~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2014 (Ends friday11.59pm UK time Dec 5th) ~~~

Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World

One part-time metal band, one former metal band and one outfit on a metal label with crossover appeal.

pretty sure the last have a nice life made the poll . Kayo Dot are now Ulver clones.

Kayo Dot made a late 70s yacht prog record.

Sadly true. They're my favourite band, Coffins etc is my least favourite of their releases so I'm not going to defend it too hard. The next album will be completely different probably. They are like Ulver in that sense but Kayo Dot have a far better amazing-to-dull ratio imo.

I really like the new record. Took a few listens to get a handle on it, but it's a keeper.

Kayo Dot made a late 70s yacht prog record.

hellooooo

It's amazing Brad. Takes a few spins before it opens up.

the Have A Nice Life album is so great. I stopped short of nominating them here because of the slow shoegazeyness, but it makes sense.

same story with Planning for Burial. oh heck:

Planning for Burial - Desideratum

slap 'em both on here.

added

I really like the Kayo Dot but I don't think it's metal at all, even by a broad definition. Closer to a cross between "yacht-prog" and 80s goth or something.

Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
Shroud of The Heretic - Revelations In Alchemy
Cold World - How The Gods Chill
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Survival
Ghast - Dread Doom Ruin
Nazaronai - the most painful time happens only once has it arrived already..?
Amulet - The First
Henry Blacker - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings
Pig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption

how the gods chill - is this some kind of epicurean concept album

if by that you mean "a 90s NYC metalcore throwback" then heck yes

check it out on bandcamp to confirm that no-one else will vote for it

I really liked Focus when I listened to it. I gather that the new Cynic is more of a straight-up prog/fusion thing, without the extreme metal elements? Will try it. Listening to Blut aus Nord atm.

Ha, not sure what "straight-up prog/fusion" even really means tbh.

New Cynic's like slightly proggy AOR with some fusion licks, really. I kind of enjoyed it but haven't listened to it much.

I just thought I'd throw in some relative curveballs yesterday and see if anything sticks.

*to see if anything stuck. English is my first language, I swear.

Am totally up for hearing Cynic play an Alan Parsons Project album. Loading now.

Ha, this is reminding me a bit of King's X.

Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem

digging this more and more, feeling like a sleazy nihilist, thinking of going knife shopping

new cynic album unfortunately lacks the hooks to function as aor i think

wonder what the tabloids had to stoke fear with before heavy metal?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2857506/Schoolboy-15-hanged-wood-favourite-heavy-metal-band-Slipknot-playing-iPod.html

Yeah, I got bored 15m in or so. I had trouble seeing how the compositions came together. The singer was OK but I wanted the vocals to be stronger and more expressive.
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Primordial are rapidly shooting up to the top of the year for me. It's one of the only albums (Against Me! is another) I find lyrically affecting, like a thousand-yard-stare down bloody centuries.

seemed ponderous to me, i gave it a pass

would be nice to be able to get with a 1000-yd-century-stare tho, who doesn't love that

the problem with the primordial record is that it's not as good as to the nameless dead

it's great though

the primordial has taken a while to grab me, but totally get the thousand yard stare thing!

I haven't listened to Horse Lords or Naomi Punk albums yet but I kinda want to nominate them if they're eligible just in case I end up liking them

enough to vote for them?

don't recall Naomi Punk having any metal qualities, touchstones or reference points whatsoever

2 More to add in:

Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless

both on Bandcamp

Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
http://ascendingdawn.bandcamp.com/album/coalesce
Female Fronted Ambient Progressive metal band from London

riyl: To-Mera, The Gathering

experimental / atmospheric with a melodic crunch, strong vocals, excellent production for a debut album.

released November 2014

Australian Technical Death Metal band Stargazer had scheduled a December 31st release date for their new album, but have brought it forward to December 2nd on Bandcamp - apparently they wanted to be included in the ILM Top 100

Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
http://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-merging-to-the-boundless

found via: spectral lore's fav albums of 2014:
http://www.nocleansinging.com/2014/12/03/listmania-2014-a-year-end-list-from-ayloss-spectral-lore/

i will have a sweep through my rym 2014 list, 20014 rym metal custom chart and my network custom chart - to see if there any missing albums that deserve a nomination before the voting closes.

