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

Mesarthim

It's definitely Khthoniik Cerviiks.

I'm actually amazed Occult Burial placed at all. Glad, though. And Void Meditation Cult. Hostium and Mortem were also good, in the NWN vein, which, yes, is a resource best used with minimal interaction.

All the previous top 20's

2008

1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile
5 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed
6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus
9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion
12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen
13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice
17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air
20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke

2009

"1","Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions","757","31","4","24.419"
"2","Converge - Axe to Fall","722","30","2","24.067"
"3","Mastodon - Crack the Skye","709","31","6","22.871"
"4","Baroness - Blue Record","708","30","6","23.6"
"5","YOB - The Great Cessation","705","28","5","25.179"
"6","Cobalt - Gin","566","24","1","23.583"
"7","Kylesa - Static Tensions","490","22","","22.273"
"8","Zu - Carboniferous","454","21","1","21.619"
"9","Isis - Wavering Radiant","437","22","1","19.864"
"10","Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough","412","22","","18.727"
"11","Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade","405","22","","18.409"
"12","Zombi - Spirit Animal","401","17","3","23.588"
"13","Slough Feg - Ape Uprising","390","16","2","24.375"
"14","The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder","380","18","","21.111"
"15","Om - God Is Good","335","16","","20.938"
"16","Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder","334","17","1","19.647"
"17","Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul","315","17","1","18.529"
"18","Slayer - World Painted Blood","293","15","","19.533"
"19","Liturgy - Renihilation","260","16","","16.25"
"20","Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights","253","13","","19.462"

2010

1. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (1,583 Points, 49 Votes, 10 #1s)
2. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (1,540 Points, 48 Votes, 8 #1s)
3. Ludicra - The Tenant (1,387 Points, 46 Votes, 4 #1s)
4. Alcest - Écailles de Lune (1,330 Points, 49 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II (1,226 Points, 38 Votes, 4 #1s)
6. High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine (1,199 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
7. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (1,197 Points, 42 Votes, 2 #1s)
8. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones (1,076 Points, 40 Votes, 3 #1s)
9. Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness (1,015 Points, 35 Votes, 3 #1s)
10. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (1,009 Points, 34 Votes, 2 #1s)
11. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (868 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
12. UFOmammut - Eve (790 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
13. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (733 Points, 27 Votes)
14. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (703 Points, 29 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (700 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
16. Apostle of Solitude - Last Sunrise (693 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (666 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
18. Drudkh - Handful of Stars (665 Points, 25 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Torche - Songs for Singles (663 Points, 23 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Envy - Recitation (660 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)

2011

1. Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street (1,601 Points, 39 Votes, 5 #1s)
2. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (1,599 Points, 40 Votes, 4 #1s)
3. YOB - Atma (1,527 Points, 41 Votes, 2 #1s)
4. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (1,371 Points, 34 Votes, 4 #1s)
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (1,351 Points, 36 Votes, 2 #1s)
6. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance (1,344 Points, 35 Votes, 4 #1s)
7. Mastodon - The Hunter (1,253 Points, 33 Votes, 6 #1s)
8. Pantheïst - Pantheist (1,187 Points, 30 Votes, 2 #1s)
9. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch (1,085 Points, 32 Votes, 1 #1)
10. Subrosa - No Help for the Mighty Ones (1,080 Points, 30 Votes, 3 #1s)
11. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (1,056 Points, 29 Votes, 3 #1s)
12. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room (1,049 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
13. Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients (1,014 Points, 31 Votes, 1 #1)
14. Absu - Abzu (901 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
15. Krallice - Diotima (899 Points, 28 Votes)
16. Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain (874 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
17. Liturgy - Aesthethica (873 Points, 26 Votes, 2 #1s)
18. Altar of Plagues - Mammal (855 Points, 26 Votes, 1 #1)
19. Fen - Epoch (851 Points, 27 Votes, 1 #1)
20. Asva - Presences of Absences (845 Points, 25 Votes, 2 #1s)

