~~~ 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 .

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i already allowed that one since you seem dead set on voting for it. Nobody gets late nominations if its not stuff you really want to vote for. the nominations period lasted months and that was when anyone should have voted for the stuff noones heard of really that MIGHT get 1 vote.

I would say everythings been added as of yesterday so its only the important stuff I'll add now

will be funny though if the twee pop fans mistakenly vote for it though sund4r :)

Thank you for adding my last minute additions. I will be voting for every one of them. Sorry about that.

No worries. I didn't even know anyone had voted until moka said yesterday she had.
I should ask seandalai to edit the form so that people know to say here they have so we can check it went through.

But only about 1 in 20 ever posts that they have voted anyway.

Looks like we did get a couple more today as we're into double figures but please remember folks to post here when you do your ballot.

thought I knew which Immolation I was going to go with, but now I don't. Damn band hasn't made any bad records, have they?

Never heard any

Really unique sounding, and definitely a bridge between the early US death metal sound of Incantation, Morbid Angel, and the like, and modern, experimental death metal. Close to A World Below is probably their most popular record, and weirdly, also happens to be the least compromising, as far as weird riffs and general intensity.

I just dont like 99% of death metal

Me neither but Immolation is part of the 1%

Damn 1% always ruling everything

been working all day on my ballot and Ive got my top 100 sorted. Top 30 in order now.

Just got to decide whether to order the rest or have the rest unweighted.

Voting only ends in september, I'm going to listen to a lot of nominations first.

If anyone wants to check out spacerocky psychedelic doom metal then check out the 5ive albums.

No, not the boyband.

5ive - 5ive
https://open.spotify.com/album/05J5tYEHp8S5o3Dw6oroXv

5ive - Hesperus
https://open.spotify.com/album/5s9fLbUPUB54v1f29ObUwX

that made the 2008 metal poll top 20 i think

Siegbran how will you cut down your 500 album shortlist to 100?

Ruthlessly.

you will need to be ruthless. But it isn't easy.

Time for some listening. Has anyone added anything to the Spotify playlist?

Just re-voted. Please only use the newest one. Thank you. Sorry about that.

No probs. Will let seandalai know tomorrow just incase he isn't reading this thread

I let seandalai know

I'm listening to Vintersorg's Visions From the Spiral Generator now. I bought Till Fjälls back at least ten years ago but never really got into anything else they did-- I think someone from a forum I was on at the time suggested it as an indispensable metal album but I didn't even know they were still going in 2005, much less 2016. Spiral Generator is great so far, definitely going to end up in my bottom 30 or so (reserved for stuff I hadn't heard before assembling a ballot).

what year is that from?

I think I've settled on my new top 10 in the wake of the new nominations.

xpost Spiral Generator was 2002, Till Fjälls was 1998.

One of the reasons I prefer Spiral Generator to his earlier albums is that it was the first to use outside musicians, rather than just two guys and a drum machine. And it doesn't hurt that the drummer was Asgeir Mickelson and the bassist was Steve DiGiorgio. (Not to say that the pre-Visons stuff wasn't great too.)

Kinda lost track of Vintersorg after Focusing Blur so one of these days I need to binge.

also obligatory fuck yeah for new Coroner

oh right, the Coroner mention was in the other thread; not used to having more than one metal thread floating around

It's a good thing though. ILM needs the M to be metal.

Just had to check if Swallowed - Lunarterial made the list, glad it did 'cos I was listening to it last night and forgot how great it is. It really captures the spirit of those ugly early 90s Finndeath demos/albums but doesn't feel retro, it's violent and atmospheric and utterly horrible in the best way.

Listening to Oneida now. It sounds like Trans Am?

Early Oneida was stoner rock then they went in a more Krauty direction

You listening to Each One Teach One? That's the noisy krautrock masterpiece

I bet it was 'Secret Wars'

I dunno why C'mon Everybody Lets Rock wasn't nominated. That's a brilliant album.

So would anyone like to campaign for some albums? It's a great way to make sure lesser known albums get listened to and maybe voted into the poll.

For those who have only ever heard Boris 'Pink' or 'Smile' please check out the masterpieces
'Flood'
'At Last : Feedbacker'
'Akuma No Uta'
'Dronevil'

There's been some discussion of Imperial Triumphant's Abyssal Gods on this forum already but it seems like every time I play it for someone, they've never heard it before, and they're usually impressed, so I guess if anyone hasn't heard it, you should try it?

Maybe I need to?

I played it the other night in plug.dj and you didn't like it due to the death metal vox. It's good stuff though, assuming you can deal with the singing.

Oh, them. Yeah I hated the vox

i lasted til they came in, sorry

I've been looking through some things I haven't heard of and noticed that I Shalt Become - Wanderings is from 1996, just to let people know. So far I've discovered Artificial Brain and Jumalhamara through this but I probably won't be familiar enough for them to make onto my ballot unless I have some space free.

That Refused album came out in 1998, too, I just realized.

ok please dont vote for those as they wont be counted.

think we have 18 ballots in so far. It's definitely time for everyone to start planning theirs now

I'm working on it. The order become more and more arbitrary as it goes down; apart from anything else it's hard to compare, say, Melt-Banana and Agalloch since it depends what kind of mood I'm in.

You can do mixed ballots where you can weight any number you like and have the rest unweighted where the unweighted albums will all receive the same number of (low) points. But your #100 album will get more points than it would get if it was weighted, but the higher ones wont get as many as if they were weighted.

Any questions ask seandalai

OK cool. I'll think on it.

♡♡♡ Each One Teach One + Secret Wars

was it you who nominated them?