19 valid votes were cast. Due to the limited number of votes I was pretty lenient in terms of eligibility. A few of the lists had errors such as more than two albums by the same artist, artists who weren't on the archives, putting the same album on more than once, and not having a full 15. In all of these cases, I just didn't count the erorrs. It was a tough decision for me to make, but I feel in the end it was more beneficial to the list, than it was hurtful. There was one more vote, but it was rejected because it came in after the 5 day deadline (unfortunately only by about four hours).

134 distinct albums were named, but 93 of these only had one vote, and thus I discarded them from the final list (just think of it like when someone makes a motion, it has to be seconded to be recognized... something like that). However, they are still listed at the very bottom of this post. So, only 41 albums are ranked and detailed here.

Again, although I'm fairly certain that the tallying of the individual lists was more or less accurate, I don't claim this to be a perfect tallying. So... all individual lists have been posted on the survey thread just in case anyone wants to see them.

Enjoy...!
(much of the wording above was barrowed with permission from lastdodobird)

FORMAT: <rank> - <total points> - <# of votes> - <album> - <artist>


01 - 230 - 11 - "World Downfall" - Terrorizer
02 - 228 - 11 - "Horrified" - Repulsion
03 - 190 - 08 - "Scum" - Napalm Death
04 - 182 - 10 - "From Enslavement to Obliteration" - Napalm Death
05 - 158 - 09 - "World Extermination" - Insect Warfare
06 - 119 - 08 - "Reek Of Putrefaction" - Carcass
07 - 116 - 08 - "Prowler in the Yard" - Pig Destroyer
08 - 112 - 05 - "Misery Index" - Assück
09 - 95 - 08 - "Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses" -Brutal Truth
10 - 94 - 04 - "Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious" - Carcass
11 - 84 - 04 - "Symphonies of Sickness" - Carcass
12 - 83 - 05 - "Terrifyer" Pig Destroyer
13 - 68 - 04 - "Anticapital" - Assück
14 - 62 - 04 - "Carnivorous Erection" - Regurgitate
15 - 61 - 04 - "Olidous Operettas" - The County Medical Examiners
16 - 61 - 04 - "Human 2.0" - Nasum
17 - 61 - 05 - "Inhale/Exhale" - Nasum
18 - 55 - 02 - "Unrest" - Disrupt
19 - 51 - 03 - "Holocaust in Your Head" - Extreme Noise Terror
20 - 48 - 02 - "Opus(sy) VI" - Cock and Ball Torture
21 - 46 - 02 - "Anatomy is Destiny" - Exhumed
22 - 46 - 02 - "Utopia Banished" - Napalm Death
23 - 45 - 03 - "Exit" - Rotten Sound
24 - 38 - 02 - "The Funeral March" - Gadget
25 - 38 - 02 - "Satyriasis and Nymphomania" - Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
26 - 37 - 02 - "Discordia" - Misery Index
27 - 36 - 02 - "Nise Kyuseishu Domo" - Swarrrm
28 - 34 - 03 - "The Inalienable Dreamless" - Discordance Axis
29 - 34 - 02 - "Old Lady Drivers" - O.L.D.
30 - 30 - 03 - "Process Of Elimination" - Leng Tch'e
31 - 28 - 02 - "Razor Sharp Daggers" - Agathocles
32 - 26 - 02 - "Purity Dilution" - Defecation
33 - 26 - 03 - "Ultimo Mondo Cannibale" - Impetigo
34 - 26 - 02 - "Phantom Limb" - Pig Destroyer
35 - 22 - 03 - "Left Hand Pathology" - General Surgery
36 - 22 - 02 - "Human Error" - Unseen Terror
37 - 20 - 03 - "Kill. Fucking. Everyone" - Watchmaker
38 - 19 - 02 - "Horror of the Zombies" - Impetigo
39 - 19 - 02 - "Shift" - Nasum
40 - 18 - 02 - "Cleptocracy" - Kill the Client
41 - 12 - 02 - "Cruel" - Phobia


