TIE84Menace Ruine - Union of Irreconcilables (232 Points, 11 Votes) http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-zOD9_8LSFc/TAPvNhQuOkI/AAAAAAAAAtk/K5CWzCJ59tA/s320/1275317604_menace-ruine.jpghttp://www.last.fm/music/Menace+Ruine
Menace Ruine came together in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in autumn 2006, when they began composing the songs that would form their debut recording, In Vulva Infernum.While the debut album Cult Of Ruins, took its starting point in fast black metal and noise, the follow-up, The Die is Cast stays true to the metal sound. The tempo has been slowed down, and could be described as heavy down-tempo drone with martial rhythms.The original lineup:Geneviève - vocals, instruments, lyrics;S. de La Moth - vocals, instruments.
While the debut album Cult Of Ruins, took its starting point in fast black metal and noise, the follow-up, The Die is Cast stays true to the metal sound. The tempo has been slowed down, and could be described as heavy down-tempo drone with martial rhythms.
The original lineup:
Geneviève - vocals, instruments, lyrics;S. de La Moth - vocals, instruments.
http://boomkat.com/cds/305649-menace-ruine-union-of-irreconcilableshttp://www.myspace.com/menaceruine
84Boris - Variations (232 Points, 11 Votes) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_npAibJ29jYc/TB63hwEdheI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/wd4_t6Bk550/s1600/14o7vyf%5B1%5D.jpghttp://www.last.fm/music/Boris
Quite a few bands with female musicians have made it so far. Something metal is usually accused of not enough of (perfectly true) but glad ILMis embracing it.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
These records are getting lots of votes but none of the voters are talking about them (me included, which I'll now rectify).
Thanks! but sadly that is par for the course for poll threads until the final stages. Would love to see more discussion though, so everyone feel free to pile in with thoughts!
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The only one I've heard thus far is the Black Tusk record, which sounded very much like Georgia peers Kylesa to me. That post-hardcore sound is very popular at the moment, isn't it.
― Neil S, Monday, 10 January 2011 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ voted for Boris (my first to appear). kinda serves as a greatest hits-style compilation w/ a handful of newly recorded parts (the new Kurihara guitar stuff is blistering) and pretty much everything on it is unfuckwithable.
― ilxor this could be a standout thread for you imo (ilxor), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's interesting how many groups have made this list that weren't really discussed on the metal thread. Although probably the stuff that was discussed at length will be appearing further up. Crazy how good a year this was for metal.
― Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, Black Tusk and Howl are both similar-sounding, quite good, and on Relapse. I suspect, however, that they've only gotten this much attention because the genre hasn't become glutted yet. There's a good chance that this particular style is going to become as strip mined as post-metal, though, and when that happens they'll probably fall through the cracks.
― Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to the Menace Ruin tracks on myspace and they're interesting. Worth further exploration, at least.
I listened to the Black Tusk but it didn't click with me like the Kylesa record. There is definitely something in the water down Georgia way.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 January 2011 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Or Menace Ruine, even.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 January 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't heard hardly any of this shit so far. My listening is much more mainstream, I guess...that, plus my tolerance for artsy crap has really diminished over the last couple of years. Gimme BROOTAL DEATH METAL or fuck off.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 10 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
It's interesting how many groups have made this list that weren't really discussed on the metal thread.
Although probably the stuff that was discussed at length will be appearing further up.
Probably no point in saying that wont be the case because, to a high extent its true, but there are some surprises with high/low placings for known & not so well known albums.
Crazy how good a year this was for metal.
Damn right, maybe mainstream metal is creatively redundant and not selling that well but the underground with it's many subgenres is thriving! Maybe one will crossover?
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The sigh was my #2, and although it def isn't the weirdest thing on my list, it's about as odd as would be expected from them. I think this time around there us def less weird for weirds sake going on, the whole album seems a little more gelled than many of the other ones to my ears, kind of a band hitting it's stride thing IMO. Would be more effusive but I am posting from iPhone so even being this longwinded is annoying as hell.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Kinda sounds like if a bunch of the good paganfest folkmetal dudes did a collab w/peste noire and recorded in a high $$$ studio instead of some dudes toolshed.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Henry wouldn't like it if it had high $$$ production though.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Henry ate a bunch of my mail this afternoon so his posting privs have been temporarily revoked.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
You not been feeding him enough steak?
