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

My feeling on the length issue is that the main problem is the Pteropticon-Psychotropia hump. Those two songs together occupy 12 minutes and are a bit exhausting. The solution is to break the album in two and listen either from Charging the Void to Pteropticon or from Psychotropia to Recharging the Void. Now you have two #1-worthy albums with no length issues!

The whole album is exhausting but in a fun/exciting way imo. It's the Fury Road of metal albums.

except IN SPACE

Moonsorrow was #5 in RYM but I don't see that in top 3. What other upset could there be? I see that the #2 RYM, Insomnium - Winter's Gate didn't make the top 100 here, I wouldn't expect that for top 3 either.

Yeah I voted for the Insomnium but it ain't gonna happen I don't think

3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751 Points, 20 Votes, TWO #1's
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https://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ksi-yc-milczy-luty

Following the monumental release of Nocel two years ago, Poland’s influential act Furia return with their fifth full-length, Księżyc milczy luty(roughly translates to “Moon Silent Severe”). The album is scheduled for release on 14 November 2016 via Pagan Records and contains six brand new tracks.

Those familiar with the sounds which Furia create will not be disappointed with Księżyc milczy luty. The album continues the band’s trademark “Nekrofolk” sound; however, the lyrical theme takes us to the moon this time. Anyone who claims that black metal may have lost its charm of originality should listen to Furia.
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released November 14, 2016

Recorded and mixed at Czyściec Studio by Nihil. Mastering by Bartłomiej Kuzniak at Studio 333.

Of all the different types of metal, black metal is probably the most prone to the pitfalls of cliché: a cold, nihilistic soundscape of blast beats, tremolo guitar riffs and distant, shrieking vocals, black metal is very vulnerable to sounding generic and repetitive. So thank the metal gods for bands like FURIA, whose take on black metal in their album Księżyc Milczy Luty captures the nihilism of its sound in a way that is anything but generic.

Creating fresh ideas within music often requires subverting genre tropes and marrying different sounds to create something new. Blackgaze forefathers ALCEST, progressive death metal legends OPETH and violin wielding extreme metallers NE OBLIVISCARIS are all wonderful examples of a base metal sound being built on with numerous other genres to create something stunning and original. But the way FURIA achieve uniqueness appears to be a subversion of what these bands did. In contrast, FURIA use a base of several different genres, ranging from jazz to prog to stoner, with traditional black metal laced sparingly over it, to create a sound that is unquestionably black metal in spirit. For example, there are thumping stoner riffs and swirling post-rock tremolos on Za ćmą, w dym, and Zwykłe czary wieją’s breakdown sounds weirdly like MASTODON. And yet throughout, FURIA somehow make their alchemical mix of sounds work in a way that is nothing short of masterful.

In metal, disturbing sounds and subject matter are like Samuel L. Jackson swearing a lot: its consistently entertaining and still fun, but the novelty is non-existent by this point and its easy to become jaded by it. So to create music that is genuinely unnerving, that really works at its audience on that unspoken, deeper level, in this genre takes real artistry, and that is what FURIA have done. A lot of Księżyc Milczy Luty is like a taster of SWANS scoring a Silent Hill game, and shows that FURIA, like both SWANS and Silent Hill, understand that genuinely disturbing art is about disorientation and destabilisation. A good example is it’s second track Ciało: the deceptive, atmospheric tranquillity of its opening disarms the listener whilst it slowly builds the tension with a single, sustained, wailing note to the point that it becomes unbearable. And then the sonic version of Hell breaks forth to assault and punish, with swirling guitars that genuinely sound like the wails of the damned. And then the bass re-appears, sounding vicious and predatory, and those haunting, accusatory vocals begin and for the rest of the song the music feels like it’s trying to chase you into a corner and murder you.

This is what Księżyc Milczy Luty often feels like: a psychological attack rather than a passive listening experience, and it gives you no other choice but to engage with and challenge it. It creates an underlying tension even through the more spacey, ambient sections, like the teasingly mellow first half of Tam Jest tu before it explodes out of nowhere, with buzzing guitars and a guttural growl nothing short of ungodly, briefly lulls back into ambience, and then explodes again. FURIA turn tonal shifts and pointed moments of silence (such as in the finale of Grezj, following what can only be described as the musical portrayal of being sucked into a black hole) into vicious psychological warfare. They tauntingly draw you in with soft, mesmerising passages, but you don’t want to let yourself relax because you know another unforgiving sonic assault could strike at any second. And when they do, they are relentless. The instruments sound like they are either in physical agony or embodying the apocalypse, with Sars’ incredible ability to hypnotise and horrify with his bass deserving special mention. And then there are Nihil’s powerful vocals. He roars, growls and snarls his way through the album like an angry goth colossus sent to punish you for the foolish crimes of hope and faith. Across the six tracks within this album, these four relentlessly brilliant musicians create an atmosphere that perfectly reflects its minimalist, haunting cover art: of being devoured by the hideous, overwhelming existential void, and what few rays of light there are will not save you from the darkness.

