~~~ 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 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.

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

have you heard the classic stuff they made before Pink?

a bit

I like their flamboyant J-rock album way better than anything else I've heard by them

Have you heard
Absolutego
Boris at Last -Feedbacker
Dronevil
Flood
Akuma No Uta
Heavy Rocks (the 1st one not the 2011 one)

Carcass - Surgical Steel must be a contender?

yeah i think "Flare" is my favorite boris song. kick me out of the metal club if you wish

Prediction: Primordial won't make it and I'll be pissed.

I voted Primordial!

Maybe late voters will all vote for Primordial!

i did...

Submitted a list of 100. Grueling.

It started out sensibly enough but went deep into the weeds. Somehow I've ended up with albums that should be on there but aren't. Oh well. I realized I forgot quite a few bands that I love, but didn't feel like reshuffling and working them into my ballot. (Sorry, Vektor, Hour of Penance, and Gojira, among others.)

And I have no clue why I never nominated Watain's Sworn to the Dark, Mgla's With Hearts Toward None, DSO's Si Monumentum..., and Funeral Mist's Salvation; I had to go back and find my initial submissions to verify that I indeed forgot them. Oh well. I didn't vote for them, needless to say.

Fun!

oh right, meant to put Primordial on there too, ha

to quote Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, "it don't matter; none of this matters."

So how do I indicate a mixed ballot - on top the weighted list with a heading "weighted", leave a blank line, and then a list under an "unweighted" heading?

select 'mixed'

on the drop down menu

http://i.imgur.com/3Tpr14H.png

is there a holiday in the US today? ILX is awfully quiet with only 30 active users

Labor Day

OK, voted!

ahh, cheers brad.

thanks Siegbran!

Brad what has been the best death metal albums of 2000-15 in your opinion?

what should everyone listen to before voting?

or indeed any DM fans reading please chip in

my usual 2 cents:

for DM that still carries the old school American sound (ie: Morbid Angel, Incantation, Immolation), it's gotta be the 3 D's: Domains' Sinister Ceremonies, Disma's Towards the Megalith, and Dead Congregation's Graves of the Archangels. And speaking of the classics, Immolation's Close to a World Below and Morbid Angel's Gateways to Annihilation started off the new millennium in a very good way.

For a couple that sound old and dank but lack very obvious lineages, there's Lantern's Below and Begrime Exemious' Visions of the Scourge. The former is very aptly titled because it has a grainy, subterranean sound that makes you feel like a tentative, torch wielding player in a DOS Roguelike. I suppose this could apply to Begrime Exemious as well, except in that case you're madly running from whatever horrible thing you've found at the bottom of the dungeon.

Ataraxy's Revelation's of the Ethereal doesn't have much in the way of song distinction, but it's got a churning, Finnish quality to it that makes for good death metal ambiance.

For maybe the single most relentless, massive, and crushing thing, Lost Soul's Immerse in Infinity is tough to top. It's modern death metal with everything pushed to the red, but sounds clean, clear, and cosmic.

The two best death metal bands of the post-00's (in my opinion) are Anata and The Chasm. The first is Swedish and technical but unlike any other "Swedish" or "technical" band out there: groovy but always shifting percussion, alien guitar melodies and harmonies, and an overall feel of madness dueling with sanity. The Chasm have a vague resemblance to Dissection, in that they take a traditionally listener-unfriendly genre and load it up with more inclusive, almost anthemic qualities -- and every album of theirs feels like a trip into the outer limits. Listen to everything by both of these bands.

Two outliers are Sarpanitum's Blessed Be My Brothers, a sort of cross between Nile's debut and Mithras' Morbid Angel spaciness, and Sickening Horror's The Dead End Experiment, which is very Demilich and oddly swinging.

If you like the meatheaded stuff that still manages a little catchiness, there's Cannibal Corpse's Bloodthirst, Sepsism's Distorting the Mortal Visage, Abnormality's Contaminating the Hive Mind, and maybe Septycal Gorge's more recent two albums.

And finally, for the hallucinogenic occult thing, Obliteration's Black Death Horizon and Swallowed's Lunarterial should send you to a twisted, happy place.

(There have also been Horrendous, Tribulation, and Morbus Chron, the darlings of the underground, but their music goes all over the place.)

for DM wholeheartedly cosign Domains, which IMO is one of the best records period of the 21st Century.

Also repping Khthoniik Cerviiks, all Stargazer, Gorguts' Colored Sands and Immolation's Close to a World Below and Unholy Cult. Also sorry for not voting yet, home internet access down, only have phone and frankly doing a ballot like this seems like torture. Hope to be reconnected soon!

yeah I kind of glided by that Domains but it was my #5 of the past decade and a half. There's a musicality in it that lays to waste almost of all of the formless death metal of the 2000-2010s. If they can top Sinister Ceremonies with a sophomore album I will just combust.
https://domainsofdeath.bandcamp.com/album/sinister-ceremonies

And Colored Sands was my #2. It's in a genre of its own. It's the second most tremendous album of the last 15 years behind Ordo ad Chao. Just pure visionary greatness.

I don't know who's behind Domains but I feel like either he or they are classically trained -- the way each riff builds into the next and comes back in a crescendo. It's really ridiculous. Every song.

My favourite is Witchrist <i>The Grand Tormentor</i> which is a heavier and more occult sounding take on Incantation.

looking forward to this rollout
will try and throw a top 10 over at the end of this week but apologies it might not be very metally

well, it is a heavy rock poll too not just metal plus we tend to go with chuck eddy definitions

No teena marie albums were nominated however

There are some eligible ones as well. Also Kix had an album out in 2014!

Also oddly missing are last year's Def Leppard and Europe albums.

well, it is a heavy rock poll too not just metal plus we tend to go with chuck eddy definitions

Bah, you didn't even accept Muse and Mew.:P

we still have standards

and pollrunners rights :)

4 days left to vote!

Also oddly missing are last year's Def Leppard and Europe albums.

doesn't seem that odd to me! :P

I think trolls choose to nominate nu metal now instead

Sadly 2000 is the exact cutoff point where I stopped liking almost all new metal that was released. Besides Kosherat by Grand Belial's Key. So yeah, that one's at the top of my non-existent 2000s top 10.

why don't you like new metal?

^ why don't you like old metal? :)

i *really* love that one death ss song ('terror') you showed me. sadly nothing else they've done seems to measure up to it. but it's like the definitive old-skool metal song imo