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

How were points supposed to be awarded? I didn't assign any; just sent in a list of albums from first to last (39, I think).

40 points for #1
39 points for #2
38 points for #3

and so on.

so #40 would get 1 point.

74
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s) (253 Points, 13 Votes)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MmykTbf9oLY/S7OZFrw9c9I/AAAAAAAABPU/kf7fAh8zyEs/s1600/Celeste+-+Morte(s)+Nee(s).jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Celeste

1.) Celeste is a French band with ex-Mihai Edrisch members. They released their first EP, “Pessimiste(s)”, at the end of November 2006, an album in 2007 entitled “Nihiliste(s)” ,their second full-length, “Misanthrope(s)” was out in in February 2009 and their latest release ‘’Morte(s) Nee(s)’’ in early 2010.

Listen to/Buy album here http://denovali.com/celeste/

I like Tweak Bird but Celeste really hit the spot for me when I want my skin flayed off like the rasta drug dealers in Predator 2.

My review of Morte(s) Nee(s): Dis is pure dread. PURE DREAD... Fucking voodoo magic man.

Post it!

If anyone did reviews of any albums in the poll, please post or link to them!

73
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons (254 Points, 12 Votes)
http://allmetalresource.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/darkthrone_circlethewagons.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Darkthrone

No darkthrone fans about?

I still haven't heard the latest Darkthrone ... But I'm just gonna go ahead say TOO LOW for Tweak Bird!

yeah, I dig darkthrone but haven't spun that one yet either. but I do have a funny feeling that it sounds a lot like the last couple darkthrone records.

72
Fatso Jetson - Archaic Volumes (255 Points, 11 Votes)
http://www.roadburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Fatso-Jetson-Archaic-Volumes.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Fatso+Jetson

Fatso Jetson is an American desert rock band from the Palm Desert, California area, formed in 1994 by ex-Yawning Man members Mario and Larry Lalli, along with Tony Tornay. The Lalli cousins are often credited as the fathers of the desert strain of stoner rock later made famous by bands such as Kyuss, Fu Manchu, and Queens of the Stone Age. While musically similar to some of their stoner brethren, Fatso Jetson incorporate a broader variety of musical influences that includes punk and surf.

http://www.myspace.com/fatsojetson

I think Tweak Bird scored so low just because not many people have heard them. Oh well. Hopefully some of the readers of this page will check them out now.

I had never heard of them until jeff mentioned them.

Next one up has a number one vote

71
Cough - Ritual Abuse (256 Points, 13 Votes, 1 #1)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JT7-q55_p-0/TPlJuPPS74I/AAAAAAAAAU4/I8Gy33X-2-U/s1600/COUGH-Ritual-Abuse-front.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Cough

aww yeah... that is an awesome album. Highly recommended for all doom metal fans!

I've seen the Fatso Jetson name before, but it registered as Flotsam and Jetsam and I didn't think I needed a 2010 album by them (shocked to notice that if I did want a 2010 Flotsam and Jetsam record, I could have one!). Also, I thought Tweak Bird was someone following in the wake of Hatebeak.

also that Cough album art is a tarot card reference in case anybody didn't notice -- 5 of swords:

"Defeat, hollow victory, no-win situations, dishonorable behavior, experiencing hostility" -- some things associated with that card according to my tarot card books.

as I said -- Tweak Bird have a terrible name and album cover, but awesome music. I actually voted for them higher than I normally would have in the hopes that they would place.

Anyway, nice to see that 10 people voted for them, hopefully a few of those were people I had managed to turn onto them on the nominations thread.

I am in no doubt that helped esp with the links to the melvins.

70
Intronaut - Valley of Smoke (266 Points, 12 Votes)
http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/valley-of-smoke1.jpeg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1nLvyh30udGGtVOxTnYkB4

http://www.last.fm/music/Intronaut

Intronaut is a band from Los Angeles, California formed in 2004.