Rating: 10/10

http://distortedsoundmag.com/album-review-ksiezyc-milczy-luty-furia/

Nothing this year gives me more pleasure than the amazing closing of Recharging the Void. I still can hardly believe how good it is.

I need to give the Furia more listens (obviously)

Can't participate much today, but this is such an exciting countdown! The Furia was pretty great.

Wow, so it comes down to Aluk Todolo and Oranssi Pazuzu. I've had those two albums linked together in my head all year.

I feel like I'm still getting my head round this one.

This album still feels like such an obscurity to me, so despite being my #1 it's kind of odd to see it place this high. It hasn't gotten much attention at the other forums I visit.

Actually got a little fluttery feeling when I saw the album art pop up in the thread just now.

Wow, so it comes down to Aluk Todolo and Oranssi Pazuzu. I've had those two albums linked together in my head all year.

I've always had both bands linked in my head

but talk furia for another 20 mins since it placed at #3

the furia is a masterpiece

I happened to have just read a thing comparing it to Interpol in positive way.

Jute Gyte - my #4. I was just listening to it yesterday, and I feel like I'm just now starting to wrap my head around it. Esp. the polytempi, which for me create a disorienting "feedback effect" which causes the riffs and different sections (wow those songs are getting more and more labyrinthine) to bleed into each other. Also, "Consciousness is Nature's Nightmare" might be my new favorite JG song
Schammasch - my # 15? I kind of thought the first disc wasn't all that but it won me over with the other two discs.
Deathspell Omega - my #10. This is definitely some really smart extreme metal. You really can't fuck with it
Cobalt - man, there's no site like P4k to just turn me off with a positive review. At least for rock/metal.
Vektor - Legit shocked this didn't even make top 3

Also I think Sund4r is orob right about JG needung a mixing engineer: I think Perdurance potentially could've been an album full of microtonal black metal Hurricane Edwards, which would have made it #1 iny heart forever.

Also, want to take a moment to acknowledge that Brad's done really good work for P4k, and usually if I've read one of their reviews and I didnt feel like I wasted my time, it was either Brad or M4rc M4sters.

Lol @ me. Well we know why I dont write for Pitchfirk

Pitchferk

thanks drugs! i would also like to celebrate m4rc

microtonal black metal Hurricane Edwards

don't do this to me

The vocals on Furia are giving me fond flashbacks to Laibach.

2 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806 Points, 20 Votes, TWO #1's
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7jD9s09XGBfwhf3tct7DuQ
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https://aluktodolo.bandcamp.com/album/voix

7.9

French power trio Aluk Todolo have used the basic instruments and fundamental techniques of hard rock and metal to pursue what may seem a musical unicorn—hyperkinetic, heavy instrumental music that’s meditative and absorbing. Voix feels meditative like Sunn O))) or Bardo Pond, Ash Ra Tempel or even Les Rallizes Dénudés. This is, as intended, music meant for submission.

During the last decade, the French power trio Aluk Todolo have used the basic instruments and fundamental techniques of hard rock and metal to pursue what may seem a musical unicorn—hyperkinetic, heavy instrumental music that’s meditative and absorbing. That is, they hope to produce a trance for the listener through sheer activity, with shifting rhythms and repeating riffs forming a sort of blanket of busyness.

In interviews and press releases, the former black metal dudes often speak about mysteries and mysticism, summonings and spirits, submitting to the music and sealing off the world. Maybe that sounds like mumbo jumbo or even sonic snake oil. But on Voix—the best and most incisive album the band has yet made—that last bit actually happens. Their carefully coordinated commotion becomes overwhelming and atmospheric somehow, a cocoon of activity. Not in nature but in effect, Voix feels meditative like Sunn O))) or Bardo Pond, Ash Ra Tempel or even Les Rallizes Dénudés. This is, as intended, music meant for submission.

The 43-minute Voix zigs and zags through six untitled, interlocking, and loud pieces. The songs are separated by, at most, a tension-ratcheting full rest, though many slide right into the next through beats that don’t shift and melodies that don’t stop. This maintains the athletic trio’s momentum but also the listener’s state of mind—you hang in this space with them, waiting for the next wave. Aluk Todolo achieve this fugue state by keeping up a sense of constant motion, even when they’re indulging in repetition. During the back half of the second piece, for instance, drummer Antoine Hadjioannou and bassist Matthieu Canaguier march dead ahead with the insistence of something like heavy metal krautrock. But some element is always morphing. Here, it is guitarist Shantidas Riedacker, dancing with his instrument and amplifier and sculpting several sheets of low-level feedback into a rainbow of musical grays.

