Elder was my #1. The only explanation that it wasn't top 10 could only be that 16 people heard it. Right? My blurb:
Emphasizing a heavily distorted, doomy sound, they're the latest to merge aspects of doom with stoner rock's melodies and sticky riffs. They describe themselves as "a sonic interpretation of the forces that surround us; the pounding waves of ancient seas, the weight of stone colossi rising up from the earth and the endlessness of inflamed, majestic skies." Or alternately, "like Ufomammut fucking Black Sabbath sideways." However you want to describe it, Dead Roots Stirring is immediately addictive, and has stayed at the top of my playlist for months.
http://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/dead-roots-stirring
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
just 16 people
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Elder also topped the Stoner HiVe poll, #4 in Stoned Sun Vibrations, #5 at The Obelisk and #7 at Doomantia.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Elder was nice but wasn't a favorite. I do regret not voting for the Ufesas record though. It's owned my January so far.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
that blut aus nord is decent but also seriously disappointing after the masterful memoria vetusta ii imo
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
after you've watched the synth pr0n?
*spotifies furiously*
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, never even heard of anima morte before but this is GREAT so far!
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
bear in mind I kind of love any horror prog
39. Blut Aus Nord - 777/The Desanctification (537 Points, 21 Votes)http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/11/Blut-Aus-Nord-777-The-Desanctification-608x608.jpgSpotifyhttp://www.last.fm/music/Blut+aus+Nord
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
ok that elder album is awesome, and yeah i had not heard it until just now
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
i read a review of the band Alcest and so i'm listening to their new album now
it's supposed to be black metal, the review said shoegazer too, which i kinda get
overall though it feels a lot more like 90s bands like Hum or Chavez to me than metal, it's cool though, i don't know if they are trv kvlt though :|
it doesn't really seem like black metal at least to me, but i'm no expert
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
38. Blood Stain Child - Epsilon (540 Points, 18 Votes, 1 #1)http://getmetal.org/uploads/posts/2011-06/1308262697_blood-stain-child-e-psilon.jpghttp://www.last.fm/music/Blood+stain+child
Blood Stain Child is a trance metal band from the city of Osaka, Japan. They are influenced by techno, gothic, rock and also visual kei elements.The band formed under the name “VisionQuest” in 1999, but reformed under the name Blood Stain Child in 2000.BIOGRAPHYBlood Stain Child was formed in 2000 by Ryo (vocals, bass), Ryu (guitar), Daiki (guitar), Aki (keyboards), and Violator (drums). In August 2000, Blood Stain Child recorded their first demo, which consisted of the songs “Silence of Northern Hell”, “Requiem”, and “Legend of Dark”. The band sent that demo to a radio station and the DJ enjoyed the music so much that he recommended the band to the record label, M&I Company, who eventually signed Blood Stain Child.A notable feature of Blood Stain Child is their tendency to incorporate both dance and trance related themes and elements into their music. The band’s sound includes death vocals complemented at times by clean vocals.Current members:Sophia - vocals (2010)Ryo – bass, vocals (2000–present)Ryu Kuriyama – guitar (2000–present)G.S.R – guitar (2007–present)Aki – keyboards (2000–present)GAMI - drums (2010)
BIOGRAPHY
Blood Stain Child was formed in 2000 by Ryo (vocals, bass), Ryu (guitar), Daiki (guitar), Aki (keyboards), and Violator (drums). In August 2000, Blood Stain Child recorded their first demo, which consisted of the songs “Silence of Northern Hell”, “Requiem”, and “Legend of Dark”. The band sent that demo to a radio station and the DJ enjoyed the music so much that he recommended the band to the record label, M&I Company, who eventually signed Blood Stain Child.A notable feature of Blood Stain Child is their tendency to incorporate both dance and trance related themes and elements into their music. The band’s sound includes death vocals complemented at times by clean vocals.
Current members:
Sophia - vocals (2010)Ryo – bass, vocals (2000–present)Ryu Kuriyama – guitar (2000–present)G.S.R – guitar (2007–present)Aki – keyboards (2000–present)GAMI - drums (2010)
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
i agree w/you about the alcest album m@tt - altho the thing is that black metal has kinda porous boundries these days. still if you played the album for me w/o identifying it, i wouldnt hear any trad BM influence at all really.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
great album xp
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah like i still crank hum and chavez on the regular, also reminds me a little of the later period unwound stuff too
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, I was hoping for top 10 for BSC. RAGE QUIT.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
overall though it feels a lot more like 90s bands like Hum or Chavez to me than metal
this is somewaht true though imo alcest are wayyyyy too tepid rhythmically to merit comparison to those kinds of bands.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I should have campaigned harder for Elder. I posted a YouTube link with the entire album on the Sandbox.
