How did you get on withYOU TOTALLY MISSED THE ILX HEAVY ROCK/METAL ALBUM POLL COUNTDOWN, SUCKA (CLICK FOR A RECAP)
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
Did Josh Homme take the thread out for drinks prior to that vote?
― Devilock, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
Also, re: the current poll, poor Gothenburg. No At the Gates, no Dark Tranquillity, no In Flames.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 02:37 (eight years ago) link
add them then! Frobisher said there's no limits to how much you can nominate
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 02:40 (eight years ago) link
I'm looking at this poll more as a list of personal favorites than a document of historical significance. Even of the best works by the bands I mentioned, I rarely make it through an entire album. Slaughter of the Soul just kind of wears me out by the time I'm like 6 songs into it. Unfortunate because a lot of those riffs rule; that recurring humppa beat drags everything down.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
At The Gates - Slaughter of the SoulCave In - Until Your Heart StopsKatatonia - Dance of December SoulsObituary - Cause of DeathMorbid Angel - Gateways to AnnihilationCeltic Frost - Into the PandemoniumKronos - Colossal Titan StrifeSacrifice - Forward to TerminationRazor - Shotgun Justice
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
thing with the gothenburg stuff, sacramentum and dissection are clearly the best in that style, i don't see much need to nominate a bunch of 2nd tier stuff that i will never vote for anyway.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 06:13 (eight years ago) link
Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)Abigor - Channeling the Quintessence of SatanCultes des Ghoules - HenbaneGorgoroth - Incipit SatanOverkill - The Years of DecaySepticflesh - Sumerian DemonsTiamat - WildhoneyVesania - God the Lux
Tempted to already put the new Mgla on there; it's just as amazing as the last one.
― Devilock, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 09:23 (eight years ago) link
Forgot one of my favourites from last year:
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Don't the later Judas Priest albums qualify?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
― Dominique, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Celtic Frost - MonotheistEyehategod - DopesickEyehategod - Confederacy of Ruined LivesGorguts - From Wisdom to HateTriptykon - Eparistera DaimonesWatchtower - Control and Resistance
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
mostly that's filling out a few discographies but i was sorta surprised watchtower hadn't been nominated
sorry I was away, was taking my dog to the vet. I'm getting these noms added now.
No.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
This is due to following the genre family tree more than anything? Painkiller is definitely extreme and Jedi is not if we're going by the sound alone.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
Jesu not Jedi.
I'd say Painkiller counts myself but its frobishers poll and he needs to draw the line somewhere
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
I'm not too fussed. Just clarifying that if older bands do make something genuinely extreme that will it count or not. Some of the solo Halford stuff I'd heard sounds like full blown extreme metal to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
xxps well, neither is High on Fire or really a lot of 1st gen thrash, or Mastadon, but its on there... look this is tough, and I know a lot of stuff on it already doesn't make any sense, but you don't have to vote for it. I don't even like Jesu, lol, I'm trying to bend over backwards to not make this poll about what I think and rather about what ILM thinks instead.
I'm just trying to keep out Priest/Maiden/Sabbath as they would dominate the poll and are not in the spirit of this poll even if they "were extreme at the time" or have an album that still holds up as fairly blistering.
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:22 (eight years ago) link
uh the first jesu album is hella extreme imo but i'm not the one to argue this point lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, I assumed everything else was as soft as Conqueror and Silver.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PYwPMnUCM
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 20:41 (eight years ago) link
If this is in then Nadja has to be in as well and I don't think it should.
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
why not Nadja?
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Nadja - Touched has already been nominated. Should it be taken off? If you guys think we should take some things off, look through the list and suggest them, we can debate them. I'm open to whatever!
― Frobisher, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
No way should it be removed!