More often, though, the trio slyly slips between disparate parts, webbing together separate elements with skills that suggest an interest in the symphony and perhaps the Grateful Dead. There is so much going on in these songs, with so many icons and influences distilled into each moment. But at their best, Aluk Todolo force you not to think about what they’ve heard in the past and what you may be hearing now. You notice the specific choices and changes less than the music’s overall embrace and intensity.

Voix will, no doubt, appeal to fans of Sannhet’s Revisionist, the 2015 album that best positioned itself at the restless, roiling intersection of heavy metal tenacity and post-rock sweep. Voix shares many of the same tones and feelings, and the French trio can be every bit as thrilling and heavy as their American counterparts. But there is an essential distinction: Where Sannhet’s music seems like a soundtrack to the city, where busily interconnecting parts score the machinations of some place that never sleeps, Aluk Todolo somehow offers a shield from much the same, a place to hide out while the band takes care of the busy work. How they do that, exactly, remains a little mysterious—maybe it’s those radiant, circular drones that sneak between the beats or the judicious repetition in certain parts. Either way, Aluk Todolo creeps closer to its goal of turning the combined swagger of rock and metal inside out without losing its essence than ever before on Voix. This band works hard so you don’t have to.

1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372 Points, 33 Votes, FIVE #1's
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https://open.spotify.com/album/252sRljXI2rVMvC1DCCtGN
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https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/v-r-htelij

7.9

Four albums into their career, the Finnish quintet Oranssi Pazuzu may have at last sidestepped the confines of the tag “black metal." Their latest 69-minute opus folds in Krautrock, electric Miles Davs, stoner, thrash and more, finding the band lost—wonderfully, strangely—somewhere between heaven and hell.

Four albums into their career, the Finnish quintet Oranssi Pazuzu may have at last sidestepped the confines of the tag "black metal." During the last decade, the adventurous band has explored the astral infinity of extreme psychedelia and the grim oblivion of extreme metal. As the name Oranssi Pazuzu (essentially "orange demon") suggests, the band’s sound was often an even split, with the two pieces of their musical personality meant to fit like complementary puzzle pieces. Even so, they were often referred to as a metal band, albeit one with some extracurricular interests, Värähtelijä, a 69-minute escapist escapade, should finally, fundamentally correct that misperception.

Heavy metal hasn’t disappeared from their sound. "Havuluu," for instance, folds great, big, back-of-the-throat yells into its fuzz and, about halfway in, pivots on a blast beat and a ghastly scream that suggest Darkthrone. "Lahja" is powered by a Deep Purple proto-metal riff, and "Hypnotisoitu Viharukous" somehow fits stoner and thrash nods into the same five-minute span. More than ever, though, those roots lurk beneath the surface, acting as the foundation for a much more open-ended approach. Tilt your ears slightly, and the title track’s gray glow seems less like funeral doom with an accelerated pulse and more like narcotized Krautrock; imagine Harmonia succumbing to seasonal affective disorder. "Lahja" suggests a snippet of a grueling Swans marathon, with barked imprecations and martial drums pitted against sparkling vibraphone and guitars so free and bright they recall Sonny Sharrock. With Värähtelijä, Oranssi Pazuzu’s music has become a refraction of sorts, so that what you hear depends on your perspective—how you listen, what you bring to it, what you expect from it.

On 2013’s very good Valonielu, Oranssi Pazuzu seemed to strive to orchestrate its opposing impulses, to make them work together through relatively concise songs with discrete structures. You could almost imagine those tunes coming through the speakers of some large outdoor festival, like the aggressive Finnish answer to Sweden’s Dungen. Here, though, Oranssi Pazuzu show no such concern for restraint or expectation. The 17-minute "Vasemman Käden Hierarkia" feels like an album unto itself, brilliantly twisting between noise-rock outbursts and electric Miles allusions, distorted doom passages and sinister soundtrack references.

Typically, when bands dig themselves out of black metal pigeonholes (or, really, metal pigeonholes at large) and fold their ideas inside other, more accessible styles, worlds of possibility and popularity can open up. See, for instance, Tribulation’s own turn out of death metal basics during the last two years or Deafheaven’s climb toward the light across its own half-decade. Oranssi Pazuza’s step out of metal, though, finds them burrowing deeper into a world of their own creation. Värähtelijä is a weird, grotesque record, where genres are superimposed on one another and where eccentric choices are the rule and not the exception. Yes, Oranssi Pazuzu is out of the old black metal box and lost—wonderfully, strangely—somewhere between heaven and hell.

