~~~ 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 .

How many do we have so far?

― Frobisher,

about 20 or so

If everyone posted here that they voted it would be easier to know

anyone lurking please remember you are still allowed to vote. Thats normal metal poll practise

20 is hardly enough to be very representative. My extreme metal poll had, I don't remember, but about that many and the results were pretty muddled there was a tiny point spread...

C'mon people vote... even just put together a top 5 or 10, it will really help!

What's everyone's favorite Electric Wizard album? Dopethrone is an all-time classic but I think Black Masses is really great. I remember listening to it at least a dozen times when it first came out -- I don't do that a lot.

People tend to leave it til the last minute no matter how long the voting period is it would seem

Just had a look at the responses sheet as I hadn't checked it for a few days and we are actually over 30 ballots not sure how many are people revoting but we might be around 35 ballots

Obviously I want as many people as possible to vote in this but a low turnout would make the results pretty... interesting. Then again I was thinking the other day about how unpredictable the rollout will be anyway due to a lack of consensus, 10-15 years isn't enough time for records to be established into a canon or whatever. It also doesn't help that in this time frame metal has increasingly fragmented into so many different microgenres and variations.

I have got no idea what the top 10 will be. It's not like the 70s and 80s who you know who would dominate (sabbath/zep and Metallica/slayer)

I dunno if there would ever be enough interest but a 70s metal poll (maybe an 80s one after that) is something I'd fancy trying at some point next year.
Only problem is deciding what counts but that could make the poll thread interesting at least.

I voted! 27 albums on my ballot

Oh shit, it's time

fwiw Perdurance is better than anything I'm going to vote for, but you all knew that already

I can see a few late ballots coming for jute gyte then

Still plenty of time left

and thanks to all who voted so far, hopefully we can get loads more now voting closes on friday and some lurkers vote. Invite a few friends to vote even and remember everyone you dont need to be a metal diehard to vote just look at the nominations and vote for what you like on it.

xpost im sure id have voted for Perdurance but i havent heard it all yet

is that not the one out this year?

yea

Then it wouldnt count for this poll.

Nothing from 2016 does as they will be in the EOY poll

Are there any front runners for this poll? what do you all think might win?

Not seen any preliminary results so have no idea what is winning.

If it had been five years ago then Boris mightve won but I think their stock has totally collapsed now.

i've been through the entire nominations list and there are 78 records i want to vote for, roughly ordered

maybe 55 of them are actually metal :D

so you nominated 33 albums?

23 you mean :P

nah You usually have 10 real metal albums you like!

imago are you familiar with cynic - traced in air?

ooh, i am not

i'll take it to be a homework assignment :)

yeah it seems up your alley

omg listen to that record immediately lj

am listening! it's like the mars volta read what death metal was and tried to recreate it :)

you have a unique way of putting people off listening to a band LJ lol

he's right tbh

yeah, it's v good, added to ballot. took me 1 1/2 listens to work out quite why it's good - it seemed a bit unadventurous on first listen but the second spin is teasing out its yearning melodic heart. plus the fade segue from track 4-5 is awesome

if you like anything that quickly have you tried the Corrupted albums?

sometimes i add things to ballots based on the first 20 seconds. i suspect that corrupted is more of a three-hour job tho lol

really cynic strike me as a much more concise BTBAM, which means better albums if not better outrageous hail marys

Corrupted albums are long tracks but then they do 2 min singles. Must be quite amazing live.

Pretty damn sure you would dig the albums.

You cant tell me this isnt imago music

The band's sound is characterized by down-tuned guitars and bass playing slow, monotonous riffs under deep layers of feedback. The vocals are harsh, guttural growls, and the music alternates between long instrumental sections and sections with vocals which go for long periods of time without rest. They have been described by one writer as "some of the heaviest, gloomiest doom/sludge around, distinctly cacophonous, layering feedback pulverizing progressions into a distinctly cacophonous rumble."[3] However, some songs feature long acoustic sections, spoken-word interludes, and unconventional instruments. An example of the latter can be found on their 2005 album El mundo frio, which is a 72-minute song with extensive sections of harp. As another writer notes, "Right when you think you can peg Corrupted as an all Doom band they release a lush acoustic set within their bleak musical landscape."[1] To this effect, they recently added a keyboardist, Takehito Miyagi, to their lineup, which had previously consisted only of guitar, bass, drums and vocals.

Corrupted has a few idiosyncrasies. Though they are from Japan and their members (including lyricist/drummer Chew Hasegawa) on most releases are all Japanese, they sing almost exclusively in Spanish, though some songs contain sections in Japanese or English. In addition, the band has never taken promotional pictures nor do any of the albums contain group photos. The only known existing photographs are taken by fans at concerts. The band also never does interviews. Corrupted's albums typically contain extensive liner notes in the form of bleak black-and-white photographs, often real-life scenes of war-torn areas or other depictions of human suffering.

Much of Corrupted's discography appears on split albums, which they share with other doom metal bands or often with grindcore bands. The band is known for its ability to produce songs of virtually any length; their longest album El mundo frio consists of a single song substantially longer than an hour, while their shortest song, "Reset", recorded for a homeless benefit compilation, lasts less than two minutes.

I do wish a label could compile all those single and EP releases on a 2xCD set but the releases are all on different labels and noone can come to agreement

Imago did you check out the 5ive albums?

all in time, all in time!

i did check out at least one tbf, might delve a bit deeper

cynic album is growing on me with each listen

I think we are nearing 40 ballots. Think EOY poll gets around 60 each year so maybe we can get near that?

As for predictions, I think Electric Wizard, ISIS, and Agalloch will place. Converge maybe, and possibly Baroness.
Knowing ILM I'm sure a Jute Gyte album will show up. I hope an Andrew W.K. album makes the cut, but I kinda doubt it.

Clear 1st place winner: Deafheaven - Sunbather ;P

If the last couple of yearly metal polls is any indication then ILM collectively likes a lot of retro/doom/stoner stuff I'm not really fussed about so I expect a lot of that sort of thing to appear. I think Boris should still do well, at least Pink will I reckon, my highest placed Boris album is the one nobody likes though haha.

Black metal usually does better than doom actually but there's been a lot more death metal recognised in recent years but the only thing is that the high profile DM fans on rolling promo thread hate polls and refuse to vote and that's a good few people but what can you do?

If I ever do a 90s metal poll I'd expect DM to dominate (Id do a 70s then 80s series of polls first btw) so dont expect anything for a year or 2 on that front.)

I like Pink (and voted for it, albeit towards the bottom of my ballot) it was the first Boris album I heard, it's a fun record.

(xxpost)

Boris mostly bores me, except the opening track of Pink /hipster

have you heard the classic stuff they made before Pink?

a bit