~~~ 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 .

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

I should have nommed some Ildjarn or Vordr for this

Not like you purists to forget to nominate :)

Ildjarn doesn't really fit the 2000-2015 timeslot though, unless re-released demo material from the 90s is allowed.

its a bit late to argue about that. the months long nominations thread should have covered that.

In future 2 weeks for nominating and 2 weeks voting will be the maximum.

ps never ever let me listen to George again, right? :)

Everyone has until September 9 to vote. Its not that far away now so dont leave it to the last minute!

You guys need to listen to me for sure. Listen to me & listen to the Goslings

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vz-2nVlD1E&feature=youtu.be

I think I overestimated how much interest was in this poll. Has the longer voting period and lack of thread chat put off people?

Even contenderizer and dj martian arent around

Well the genesis of the poll was basically excitement from extreme metal poll carried over, right? I think the hige gaps in the nominations thread kinda killed that zeitgeist

Dont fret yet though. I'm going to turn away from defeatism and start lobbying for all my noms

Seriously that Goslings album is the business, folks. Like Merzbow sitting in on a slowed down version of Bardo Pond's Lapsed

I'm still tinkering with the order but I'll probably vote today.

Anyway, it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on the noms thread, but whoever nominated Paintbox - Trip, Trance & Travelling is a champ. It's not my usual kind of thing, melodic hardcore, but it's got a good dose of eccentricity and dips into all kinds of things including psych-rock and that incomprehensibly fast type of Japanese hardcore amongst others.

everyone don't forget to vote for Devin Townsend - Addicted, you know, if that's your thing..

I voted!

Thanks!

Has anyone else discovered something they like from the nominations they hadn't heard before?

Anyone?

Bolt Thrower! don't think I'd listened to them before this exercise

also enjoying the Garden of Shadows record, low-budget overambitious prog-death

I thought everybody liked Bolt Thrower?

My kingdom for a ballot!

Looks like the mods are promising cake if you vote or something

what else could you take from this?

http://imgur.com/a/HcQU2

http://i.imgur.com/d5P60V5.png

Voted!

did the mods give you cake?

I have received no cake.

wrapping this up. Still trying to decide if I actually like DsO, or just like that they exist

funny, my ballot is on hold for the exact same reason

also same deal w/ the blood brothers

I thought it was because you were eating cake

Cake were not nominated btw

Just realised there is now only 2 weeks left to vote!

i have like 15 more albums to revisit/reevaluate, will hopefully get my vote in this weekend

We have about 20 ballots so far, who else is intending to vote?

What the heck - I'll cobble together a ballot - Sept. 9, right?

yup!!! 2 weeks today

I really want 'Chthe’ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule' - it's listed on the ballot ... but dang, I could swear that was a 2016 release.

want to vote for, rather - just questioning eligibility

ok if its 2016 i will remove it

another ballot in - thanks for running the poll!

thank you!
The best parts of the polls is usually the chat but we've not had much sadly so if theres anything you or others want to campaign for or talk about please do!

TWO WEEKS LEFT TO VOTE