That's quite a blowout.

the right order I think

Cool. I got to see this set, which felt historic! Oranssi Pazuzu at Roadburn 2016 - https://youtu.be/kwgUBvyRAZ8

And rightly so :p

My #2, kept from first place only by my unaccountable hypnotism at the hands of Mr Gyte.

But if there's a more jawdropping, kickass, monstrous track than Vasemman Käden Hierarkia this year, I haven't heard it

Weird how I find Aluk Todolo so boring and Oranssi Pazuzu so awesome

me too but I'll work on it

Furia sort of sneaks up on you. The first couple minutes I wasn't sure what you guys were talking about. Now the bleak expressionist aspect is coming out.

One of the problems with the Furia album for me is that I took it as a chance to get acquainted with their older stuff and I tend to end up listening to their one from 2007 instead

Furia really builds. The last two songs are esp massive.

^that is true

Dunno if seandalai has any stats as ive not heard from him all week

but You can post your ballots here if you want

Cheers for this! Great results :p

"orange demon"

Fuck, he won this too?

I hereby announce that FASTNBULBOUS won the predictor sweepstakes fairly handily!

send yr mailing address to suckerblues (at) gmail (dot) com to claim yr prize

It will probably not be there in time for xmas but you never know

Will the official Manowar loincloth fit him?

I'm voting for Lemon Demon in the main poll too, lol xxp

Thanks! I didn't think I was doing that well when Nails (63) and Ulcerate (54) messed me up!

Oh congratulations Pazuzu! It was the right winner, it really was.

Thanks for a great rollout, CS!

Yes thanks for doing this.

Here's my ballot:

Deathspell Omega – The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Wormed - Krighsu
Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
Virus – Memento Collider
Hail Spirit Noir – Mayhem in Blue
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
Ehnahre – Douve
Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity)
Krallice - Hyperion
Dysrhythmia – The Veil Of Control
Zealotry – The Last Witness
Sumac – What One Becomes
Glyptoglossio – GLYPTOGLO5510
Vektor – Terminal Redux
Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
Neurosis – Fires Within Fires
Ecferus – Pangaea
Temisto - Temisto
Nocte Obducta - Mogontiacum (Nachdem die Nacht herabgesunken)
Palace Of Worms – The Ladder
Ophidian Forest - Susurrus
Fyrnask – Fórn
Alcest – Kodama
Mare Cognitum – Luminiferous Aether
Geryon – The Wound and The Bow
In The Woods ... - Pure
Xoth – Invasion of the Tentacube
Helen Money – Become Zero
Entropia - Ufonaut
Shataan – Weigh Of The Wolf
Astronoid – Air
Withered – Grief Relic
Urfaust – Empty Space Meditation
Blood Incantation – Starspawn
Borknagar – Winter Thrice
Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)
Polyptych – Defying the Metastasis
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
Cadaveric Fumes – Dimensions Obscure
Temple Of Hallucinations - Mantis

Probably wouldn't have believed you if you told me I'd have a br00tal dm album at #2 and a thrash album in my top 20 before this year.

Most surprising omissions imo: Katatonia (I'm betting they're the ones that landed at #103), Moonsorrow, Destroyer 666