They play progressive metal with harsh vocals combined with progressive and jazzy instrumental breaks. Their sound incorporates traits from sludge metal, jazz and death metal.

http://www.intronaut.net

I bet loads love that cover.

the cover is better than the album IMO... but I think the same thing re: Baroness.

had not seen that cover before and was about to write about how much I like it.

^ i predicted that one

Not as good as Prehistoricisms, but still pretty decent. Very dependable band.

fuck i keep forgetting to pick up that Intronaut!

69
Grand Magus - Hammer of the North (270 Points, 13 Votes)
http://i45.tinypic.com/2zh2hc0.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4RuM80jEOeWqnoCufhamIt

http://www.last.fm/music/Grand+Magus
http://www.grandmagus.com
http://myspace.com/grandmagusrocks

Wow I didn't vote for it but I'd have thought this would have placed much higher... it was very prominent on a bunch of E-O-Y lists...

I didn't vote for that Grand Magus album, but I still liked it pretty well. Very solid trad metal band, and not ironically or self-consciously traditional, either. Just straightforwardly straightforward. On some level I feel kind of bad for underrating solidness.

damn i love that howling void cover

The Grand Magus disc wasn't released in the US, which probably hurt its overall standing with critics.

68
Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée de la Terne Mort Triomphante (276 Points, 12 Votes)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2PU7-y8Sp90/TJg3kDR6x9I/AAAAAAAAATI/OdqooB1_JnA/s1600/Gnaw+Their+Tongues+-+L%27Arriv%C3%A9e+De+La+Terne+Mort+Triomphante.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Gnaw+Their+Tongues

http://www.myspace.com/gnawtheirtongues

More Gallic metal?

I quite like this record but I don't consider it metal at all.

It's dutch

Gnaw Their Tongues is an experimental black metal moniker of Maurice de Jong formed in Drachten, Netherland in 2005. Its named after a verse in the bible.

Lyrical themes are bondage, torture and morbid esoterica. Gnaw Their Tongues tracks appears on Black Industrial Grimoire, Mind the Gap Volume 77, Oaken Throne 6, The Static Hymnal.

i am curious about this one ^^

Ilxor yesterday http://www.enotes.com/w/images/thumb/3/30/Zentai_BDSM.jpg/180px-Zentai_BDSM.jpg

it's more of a noize record than a metal one - give it a go deffo

there's no guitars or drums - it's quite like Elend actually.

Is this the lowest on of his albums has placed? fwiw it's not my favourite GNT record.

67
Zoroaster - Matador (286 Points, 12 Votes)
http://hifihangover.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/zoroaster_matador.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/0u6nF0r159xIv6jSKqQzNT

http://www.last.fm/music/Zoroaster

Zoroaster was formed in the summer of 2003 by Brent Anderson (bass guitar, vocal), Will Fiore (guitar, vocal), and Rod Fiore (drums), three former colleagues in the defunct group Terminal Doom Explosion who rediscovered their mutual interests in primal, concrete sludge-doom.

Zoroaster, based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States has been rampaging the East Coast for the past years and has shared the stage with acts such as Gojira, Withered, Tualatin, Dove, Cream Abdul Babar, I/O, and many more.

Their influences include Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Sleep, Venom, and Godflesh. Their sludgy style of music has been described as menacing and unrelenting.

http://www.myspace.com/thezoroaster

Gnaw Their Tongues is metal enough.

And why Roadrunner never released Grand Magus here I'll never know. What's not to like about Grand Magus?

The GNT would have been somewhere in 41-50 on my list, and I liked it just fine, but I'm definitely getting diminishing returns from his records. The first one I heard was a revelation, and this one might well have been if it had been the first, too, but after two or three they really blend together to me, and become more *about* what they are than things in themselves.

Oh, and the Zoroaster has one of my favourite opening tracks of 2010. Love that song.

I don't think Grand Magus are anything to get too excited about these days, but they are incapable of making a bad album.

They do the trad doom/trad metal thing better than most.