
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Trev on December 30, 2019, 08:13:19 PM
Another two that just popped into my mind

Hell - Human Remains and the Howling Sycamore debut
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: TurnTheAirBlue on December 30, 2019, 09:09:42 PM
I forgot all about Ulcerate. Three great albums this decade!
Vermis being my favourite of theirs.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Ducky on December 31, 2019, 03:51:41 AM
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus.

Wings of Predation was the first song of theirs I heard and hooked me there and then.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Panopticon on December 31, 2019, 08:57:57 AM
A lot of great albums here. Some I must revisit. One of the albums that blew me away was A Umbra Omega by Dodheimsgard. An absolute monster of an album. Complex and listenable and just flows brilliantly.

I actually thought Zemial's Nykta was an excellent album  too.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: mick1sheridan on December 31, 2019, 10:24:35 AM
In no particular order except for number 1...
Tim Hecker - Virgins
Daughters - You Won't Get What you Want
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury
Unyielding Love - The Sweat of Our Augury
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Full of Hell & Merzbow - Full of Hell & Merzbow
Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 31, 2019, 12:12:51 PM
Good shout on Artificial Brain, for sure.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Grim Reality on December 31, 2019, 01:57:47 PM
Another of my favourites and maybe my Black Metal album of the decade

NOCTERNITY harps of the ancient temples.

Mesmeric.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: MGZT on December 31, 2019, 10:32:02 PM
Spawn of Possession - Incurso.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Pedrito on January 01, 2020, 12:08:53 AM
Judas Priest: Firepower was immense.
Bölzer: Hero
Howling Sycamore debut
Gunship s/t
Solstice: To Sol a Thane ep
Stargazer: A merging
Vektor: Outer Isolation and Terminal
Sacral Rage: Illusuions in the infinite void
Eternal Champion: Armor of Ire
Cynic: Kindly Bent & Carbon Based
Graven Rite: The Summoner's Pit

Hard to pick one..all class
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: heyjoe on January 01, 2020, 06:33:23 PM
Albums:

Inglorious - Inglorious I
Avantasia - Mystery of Time
Avantasia - Ghostlights
Judas Priest - Firepower
Iron Maiden - Book of Souls

Tours:

Iron Maiden - Maiden 88 / 7th Son History Tour
Iron Maiden  - Book of Souls
Avantasia - Mystery of Time
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Scáthach on January 01, 2020, 06:52:26 PM
I've been (over)thinking about this, but I would maybe go with
Rebirth of Nefast, Tabernaculum
Bölzer, Hero
For the scope, density and artistic ambition and execution.
Destroyer 666, Wildfire, because it's heavy metal as fuck.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Slaughterday on January 01, 2020, 09:43:00 PM
Been thinking about this the last few days and I keep arriving at the same conclusion. Macabre Omen - Gods of War at War. Vision, creativity, songwriting, musicianship, lyrics - it can't be beaten. An epic album in every sense of the word, and a true classic.

In a scene where incredible albums are released every month it can be hard to pick true classics, but this one is set in stone.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 01, 2020, 10:33:25 PM
Quote from: Slaughterday on January 01, 2020, 09:43:00 PM
Been thinking about this the last few days and I keep arriving at the same conclusion. Macabre Omen - Gods of War at War. Vision, creativity, songwriting, musicianship, lyrics - it can't be beaten. An epic album in every sense of the word, and a true classic.

In a scene where incredible albums are released every month it can be hard to pick true classics, but this one is set in stone.

I've never spent time with this, but I really should.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Slaughterday on January 01, 2020, 11:29:43 PM
It works very well when paired with the Nocternity album mentioned earlier in this thread too.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Panopticon on January 02, 2020, 08:10:48 AM
Quote from: Slaughterday on January 01, 2020, 09:43:00 PM
Been thinking about this the last few days and I keep arriving at the same conclusion. Macabre Omen - Gods of War at War. Vision, creativity, songwriting, musicianship, lyrics - it can't be beaten. An epic album in every sense of the word, and a true classic.

In a scene where incredible albums are released every month it can be hard to pick true classics, but this one is set in stone.