thanks for the rollout/effort Slop/sendai - much appreciated

Full Results -

1 Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä 1372.0 33 5
2 Aluk Todolo - Voix 806.0 20 2
3 Furia - Księżyc milczy luty 751.0 20 2
4 Vektor - Terminal Redux 657.0 17 3
5 Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle of Ages 648.0 16 2
6 Cobalt - Slow Forever 563.0 14 1
7 Sumac - What One Becomes 559.0 15 1
8 Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones 558.0 16 1
9 Schammasch - Triangle 543.0 15 1
10 Jute Gyte - Perdurance 539.0 14 2
11 Bölzer - Hero 511.0 13 0
12 Alcest - Kodama 482.0 14 0
13 Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue 473.0 12 1
14 Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust 464.0 13 0
15 Neurosis - Fires Within Fires 444.0 11 0
16 Thy Catafalque - Meta 424.0 10 1
17 Forgotten Spell - Epiphaneia Phosphorus (Angel, God or Insanity) 413.0 9 3
18 Hammers of Misfortune - Dead Revolutions 408.0 12 0
19 Horse Lords - Interventions 384.0 11 0
20 Virus - Memento Collider 371.0 12 0
21 Dysrhythmia - The Veil Of Control 341.0 10 0
22 Gojira - Magma 337.0 9 1
23 Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows 319.0 10 0
24 Kvelertak - Nattesferd 316.0 8 0
25 Khemmis - Hunted 307.0 8 1
26 Völur - Disir 302.0 8 0
27 Entropia - Ufonaut 298.0 9 0
28 40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky 284.0 7 0
29 Metallica - Hardwired...To Self Destruct 270.0 9 0
30 Mesarthim - Isolate 266.0 7 0
31 Opeth - Sorceress 265.0 7 0
32 Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love 263.0 7 0
33 Oathbreaker - Rheia 262.0 7 1
34 Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder 259.0 8 0
35 Krallice - Hyperion 246.0 8 0
35 Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason 246.0 8 0
37 Comet Control - Center of the Maze 235.0 6 0
38 Wormed - Krighsu 231.0 6 0
39 Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP 228.0 9 0
40 Mesarthim - .- -... ... . -. -.-. . 228.0 7 0
41 Ophidian Forest - Susurrus 222.0 6 0
42 Moon Tooth - Chromaparagon 219.0 5 1
43 Blood Incantation - Starspawn 216.0 7 0
44 Deftones - Gore 215.0 5 1
45 Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Y Proffwyd Dwell 209.0 6 0
46 Astronoid - Air 201.0 6 0
47 Russian Circles - Guidance 200.0 6 0
48 Megadeth - Dystopia 200.0 5 1
49 Blues Pills - Lady In Gold 200.0 4 1
50 Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith 198.0 7 0
51 The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation 196.0 6 0
52 Skáphe - Skáphe² 195.0 6 0
53 Sabaton - The Last Stand 190.0 5 0
54 Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis 187.0 5 0
55 Lotus Thief - Gramarye 186.0 6 0
56 Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner 185.0 5 0
57 Mesarthim - Pillars [EP] 180.0 5 0
58 Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule 177.0 6 0
59 Amon Amarth - Jomsviking 174.0 5 0
60 Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law 166.0 5 0
61 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166.0 4 1
62 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165.0 6 0
63 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164.0 5 0
63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164.0 5 0
65 Anicon - Exegeses 160.0 4 0
66 Eight Bells - Landless 156.0 5 0
67 Sumerlands - s/t 154.0 6 0
68 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148.0 5 0
69 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143.0 4 0
70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142.0 4 0
70 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142.0 4 0
72 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141.0 4 0
73 High Spirits - Motivator 140.0 4 0
74 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139.0 5 0
75 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139.0 3 0
76 Saor - Guardians 138.0 6 0
77 Wormrot - Voices 138.0 4 0
78 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137.0 4 0
79 Car Bomb - Meta 134.0 3 0
80 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131.0 4 0
81 ColdWorld - Autumn 129.0 3 0