I'm so pleased to see DJ Martian back

just over a day left to nominate so don't miss out

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Here is what we have so far
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d8-3k-kVVhO2-0yA7OCWhN2c1jFTG4xxOlW0UH2GIXA/edit?usp=sharing

We're over the 400 Mark but I know some of you will have personal faves you might like to vote for so get nominating, Glenn and Chuck spring to mind.

voting will start straight after nominations close tomorrow. So if you want to start working on your lists then please do! You will only have 1 week to vote.

Also do you want to keep metal poll as a title or change it to include "heavy music" or "metal/heavy rock " or even "metal/heavy music" poll.

All suggestions welcome and we can choose.

keep it metal, kill all posers

"heavy sounds"

I personally favour Metal and all it's subgenres. Though if someone more eloquent can provide a nice phrase meaning the same then fire away

absolutely NO PUNS however

stay trv

Atriarch - An Unending Pathway

KEEP IT M3T4L, KILL ALL POLLSERS

Witch Mountain is nice. I think Wounded Kings have a slight edge in this category, a more thoroughly sinister atmosphere.

What we have so far. Nominations close tonight 11.59pm UK Time.
Voting form will go live at 12am. You can prepare your voting lists now if you care to.
If you wish to add more nominations to the below then please do.

11 Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven
A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name
Abazagorath - The Satanic Verses
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Abysmal Dawn - Obsolescence
Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
Accept - Blind Rage
Acheron - Kult Des Hasses
Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em
Aenaon - Extance
AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere
Al-Namrood - Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq
Alcest - Shelter
Aleph Null - Nocturnal
Alunah - Awakening The Forest
Ambergris - Ambergris
Amulet - The First
Anaal Nakhrath - Desideratum
Anatomy of Habit - Ciphers + Axioms
Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
Apostulum - Winds Of Disillusion
Argentinum Astrum - Malleus Maleficarum
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
As Light Dies - The Love Album I
Ascending Dawn - Coalesce
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Atlas Moth - The Old Believer
Atriarch - An Unending Pathway
Aureole - Alunar
Auroch - Taman Shud
Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves
BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
Baptists - Bloodmines
Barghest - The Virtuous Purge
Baring Teeth - Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins
Basarabian Hills - Groping In A Misty Spread
Bastard Feast - Osculum Infame
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Survival
Behemoth - The Satanist
Behemoth - Xiądz EP
Below - Across The Dark River
Belphegor - Conjuring The Dead
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Bergrizen - Scherbengericht
Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Big Red Panda - Big Red Panda
Black Bombaim - Far Out
Black Monolith - Passenger
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
Black Trip - Goin' Under
Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Blood Of Kingu - Dark Star On The Right
Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
Bludded Head - Reign in Bludd
Blues Pills - Blues Pills
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Body Count - Manslaughter
Bölzer - Soma
Bong - Stoner Rock
Bongripper - Miserable
Boris - Noise
Botanist - Vi: Flora
Brimstone Coven - Brimstone Coven
Brownout - Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain
Cardinals Folly - Our Cult Continues!
Castle - Under Siege
Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Cemetery Lust - Orgies Of Abomination
Children of Technology - Future Decay
Code Orange - I Am King
Coffin Dust - This Cemetery, My Kingdom
Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII
Cold World - How The Gods Chill
Columns - Please Explode
Comet Control - s/t
Conan - Blood Eagle
Convent Guilt - Guns For Hire
Couch Slut - My Life as a Woman
Countess - Ancient Lies And Battlecries
Cretin - Stranger
Crown the Empire - The Resistance: Rise of the Runaways
Crucifyre - Black Magic Fire
Cuscuta - The Wildness Within
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn
Darkest Era - Severance
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall
Dead in the Manger - Transience
Death Penalty - Death Penalty
Deathcult - Pleading for Death... Choking on Life
Decapitated - Blood Mantra
Decaying Purity - Malignant Resurrection of the Fallen Souls
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Deep Mountains - Lake Of Solace
Deep Space Destructors - III
Delain - The Human Contradiction
Demon Eye - Leave The Light
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid: Dark Matters
Devin Townsend Project - Sky Blue
Diocletian - Gesundrian
Dir en Grey - Arche
Disentomb - Misery
Distorted Harmony - Chain Reaction
Domains - Sinister Ceremonies
Doom:VS - Earthless
