No, We Aren't Making These Bands Up: ILM Metal Poll 2010 Results Thread

83
Hellbeard - Scarecrow (234 Points, 10 Votes)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__RB2VVb7ph4/TRS-JrMcJyI/AAAAAAAABHk/OOxBlYaG7ho/s320/51uXhV%252BorkL.jpg
http://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

OMG that Hellbeard cover! Must hear that!

I tried to listen to as much of the nominated albums as I could over the past month and that one was pretty good.

Seriously, where are all these bands coming from? Are you just making stuff up at this point?

*sigh*

(he's joking btw, just trying to stir shit up)

He just has a journalists sense of "humor"

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.

yeah voters post away!!!

I think everyones on that gun thread though as viceroy says

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.

With the name hellbeard I totally expected trad doom metal with clean vox

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?

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

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?

haha except hellbeard dont have one

I bet they are an ilxors band and their mates voted for it!

82
Horseback - 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

It was reissued on Relapse this year I think. The 2009 release was ltd cdr i think.

Anyway there was plenty of chat about it on ILM

There was? I guess I missed it as this doesn't ring any bells.

probably was on the drone/psych thread

That would explain it. Again, would love this with different vocals. Great droning grooves, interesting licks, shit smeared on top.

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.

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.

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.

Sadly this is going to be controversial due to some allegations against Wrest which have come to light today.

81
Twilight - 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=44905
http://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

Eh, nobody knew before they voted that Wrest was (allegedly) a monster.

Still a good album.

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.

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)

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),

That's a good thing though, the whole point of the poll is to find out about albums you haven't heard that are good, not just lets all see where all these albums we already know place.

I found some really good albums I hadn't heard because of the nominations thread, and already on this countdown I've heard some new stuff I like.

oh shit i didnt even see that menace ruine showed up, that was in my top ten and totally worth giving the time to, its a great great record.

so far i am 3/40

If anyone hasn't heard the Les Discrets album yet, do so immediately.

Agreed

YES! Horseback! Awesome! Nothing to add to this yet other than good show and that I also like USXMAS and Black Tusk but didn't think either were quite good enough to vote for.

would've voted horseback but I voted for it last year already. that'd be weird. but people into repetitive stuff like loop or circle would do well to check it out.

and I do think that it's pretty weird that 10 people voted for hellbeard and the abscess lp wasn't even nominated when I decided to vote for it two days ago. some pretty weird picks on here so far.

not a slight, don't get me wrong. I will prob be checking that one out.

listening to the sigh lp right now - even for sigh this seems pretty over-the-top!

kinda lovin' it so far tbh

Ok, everyone's in bed and I'm working my way down the list with a hot chocolate. Les Discrets are sounding very impressive so far.

I'm listening to U.S. Christmas for the first time right now - pretty good stuff

Er... I skipped them cos the name is stupid.

WTF is up with this Sigh band? They've got like a mariachi chorus in the middle of this death metal maelstrom...

Ah, they're from Japan. I think I like them.