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

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.

That Zoroaster is criminally low imho, great album.

66
Thou - Summit (290 Points, 11 Votes)
http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/thou-cover.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Thou

Thou is a doom/sludge/drone metal band from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. They have relased a full length LP “Tyrant” on One Eye Records, and a CD version of the record out on Gilead Media.

Another criminally low placing for an album I loved this year!

65
Titan - Sweet Dreams (298 Points, 12 Votes)

http://altsphere.com/catalog/1038-888-large/titan-sweet-dreams.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/album/3D4s5K5UVwdBDaTPZQrsdo

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

An instrumental psychedelic/space/kraut rock band from Brooklyn, NY, described by Aquarius Records as “divine spaced out drug drenched psychedelic krautrockiness.” Releases include a self-released CD-r album, “Pilzmarmelade,” a limited edition self-titled album on Paradigms Recordings, and recently “A Raining Sun of Light and Love, For You and You and You” on Tee Pee Records. Tee Pee: “The group played its first show with Zombi in early 2005, and has since toured the East Coast with Saviours, and decimated stages opening for sonic contemporaries such as Comets on Fire, Lightning Bolt, Boris, Witch, DMBQ, Blue Cheer, and Suishou no Fune.” Currently active.

i don't get the love for this one; sounded kinda dull to me when i put it on a few weeks ago tbh.

xp

Thou?

yeah, that one.

I could see how Thou might be boring for some people, but man, it just hits me in the sweet spot.

hm, guess i'll give it one more shot.

it did end up with the coveted 66.6 spot on the poll, tho.

I really got into the Intronaut album in December, much more so than their previous couple. It was one of my top picks. Grand Magus is great. Seems like they missed some guaranteed sales by delaying a U.S. release.

next album is a shock low placing for an album you all thought might be top 10

Thou does bore me. Titan on the other hand...always great fun! Love the Hammond organ jams.

I'm re-listening to the Sigh album. I think most of their albums this past decade were pretty jaw-dropping, and awaited Scenes From Hell with slathering anticipation. But for some reason when I got it, it didn't click. It's finally starting to though...

64
Burzum - Belus (315 Points, 16 Votes)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eP70iQJjL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
http://www.last.fm/music/Burzum

R.I.P.

Biggest event of 2010 that album? or disappointment?

I could see how Thou might be boring for some people, but man, it just hits me in the sweet spot.

yeah, this is basically exactly how I feel about thou. the 90s hardcore gone sludge sound they do really works for me but I can so how others might disagree.

but the split with mohoram atta is still my favorite thou document.

I found Belus a pleasant surprise, a proper follow-up to Filosofem. I still listen to it.

Wow, kind of amazed Burzum is that low. Still a really strong record imo.

yeah, i top 10 it.

It was mid-20s on mine.

of course, Varg being Varg (and all that entails), it's not that much of a surprise low placing.

Burzum did extremely well in the alltime poll..

for work he produced before... not after.

I love filosofem but I only listened spun belus once and didn't find it all that memorable. thought about putting a bit more work into it but was like, "eh, varg is a dick" and just moved on.