~~~ 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 .

It's going to be really hard to decide what misses out as 2000-15 really has seen so many great albums.

I know very few have sold enough to reach the status of Reign In Blood or Master of Puppets did in the 80s but that doesn't matter.

Its been a great time for metal IMO. Great new bands and classic old bands coming back as good as they were.

Who would've thought Iron Maiden would come back as strong after a poor 90s?

Problems with pastebin means seandalai cannot edit it so we are ditching it.

Please use the google docs link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/104IXKSHN1uWxe3MRFy4R5tHEOxLriKoBRKcjCNu_zus/edit?usp=sharing

we can at least keep that up to date.

Looks like we have 9 ballots too so quick work, I thought we only had one!

If anyone wants to update theirs due to forgetting anything just submit a new ballot and leave a message saying why for seandalai (also best to say so here too)

cheers for putting this together btw

No problem, seandalai does the important stuff though!!

btw folks please post here when you vote so we can check it's gone through. I still feel rotten that billy dods votes werent counted in the all-time metal poll as his ballot didn't arrive.

No idea if he's still around but if so I hope he votes!

I'm one of those 9 that submitted so quickly. Didn't see the google doc link until now. I will be updating in the future. I also have a few that I'd like added to the doc if that is possible:

At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Daughters - Daughters
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
The Body - Christs, Redeemers
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Mastery - VALIS
Indricothere - II
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
maudlin of the Well - Bath
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Fantômas - The Director's Cut
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World
The Icarus Line - Penance Soirée
Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight

jeez louise, can't believe none hot snakes nominated. add too:

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
Shellac - 1000 Hurts
Nasum - Helvete
Tragedy - Vengeance
Tragedy - Tragedy
Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
Zeke - Death Alley
The Bronx - The Bronx
Paintbox - Trip, Trance & Travelling
mclusky - mclusky Do Dallas
mclusky - The Difference Between Me and You Is I'm Not on Fire
Nomeansno - One
EyeHateGod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives
Iron Lung - Life. Iron Lung. Death
Iron Lung - Sexless // No Sex
Murder City Devils - In Name and Blood
Fucked Up - Hidden World
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer

well, i dont remember hot snakes or mcluskey making metal poll before so im not sure theyre eligible

last thing we want is a poll full of indie rock

zombi and ulver for instance get in because they are metal musicians and/or making music mostly listened to by metal fans.

but ive added them.

heavy rock is heavy rock. rawr.

Careful, there are Six By Seven albums heavy enough on that precedent

If anyone tries to add more indie i will need to remove them

Marnie Stern,Zombi, Swans and Lightning Bolt get in because they made metal polls previously

Though why you lot didn't nominate in the nominations thread and go through all this already..

Cosmip Slop, whatchu got against Stargazer?

your poll, but i think you're making too much of the indie vs metal distinction. i mean, it would suck if the top 10 were all p4k indie favorites, but i doubt that's gonna happen no matter what.

i wan't around when this thing started up, so i only noticed when you announced the final day or two for nominations. takes my brain at least a week to get up to thinking speed.

Dominique, nothing. Why?

everything nominated should be on the googledocs spreadsheet. We are not using pastebin anymore.
I better ask a mod to remove the pastebin link

I checked and there's 3 Stargazer albums. Should there be more?

are comps ok w/ enforcement division?

Noothgrush - Failing Early, Failing Often

because I was using the wrong google docs link and didn't see them on the spreadsheet :P

I think we decided no comps

ok

certainly makes sense in this case, cuz it's all pre-00 material

Im sure you will have enough trouble cutting down your list to 100 as it is

I thought I had my 100 but with the extra noms made I need to change it.

Where to start!!

It's funny all you guys wanting to add indie but when we decided emo of the MCR/FOB style aka the one Kerrang and other heavy rock mags cover, nobody nominated them. Not even brad.

infact Brad was one who was against it as he doesn't like to mix emo with his death metal.

btw I added the missing Baroness albums and ive put the 2 ep's as one album because it was issued on a CD as the First Two ep's and it just makes more sense and its not a comp as such.

and I added Beastmilk - Climax which is an ILM fave

If Jeff, Chuck etc want to add stuff they want to vote for then they can.

Phil can add more to his noms too if he wants to. Always happy to allow things someone wants to vote for.

just read through the whole list. good job, everyone, it's gonna make for some interesting ballots. i'm done nominating stuff, but was surprised not to see ruins of beverast (hint hint).

also someone fp me for nominating mclusky

what ruins of beverast do you want added?

A kindly mod removed the pastebin link in the OP so everyone should know now to use googledocs as Seandalai as changed the link on the voting form.

they're all worthwhile, so

Ruins of Beverast - Unlock the Shrines
Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure
Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich Kramer

George insisted High On Fire - The Art Of Self Defense was out in 2000 not 1999 so I've added it

It's funny all you guys wanting to add indie but when we decided emo of the MCR/FOB style aka the one Kerrang and other heavy rock mags cover, nobody nominated them. Not even brad.

I'll oblige:
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

You can't have that Muse album...

...without Muse - Origin Of Symmetry as well

NO Muse.

I'm only allowing the emo if Brad gives the OK as it was he who didnt want it in this poll. (possible emo poll at some point?)

John Zorn - Asmodeus
Ambergris - Ambergris
Camera Obscura - To Change the Shape of an Envelope
Rush - Clockwork Angels

Are there 2 Camera Obscura's? lol

You want to expand to the full hard rock spectrum but you want to exclude the biggest hard rock band in the world?

xp There are at least four on discogs. This is the San Diego hardcore band.

Mew -And the Glass Handed Kites
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry They Washed Away // No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away
Mew - +-

dont count, sorry.

and then imago would want to nominate Mansun or something like that. :)

*puts foot down*

I think we have pretty much everything important nominated now.