82 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128.0 6 0
83 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128.0 4 1
84 Wretch - Wretch 128.0 4 0
85 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128.0 3 0
86 Batushka - Litourgiya 127.0 3 0
87 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126.0 4 0
88 Wrong - Wrong 124.0 3 0
89 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123.0 4 0
90 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122.0 3 0
91 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121.0 4 0
92 Atomikylä - Keräily 118.0 3 0
93 Truckfighters - V 116.0 4 0
94 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112.0 3 0
95 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110.0 4 0
95 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110.0 4 0
97 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109.0 4 0
98 Abbath - Abbath 109.0 3 0
98 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109.0 3 0
98 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109.0 3 0
101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108.0 4 1
102 Voivod - Post Society EP 108.0 3 1
103 Babymetal - Metal Resistance 108.0 3 0
104 Sorcier Des Glaces - North 107.0 3 0
105 Sinistro - Semente 105.0 3 0
106 Xoth - Invasion of the Tentacube 101.0 4 0
107 In The Woods ... - Pure 99.0 3 0
108 Goatess - Purgatory Under New Management 98.0 3 0
109 Kurushimi - Kurushimi 98.0 2 0
110 Witchery - In His Infernal Majesty's Service 97.0 4 0
111 Borknagar - Winter Thrice 97.0 3 0
112 Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika 94.0 4 0
113 Ghoulgotha - To Starve the Cross 93.0 3 0
114 Horseback - Dead Ringers 92.0 3 0
114 Uada - Devoid of Light 92.0 3 0
116 Geryon - The Wound and The Bow 89.0 3 0
117 Cough - Still They Pray 89.0 2 0
117 Head of the Demon - Sathanas Trismegistos 89.0 2 0
119 Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Skuggsjá 88.0 3 0
120 Every Time I Die - Low Teens 87.0 2 0
121 Sun Worship - Pale Dawn 85.0 2 0
122 Basarabian Hills - Attraction 83.0 3 0
122 Temisto - Temisto 83.0 3 0
122 The Cosmic Dead - Rainbowhead 83.0 3 0
122 Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter 83.0 3 0
126 Destroyer 666 - Wildfire 83.0 2 0
126 Ghost B.C. - Popestar 83.0 2 0
128 Helen Money - Become Zero 82.0 3 0
128 Insomnium - Winter's Gate 82.0 3 0
130 Blut aus Nord/Ævangelist - Codex Obscura Nomina 81.0 3 0
131 Baby Woodrose - Freedom 80.0 2 0
132 Zealotry - The Last Witness 79.0 2 0
133 Ripper - Experiment Of Existence 77.0 3 0
134 Wakedead Gathering - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre 77.0 2 0
135 Imperial Triumphant - Inceste 76.0 3 0
135 Zao - The Well-Intentioned Virus 76.0 3 0
137 Fuath - I 76.0 2 0
138 Spirit Adrift - Chained to Oblivion 75.0 3 0
139 Desaster - The Oath Of An Iron Ritual 75.0 2 0
140 Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts 74.0 3 0
141 Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls 74.0 2 0
142 Downfall of Gaia - Atrophy 73.0 2 0
142 Drudkh - One Who Talks with the Fog 73.0 2 0
142 Panphage - Drengskapr 73.0 2 0
145 LLNN - Loss 72.0 3 0
146 Khanus - Rites of Fire EP 72.0 2 0
146 Krypts - Remnants of Expansion 72.0 2 0
146 Sxuperion - Cosmic Void 72.0 2 0
149 Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire 71.0 3 0
150 Electric Citizen - Higher Time 71.0 2 0
151 Norma Jean - Polar Similar 70.0 2 0
151 Vircolac - The Cursed Travails of the Demeter 70.0 2 0
153 Mutterlein - Orphans of the Black Sun* 68.0 2 0
154 Mithras - On Strange Loops 67.0 3 0
155 Black Mountain - IV 67.0 2 0
155 Goatpenis - Apocalypse War 67.0 2 0
157 Ecferus - Pangaea 66.0 2 0
157 Virvum - Illuminance 66.0 2 0
159 Dunbarrow - Dunbarrow 64.0 2 0
159 Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters 64.0 2 0
159 Waldgefluster - Ruinen 64.0 2 0
162 Castle - Welcome To The Graveyard 63.0 2 0
162 Mars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul) 63.0 2 0
162 Spellcaster - Night Hides The World 63.0 2 0
162 Terra Tenebrosa - The Reverses 63.0 2 0
166 Bloody Hammers - Lovely Sort Of Death 62.0 2 0