Been aware of this band in name but never checked  them out - thought it was a PM band for some reason. Just threw this on and it sounds amazing a few songs in. Nice one Aaron
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Grim Reality on January 02, 2020, 09:53:50 AM
Never got into that Macabre Omen. It seemed to get plaudits across the board at the time. Nothing about it grabbed me. Maybe I will revisit it and try and discover what I've evidently been missing.
Title: Re: Album of the Decade!
Post by: Cryptic Stench on January 02, 2020, 10:05:27 AM
QuoteIron Maiden - Book of Souls

Dreadful album. How it could be on anyone's album of the decade list beggars belief. There really is some absolutely horrific material on there even by maidens standards. I will give that the earlier part contains some cool tracks, Eternity, Great unknown etc although the better tracks only serve to remind you of former glories. Tears of a clown is catastrophic, toe curling to the extreme, Empire of the clouds completely insufferable- those two alone negate it being on any end of year list.
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Post by: Pentagrimes on January 02, 2020, 10:11:15 AM
Mine is Column of Heaven's "Mission From God". Pretty much nailed everything I like about various forms of extreme music in one place, set the blueprint for what Full of Hell are doing now in the process.
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Post by: ResidentOfBok on January 02, 2020, 10:25:49 AM
That Macabre Omen is unreal. It was in my MI top 3 of the year when it came out. Perfect combination of epic era Bathory and Greek BM.  I don't know if I'd say it's the best album of the decade but it's well worth checking out if you've never heard it.

Tribulation - Formulas of Death is a good shout. I think a lot of us in Ireland had a good vantage point into that record being such a leap forward for the band, what with the Invictus connection. It's just a great, atmospheric, well-rounded album.

Other ones that stand out for me:

Vektor - Terminal Redux (the ultimate rebirth of technical thrash?)
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon (a high water mark of brutal, technical, ambitious deathgrind in the 2010s)
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle (gorgeous, epic metal with literary inspiration only topped by Summoning back in their prime)
Altar of Plagues - Mammal (sounding completely out on its own)
Mourning Beloveth - Formless (possibly their best record coming almost 20 years after their forming)
Castevet - Mounds of Ash (one of the most cathartic records ever written in that style).

I'm forgetting loads but honourable mentions to Funeral Presence - The Archer Takes Aim and Funeral Mist - Hekatomb for great twists on the orthodox BM front too.

COH's 'Mission from God' is pinnacle stuff in that style. Even the length of the record is pretty much perfect.
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Post by: heyjoe on January 02, 2020, 10:34:10 AM
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 02, 2020, 10:05:27 AM
QuoteIron Maiden - Book of Souls

Dreadful album. How it could be on anyone's album of the decade list beggars belief. There really is some absolutely horrific material on there even by maidens standards. I will give that the earlier part contains some cool tracks, Eternity, Great unknown etc although the better tracks only serve to remind you of former glories. Tears of a clown is catastrophic, toe curling to the extreme, Empire of the clouds completely insufferable- those two alone negate it being on any end of year list.

Horses for courses. I loved BNW and BOS whereas AMOLAD and TFF did absolutely nothing for me. BOS also brought a great Eddie with a classic stage set. All in all a great package.
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Post by: Cryptic Stench on January 02, 2020, 10:44:14 AM
I'd have more time for BNW, some great stuff on it, they sounded somewhat rejuvenated on that album. Everything else has been a go through the motions affair.
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Post by: heyjoe on January 02, 2020, 11:02:35 AM
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on January 02, 2020, 10:44:14 AM
I'd have more time for BNW, some great stuff on it, they sounded somewhat rejuvenated on that album. Everything else has been a go through the motions affair.

There is an argument that BNW is the most important metal album of the decade ... a reunion with Bruce and Adrian, a return to form, the start of Ed Force One, it kicked off a decade of history tours and studio albums. Sure there are better albums, but to reunite and kick off the decade ahead it was a brilliant statement.
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Post by: Ollkiller on January 02, 2020, 11:05:46 AM
Tribulation Formulas of Death. Easily my favourite album of the decade.
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Post by: Eoin McLove on January 02, 2020, 11:18:39 AM
Formless and the new Primordial would surely get a look in for album of the decade but I'm not really sure how I'd even begin to compile any sort of list.  Some other brilliant albums mentioned like stuff by Macabre Omen and Nocternity, maybe Belus or Fallen too  (what years were they?), Dautha would probably be up there,  Rebirth of Nefast and the most recent Slidhr... A lot of what I've been listening to lately is stuff from the 90s which I've been digging into so I'm a little out of touch with more recent releases. 