Regarding Alcest, Neige, Aegnor and Argoth had some demos that were black metal in 2001, but with the latter two left, it quickly became basically shoegaze, or metalgaze. I loved Souvenirs d'un autre monde (2007), but everything sort of sounds the same and I hadn't been inspired to hear the latest.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
jeff, was bsc your #2? (assuming turisas was your #1)
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
i know im being captain negative today and all but oh man i do not get or even vaguely enjoy blood stain child sorry peeps
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
that's because you have taste mr justen
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, souvenirs is great but I haven't felt the need to explore much else either (x-post)
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i don't prefer it, a lot of the black metal stuff i've heard has p boring drum parts, it's almost like a skiffle type beat to me, or a johnny cash beat with shitloads of cymbal shit
but i'm digging this, the prettier and less metal this record is the better imo
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
also curious who gave bsc a #1 vote (tho legit curious, not judgy)
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, they were my number two selection. Love love love that record. Just total insanity.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, I was hoping for top 10 for BSC. RAGE QUIT.― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.),
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.),
you really have unrealistic expectations.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:33 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
i just listened to one song, but i would have voted it if i had bothered to listen to it before.oh well, next time!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
BSC record is p samey but really hits the spot if I'm in the mood for trancey melodic death jams w/excellent gigantic choruses (admittedly not a mood I'm often in...)
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
I think I can pretty much single-handedly take credit for BSC placing at all, much less this high.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
that cover looks like final fantasy
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
j3ff is totally the ilx BSC patient zero
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
cosplay trance dance melodic death metal
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
jeffs ideal genre reallycosplay + republica + trivium
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
m@tt if you want some black metal with depth i think that Epheles album is the best of the year. if you want some black metal with the batshit crazy, give Peste Noire a try.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
drumming on the epheles is also crazy crazy good and a lot more varied altho its still mostly 10000 mph
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
More In Flames than Trivium, really.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
Otherwise that is an accurate statement.
i wanna know what smithy and phil think.I know skot will love it.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
just wait til jeff gets it to place in the big ilm poll
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
37. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg (549 Points, 18 Votes)http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-arfUgWrwX4g/TryzpfEmtUI/AAAAAAAAJLU/TA2C2h2j5fk/s1600/Cover.jpgSpotifyhttp://www.last.fm/music/Thy+Catafalque
Thy Catafalque is an avantgarde post-black metal act from Makó, Hungary since 1998 but are now based in Edinburgh, Scotland.Thy Catafalque were born in 1998 in a small town of Hungary playing traditional, epic black metal in the beginning by tamás kátai (Gire) and János Juhász. Just after their first and only demo KaOtic Productions decided to release their first album in 1999 entitled Sublunary Tragedies, followed by the second record Microcosmos in 2001.Throughout the passing years the music became more and more experimental with deep touches of electronic and folklorish influences feeding from their homeland in Central Europe. Meanwhile KaOtic Productions ceased to exist, so the third album Tűnő Idő Tárlat (An Exhibition of Vanishing Time) came to sunlight as a self-financed production in 2004. By this time lyrics turned into Hungarian and music turned out to be the most diverse and atmospheric experimentum coming out from the band. Cosmic music from micro to macro, from matter to spirit and then back into the ashes.This world is about to be painted by more vivid colours in the latest release entitled Róka Hasa Rádió released by Epidemie Records on the 12th of May, 2009 and in November 2009 by Soyuz Music. The main concept behind the album is the relationship between the ever evolving, solid and massive physical matter and the fragileness of human and all living spirits throughout distant childhood memories and scientific explanations of nature. Revolving, rotating movements of past and future, colours, sounds, long lost scents by a strange transmission from a timeless radio.Guest appearences by Zoltán Kónya and Balázs Hermann (Gire), Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis), Ágnes Tóth (The Moon and the Nightspirit), Ádám Tóth (Mocun).During the recordings Tamás Kátai left to Edinburgh, United Kingdom and finished the album there. Currently he is staying there.After the very well appreciated Róka Hasa Rádió album, Epidemie Records decided to print a re-issue of the previous recording of Thy Catafalque entitled Tűnő Idő Tárlat. It had been released by the band itself in 2004 in a very small scale. Limited to 500 pieces of beautful digipak, the music is untouched while the artwork is renewed.Thy Catafalque CDs are distributed by Lethal Conflict worldwide and Soyuz Music in Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.Originally released in 2004, Tűnő Idő Tárlat was re-released in limited digipak version by Epidemie Records in 2010.In 2011 Thy Catafalque has signed to Season Of Mist. The fifth album entitled Rengeteg was released on 11 November 2011 in Europe and 10 January 2012 in North-America. All the instruments have been reccorded by Tamás Kátai alone this time, as János Juhász left the band in 2011. Guest musicians: Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis) - all clean male vocals, Ágnes Tóth (The Moon And The Nightspirit) - female vocals, Mihály Simkó-Várnagy - cello.English translation of all the lyrics of Rengeteg: http://metalstorm.net/bands/lyrics.php?album_id=55793&band_id=&bandname=Thy+Catafalque
Thy Catafalque were born in 1998 in a small town of Hungary playing traditional, epic black metal in the beginning by tamás kátai (Gire) and János Juhász. Just after their first and only demo KaOtic Productions decided to release their first album in 1999 entitled Sublunary Tragedies, followed by the second record Microcosmos in 2001.