166 Oceans of Slumber - Winter 62.0 2 0
166 Zhrine - Unortheta 62.0 2 0
169 Absolute Power - Absolute Power 61.0 2 0
169 Uskumgallu - Rotten Limbs in Dreams of Blood 61.0 2 0
171 Anagnorisis - Peripeteia 60.0 1 1
172 Sahg - Memento Mori 59.0 2 0
173 Ahpdegma - Seolfkwyllem 58.0 2 0
173 Oozing Wound - Whatever Forever 58.0 2 0
175 Vader - The Empire 57.0 3 0
176 Caïna - Christ Clad In White Phosphorus 57.0 2 0
176 Deviant Process - Paroxysm 57.0 2 0
176 Kayo Dot - Plastic House on Base of Sky 57.0 2 0
176 Qrixkuor - Three Devils Dance 57.0 2 0
176 Whores. - Gold 57.0 2 0
181 Goat - Requiem 56.0 4 0
182 Palace of Worms - The Ladder 56.0 2 0
183 Waldgefluster/Panopticon - Split 55.0 2 0
184 Ash Borer - Irrepassable Gate 54.0 2 0
185 Eerie - Eerie 53.0 2 0
185 Witchcraft - Nucleus 53.0 2 0
187 Graves at Sea - the curse that is 52.0 2 0
187 Lycus - Chasms 52.0 2 0
189 Arizmenda ‎ - Beneath This Reality Of Flesh 50.0 2 0
189 Bekëth Nexëhmü ‎ - De Dunklas Återkomst 50.0 2 0
191 Crowbar - The Serpent Only Lies 49.0 2 0
192 Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Wake to a New Dawn of Another Astro Era 49.0 1 0
192 Interment - Scent of the Buried 49.0 1 0
194 Jambinai - A Hermitage 48.0 2 0
195 Agatus - The Eternalist 48.0 1 0
195 Mourning Sun - Último Exhalario 48.0 1 0
197 Be'lakor - Vessels 47.0 1 0
197 Child Bite - Negative Noise 47.0 1 0
199 Shataan - Weigh Of The Wolf 46.0 2 0
200 Asteroid - III 46.0 1 0
200 Warm - The Human Exemplar 46.0 1 0
202 Death Angel - The Evil Divide 45.0 2 0
203 Begrime Exemious - The Enslavement Conquest 44.0 2 0
203 Withered - Grief Relic 44.0 2 0
205 Ehnnahre - Douve 44.0 1 0
205 Wytch Hazel - Prelude 44.0 1 0
207 Magrudergrind - II 43.0 2 0
207 Mizmor - Yodh 43.0 2 0
209 Holy Grail - Times Of Pride And Peril 43.0 1 0
209 Lucifer’s Hammer - Beyond The Omens 43.0 1 0
211 An Autumn for Crippled Children - Eternal 42.0 1 0
211 Blizaro - Cornucopia Della Morte 42.0 1 0
211 Hostium - The Bloodwine of Satan 42.0 1 0
211 Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One 42.0 1 0
215 Soulburn - Earthless Pagan Spirit 41.0 2 0
216 Brimstone Coven - Black Magic 41.0 1 0
216 Dark Forest - Beyond The Veil 41.0 1 0
216 Spell - For None and All 41.0 1 0
216 Teleport - Ascendance 41.0 1 0
216 Void Omnia - Dying Light 41.0 1 0
221 Nokturnal Mortum/Graveland - The Spirit Never Dies (split) 39.0 1 0
221 Oneida & Rhys Chatham - What’s Your Sign? 39.0 1 0
221 Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain 39.0 1 0
221 Suma - The Order Of Things 39.0 1 0
221 Venomous Concept - Kick Me Silly VC III 39.0 1 0
226 Glyptoglossio - GLYPTOGLO5510 38.0 1 0
226 Predatory Light - Predatory light 38.0 1 0
226 Vindland - Hanter Savet 38.0 1 0
229 Fleshgod Apocalypse - King 37.0 2 0
230 Abnormality - Mechanisms of Omniscience 37.0 1 0
230 Psychonaut 4 - Neurasthenia 37.0 1 0
232 Mike & the Melvins - Three Men and a Baby 36.0 2 0
233 Ghold - PYR 36.0 1 0
233 In Mourning - Afterglow 36.0 1 0
233 Nucleus - Sentient 36.0 1 0
233 Obake - Mutations 36.0 1 0
233 Obed Marsh - Innsmouth 36.0 1 0
233 Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley 36.0 1 0
233 The Well - Pagan Science 36.0 1 0
233 Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling 36.0 1 0
241 Ihsahn - Arktis 35.0 1 0
241 Plebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True Lows 35.0 1 0
243 Bestial Raids ‎ - Master Satan's Witchery 34.0 1 0
243 Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma 34.0 1 0
245 Conan - Revengeance 33.0 1 0
245 Mortem - Deinos Nekromantis 33.0 1 0
245 Obscura - Akroasis 33.0 1 0
248 Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion 32.0 2 0
249 Fallujah - Dreamless 32.0 1 0
249 Gjendod - 2016 demo 32.0 1 0
249 Nocte Obducta - Mogontiacum (Nachdem die Nacht herabgesunken) 32.0 1 0
249 Spidergawd - III 32.0 1 0
253 Gehennah - Too Loud To Live Too Drunk To Die 31.0 2 0
254 Armory - World Peace ... Cosmic War 31.0 1 0
254 Greenleaf - Rise Above the Meadow 31.0 1 0
254 Marsh Dweller - The Weight of Sunlight 31.0 1 0
254 Obscure Sphinx - Epitaphs 31.0 1 0
254 Vermin Womb - Decline 31.0 1 0
