~~~ 15 YEARS OF ILM POLL!!! ~~~ (Metal & Heavy Rock [+ related sub-genres] Edition) VOTING & DISCUSSION THREAD. ALL ILXORS WELCOME TO PARTICPATE!! Voting Ends 11.59pm UK Time September 9 2016 .

Anybody have any albums they wish to recommend to those reading the thread?

that noisy one

serious answers please

I want to put a word in for that Plebeian Grandstand album I nominated - sort of discordant black metal/metalcore crossover (someone on RYM called them 'Deathscreamo Omega'). Really great.

Are EPs eligible as well? Or only full lengths?

That was one for the nominations thread. I dont actually remember what was decided.

I nominated an EP and intend to vote for it.

new board description

Unlike the all-time poll, which everyone knew who would win (but not which album), I dont see any actual certain winner standing out.
There's about at least 20 classics could win but none have sold so much that it makes them overwhelming favourites.

I think the past 15 years has been a great time for metal and heavy rock has been making a comeback to as people get fed up with extremity for extremities sake.

How is everyone deciding their tops tens? Most listened to albums? Or do you need to cut that shortlist down by ways such as 'game-changers'?

And how about the rest of the top 100 or whatever you choose to do?

Contenderizer and imago you always have convoluted ways of making ballots , how are you approaching this?

I'm just going to go through the nominations list and put the ones I've heard in order

Not going to use the time to re-listen or listen to albums you haven't heard?

The scope here is huge...danger of being too disparate for a consensus?

Might not be a bad thing?

ILM has a weird thing of wanting weird results unlike everywhere else who that has people who complains that *insert album here* isnt at #1 or whatever.

I slogged through the As and only saw 14 albums I'd heard (and most of those were by Amon Amarth) so I'm gonna chalk this up to "ILM's version of metal is not metal as I understand it" once again and walk away.

In before Cosmic Slop yells "IT'S NOT JUST A METAL POLL" again

yeah, a poll too disparate to achieve consensus is the best kind of poll. Nothing to reach against, no canon to alter -- just a list of the actual favorite albums by the people voting, where everyone is likely to be surprised and learn about new stuff

(誤訳侮辱), you nominated SHITLOADS of stuff you claimed to like.

Want some actual metal for your metal poll? Here you go.

Disturbed - The Sickness
Disturbed - Believe
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed - Indestructible
Disturbed - Asylum
Disturbed - Immortalized
Trivium - Ascendancy
Trivium - The Crusade
Trivium - Shogun
Trivium - In Waves
Trivium - Vengeance Falls
Trivium - Silence in the Snow
Korn - The Path of Totality
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
In This Moment - Beautiful Tragedy
In This Moment - The Dream
In This Moment - A Star-Crossed Wasteland
In This Moment - Blood
Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2
Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
Slipknot - Iowa
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
Machine Head - The Blackening
Machine Head - Unto the Locust
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Lamb of God - New American Gospel
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Lamb of God - Wrath
Lamb of God - Resolution
Lamb of God - VII: Sturm und Drang
Judas Priest - Angel of Retribution
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Dream Theater - Octavarium
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Dream Theater - The Astonishing
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Watershed
Opeth - Heritage
Opeth - Pale Communion
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth - Deceiver of the Gods

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 February 2016 14:13 (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Motörhead - We are Motörhead
Motörhead - Hammered
Motörhead - Inferno
Motörhead - Kiss of Death
Motörhead - Motörizer
Motörhead - The Wörld is Yours
Motörhead - Aftershock
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Metallica - St. Anger
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Megadeth - United Abominations
Megadeth - Endgame
Megadeth - Thirteen
Megadeth - Super Collider
Megadeth - Dystopia
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Slayer - Repentless
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Cannibal Corpse - Torture
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Soulfly - Primitive
Soulfly - 3
Soulfly - Dark Ages
Soulfly - Prophecy
Soulfly - Conquer
Soulfly - Omen
Soulfly - Enslaved
Soulfly - Savages
Soulfly - Archangel

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱),

what would a metal poll be without a virtual passive aggressive mosh pit

Phil seems to have a thing about hating lots of nominations. He tells us every poll.

Got my top 50 ready now

Contenderizer and imago you always have convoluted ways of making ballots , how are you approaching this?

― Cosmic Slop, Monday, July 18, 2016 12:09 PM (Yesterday)

i'm gonna vote for some albums i like

also ban alcest

why

Everyone vote Alcest!

actually nobody nominated Le Secret. When they actually were black metal.
I must ask seandalai to add that.

Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde is going to be pretty high up my ballot I reckon. At least Les Voyages... will probably make an appearance too.

If anyone wants to recommend any early-'00s black metal stuff on the noms list I will definitely give it a listen, that's kind a blind spot for me.

Pre-2003, say.

It looks like my Stargazer noms didn't make it on the list? Also Darkspace III listed twice

also Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)

start w/ weakling - dead as dreams, gavin

I did fix the darkspace so all 4 are listed as intended but i have no access to pastebin so the fixes and added nominations wont appear on it until seandalai fixes it.

I doubt anyones voted yet since they havent said here they have so it shouldnt make any difference.

Everyone just needs to go via the pastebin link rather than the list in the OP

Thanks! (xpost)

Also the missing Electric Wizard albums

has anyone voted yet? If so please say here so seandalai can check

Gavin: Drudkh "Autumn Aurora", Hate Forest "Purity", Nyktalgia s/t, Abyssic Hate "Suicidal Emotions", Antaeus "Cut Your Flesh And Worship Satan".

Also, Megiddo "The Devil And The Whore".

Thanks Siegbran, will check those out.

I've already voted but I'm not the most adequate voter for this poll. Still there's some weird things:

* Limp Bizkit on the nominees and no Deftones? Wouldn't vote for either but still...
* Marnie Stern is in there too which is weird as it doesn't fit anything else I think? Still I voted for it because why not?
* No Om... Pilgrimage, conference of the birds, variations on a theme... they're stoner metal but they're still metal no?
* Other artists besides Om I would've voted for but weren't on the list: Mastery, Ehnahre, Chthe'ilist, Khanate

I can add them. Om and Khanate should be on there, yes

added to spreadsheet but will need to wait for seandalai to add to pastebin.

ps pretty sure limp bizkit was troll nominated along with disturbed etc. Why? check a certain persons post upthread

Use this just now until pastebin is updated

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104IXKSHN1uWxe3MRFy4R5tHEOxLriKoBRKcjCNu_zus/edit#gid=1956354072

if there's any doubles please let me know

oh and the deftones were added the other day BUT again pastebin wasnt updated as i cant do that.

I can repost all the noms here though if anyone cant access googledocs at work or whatever

There's a poster who hated nominations constantly being posted as it mucked up searches so If a mod could instead update my OP with the full noms or even just remove them and add the google docs link along with the pastebin link in its place that would be tremendously helpful but I dont know if any mod will do that as they dont like me and jjj doesnt seem to be around to help :(

Chthe'ilist

would vote, but their debut LP is excluded on grounds of being a 2016 release, and alls they've got prior is a 3-track ep

demo ep, i meant to say

om's first three definitely oughtta be on there tho