~~~ 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 .

If you're into slooooow heavy music and haven't heard either of those Corrupted albums do yourself a favour and check them out!

And I think I've pushed them before, probably around when they came out, but Spectral Lore - III and Gris – À l'âme enflammée, l'âme constellée... are both modern black metal classics imo (but if you only like bm of the raw variety you probably wouldn't get much out of them)

Also... I'm not sure if many metal thread regulars/lurkers are into avant-prog or whatever but I noticed Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche is on the noms list, it's pretty to describe in genre terms: heavy, piano-led art-rock or something like that. Something of an obscure outlier but quite brilliant in parts.

have one guess who nominated it

actually don't :D

gonna throw together a ballot for this after revisiting all the stuff from the noms list that i've been into in the past

I count about 49 of these that I have owned at one time or another, and of those about 33 that I could see myself voting for. Not sure if I'll have time to try and explore more of the list, but I could probably submit a ballot with just those.

either way is fine!

Yeah my ballot is gonna cap out at 30 out so, I like metal but I don't live and breathe it

Can we have Yellow Swans, Going Places?

if we're allowed to add stuff at this stage, can i have Cynic - Traced In Air? would be in my top 5 for sure if it was available

are they definitely out within the time period?

Both of those are, yes. As far as I can remember you can vote for things that aren't on the list but they're less likely to place. I tend to just choose from the noms anyway.

Seandalai is very strict about using the nominations list to C+P from.
I added them.

Ah, right you are.

Ah, right you are then, Ted

― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 16:21

No worries, Dougal.

I forgot to agree wholeheartedly with this

If you're into slooooow heavy music and haven't heard either of those Corrupted albums do yourself a favour and check them out!

time for everyone to work on their ballots

time to make the donuts

ok i must listen to some other stuff but i really feel like just re-listening to whats on my ballot already tbh

Well if you say what you like then maybe others can recommend you other albums to try?

Everyone can do that of they want

turbonegor/qotsa end of things but also jute gyte and xasthur end of extremity too

have you heard comet control?

nope

I'm going to need to investigate about 95% of the nominees before I prepare a ballot, I guess I haven't been listening to very much metal lately, I'm more of a "heavy rock" guy it seems...

To that end, I think the first two Tomahawk records are pretty unimpeachable, not really metal I guess but to my ears they sound like the kind of music serial killers would make.

Refused is from 1998 so its not eligible for this poll

So does anyone want to actually talk about albums that were nominated?

apparently not! is metal dead?

I can only comment on my own noms for the time being, and nobody wants to talk about Tomahawk, so does anyone want to have a go at Probot?

metal/heavy rock I should say

man I never felt so old as when I just realized I've spent several years of my life in a metal/heavy rock band

I didn't care much about the Probot

Tomahawk was great live but their albums haven't really caught me yet. I think I like Patton's stage presence more than his music, maybe?

I also recently listened to the s/t Mr Bungle album and wasn't impressed. I could swear I used to really like that record.

I swear you used to love it....about a decade ago

I feel like I've already repped records like Tara, The Voice Of Steel and Oath Bound an awful lot over the years, but I'd definitely like to throw my weight behind Rammstein Mutter, the finest pop album that metal has produced in two decades, and urge people to give Sabaton Carolus Rex a chance even though the thought of enjoying power metal might sound impossible.

I hope people dont forget to check out that Absu album 'Tara' that Siegbran mentions

I think Probot is a great idea anyway, what the world needs now is a metal Alan Parsons Project.

Tomahawk's third record is super intresting, though I didn't bother nominating it, doubt they will receive any votes besides my own anyway, but Duane Denison gets his hands on a book of Native American songs, transcibed ~100 years ago, and...that's the record! Never heard anything else like it. Well worth a listen if that sounds remotely appealing to you

I like tomahawk but they didn't make my longlist of 150 albums

I submitted mine! Now I feel anxious that I've missed something obvious.

haha we all do that. Luckily seandalai allows you to resubmit if you do

this is going to be harder now that I have more nominations to work with... I swear I'll turn in my ballot soon.

You have plenty of time, but a good idea if everyone starts!

Voted! Only my top 23 were weighted, though. I didn't have time to rank the rest. Not that voting time was too short, I just only had a few hours per week to listen to stuff, even if I'd devoted my life to listening to and ranking Enslaved albums I only would have gotten halfway through arbitrary half-assed decisions.

cheers!

Isa and Ruun are the enslaved albums i think are good, if that helps

I think Siegbran likes to pretend Enslaved had split by then?

I'm not sure I've listened to any Enslaved albums made in the past 15 years! At least, I don't remember any of them.

Oh god I just realized I lost my ballot list. I have to restart from scratch!

folks: save your spreadsheets, take it from me!

aww can I also nominate:
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony

it's still my favorite of their's.

OK. Added

well except I forgot to add it. Its there now

There is now exactly 1000 albums nominated so we wont be allowing any more.
Please start on your ballots as there's not long left now and you do not want to leave it too late.

Probably your last week to boost albums by campaigning too