ILM Metal/other 'metal' subgenres 2010 POLL NOMINATIONS THREAD CLOSES Saturday 19 December - All are welcome.

oh yeah and my home computer is broken and i am having too much fun hating it to fix it at the moment

because it reminds me that by the end of the all time thread it was pretty much 1000% no fun anymore.

you are not kidding.

you know, it took months to persuade you to run a 2010 metal poll, you were so worried about people complaining about the results (which, let's face it, ALWAYS happens on ilx). apparently the solution is to veto any album that could possibly be complained about once the results roll out, which in the end, will just get everyone complaining about what's missing from the results, instead of what's included. funny how that works...

I just want to see people's ballots. Can we skip the roll-out and tabulation and just talk about our favorite heavy shit released this year?

It'd be like Rolling Metal, but include people who may not be interested in the daily minutiae.

I think it will be awesome whether a couple of albums get vetoed or not and everyone should just, like, suck it up and applaud the good job being done by the abacus and calculator people.

This is ILM. We don't applaud till after the complaining's done.

I enjoy the roll-out the most, I would hate to skip that part.

no one nominating Xasthur?

Xasthur - My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky

Now I know how noodle vague feels

wow, this thread really makes me not want to participate in the poll. If you all are so concerned about crossover albums placing, why not hold the vote after the main one, and omit anything that places there instead of arbitrarily vetoing anything based on a presumption that it will place high and somehow shouldn't.

something tells me Swans would be more put off by being classified as "metal" than anyone here is at them being considered for the poll. I think KJ should be in the poll.

I haven't seen mention of The Howling Wind's Into the Cryosphere. Also, please keep Horseback's Invisible Mountain as a 2010 release. Nobody here discussed it before 2010. Even allmusic lists it as '10. I haven't heard it, but Arckanum's Sviga Lae might be worth including?

how about we just announce the swans album as the winner of the poll ahead of time and then we can move on to the nominating and voting and everybody wins

the howling wind album is there

If you all are so concerned about crossover albums placing, why not hold the vote after the main one, and omit anything that places there instead of arbitrarily vetoing anything based on a presumption that it will place high and somehow shouldn't.

^^

why don't we have a poll to see which albums should be on the poll, then poll the results for metalness, then poll those results for ability to make clothes fall off of love interests

Putting aside the "corny indie people will vote for it" argument, Swans just don't feel metal, as I think I expressed fairly cogently above. That said -- IT'S ONE FREAKING ALBUM PEOPLE. There have been around 1000 posts bitching about how ONE ALBUM hasn't been allowed, when there is a selection of hundreds of great releases this year. Algerian Goalkeeper is running this poll. By his rules, Swans have been vetoed. He also vetoed Killing Joke, something that I nominated, by the same rules, and I'm not complaining. End of discussion. YOU are the ones making this poll not fun for YOURSELVES.

Killing Joke are girly metal! as definitively proven by the post above.

(j/k)

Who says we're not having fun being whiney assholes? I veto J3ff's definition of fun.

JEEZUS -- I am sorry I added to this contentious bitch session. I, personally, would like to make algeriangoalie and jj's life easy, not cause active pain for them. If this is going to be a dumb ego-fest then it ruins all the fun.

Let the Swans in, whatever... I don't care anymore!

but I don't think I want a tracks poll anymore...

nothings changing. No swans and there's no interest in a tracks poll so there wont be one unless others suddenly want one.

I think we all just need to take a step back and take a deep breath and remember why we're here: this poll is supposed to be a fun way to celebrate the metal releases from this year that we've loved. Two of my favorite metal-adjacent releases have been vetoed, and that's fine, because there will be other places I can express my enjoyment of them. let's just try to be reasonable here. I think we can all agree that, while Swans may be heavy, they do exist in a gray area when it comes to "metal." That gray area is why the vetoes exists. If something clearly not meddle was nominated, like LCD Sound System, there wouldn't even be a discussion. And we've definitely discussed this one to death. Enough people felt that they don't belong, just as enough people felt that Killing Joke didn't belong. Can we please move on and stop derailing the poll and get back to the task at hand, which is to talk about music that we love?