Throughout the passing years the music became more and more experimental with deep touches of electronic and folklorish influences feeding from their homeland in Central Europe. Meanwhile KaOtic Productions ceased to exist, so the third album Tűnő Idő Tárlat (An Exhibition of Vanishing Time) came to sunlight as a self-financed production in 2004. By this time lyrics turned into Hungarian and music turned out to be the most diverse and atmospheric experimentum coming out from the band. Cosmic music from micro to macro, from matter to spirit and then back into the ashes.
This world is about to be painted by more vivid colours in the latest release entitled Róka Hasa Rádió released by Epidemie Records on the 12th of May, 2009 and in November 2009 by Soyuz Music. The main concept behind the album is the relationship between the ever evolving, solid and massive physical matter and the fragileness of human and all living spirits throughout distant childhood memories and scientific explanations of nature. Revolving, rotating movements of past and future, colours, sounds, long lost scents by a strange transmission from a timeless radio.
Guest appearences by Zoltán Kónya and Balázs Hermann (Gire), Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis), Ágnes Tóth (The Moon and the Nightspirit), Ádám Tóth (Mocun).
During the recordings Tamás Kátai left to Edinburgh, United Kingdom and finished the album there. Currently he is staying there.
After the very well appreciated Róka Hasa Rádió album, Epidemie Records decided to print a re-issue of the previous recording of Thy Catafalque entitled Tűnő Idő Tárlat. It had been released by the band itself in 2004 in a very small scale. Limited to 500 pieces of beautful digipak, the music is untouched while the artwork is renewed.
Thy Catafalque CDs are distributed by Lethal Conflict worldwide and Soyuz Music in Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Originally released in 2004, Tűnő Idő Tárlat was re-released in limited digipak version by Epidemie Records in 2010.
In 2011 Thy Catafalque has signed to Season Of Mist. The fifth album entitled Rengeteg was released on 11 November 2011 in Europe and 10 January 2012 in North-America. All the instruments have been reccorded by Tamás Kátai alone this time, as János Juhász left the band in 2011. Guest musicians: Attila Bakos (Woodland Choir, Taranis) - all clean male vocals, Ágnes Tóth (The Moon And The Nightspirit) - female vocals, Mihály Simkó-Várnagy - cello.
English translation of all the lyrics of Rengeteg: http://metalstorm.net/bands/lyrics.php?album_id=55793&band_id=&bandname=Thy+Catafalque
http://www.thycatafalque.huhttp://www.reverbnation.com/thycatafalquehttp://www.myspace.com/thycatafalquehttp://www.season-of-mist.com
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
Excellent album this but had not heard until after I saw the results and checked it out. Yes its more Glenn Metal.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
ASR, how many voters would you say are ilx regulars and how many are lurkers/off-site voters?
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
listening to BSC again and now I kind of want a BSC album produced by yasutaka nakata. preferably emulating sugarless girl era capsule.
"stargazer" is GREAT man
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
i've had the exact same thought about BSC + nakata
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
ha! I can almost hear it and it would rule.
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
i dont know mordy as i only added nicknames from people who i recognised. The lurkers are pretty obv ilm regulars rather than from other sites as i googled looking to see if it came up anywhere plus most of them have voted in the previous polls.
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
still, without them it wouldn't be much of a poll as getting blood out of stone is easier than getting metal regulars voting I'm sad to say.Lurkers also seem to be varied in taste so it at least makes for interesting results.
Campaigning over the year but ESPECIALLY in the poll threads really does make a difference though. Lots of examples but BSC really proves it if you weren't convinced earlier by the others.
so THANKS TO ALL WHO VOTED
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
another japanese band coming up next
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
is it heavy rock?
― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
finally, Loudness!
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link