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link
83Hellbeard - Scarecrow (234 Points, 10 Votes) http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__RB2VVb7ph4/TRS-JrMcJyI/AAAAAAAABHk/OOxBlYaG7ho/s320/51uXhV%252BorkL.jpghttp://www.last.fm/music/Hellbeard
When the scum rock band 66seven decided to take their sound in a darker, droning, more powerful new direction after a line-up change, a new name was needed…
Hellbeard brings musicality, vision, spirit and reason, to create disturbing, crushing sonic walls of destruction, comforting ambient textures, and hypnotic drones.
http://www.myspace.com/hellbeardband
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG that Hellbeard cover! Must hear that!
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I tried to listen to as much of the nominated albums as I could over the past month and that one was pretty good.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, where are all these bands coming from? Are you just making stuff up at this point?
― Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
*sigh*
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
(he's joking btw, just trying to stir shit up)
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
He just has a journalists sense of "humor"
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously, where the hell are the voters? 10 people voted for that Hellbeard, yet it seems none of the regular posters have even heard of it, let alone heard the record itself. C'mon lurkers, rep your votes!
And I agree with jon - great cover. Oh crap, listening to Hellbeard on myspace and screamy dude ruining what started off so well. Bollocks to them.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah voters post away!!!
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I think everyones on that gun thread though as viceroy says
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
The music's great on the Hellbeard - even like the switch to crusty punk and back on the second track - but the "lead throat" is killing me.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
With the name hellbeard I totally expected trad doom metal with clean vox
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not saying you made up the results, I just thought I had heard/of most of the stuff that came out this year. Seems like I missed a lot. Would it be too much to ask to post labels?
― Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It would be a bit much, i already added genres and countries to needle and that took a day each practically,with my complete lack of concentration & motivation it was a bit much.But I suppose I could add it to the end of it with the recap tonight then try posting it along with each result
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
also so much stuff comes out that its impossible to hear of everything never mind hear it!
Tell you what, I'll post a metal archives link if there is one, ok?
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha except hellbeard dont have one
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I bet they are an ilxors band and their mates voted for it!
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
82Horseback - The Invisible Mountain (234 Points, 12 Votes)
http://www.rocksound.tv/images/uploads/theinvisiblemountain300.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7EmcwSzoujDmObReKUVK3c
http://www.last.fm/music/Horseback
Jenks Miller’s psychedelic / drone project, Horseback, produced an avant-garde sleeper-hit with 2007’s Impale Golden Horn (Burly Time Records/Holidays for Quince Records). That record, which Aquarius Records’ review staff tentatively described as “the best drone record of the year” upon its release, boasted four lengthy tracks, each one a vibrant, kaleidoscopic journey toward a manic, inevitable nirvana. More melodic and accessible than most noise records and noisier than most dream pop records, Horseback’s debut carved itself a niche somewhere between Merzbow and Stars of the Lid, offering a refreshing sound to fans across many sub-genres of psychedelic music.Horseback began its story in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2006.Horseback toured in the fall of 2007 with Meisha / Arco Flute Foundation / New American Folk Hero visionary Mike Tamburo, including a stop at the fourth-annual Arthur Magazine-curated Million Tongues Festival in Chicago.With an almost dialectical precision, Jenks Miller’s Approaching the Invisible Mountain turns Horseback’s sound inside-out. Where guitars previously fuzzed and whirred, they are clean; where instrumentation was meticulously balanced against itself, playing is now searching, slowly unraveling, reveling in its quiet momentum. Where Impale Golden Horn found inspiration in 20th-century American avant-garde composers, Approaching the Invisible Mountain digs further back into the annals of American music, generating a sound that is as much derived from the blues-guitar tradition as it is from modern composition’s sense of (s)pace. Over the course of six solo-guitar improvisations, Miller reinvents the process of tonal meditation that was present in Horseback’s debut.2009 saw the release of Horseback’s MILH IHVH, a 7” record (Turgid Animal) and The Invisible Mountain, a full-length CD (Utech Records), both of which explore a darker, noisier, and more agressive side of drone music that explicitly references harsh noise, black metal and doom. Though divergent composition and recording processes yield very different textures in the two recordings, both records are intended to open portals into a kind of mythic imagination or meditative self-awareness.http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise
Horseback began its story in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2006.
Horseback toured in the fall of 2007 with Meisha / Arco Flute Foundation / New American Folk Hero visionary Mike Tamburo, including a stop at the fourth-annual Arthur Magazine-curated Million Tongues Festival in Chicago.
