METAL ALBUMS POLL 2016 VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD. [Voting ends Friday December 16 11.59pm GMT]

That Entropia album is great! It's the first entry on my bandcamp saves list from this year.

What other great doom has there been this year? I liked Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard a whole lot but have failed to find anything else really distinctive or powerful. Will give that CTS a try, but does anyone else have any other suggestions?

Subrosa
Inverloch
Lycus

Haha okay I like all of those too. I forgot

I like this Borknagar album so far. Assuming it's vastly inferior to the rest of their catalogue, what should I check out by them?

― Tom Violence, Saturday, 10 December 2016 18:29 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wouldn't say it's vastly inferior, but it is a step down from it's predecessor Urd which is the shit, and I'm not much into folk metal usually

xxp If you don't mind weird in your doom, Horse Latitudes "Primal Gnosis" is pretty good. Sludgy, weird, noisy, occult, Finnish. Occasional Hawkwind-y Moog.

http://ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/primal-gnosis

Dagger Moon has vague hardcore-ish vibes, but I really dig the use of 1980s horror movie synths.

http://citadel666.bandcamp.com/

I also dug the Eerie (very lightly blackened doom), Wretch (ex-Gates of Slumber Obsessed vibes), Spirit Adrift (psychedelic doom), Obed Marsh (gnarly blackened death doom).

Wow, thanks for the Horse Latitudes recommend, I'm really liking it! Will check out your other recommendations as well!

Cool! They're one of my favorite discoveries of the past year or two.

Voted. Thank you so much for making this happen.

got it, thanks. We have 4 votes now in.

Listening to Deathspell Omega while making waffles. Why is this album so short? I'm not ready for it to be over! And my waffles aren't done yet!

I have voted. Watch out for Russian hacking.

oh hey the Wormed is cool

the Wormed album will be on my ballot for sure

I keep trying with Mithras but I don't think I "get" it

Anyone who likes the Timeghoul/Demilich etc. side of death metal shouldn't overlook Zealotry - The Last Witness, I think it's one of the best examples of this kind of thing.

This Horse Latitudes is thrilling! So dark, so heavy. Occultxmas.

I voted tho I know in a few days I will likely want to change the order slightly but seandalai prefers the co poll runner to vote early so i cant be influenced by other ballots

If you have forgotten who won in previous years check out this thread

Previous Metal Poll EOY Results Thread

6 ballots so far. Voting finishes on Friday so we can finish roll out before everyone is off for the holidays

I'm going to wait until the deadline to give time to a few more albums. I want to see if I can get into Astronoid.

ok

I was just looking at my 2000-2015 ILX metal poll ballot and I am positive that two records from 2016 would take the one and two spots if 2016 was magically included: Vektor - Terminal Redux and Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis - was lucky enough to see both on tour this year and they brought the quality of those records to the live show, too.

https://play.spotify.com/user/siegbran/playlist/1LGm4Oh56ZP2wrJ8SsnwJA">Spotify playlist of some of my 2016 favourites, all awesome of course.

let's try that again

I found some good stuff browsing your noms, Siegbran. Desaster is awesome.

hell yeah this virus album

Just realised the Blues Pills album wasnt nominated so I'm going to have to redo my ballot

the blues pills album. I highly recommend it to those who heavy psych 70s hard rock like jex thoth , blood ceremony, jess & the ancient ones, the devil's blood

https://open.spotify.com/album/5GesYfGXuFg6D7my26u8ZO
spotify:album:5GesYfGXuFg6D7my26u8ZO

I *really* liked the previous BP album but this one didn't grab me at all

I admit its more a grower of the album but the title track is stunning I think. If there was a tracks poll It would be my #1.

But I do urge everyone to give it a listen.
I resubmitted my ballot with it firmly in my top 10 (dunno how i forgot to nominate it as its in my albums of the year so far thread on facebook that I started ti avoid exactly this!)

so if anyone wants to resubmit a ballot you can do.

Voted - digging the horseback and wormed but too late for my list.

Horse latitudes even

Like I said you can resubmit my Friday should you choose. It happens quite a lot in these polls

tt has asked me to boost Sinistro itt as she is too 'lazy and depressed' to do so herself

i have heard the Sinistro album now and would concur that it's worth a listen, especially for track 5, 'Reliquia', which is flat-out stunning

what kinda stuff is it?

people please campaign for albums because we arent even near 10 ballots yet so lets encourage everyone to take part!

it's very smooth melodic sludge-doom with almost trip-hop production, from portugal. the opening track also worth hearing

everyone with even a slight interest in psych-metal or doom needs to hear mammoth weed wizard bastard

^^^ seconding that MWWB rec. I've played it for a few people who don't much care for doom and they've enjoyed it, with one guy ordering the album immediately.

plus they really are the nicest people (or at least were when tt and i met them)

Another horse band, that I saw recently who are very promising are Horseburner. Roots in early Mastodon/Baroness but with very youthful rock 'n' roll energy.

https://horseburner.bandcamp.com/album/dead-seeds-barren-soil

A band that deserves more attention is Spirit Adrift. It's actually just one guy, but he may have a band assembled for live gigs.