2012

1 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind - 364 points, 17 votes, 6 first place votes
2 Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay - 358 points, 19 votes, 4 first place votes
3 SWANS - The Seer - 344 points, 16 votes, 7 first place votes
4 Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine - 235 points, 18 votes
5 Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God - 223 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
6 Old Man Gloom - No - 214 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
7 Krallice - Years Past Matter - 213 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
8 Christian Mistress - Possession - 195 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes
9 Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock - 195 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote
10 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP - 194 points, 14 votes
11 Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction - 183 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote
12 OM - Advaitic Songs - 181 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote
13 Dordeduh - Dar de duh - 178 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote
14 Saint Vitus - LILLIE: F-65 - 170 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote
15 Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme - 164 points, 13 votes
16 Goat - World Music - 163 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote
17 Baroness - Yellow & Green - 162 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote
18 Les Discrets - Ariettes oubliées... - 162 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes
19 High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis - 156 points, 14 votes
20 Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones - 154 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote

2013

1 carcass - surgical steel 1121.0 27 8
2 in solitude - sister 831.0 21 2
3 altar of plagues - teethed glory and injury 798.0 22 0
4 gorguts - colored sands 779.0 19 2
5 subrosa - more constant than the gods 741.0 19 2
6 windhand - soma 732.0 19 1 knaaq
7 uncle acid and the deadbeats - mind control 707.0 20 2
8 melt-banana - fetch 686.0 18 1 matt
9 asg - blood drive 668.0 17 0
10 deafheaven - sunbather 666.0 18 3
11 kylesa - ultraviolet 637.0 18 1
12 atlantean kodex - the white goddess 615.0 15 1
13 avatarium - avatarium 613.0 16 1 Paul R
14 darkthrone - the underground resistance 597.0 17 0
15 nails - abandon all life 561.0 16 1
16 hell - curse and chapter 560.0 14 1
17 queens of the stone age - like clockwork 557.0 15 1
18 beastmilk - climax 529.0 15 1
19 ghost - infestissumam 502.0 15 0
20 summoning - old mornings dawn 500.0 14 0

2014

1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s
2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1
3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's
6 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1
10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes
11 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1
12 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #1
13 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #1
14 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #1
15 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #1
16 Botanist - Vi: Flora 619 Points, 18 votes, One #1
17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #1
18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 votes
19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1s
20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 votes

2015

1 Ghost - Meliora 1161.0 26 5
2 Myrkur - M 1156.0 32 1
3 Panopticon - Autumn Eternal 1016.0 26 1
4 Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields 817.0 21 1
5 Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr 816.0 19 3
6 Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss 809.0 21 2
7 Skepticism - Ordeal 806.0 19 1
8 Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - The Night Creeper 747.0 21 1
9 Sunn O))) - Kannon 723.0 20 1
10 Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower 705.0 19 1
11 Mgla - Exercises In Futility 689.0 18 2
12 Krallice - Ygg huur 660.0 19 0
13 Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers 654.0 16 1
14 Liturgy - The Ark Work 623.0 17 0
15 Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask 592.0 14 1
16 Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning 582.0 17 1
17 VHÖL - Deeper Than Sky 582.0 17 0
18 Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes 576.0 15 1
19 Tribulation - The Children of the Night 569.0 16 1
20 High on Fire - Luminiferous 567.0 17 1

Which years had the strongest top 20s?

2010,2014,2015 seem especially strong

i love how a conservative metal snob going thru our 2015 list would get to number 2 and spit out his coffee in disgust at the shitforbrains hipsters of ilx

...then get to number 1

2010 & 2013 seem particularly strong to me.

xp LOL "these guys are just taking the piss, right?! gotta be..."

ILM, where post-rock and synthpop are subgenres of Metal! :D

Frobisher the two youre missing are Schammasch and Deathspell Omega

"But surely metal will be respectably represented on the overall albums lists! Let's see, 2014, #77..."

2010 is impressive. But that Melt-Banana album is probably my favourite of the whole lot (file under 'art rock').

jeff & emil.y were responsible for getting that in the 77

xp

that 2014 is sorely lacking Emptiness, Domains, Hail Spirit Noir, Behemoth, and Horrendous

speaking of Emptiness, they've released 3 tracks from the 2017 album and it's gonna be even weirder than Nothing But the Whole

2013 has the most of my favourites in the top 20, e.g. In Solitude, Carcass, Subrosa, Melt-Banana.

our falseness is our strength xxps

xps

you can see full results of each year (inc the 00-15 poll) here

Previous Metal Poll EOY Results Thread

Sorely Lacking Emptiness Domains

Frobisher the two youre missing are Schammasch and Deathspell Omega

― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, December 20, 2016 11:01 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's one more, as we're all out of Mesarthim (of that nominated - there's ALWAYS more Mesarthim irl)

also lol tt

the one more begins with an s btw

Ok I chose this fine night to read this whole thread in one go. Didn't vote, didn't get to indulge in the "genre" that much this year. Best takeaways for now are defo Mesarthim and Skáphe <3 The former v heavy on the cheese melody wise, but I dig, I dig. Not a lot of sluggish, doomy black metal out this year right? Love Deathspell Omega as per usual, thought Spectral Lore's last album was great (though technically from last year?)

