~~~ 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 .

told you so, but you really need to hear all of the 90s and 00s albums

esp listen to Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum

Running. Elder album is fucking incredible!

Yes it is. Darkspace III didn't do much for me but I remember thinking the later material was good. Didn't know it well enough to vote for it, though.

Anyone still planning on voting?

Yes

What is it most crucial that I listen to out of:

Absu - Tara
Burzum - Belus
Burzum - Fallen
Daughters - Daughters
Elder - Lore
Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance
Magic Circle - Journey Blind
Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil
Warning - Watching From a Distance

Glaciation - Sur les falaises de marbre
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead

That Glaciation album is quite cool, but I think I settled on finding it a little too subtly atmospheric for my tastes in the end. I will add Primordial to my list!

The Esoteric album is sublime, btw

Yeah I see what you mean. I consider the last ambient-ish track to be just a nice way to settle down after the epic "real" tracks.

I predict albums 10+ years old that predate the ILM Metal Polls will do better than more recent albums

I am fairly certain Dopethrone is going to win

You think? Not seen any preliminary results and have no idea what the results are like but I wouldn't say anything is a cert to win. I agree you would expect it to be top 10 BUT this *IS* ILM

All I can see is the albums that got #1s and no album is standing out with loads

My money is it being very tight.

btw no idea when seandalai is doing the results but if he has them done tonight I'll start the rollout if not i'll start once i get them. Not heard from him all week so I assume he's busy

One thing I am considering is changing my #1 at the last minute

swapping a jute gyte for a jute gyte?

swapping a jute gyte for NOT a jute gyte

*crowd gasps as one*

swapping a jute gyte for NOT a jute gyte

hope this means we share a no. 1

I cant imagine LJ putting Fall Out Boy at #1

It's on my ballot, too recent a discovery to really challenge the upper echelons. Great though yeah

Unless you're talking about the album in my top ten that isn't really metal but is just the best

Unless you're talking about the album in my top ten that isn't really metal but is just the best

yeah this is the one i'm talking about lol

the womb
they will feed it us

oh not that one, lol. oh well

Am I reading right that imago thinks Folie à Deux is great?

(Because if so, he's right.)

yeah i was hoping i was reading that correctly too

Wow. Was listening to the first Corrupted track from Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos thinking it was not something I could get into at all, then the second track! All-annihilating brutality...wonderful. I like the super slow, indecipherable vocals a lot too.

I wonder how previous EOY Pollwinners will do

2008 Torche - Meanderthal
2009 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions <---- contender for imago's #1?
2010 Electric Wizard - Black Masses
2011 Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street
2012 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
2013 carcass - surgical steel
2014 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
2015 Ghost - Meliora

I wonder how Goat - World Music will fair. I remember it being very popular, esp. with people aren't into very hard stuff.

I imagine a lot of stuff that was flavour of the month with people not lasting, but that Goat album still holds up IMO

I dont think Sunn 0))) or Boris for instance will be as popular as they were but who knows.

Would be strange if none of the EOY poll winners made the top 10 though.

that's what I was thinking cause I added it to my ballot where other stuff I was really hot on for a couple months did not make it.

And honestly, as much as I love Sunn 0))) on in the background I can't begin to know what albums or installments or whatever are the best so I didn't vote for any of their stuff.

I kind of can't imagine any of those albums making the top 10, but then I don't know what people's reactions were like at the time

We uh certainly know what the Ghost reaction was. But maybe it's worn off now

Bagpipes...from Texas...what a delightful opening! (Absu, not Ghost)

Ghost or Ghost B.C.? ;)

If Ghost BC did an album with a 28-minute second track called Hemicyclic Anthelion then I'd probably vote for it on principle

The Japanese Ghost did indeed have bagpipes on a track though

so less than an hour left tho technically speaking you have until seandalai closes the voting form (link at top of the thread)

but since the voting period has been 2 months there is no excuse for not being ready and I would close it bang on time if it were up to me.

Plus if he's ready to do the results I cans tart the rollout before bed

imago and tangenttangent take notice!

Im really interested in how 'comeback' albums do because quite a few 80s and 90s acts came back as good, if not better than before:
esoteric
yob
harvey milk
celtic frost
unsane
swans
carcass

Would expect those to do quite well though , carcass especially should do well.

my ballot is basically ready

tt has insisted on showing me the elder lore title track first tho

it's quite good

its a great album. i think i may have cut it from mine. i cant actually remember what i voted for its so long ago now

just worked out brad's #1! safely in my top 10 as well

the last thing i need tho now is to look at it and decide it needs re-ordered

haha it took you this long to work it out? I havent seen his ballot but knew what he meant

Omg half an hour...but I'm making soup?!

24 mins now!