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

Dammit. Khemmis was my #1.

“It sates itself on the life-blood
of fated men,
paints red the powers’ homes
with crimson gore.
Black become the sun’s beams
in the summers that follow…”
— Snorri Sturluson, Völuspá, The Poetic Edda, ca. 1220

If someone were to give the Norse Ragnarök saga a Ralph Bakshi (Wizards, Fire And Ice) treatment, Khemmis would definitely need to be on the soundtrack... http://fastnbulbous.com/khemmis-hunted/

The Metallica album is five years long and nothing has happened yet

MAYBE there's something to be said for Halo On Fire

23 Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows 319 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/y8yN1DZ.jpg

https://open.spotify.com/album/5AE8f7HUdUogfL7ybRlwDu
spotify:album:5AE8f7HUdUogfL7ybRlwDu

https://interarma.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-gallows-2

After already having taken forward-thinking extreme music to unprecedented heights over the course of their short but propulsive career, Richmond's INTER ARMA are back with another opus of epic proportions. Like the band's previous works, the new album 'Paradise Gallows' is direct and foreboding while maintaining a nuanced, artful perspective. INTER ARMA's signature palette of dissonant high-end and abyssal low-end has been augmented with swathes of thick, impressionistic melody that lend 'Paradise Gallows 'a truly biblical sense of scale, both lyrically and in terms of the album's sonic content. Harsh and acoustic passages (including the band's first-ever foray into clean vocals) spar with complex rhythmic structures across nine sweeping tracks over 71 minutes of expansive, progressive heaviness. Dense, funereal, and richly evocative, 'Paradise Gallows' is a vibrant blend of doom, post-metal, sludge, avant-garde, black and death metal, and is a singular and powerful new addition to the band's already monumental discography.
credits
released July 8, 2016

2016 Relapse Records
www.relapse.com
www.relapserecords.bandcamp.com

"Spit Out the Bone" is the only song from that Metallica I've played more than once -- and I've played it a lot. The video's kinda zany. I think I like the new Megadeth more overall.

Volür sound all right, yeah.

Also, wtf, do you people not like "Atlas, Rise!"?

That was OK

It made me listen on

xpost to myself: I plan to watch the Hetfield episode of the Joe Rogan podcast today or tonight and I suspect that will be more entertaining than Hardwired. I hear there's talk of beekeeping.

I liked parts of Atlas Rise and now that I think about it I probably did play that one more than once when it was in advance track status.

Lol I had Inter Arma pegged for top 5. I have no idea whats going on with this poll

One thing that can be said for smaller ballot numbers: consensus is much more idiosyncratic

Weird results come from a small sample size. I was most surprised at Abbath's low placement. I dunno.

yah

lol my predictor ballot is in shreds

Lmao

If my #1 isnt one of the next two, then Im gonna post my ballot

Lol I think an album me, you, tt and gott punch all have in our top 3 is coming soon

Id hope so, lol; it would be wild if it made top 20

and here it is

Gorguts, Deathspell Omega, Hail Spirit Noir, and, god willing, Furia should be coming up. I liked the new Borknagar more than anything from them since Empiricism but I doubt it'll show.

Agatus really should be heard more. It's like Hellenic black traditional metal, some kind of Maiden/Rotting Christ mashup. The first track on the album, however, starts things off ploddingly.

22 Gojira - Magma 337 Points, 9 Votes, One #1
http://i.imgur.com/fQRGquN.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7D7V6M05UIOTjLdqbwRX0w
spotify:album:7D7V6M05UIOTjLdqbwRX0w

Haha this ISN'T the one! Oh my days

I was disappointed and annoyed at first that they sound like Killing Joke now. But it grew on me.

Bodes well

Gojirs's like Melechesh -- they sound phenomenal for about two or three songs, then everything blurs together. That first track from their last album is one of my favs of all time though, "Explosia." Whew.

Gojira's* rather

are you fucking kidding me that there's another new mesarthim ep

feel like a lot of ppl's top 20 predictions are getting ruined by 30-21

21 Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control 341 Points, 10 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/jKeAHm6.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/1AdkyehBZjfm25SosPgGD4
spotify:album:1AdkyehBZjfm25SosPgGD4

https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-veil-of-control

dys·rhyth·mi·a
disˈriT͟Hmēə/
noun
Medicine
noun: dysrhythmia; plural noun: dysrhythmias
1. abnormality in a physiological rhythm, especially in the activity of the brain or heart.

Having established themselves as one of the most notable progressive and unique instrumental metal bands since their inception over 15 years ago, NY-based (originally Philly-based) power-trio DYSRHYTHMIA reflect their musical expression in mirroring the definition of their moniker.

Through six full-length albums, DYSRHYTHMIA (Kevin Hufnagel/gutiars, Colin Marston/bass, and Jeff Eber/drums, Hufnagel and the ever prolific Marston also comprising one-half of GORGUTS and were specifically recruited by Gorguts mastermind Luc Lemay to join his band when he resurrected the legendary technical death metal wonder several years ago) have shown the ultimate in musical fortitude and expression through wondrous jaw-dropping musical compositions that go beyond the mere definition of jazz-infused avant-garde technical extreme metal.

With their new album “The Veil Of Control”, the band’s seventh full-length and their first since their Profound Lore Records debut in 2012 “Test Of Submission” (the band released their previous albums on Relapse Records), DYSRHYTHMIA have once again created a new expression within their jaw-dropping repertoire (Hufnagel solely using a 12-string guitar on this latest LP) that will go unparalleled within the niche genre of “instrumental progressive metal”, proving once again they are an untouchable entity within the scene.
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released September 23, 2016

Hey, my #5! This record is really cool!

i never heard this but i'm guessing i'll immediately love it

Taking this opportunity to listen to Dysrhythmia. This is straight instrummental prog, no? Like a post-Obscura avant-prog/RIO, and taking in lots of King Crimson (at this point, I'm starting to think the KC albums where I got off the train like ConstruKction of Light were ahead of their time).

