Since the site’s inception, we’ve held annual community polls to determine our favourite records – but what of the years prior to the Bowl’s existence? Today is your chance to let us know what album(s) would have made your “Best of 1998” list.

A few months ago on the Toilet ov Hell Social Club I asked the group to participate in a poll to try and gauge if there was concensus on which albums kicked the most arse from the utterly meaningless years before the Flushening®. So starting with 2013 and descending from there, I asked the group to nominate only their most cherished records and upvote all the stuff they dug at the time/dig now. The votes poured in, and while we did end up with a pretty good cross-section of what the diverse demographic dug, it occurred to me that a bunch of you dwelling in the doldrums of Disqus might like to voice your opinions too. The way this will run is via essentially the same method as we do for the end-of-year community album polls.

Last week’s poll for 1999 is still open and we had some extra albums added during the week, so even if you voted on the day you might wanna head back here and check it out before we start to tally the votes.

Today is all about 1998 though, so let’s go.

How To Vote

1. Don’t be a dropkick
2. Make sure all comments are shown before adding your picks
3. List your favorite album(s) in the comment (don’t nominate an album that sucks)
4. Crucify that fucken ctrl+f to make sure you aren’t being a reposting dropkick
5. Upvote the other albums you love (down-voting does nothing)
6. Double-check the record you’re nominating is from 1998

Now just to get you started, I’ll post a heap of the polling options to refresh your memory of some of the albums from 1998. As discussed last week, add these in the comments to vote for them, then add your own too.

• • • Meshuggah – Chaosphere
    • Dawn – Slaughtersun (Crown Of The Triarchy)
    • Nasum – Inhale/Exhale
    • Suffocation – Despise The Sun
    • The Chasm – Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph
    • Blind Guardian – Nightfall In Middle Earth
    • Primus – Rhinoplasty
    • Nile – Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka
    • Robert Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe
    • Iced Earth – Something Wicked This Way Comes
    • Extol – Burial
    • Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal To The Flesh
    • Refused – The Shape Of Punk To Come
    • Cradle Of Filth – Cruelty And The Beast
    • Incantation – Diabolical Conquest
    • System Of A Down – SOAD
    • Gorguts – Obscura
    • Rhapsody – Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
    • Evoken – Embrace The Emptiness
    • Primordial – A Journey’s End
    • Cannibal Corpse – Gallery Of Suicide
    • Monster Magnet – Powertrip
    • Slayer – Diabolus In Musica
    • Hammerfall – Legacy Of Kings
    • Cryptopsy – Whisper Supremacy
    • Aura Noir – Deep Tracts Of Hell
    • Bolt Thrower – Mercenary
    • Exhumed – Gore Metal
    • Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
    • Death – The Sound Of Perseverance
    • Amon Amarth – Once Sent From The Golden Hall
    • Metallica – Garage, Inc.
    • Symphony X – Twilight In Olypmus
    • Botch – American Nervoso
    • Nightwish – Oceanborn
    • Fear Factory – Obsolete
    • Anata – The Infernal Depths Of Hatred
    • Devin Townsend – Infinity
    • Sepultura – Against
    • Queens Of The Stone Age – QOTSA
    • Dan Swano – Moontower
    • Korn – Follow The Leader

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