~~~ 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 .

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

but you dont like sabbath, zep, priest, maiden, metallica?

working on it

how is your ballot going? is your better half voting too?

only 3 full days and 50 mins to get your ballot in

Anyone still to vote?

taking my time

This should make some of you amused... the other week the pinefox recommended Dopesmoker to me. sund4r was especially tickled by that.

lol. Oh yeah, CS have you heard of this obscure record "Oceanic" by little-known group Isis (Not the Terror org.!)

it wasnt that. it was the fact that of all people the pinefox was recommending it.

vöted

Voted! I haven't heard tons of the list, but of the ones I own a good portion I found through ILM.

thanks guys!

tomorrow is your last day folks so get on it! you have no excuse for not having enough time as voting period was 2 months!

though I bet jjj will still say he missed it

gonna try v hard to vote in this lol

you can trim it down to 100. I have confidence in you

is tangenttangent going to vote?

Yes! Starting now

Why have I been listening to so much sunshine pop recently instead of this? Is it too disingenuous to add things that I discover within the last two days?

i decided since there's not really a lot of time to research new things to just submit a ballot. almost hit 50, which was surprising, i wasn't expecting to get past 20

lotta surprises in that list considering i didn't nominate anything

you should have, there was months and months to nominate

i'm just glad this poll finally got me to listen to Ghost - Meliora after previously giving up on them. big mistake corrected

you should have, there was months and months to nominate

eh i got a pretty good list out of what was nominated! very reflective of my actual taste

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

― Six days left to vote in ILM Lifetime heavy Rock & Metal Poll (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 4 September 2016 16:20 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It took me four days to realise this was addressed to me, but anyway, I don't find Boris' droney stuff very interesting I'm afraid. I listened to Flood a few weeks ago and found it as tedious as I always do. I know I repped for Corrupted upthread but they're a real anomoly in music taste because my attention span just isn't long enough for most really slow-burning music.

I thought It was meant for Imago as well

but tbh it should be aimed at everyone who hasnt heard them esp those who have only heard pink and smile

under 26 hours to go!

I think we may be approaching 60 ballots! Not sure how many are people revoting though to replace their old ballot but 60 is about what we get in the EOY polls

http://i.imgur.com/v7JCrWm.jpg

Mordy has been posted missing

Mordy has voted! We must be close to 60 ballots now.