Skepticism's 'Ordeal' might very well be near the top of the pile for me,  actually.
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Post by: Eoin McLove on January 02, 2020, 11:20:12 AM
Malokarpatan!
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Post by: Thorn on January 02, 2020, 07:47:40 PM
Quote from: Scáthach

Destroyer 666, Wildfire, because it's heavy metal as fuck.
/quote]

Fuck, yeah, might well be the blood, fire, beer, piss , vinegar, horns and wrecked neck album of the decade.
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Post by: Grim Reality on January 02, 2020, 11:05:54 PM
Absolutely loved this when it came out. Saw them imperious live a couple of times. Then the whole candles and cloaks thing got saturated to fuck and it seemed to get lost a little. But still, listening back now its a brilliant melodic black metal album full of catchy numbers and a sort of 70's rock swagger thrown in for good measure.

CULT OF FIRE -, triumvirat
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Post by: Pentagrimes on January 03, 2020, 02:08:29 PM
Forgive me if I missed it but..given the fuss made over them at the time, very surprised noone mentioned these:

Negative Plane "Stained Glass Revelations"
In Solitude "Sister"
Beastmilk "Climax"

other stuff that springs to mind:
Full of Hell "Trumpeting Ecstacy"
Godflesh "Posthuman"
Drowned "Idola Specus"
Blood Incantation "Starspawn"
Thantifaxath "Sacred White Noise"
Anything Malthusian did pretty much.
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Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 03, 2020, 02:57:34 PM
Stained Glass Revelations could definitely be a contender, in my head I was putting it before 2010 because it feels like it's been around so long.

Climax though, for all that it's an immensely enjoyable listen, isn't exactly meaty or layered enough to be "album of the decade" material for me.
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Post by: Ollkiller on January 03, 2020, 05:41:55 PM
Forgot about the Beastmilk album actually. Still Formulas though.
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Post by: open face surgery on January 04, 2020, 01:11:15 PM
To add to Negative Plane, Tribulation, In Solitude, Nocternity, Bolzer and a few more mentioned:

Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane
Lvcifyre - Svn Eater
Ride For Revenge - Under The Eye
Grave Miasma - Odori
Antediluvian - Through the Cervix of Howerya
Grave Upheaval - Untitled I
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication
Swallowed - Lunaterial
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Dødsengel - Mirium Occultum
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity

There's plenty more but I've lost interest.

EDIT: Regained some interest.
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Post by: Pentagrimes on January 04, 2020, 02:15:22 PM
Jaysus,"Lunarterial" for sure.
What was I thinking selling you my Swallowed shirt!
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Post by: open face surgery on January 04, 2020, 03:30:20 PM
If it helps at all, I can't find it.
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Post by: Eoin McLove on January 04, 2020, 11:03:36 PM
Fuck yeah... Lunarterial.  Unreal album.
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Post by: Don Gately on January 05, 2020, 12:08:52 AM
ALBUM of the decade. Not every fucking decent album that you can remember everyone... Ffs
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Post by: Abandon All Hope on January 05, 2020, 12:37:21 AM
Quote from: Don Gately on January 05, 2020, 12:08:52 AM
ALBUM of the decade. Not every fucking decent album that you can remember everyone... Ffs

+1
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Post by: lifeeternal on January 05, 2020, 04:06:35 AM
DsO - Paracletus
Beastmilk - Climax
Swans - The Seer
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused

Can't choose between these, all equally brilliant, for different reasons.
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Post by: open face surgery on January 05, 2020, 02:44:02 PM
Quote from: Abandon All Hope on January 05, 2020, 12:37:21 AM
Quote from: Don Gately on January 05, 2020, 12:08:52 AM
ALBUM of the decade. Not every fucking decent album that you can remember everyone... Ffs

+1

I find that a completely ludicrous and pointless notion. One singular album to represent 10 years? So many issues with that.
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Post by: Princess Of The Dawn on January 05, 2020, 03:48:09 PM
Accept - Blood Of The Nations.

Obviously a lot of other beauties but there you go.
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Post by: Mower Liberation Front on January 05, 2020, 09:04:36 PM
Quote from: Don Gately on January 05, 2020, 12:08:52 AM
ALBUM of the decade. Not every fucking decent album that you can remember everyone... Ffs

Yet the OP starts with this :

Quote from: BlackWizard on December 26, 2019, 11:36:00 PM
Not only another year has passed however another decade.
What albums have been th3 standout over the past 10 years!

For me the following are the ones that stand fore most in my mind.


