~~~ 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 .

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

I listed to Solstafir's Svartir Sandar a few times in the last month, and it definitely made my ballot b/c of those recent listens. I totally slept on that release in 2011, and missed out - it's excellent. I saw Pallbearer this past week, and loved 'em - would've voted for Foundations of Burden if it was listed, but was happy to vote for Sorrow and Extinction b/c it's probably slightly better for me personally. They opened for Baroness, which had the most weird bro-metal crowd I've ever seen in Chicago (surpassing Mastodon shows). Really just violent hateful little fuckers getting mad at every encroachment on space in Metro from someone that wasn't their buddy - it was weird. Not the loving moshy atmosphere of a Motorhead or Slayer show, that's for sure. Cough's Ritual Abuse should get some love too - their new one is excellent as well.

I listened to Solstafir's Svartir Sandar a few times in the last month ... I mean .. ugh

I will vote, I'm taking my time to make sure I like my ballot and that it is meaningful.

I probably would have turned my ballot in a couple weeks ago but I had to restart, and I'm being more careful this time.

I plan to vote. I'm in the middle of moving to a new house and I don't have internet so it's gonna have to wait but I should be able to get my ballot in before the deadline, I just won't be able to listen to everything I intended to.

i voted !

only had 27 albums on my ballot which is a weird number but it felt just right

heh so much for the extra voting time to let everyone listen. Wont be doing that again :)

so just over a week to vote now

I finally voted! 100 albums, all weighted. :)

right folks last 7 days now, due to the two month voting period there will be NO extensions. It will close on time.

My dads out of hospital now so everything will go on as scheduled.

http://bbs.tecno-mobile.com/filedata/fetch?id=29131&d=1462984043

Who is still to vote?

Hope you're old man is ok.

Vote Corrupted!

I'll vote, havent put a final list together.

I'll send in mine this wkd

*your

Xp

cool, keep em coming