NOMINATIONS AND DISCUSSION THREAD FOR 2016 METAL/HEAVY ROCK POLL (Nominations end December 7)

hey brad is the frank iero album any good

There hasn't been a lot of enthusiasm this year in metal thread (except for Vektor) but I dont know if that's because people are unimpressed with 2016 releases, fed up with metal in general, and/or fed up with polls. But rolling metal thread has been really quiet this year.

I actually thought this was a wonderful year for metal, though for me "a wonderful year" means four or five releases I really dig - I'm never going to listen to 161 albums in a year and get some huge-breadth sense of what's going on, but when I find a good handful that I think I'll be listening to next year & the year after that, too, then that's a good year for me. New Mithras, the underrated SVLFVR record, Skuggja, Skaphe, Moon Tooth, Defiled, a really nice Church of Misery album...not like a trailblazing year or anything but who cares honestly. Plenty to chew on for me

hey brad is the frank iero album any good

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, December 7, 2016 7:06 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

never knowingly listened to a frank iero song, will report back

What about Mesarthim? Wasn't it you who tipped me off on them smithy?

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i listened to a lot less metal this year but what i found i really loved, so imo it's a good year! mesarthim, furia (seriously what a record), kvelertak, that ghoulgotha record is still surprising me, etc.

also wow i love the new vader, surprise

I didn't have my mind blown a lot this year but I look forward to being proven wrong when we do the poll

What about Mesarthim? Wasn't it you who tipped me off on them smithy?

I think so, maybe -- wow was that really this year? love it, but it feels so long ago!

digital release last year physical release this year and you messaged me on fb about about january i think. They've had 2 releases since I think!

Armory - World Peace ... Cosmic War

Nice find! I really like this.

Only Isolate is on Spotify fwiw (for some reason)

yeah they seem to be headed into a heavier keyboard direction while I head in a heavier metal direction. Isolate's good though.

pillars is super keyboardy but the morse code one feels real pared down to me. fav band of the year at least, easily

also the zao record is extremely good thank u simon

yeah it really comes alive in the middle section

I completely missed that Truckfighters had one this year

I love that band, could never miss a new release from them, though there's less fanfare I suppose since it's been only two years since Universe. Greenleaf is great but I still think Truckfighters do the desert fuzz thing best. I forgot to CTRL-F for Greenleaf, hopefully there's no other repeats in my list.

Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omniscience

Oh wow, I was completely misremembering Mesarthim as something else! This is the little space one. I like it a lot. Yeah, Pillars is beautiful. Listening to Isolate now for the first time - lovely majestic fuzz.

Mesarthim are the band that sounds like Summoning IN SPACE

It is also a bit like if Botanist were upset and tending to his greenhouse IN SPACE

Wow though, this is really too much.

Isolate is a 2015 record it seems

i really love that abnormality record, feel like they stepped it up all around, the riffs are better and even a little metalcore-y in parts, and the song structures occasionally get real abstract without losing their sense as songs (a problem in tech death)

Mesarthim did two EPs (Spire, Pillars) and an album (Absence) this year - that's plenty. Nominate Spire I guess

Isolate PHYSICAL release came out this year. It stays.

Oh OK! Will listen to it then ;)

O it's quite something

Vale of Pnath - II

Deceptionist - Initializing Irreversible Process
ALTARAGE - Nihl
Auroch - Mute Books
Ordinance - The Ides of March
Autokrator - The Obedience to Authority
Carnophage - Monument
Cognizant - Cognizant

If anyone needs more atmospheric black metal IN SPACE you should try Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether, it's reet good

So glad someone nominated Xoth upthread. Saw them with Vektor and they stole the show. The bass player is a total character and also their producer. They seem to be on all the good metal bills in Seattle so I'm happy to have a rad local band to follow.

This year has been a giant leap for space metal.

All the metal is escaping this planet.

and not on horses

Caïna - Christ Clad In White Phosphorus

Have we got everything then?

Now closed and just waiting on voting form to be set up by seandalai.

Voting will end FRIDAY DECEMBER 16 regardless so I suggest forming your shortlists/listening now.

Dammit. Bloodiest.

just realized Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) was nominated, came out Dec '15. This is a great record! For fans of the Cadaveric Fumes/Khanus end of weirdo death metal.

seandalai has told me he will set up voting tonight and sorry for the delay. If anyone has forgotten to nominate anything now is your chance.

I suggest you may want to start your shortlists anyway as voting will have to end next friday.

Nominations

I nominate:

Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls

Ghold - PYR

Hemelbestormer - Aether

Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night

and Bloodiest - Bloodiest

which had already been nominated, actually

Listening to Cadaveric Fumes and finding it great fun. It's like a death metal Castlevania.

An Autumn for Crippled Children - Eternal
Psychonaut 4 - Neurasthenia

Sorry I didn't ask for those earlier, I didn't know this was happening -- I've been out of the loop.

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wake to a New Dawn of Another Astro Era
Acid Guru Pond - Acid Guru Pond
Haikai No Ku - Temporary Infinity
Sun Drifter - Not Coming Back

Sendelica - I'll Walk the Stars for You
Sendelica - The Cromlech Chronicles
Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain
Horseback - Dead Ringers
Atomikylä - Keräily
Farflung - 5
The Spacelords - Liquid Sun
Cosmic Letdown - In the Caves
The Myrrors - Entranced Earth
Kandodo/McBain - Lost Chants/Last Chance
Mugstar - Magnetic Seasons
Vespero - Lique Mekwas
Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers

I was just about to ask after DA.M!

Ask what??

Oh! Just where you were. I hadn't spotted you itt. And then you arrived with some wonderfully named bands like 'Cosmic Letdown'