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
I loooove the first Jesu album but I didn't nominate it coz I'm unsure how extreme it is
But I guess a track like Sun Day basically turns dreampop into metal and vice versa better than anyone else has ever done (inc. alcest) so maybe that's extreme idk
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
i think it's extreme bc it really successfully creates this harrowing and uncanny atmosphere through which both dreampop and industrial scrapes sound equally sinister, that's fuckin extreme 2 me
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 October 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
i would not nominate the later jesu records
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 October 2015 00:08 (eight years ago) link
arguably Jugulator for JP was kind of "extreme" but it's also a humongous pile of donkey shit so
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 1 October 2015 00:15 (eight years ago) link
striborg: Autumnal Melancholystriborg: Black Desolate Winter / Depressive Hibernationstriborg: Embittered Darkness / Isle De Mortsstriborg: Ghostwoodlandsstriborg: Mysterious Semblancestriborg: Nefaria / A Tragic Journey Towards The Lightstriborg: Nocturnal Emissions / Nyctophobiastriborg: Spiritual Catharsisstriborg: Southwest Passagestriborg: Solitudestriborg: The Foreboding Silencestriborg: Trepidationnuclear assault: game overnecronomitron: s/tGLUTTONY: Collapse Of The Roman RepublicSHEVALREQ: Siege Of AlbracaSHEVALREQ: Tournament At ConstantinopleTHURSAR: Journey To JotunheimXYNFONICA: A Feast For Famished Ravensnecrofrost: Bloodstorms Voktes Over Hytrunghas Dunkle NecrotronerVirus: carheartREHTAF RUO: Boiled In Goat Bloodbenighted leams: ferly centesmsfaxed head: chiropracticvorak: triumph of the willocrilim / octis: mentmeshuggah: Imeshuggah: chaospheremelvins: stagyoung gods: l'eau rougeLUGUBRUM: Albino De CongoLUGUBRUM: Bruyne TroonLUGUBRUM: De TotemLUGUBRUM: De Vette CueckeLUGUBRUM: De Ware HondLUGUBRUM: Heilige Dwazenbenighted leams : caliginouf romantic mythwold: l.o.t.m.p.KHANATE: Capture & ReleaseKHANATE: Things Viralfredrik thordendal's special defects: sol niger within
― massaman gai, Thursday, 1 October 2015 06:50 (eight years ago) link
portal: seepiaportal: swarthportal: vexovoid
― massaman gai, Thursday, 1 October 2015 07:05 (eight years ago) link
Wow there's some real outsider stuff on that list massaman gai. Never thought I would have seen fucking Vorak mentioned outside the wastes of RYM. Love Lugubrum though, I totally forgot about them
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 1 October 2015 13:49 (eight years ago) link
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
is that a real album title? that's nuts!
― Frobisher, Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
:-Þ
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
ew that looks wrong
D{-:Þ
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 1 October 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Vehemence - God Was CreatedSummoning - StrongholdWormphlegm - Tomb of the Ancient KingBolt Thrower - The IVth CrusadeImmortal - Battles in the NorthHorna - Envaatnags Eflos Solf EsgantaavnePeste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
― mozart, Thursday, 1 October 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Thank you! I will get all these added a little later!
― Frobisher, Thursday, 1 October 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
Satyricon gets dumped on for reasons beyond my comprehension. Every time I listen to Nemesis Divina I'm like god damn this is a perfect album. The earlier two are definitely works in progress, though.
So uh
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
― Devilock, Saturday, September 26, 2015 10:05 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thanks for saying this, I had always avoided Satyricon, but god damn this is an amazing album Forhekset -> Du som hater Gud is particularly amazing.
― kruezer2, Friday, 2 October 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
Yeah - no idea how it's pronounced though...
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 2 October 2015 05:46 (eight years ago) link
oh and:jazkamer: metal music machineVondur: Striðsyfirlýsing
― massaman gai, Friday, 2 October 2015 07:26 (eight years ago) link
Þ is pronounced 'th' and presumably the album is titled that way because all 11 song names start with this letter.
Has nothing on this band though, which is positively Google-proof.
― Siegbran, Friday, 2 October 2015 09:07 (eight years ago) link
Ah right, I'd noticed that about the song titles but was still none the wiser about the pronunciation. You learn something new every etc.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 2 October 2015 10:42 (eight years ago) link
Metal writer: So what's the new album called.Arckanum dude: [pronounces album title]Metal writer: [wipes face]
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 2 October 2015 12:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzC1Dn0gqgE
― jmm, Friday, 2 October 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
Satyricon gets dumped on for reasons beyond my comprehension.
― Siegbran, Friday, 2 October 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
*sigh* can't not nominate this, even though it's totally obscure and didn't influence anyone
Protected Illusion - Festering Fairytales
I found it looking for death/thrash like Sadus, and in all honesty, it outdoes that. It's like you took a crust/grind band from 2015 and transported them back to 1990 and said "make a thrash record, but don't let anyone onto the fact you're from the future." Incredibly precise, proggy and brutal, and I can't believe they weren't huge.
― Dominique, Saturday, 3 October 2015 02:43 (eight years ago) link
Monstrosity - Spiritual Awakening
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 3 October 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link