With an almost dialectical precision, Jenks Miller’s Approaching the Invisible Mountain turns Horseback’s sound inside-out. Where guitars previously fuzzed and whirred, they are clean; where instrumentation was meticulously balanced against itself, playing is now searching, slowly unraveling, reveling in its quiet momentum. Where Impale Golden Horn found inspiration in 20th-century American avant-garde composers, Approaching the Invisible Mountain digs further back into the annals of American music, generating a sound that is as much derived from the blues-guitar tradition as it is from modern composition’s sense of (s)pace. Over the course of six solo-guitar improvisations, Miller reinvents the process of tonal meditation that was present in Horseback’s debut.
2009 saw the release of Horseback’s MILH IHVH, a 7” record (Turgid Animal) and The Invisible Mountain, a full-length CD (Utech Records), both of which explore a darker, noisier, and more agressive side of drone music that explicitly references harsh noise, black metal and doom. Though divergent composition and recording processes yield very different textures in the two recordings, both records are intended to open portals into a kind of mythic imagination or meditative self-awareness.
http://www.myspace.com/horsebacknoise
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It was reissued on Relapse this year I think. The 2009 release was ltd cdr i think.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway there was plenty of chat about it on ILM
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
There was? I guess I missed it as this doesn't ring any bells.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
probably was on the drone/psych thread
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
That would explain it. Again, would love this with different vocals. Great droning grooves, interesting licks, shit smeared on top.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 January 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I dont have a problem with Horseback vox at all, I prefer it to the vox on the howling void album where the death growls suck but the music is great.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
One album left for today btw
I thought Hellbeard was a joke the first time I heard about it, too.
I liked "Shatter", but couldn't justify putting the EP on ahead of anything else in my top 40. I did vote for the album.
The only other thing I liked so far in the countdown was that Blut Aus Nord, and that didn't make my list either. I wanted it to be less repetitive, both internally and in their catalog.
Although centricity-wise I'm very slightly above the middle of the list this year, for some reason there's a big gap between #104 and #62 with no votes from me.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Horseback were on my list, towards the bottom. I disagree about the vocals -- they fit with the general descent-into-the-mouth-of-hell vibe of the record in general.
― Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Sadly this is going to be controversial due to some allegations against Wrest which have come to light today.
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
81Twilight - Monument to Time End (236 Points, 11 Votes, 1 #1) http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2010/06/twilight.jpg
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=44905http://www.last.fm/music/Twilight
Consisting of masterminds of various notorious US black metal acts such as Wrest (Leviathan, Lurker of Chalice), Imperial (Krieg, March Into The Sea), Azentrius (Nachtmystium), Stavros Giannopoulos (The Atlas Moth) and Aaron Turner (Isis), the all star band Twilight plays rough, depressive black metal.
Rolling Metal Thread 2011
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Eh, nobody knew before they voted that Wrest was (allegedly) a monster.
― Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Still a good album.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 10 January 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I was one of the mystery votes for Hellbeard, and they were on the shortlist of stuff I hadn't heard before the nom showed up and then really really liked. I was insane enough thx to my lax listening over the year to at least give a token listen to everything on the noms list i could find, so there were a few things that came out of nowhere that i really dug, and that was one of them.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Recap 101-81
101 Yrsel - Requiem for the Three Kharites (215 Points, 11 Votes)100 Jucifer - Throned in Blood (216 Points, 10 Votes, 1 #1)99 Triptykon - Shatter (217 Points, 11 Votes)98 Westering - Help a Body (218 Points, 9 Votes)97 The Howling Void - Shadows Over the Cosmos (218 Points, 11 Votes)96 Blus Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber I (221 Points, 11 Votes)95 Year of No Light - Ausserwelt (222 Points, 12 Votes)94 Cuzo - Otros Mundos (223 Points, 10 Votes)93 Humanfly - Darker Later (225 Points, 12 Votes)92 Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality (226 Points, 10 Votes)91 Les Discrets - Septembre et Ses Dernieres Pensees (226 Points, 11 Votes)90 Angel Eyes - Midwestern (227 Points, 12 Votes)89 U.S. Christmas - Run Thick in the Night (229 Points, 12 Votes)88 Black Tusk - Taste the Sin (229 Points, 14 Votes)87 Howl - Full of Hell (230 Points, 9 Votes)86 Sigh - Scenes From Hell (231 Points, 13 Votes)84 TIE - Menace Ruine - Union of Irreconcilables (232 Points, 11 Votes)84 TIE - Boris - Variations (232 Points, 11 Votes)83 Hellbeard - Scarecrow (234 Points, 10 Votes)82 Horseback - The Invisible Mountain (234 Points, 12 Votes)81 Twilight - Monument to Time End (236 Points, 11 Votes, 1 #1)
― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 10 January 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link