One-Vote-Albums:
"Thanks for Your Hostility" - Agathocles
"Theatric Symbolisation of Life" - Agathocles
"Humarrogance" - Agathocles
"Hospice Orgy" - Amoebic Dysentery
"Hell is Empty, and All the Devils are Here" - Anaal Nathrakh
"The Codex Necro" - Anaal Nathrakh
"Spray For Jesus" - Anal Penetration
"Intense Killings" - Anoxia
"Icon" - Benighted
"Mondo Musicale" - Birdflesh
"Human Parade" - Blockheads
"O Agios Pethane" - Blood
"Impulse To Destroy" - Blood
"Sleaze Merchants" - Blood Freak
"Need to Control - Brutal Truth
"The Encyclopedia Of Serial Murders" - Catasexual Urge Motivation
"Karma. Bloody. Karma" - Cattle Decapitation
"Humanure" - Cattle Decapitation
"To Serve Man" - Cattle Decapitation
"Anomalies" - Cephalic Carnage
"Exotic Sense Decay" - Circle of Dead Children
"Egoleech" - Cock and Ball Torture
"Forensic Fugues and Medicolegal Medleys" - The County Medical Examiners
"Our Funeral Oration For The Human Race" - Cyness
"Whorehouse Of The Freaks" - Dead
"A Chapter of Accidents" - Dead Infection
"Jouhou" - Discordance Axis
"Chronic Corpora Infest" - Disgorge
"Slaughtercult" - Exhumed
"Peel Sessions ('87-90)" - Extreme Noise Terror
"Mean" - Filthy Christian
"Kill Whitey" - Flesh Parade
"May God Strike Me Dead" - Fleshgore
"Bring on the Dead" - Fuck... I'm Dead
"Destination Time Yesterday - Graf Orlock
"Amber Gray" - Gridlink
"Whoami" - Groinchurn
"Apology For Pathology" - Haemorrhage
"Grume" - Haemorrhage
"Reality Choke" - In Disgust
"Life" - Inhumate
"Growth" - Inhumate
"Decomposing from Inside" - Inhume
"In for the Kill - Inhume
"Chaos Dissection Order" - Inhume
"Mondo Medicale" - Impaled
"The Dead Shall Dead Remain" - Impaled
"Endless Execution Thru Violent Restitution" - Insect Warfare
"At War With Grindcore" - Insect Warfare
"Katana Orgy" - Jig-Ai
"World End Carnage" - Jigsore Terror
"Death by a Thousand Cuts" - Leng Tch'e
"ManMadePredator" - Leng Tch'e
"Hate Breeds Suffering" - Lock Up
"Pleasure Pave Sewers" - Lock Up
"Pathogenesis Infest Phlegmsepsia" - Lymphatic Phlegm
"Murder Metal" - Macabre
"Mundo Cripta" - Machetazo
"Carne de Cementerio" - Machetazo
"Trono de Huesos" - Machetazo
"Dawn Of A New age" - Malignant Tumour
"Traitors" - Misery Index
"Retaliate" - Misery Index
"Mentally Murdered" - Napalm Death
"Inside the Torn Apart" - Napalm Death
"Smear Campaign" - Napalm Death
"Harmony Corruption" - Napalm Death
"The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code" - Napalm Death
"Order of the Leech" - Napalm Death
"Helvete" - Nasum
"Crime Against Humanity" - Nausea
"Pathological Performances" - Necrony
"Paranormal Nanodivision" - Negligent Collateral Collapse
"Bride of Insect" - Nuclear Death
"Carrion for Worm" - Nuclear Death
"Insects" - Nyctophobic
"Grind Your Fucking Head In" - Phobia
"Means Of Existence" - Phobia
"Destroying the Masses" - Phobia
"Violence Spreads Its Drape" - Retaliation
"Stress Related" - Righteous Pigs
"Cycles" - Rotten Sound
"From Crust til Grind" - Rotten Sound
"Murderworks" - Rotten Sound
"Don’t Be Swindle" - S.O.B.
"No Mercy" - Squash Bowels
"Inventory Of Fixtures" - Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
"Black Bong" - Swarrrm
"Against Again" - Swarrrm
"Inhumanity" - Unholy Grave
"Planisphaerium" - Wormed
"Above The Mind Of Morbidity" - Xysma


Do we want to do one for folk metal....?

I don't see why not, some people might hate folk metal, but fuck them. It's still Metal.

Edit: By the way, we should do one for Heavy Metal eventually, too.

Anaal Nathrakh, Misery Index and Cephalic Carnage FOR THE WIN

And I agree with chrislyles15 about the Heavy Metal survey.

Wooo I correctly guessed which album would win.

Yes, a Folk/Viking/Pagan Metal survey would be awesome! PLEASE!!!

Edit: that list needs MOAR Lykathea Aflame!

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Your god damn right Terrorizer is at the top.

Ahhh goddamnit. Where the fuck is Intestinal Disgorge?

Damn...I can't complain. I didn't vote.

Interesting. I might immerse myself in a bit of grind sometime...