I don't know whether to stop now and do 10 on weds and the final 10 thursday or to do another 10 tonight and finish tomorrow

Finish tonight

no

And now here's my ballot:

1. (It's impossible that this album didn't place, but improbable that it placed in top 20. What do u think, Sherlock Holmes?)
2. (No way)
3. (I hope it doesn't make it, tbh. I love the album, but if it shows up over a all these great metal albums, it'll be v hard the counter claims of BULLSHIT. Of course, that's some of yr patented ILX metall poll controversy for ya, eh?)
4. (This'll show up)
5. Dysrhythmia
6. Sunwatchers
7. Skaphe
8. (This'll show up)
9. (No way)
10. (This'll show up)
11. Ophidian Forest
12. (No way)
13. (No way)
14. (This'll show up)
15. Comet Control
16. (No way)
17. (This'll show up)
18. (No way)
19. Lotus Thief

do another 10 tonight

^^

agreed

Been working through checking out list starting at bottom.

Wrong channels AmRep Helmet down cold. Got to figure if it is OK to like some bands for having cloned Sabbath, the world could use one with Helmet. Got to wonder what Hamilton might think of them.

20 Virus - Memento Collider 371 Points, 12 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/0SkdX4O.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/7iYDbFoE46EyEXqmkw0mA1
spotify:album:7iYDbFoE46EyEXqmkw0mA1

https://virus.bandcamp.com/album/memento-collider

As one of the most unique bands coming out of Norway, Virus has built themselves a big following in both the metal and rock scene throughout the world. From the debut album, "Carheart", in 2003, they've developed their otherworldly style for over a decade. In 2016, Virus debuts on Karisma Records with their 4th album called "Memento Collider".

ya this is exceptional. opening track is the jam

my #6

Yeah incredible album

jazzy metal-edged postpunk with the world's best bassist. it's the noir soundtrack to our crisis dreams

19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384 Points, 11 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/qHAybs6.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2lwVXTWuMvK2Ng3x3Sdxhy
spotify:album:2lwVXTWuMvK2Ng3x3Sdxhy
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/interventions

West African rhythms collide with just intonation guitars, art-fire saxophone, minimalist grooves, and collaged zapdowns on Interventions, the powerful third full-length from Baltimore's Horse Lords. The band's Northern Spy debut is also the first Horse Lords album to explore the classic studio-as-weaponry strategies of yore, mapping the quartet's raw Baltimore lightning onto the experimental musique concrète territory surveyed by elder heads like Faust and This Heat.

Founded at the turn o' the 'teens by Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar), and Sam Haberman (drums), Horse Lords quickly established themselves as avant-heavies with the two extended tracks of their powerful self-titled debut (Ehse Records, 2012). Playing custom electric guitars and basses refretted by Gardner, the band's rolling polyrhythms chime with the strange and distinct harmonies of just intonation inspired by the master La Monte Young and other heroes. Where the earliest Horse Lords releases, also including Hidden Cities (NNA Tapes, 2014) concentrated on linear performance, a trio of Mixtape cassettes (self-released, 2012-2014) pointed the way towards the newest turn in the Horse Lords saga.

Chopped and screwed and stomped and smothered and dissolving to bells and then suddenly (as if through a flung-open door) back into some room where Horse Lords is playing at full flight, the three Mixtapes exploded the possibilities of the quartet. Changing contexts like flipping channels on a dadaistic cable box, the series found a whole expanded universe of Horse Lords there for the squonking. Realizing that promise, Interventions is (as they say) a new phase Horse Lords album with Bernstein's saxophone and the microtonal guitars pinging through the stereo mix with single-minded purpose. Horse Lords is a band, its members serving a range of functions over multiple axes, from the audible (writing and performing music) to the structural (altering their instruments), to the soundscape in between (editing together Interventions' threaded mini-suites).

Part of the newest wave of smarty-arty-weirdos playing DIY spaces and tea houses and college campuses, Horse Lords' soaring heaviness achieves a true poise that seems equally primed to make the leap to concert halls and festivals. Making appearances on freeform radio station WFMU and concert recording site NYCTaper, Horse Lords are recognized, too, as a galvanizing live act, powered by the double-drumming of Sam Haberman and Andrew Bernstein. Last year, their Hidden Cities Remix to benefit the local Living Classrooms' Believe in Music featured the work of influential contemporaries including fellow Baltimore undergroundists Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt of Matmos (contributing separately) and Guardian Alien drummer/lead-brain Greg Fox.

Floating at the boundaries of composition and improvisation, electronics and performance, the underground and the vast improbable 21st century indie mainstream, Horse Lords exist in none of these places and all of them. More accurately, they exist on Interventions, the album you now hold in your proverbial hands, perhaps noticing the reflection of the imaginary room's light reflecting on the LP cover, ready to cue up as you find yourself in the new beyond of tomorrow's ecstasies and today's Horse Lords.
credits
released April 29, 2016

Sam Haberman
Max Eilbacher
Owen Gardner
Andrew Bernstein

recorded by Horse Lords and Chris Freeland

mixed by Horse Lords

mastered by Sarah Register

Northern Spy Records
northernspyrecords.com
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tags: experimental rock experimental just intonation microtonal musique concrete polyrhythms rock saxophone Baltimore

:[ my #3

TOO LOW
xp Ha, I guessed that from the description.