259 Okkultokrati - Raspberry Dawn 30.0 2 0
260 Crippled Black Phoenix - Bronze 30.0 1 0
260 Monomyth - Exo 30.0 1 0
262 Horseburner - Dead Seeds, Barren Soi 29.0 2 0
262 Nordjevel - Nordjevel 29.0 2 0
264 Diamond Head - Diamond Head 29.0 1 0
264 Fyrnask - Fórn 29.0 1 0
264 Gevurah - Hallelujah! 29.0 1 0
264 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity 29.0 1 0
268 Helms Alee - Stillicide 28.0 2 0
268 Violet Cold - Magic Night 28.0 2 0
270 Bat - Wings of Chains 28.0 1 0
270 Hemelbestormer - Aether 28.0 1 0
272 Troll - Troll 27.0 1 0
273 Book of Sand - Occult Anarchist Propaganda 26.0 1 0
274 Amphisbaena - Amphisbaena 25.0 1 0
274 Caverne ‎ - Aux Frontières du Monde 25.0 1 0
274 Church of Misery - And Then There Were None 25.0 1 0
274 Coffin Lust - Manifestation of Inner Darkness 25.0 1 0
274 Cvinger - Embodied in Incense 25.0 1 0
274 Dagger Moon - Citadel 25.0 1 0
274 Dark Tranqillity - Atoma 25.0 1 0
274 Deiquisitor - Deiquisitor 25.0 1 0
274 Demontage - Fire of Iniquity 25.0 1 0
274 Distant Sun - Into The Nebula 25.0 1 0
274 Djevel - Norske ritualer 25.0 1 0
274 Dreamtime - Strange Pleasures 25.0 1 0
274 DÉMONOS - From Sacred to Profane 25.0 1 0
274 Grave Miasma - Endless Pilgrimage 25.0 1 0
274 Haken - Affinity 25.0 1 0
274 Irkallian Oracle ‎ - Apollyon 25.0 1 0
274 Morphinist - Giants 25.0 1 0
274 Mourning Beloveth - Rust & Bone 25.0 1 0
274 Mystik ‎ - Dunkla Klangor... (Kapitel I) 25.0 1 0
274 Nox Formulae - The Hidden Paths to Black Ecstacy 25.0 1 0
274 Nécropole ‎ - Nécropole 25.0 1 0
274 Phobocosm - Bringer of Drought 25.0 1 0
274 Revocation - Great Is Our Sin 25.0 1 0
274 Ride For Revenge - Thy Horrendous Yearning 25.0 1 0
274 Ritual Chamber - Obscurations (To Feast on the Seraphim) 25.0 1 0
274 Sapaudia - Sainte Nuit 25.0 1 0
274 Skyforest - Unity 25.0 1 0
274 Svlfvr - Shamanic Lvnar Cvlt 25.0 1 0
274 Trap Them - Crown Feral 25.0 1 0
274 Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undying 25.0 1 0
274 Usurpress - The Regal Tribe 25.0 1 0
274 Vile Creature - A Pessimistic Doomsayer 25.0 1 0
306 Cardinals Folly - Holocaust Of Ecstacy And Freedom 24.0 1 0
307 Sorrow Plagues - Sorrow Plagues 23.0 1 0
308 Countess - Fires Of Destiny 22.0 1 0
309 Latitudes - Old Sunlight 21.0 1 0
310 Melankoli - Fallen 18.0 1 0
310 Messa - Belfry 18.0 1 0
310 Monolord - Lord of Suffering / Die in Haze 18.0 1 0
313 Is - Glimpses Of Sorrow 17.0 1 0
313 The Hazytones - The Hazytones 17.0 1 0
315 Earthless/Harsh Toke - Acid Crusher/Mount Swan split 15.0 1 0
315 The Rare Breed - Looking For Today 15.0 1 0
317 11Paranoias - Reliquary For A Dreamed Of World 14.0 2 0
318 Pensées Nocturnes - À Boire Et À Manger 14.0 1 0
318 Polyptych - Defying the Metastasis 14.0 1 0
320 Capra Informis - Womb of the Wild 13.0 1 0
320 Shadow Witch - Sun Killer 13.0 1 0
322 Autumn, Leaves, Scars/Dreams Of Nature/Lumnos - A Desolate Landscape (split) 11.0 1 0
322 Eternity's End - The Fire Within 11.0 1 0
322 Kandodo/McBain - Lost Chants/Last Chance 11.0 1 0
322 Temple Of Hallucinations - Mantis 11.0 1 0
326 Exmortus - Ride Forth 10.0 1 0
326 Lethargic Euphoria - Standstill 10.0 1 0
326 Vokonis - Olde One Ascending 10.0 1 0
329 Bright Curse - Before The Shore 9.0 1 0
329 Brutus - Murwgebeukt 9.0 1 0
331 Trna - Lose Yourself To Find Peace 8.0 1 0
332 Black Tomb - Black Tomb 6.0 1 0
333 Beastmaker - Lusus Naturae 5.0 1 0
333 Nonsun - Black Snow Desert 5.0 1 0
335 Gygax - Critical Hit 4.0 1 0
335 The Re-Stoned - Reptiles Return 4.0 1 0
337 Mistur - In Memoriam 2.0 1 0
338 Black Shape Of Nexus - Carrier 1.0 1 0

I was the other No.1 for Jute Gyte. This hit me on a level his other albums weren't able to. Maybe it's because its a bit more accessible than the others but every track on Perdurance floors me completely. I'm a sucker for Branca-ish metal and no other avant release this year warped my brain quite like this.

Thank you as always for this poll. So far, Skáphe and Forgotten Spell are blowing me away. Very much appriciate you all putting this together every year.

oh cool there were two other LLNN voters!

Yes, all hail CS and seandalai!