Would be nice if people tried to boost albums that are actually nominated.

(metal, not meddle, obviously)

J3ff OTM

yeah fuck a pink floyd

I would like to nominate Sorgeldom's "Inner Receivings"

vote black meddle

please keep nominations in the format we use. Easier for us and lessens the chances of something being missed.

Sorgeldom - Inner Receivings
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We have reached 200 Nominations

1349 - Demonoir
Acid Witch - Stoned
Across Tundras - Old World Wanderer
Adrift For Days - The Lunar Maria
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
An Autumn for Crippled Children - Lost
Angel Eyes - Midwestern
Apostle Of Solitude - Last Sunrise
Arabrot - Revenge
Armored Saint – La Raza
Arsis - Starve for the Devil
Atheist - Jupiter
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
Bison B.C. - Dark Ages
Black Breath - Heavy Breathing
Black Sun - Twilight Of The Gods
Black Tusk - Taste The Sin
Blind Guardian - at the Edge of Time
Blood Of The Black Owl - A Banishing Ritual (Into White)
Bongripper - Satan Worshiping Doom
Boris - Variations
Boris & Ian Astbury - BXI
Burzum - Belus
Castevet - Mounds of Ash
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
Celestiial - Where Life Springs Eternal
Cephalic Carnage - Misled By Certainty
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
Coffinworm - When All Became None
Coliseum - House With a Curse
Conan - Horseback Battle Hammer
Cough - Ritual Abuse
Crystal Viper - Legends
Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth
Darkblack - Midnight Wraith
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Daughters - S/T
Dawnbringer - Nucleus
Dead Meadow - Three Kings
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Decrepit Birth - Polarity
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
Doomshine - The Piper At The Gates Of Doom
Double Negative - Daydreamnation
Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
Dråpsnatt - Hymner till undergången
Drudkh - Handful of Stars
Ea - Au Ellai
Early Graves - Goner
Eibon - Entering Darkness
Eldjudnir - Ragnarok
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Elixir - All Hallows Eve
Eluveitie - Everything Remains as It Never Was
Embryonic Devourment - Vivid Interpretations of the Void
Encoffination - Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Envy - Recitation
Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Exodus – Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant
Fear Factory - Mechanize
Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions of Suffering
Furze - Reaper Subconscious Guide
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
Gozu - Locust Season
Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North
Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds
Halford - Made of Metal
Hansel - Never Say Die
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
Hey Colossus & The Van Halen Time Capsule - Eurogrumble vol 1
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead
Horseback - The Invisible Mountain
Hour Of 13 - The Ritualist
Howl - Full Of Hell
Humanfly - Darker Later
Ihsahn - After
Immolation- Majesty and Decay
In Mourning - Monolith
Integrity- The Blackest Curse
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Jesu - Heart Ache & Dethroned
Jucifer - Throned in Blood
Karma to Burn - Appalachian Incantation
Kayo Dot - Coyote
Kellermensch - Kellermensch
Kill the Client - Set for Extinction
Knut - Wonder
Kongh - Shadows Of The Shapeless
Krieg - The Isolationist
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Lair of the Minotaur - Evil Power
Lantlôs - .neon
Le Kraken - Exalt
Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernieres Pensees
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis
Limbonic Art - Phantasmagoria
Liveride - Туманами
Ludicra - The Tenant
Mael Mordha - Manannan
Magnus Pelander - Magnus Pelander EP
Mar De Grises - Stream Inwards
Mares Of Thrace - The Moulting
Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem Two
Melechesh - Epigenesis
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Menace Ruine - Union of Irreconcilables
Mob Rules - The Donor
Monarch - Sabbat Noir
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit
Murmuure - Murmuure
My Uncle The Wolf - Flush
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
Nadja - Under the Jaguar Sun
Nails - Unsilent Death
Nails - Unsilent Death
Negura Bunget - Vîrstele Pamîntului
Negură Bunget - Vîrstele pămîntului
Neurosis - Live at Roadburn 2007
October Tide - A Thin Shell
Opeth - Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Ov Hell - The Underworld Regime
Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
Pathfinder - Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time
PIVIXKI - Gravissima
Ramesses - Take The Curse
Ratt - Infestation
Retro Grave - Again
Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality
Rotting Christ – AEALO
Sahara Surfers - Spacetrip on a Paper Plane
Sahg - III
Sailors With Wax Wings - Sailors With Wax Wings
Salome - Terminal
Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip
Serpentina Satelite - Mecanica Celeste
Sheavy - Disfigurine
Shining - Blackjazz
Sigh - Scenes from Hell
Sloath - S/T
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits
Solace - A.D.
Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst
Sorgeldom - Inner Receivings
Spitit Descent - Doominion
Stargazer - A Great Work Of Ages
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
Suma - Ashes
Sungrazer - Sungrazer
Sweet Cobra - Mercy
Tarja Turunen - What Lies Beneath
The Austerity Program - Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
The Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
The Flight Of Sleipnir - Lore
The Howling Void - Shadows Over the Cosmos
The Howling Wind - Into The Cryosphere
The Ocean - Anthropocentric
The Ocean - Heliocentric
The Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating
The Sword - Warp Riders
The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
Thou - Summit
Titan - Sweet Dreams
Torche - Songs for Singles
Trees - Freed Of This Flesh
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Triptykon - Shatter
Twilight - Monument To Time End
U.S. Christmas - Run Thick In The Night
Ufomammut - Eve
Ultralyd - Inertiadrome
Unearthly Trance - V
Voltax - Fugitive State of Mind
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Westering - Help A Body
White Hills - White Hills
White Hills & GNOD 'White Hills Drop Out With Gnod'
White Hills 'Stolen Stars Are Left For No One'
Wildildlife - Give It To Live
Wino - Adrift
Withered - Dualitas
Wolf People - Steeple
Wormrot - Abuse
Yakuza - Of Seismic Consequence
Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt
Yrsel - Requiem for the Three Kharites
Zoroaster - Matador