Spirit Adrift is Arizona based Nate Garrett’s one-man doom band. Like Khemmis, he has a background in sludge, black and death metal (Gatecreeper and Take Over and Destroy). His shift to doom may be surprising to some, as it was part of his healing process to overcome alcoholism. So with a name that invokes uplifting transcendence, Garrett proceeds to dive deep into terror and dread in most of his songs, battling his demons with guitars, possibly atop a desert mountain. While there is a base in the traditional epic doom of the likes of Candlemass, Garrett is also a fan of Waylon Jennings, Neil Young and Thin Lizzy. The result is some really unique chord structures and sounds that even Garrett can’t explain exactly where they came from. The music is just flowing out of him, and we’re lucky to hear it. While his vocals have a soaring, emotional quality that can be compared to Pallbearer’s Brett Campbell (especially when tracked into harmonies), they’re also imperfectly original. On “Form And Force” and “Psychic Tide,” Garrett shows how putting every ounce of his ability into getting a great vocal performance makes a huge difference in setting Spirit Adrift apart from a massive sea of doom bands. The album peaks with the last and longest track, “The Hum Of Our Existence,” packed with attention-grabbing drum and bass parts and memorable riffs. The one thing that could make Spirit Adrift even greater is if Garrett could get a full band together and on the road, and translate it into a more dynamic recording. Whatever Garrett does though, I’m on it. | http://fastnbulbous.com/heavy-metal-rundown-2016/

loving the Virus right now too, although it's really a metal-tinged post-punk album (and a superb one too) - that bassist is brilliant

Clustered together with Mammoth Speed Wizard Bastard on my playlist are these bands, which share compatible vibes FWIW:

11Paranoias – Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World (Ritual)
https://ritualproductions.bandcamp.com/album/reliquary-for-a-dreamed-of-world

Spider Kitten – Ark Of Octofelis (Undergroove)
https://spiderkitten.bandcamp.com/album/ark-of-octofelis

Another band that's been under the radar is Norwegian band Madder Mortem.

Madder Mortem – Red In Tooth And Claw (Dark Essence/Karisma)
https://maddermortem.bandcamp.com/album/red-in-tooth-and-claw
http://fastnbulbous.com/madder-mortem-red-in-tooth-and-claw/

They've been kicking around since 1999, evolving from avant prog and doom metal (plus extra witchy goth) to this album they seemed to have absorbed some influences from Devil’s Blood, Jex Thoth, Blood Ceremony, Jess & The Ancient Ones and Purson.

Keep em coming. Remember you can add albums to the Spotify playlist

Voted! Thanks to everyone involved. I listened to about 60 releases in the past 2 weeks so my list is a bit wonky after the top 20 which were sure shots.

Got it, 8 ballots in now.

Thanks to all organizers, now that the Cohen poll is wrapped I can focus on the next most important thing: metal

I just added a load of albums to the spotify playlist. If everyone could add their noms that arent on it already that would be a great help to everyone.

Please everyone subscribe to it!

ILM Metal Spotify Playlist

Also nominations are open in the big poll. Please nominate there!

ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

Only 9 ballots so far. Is this the year metal died on ilm?

It's only Tuesday, there's plenty of time to vote left. I plan on getting a ballot in by Friday afternoon, but not much earlier.

I didn't care much for Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (aside from the amazing band name). The ethereal vocals didn't hold my attention. The whole thing was surprisingly wispy for a stoner doom record.

Only 9 ballots so far. Is this the year metal died on ilm?

― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 5:30 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf, it's been in the mail a long time

or maybe some nominations get missed. which i would understand! i mean, i don't know how the poll-runners do it ... i certainly wouldn't have the time to do it well.

I hate to be a pedant but iirc it has always been the metal *and* heavy/hard rock poll. "heavy" is a broad term.

Oh wait that Boris/Merzbow is the mini-Zaireeka double-disc-simultanepus concept album, isn't it? Maybe not, after all

like...why not?

lol CS openly disallowed it citing that it was hip-hop not metal. and sure MC Dälek himself would probably claim to just be hip-hop, but there's definitely a grey area. idk

xxpost: yeah, no, totally ... i get it. i actually don't care at all ... it's an ilm poll, after all ... maybe i meant the word "funny" in place of "dumb" or something.

Sunwatchers is heavy!

hoo boy I missed that xp

my threat to resubmit is basically a ploy to get seandalai out of his deep slumber, but fyi I have now primed a new ballot with Dälek in it so he'd best be quick

Aw, I really Oathbreaker. I've been convincing myself they don't sound like Deafheaven, but maybe they do and having a female vocalist was all it needed for me to like it. Fickle.

*really like...

how dare anyone like a band with a female singer!

I am now going to have a listen to that album after dinner

They really aren't very similar to Deafheaven at all (I say this as a person who likes Deafheaven)

I'm guessing Horse Lords made it in because CS hadn't heard them? (I still voted for them since it was my favourite album on the list. I would have voted for Tagaq too, if she were included, but I might not have included either of them if I were to make a list of metal albums myself.) I'm fine with him deciding the boundaries for his poll, and I think it's fair to have some kind of boundaries for a genre poll.

Disallowing records is dumb as shit, but if you don't like it start your own poll imo

Tagaq is iffy. I was partly seconding it in the "Hell yeah this non-metal thing is metal as fuck" sense, but "Aorta" and parts of "Retribution" certainly qualify.

Tagaq would have been in my top 5 sheerly in terms of 'favourite eligible albums' but imo we should just fight like fuck to get her into the main 77

It's pretty hard to get stuff into the 77 now. That poll gets 150 ballots or something and the days of getting something into the poll with 3 votes are gone.

And i think johnny fever says expanding to 100 wont make a difference as that kind of thing still struggles to get in and the 78-100 is just similar music to what gets in the 77.

plus voting blocs is cheating, right?

Seandalai is home and he says votings closed now

I'll start the roll out once i get the results

Re: Simon H: well for starters I only have one CD player...

Fuck Brumpxit its the 2016 Metal and Hard N' Heavy Rock Poll Results Thread (With spotify and bandcamp links)

take up Simon H's offer there