:P
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Post by: hellfire on January 07, 2020, 08:53:48 PM
Promulgation of the Fall and Odori Sepulcrorum stick out right away. Will probably think of ten others the second I hit post.
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Post by: Eoin McLove on January 07, 2020, 09:35:15 PM
THAT'S TWO! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, ARE YOU NOT ABLE TO READ????
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Post by: hellfire on January 08, 2020, 12:33:48 AM
 Everyone else made bigger lists :'(
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Post by: ldj on January 08, 2020, 02:14:17 PM
We're all in agreement that Supercollider was THE album of the decade though, right?
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Post by: Paul keohane on January 08, 2020, 04:18:59 PM
Gun to my head ,Dead Congregation- Promulgation of the fall is the album of the decade for me.
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Post by: Squigs on January 08, 2020, 04:49:52 PM
I had fun putting together my list the last few months - didn't take it too serious, but enjoyed spending times with albums I loved for a few months 8 years ago etc.

These were the Top20, in no order. Some good shouts in this thread of things I forgot.


Blood Revolt - Indoctrine
Mgla - With Hearts Towards None
Ahab - The Giant
The National - High Violet
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Tribulation - Formulas of Death
Destroyer 666 - Wildfire
Stereo Nasty - Nasty By Nature
Kriegsmachine- Enemy of Man
Elephant - 88
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Bolzer - Hero
Macabre Omen - Gods of War - At War
Hell - Human Remains
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
John Grant - Queen of Denmark
Oransi Pazzuzu - Valoneuo
Beastmilk - Climax
Red Fang - Murder the Mountains
Howling Sycamore - Howling Sycamore


Sacriphyx, Satan - Life Sentence, Horrendous, Cultes Des Ghoules  all released albums that I still really enjoy too.
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Post by: Squigs on January 08, 2020, 04:55:59 PM
Also arguments about what constitutes a decade and about people posting multiple albums are deadly, keep up the good work.
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Post by: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 10:42:58 AM
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (2011)
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Post by: O Drighes on January 14, 2020, 12:30:03 PM
That would be easily THE DEVIL'S BLOOD - The thousandfold Epicentre (2011) IMO. I would personally say the best album of the 2000's music and lyricwise.
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Post by: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 04:13:23 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 10:42:58 AM
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (2011)
Actually, two more to add and that's it....

Tal'set - La Via Del Guerrero (2012)

Enisum - Arpitanian Lands (2015)
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Post by: lifeeternal on January 16, 2020, 09:37:43 AM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 04:13:23 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 10:42:58 AM
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (2011)
I don't think it's as good as Thrice Woven
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Post by: Kurt Cocaine on January 16, 2020, 10:08:57 AM
Quote from: lifeeternal on January 16, 2020, 09:37:43 AM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 04:13:23 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 14, 2020, 10:42:58 AM
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (2011)
I don't think it's as good as Thrice Woven
That's because you're a big smelly fart head.
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Post by: Nazgûl on July 09, 2020, 03:33:03 PM
One of the most interesting albums I remember going back to a lot was StarGazer 'A Merging To The Boundless'. Like a perfect mix of Morbid Angel, King Diamond, Atheist and Ved Buens End. Serious bass playing, the lyrics and artwork also really suit the bizarre nature of the tunes.
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Post by: Ducky on July 09, 2020, 10:52:39 PM
I only know The Scream that Tore the Sky, but that's a fairly accurate description.

Edit - s'up Mr. B. Nazgul!
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Post by: Cailleach on July 13, 2020, 09:17:01 PM
The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
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Post by: ochoill on July 13, 2020, 09:38:47 PM
Blood Vaults is fuckin lethal to be fair, was only shown it a year or so ago but it got plenty of spins.  Must fire it on again
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Post by: Kurt Cocaine on July 13, 2020, 09:41:16 PM
The Ruins of Beverast are bloody hell fecking amazing. That music gives me the chills in the best ways....
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Post by: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 13, 2020, 10:10:07 PM
Agreed. Foulest Semen still his most powerful imo, but a really impressive catalogue of work overall.
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Post by: Eoin McLove on July 13, 2020, 10:25:00 PM
I can't seem to get into them on record but they are fantastic live.
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Post by: open face surgery on July 14, 2020, 08:15:39 AM
Unlock the Shrine or Exuvia for me. Incredible stuff. The tunes on the two latest splits are savage as well.
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Post by: Goro on July 25, 2020, 04:31:08 AM
Exuvia followed by Rain Upon the Impure for me but pretty much all TROB is class. The track on the MB is split is deadly must give the other split a deeper listen though.
Good shout on Stargazer too - can't go wrong with any of their albums.