Still miss stuff like Lurker of Chalice and Xasthur though. Anything in that vein out this year? Regardless, great thread, great work allround.

didn't vote this year and using this thread to catch up on things. all i have to say is my god (satan) this Forgotten Spell record, spectacular.

Nice to see the Hail Spirit Noir, Horse Lords and Kvelertak placing. Lots of interesting stuff as always. I'm digging this Bolzer so far.

I'm about a 1/4 through the list. Only band I know so far is the Melvins and I had heard some Wo Fat before.

DIG- Blood Ceremony, Lord Vicar & Wo Fat
INTERESTING- Dawnwalker, Madder Mortem (excellent vocals), Truckfighters, Grand Magus, Wrong, Bloodiest (first track was kinda like Neurosis doing a Shellac tune), Anciients.

Some of the others had some cool elements but I couldn't get with it.

looking at those past top 20s is fun. lots of tight races ... Hammers won 2011 by TWO points!

and then look at how much Carcass STOMPED the rest of the field in 2013.

anyway ... metal poll rollout is THEEEEEE best, seriously.

Yeah, these poll threads the one times this century I lay off the Nazareth, Molly Hatchet and The Minutemen and try something different. I listen to plenty of stuff I haven't heard, it's just often old stuff.

It's weird to still hear complaints about non-metal albums placing, looking at last year's top 20. Ghost, Chelsea Wolfe, Uncle Acid, Sunn O))), Pinkish Black and Jess And The Ancient Ones are all non-metal to varying degrees.

SubRosa
Vektor
Cobalt
Oranssi Pazuzu
Aluk Tolodo
Mesarthim again
Jute Gute
Furia

and I can't think of two more.

I'd be surprised if Cobalt makes it. Removing this one and adding Schammasch / Sumac / Deathspell Omega makes it 10.

there won't be another mesarthim (although their two december eps, combined into one release and put out two months ago, might well have). cobalt will surely make it!

Oh yeah I forgot Sumac

I should go for a slow rollout today and post an album every hour so everyone can listen to it and comment while listening.

That's cool. But if you post our #10 now, our American friends will have to listen and comment only in their dreams

So I'd wait until like 1pm

and finish in the wee small hours? fuck that

Lol, give it a couple of hours though! Even I'm usually still asleep at this time

So much metal from the last couple of days to digest as well! I'm listening to Hammers of Misfortune. It's quite fun!

Why am I enjoying this so much ffs, it's anachronistic twaddle!

(But with such great melodies, dynamism and songwriting!)

Great melodies, dynamism and songwriting would preclude it being twaddle though, wouldn't it? And just IMHO they do a pretty good job of not being terribly anachronistic within the bounds of a genre that would probably prefer them to be as anachronistic as possible.

40 Watt Sun's name, when said aloud, sounds like a Sublime-related band so I did this.

put an "ANYWAY," before 40 tia

Oh, 'anachronistic twaddle' was a self-knowing joke, I absolutely loved the album :)

Forgotten Spell are an excellent sleep aid

that sounds fairly backhanded lol

I'm as much a sucker for space metal as the next guy but Mesarthim crosses the line into pure Italo cheese a bit too often.

Forgotten Spell would've made my top 10 easily if I'd heard it earlier.

both a backhanded compliment and not, I value good sleep, hell I voted for the Midnight Odyssey album last year

Fair enough!

Siegbran, what were your favourite dungeon synth/space metal/sleep-aid albums this year?

10 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539 Points, 14 Votes, TWO #1's
http://i.imgur.com/vtuUR7f.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4ewLfzMxythcXotxny48Md
spotify:album:4ewLfzMxythcXotxny48Md

https://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/

threw this on the bottom of my ballot, don't rly care too much though

it's all been done before, y'know?