Dopelord - Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult
Downfall of Gaia - Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay
Dragonforce - Maximum Overload
Dread Sovereign - All Hell's Martyrs
Drudkh / Winterfylleth - Thousands Of Moons Ago / The Gates (split)
Drunk Dad - Ripper Killer
Dub Buk - Цвях
Dwellers - Pagan Fruit
Ea - A etilla
Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Electric Citizen - Sateen
Electric Funeral - Total Funeral
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Eluveitie - Origins
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
Emmure - Eternal Enemies
Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass (EP)
Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Ethereal Riffian - Aeonian
Exmortus - Slave to the Sword
Exordium Mors - The Apotheosis of Death
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Falls of Rauros - Believe In No Coming Shore
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
Fellwoods - Gyromancer EP
Fen - Carrion Skies
Flaming Tusk - Inquisitor
Floor - Oblation
Fluisteraars - Dromers
Foreseen HKI - Helsinki Savagery
Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe - Legendes (split)
Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
Freedom Call - Beyond
Fu Manchu - Gigantoid
Full of Hell - Full of Hell & Merzbow
Funeral Sutra - meditations
Furia - Nocel
Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom
Ghast - Dread Doom Ruin
Ghost Bath - Funeral
Ghost Brigade - IV – One With the Storm
Giant Squid - Minoans
Gluttony - Beyond The Veil Of Flesh
Goat - Commune
Goatech - Exquisiteness
Goatpenis - Flesh Consumed In The Battlefield
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Grand Magus - Triumph and Power
Graveland - Ogień Przebudzenia
Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
Gridlink - Longhena
H.E.A.T - Tearing Down The Walls
Haikai No Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo
Harakiri For The Sky - Aokigahara
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World
Heat - Labyrinth
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
Henry Blacker - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings
Hessian - Bachelor Of Black Arts
Hierophant - Peste
High Spirits - You Are Here
Holy Mountain - Ancient Astronauts
Hornss - No Blood, No Sympathy
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Horrified - Descent Into Putridity
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha
House Of Lightning - Lightworker
Hypnos - Hypnos
Ice Dragon - Seeds From A Dying Garden
Idylls - Prayer for Terrene
Ifing - Against This Waeld
Illdisposed - With The Lost Souls On Our Side
Impetuous Ritual -Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle of Atonement
Incantation - Dirges of Elysium
Indian - From All Purity
Inferi - The Path of Apotheosis
Innsmouth - Consumed by Elder Sign
Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun
Inter Arma - The Cavern
Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus - Spirit Knife
Jess & The Ancient Ones - Castaneda EP
Job for a Cowboy - Sun Eater
John Gallow - Violet Dreams
John Garcia - John Garcia
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Jute Gyte - Vast Chains
Kampfar - Djevelmakt
Kanashimi/Happy Days - The Great Depression II (split)
Kauan - Muistumia
Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io
Khuda - Molasses Constricts the Clinostat
Kriegsmaschine - Enemy Of Man
Krokofant - Krokofant
Kröwnn – Magnafröst
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Lé Betre - Melas
Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Reticuli Blues
Lethian Dreams - Red Silence Lodge
Lo-Pan - Colossus
Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Lost Ubikyst in Apeiron - Abstruse Imbeciles Nailed on Slavery
Lotus Thief - Rervm
Loudblast - Burial Ground
Lvcifyre - Sun Eater
Lyriel - Skin and Bones
Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Mansion - Uncreation
Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith
Mars Red Sky - Stranded In Arcadia
Martyrdöd - Elddop
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
Mausoleum Gate - Mausoleum Gate
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem
Moab - Billow
Monarch - Sabbracadaver
Mongol - Chosen by Tengri
Monolord - Empress Rising
Morbus Chron - Sweven
Mortalicum - Tears From The Grave
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence
Mount Salem - Endless
Mourning Dawn - Les Sacrifiés
Murmur - S/T
My Useless Life - Negative Memories
Myrkur - Myrkur
Mysticum - Planet Satan
Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind
Nadja - Queller
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Nausea - Condemned to the System
Nazaronai - the most painful time happens only once has it arrived already..?
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
Neoheresy - Noc Która Dniem Się Stała
Nero di Marte - Derivae
Nervosa - Victim Of Yourself
Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus
Nightfell – The Living Ever Mourn
Nocturnal Depression/Myrd/Vspolokh - Longing For Death (split)
Novembers Doom - Bled White
Nuclear Hammer - Serpentine Hermetic Lucifer