No surprise at what's at the top, not complaining either.

Assuck and Nasum need more respect though.

I agree somewhat with the top 5.

List seems quite good, but all those people who voted for Necroticism should fucking kill themselves now, how people say that as a grind album I have no idea. Hell, Symphonies could only just fit under the grind label.

I love Vagina.

The first three albums are really amazing but everything after that is too death metal for me.

Why is Necroticism up there? It's pretty much the first album where Carcass went pure death metal.

100% agreed!!!!

I'm not too "up" on the Intestinal Disgorge discography, but the transition i have heard between the material released on the '5 Most Devastating Bands On The Planet - Split' and 'Vagina' is most pleasing for me. For what the album is, is written incredibly well. Im sure it would garner a lot of trash reviews from people on this board, but i think its fantastic, short, insulting and quick to the point grindcore. It doesnt do anything outstandingly new, but its a solid aggressive outburst that i always find a blast to listen to. And in regards to albums of this style, it manages to keep me listening to the end, which is a pretty good feat, as im a victim of short attention span.

What I've heard off Vagina is too coherent, but they're a different band nowadays so I guess I can respect that. The first three Intestinal Disgorge releases are very sick, evil, and uncomfortable to listen to, genuinely some of the nastiest and most disturbing music I've ever heard. The whole style of noise/death/grind was very unique and atmospheric. Whore Splattered Walls is probably the best; it treads a very fine line between being too songy and too noisy without ever crossing into either, making for an almost unbearably chaotic, predatory listen. What a great band. I haven't heard Sociopath and they said they were moving a bit in the direction of the older shit, so maybe I'll check it out.

In regards to the list, looks pretty much like i expected, with the top very much dominated by the more traditional sounding grindcore bands. It seems pretty clear the grindcore tastes of people on the board.

I didnt vote cos many of the albums i would have chosen aren't listed on the site (but i must say i am surprised with some of the bands that are on here that i didn't realize).

Surprised bands such as Bile, Hemdale, Vaginal Carnage, The Kill, Carnal Diafragma, Captain Cleanoff, Blood Duster, Plasma, Mortician, Neuro-Visceral Exhumation, Mucupurulent, Pungent Stench failed to make any appearance on the list.

If this kind of survey has been done for death metal, could someone send me a link to that if it's not too much trouble? I can't find it through the search function.

Well, I don't think Pungent Stench is really grind. And Mortician aren't very highly thought of here, so not so much of a suprise.

Hmm..."The Matter of Splatter" is merely a song. I think the person who voted for it meant to say the Anatomy is Destiny album. Should it count as a two-vote album?


Here you go:
http://metal-archives.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=31207

Thanks!

I find Pungent Stench as one of those bands that really walk the line between genres, not decisively falling too much into one category or the other.The encyclopedia says death metal, and im not concerned enough to argue the point.

CMMMMMMOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!!!! Is it too much to ask for one Mortician fan? The other theory i have as to why they didnt get a vote. All the albums sound the same, so its just too damn hard to pick one favorite

Yes, it is too much. Mortician are just lame.

hey one of those two votes was MINE, it should have gotten more!!

EDIT: I would also love to see a Folk Metal or Heavy Metal survey! Oh and cheers to the OP for doing this survey, much appreciated man!!

Reverse those.

Yes, we want a folk/viking and heavy survey.

A Heavy Metal one would be great.

No complaints here - this is not a grind site, so that fact that there was no death metal until #9 makes me happy. There is a good dose of grind in the One Vote section as well...

Nice one Lyrici17

How about a plain Metal survey encompassing all genres?

Pointless.

Agreed. That'd be completely stupid.
I think it'd be interesting to do one for metal albums pre-1981 or something.

Only without Sabbath, Maiden, Priest and Motorhead.

Pre 85 punk would be cool, too. Most of this site seems anti punk but we can all agree on Siege and Discharge.

The bands wouldn't be on the archives although Discharge are..

I definitely think a Heavy Metal survey is needed, to be honest I probably wouldn't be able to vote in it because my knowledge of traditional heavy metal is quite limited, but that's precisely the reason why I think there should be a survey, so that I can expand my heavy metal collection. Heavy Metal survey ftw!!

The flamewar of all flamewars. Plus it would be way too broad and thus time-consuming to collate all data.

There is a locked thread from this summer that is close to this. The premis was 6 CDs from 6 Genres - pick one of each. It was pretty cool and actually came out with some content as opposed to being another senseless list thread.

Good luck searching for it - I don't speak "MA search engine."