why dont you add the real xasthur album?

albums i would like to boost (that probably haven't been heard by a lot of peeps):

Cough - Ritual Abuse
Eldjudnir - Ragnarok
Liveride - Туманами

and albums that are pretty well-known but are way awesome:

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
The Sword - Warp Riders

What was the name of the Xasthur album? Wasn't there a few out this year? inc one with marissa nadler that i still need to hear.

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
The Sword - Warp Riders

i really need to SERIOUSLY play the above three some more.

currently playing/digging Dawnbringer!

Dawnbringer album is fantastic. Anyone heard their other albums? I read that they were very different.

I was going to say Algerian Goalkeeper and jj deserve a meddle but it makes me sound like I should be on the sexual offenders register.

hey buddy, the michael jackson thread's over there --->

Enslaved kicking my ass but gud now!

this thread is nutz.

I'm going to have to ponder my nominations on the tree of woe but...

Also, please keep Horseback's Invisible Mountain as a 2010 release. Nobody here discussed it before 2010. Even allmusic lists it as '10.

I believe I voted for it on the 2009 poll. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Emblem-cool.svg/50px-Emblem-cool.svg.png

Can I just take a second to stump for the Ihsahn album? Listening to it again right now and this thing is seven different kinds of amazing. The saxophone adds such a great touch. If we ended up doing a tracks list, "Frozen Lakes On Mars" would very likely be in my top three.

yeah, that album rules. will definitely be in my top 10.

some others I'd add:

overkill, ironbound
autopsy, the tomb within

format your nominations damn you

that is how things get missed out

i formatted mine, didn't help

j/k i am just trolling you now, <33

overkill - ironbound
autopsy - the tomb within

and x-post with love, goalkeeper

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XrYHDpgiLTg/TDmVQ6JgVXI/AAAAAAAAAUY/jhZY6iQkxJA/s320/epmd+you+gots+x.jpg

;-)