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Obituary - Inked in Blood
Obliterations - Poison Everything
Occultation - Silence in the Ancestral House
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II
Old Soul / ██████ - Split
Old Wainds - Nordraum
Oozing Wound - Earth Suck
Opeth - Pale Communion
Opium Warlords - Taste My Sword Of Understanding
Orange Goblin - Back from the Abyss
Origin - Omnipresent
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Ovvl - Screech
P.L.F. - Ultimate Whirlwind of Incineration
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Peste Noire / Diapsiquir - Rats Des Villes vs Rats Des Champs (split)
Pestilential Shadows - Ephemeral
Petrychor - Makrokosmos
Pig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption
Pilgrim - II: Void Worship
Planning for Burial - Desideratum
Prey for Nothing - The Reasoning
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch
Purson - In The Meantime EP
Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
Revocation - Deathless
Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave
Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch
Rippikoulu - Ulvaja
Sabaton - Heroes
Saille - Eldritch
Salem's Pot - Lurar ut dig på prárien
Saor - Aura
Satan's Satyrs - Die Screaming
Saturn - Ascending: Live In Space
Satyress - Dark Fortunes
Schammasch - Contradiction
Scientist - Scientist
Scott Walker & SunnO)))
Season Of Arrows - Season Of Arrows
Secret Cutter - "Self Titled"
Serpent Venom - Of Things Seen And Unseen
Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO
Shadow Sun - Грім в ковальні Бога (Thunder In God’s Forge)
Shihad - FVEY
Shooting Guns - Street Rock
Shroud of The Heretic - Revelations In Alchemy
Sick/Tired - Dissolution
Sigiriya - Darkness Died Today
Sinmara – Aphotic Womb
Sivyj Yar - From the Dead Villages' Darkness
Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity
Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream
Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
Slomatics - Estron
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Solstafir - Otta
Spectral Lore - III
Spiders - Shake Electric
Spiral Shades - Hypnosis Sessions
Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless
Stryvigor - Forgotten By Ages
Subway to Sally - Mitgift
Sungod - s/t
Sungod - Vision Space
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Swans - To Be Kind
Taiga - Ashen Light
Taurus - No/Thing
Teitanblood - Death
Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
The Body - I Shall Die Here
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
The Contortionist - Language
The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust
The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
The Flight of Sleipnir - V.
The Grand Astoria - La Belle Epoque
The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI
The Haunted - Exit Wounds
The Mansion Congregation - Mansion Congregation Hymns Vol. 1
The Oath - The Oath
The Order Of Israfel - Wisdom
The Shrine - Bless Off
The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
The Socks - The Socks
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage?
The Well - Samsara
The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum
Thou - Heathen
Threshold - For the Journey
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing
Towers - II
Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Truckfighters - Universe
Tweak Bird - Any Ol' Way
Unconscious Collective - Pleistocene Moon
Vader - Tibi Et Igni
Vainaja - Kadotetut
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Valley Of The Sun - Electric Talons Of The Thunderhawk
Vampire - Vampire
Vanhelga - Längtan
Varathron – The Untrodden Corridors of Hades
Vardan - Enjoy Of Deep Sadness
various artists - Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
Verlies - Le Domaine Des Hommes
Vestal Claret - The Cult Of Vestal Claret
Vintersorg - Naturbål
Voices - London
Vorde - Vorde
Voyager - V
Vulgar Trade - Gross Century
Vuyvr - Incinerated Gods
Wælwulf - Heresiarch
Waldgeflüster - Meine Fesseln
Whispered - Shogunate Macabre
Winterfylleth - The Divination of Antiquity
Witch Charmer - The Great Depression
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels
Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Woccon - Solace in Decay
Wold - Postsocial
Wolvhammer - Clawing into Black Sun
Woman Is The Earth - Depths
Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
Words of Farewell - The Black Wild Yonder
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
Yautja - Songs of Descent
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Zgard - Contemplation

I haven't heard this yet, but I will!

Colour Haze - To The Highest Gods We Knew

can anyone remember the max amount of albums allowed to vote for from last year?

I think it was 50. Nobody wants more than that do they?

50 sounds more than enough.

A few late additions

Alraune - the Process of Self-Immolation
Yith - Yith
Xothist - Simulacrum
Vermin Womb - Permanence
Primitive Man/Fister - Split 12"

Interested no one has nominated Celestite by WiTTR. I can't bring myself to either.